Roundtable /
(un)Disciplined Subjects: Questioning IR and Academia
Room 8
Sponsor:
Gendering International Relations Working Group
Chair:Andrew Delatolla(University of Leeds)
Participants:Ali Bilgic(Loughborough University),Swati Parashar(University of Gothenburg),Toni Haastrup(University of Stirling),Andrew Delatolla(The American University in Cairo),Cai Wilkinson(Deakin University)
2
Panel /
Between the politics and poetics of IR knowledge production
Room 1
Sponsor:
Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group
Convener:Sharri Plonski(Queen Mary University of London)
Chair:Jenna Marshall(Universität Kassel)
Coloniality of knowledge production and instrumentalisation of positionality
Authors:Jasmine Gani(University of St Andrews),Rabea Khan(University of St Andrews)
Narrating Singularities?: De-colonising IR through Indigenous Knowledge Systems
Author:Ananya Sharma(ASHOKA UNIVERSITY)
Decolonising Politics Curricula: An evaluation of how race- and colonial-related themes and thinkers are represented within Politics curricula.
Author:Siobhan O'Neill(University of Manchester)
Race and Global Democracy
Author:Kavi Abraham(School of Government and IR, Durham University)
3
Panel /
Challenges to European Security
Room 6
Sponsor:
European Security Working Group
Convener:Andrew Cottey(University College Cork)
Chair:Andrew Cottey(University College Cork)
Discussant:Antonia Niehuss(University of St Andrews)
The other side of the coin? Contesting security: Multiple modalities, atypical security actors and the security-migration nexus in Scotland
Author:Ian Paterson(University of Glasgow)
Judeo-Christian civilizationism: a new challenge to common European foreign policy
Author:Toby Greene(Bar Ilan University)
Revisiting NATO’s endurance: A sociological exploration of the post-9/11 Euro-Atlantic counterterrorism
Author:Julien Pomarède(Université libre de Bruxelles)
Transatlantic e-evidence sharing and data protection: a conlficting vision or functional cooperation?
Author:Dimitrios Anagnostakis(University of Aberdeen)
4
Panel /
Critical Approaches to Extreme Right Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism.
Room 2
Sponsor:
Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group
Conveners:Alice Martini,Raquel da Silva(ISCTE),Tom Pettinger(Warwick University)
Chair:Tom Pettinger(Warwick University)
Discussant:Lee Jarvis(University of East Anglia)
Countering Far-Right threat through Britishness: The Prevent Duty in Further Education
Author:Natalie James(The University of Leeds)
How has extreme right violence been criminalised in contemporary Portugal?
Authors:Raquel da Silva(ISCTE),Mariana Barbosa(UCP),Cátia Carvalho(Universidade do Porto),João Paulo Ventura(Polícia Judiciária)
Bringing misogyny into the study of far-right terrorism
Author:Caron Gentry(St Andrews University)
Extremism is what we make of it!: the normalized and banal extremism of Spanish Far Right
Authors:Laura Fernández de Mosteyrín(UNED),Alice Martini
5
Panel /
Emotions, temporality and affect
Room 3
Sponsor:
Emotions in Politics and International Relations Working Group
Convener:Clara Eroukhmanoff(LSBU)
Chair:Clara Eroukhmanoff(LSBU)
Resistance, Solidarity and Memory: How wounded bodies affected the East Timorese struggle for independence.
Author:Marcelle Trote Martins(The University of Manchester)
#JeSuisToujoursCharlie: Sharing time and emotion after terror attacks
Author:Emma Connolly(Open University)
Uncertainty, emotion, and self-idealisation in public perception of international crises
Author:Dmitry Chernobrov(University of Sheffield)
Contestatory frames in nuclear politics: emotions and the emergence of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
Author:Carolina Pantoliano Panico(University of Auckland)
Subjects of Quantum Measurement: Bodies, Affect and Surveillance in the Age of Terror
Author:Italo Brandimarte(University of Cambridge)
6
Panel /
Hegel / Hegelianism and Ethics in IR
Room 5
Sponsor:
Ethics and World Politics Working Group
Conveners:David J. Karp(University of Sussex),Seán Molloy(University of Kent)
Chair:Susan Murphy(Trinity College Dublin)
, ‘Hegel, Schmitt, and International Studies: Understanding State and Society of the Future through the Philosophical Pasts of Continental Thought.'
Author:Zoi Vardanika(Independent Scholar)
'The Responsibility to 'Respect' Human Rights: Rethinking Virtue Ethics and the Self/Other Relationship.’
Author:David J. Karp(University of Sussex)
‘Absolute Freedom and Terror’: Notes Neoliberalism’s Globalised Authoritarian Legacy
Author:Tarik Kochi(University of Sussex)
‘G.W.F. Hegel, E.H. Carr and the Development of Realist Ethics.’
Author:Seán Molloy(University of Kent)
7
Panel /
Reorienting the politics of climate change vulnerability
Room 4
Sponsor:
Environment Working Group
Conveners:Matthew Paterson(University of Manchester),Charlotte Weatherill(University of Manchester)
Chair:Matthew Paterson(University of Manchester)
The Political Economy of Climate Change Vulnerability in Indonesia: Identifying Who are Vulnerable and Why in Adaptation Context
Author:Stanislaus Risadi Apresian(University of Leeds/Parahyangan Catholic University)
Stories of heroes and villains: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic for politicizing climate change vulnerability
Author:Magdalena Rodekirchen(University of Manchester)
The instrumentalization of vulnerability through the gaze from nowhere
Author:Johanna Tunn(Technical University Berlin)
Islanding Climate Change Vulnerability
Author:Charlotte Weatherill(University of Manchester)
8
Panel /
Understanding Foreign Policy making within Area Studies
Room 7
Sponsor:
Foreign Policy Working Group
Convener:MARIANNA Charountaki(University of Lincoln)
Chair:Karen E. Smith(LSE)
Discussant:James Strong (Queen Mary University of London)
Institutionalising Foreign policy making between non-state actors: A comparative approach in the EU- Kurdish relations
Author:MARIANNA Charountaki(University of Lincoln)
Developing an AU foreign policy: pan-Africanism in international affairs
Authors:LESLEY MASTERS(University of Derby),Chris Landsberg(University of Johannesburg)*
,Sandile Moloi (University of Johannesburg)*
Hybrid Governance and Non-State Actors in Singapore Foreign Policy
Author:Simon Obendorf(University of Lincoln)
Hybrid Warfare and Private Military Companies from Blackwater to Sadat
Author:Vassilis Kappis(BUCSIS)
The EU as a Benign Hegemon in Relations with Its Neighbours? Between Voluntary Submission and Mitigation of Power in the European Neighbourhood Policy
Roundtable /
'Jurisdictional Accumulation: an early modern history of law, empires, and capital' book launch
Room 3
Sponsor:
Historical Sociology and International Relations Working Group
Chair:Clemens Hoffmann(University of stirling)
Participants:Benno Teschke(University of Sussex),Maia Pal(Oxford Brookes University),Kelly-Jo Bluen(LSE),Julia Costa Lopez(University of Groningen),Edward Keene(University of Oxford),Yassin Brunger(Queens University Belfast)
10
Roundtable /
Anti-genderism – from the everyday to the geopolitical
Room 2
Sponsor:
Gendering International Relations Working Group
Panel /
Human Rights and Art: Understanding Violations and Facilitating Change
Room 9
Sponsor:
Emotions in Politics and International Relations Working Group
Convener:Eliza Garnsey(University of Cambridge)
Chair:Elspeth Van Veeren(University of Bristol)
In the Wake of Destruction: Art in the Aftermath of Mexico City’s 2019 Feminist Protests
Author:Tania Islas Weinstein(McGill University)
Art as Guarantees non Repetition: Examples from Colombia
Author:Tatiana Fernández-Maya(University of New South Wales)
Holding Cultural Institutions Accountable
Author:Konstantinos Pittas(University of Cambridge)
The Right(s) to Remain: Art, Asylum, and Political Representation in Australia
Author:Eliza Garnsey(University of Cambridge)
12
Panel /
Metaphors in International Security
Room 8
Sponsor:
Interpretivism in International Relations Working Group
Conveners:Emil Archambault(School of Government and International Affairs, University of Durham),Johanna Rodehau-Noack(London School of Economics and Political Science)
Chair:Natalie Jester(University of Gloucestershire)
War as Sport: Fairness, Reciprocity, and Skill in Contemporary War
Author:Emil Archambault(School of Government and International Affairs, University of Durham)
War as Disease: Bio-medical Metaphors in Prevention Discourse
Author:Johanna Rodehau-Noack(London School of Economics and Political Science)
‘Poppy War’: Military-masculine Hierarchies, Ontological Insecurity and Vicarious Identification during the 2016 FIFA Poppy Controversy
Author:Joseph Haigh(University of Warwick)
Seeing like a Computer: Cybernetic Metaphors and their Impact on Political and Ethical Practices Today
Author:Elke Schwarz(Queen Mary, University of London)
Simple slogans are deep: Nation-branding and the legitimation of political regimes
Authors:Desatova Petra(University of Copenhagen),Kristin Eggeling(Copenhagen University)*
13
Panel /
New approaches to the global dimensions of (local) politics and conflict in Africa
Room 1
Sponsor:
Africa and International Studies Working Group
Convener:AISG Working group
Chair:Peter Brett(Politics and International Relations - Queen Mary)
Rethinking the rationality behind counterterrorism: A Qualitative Case study of Boko Haram in Nigeria
Author:Tarela Juliet Ike(Teesside University )
FROM KEEPING TO MAKING AT TWO AFRICAN GATES: THE INTERNATIONAL POLITICS OF AIRPORTS IN ETHIOPIA AND GHANA
Author:Joanne Tomkinson(SOAS, University of London)
What determines Trust in Post-Conflict Police? Evidence from Latin American and African countries
Authors:Nadine Ansorg(University of Kent),Irrazabal Lobos(University of Kent)
Using Participatory Video as a Tool for Knowledge Production: Women and Oil Conflict in the Niger Delta
Author:Zainab Mai-Bornu(Coventry University)
14
Panel /
Political mobilisation, youth and women’s activism and new democratic politics in the southern Mediterranean, Middle East and its Diasporas
Room 7
Sponsor:
International Studies of the Mediterranean, Middle East & Asia Working Group
Convener:Jessica Northey(Coventry University)
Chair:Omer Tekdemir(Coventry University )
Discussant:Zahia Smail Salhi(Manchester University )
Political Engagement of Algerian Women in the Diaspora during the Hirak Movement
Author:Meryem Abdelhafid( Coventry University)
Imagining a new political space: the power of youth and peaceful protest in Algeria
Authors:Jessica Northey(Coventry University),Adel Chiheb(Jijel University Algeria)
Urban Political Mobilisation and Activating Amman’s Public Space in Pursuit of a Just City
Author:Rana Aytug(Coventry University)
Migration and social transformation: Algerian Diaspora Responses to COVID19
Author:Latefa Guemar(University of East London)
15
Panel /
Securitisation of migrants and refugees in Europe from a political and ethical point of view
Room 5
Sponsor:
International Politics of Migration, Refugees and Diaspora Working Group
Convener:Christian Kaunert(University of South Wales)
Chair:Christian Kaunert(University of South Wales)
Is Covid-19 a Critical Juncture in International Migration Governance?
Authors:Maria Koinova(University of Warwick),Marianne H Marchand(University of Americas, Puebla)*
,Fakhoury Tamirace(Sciences Po/Lebanese American University)*
The securitisation of COVID-19 pandemic - Human biosecurity, new nationalisms and the challenges to EU migration agenda
Authors:Joana Deus Pereira(University of South Wales),Christian Kaunert(University of South Wales)*
Authors:FOTEINI KALANTZI(University of Oxford),Myriam Fotou(University of Leicester)
Securitising Refugees in the UK: the 1930s and 40s
Author:Andrea Hammel(Aberystwyth University)
16
Panel /
Something old something new: conceptual thinking as a way to push IR intellectual boundaries
Room 6
Sponsor:
International Relations as a Social Science Working Group
Convener:Audrey Alejandro(London School of Economics and Political Science)
Chair:Alexander Hoseason(Aston University)
Concepts as Discursive Constructs in International Studies: The Case of Sharp Power
Author:Eyup Ersoy(Ahi Evran University)
World-making as an intellectual practice: multiplying the ontologies of the international by thinking through contemplative activism
Author:Suzanne Klein Schaarsberg(Aberystwyth University)
Bringing Gramsci back in: hegemony and the sociology of IR
Author:Artsiom Sidarchuk(University of Milan)
Forgetting International Relations? Multiplicity, New Medievalism and the Challenge of Re-Grounding IR and ‘the International’
Author:Aleksandra Spalińska(University of Warsaw)
17
Roundtable /
Understanding Impact in International Peace and Security
Room 4
Sponsor:
International Law and Politics Working Group
Chair:Andrea Birdsall(University of Edinburgh)
Participants:David Bicknell(King's College London),Steven Haines(University of Greenwich),James Gow(King's College London),Rachel Kerr(King's College London),Henry Lovat(University of Glasgow)
18
Conference event /
Exhibitor Hall
Conference Website
19
Panel /
Global Ethics in a Pluralist World
Room 10
Sponsor:
Ethics and World Politics Working Group
Convener:Anthony Lang, Jr(University of St Andrews)
Chair:Toni Erskine(Australian National University)
Global Political Animals: What does Aristotle have to tell us about universalism
Author:Anthony Lang(University of St Andrews)
“Only Logical Universals: Max Weber’s Advice on Living in a Disenchanted World
Author:Patrick Jackson(American University)
Fanon, Relationality, and Postcolonial Humanism
Author:Jasmine Gani(University of St Andrews)
Machiavelli, Carr and the Impure Ethics of Realism in The Twenty Years’ Crisis
Author:Sean Molloy(Kent University)
Wittgenstein on Judgment, Ethics and Concerns about Certainty
Author:Désirée Weber(College of Wooster)
20
Conference event /
KEYNOTE 1: Geographies of Racism - SPONSORED BY POLITY
Webinar Room
Speakers:
Prof.Gary Younge(University of Manchester), DrOlivia Rutazibwa(University of Portsmouth), Prof.Robbie Shilliam(Johns Hopkins University)
21
Conference event /
Coffee and conversation networking session - European Security WG
Room 10
22
Panel /
Evolving Protection Architectures at the United Nations
Room 2
Sponsor:
Intervention and Responsibility to Protect Working Group
Convener:IR2P Working group
Chair:Bola Adediran(University of the West of England)
The Responsibility to Protect after 15 Years: From UN General Assembly Debates to Security Council Practice
Authors:Pinar Gozen Ercan(Hacettepe University),Menent Savas Cazala(Galatasaray University)
Everyday atrocity vs Responsibility to Protect: why efforts to expand the purview of R2P will be counterproductive
Author:Athanasios Stathopoulos(Leiden University)
The Evolution of the R2P in a Changing World Order: Rethinking Mass Atrocity Prevention and the Role of the UN Security Council
Author:Samuel Jarvis(York St John University)
Legitimation Practices in UN Security Council Decision-Making
Author:Jess Gifkins(The University of Manchester)
An R2P Review Commission: A Proposal for Holding States Accountable to Their Responsibility to Protect
Author:Richard Illingworth(University of Leeds)
23
Panel /
Forgetting IR to Reimagine IR
Room 9
Sponsor:
Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group
Conveners:Jenna Marshall(Universität Kassel),Heba Youssef(University of Brighton),Sharri Plonski(Queen Mary University of London)
Chair:Helen Turton(The University of Sheffield)
International or not, being human is being "Global"
Author:Deepshikha Shahi(The University of Delhi)
Selective amnesia: forgetting and remembering IR
Author:Karen Smith(Leiden University)
Forgetting in order to remember: Unsettling knowledges in IR
Author:Arlene B. Tickner(Universidad del Rosario)
Conscious forgetting: a process for uncovering and engaging with previously disregarded knowledge
Author:Bryony Vince(The University of Sheffield)
Invisible and Unthinkable IR
Author:Zeynep Gülşah Çapan(University of Erfurt)
24
Panel /
Italian Political Science Association sponsored panel: TESTING IR THEORY AND RESEARCH ON WORLD ORDER TRANSITION
Room 8
Sponsor:
Conference/Management
Convener:Fulvio Attina(University of Catania)
Chair:Fulvio Attina(University of Catania)
Where the Eagles Do Not Dare. The Modes of the Incremental Revisionist Challenge in the Normative Dimension
Authors:Gabriele Natalizia (University of Rome),Lorenzo Termine (University of Rome )
Climate change politics and the great powers
Author:Fulvio Attina(University of Catania)
Why Does It Not Work? Exceptions, Exemptions and Exclusions in International Order
Author:Mladen Lisanin(Institute for Political Studies, Belgrade)
Changes in Human Mobility World Policies: the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the Post-Liberalism World Order
Author:Rosa Rossi (University of Palermo)
25
Roundtable /
Masculinities and Queer perspectives on Transitional Justice
Room 7
Sponsor:
Gendering International Relations Working Group
Chair:Heleen Touquet(University of Leuven)
Participants:Brandon Hamber(Ulster University - Transitional Justice Institute),Pascha Bueno-Hansen(University of Delaware),Philipp Schulz(University of Bremen),Fobear Katherine(Fresno State University)
26
Roundtable /
RUSI sponsored roundtable: The Middle East, Geopolitics, and International Studies Today
Webinar Room
Sponsor:
Conference/Management
Chair:Hisham A Hellyer(University of Cambridge )
Participants:Bader Al-Saif(Carnegie Middle East Centre),Lina Khatib(Chatham House),Ziya Meral(RUSI),Dina Esfandiary(Crisis Group),Hisham A Hellyer(University of Cambridge )
27
Panel /
Reprising the Relationship between War and Technology
Room 6
Sponsor:
War Studies Working Group
Convener:Alex Neads(University of Bath)
Chair:Alex Neads(University of Bath)
Global Drone Diffusion: Legal and Strategic Consequences
Author:Amelie Theussen(University of Southern Denmark)
Automation, Technology, and the Drivers of Strategic Innovation in Warfare
Author:Andree-Anne (Andy) Melancon(Royal Military Academy Sandhurst)
On Lethality and the Conduct of War in the 21st Century
Author:Matthew Ford(University of Sussex)
Time Keeps on Ticking: Land Warfare and Martial Expediency Through and Beyond the OODA Loop
Author:David Galbreath(University of Bath)
A Market for Military Assistance? Principals, Agents and the Diffusion of Military Technology in Historical Perspective
Author:Alex Neads(University of Bath)
28
Panel /
Russian security policy between the West and the Rest
Room 4
Sponsor:
Russian and Eurasian Security Working Group
Conveners:Precious Chatterje-Doody(Open University),Marcin Kaczmarski(University of Glasgow),Natasha Kuhrt(Kings College London)
Chair:Natasha Kuhrt(Kings College London)
Discussant:Natasha Kuhrt(Kings College London)
Fearing the West, Conquering the East: Contemporary Russian Security Discourses in a Post-Imperial Age
Author:Kevork Oskanian(University of Birmingham)
Space, borders and hybridity: a critical appraisal of EU and Russia narratives on Crimea’s annexation
Authors:Ana Paula Brandao(CICP - University of Minho),Maria Raquel Freire(CES, FEUC-Universiy of Coimbra)
The Dynamics of Norm Co-optation: Explaining Russia’s Use of Liberal Peacebuilding Norms in Conflict-Affected Sates
Author:Kazushige Kobayashi(Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies)
From withdrawal to containment: continuity in Soviet and Russian Afghanistan policy 1989-1996 and beyond
Author:Ivan Ulises Kentros Klyszcz(University of Tartu)
29
Roundtable /
The UK's Role in Global Health Security and COVID-19
Room 1
Sponsor:
Global Health Working Group
Chair:Sophie Harman(Queen Mary University of London)
Participants:Simon Rushton(University of Sheffield),Sharifah Sekalala(University of Warwick),Fawzia Gibson Fall(QMUL),Emma Louise Anderson(University of Leeds)
30
Panel /
Trumpism, US Foreign Policy and International Relations Theory
Room 5
Sponsor:
US Foreign Policy Working Group
Convener:Thorsten Wojczewski
Chair:Thorsten Wojczewski
Discussant:Cornelia Baciu (University of Konstanz)
Understanding Trump’s foreign policy and its rejection of liberalism
Author:Matthew Hill(Liverpool John Moores University )
The irrational actor: the Trump administration, the fracturing of US foreign policy identity, and the challenge for IR theory
Author:Ruth Deyermond(King's College London )
Right-wing Populism, Foreign Policy and Folk Realism: Trumpism and US Foreign Policy
Author:Thorsten Wojczewski
Paradoxes of American Exceptionalism and Restraint from a Neo-Classical Realism Perspective
Author:Cornelia Baciu (Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg)
31
Panel /
Forgetting International Studies: the exclusion of Hispano-American contributions
Room 3
Sponsor:
Orphan Papers track
Convener:Jose Ricardo Villanueva Lira(Universidad del Mar)
Chair:Jose Ricardo Villanueva Lira(Universidad del Mar)
Hermila Galindo's international thought
Author:Indra Labardini Fragoso(Universidad del Mar)
ANTONIO TRUYOL Y SERRA: FROM EUROPEAN SOCIETY TO THE CONTEMPORARY INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM
Author:Carlos Gabriel Argüelles Arredondo(Universidad del Mar)
The international thought of Octavio Paz
Author:Alberto Lozano Vázquez(Universidad del Mar)
José María Torres Caidedo
Author:Jessica De Alba Ulloa(Universidad Anáhuac México)
Fernando H. Cardoso's contribution to International Relations
Author:Almendra Ortiz de Zárate(Universidad Anáhuac México)
32
Roundtable /
NATO 2030: Debating NATO's Future
Room 8
Sponsor:
European Security Working Group
Chair:Nele Marianne Ewers-Peters (School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University)
Participants:Tracey German(King's College London/JSCSC),Mark Webber(University of Birmingham),Simon Smith(Staffordshire University),Andrew Cottey(University College Cork),Martin Smith(Royal Military Academy Sandhurst)
33
Panel /
Recent reflections in IPT
Room 5
Sponsor:
Contemporary Research on International Political Theory Working Group
Convener:CRIPT Working group
Chair:Christof Royer(Central European University)
Discussant:Christof Royer(Central European University)
What has disciplinarity ever done for IR?
Author:Olaf Corry(University of Leeds)
Travelling Theory and its Consequences: José Ortega y Gasset and Radical Conservatism in Post-Cold War Japan
Author:Karin Narita(Queen Mary, University of London)
Timing Concepts: Embodied Time(s) and Concept Analysis.
Author:Mirko Palestrino(Queen Mary University of London)
Studying Justice in International Trade Negotiations: Feminist-Informed Ethnographic Insights
Author:LISA SAMUEL(NEW YORK UNIVERSITY)
34
Panel /
Remembering race and coloniality in the making of the international: Mapping Sites of Disruption and Destruction
Room 4
Sponsor:
Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group
Convener:Sharri Plonski(Queen Mary University of London)
Chair:Heba Youssef(University of Brighton)
India’s settler colonialism and its effects on the nomadic migration.
Author:Syed Waqar Shah(Cardiff University)
Writing the embodied experience of performance, race, gender and sexual orientation: a case study in the queer-of-color space of the ballroom scene
Author:Muriel Bruttin(University of Lausanne)
Hindu nationalism and the ‘Israeli model’: Legitimating counter-‘terrorism’, colonialism, and ethnocracy in Kashmir
Author:Derek Verbakel(York University)
Silences and affects in post-revolutionary Iran: fantasizing about race and Iranianness
Author:Mateus Schneider Borges(Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro)
Reckoning with Global Britain: a truth and reconciliation commission on colonialism?
Author:Asha Herten-Crabb(London School of Economics and Political Science)
35
Roundtable /
Review of International Studies Roundtable I: Disruption by Design
Room 1
Sponsor:
Conference/Management
Chair:Martin Coward(University of Manchester)
Participants:Charmaine Chua(UCSB),Nicole Grove(University of Hawaii at Manoa),Martin Coward(University of Manchester),Nisha Shah(University of Ottawa),Louise Amoore(Durham University)
36
Roundtable /
The Art of Forgetting IR: Aesthetics, Creative Methods and the Politics of War and Peace.
Room 2
Sponsor:
South East Europe Working Group
Chair:Roisin Read (University of Manchester)
Participants:Birgit Poopuu(Tallinn University),Laura Mills,Lydia Cole(University of Durham),Sarah Jankowitz(Queen's University Belfast),Maria Adriana Deiana(Queen’s University Belfast),Giovanna Di Mauro(College of Europe)
37
Panel /
Water Security Across Scales: Intersections of the International
Room 6
Essential Attributes of Future of International Studies in the Realm of Global Governance: A Case Study of Chaotic Global Nuclear Governance
Author:Silky Kaur(Research Associate)
Forget 'international' nuclear order? The African National Congress, South Africa's liberation struggle, and the Non-Proliferation Treaty
Author:Tom Vaughan(Aberystywth University)
Thinking outside the Box: Establishing a deterrence mentoring network and building bridges to a closer alliance
Author:Patricia Shamai(University of Portsmouth)
Towards a New Way of Managing Stigmatised Identities in Nuclear Governance
Author:Aniruddha Saha(PhD Student at King's College London)
Ditching the NPT? The significance of the Non-proliferation Treaty to the generation of the new nuclear prohibition norm.
Author:Carolina Pantoliano Panico(University of Auckland)
41
Panel /
Historical Sociology of Empires and States
Room 3
Sponsor:
Historical Sociology and International Relations Working Group
Convener:Maia Pal(Oxford Brookes University)
Chair:Maia Pal(Oxford Brookes University)
Revolution and International Order
Author:Catherine Hirst(Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), LSE)
Adoption or Adaption? Globalising International Society in the Nineteenth Century and Diplomatic Practices at the Rokumeikan
Author:Felix Roesch(Coventry University)
Power Politics Among Empires
Author:Joseph Leigh(London School of Economics and Political Science)
Historical Sociology and Crisis: Capital, Empire, and Pandemics in the Maghreb
Author:Meriam Mabrouk(Birkbeck College, University of London)
Queering the War-machine's Origin Myth: A re-evaluation of the 19th century shift away from mercenary use
Author:Malte Riemann(Royal Military Academy Sandhurst)
42
Panel /
Inequalities in Bodies, Land and the Biosphere
Room 2
Sponsor:
International Political Economy Working Group
Convener:IPEG Working group
Chair:Ben Richardson(University of Warwick)
The Body Politics of Poverty: Lean Times
Authors:Nicola Smith(University of Birmingham),Amelia Morris(University of Law )
International Politics of bioeconomy: prospects and challenges from the Global South
Author:Melisa Deciancio(University of Muenster)
The Relationship between Land Reform and Development: The Case of Turkey
Author:Ozge Taylan(METU)
US mobilization of Cyberspace: A critical geographical perspective
Author:Sulagna Basu(University of Sydney)
43
Panel /
International Criminal Law and Practice in Context
Room 4
Sponsor:
International Law and Politics Working Group
Convener:ILPG Working group
Chair:James Gow(King's College London)
Legitimizing genocide in Myanmar: On the road to impunity
Author:Cecilia Ducci(Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna)
The International Criminal Court, Preliminary Examinations and the Security Council: Kill or Cure?
Authors:Rachel Kerr(King's College London),Natasha Kuhrt(King's College London)
Aggression, Imperialism and the Global South
Author:Muhammad Ashfaq(University of St Andrews)
The civilising mission of international criminal justice: Queering savages-victims-saviours at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
Author:Caitlin Biddolph(University of New South Wales (UNSW))
Torture in Spanish and British counterterrorism: from ‘reverse shaming’ to narrative contestation
Author:Frank Foley(King's College London)
44
Roundtable /
International Legal Order and the Middle East: National and International of a Global Pandemic beyond Regional Engagements
Room 6
Sponsor:
International Studies of the Mediterranean, Middle East & Asia Working Group
Chair:Dina Hadad(Kuwait International Law School)
Participants:Darina Mackova(Independent Researcher),Nida Shoughry (Mandel Center for Leadership in the North),Anna Chronopoulou(Westminster University ),Luna Farhat(Dhofar University )
45
Panel /
New Approaches to Theory, Methods and Practice
Room 8
Panel /
Transnational authoritarianism and second-generation diasporas: Between repression, co-optation and legitimation
Room 5
Sponsor:
International Politics of Migration, Refugees and Diaspora Working Group
Conveners:Arne F. Wackenhut(University of Gothenburg),Camilla Orjuela(University of Gothenburg)
Chair:Fiona Adamson(SOAS University of London)
Discussant:Fiona Adamson(SOAS University of London)
Eritrea’s Chosen Trauma and the Legacy of the Martyrs: The impact of postmemory on political identity formation of second-generation diaspora Eritreans
Author:Nicole Hirt(GIGA – German Institute of Global and Area Studies)
Transnational Mobilization of Youth by Authoritarian Home States: Turkey’s Transnational Youth Outreach between Empowerment and Indoctrination
Authors:Bahar Baser Ozturk(Coventry University),Bocu Gozde(University of Toronto)
An (Un-)stable pillar: Second generation diasporas in an age of transnational authoritarianism
Authors:Arne F. Wackenhut(University of Gothenburg),Camilla Orjuela(University of Gothenburg)
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Conference event /
Coffee and conversation networking sessions - FPWG; Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding WG
Room 10
49
Panel /
Critical Perspectives on Counter-terrorism Practice
Room 6
Sponsor:
Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group
Conveners:Tom Pettinger(Warwick University),Alice Martini,Raquel da Silva(ISCTE)
Chair:Alice Martini
Public perspective of insecurity and the use of mercenaries in Nigeria: A Qualitative study
Authors:Tarela Juliet Ike,Danny Singh(Teesside University )*
,Dung Ezekiel Jidong(Nottingham Trent University )*
,Evangelyn Ebi Ayobi(University of Benin)
Italian Radical-Left Political Violence: How Gestalt Psychology Helps to Make Sense of Individual Activists’ Radicalisation Processes
Author:Giulia Grillo(University of Kent)
Cooperation Dilemma in Counter-terrorism Operations
Author:Francesco Baraldi(Università degli Studi di Milano)
Exceptional Measures? Indonesia, the Militarisation of Civil Society Organisations, and the Securitisation of Maritime Trade
Author:Senia Febrica(The University of Strathclyde, the Universitas Indonesia)
50
Panel /
Existentialism and International Relations II: Panel
Room 5
Sponsor:
Contemporary Research on International Political Theory Working Group
Conveners:Andy Hom(University of Edinburgh),Cian O'Driscoll(Australian National University),Liane Hartnett(La Trobe University)
Chair:Liane Hartnett(La Trobe University)
Discussant:Daniel Brunstetter(UC Irvine)
Disappointed Hope: Theorising the Critical Import of Disappointment among the Arab Spring Resisters in Egypt
Author:Maša Mrovlje(University of Vienna)
‘No One Around To Shut the Dead Eyes of the Human Race’ : Sartre, Aron, and the Limits of Existentialism in the Nuclear Age
Author:Benjamin Zala(Australian National University)
Existentialism and Ontological Insecurity
Authors:Xander Kirke(Glasgow Caledonian University),Brent Steele(University of Utah)
IR’s Roads to Freedom. Reading Jean-Paul Sartre’s Trilogy as an International Relations Text.
Author:Lucian Ashworth(Memorial University)
51
Conference event /
Michael Mulvihill Art Exhibition - 'Noise to Signal' and 'Worldly Noise and Electronic Atmospheres'
Room 8
Speaker:
Michael Mulvihill(University of Newcastle)
52
Roundtable /
PGN-sponsored roundtable: Meet the Editors I
Room 1
Sponsor:
Conference/Management
Chair:Tom Vaughan(Aberystywth University)
Participants:Martin Coward(University of Manchester),Edward Newman(University of Leeds),Tom Vaughan(Aberystywth University)
53
Conference event /
Polity book launch: Anthony King's 'Urban Warfare in the Twenty-First Century' (publishing July 2021)
Room 9
Speakers:
Prof.Anthony King(University of Warwick), Prof.Lawrence Freedman(King's College London, Emeritus Professor)
54
Roundtable /
Prejudice and the Role of Different Actors in the Spiralling of the Securitization of Migration
Room 3
Sponsor:
International Politics of Migration, Refugees and Diaspora Working Group
Chair:Christian Kaunert(University of South Wales)
Participants:Valeria Bello (Blanquerna Faculty of Communication and International Relations – University Ramon LLull (Barcelona, Spain)),FOTEINI KALANTZI(University of Oxford),Stefania Panebianco (University of Catania, Italy),Jef Huysmans(Queen Mary, University of London),Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert (Peace Research Institute Oslo, Norway)
55
Panel /
The Global Circuits of Social and Economic Subjugation
Room 7
Sponsor:
Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group
Convener:Sharri Plonski(Queen Mary University of London)
Chair:Sharri Plonski(Queen Mary University of London)
Who owes to whom – unsettling hierarchies in debt relations
Author:Sabrina Keller(University of Kassel)
Empire, Power, and Status-Seeking in International Relations: A Case for a Post-Colonial Agenda
Author:Ali Bilgic(Loughborough University)
Necropolitics at large: Pandemic Politics and the Coloniality of the Global Access Gap
Author:Eric Otieno Sumba(University of Kassel)
Historicising Data Colonialism: Indigenous Data Sovereignty and The Māoris
Author:Jahnavi Mukul(Ashoka University)
56
Panel /
The Visual, Visible and Virtual Politics of Security
Room 2
Sponsor:
Post-Structural Politics Working Group
Convener:PPWG Working group
Chair:PPWG Working group
Discussant:Kodili Chukwuma(University of East Anglia)
'It’s like we’re blind': autonomous weapons systems as vision machines
Author:Hendrik Huelss(University of Southern Denmark)
Constitutive Security Practices: Cyberspace and the State
Author:Sulagna Basu(University of Sydney)
‘Everything is virtually true’: the French DGSE’s social theory of intelligence in Le Bureau des légendes
Authors:Joakim Brattvoll(European University Institute),Vic Castro(University of Copenhagen )
The Practice and Politics of Oscillatory Transparency – Jean Baudrillard & the Contemporary Military Memoir
Author:Kyle Catto(Dept. of Politics – York University, Toronto, Canada)
57
Conference event /
Widening Participation panel: Vicarious Identities in the Curriculum: Examining Muslim Women - PLEASE NOTE: This panel includes WP students who are under 18; audience members are reminded to be professional and collegial when engaging
Webinar Room
Speakers:
Alexandra Ignat(N/A), Joseph Haigh(University of Warwick), Lily Mae Barton(N/A), Mia Mattu(N/A), Saarah Khalifa(N/A), Shahnaz Akhter(University of Warwick), Tonio Induli(N/A)
58
Conference event /
Exhibitor Hall
Conference Website
59
Conference event /
BISA Chair's Address and Prize Giving
Webinar Room
Speakers:
Prof.Mark Webber(University of Birmingham), Prof.Ruth Blakeley(University of Sheffield)
60
Conference event /
KEYNOTE 2: Roundtable: Forget International Studies? - SPONSORED BY CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Webinar Room
Speakers:
DrHeba Youssef(University of Brighton), DrJenna Marshall(Universität Kassel), DrLata Narayanaswamy(University of Leeds), Prof.Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni(University of Bayreuth), DrSithembile Mbete(University of Pretoria), DrSwati Parashar(University of Gothenburg)
61
Panel /
(Structural) Forgetting? Secrecy, Ignorance and Power in International Studies
Room 1
Sponsor:
Post-Structural Politics Working Group
Convener:Clare Stevens
Chair:Clare Stevens
Discussant:Jutta Weldes(University of Bristol)
Epistemicide: depoliticizing enforced disappearances in contemporary Brazil.
Author:Sabrina Villenave(University of Manchester)
Establishing a theoretical framework for the study of racial ignorance: A case study of French state anti-racism.
Author:Vera Chapiro Bernal(University of Bristol)
What Was Forgotten About The Interwar Years? Pan-Africanism and the ‘Leaders of the Democratic Movement.’
Author:Scott Timcke(University of Havana)
The Hunt as security logic: New Reflections on the power and politics of hunting as secrecy practice through twenty years of the Global War on Terror.
Author:Elspeth Van Veeren(University of Bristol)
62
Panel /
Agency, silence and voice in feminist international politics research
Room 2
Sponsor:
Gendering International Relations Working Group
Conveners:Aliya Khalid(University of Cambridge),Georgina Holmes(University of Reading)
Chair:Aliya Khalid(University of Cambridge)
Rethinking Silence, Gender and Power in Insecure Sites
Author:Jane Parpart(University of Massachusetts Boston)
The Women’s Active Museum on War and Peace
Author:Anna-Karin Eriksson(Linnaeus University)
Exploring the Agency of Male Sexual Violence Survivors Across Contexts: Reflections on Gender and Silence
Authors:Philipp Schulz(University of Bremen),Heleen Touquet(University of Antwerp )
Transforming masculinities in Fiji and strategic silence
Author:David Duriesmith(Department of Politics and International Relations, The University of Sheffield)
The subaltern as security actor: Refugees and Europe’s agenda for Women, Peace and Security
Authors:Aiko Holvikivi(Department of Gender Studies, London School of Economics),Audrey Reeves(Virginia Tech)
63
Panel /
Authoritarianism, Conflict and Religion in International Relations
Room 4
Sponsor:
International Studies of the Mediterranean, Middle East & Asia Working Group
Convener:Omer Tekdemir(Coventry University )
Chair:Omer Tekdemir(Coventry University )
Discussant:Zainab Mai-Bornu(Coventry University)
Bringing the Shi'as further in: representation, veto and resistance in confessional Lebanon
Author:Natália Calfat(Universidade de São Paulo)
Understanding the Arab world through regionalisms: bottom-up regionalization and transnational authoritarian strengthening
Author:Itxaso Domínguez de Olazábal(Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
Authoritarian neoliberalism in Tunisia's pandemic response
Author:Rosa Maryon(Cardiff University)
Religion in Pandemic; Does “Worship” Place has Importance as a Religious Identity or Socio-Ideologically? Secularism, Ideology and Turkey Sample
Author:Dilek Celebi
64
Conference event /
Cambridge Studies in International Relations Book Series
Room 8
65
Roundtable /
Chatham House-Georgetown University School of Foreign Service sponsored roundtable: World Order in the 21st Century: Illiberal Orders, a Concert of Power, or a Western Revival?
Webinar Room
Sponsor:
Conference/Management
Chair:Leslie Vinjamuri(Chatham House/SOAS)
Participants:Charlie Kupchan(Council on Foreign Relations/Georgetown),Alex Cooley(Columbia),Daniel Nexon(Georgetown),Leslie Vinjamuri(Chatham House/SOAS),Peter Trubowitz(LSE),Jennifer Welsh(McGuill University),Rana Mitter(University of Oxford),John Ikenberry(Princeton)
66
Conference event /
Coffee and conversation networking session - War Studies WG
Room 10
Chair:Jef Huysmans(Queen Mary, University of London)
Getting a seat at the government’s table: “Open government” expertise in Argentina and Tunisia
Author:Quentin Deforge(EHESS (IFRIS))
Torn between specialized and generalist diplomacy. Expertise Transfer in Oceans International Government
Author:Natalia Frozel-Barros(Université Paris (Panthéon-Sorbonne))
Speaking like an expert: UN special rapporteurs as spokespersons of the universal
Author:Alvina Hoffmann
Expert authority and state power: integrating technocratic routines with diplomatic processes at International Organizations
Author:Aurel Niederberger
Social Enterprise Activism: Expertise and Entrepreneurship in International Development
Author:Farai Chipato(University of Ottawa)
70
Roundtable /
Visuality and Emotions in International Politics
Room 6
Sponsor:
Emotions in Politics and International Relations Working Group
Chair:Naomi Head
Participants:Katja Freistein(Centre for Global Cooperation research, University of Duisburg-Essen),Simon Koschut(Freie Universität, Berlin),Amya Agarwal(Centre for Global Cooperation Research, University of Duisburg-Essen),Christine Unrau(Centre for Global Cooperation Research, University of Duisburg-Essen),Christine Andra(Dresden TU)
71
Roundtable /
Within / Without: Strategies and possibilities for cultivating knowledge with the Global East
Room 5
Sponsor:
South East Europe Working Group
Chair:Elena Stavrevska(London School of Economics and Political Science)
Participants:Katarina Kusic(Aberystwyth University),Katarzyna Kaczmarska(University of Edinburgh),Michiel Piersma(University of Liverpool),Elena Stavrevska(London School of Economics and Political Science)
72
Roundtable /
Book roundtable: 'Global Justice and Social Conflict: The Foundations of Liberal Order and International Law' by Tarik Kochi (co–sponsored by the International Law and Politics and Ethics & World Politics working groups)
Room 7
Sponsor:
Ethics and World Politics Working Group
Chair:David J. Karp(University of Sussex)
Participants:Anthony Lang, Jr(University of St Andrews),Tarik Kochi(University of Sussex),Maia Pal(Oxford Brookes University),Andrea Birdsall(University of Edinburgh),Lara Montesinos Coleman(University of Sussex)
73
Panel /
Changing patterns of representation and digitalization in European diplomatic practices
Room 6
Panel /
Mapping the Future of the Responsibility to Protect Doctrine
Room 2
Sponsor:
Intervention and Responsibility to Protect Working Group
Convener:IR2P Working group
Chair:Pinar Gozen Ercan(Hacettepe University)
Neoconstructivism and Quantifying Norms of Protection
Authors:Noele Crossley(University College London),Christina Qiu(Yale)
To Whom is the Sovereign Responsible? Responsible Sovereignty, R2P, and the Exclusions of Liberal Order
Author:Thomas (Hank) Owings(University of Pennsylvania)
THE INTERNATIONAL RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT IN A POST-LIBERAL ORDER
Author:James Pattison
Localising the Responsibility to Protect in Civil Society: Paving the Road to Norm Degeneration?
Author:Chloë M. Gilgan(Lecturer in Law, BISA Member, IR2P Working Group (soon to be Co-convener))
A complicated relationship: socioeconomics and mass atrocities in the 21st century
Author:Adrian Gallagher(University of Leeds, European Centre for RtoP)
75
Panel /
Non-traditional instruments of Russian foreign policy: media, social media and strategic humour
Room 4
Sponsor:
Russian and Eurasian Security Working Group
Conveners:Dmitry Chernobrov(University of Sheffield),Lucy Birge(University of Manchester),Elizaveta Kuznetsova(Harvard University)
Chair:Precious Chatterje-Doody(Open University)
Blame it on the algorithm? Russian influence on social media
Author:Elizaveta Kuznetsova(Harvard University)
Russian memory diplomacy
Author:JADE MCGLYNN(University of Oxford/Henry Jackson Society)
Strategic humour: Public diplomacy and comic framing of foreign policy issues
Author:Dmitry Chernobrov(University of Sheffield)
76
Panel /
Perspectives on intervention
Room 3
Sponsor:
Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding Working Group
Convener:PKPBG Working group
Chair:PKPBG Working group
Reimagining Conflict through Nonviolent (Self-) Protection
Author:Louise Ridden(Aberystwyth University )
The global rise of stabilization? Norm diffusion and agency in stabilization policies
Author:Giulia Piccolino(Loughborough University)
UN peace operations and (re)building the rule of law
Author:Alexander Gilder(Royal Holloway, University of London)
Building Peace after Self-determination: Faulty Assumptions and Their Consequences
Author:Kentaro Fujikawa(London School of Economics and Political Science)
77
Roundtable /
Review of International Studies Roundtable II: Racialised Violence in Global Politics
Room 1
Sponsor:
Conference/Management
Chair:Martin Coward(University of Manchester)
Participants:Benjamin Meiches(University of Washington),Shiera Malik(DePaul University),Andreja Zevnik(University of Manchester),Lester Spence(John Hopkins University),Kim Wagner(Queen Mary University of London),Melody Fonseca Santos(University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus),Marta Fernández(IRI/PUC-Rio)
78
Panel /
The Other Histories of International Relations: women thinkers, forgotten locations and unexplored genres
Room 8
Sponsor:
Gendering International Relations Working Group
Convener:Joanna Wood(University of Oxford)
Chair:Alireza Shams-Lahijani(LSE)
Discussant:Harry Mace(University of Cambridge)
Towards a South Asian Feminist Conception of International Thought
Author:Shruti Balaji(LSE)
Situating Muna Lee’s Mid-Century International Relations Theorizing
Author:Darrah McCracken(University of Washington - Tacoma )
A forgotten scholar? Miriam Camps and informal transatlantic diplomacy
Author:Katja Seidel(University of Westminster)
Hidden History: the women who built the Bureau of International Research at Harvard
Author:Joanna Wood(University of Oxford)
79
Panel /
What do we know about Conflict? Interrogating Representations of War and Security
Room 5
Sponsor:
Post-Structural Politics Working Group
Convener:PPWG Working group
Chair:PPWG Working group
The Limits of Imagination: Securitisation and Exceptionalism in the World of Warcraft Video Game
Author:Vic Castro
"Decontestation of the Essentially Contestable”: Biopolitics, Ideology and Fantasy in Kurdish Conflict
Author:Recep Onursal(University of Kent)
Forget Psychological War: Historical Amnesia and the Obligation to Know
Author:Jeffrey Whyte(University of Manchester)
Cultures of the Climate Crisis: Cli-fi and the possibilities of political futures
Panel /
Africa's changing international relations: new justifications, new forms of intervention
Room 1
Sponsor:
Africa and International Studies Working Group
Convener:AISG Working group
Chair:Timothy Shaw(University of Massachusetts, Boston)
Witness adventurers? Exploring tensions between témoignage and travel writing in the construction of aid worker identities in humanitarian memoirs in Africa
Author:Roisin Read (University of Manchester)
Hegemony, Common Sense, and Non-Western African Agency in Liberal Interventions
Author:Babatunde Obamamoye(Australian National University)
Is Ideology 'still' Relevant? The Utility of Ideology to Understanding Africa’s International Relations
Author:Emmanuel Siaw(Royal Holloway University of London)
Zambian government policymaking space and its determinants in the changing global landscape
Author:Nicola Heaton(University of Birmingham)
81
Roundtable /
Art and/of Military Afterlives (please feel free to bring needle and thread, drawing or painting materials)
Room 2
Sponsor:
Emotions in Politics and International Relations Working Group
Chair:Julia Welland(University of Warwick)
Participants:Kathryn Brimblecombe-Fox(Artist, University of Queensland),Michael Mulvihill(University of Newcastle),Berit Bliesemann de Guevara(Aberystwyth University),Sarah Bulmer(University of Exeter),Laura Mills,Nick Caddick(Anglia Ruskin University),Alice Cree(University of Newcastle)
82
Panel /
Making Sense of International Politics
Room 5
Sponsor:
Interpretivism in International Relations Working Group
Convener:IIRG Working group
Chair:Hannes Hansen-Magnusson(Cardiff University)
Discussant:Katarzyna Kaczmarska(University of Edinburgh)
Tracing Process Tracing in Securitisation*
Author:Chester Yacub(University of Nottingham)
Using visual analysis to access practices
Author:Ingvild Bode(Centre for War Studies, University of Southern Denmark)
Studying Problematizations: Introducing Carol Bacchi’s What´s the problem represented to be? approach to IR
Author:Malte Riemann(Royal Military Academy Sandhurst)
Reconsidering Westphalia? Disbelief, Miscalculation and Power Shifts in an Age of Liberal Crisis
Author:Kevork Oskanian(University of Birmingham)
83
Panel /
Migration and asylum management: Space and actors
Room 3
Sponsor:
International Politics of Migration, Refugees and Diaspora Working Group
Convener:FOTEINI KALANTZI(University of Oxford)
Chair:FOTEINI KALANTZI(University of Oxford)
Analyzing Refugee Studies through a different lens in International Relations: A case study of European Response to the Afghan Refugee Crisis
Author:Rajarshi Chakraborty(PhD)
Refugee Studies through a different lens: NGOs, Relative Surplus Population and Racial Capitalism
Authors:Gemma Bird(University of Liverpool),Davide Schmid*
Creating (in)security through space: humanitarian entanglements in hosting communities
Author:Hannah Owens(Queen Mary University of London )
Struggles over Camps and Global Logics of Detention
Author:Lucy Kneebone(Queen Mary University of London)
European Union Readmission Agreements’ Necropolitical Mechanisms and Terminologies: An Analysis of the Joint Way Forward Declaration between the EU and Afghanistan
Author:Manuela Jorge(Queen Mary, University of London)
84
Panel /
Perennial and New Challenges in International Law and Politics
Room 6
Sponsor:
International Law and Politics Working Group
Convener:ILPG Working group
Chair:Rachel Kerr(King's College London)
Discussant:Henry Lovat(University of Glasgow)
Taboo: Explaining the Legal Principles and Norms Behind Weapon Prohibitions
Author:Carmen Chas(University of Kent)
Operationalizing State Obligations in the Climate Context: The Role of Integrated Assessment Models in Devising a Systematic and Transparent Methodology of Legal Interpretation
Author:Violetta Ritz(University of Kent)
Lost in transformation: the human rights we lost during the new state-centric order
Author:Caroline de Lima e Silva(Lichtenberg- Kolleg Institute for Advanced Study)
Legal Rhetoric, Human Rights, and the Universal Periodic Review
Author:Kyle Rapp(University of Southern California)
Trump’s assault on the International Criminal Court: Will the US ever be a leader in global justice and accountability?
Author:Melinda Rankin(The University of Queensland)
85
Panel /
Polish International Studies Association sponsored panel: Polish IR scholarship
Room 7
Sponsor:
Conference/Management
Convener:Marian Edward Halizak(University of Warsaw)
Chair:Marian Edward Halizak(University of Warsaw)
US-China Hegemonic War
Author:Marian Edward Halizak(University of Warsaw)
Beyond the static world: leadership in the theoretical views of international relations
International Relations in the European Union: theoretical approaches and explanatory challenges
Author:Joanna Dyduch(Jagiellonian University)
86
Conference event /
Polity book discussion: What's Wrong with NATO and How to Fix it
Room 9
Speakers:
Andrew Cottey(University College Cork), Prof.Mark Webber(University of Birmingham), Martin Smith(Royal Military Academy Sandhurst), DrRita Floyd(University of Birmingham)
87
Panel /
Security, Foreign Policy and Globalisation
Room 4
Sponsor:
International Studies of the Mediterranean, Middle East & Asia Working Group
Convener:Omer Tekdemir(Coventry University )
Chair:Omer Tekdemir(Coventry University )
Discussant:Jessica Northey(Coventry University)
Securitising Pandemics: Domestic-Political Explanations of Taiwan’s Response to COVID-19
Roundtable /
The politics of comparison and relationality: colonial grammars, knowledge production and counter-politics
Room 8
Sponsor:
Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group
Chair:Sharri Plonski(Queen Mary University of London)
Participants:Rhys Machold(University of Glasgow),Ananya Sharma(ASHOKA UNIVERSITY),Kelly-Jo Bluen(LSE),Katharine Hall(Queen Mary University ),Francine Rossone de Paula(Queen's University Belfast),Ida Roland Birkvad(Queen Mary University),Somdeep Sen(Roskilde University)
89
Conference event /
A conversation with Professor Jenny Edkins, winner of BISA's 2021 Distinguished Contribution Prize
BISA Room
Speakers:
Prof.Jenny Edkins(University of Manchester), Prof.Mark Webber(University of Birmingham), Prof.Ruth Blakeley(University of Sheffield)
90
Roundtable /
Challenging Coloniality in the International Anti-Trafficking Agenda to Reimagine Research Practice
Room 2
Sponsor:
Africa and International Studies Working Group
Chair:Alex Balch(Modern Slavery Policy & Evidence Centre (Research Director))
Participants:Allen Kiconco(University of Witswatersrand),Leona Vaughn(University of Liverpool),Nii Kwartelai Quartey(Jamestown Community Theatre (Accra, Ghana)),Lennon Mhishi(Anti Slavery Knowledge Network)
91
Roundtable /
Existentialism and International Relations I
Room 9
Sponsor:
Contemporary Research on International Political Theory Working Group
Chair:Joanne Yao(Queen Mary University of London)
Participants:Liane Hartnett(La Trobe University),Cian O'Driscoll(Australian National University),Andy Hom(University of Edinburgh),Eileen M. Hunt(University of Notre Dame)
92
Panel /
Giving primacy to movement: re-theorising global and transversal politics
Room 3
Sponsor:
Post-Structural Politics Working Group
Conveners:Alice Engelhard(LSE),Jef Huysmans(Queen Mary, University of London)
Chair:Jef Huysmans(Queen Mary, University of London)
Constitution of Australia’s island-borders
Author:Umut Ozguc(Deakin University)
Making sense of movement: tourists, soldiers, explorers
Author:Alice Engelhard(LSE)
Bodily Movement, Postcolonial Melancholia, and Architectures of Madness and War at the Imperial War Museum, London
Author:Audrey Reeves(Virginia Tech)
Home in the midst of movement: mapping relational belongings in South Asia
Author:Srishti Malaviya(Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU))
Antinomy: Nomads and the States-System
Author:Heiskanen Jaakko(University of Cambridge)
93
Panel /
New Dimensions of Asylum and Migration
Room 6
Sponsor:
International Politics of Migration, Refugees and Diaspora Working Group
Convener:Christian Kaunert(University of South Wales)
Chair:Maria Koinova(University of Warwick)
The Roles and Impacts of Diasporas in International Relations: Case studies of Turkish Diaspora in Germany and Armenian Diaspora in France
Author:Alperen Usta(Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University)
The Everyday at the Border: the mundane routinization of emergency assistance
Author:Janina Pescinski(Queen Mary University of London)
Disembedding Securitisation in the EU’s refugee policy? Reflections from a critical historical perspective
Author:Cristina Blanco Sio-Lopez(Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)
94
Conference event /
PGN Meet the Editors II - CLOSED SESSION, INVITE ONLY
Room 8
Speakers:
DrAlthea-Maria Rivas(SOAS), Christian Lequesne(Sciences Po), DrEmily Flore St Denny(University of Copenhagen), Greg Stiles(Global Policy), Hill Christopher(University of Cambridge), DrJames Strong (Queen Mary University of London), Janina Pescinski(Queen Mary University of London), DrJocelyn Mawdsley(Newcastle University), DrKhursheed Wadia(University of Warwick), Milja Kurki(Aberystwyth University), Prof.Saskia Stachowitsch(University of Vienna), Tom Vaughan(Aberystywth University), Xymena Kurowska
95
Panel /
Political Studies Association of Ireland sponsored panel: Global Challenges – Power, Politics, and Policies of Maritime Governance, Climate Change, and Covid-19
Room 7
Sponsor:
Conference/Management
Convener:Markus Pauli(Dublin City University)
Chair:Markus Pauli(Dublin City University)
Governance in the Indo-Pacific: India’s contribution to maritime order
Author:Jivanta Schottli( Dublin City University)
COVID-19 and Asymmetric interdependence in Aisa Pacific: Power Transition between the US and China
Authors:Niall Duggan(University College Cork),Marcin Grabowski(Jagiellonian University )
New Forms of Governance for Climate Change Mitigation in Asia and Europe
Author:Markus Pauli(Dublin City University)
China and the Global Discursive Response to Covid-19
Author:Alexander Dukalskis(University College Dublin)
96
Panel /
The prioritisation of health: national, regional and international perspectives
Room 1
Sponsor:
Global Health Working Group
Convener:Adele Langlois(University of Lincoln)
Chair:Stephen Roberts(UCL)
Discussant:Eva Hilberg
Regulatory Bottlenecks in Global Health
Author:Adele Langlois(University of Lincoln)
Brazilian Foreign and Health Ministries: different institutional cultures in the search for global health
Diversity and Inclusion in UK National Security Policymaking: 'Mission Critical' or Business as Usual?
Author:Hannah Wright(London School of Economics)
The Dis/Appearance of 'Race' in the UK's Women, Peace and Security Agenda
Author:Columba Achilleos-Sarll(University of Warwick)
‘Saving Brown Women’ from the Bomb? Racism, Colonialism and Transnational Solidarity in Feminist Anti-Nuclear Activism
Author:Catherine Eschle(University of Strathclyde)
The Violence of Feminist Foreign Policy
Author:Althea-Maria Rivas(SOAS)
98
Panel /
Winning and Losing in US Foreign Policy
Room 4
Sponsor:
US Foreign Policy Working Group
Convener:USFP Working group
Chair:Alexandra Homolar(University of Warwick)
Discussant:Matthew Hill(Liverpool John Moores University )
President Biden's Burden: Undoing Trumpism in an Age of Uncertainty
Author:zeynep selcuk(Fenerbahce University)
Trump, the Realist
Author:Payam Ghalehdar(University of Göttingen)
Populism and the Affective Politics of Humiliation Narratives
Authors:Alexandra Homolar(University of Warwick),Georg Löfflmann(University of Warwick)*
Challenges of Legitimation: Winnability in the American Way of War and the War on Terror
Author:Hall Jonny(London School of Economics and Political Science)
99
Conference event /
Coffee and conversation networking session - International Law WG; Russian and Eurasian Security WG; GIRWG; SE Europe WG; CPD WG; Global Health WG; PPWG; Ethics and World Politics WG; Nuclear Order WG; Interpretivism in IR WG
Room 10
100
Conference event /
Exhibitor Hall
Conference Website
101
Conference event /
KEYNOTE 3: Reset the International System and Reboot International Studies? Delivered by Dr Agnes Callamard, Secretary General of Amnesty International and former UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary killings - SPONSORED BY PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
Webinar Room
Speakers:
DrAgnes Callamard(UN/Amnesty International), DrJames Rogers(University of Southern Denmark)
102
Panel /
(Re)Constructing to Govern: Security Praxis and the Production of Acceptable Citizenry
Room 1
Sponsor:
Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group
Conveners:Alice Martini,Tom Pettinger(Warwick University),Raquel da Silva(ISCTE)
Chair:Raquel da Silva(ISCTE)
Imagination and the politics of pre-emption: NATO's Counterterrorism in the Mediterranean Sea after 9/11
Author:Julien Pomarède(Université libre de Bruxelles)
The subjugated knowledge of Prevent: UK terrorism pre-emption and the disruptive history of Northern Ireland
Author:Tom Pettinger
Bordered Violences and Unruly Spaces of Belonging : Pellet Guns and the Right to Maim in Kashmir
Author:Ananya Sharma(Ashoka University )
Muslim civil society and the risk discourse in counter-radicalization policies: the case of the U.K. and Canada
Author:Fahad Ahmad(Carleton University, School of Public Policy and Administration)
103
Conference event /
Bristol University Press Book Launch - Grand Strategy in 10 Words: A Guide to Great Powers in the 21st Century by Sven Biscop
Room 7
Speakers:
Stephen Wenham(Bristol University Press), Sven Biscop(Ghent University)
104
Roundtable /
Chatham House sponsored roundtable II: Domestic Politics and Foreign Policies: Interests, Articulation, Content and Impact
Webinar Room
Panel /
International Relations, Securitisation and Muslim communities
Room 8
Sponsor:
Religion and International Studies (RAIS) Working Group
Conveners:Rim-Sarah Alouane(University Toulouse-Capitole),Hisham A Hellyer(University of Cambridge )
Chair:Hisham A Hellyer(University of Cambridge )
Salafism and the Quest for 'Common Sense'
Author:Iman Dawood(London School of Economics )
Can the Left securitize Islam? Translation of security in the French Socialist Party
Author:Ugo Gaudino (University of Kent)
Between Saudi Authenticity and American Integration: Post-Salafi Shaykhs Straddle National and International Identities
Author:Matthew D. Taylor(Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies – Baltimore)
Of friends (and foes): Rethinking Salafi politics
Author:Guy Eyre(School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London)
107
Roundtable /
Intimate Conflicts: Queer Lives in Times of War
Room 5
Sponsor:
Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group
Chair:Wazhmah Osman(Temple University,)
Participants:Julio Cesar Diaz Calderon(University of Florida),Wazina Zondon(Artist and Activist),Jamie Hagen(Queen's University Belfast),Louis Yako(Scholar and Poet),Ahmad Qais Munhazim(Thomas Jefferson University),Moshtari Hilal(Visual Artist)
108
Panel /
Memories and Genealogies of IR
Room 6
Sponsor:
Historical Sociology and International Relations Working Group
Conveners:Clemens Hoffmann(University of stirling),Maia Pal(Oxford Brookes University)
Chair:Maia Pal(Oxford Brookes University)
International Relations in Argentina: historical roots and theoretical contributions
Author:Melisa Deciancio
Remembering International Studies? Collective memory as a model and framework
Authors:Mor Mitrani(Bar Ilan University),Tracy Adams(Bar Ilan University)
Who We Are, By Way of Who We Are Not: Identity Search and Match in World Politics
Authors:Ce Liang(University of Cambridge),Andrew Li(Central European University )*
Participants:Olaf Corry(University of Leeds),Jennie Stephens(Northeastern University),Rita Floyd(University of Birmingham),Kevin Surprise(Mount Holyoke College)
110
Panel /
“The China-Factor: Sino-British Relations and the Conundrum of Economic and Security Interests”
Room 3
Sponsor:
International Political Economy Working Group
Convener:Zeno Leoni(King's College London)
Chair:Zeno Leoni(King's College London)
Discussant:Astrid Nordin(Lancaster University)
When investments became a security threat in the UK: an analysis of the debate on Chinese foreign direct investments
Author:Francesca Ghiretti(War Studies Department - King's College London)
British engagement with China in the age of capitalisation and financialisation
Author:Martin Thorley(University of Nottingham)
The Search for a New Policy for China, 1922-1929
Author:Oliver Yule-Smith(Department of War Studies - King's College London)
The end of the ‘golden era’: contextualising Britain’s China policy conceptually and historically
Author:Zeno Leoni(King's College London)
111
Roundtable /
Becoming Fluent in Fieldwork: (Un)learning What Is Good/Ethical/Responsible Fieldwork
Room 6
Sponsor:
Interpretivism in International Relations Working Group
Chair:Cai Wilkinson(Deakin University)
Participants:Maria Adriana Deiana(Queen’s University Belfast),Elena Stavrevska(London School of Economics and Political Science),Suzanne Klein Schaarsberg(Aberystwyth University),Wen-Yu Wu(University of Birmingham),Omer Aijazi(Brunel University London, University of Toronto),Gemma Bird(University of Liverpool)
112
Roundtable /
Critical friendship or critical distance: Engaging with the military in research
Room 2
Sponsor:
War Studies Working Group
Chair:Benjamin Kienzle(King's College London)
Participants:Sophy Antrobus(Freeman Air and Space Institute, Kings College London),Ross McGarry(Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology, University of Liverpool),Hannah West(University of Bath),Aiko Holvikivi(Department of Gender Studies, London School of Economics)
113
Panel /
Ethics and World Politics
Room 3
Sponsor:
Ethics and World Politics Working Group
Convener:EWPG Working group
Chair:Robin Dunford(University of Brighton)
The Ethics of the Executed: What "Last Letters" Can Teach Us About Just War
Author:Daniel Brunstetter(UC Irvine)
Justice in International Trade: Re-Envisioning What It Asks Of Us
Author:LISA SAMUEL(NEW YORK UNIVERSITY)
The practice of international ethics: experimentation, evolution and experientialism
Author:Marija Antanaviciute(Queen Mary University of London)
Politics of hospitality in the National Health Service: immigration enforcement through the provision of healthcare in England.
Author:Moises Vieira(University of Manchester)
114
Panel /
Foreign events through the lens of Russian media
Room 5
Sponsor:
Russian and Eurasian Security Working Group
Convener:Lana Bilalova
Chair:Precious Chatterje-Doody(Open University)
Title: Warfare Agenda-Setting on Russian Television, 2009 - 2019
Author:Lana Bilalova
Title: Forget International Reporting? When war reporting isn’t reporting but sourcing
Author:Kenzie Burchell (University of Toronto)
RT’s International Coverage of the Pandemic and its Reception and Circulation on New Media Platforms
Author:Vitaly Kazakov(University of Manchester)
115
Roundtable /
Is ‘Critical Security Studies’ relevant to meeting the security challenges of the coming decade?
Room 4
Sponsor:
Post-Structural Politics Working Group
Chair:Thomas Martin(Open University)
Participants:Michael Clarke(King's College London and former Director General of RUSI),Nick Ritchie(University of York),Abigail Watson(Saferworld),Victoria Basham(Cardiff University),Camilla Molyneux(All-Party Parliamentary Group on Drones),Marissa Conway(Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy/University of Bristol)
116
Panel /
Perspectives on Peacebuilding
Room 1
Sponsor:
Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding Working Group
Convener:PKPBG Working group
Chair:Lenneke Sprik(Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Soundscapes of Mostar: Space and art beyond the divided city
Authors:Lydia Cole(University of Durham),Stefanie Kappler(Durham University)
Entangling detachments: ‘Affinitive peacebuilding’ in the Women’s League of Burma
Author:Anna-Karin Eriksson(Linnaeus University)
Intersecting identities and women activism for peace in the post-Yugoslav area
Author:Emilie Fort(Durham University)
117
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The State of War: From the Strategic to the Tactical
Room 7
Sponsor:
War Studies Working Group
Convener:James Rogers(University of Southern Denmark)
Chair:James Rogers(University of Southern Denmark)
Rebel Group Capabilities and Suicide Attacks in Civil Wars
Authors:Sinem Arslan(University of Essex ),Milos Popovic(Leiden University )*
Simulation, hyperbole, hypocrisy: Soldiers’ negotiations of remote warfare in Iraq
Authors:Helle Malmvig(DIIS, Senior Researcher),Jakob Dreyer(University of Copenhagen)
Inking Wartime: Military Tattoos and the Temporalities of the War Experience
Author:Mirko Palestrino(Queen Mary University of London)
Fashionable concepts in the field of Strategic Studies