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The British International Studies Association 43rd Annual
Conference 13th to 15th June 2018, Bath, UK.
Dear Colleague,
Welcome to Bath. The conference sessions are all based in the
Apex City of Bath Hotel and
Bath Brew House. In this pack you will find:
• Conference schedule • Conference panel programme • Panel room
grid • Working Group Business Meetings • Programme Participants
List • Meeting Room Locations • Publishers Exhibition • Gendering
International Relations Working Group Plenary
Please pick up your delegates badge from the registration desks
in the Apex City of Bath Hotel,
so we know you are at the event.
We do hope you have an enjoyable time in the panel sessions and
networking at this event.
Hope to see you again for our 44th conference at the Royal
Society, London 2019.
Kindest regards
Conference Team
Programme Chair – Kyle Grayson, Newcastle University
Programme Chair Assistant – Sarina Theys, Newcastle
University
Organisation & Registration – Gail Birkett and Student
helpers
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CONFERENCE SCHEDULE 2018
WEDNESDAY 13TH JUNE 2018
Time Session
7.00 - 16.15 Registration + Publishers Exhibition
7.00 - 8.00 Welcome Refreshments
8.00 - 9.30 Panel Session 1 (90 minutes)
9.30 - 10.00 Refreshment Break
10.00 - 11.30 Panel Session 2 (90 minutes)
11.30 - 11.45 Short Comfort Break
11.45 - 13.15 Panel Session 3 (90 Minutes)
13.15 - 14.15
Lunch Break 1 hour
Working Group Business meetings
14.15 - 15.45 Panel Session 4 (90 Minutes)
15.45 - 16.15 Refreshment Break
16.15 - 17.45 Panel Session 5 (90 minutes)
19.00 - 21.00
Wine Reception & Prize Ceremony @
Historic Roman Baths
Sponsored by University of Bath.
(Free of charge but Ticket only event
due to limitations on numbers)
THURSDAY 14TH JUNE 2018
Time Session
7.00 - 16.15 Registration + Publishers Exhibition
7.00 - 8.00 Welcome Refreshments
8.00 - 9.30 Panel Session 6 (90 minutes)
9.30 - 10.00 Refreshment Break
10.00 - 11.30 Panel Session 7 (90 minutes)
11.30 - 11.45 Short Comfort Break
11.45 - 13.15 Panel Session 8 (90 Minutes)
13.15 - 14.45 Lunch Break 1.5 hours
13.30 - 14.45 Working Group Business Meetings
14.45 - 16.15 Panel Session 9 (90 minutes)
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16.15 - 16.45 Refreshment Break
16.45 - 18.15 Panel Session 10 (90 minutes)
18.30 - 20.30
Gendering International Relations
Working Group Sponsored plenary
session
Lansdown 1 Ground Floor Apex Hotel
Wine reception sponsored by Sage
Publishing.
18.30 - 20.30
Postgraduate Network Wine reception
and gathering
The Atrium 1st Floor
FRIDAY 15TH JUNE 2018
Time Session
7.00 - 14.15 Registration + Publishers Exhibition
7.00 - 8.00 Welcome Refreshments
8.00 - 9.30 Panel Session 11 (90 minutes)
9.30 - 10.00 Refreshment Break
10.00 - 11.30 Panel Session 12 (90 minutes)
11.30 - 11.45 Short Comfort Break
11.45 - 13.15 Panel Session 13 (90 Minutes)
13.15 - 14.15
Lunch Break 1 hour
Working Group Business Meetings
14.15 - 15.45 Panel Session 14 (90 Minutes)
15.45 - 16.15 Refreshment Break
16.15 - 17.45 Panel Session 15 (90 minutes)
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2018 CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
WA01: Wednesday 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM Panel Examining the EU’s
Role in Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding Sponsor: European
Security Working Group Room: Bathwick room 1st floor Convenor:
Adrian Treacher, University of Sussex Chair: Tim Edmunds,
University of Bristol Resource dependency in conflict prevention
and peacebuilding: How the EU, UN and OSCE exchange capabilities
for a sustainable peace Ewa Mahr, Maastricht University * Hylke
Dijkstra, Maastricht University ‘Constructing the capable state’:
EU discourses and practices on local capacity building Ana E.
Juncos Garcia, University of Bristol Civil-military synergies in EU
conflict prevention and peacebuilding - a task-based analysis.
Peter Horne Zartsdahl, Roskilde University A civilian European
strategic culture? Assessing the EU's peace project basis. Laura
Chappell, University of Surrey The EU's attempts at achieving
sustainability in local ownership: voices from civil society in the
Western Balkans, Horn of Africa and South East Asia Ryerson
Christie, University of Bristol Gilberto Algar-Faria, University of
Bristol
WA02: Wednesday 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM Panel Crisis, Austerity and
New Configurations of Neoliberalism Sponsor: International
Political Economy (IPEG) Room: Walcot Room 1st floor Convenor:
Juanita Elias, University of Warwick Chair: Juanita Elias,
University of Warwick Overcoming the Allure of Neoliberalism’s
Market Myth: Implications for the Study of and Resistance to
Neoliberalism Ian Bruff, University of Manchester Violence Against
Women in Times of Austerity. Implications of Changes in the
European Gender Regime for Southern European Women Iratxe Perea
Ozerin , University of the Basque Country
Production, Trade and Migration: The Political Economy of
Refugee Crisis Gorkem Altinors, Bilecik Seyh Edebali University,
Turkey A “Bitter Mockery”: Resentment Politics and the Public Trust
Scott G Nelson, Virginia Tech Joel T Shelton, Elon University
Discourse of Political Agency During Austerity: Comparing Greece
and Ireland Nuve YAZGAN, University of Surrey When does the IMF
assign labour conditions? Exchange Rate Regimes, Fiscal Targets,
and the IMF as an Independent Agent Saliha Metinsoy , University of
Groningen
WA03: Wednesday 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM Panel Power, culture and
resistance in Middle Eastern politics Sponsor: International
Studies of the Mediterranean, Middle East & Asia (ISMMEA) Room:
Widcombe Room 1st floor Convenor: Ayla Gol, Aberystwyth University
Chair: Scott Thomas, University of Bath Eurocentric Knowledge
Production in IR: Rethinking Orientalism and the Middle East Ayla
Gol, Aberystwtyh University ‘Resistance Culture’: forging the
narrative in the Axis of Resistance Edward Wastnidge, Open
University ‘For faith and culture for the fatherland’: Militarism
and class relations in Turkey, Osmaniye University Gönenç Uysal,
Osmaniye Univeristy, Turkey Power Struggle of Underdogs in Turkey:
Conceptualizing discursive power in an alternative radical model
Omer Tekdemir, University of Leicester
WA04: Wednesday 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM Panel Unlearning academia:
Disseminating postcolonial critique in/with non-academic contexts
Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group (CPD)
Room: Lansdown 1 Groundfloor Convenor: Franziska Mueller,
University of Kassel Chair: Franziska Müller, University of Kassel
Connecting the Dots – Timelines of Oppression and Resistance Daniel
Bendix, glokal Berlin
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mangoes & bullets – Materials for Racism- and
Domination-Critical Thinking and Acting Chandra-Milena Danielzik,
glokal Berlin “Bittersweet Pepper – Episodes from the Colonial
Present” Franziska Mueller, University of Kassel
WA05: Wednesday 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM Panel ‘Memory, Identity and
peacebuilding: narratives from Northern Ireland and the island of
Ireland’ Sponsor: Peace and Conflict Specialist Group of the
Political Studies Association of Ireland Room: Kingsmead 2 1st
floor Convenor: Giada Laganà, National University of Ireland Chair:
Giada Lagana, National University of Ireland ‘Memory beyond
borders: the Irish state and dealing with the legacy of the
conflict in and about Northern Ireland, 1969 to 2018’ Thomas Leahy,
Cardiff University ‘2004 Irish Citizenship Referendum and 1916
Commemoration: memory, belonging and nation’ Anita Naughton,
National University of Ireland Galway “A Taxonomy of a National
Identity: How the ‘Northern Irish’ identity is understood and used
by Young People and Politicians” Kevin McNicholl, Queens University
of Belfast ‘Does European Union Forge Peace? A Study of Community
Relations in Northern Ireland’ Giada Lagana, National University of
Ireland “‘Tell me exactly what they did?’ Tracing the ideas of John
Paul Lederach on the peacebuilding project in Northern Ireland Anna
Tulin Brett, National University of Ireland Galway
WA06: Wednesday 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM Panel Relocating World
Politics: Political Action Beyond States Sponsor: Non-Governmental
Organisations (NGO) Room: Brew House Meeting Room Convenor: Angela
Crack, University of Portsmouth Chair: Angela Crack, University of
Portsmouth Homes In-Between: Experiences of a Woman in War and
Peace Ayça Kurtoğlu, Acıbadem University
Continuing Movements of Multilateralism: The case of
transnational corporations and human rights Karen Buckley,
University of Manchester Trust, transparency and legitimacy in
NGO-donor relations Vincent Charles Keating, University of Southern
Denmark Erla Thrandardottir, University of Manchester *
WA07: Wednesday 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM Roundtable The British Armed
Forces’ engagement with Women, Peace and Security Sponsor:
Gendering International Relations (GIRWG) Room: Camden Room 1st
floor Convenor: Megan Bastick, University of Edinburgh Chair: Julia
Welland, University of Warwick Megan Bastick, University of
Edinburgh Sippi Azarbaijani-Moghaddam, St Andrews University Paul
Higate, University of Bath Katharine Millar, LSE Hannah Wright,
LSE
WA08: Wednesday 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM Roundtable ‘What difference
does a name make?’: Power, legitimacy and ‘Foreign Fighters’
Sponsor: Historical Sociology and International Relations (HSIR)
Room: Lansdown 2 Groundfloor Convenor: Malte Riemann, Royal
Military Academy Sandhurst Chair: Malte Riemann, Royal Military
Academy Sandhurst Christopher Kinsey, Kings College London Norma
Rossi, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst Helene Olsen, Kings College
London
WB01: Wednesday 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Panel The nature of
illiberal governance in south-east Europe Sponsor: South East
Europe Room: Camden Room 1st floor Convenor: Natalie Martin,
Nottingham Trent University Chair: Catherine Baker, University of
Hull
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Why is Bosnia and Herzegovina most illiberal of all the Western
Balkan countries? Marika Djolai, Institute of Development Studies
Turkish politics since 2007: A series of illiberal events Natalie
Martin, Nottingham Trent University The EU and autocrats, hand in
hand? The reproduction of illiberal regimes as an outcome of the
EU’s response to vulnerability and risk. Jonathan Webb, University
of Sheffield
WB02: Wednesday 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Panel Legitimacy and NGOs
Sponsor: Non-Governmental Organisations (NGO) Room: Brew House
Meeting Room Convenor: Angela Crack, University of Portsmouth
Chair: Angela Crack, University of Portsmouth Who is your
constituency? The political engagement of humanitarian
organisations Andrew Cunningham, Independent analyst Envisioning
Legitimacy: NGO Legitimation through and for Images Alpa Dhanani,
University of Cardiff Denis Kennedy, College of the Holy Cross
Towards a Virtual Public Sphere? Ethnographic Case Studies of
Greenpeace and Amnesty’s Facebook and Twitter Amandine Hostein,
University of Portsmouth
WB03: Wednesday 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Panel Rethinking identity:
interrogating the ‘other’ in Russia’s international relations
Sponsor: Russian and Eurasian Security Room: Widcombe Room 1st
floor Convenor: Precious Chatterje-Doody, The University of
Manchester Chair: Precious Chatterje-Doody, The University of
Manchester Discussant: Paul Richardson, The University of
Birmingham The European Union and Russia: the visions of other in
academic discourse Katarzyna Kaczmarska, Aberystwyth University
Natalia Zaslavskaya, Saint Petersburg State University Beyond
‘state identity’: Russia as Great Power and the myth of the state
in international relations Stefanie Ortmann, University of
Sussex
From a Russian perspective on world events to Russia’s place in
the world: how RT navigates ‘us’ and ‘them’ for its international
audiences Precious Chatterje-Doody, The University of Manchester
Relational process or substantialist attribute? Stigmatisation in
Russian-Western relations and its impact on international society
Adrian Rogstad, LSE
WB04: Wednesday 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Panel Liberal war and
violence Sponsor: Post-Structural Politics (PPWG) Room: Kingsmead 2
1st floor Convenor: Tahseen Kazi, Georgia Southern University
Chair: Christina Oelgemoller, Loughborough University Destabilising
the ‘Super-Frontex’ Regime: From ‘Saving Lives’ to ‘Human Security’
Ali Bilgic, Loughborough University Humanity, Temporality and the
Liberal Way of War Jamie Johnson, University of Leicester Norms are
what machines make of it: Autonomous Weapons Systems and the
normative dimension of international relations Hendrik Huelss,
University of Kent
WB05: Wednesday 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Panel Panel: Identities,
mobilities and rights: The relevance of citizenship Sponsor:
Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group (CPD) Room:
Walcot Room 1st floor Convenor: Terri Anne Teo, Nanyang
Technological University Chair: Terri Anne Teo, Nanyang
Technological University Chair: Gemma Bird, University of Liverpool
Valuing citizenship: what can citizenship studies tell us about
refugees lived experience? Gemma Bird, University of Liverpool The
possibilities of affective empathy? Abjective Vulnerability &
The Life in the UK Test Amanda Russell Beattie , Aston University
Citizenship as Third Space Aoileann Aoileann Ní Mhurchú, University
of Manchester Multiculturalism Beyond Citizenship
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Terri Anne Teo, Nanyang Technological University
WB06: Wednesday 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Panel Ethics at the limits:
traversing frontiers and boundaries for ethical thinking Sponsor:
Ethics and World Politics Group Room: Bathwick room 1st floor
Convenor: Elke Schwarz, University of Leicester Chair: Elke
Schwarz, University of Leicester New Materialism, Corporeality and
Ethics Birgit Schippers, St Mary's University College Belfast The
right to citizenship as a basic right Nicholas Schenk, University
of Leicester ‘The Virtues of Anarchy’ Reconsidered: On Waltz, the
Kantian Moralist Alex Prichard, University of Exeter Empire of Apps
and Artificial Intelligence: An Exercise of ‘Ethical’ Bio-power
Debangana Chatterjee, Jawaharlal Nehru University
WB07: Wednesday 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Panel Local dynamics of
counter-terrorism: critical readings Sponsor: Critical Studies on
Terrorism (CST) Room: Kingsmead 1 1st floor Convenor: Alice
Martini, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies Terrorism and
biopolitical security: Sydney Siege case study Jessicah Mullins,
University of New South Wales The Prevent Strategy in the NHS:
Doctors, Safeguarding, and Surveillant Assemblages Charlotte
Heath-Kelly, University of Warwick Rights in Counterterrorism as
Blinders and Fantasies: Reflections on “Human Rights-Compliant
Counterterrorism” Jayson Lamchek, National University of
Singapore
WB08: Wednesday 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Roundtable Contesting Power,
Alternative Rules? Human Rights and International Security in
Africa Sponsor: Africa & International Studies Room: Lansdown 2
Groundfloor Convenor: Kurt Mills, University of Dundee Chair: Kurt
Mills, University of Dundee Kurt Mills, University of Dundee
Paul Bentall, UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office Andrea
Birdsall, University of Edinburgh Henry Lovat, University of
Glasgow Lars Waldorf, University of Dundee
WB09: Wednesday 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Roundtable Diversifying IR:
Problems and Progress within the Taught and Published Discipline
Sponsor: International Relations as a Social Science Room: Lansdown
1 Groundfloor Convenor: Kiran Phull, London School of Economics
Chair: Katharine Millar, London School of Economics Akanksha Mehta,
University of Sussex Kerem Nisancioglu, SOAS University of London
Laura J Shepherd, The University of Sydney Nivi Manchanda, Queen
Mary University of London Kiran Phull, London School of Economics
Ismene Gizelis, University of Essex
WC01: Wednesday 11:45 AM - 13:15 PM Panel Gendered sites of
everyday life in IPE Sponsor: International Political Economy
(IPEG) Room: Walcot Room 1st floor Convenor: Juanita Elias,
University of Warwick Chair: Ian Bruff, University of Manchester
Resistance within Reproduction: The physical, embodied
reappropriation of produced gendered aesthetics through cosplay
Katarina H.S. Birkedal, University of St Andrews Mobility, race and
gender amongst Bolivian market vendors in two cities Aiko Ikemura
Amaral, University of Essex The “Demented” Everyday of Global
Politics Tiina Vaittinen, University of Tampere Political Economy
of the Plastic Bottle Marjaana Jauhola , University of Helsinki
WC02: Wednesday 11:45 AM - 13:15 PM Panel International
Adjudication and its Discontents Sponsor: International Law (I-Law)
Room: Lansdown 2 Groundfloor Convenor: Henry Lovat, School of Law,
University of Glasgow Chair: Lars Waldorf, Law School, University
of Dundee
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International Tribunal Backlash: a Pluralist Approach Henry
Lovat, School of Law, University of Glasgow ICC Preliminary
Investigation >and Consequences for Relationships with States
Party Rachel Kerr, Department of War Studies, King’s College London
African Regional Responses to the ICC: Backlash or Constructive
Engagement? Kurt Mills, School of Social Sciences, University of
Dundee Backlash against the ICC: Responsiveness as Strategic
Response Anni Pues, School of Law, University of Glasgow
WC03: Wednesday 11:45 AM - 13:15 PM Panel Russia, China and
regionalism in Central Asia Sponsor: Russian and Eurasian Security
Room: Kingsmead 2 1st floor Convenor: David Lewis, University of
Exeter Chair: Filippo Costa Buranelli, University of St Andrews
Discussant: David Lewis, University of Exeter China’s Rise,
Russia’s Return? The de-centred politics of “rising powers” in
Central Asia John Heathershaw, University of Exeter Catherine Owen,
University of Exeter An expanded SCO: reinvigorated, or on the road
to redundancy? Natasha Kuhrt, Kings College London The decoupling
of Central Asia and Russia in the aftermath of the Soviet Union
(1991-1995) Jeremy Smith, University of Eastern Finland
WC04: Wednesday 11:45 AM - 13:15 PM Panel Imperial Legacies:
Geopolitics, Strategy and the Political-Military Sponsor:
Historical Sociology and International Relations (HSIR) Room:
Lansdown 1 Groundfloor Convenor: Joseph Leigh, London School of
Economics Chair: Nivi Manchanda, Queen Mary University of London
Discussant: Brieg Powel, Aberystwyth University A Science Against
Empire: Anti-Colonialism and Geopolitical Thought in Late-Colonial
India Martin Bayly, London School of Economics The Pakistani Cold
War Imaginary: Trajectories, Contentions and Transformations
Asad Zaidi, London School of Economics Periodizing Postwar
Modernity: US Grand Strategy and the Trajectory of Cold War
Liberalism Joseph Leigh, London School of Economics
WC05: Wednesday 11:45 AM - 13:15 PM Panel Reflections on the
Methodological Challenges and Opportunities of Researching War
Sponsor: Post-Structural Politics (PPWG) Room: Bathwick room 1st
floor Convenor: Victoria Basham, Cardiff University Chair: Paul
Higate , University of Bath The Gendered Power Dynamics of Informed
Consent in Researching the Female Partners of British Army
Reservists Victoria Basham, Cardiff University Sergio Catignani,
University of Exeter Engaging Military Afterlives Sarah Bulmer,
University of Exeter David Jackson, University of Exeter Freedom of
Information Legislation and the Democratic Oversight Narrative:
Cause for Pause? Peter Finn, Kingston University Emotions and
Engaged Research in Conflict Jenny Hedström, Monash University
Wargaming with the US Military Aggie Hirst, King's College
London
WC06: Wednesday 11:45 AM - 13:15 PM Panel Shaping Space and
Bending Borders – The Role of Conflict Brokers Sponsor:
International Studies of the Mediterranean, Middle East & Asia
(ISMMEA) Room: Brew House Meeting Room Convenor: Oliver Walton,
University of Bath Chair: Akanksha Mehta, University of Sussex
Towards a Theory of Spatial Brokers and Brokered Space Sharri
Plonski, Queen Mary, University of London Systems in flux:
borderlands, brokers and post-war politics in Nepal and Sri Lanka
Jonathan Goodhand, School of Oriental and African Studies,
University The Militia Fix: Ordering space in Myanmar’s contested
borderlands Patrick Meehan, School of Oriental and African Studies,
University The violence of brokerage: factions, labour and
political order in Bangladesh
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David Jackman, University of Manchester Communicating life on
the margins: using literary comics to understand borderland brokers
Oliver Walton, University of Bath
WC07: Wednesday 11:45 AM - 13:15 PM Panel Decolonial Solidarity,
Activism, and the Commodification of Struggle Sponsor: Colonial,
Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group (CPD) Room: Camden Room
1st floor Convenor: Lisa Tilley, Queen Mary University of London
Chair: Anupama Ranawana, University of Aberdeen Beyond talking
back. Decolonial Learning on Intervention and Solidarity through
Blackness Olivia Umurerwa Rutazibwa, University of Portsmouth The
decolonial subject and the problem of non-Western authenticity
Marco Vieira, University of Birmingham The ethics of dehumanisation
and the possibility of creaturely witnessing Oliver Kearns,
University of Edinburgh ‘Non-African’ Refugee Entrepreneurs: The
Racialised Management and Marketing of Syrian Refugees Lewis
Turner, Arnold Bergstraesser Institute
WC08: Wednesday 11:45 AM - 13:15 PM Panel Rules, Norms and
Exceptions in World Politics Sponsor: Contemporary Research on
International Political Theory (CRIPT) Room: Kingsmead 1 1st floor
Convenor: Kyle Grayson, Newcastle University Chair: Maria Garcia,
University of Bath Global ungovernance as intended effects of
norm-setting Ulrich Petersohn, University of Liverpool * Andrea
Schneiker, University of Siegen Regionalism begets regionalism? The
Transpacific Partnership (TPP)’s legacy and the Regional
Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) Maria Garcia, University
of Bath Crafting Peace— Explaining the Dynamics of Trilateral
Cooperation between China-Japan-Republic of Korea 1999-2015 Yeajin
Yoon, University of Oxford
WC09: Wednesday 11:45 AM - 13:15 PM Panel
World Politics and Illiberal Regimes: Identity, Ideology, and
Investment Sponsor: South East Europe Room: Widcombe Room 1st floor
Convenor: Sarina Theys, Newcastle University Chair: Danielle
Beswick, University of Birmingham Nationalism in Turkey: the media
coverage of Syrian refugees Nuray Aridici, University of Sheffield
Russia's Foreign Direct Investments in the Post-Soviet South
Caucasus Republics Samir Balakishi, University of Bristol Tracing
the Development of a Political Polling Industry in the Arab world:
Origins and Implications Kiran Phull, London School of
Economics
WD01: Wednesday 14:15 PM - 15:45 PM Panel Interpretivism in
English School theory Sponsor: Interpretivism in International
Relations Room: Brew House Meeting Room Convenor: Filippo Costa
Buranelli, University St Andrews Chair: Mattia Cacciatori,
University of Bath Discussant: Iain Ferguson, National Research
University Higher School of Econ The English School: What Kind of
Interpretivism? Cornelia Navari, University of Buckingham Bridging
the divide: What the English School does, and why Charlotta
Friedner Parrat, Uppsala University Informality in International
Society: a conceptual approach Filippo Costa Buranelli, University
of St Andrews
WD02: Wednesday 14:15 PM - 15:45 PM Panel Gender, performance
and international summitry (1/2): Examining place and purpose
Sponsor: South East Europe Room: Kingsmead 1 1st floor Convenor:
Katharine A. M. Wright, Newcastle University Chair: Maxine David,
Leiden University Discussant: Catherine Baker, University of Hull
Beyond agenda setting: Gender, performativity and NATO Summits
Katharine Wright, Newcastle University Lifting the Veil on Gender
in Global Climate Governance Joanna Wilson, University of
Manchester
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The World Humanitarian Summit, ‘One Humanity’ and the
iconography of the child: where does it leave humanitarianism?
Róisín Read, University of Manchester Summits, negotiations and
Brexit: Gendered implications for the UK withdrawal Roberta
Guerrina, University of Surrey
WD03: Wednesday 14:15 PM - 15:45 PM Panel British Foreign
Policy: Changing Powers, Changing Policies Sponsor: Foreign Policy
Working Group Room: Widcombe Room 1st floor Convenor: Tara
McCormack, University of Leicester Chair: Richard Whitman,
University of Kent The war powers of the British parliament: What
has been established, and what remains unclear? James Strong, Queen
Mary, University of London Parliament and Britain’s Intervention in
Iraq and Syria: Limiting the UK’s Military Ambitions? Thibaud
Harrois, Universite Sorbonne Nouvelle British war powers and
cybersecurity Tara McCormack, University of Leicester British
Overseas Development Aid and International Identity Victoria
Honeyman, University of Leeds
WD04: Wednesday 14:15 PM - 15:45 PM Panel Reconsidering
'responsibility' through a critical analysis of practices Sponsor:
Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group (CPD) Room:
Walcot Room 1st floor Convenor: Liam Midzain-Gobin, McMaster
University Chair: Caroline Dunton, The George Washington University
Discussant: Meera Sabaratnam, SOAS, University of London Revisiting
Responsibility in International Relations: Accountability,
Practice, and Foreign Policy Caroline Dunton, The George Washington
University Decolonizing Responsibility through Indigenous
Resurgence Liam Midzain-Gobin, McMaster University
(Ir)Responsibility and the European Refugee ‘Crisis’: Performing
the Humanitarian-Security Nexus
Michael Gordon, McMaster University Between regionalism and free
movement: Rethinking responsibility with borderland communities in
Central Africa Dieunedort Wandji, University of Portsmouth
WD05: Wednesday 14:15 PM - 15:45 PM Panel Security, Identity and
Practices of Power and Ordering in Africa Sponsor: Africa &
International Studies Room: Restaurant Groundfloor Convenor:
Danielle Beswick, University of Birmingham Chair: Danielle Beswick,
University of Birmingham “We are the liberation struggle people”:
Imagining dominance in South Africa Luisa Calvete Portela Barbosa,
SOAS University of London #StopThisMovie and the Pitfalls of Mass
Atrocity Prevention: Framing of Violence and Anticipation of
Escalation in Burundi’s Crisis (2015-2017) Andrea Purdekova,
University of Bath Subjects and the State in Ghana’s prisons Laura
Routley, Newcastle University Peace and security interventions in
Africa: a new form of militarism? Marta Iñiguez De Heredia, IBEI
The politics and practises of everyday urban control in Marrakech
Jonas Hagmann, ETH Zürich
WD06: Wednesday 14:15 PM - 15:45 PM Panel International
terrorism or local challenges? Critical assessments Sponsor:
Critical Studies on Terrorism (CST) Room: Kingsmead 2 1st floor
Convenor: Alice Martini, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
Chair: Charlotte Heath-Kelly, University of Warwick Projections of
sovereignty: (re)politicising the so-called ‘Islamic State’ Aaron
Anfinson, University of Hong Kong Nadia Al-Dayel, University of
Nottingham Demystifying the Religiosity in Religious Terrorism: A
Case Study of Boko Haram in Nigeria Tarela Juliet Ike, University
of East London Normative Turbulences: Protection and
counterterrorism norms in Interventionary Security Governance in
Africa
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Louise Moe, Helmut Schmidt University A critical analysis of
proscription: how the listing of armed groups as ‘terrorists’
affects peace Sophie Haspeslagh, London School of Economics and
Politics
WD07: Wednesday 14:15 PM - 15:45 PM Roundtable Can we write a
peer-review journal article in a day? An experiment in the
co-production of academic knowledge Sponsor: Post-Structural
Politics (PPWG) Room: Lansdown 1 Groundfloor Convenor: Alex
Prichard, University of Exeter Chair: Alex Prichard, University of
Exeter Chair: Ilan Baron, University of Durham Ilan Baron,
University of Durham Justin Murphy, University of Southampton *
Joneke Koomen, Willamette University
WD08: Wednesday 14:15 PM - 15:45 PM Roundtable Resilience as a
new EU security strategy: challenging the foundations Sponsor:
Foreign Policy Working Group Room: Camden Room 1st floor Convenor:
Elena Korosteleva, University of Kent Chair: Elena Korosteleva,
University of Kent Trine Flockhart, University of Kent Ana E.
Juncos, University of Bristol Elena Pavlova, University of Tartu
Ben Tonra, UCD, Ireland Elena Korostreleva, University of Kent
Jonathan Joseph, Sheffield University *
WD09: Wednesday 14:15 PM - 15:45 PM Roundtable Researching
Non-State Actors in International Security: Methodological
Challenges and Advances Sponsor: International Relations as a
Social Science Room: Lansdown 2 Groundfloor Convenor: Andreas
Kruck, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich Chair: Andrea
Schneiker, University of Siegen Theodora-Ismene Gizelis ,
University of Essex Berit Bliesemann de Guevara, Aberystwyth
University Joakim Berndtsson, University of Gothenburg Ingvild
Bode, University of Kent
Patrick Mello, Technical University Munich / University of
Erfurt Andreas Kruck, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
WD10: Wednesday 14:15 PM - 15:45 PM Roundtable Feminist
Communities and Mentorship Sponsor: Gendering International
Relations (GIRWG) Room: Bathwick room 1st floor Convenor: Julia
Welland, University of Warwick Chair: Julia Welland, University of
Warwick Shirin Rai, University of Warwick Victoria Basham, Cardiff
University Julia Welland, University of Warwick Jennifer Hobbs,
University of Manchester
WE01: Wednesday 16:15 PM - 17:45 PM Panel Varieties of financial
market development Sponsor: International Political Economy (IPEG)
Room: Walcot Room 1st floor Convenor: Johannes Petry, University of
Warwick Chair: Johannes Petry, University of Warwick The politics
of oil and finance in Angola and Nigeria Rebecca Engebretsen,
University of Oxford Florence Dafe, London School of Economics and
Political Science Exchanges, states and markets in the
internationalisation of China’s capital markets Johannes Petry,
University of Warwick Investing for impact, financing for
development: Pakistan’s start-up ecosystem Juvaria Jafri, City,
University of London
WE02: Wednesday 16:15 PM - 17:45 PM Panel Cosmopolitan
protection and the mutual constitution of hostile agencies and
legitimate violence Sponsor: Intervention and Responsibility to
Protect Room: Camden Room 1st floor Convenor: Timo Kivimäki,
University of Bath Chair: Timo Kivimäki, University of Bath
Comparing organisations through histories: learning from IPCC and
IPBES Hannah Hughes, Cardiff University Whose interest? Whose
peace? Pakistani military operations in the tribal areas and their
impact on the violence in Afghanistan
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Wali Aslam, University of Bath Secondary Institutions as
Decompression Valves in International Society Mattia Cacciatori ,
University of Bath The Protection of People and the Scope of
International Delegation. The Case of the ICC. Emanuela Koskimies ,
University of Helsinki Cosmopolitan power centricity and the mutual
constitution of just violence: A study of interaction between
hostile Syrian and American discourses of protection. Timo Kivimäki
, University of Bath
WE03: Wednesday 16:15 PM - 17:45 PM Panel How (not) to do
research on development, peace and security in Central Asia:
Reflections, lessons, and new ways forward Sponsor: Russian and
Eurasian Security Room: Restaurant Groundfloor Convenor: Philipp
Lottholz, University of Birmingham Chair: John Heathershaw,
University of Exeter Discussant: David Lewis, University of Exeter
Prospects for peace research in Central Asia. Between discourses of
danger, normative divides and global challenges Anna Kreikemeyer,
Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy i Covert research
in the Central Asian context: De facto usage, ethical issues and
potential applications Philipp Lottholz, University of Birmingham
Peculiarities of knowledge production in International
Organisations: IOM and local knowledge on migration in Tajikistan
Karolina Kluczewska, University of St Andrews Migration knowledge
networks and communities of practice in Central Asia and beyond
Oleg Korneev, University of Paris 13
WE04: Wednesday 16:15 PM - 17:45 PM Panel Process, Procedure,
Protocol: Acting out Security in Contingent Worlds Sponsor:
European Security Working Group Room: Bathwick room 1st floor
Convenor: Nathaniel O'Grady, University of the West of England
Chair: Ingvild Bode, University of Kent Chair: Audrey Reeves,
Cardiff University Discussant: Charlotte Heath-Kelly, University of
Warwick
Governing Security Machines: Politics of Maintenance, Evolution,
and Protection George Glouftsios, Queens Belfast The Rise of Border
Middle Management : Policing of Internal Schengen Borders in
Switzerland Jean-Francois Clouzet, Universite Lyon Stephan
Davidshofer, University of Geneva * Confronting the machine:
authority, resistance, and protocol in predictive policing Matthias
Leese, ETH Zurich
WE05: Wednesday 16:15 PM - 17:45 PM Panel The Politics of
Victimhood in Deeply Divided Societies Sponsor: International
Relations as a Social Science Room: Kingsmead 2 1st floor Convenor:
Roddy Brett, University of St Andrews Chair: Christine Cheng,
King's College Franco’s victims in Spain: The long road towards
justice and recognition Rosa Ana Alija-Fernández, University of
Barcelona Olga Martin-Ortega, University of Greenwich *
Reconciliation in the making: Overcoming competitive victimhood
through inter-group dialogue in Palestine/Israel Olga
Burkhardt-Vetter, University of St. Andrews The Role of the
Victims’ Delegations in the Santos-FARC Peace Talks Roddy Brett,
University of St. Andrews
WE06: Wednesday 16:15 PM - 17:45 PM Panel Developing the Legal
Framework for Modern Conflicts Sponsor: International Law (I-Law)
Room: Kingsmead 1 1st floor Convenor: Vivek Bhatt, University of
Edinburgh Chair: James Gow, Kings College London UK Drone Policy:
Counterterrorism and its Effects on International Law Andrea
Birdsall, University of Edinburgh Human Rights Law and Military
Operations Abroad Noelle Quenivet, UWE Bristol Rules of Engagement:
The Hidden Link Between Modern Conflicts David Bicknell, Kings
College London Protection of Civilians: Problems of Law, Ethics and
Gender Megan Bastick, University of Edinburgh
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Managing World Risk Society: The UN, Human Rights, and
Counter-terrorism Vivek Bhatt, University of Edinburgh
WE07: Wednesday 16:15 PM - 17:45 PM Panel Leading Responsibly,
thinking ethically Sponsor: Ethics and World Politics Group Room:
Widcombe Room 1st floor Convenor: Elke Schwarz, University of
Leicester Chair: Myriam Fotou, University of Leicester Discussant:
Joe Hoover, Queen Mary University of London Hans Morgenthau,
Virtue, and the Analysis of American Foreign Policy Biao Zhang,
China University of Political Science and Law The Political Moment:
Political Responsibility and Leadership Today Richard Beardsworth,
University of Aberystwyth The Responsible Migrant Christina
Oelgemoller, Loughborough University Theorising Responsible Nuclear
Sovereignty Laura Considine, University of Leeds James Souter,
University of Leeds
WE08: Wednesday 16:15 PM - 17:45 PM Panel Geopolitics, State
(Re-)Formation and Identity Sponsor: Historical Sociology and
International Relations (HSIR) Room: Brew House Meeting Room
Convenor: Brieg Powel, Aberystwyth University Chair: Yavuz Dursun
Tuyloglu, University of Sussex Territory, Property and War: Towards
Synthesis in Conflict Studies and the Historical Sociology of the
State Nicholas Lees, University of Liverpool The 'Scientific
Frontier' from British India to the Paris Peace Conference: The
Techno-Politics of Territory Kerry Goettlich, London School of
Economics The culture of tolerance in Uzbekistan Gulrukh Rakhimova,
Sophia University
WE09: Wednesday 16:15 PM - 17:45 PM Panel Vulnerable Migrants in
Contested States Sponsor: International Politics of Migration,
Refugees, and Diasporas Room: Lansdown 2 Groundfloor Convenor:
Maria Koinova, University of Warwick
Chair: Gerasimos Tsourapas, University of Birmingham Discussant:
Neil James Wilson, City, University of London Beyond Statist
Paradigms: Diaspora Mobilisations and Contested Sovereignty in
Europe and Its Neighbourhood Maria Koinova, University of Warwick A
Vulnerable Threat? Examining U.S. Policy-making Towards Child
Migrants Michaela Bruckmayer, University of Sheffield Citizenship
for sale and the neoliberal political economy of belonging Luca
Mavelli, University of Kent
WE10: Wednesday 16:15 PM - 17:45 PM Panel Nicholas Wheeler in
conversation with Ken Booth Sponsor: N/A Room: Lansdown 1
Groundfloor Convenor: Sarina Theys, Newcastle University Chair:
Nicholas J. Wheeler, University of Birmingham
TA01: Thursday 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM Panel Visualising Emotions in
International Relations Panel Proposal Sponsor: International
Relations as a Social Science Room: Bathwick room 1st floor
Convenor: Heidi / Malte Wang-Kaeding / Kaeding, Trinity College
Dublin / University of Surrey Chair: William A. Callahan, London
School of Economics and Political Science Visuality, virtuality,
and mass surveillance William A. Callahan , London School of
Economics and Political Science Emotions and Media Coverage of
Climate Security Issues Defne Gunay, Yasar University * Gizem
Arikan, Trinity College Dublin Gizem Melek, Yasar University * IR
in VR: Virtual Reality as Intervention Technology Ciaran Gillespie,
University of Surrey Leaders, coping and emotions Malte Philipp
Kaeding, University of Surrey Heidi NK Wang-Kaeding , Trinity
College Dublin
TA02: Thursday 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM Panel
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Grenfell/International Sponsor: Post-Structural Politics (PPWG)
Room: Brew House Meeting Room Convenor: Dan Bulley, Oxford Brookes
University Chair: Cian O'Driscoll, University of Glasgow Twin
Towers: Grenfell and the World Trade Center Jenny Edkins,
Aberystwyth University Understanding Imperfection: Aftermath
narrative ownership and international learning after disaster Lucy
Easthope, Whatever Next Productions Everyday Life (and Death) in
the Global City Dan Bulley, Oxford Brookes University Grenfell:
Media Responses and International Implications Anna Viola Sborgi,
King's College London Islam and the Grenfell Tower Fire: a local
tragedy with international ramifications Joseph Downing,
CNRS/Aix-Marseille Université and LSE Richard Dron, University of
Salford
TA03: Thursday 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM Panel Security practices and
the making of (post)conflict areas Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial
and Decolonial Working Group (CPD) Room: Walcot Room 1st floor
Convenor: Thorsten Bonacker, University of Marburg Chair: Thorsten
Bonacker, University of Marburg Securitization and Geopolitics:
Russia’s Evolving Policy in Eurasia David Lewis, University of
Exeter Re-Configurations of the Center-Periphery-Relations between
Australia and Papua New Guinea Werner Distler, University of
Marburg Postcolonial Security Practices? The Cameroonian
Decolonization in Conflict Maria Ketzmerick, University of Marburg
The perpetuation of global hierarchy through targeted killing
practices in the “war on terror” Ingvild Bode, University of Kent
Internal colonialism and the security practices of statebuilding
Thorsten Bonacker, University of Marburg
TA04: Thursday 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM Panel
Implementing a Multi-faceted Responsibility to Protect Sponsor:
Intervention and Responsibility to Protect Room: Kingsmead 1 1st
floor Convenor: Jess Gifkins, The University of Manchester Chair:
James Pattison, The University of Manchester Why Keep the
Responsibility to Protect Intact? Pinar GÖZEN ERCAN, Hacettepe
University The UK’s ‘Special Responsibilities’ in Post-Brexit
Multilateralism Jess Gifkins, The University of Manchester Jason
Ralph, The University of Leeds Failed Ideas and Contested Norms:
Responsibility to Rebuild Outi Donovan, The University of Leeds
TA05: Thursday 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM Panel The Politics of
Interventionism and insecurity in the Middle East Sponsor:
International Studies of the Mediterranean, Middle East & Asia
(ISMMEA) Room: Camden Room 1st floor Convenor: Ayla Gol, Newcastle
University Chair: Ayla Gol, Aberystwyth University An Assessment of
Domestic Motivations in Turkish Foreign Policy Behavior Towards
Iran During the Arab Spring Cangul Altundas Akcay, Durham
University From Identity Politics to Majoritarian Democracy in
Turkey: Limits of AKP’s Constituent Counterrevolutionism Özlem
Kaygusuz, Ankara University If walls could talk: Analysing
insecurity narratives of the Israeli West Bank Separation Barrier
Owen Thomas, University of Exeter * Aneta Brockhill, University of
Exeter Violence against Arab women in peace and war Maria Holt,
University of Westminster
TA06: Thursday 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM Roundtable Authors meet the
critics: Andreas Bieler & Adam David Morton (2018) Global
Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis (Cambridge University Press)
Sponsor: International Political Economy (IPEG) Room: Lansdown 1
Groundfloor Convenor: Ian Bruff, University of Manchester Chair:
Cemal Burak Tansel, University of Sheffield
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Andreas Bieler, University of Nottingham Adam David Morton,
University of Sydney Juanita Elias, University of Warwick Lara
Montesinos Coleman, University of Sussex Ian Bruff, University of
Manchester
TA07: Thursday 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM Roundtable The Normative
Triangle? Russia, China, and the US in the contemporary
international system Sponsor: Russian and Eurasian Security Room:
Lansdown 2 Groundfloor Convenor: Ruth Deyermond, King's College
London Chair: David Galbreath, University of Bath Roland
Dannreuther, University of Westminster Maxine David, University of
Leiden Ruth Deyermond, King's College London Natasha Kuhrt, King's
College London Nicola Leveringhaus, King's College London
TA08: Thursday 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM Roundtable Religion in IR:
Assessing the Road Travelled, Sketching Future Horizons Sponsor:
Interpretivism in International Relations Room: Kingsmead 2 1st
floor Convenor: Gregorio Bettiza, University of Exeter Chair:
Bettiza Gregorio, University of Exeter Scott Thomas, University of
Bath Fabio Petito, University of Sussex Katerina Dalacoura, London
School of Economics and Political Science Stacey Gutkowski, King's
College Vassilios Paipais, University of St Andrews
TA09: Thursday 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM Roundtable
Feminism|Militarism – Reflections on IR and (de)militarisation on
GIRWG’s 30th Anniversary Sponsor: Gendering International Relations
(GIRWG) Room: Widcombe Room 1st floor Convenor: Kyle D. Catto, York
University (Canada) Chair: Cynthia Enloe, Clarke University Hannah
Partis-Jennings, King's College London Victoria Basham, Cardiff
University Julia Welland, University of Warwick Kyle Catto, York
University (Canada)
TB01: Thursday 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Panel
Policy Entrepreneurs and Foreign Policy Sponsor: Foreign Policy
Working Group Room: Kingsmead 1 1st floor Convenor: Kai Oppermann,
University of Sussex Chair: Klaus Brummer, Catholic University of
Eichstätt-Ingolstadt Discussant: Jamie Gaskarth, University of
Birmingham Policy Entrepreneurs, Veto Players, and Foreign Policy
Change Klaus Brummer, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
Kai Oppermann, University of Sussex Foreign Policy Entrepreneurship
and the End of U.S. Burma Sanctions Jürgen Haacke, LSE The Failure
of Top Level Policy Entrepreneurs in the Trump Administration
Roberta Haar, University College Maastricht
TB02: Thursday 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Panel Feminist Global
Political Economies of the Everyday: Practices of work, mobility
& resistance Sponsor: International Political Economy (IPEG)
Room: Walcot Room 1st floor Convenor: Juanita Elias, University of
Warwick Chair: Amanda Chisholm, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Everyday Economies of Abortion Access Sydney Calkin, Durham
University From recruitment to depletion: the feminist ethics of
global labour chains Amanda Chisholm, University of Newcastle Upon
Tyne Juanita Elias, University of Warwick Intersections of Power
and Identity: The Gendered Construction of Food Producers in the
Post-Colonial Nation of Trinidad and Tobago Merisa Thompson,
University of Sheffield Negotiating the State through Everyday
Security Governance: Street harassment and everyday in/security
strategies in London and Cairo Jutta Weldes, University of Bristol
Dancing between the local and the international: Kosovar women’s
organizations’ everyday activism and resistance Itziar Mujika Chao,
University of the Basque Country
TB03: Thursday 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Panel
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Gender, performance and international summitry (2/2): Examining
gendered practices Sponsor: Gendering International Relations
(GIRWG) Room: Bathwick room 1st floor Convenor: Katharine A. M.
Wright, Newcastle University Chair: Katharine A. M. Wright,
Newcastle University Practising hegemonic masculinity: gender and
the BRICS summits Karen Smith, Leiden University The Gay First
Gentleman: Framing and Claiming Gauthier Destenay at the 2017 NATO
Summit Matthew Hurley, Sheffield Hallam University Gender, public
diplomacy and the Commonwealth Summit 2018 Georgina Holmes,
University of Reading
TB04: Thursday 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Panel ‘Visioning’ African
development: the continent’s (re)turn towards long-term national
development strategies Sponsor: Africa & International Studies
Room: Brew House Meeting Room Convenor: William Brown, The Open
University Chair: Danielle Beswick, University of Birmingham
Discussant: Laura Routley, Newcastle University Visioning African
development futures: background and overview William Brown, The
Open University South Africa’s National Development Plan: The
Negotiated Transition Redux? Stephen Hurt, Oxford Brookes
University Ethiopia’s Second Growth and Transformation Plan
(GTPII): Tensions, Compromises and Historical (dis)continuities
Elsje Fourie, Maastricht University Vision documents and business:
judging a book by its cover? Tom Cargill, British Foreign Policy
Group
TB05: Thursday 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Panel BISA PANEL Religion and
International Relations (3) Peace, Violence, Religion, and the
State in an Age of Global Extremism Sponsor: International
Relations as a Social Science Room: Camden Room 1st floor Convenor:
Scott Thomas , Bath Chair: Scott Thomas, Bath
Discussant: Scott Thomas , Bath HUGH MIALL’S THEORY OF CONFLICT
EMERGENCE – A MIMETIC CRITIQUE Claudio Lanza, Westminster Tolstoy’s
Political Thought: A Christian Anarcho-Pacifist Iconoclast
Alexandre Christoyannopoulos, Loughborough University Reframing
Muslim Radicalism: Libertarian Islam v. the State Zaheer Kazmi,
Queens University Belfast Mapping and Assessing “Clash of
Civilizations” Narratives in the Muslim World: The Cases of Saudi
Arabia and Iran Farahnaz Karim, University of Exeter/Zayed
University
TB06: Thursday 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Cancelled session
TB07: Thursday 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Roundtable Untangling the
relationship between liberalism and illiberalism in South East
Europe. Sponsor: South East Europe Room: Lansdown 1 Groundfloor
Convenor: Jonathan Webb, University of Sheffield Chair: Daniela
Lai, London School of Economics Koen Slootmaeckers, City,
University of London Natalie Martin, Nottingham Trent University
Jonathan Webb, University of Sheffield Marika Djolai, Institute of
Development Studies
TB08: Thursday 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Roundtable On crushed and
uncrushed hope: a critical conversation between anticolonial,
Indigenous, and emancipatory forms of nationalism Sponsor:
Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group (CPD) Room:
Widcombe Room 1st floor Convenor: Lisa Tilley, Queen Mary
University of London Chair: Lisa Tilley, Queen Mary University of
London Anupama Ranawana, University of Aberdeen Tamara Soukotta,
Erasmus University/Leiden University Pol Bargués Pedreny,
University of Groningen Sara Salem, University of Warwick
TB09: Thursday 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Roundtable
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Valuing Living Processes: beyond instrumental discourses in
environmental politics Sponsor: Environment Working Group Room:
Lansdown 2 Groundfloor Convenor: Jenneth Parker, The Schumacher
Institute Chair: Joanne Yao, Durham University Lucy Ford, Oxford
Brookes University Jenneth Parker , Schumacher Institute Victor
Anderson, Global Sustainability Institute/Anglia Ruskin University
Ross Gillard, University of York
TB10: Thursday 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Roundtable BISA PGN 'General
Publishing Session/Meet the Publishers Event' Sponsor: BISA
Postgraduate Network Room: Restaurant Groundfloor Convenor: Sarina
Theys, Newcastle University
TC01: Thursday 11:45 AM - 13:15 PM Panel The International
Political Thought of Reinhold Niebuhr Sponsor: Contemporary
Research on International Political Theory (CRIPT) Room: Brew House
Meeting Room Convenor: Liane Hartnett, LSE Chair: Joanne Yao,
Durham University Discussant: Anthony Lang, St. Andrews Reinhold
Niebuhr: The Law of Love and the Omnipresence of Power David
Clinton, Baylor University The Christian Realist Pendulum: From
Pacifism to Interventionism Vassilios Paipais, University of St.
Andrews Niebuhr on Love, Justice and Race Liane Hartnett, LSE
TC02: Thursday 11:45 AM - 13:15 PM Panel The Historical
Sociology of Social Emancipation in the 21st Century Sponsor:
Historical Sociology and International Relations (HSIR) Room:
Camden Room 1st floor Convenor: Luke Cooper , Anglia Ruskin
University Chair: Luke Cooper, Anglia Ruskin University Discussant:
Nivi Manchanda, Queen Mary University of London Rethinking the
politics of uneven and combined development: from the end of the
blueprint to
the embrace of multiple temporalities of social change Luke
Cooper, Anglia Ruskin University Justin Rosenberg , University of
Sussex * Bordering Subjects: Migrants and Legal Forms of Capital
Accumulation Maïa Pal, Oxford Brookes University Democratic
Confederalism and the International: A Sympathetic Critique of
Öcalan’s State Theory Kamran Matin, University of Sussex A Fifth
Generation of Revolutionary Theory? Jamie Allinson, University Of
Edinburgh
TC03: Thursday 11:45 AM - 13:15 PM Panel Analysing Narratives in
an Age of Global Pluralism: Meaning, Contestation, Polyphony
Sponsor: Interpretivism in International Relations Room: Kingsmead
1 1st floor Convenor: Maren Hofius, University of Hamburg Chair:
Felix Berenskoetter, SOAS, University of London Discussant: Chiara
de Franco, University of Southern Denmark Concordia Discors of
Civilization: The Narrative Dissonance in Russia’s Foreign Policy
Iain Ferguson, National Research University Higher School of Econ
Competing Narratives in the Crisis of Europe Katja Freistein,
Centre for Global Cooperation Research, University Frank Gadinger,
Centre for Global Cooperation Research, University A
Structurationist Reading of Narratives: Exploring the Local
Construction of Global Politics Maren Hofius, University of Hamburg
Jan Wilkens, University of Hamburg The Sublime Aesthetic of
Narrative Sarah Naumes, York University Dean Caivano, York
University
TC04: Thursday 11:45 AM - 13:15 PM Panel Africa in the world
today: soft power profile, potentials and challenges Sponsor:
International Relations and Diplomacy Committee of the South
African Association of Political Studies Room: Walcot Room 1st
floor Convenor: Christopher Afoke Isike, University of Pretoria
Chair: Christopher Isike, University of Pretoria
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Soft power and the currency of sports: (Re)thinking South
Africa’s rising hegemony in Africa Olusola Ogunnubi, Mangosuthu
University of Technology The impact of the ACIRC on South Africa’s
soft power in Africa Marta Bridgman, South African Institute of
International Affairs The failure of counter terrorism in Africa:
Could the enhancement and application of soft power remedy the
situation? Sven Botha, Monash South Africa Think women in politics,
think Rwanda: converting global recognition into a soft power
advantage Christopher Isike, University of Pretoria
TC05: Thursday 11:45 AM - 13:15 PM Panel New Issues in the
Responsibility to Protect Sponsor: Intervention and Responsibility
to Protect Room: Bathwick room 1st floor Convenor: Jess Gifkins,
University of Manchester Chair: Jess Gifkins, University of
Manchester Discussant: James Pattison, University of Manchester
Reimagining ‘Virtue’ in the ‘Virtual’: Using Cyber-Means to Protect
Vulnerable Populations from Mass Atrocity Crimes Rhiannon Neilsen,
University of New South Wales How Prevention Can Be Improved
Through Assistance under the Second Pillar of the Responsibility to
Protect: A Constitutive Theory Approach Krisztina Csortea, King's
College London After war, statebuilding from first principles
Christine Cheng, King's College London Sovereignty as
Responsibility: Unpacking the doctrine of the 'two sovereignties'
Andrea Carati, University of Milan Divergent Interpretations of the
R2P and Human Security: the implications of "Asian" and "Western"
understandings for engagement with governance challenges in Myanmar
Brendan Howe, Ewha Womans University
TC06: Thursday 11:45 AM - 13:15 PM Panel The EU, the West and
International Threats and Challenges Sponsor: European Security
Working Group
Room: Widcombe Room 1st floor Convenor: Adrian Treacher,
University of Sussex Chair: André Barrinha, University of Bath
Assessing Leadership Dynamics inside the Franco-German “Special
Relationship”: The Cases of the Eurozone and Ukraine Crises Adrian
Treacher, University of Sussex Regional Organisations and the
Responsibility to Protect: The Case of the European Union Julia
Schmidt, University of Exeter The EU and China’s Sea Disputes:
Between Normative Politics and Power Balancing Andrew Cottey,
University College Cork Conceptualising the Quiet Revolution:The
Post-Fordist Military Logistics and Western Security Patrick Bury,
University of Bath The politics behind the European Global
Strategy: the normalization of European foreign policy cooperation
Heidi Maurer, London School of Economics and Political Science
TC07: Thursday 11:45 AM - 13:15 PM Panel International Norms and
Values through a Russian/Eurasian lens Sponsor: Russian and
Eurasian Security Room: Kingsmead 2 1st floor Convenor: Natasha
Kuhrt, King's College London Chair: Previous Chatterje-Doody, The
University of Manchester Carr Goes East: Reconsidering Power and
Inequality in a Post-Liberal Eurasia Kevork Oskanian, University of
Birmingham RUSSIA AND THE UN RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT CONCEPT
Alexander Sergunin, St. Petersburg State University The Armor of
God: Russian Orthodox Church in Defense of Putinism Jeremy
Lamoreaux, BYU - Idaho
TC08: Thursday 11:45 AM - 13:15 PM Panel Misrecognition in World
Politics Sponsor: Review of International Studies (RIS) Room:
Lansdown 2 Groundfloor Convenor: Ruth Blakeley, University of
Sheffield Chair: Ruth Blakeley, University of Sheffield
Misrecognition in World Politics Ole Jacob Sending, NUPI
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Misrecognition and the making of a state: Ghana’s international
relations under Kwame Nkrumah Julia Gallagher, Royal Holloway,
University of London States before Relations: Institutionalised
misrecognition and the performance of statehood Minda Holm, NUPI
Sovereign Equality as Misrecognition Ayse Zarakol, University of
Cambridge Agency (Mis)Recognition in International Violence: The
case of French Jihadism Thomas Lindemann, Universite de
Versailles
TC09: Thursday 11:45 AM - 13:15 PM Roundtable Prospects of the
Democratic Left: Global and National Perspectives Sponsor:
International Political Economy (IPEG) Room: Lansdown 1 Groundfloor
Convenor: Richard Sandbrook, Department of Political Science,
University of Tor Chair: Richard Sandbrook, Department of Political
Science, University of Tor Ali Burak Guven, International Relations
and International Politica Jeffery Webber, School of Politics and
International Relations, Qu Richard Sandbrook, Department of
Political Science, University of Tor
TC10: Thursday 11:45 AM - 13:15 PM Roundtable Feminist journeys
to and across International Relations: a conversation Sponsor:
Gendering International Relations (GIRWG) Room: Restaurant
Groundfloor Convenor: Julia Welland, University of Warwick Chair:
Julia Welland, University of Warwick Cynthia Enloe , Clark
University Shirin Rai, University of Warwick Laura Shepherd ,
University of Sydney
TD01: Thursday 14:45 PM - 16:15 PM Panel Race, Postcoloniality
and Whiteness in ‘Postsocialist’ Europe: South-East Europe and
Global Formations of Race Sponsor: South East Europe Room:
Kingsmead 2 1st floor Convenor: Catherine Baker, University of
Hull
Chair: Kerem Nisancioglu, SOAS University of London Discussant:
Kerem Nisancioglu, SOAS University of London Whiteness and
nationhood at ‘the bulwark of Europe’: ‘postsocialist’ nationalisms
and transnational racialized Islamophobia Catherine Baker,
University of Hull ‘A special place?’ Race, migration, and
genealogies of encounter Špela Drnovšek Zorko, University of
Warwick Translating colonial difference: Progress and resistance in
Serbian agriculture Katarina Kušić, Aberystwyth University
Unexpected processes of (re-)racialization: the case of Bosniaks in
Berlin Merima Šehagić, Freie Universität Berlin
TD02: Thursday 14:45 PM - 16:15 PM Panel Resistance, insecurity,
action Sponsor: Post-Structural Politics (PPWG) Room: Widcombe Room
1st floor Convenor: Tahseen Kazi, Georgia Southern University
Chair: Tatevik Mnatskanyan, Loughborough University London The
Aegean sea as a humanitarian space: Daily practices of the Turkish
Coast Guard Command Beste Isleyen, University of Amsterdam The
Carnivalesque and Resistance in War on Terror Tatevik Mnatsakanyan,
Loughborough University London The Governance of Everyday
Insecurities: Stop street harassment campaigns and new social
realities in Cairo Elisa Wynne-Hughes, Cardiff University
TD03: Thursday 14:45 PM - 16:15 PM Panel Situated Perspectives
on the Colonial Global Order Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and
Decolonial Working Group (CPD) Room: Kingsmead 1 1st floor
Convenor: Lisa Tilley, Queen Mary University of London Chair:
Olivia Rutazibwa, University of Portsmouth Oil, Sovereignty and
Hierarchy in the Global Order: Iran in the 1930s Evaleila Pesaran,
Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge
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Resistance and Security networking in a time of fear: A
Historical Reading of Iran’s Contemporary Foreign Policy Ane
Kirkegaard, Malmö University The Subaltern Standpoint in the
Geopolitical Imaginary - Retrieving the Local in Crimea Alvina
Hoffmann, King's College London ‘A Most Valuable Propaganda
Medium’: The First Twenty Years of the British Council in Cyprus
(1935-1955) Maria Hadjiathanasiou, University of Nicosia South West
Africa and International Society: C.A.W. Manning and the Dispute
over a Class C Mandate David Long, Carleton University
TD04: Thursday 14:45 PM - 16:15 PM Panel Foreign Policy Making
Beyond Western Contexts Sponsor: Foreign Policy Working Group Room:
Bathwick room 1st floor Convenor: Victoria Honeyman, University of
Leeds Chair: Danielle Beswick, University of Birmingham China's
Nationalism Problem: Han-Centrism and International Politics
Bradley Thayer, University of Oxford Populism and Indian Foreign
Policy: The Politics of Representing ‘the People’ Thorsten
Wojczewski , King's College London Presidential Personality and
Foreign Policy Making: The Case of Iran Ameneh Mehvar, University
of St Andrews
TD05: Thursday 14:45 PM - 16:15 PM Panel Conflict, Intervention
and Gendered Insecurities Sponsor: Gendering International
Relations (GIRWG) Room: Camden Room 1st floor Convenor: Julia
Welland, University of Warwick Chair: Hannah Partis-Jennings,
King's College London Conceptualising Recognition through a
Feminist Lens: Post-conflict Justice Processes in Bosnia and
Herzegovina Lydia Cole, Aberystwyth University Gender Equal
Citizenship and Ethno-National Conflict: Women’s Political Activism
and Public Participation During the Northern Irish Troubles Linda
Eitrem Holmgren, Transitional Justice Institute, Ulster
University
Legitimacy Crisis? Sexual Exploitation in Peacekeeping
Operations: exploring alternative discourses of international
reaction in Central African Republic Sabrina White, University of
Leeds
TD06: Thursday 14:45 PM - 16:15 PM Panel New Directions in
Theorizing the International Sponsor: International Relations as a
Social Science Room: Walcot Room 1st floor Convenor: Adam
Humphreys, University of Reading Chair: Adam Humphreys, University
of Reading Dancing crises away. Embodied forms of international
sociability at the Congress of Vienna and the Rokumeikan Felix
Roesch, Coventry University Neoclassical Realism: The Worst of Both
Worlds Daniel Dunleavy , University of Kent No Child’s Play:
Politics of Toy in Conflict and Post-Conflict Spaces Virginie
Grzelczyk, Aston University Why we need to establish International
Political Psychology Anna Beyer, University of Hull
TD07: Thursday 14:45 PM - 16:15 PM Panel Innovations in
Interpretation: Revised Methods and New Approaches Sponsor:
Interpretivism in International Relations Room: Brew House Meeting
Room Convenor: Ian Ferguson, RANEPA Chair: Ian Ferguson, RANEPA
Discussant: Felix Berenskoetter, SOAS, University of London
Restoring Symbolic Interactionism within IR: Interpreting Practices
over Identity Bernardo Teles Fazendeiro, University of Coimbra Why
IR scholars should care what states are talking about? Mor Mitrani,
Bar Ilan University From Praxis to Meta-Praxis (and Para-Praxis): A
Modest Interpretivist Approach to International Relations Antonio
Di Biagio, University of St Andrews Actualism and Interpretivism: A
Liaison Flaminia Incecchi , University of St. Andrews
TD08: Thursday 14:45 PM - 16:15 PM Panel
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REF 2021 Update Session Sponsor: N/A Room: Lansdown 1
Groundfloor Convenor: Kyle Grayson, Newcastle University Charlie
Jeffrey, University of Edinburgh
TD09: Thursday 14:45 PM - 16:15 PM Roundtable Coproduction and
the voice of the subaltern Sponsor: Post-Structural Politics (PPWG)
Room: Lansdown 2 Groundfloor Convenor: Alex Prichard, University of
Exeter Chair: Alex Prichard, University of Exeter Meera Sabaratnam,
SOAS Jonneke Koomen, Willamette University Nivi Manchanda, Queen
Mary, University of London Aggie Hirst, King's College, London Lara
Coleman, University of Sussex
TD10: Thursday 14:45 PM - 16:15 PM Roundtable BISA PGN 'Meet the
Editors' [By invitation only] Sponsor: BISA Postgraduate Network
Room: Restaurant Groundfloor Convenor: Sarina Theys, Newcastle
University
TE01: Thursday 16:45 PM - 18:15 PM Panel An Almost Cyborg? At
the Human-Drone Intersection Sponsor: Critical Studies on Terrorism
(CST) Room: Kingsmead 2 1st floor Convenor: Lindsay Clark,
University of New South Wales, Canberra Chair: Rhiannon Neilsen,
University of New South Wales The human heart of the Cyborg:
Mapping the emotional terrain of British Reaper operators in their
responses to remote drone killing Peter Lee, University of
Portsmouth Drone Epistemology, Gender and Warfare Lorraine Bayard
de Volo, University of Colorado Boulder Out-of-the-Loop: Exploring
the Experiences of the Families of British Reaper Crews Lindsay
Clark, University of New South Wales
TE02: Thursday 16:45 PM - 18:15 PM Panel Health (In)security and
the Politics of Knowledge Sponsor: Global Health Working Group
Room: Brew House Meeting Room Convenor: Adam Ferhani, University of
Sheffield Discussant: Joao Nunes, University of York
Contagion, Exclusion, and the Corporeal: Performing Health
Security Adam Ferhani, University of Sheffield Realist, radical,
revolutionary? Emancipation and critical health security Joao
Terrenas, University of York Imagin(ing) Epidemics – the visual
securitization of Ebola Katharina Krause, Tubingen University
TE03: Thursday 16:45 PM - 18:15 PM Panel States and
International Societies in Ancient, Modern, and Contemporary
History Sponsor: British International History Group Room:
Restaurant Groundfloor Convenor: David Clinton, Baylor University
Chair: David Clinton, Baylor University The Origins and
Implications of Military Autonomy Peter Campbell, Baylor University
The Promise of Phronesis for International Ethics Stephen Sims,
Rochester Institute of Technology The Political and Trans-political
Character of Justice for Aristotle Elizabeth Goyette, Baylor
University Thucydides’ View of International Pressure and
Technological Innovation Jason Lund, Baylor University Interwar
International Law and Organizations Influences on the
Anglo-American Transition Jeremy Schmuck, Baylor University
TE04: Thursday 16:45 PM - 18:15 PM Panel Difficult heritage and
soft power Sponsor: International Relations as a Social Science
Room: Kingsmead 1 1st floor Convenor: David Clarke, University of
Bath Chair: Wali Aslam, University of Bath Discussant: Anna Bull,
University of Bath Remembering the First World War in France: the
Historial de la Grande Guerre and Thiepval Museum Nina Parish,
University of Bath * Eleanor Rowley, University of Bath Local
Investment as Soft Power? The Oil Industry’s Role in Preserving
Antebellum Heritage in Louisiana Jessica Rapson, King's College
London Managing the Shared Heritage of War: The Russian-German
Museum in Karlshorst’
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David Clarke, University of Bath Zofia Woycicka, Centrum Badań
Historycznych Polskiej Akademii Nauk * 'Troubles Tourism' and Soft
Power Melissa Nisbett, King's College London
TE05: Thursday 16:45 PM - 18:15 PM Panel The Effectiveness of
the Responsibility to Protect Sponsor: Intervention and
Responsibility to Protect Room: Walcot Room 1st floor Convenor:
Jess Gifkins, The University of Manchester Chair: Bola Adediran,
University of Manchester The Responsibility to Protect Whom?
Intervention, non-state actors, and the right to remain neutral
Alex Leveringhaus, The University of Manchester Competing logics of
protection: How the European Union practices protection of
civilians Chiara De Franco, The University of Southern Denmark
Circumventing the Security Council to implement R2P? Bola Adediran,
University of Manchester
TE06: Thursday 16:45 PM - 18:15 PM Panel Law, war and crime in
international order Sponsor: International Law (I-Law) Room:
Lansdown 2 Groundfloor Convenor: Rachel Kerr, King's College London
Chair: Rachel Kerr, King's College London Lethal Autonomous Weapons
Systems: The End of Humanity in International Humanitarian Law?
Joanna L D Wilson, University of Glasgow The Bête Noire and the
Noble Lie – The International Criminal Court and (the Disavowal of)
Politics Christof Royer, University of St Andrews The Essence of an
International Crime: A Constructivist Perspective Suwita Hani
Randhawa, University of Oxford/University of the West of England
Hugo Grotius and the Myth of the Grotian Tradition in International
Relations William Bain, National University of Singapore
TE07: Thursday 16:45 PM - 18:15 PM Roundtable Decolonising
Marx’s Capital Reading Group - http://bit.ly/2csSYSW
Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group
(CPD) Room: Widcombe Room 1st floor Convenor: Kerem Nisancioglu,
SOAS, University of London Chair: Kerem Nisancioglu, SOAS,
University of London Lisa Tilley, Queen Mary, University of London
Sara Salem, University of Warwick Maia Pal, Oxford Brookes
University Nivi Manchanda, Queen Mary, University of London Meera
Sabaratnam, SOAS, University of London
TE08: Thursday 16:45 PM - 18:15 PM Roundtable Contemporary
European Security: Reflections and Considerations in an Age of
Uncertainty Sponsor: European Security Working Group Room: Bathwick
room 1st floor Convenor: Laura Chappell, University of Surrey
Chair: Laura Chappell, University of Surrey David Galbreath,
University of Bath Jocelyn Mawdsley, Newcastle University Andre
Barrinha, University of Bath Katharine Wright, Newcastle University
Simon Smith, Staffordshire University
TE09: Thursday 16:45 PM - 18:15 PM Roundtable Understanding
Peace in the Arctic Sponsor: Russian and Eurasian Security Room:
Lansdown 1 Groundfloor Convenor: Nansen Professor Gunhild Hoogensen
Gjorv, University of Akureyri/Arctic University of Norway Chair:
Florian Stammler, University of Lapland Embla Eir oddsdóttir,
University of Akureyri, Iceland Barbora padrtová, Masaryk
University Aytalina Ivanova, North Eastern Federal University
Nansen Professor Gunhild Hoogensen Gjørv, University of
Akureyri/Arctic University of Norway Marc Lanteigne, Massey
University
TE10: Thursday 16:45 PM - 18:15 PM Roundtable Everything You’ve
Wanted to Know About Editing a Journal (But Were Afraid to Ask)
Sponsor: European Journal of International Security (EJIS) Room:
Camden Room 1st floor
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Convenor: Tim Edmunds, University of Bristol Chair: Kyle
Grayson, Newcastle University Ruth Blakeley, University of
Sheffield Toni Haastrup, University of Kent Kyle Grayson, Newcastle
University Tim Edmunds, University of Bristol Victoria Basham,
Cardiff University
FA01: Friday 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM Panel Emotions: Political
Instrumentalization and Political Responsibility Sponsor:
Contemporary Research on International Political Theory (CRIPT)
Room: Brew House Meeting Room Convenor: Sybille Reinke de Buitrago,
IFSH/University of Hamburg Chair: Sybille Reinke de Buitrago,
IFSH/University of Hamburg Discussant: Amanda Russell Beattie,
Aston University Emotionalizing the Arctic? Sybille Reinke de
Buitrago, IFSH/University of Hamburg Arctic Exceptionalism and
Migration: Exclusionary Use of Trust in Northern European States
Gunhild Hoogensen Gjørv, UIT The Arctic University of Norway
Contesting Emotional Governance: Empathy under Fire in the Israeli
Public Sphere during Operation Protective Edge Naomi Head, Glasgow
University
FA02: Friday 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM Panel South East Europe and the
international (I): re-imagining the state, society and political
economy Sponsor: South East Europe Room: Kingsmead 2 1st floor
Convenor: Daniela Lai, London School of Economics and Political
Science Chair: Katarina Kušić, Aberystwyth University Contested
practices and neoliberal imaginaries: Understanding the cultural
political economy of rule of law reform in Serbia Jonathan Webb,
University of Sheffield The international political economy of
socioeconomic injustice and the limitations of international
intervention Daniela Lai, London School of Economics and Political
Science
Re-imagining Citizenship and Belonging after Conflict and
International Intervention: a Provocation from the Post-Yugoslav
Space Maria-Adriana Deiana, Dublin City University No such thing as
'false consciousness': Serbian feminists' rejection of
post-colonial subjectivity Leandra Bias, University of Oxford Back
to the future: Balkanization and the Euro-Atlantic Integration
Processes of Western Balkans Liridona Veliu, Dublin City
University
FA03: Friday 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM Panel Facets of Friendship in
International Relations Sponsor: Interpretivism in International
Relations Room: Walcot Room 1st floor Convenor: Felix
Berenskoetter, SOAS, University of London Chair: Felix
Berenskoetter, SOAS, University of London Friendship, enmity, and
the political: Kristeva contra Schmitt Graham Smith, University of
Leeds Decolonising Friendship Astrid Nordin, Lancaster University
Trust in Friendship: A Matter of Faith? Felix Berenskoetter, SOAS,
University of London Friends in War: A Realist-Constructivist
Framework Arash Heydarian Pashakhanlou, Swedish Defence
University
FA04: Friday 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM Panel New European Security
Dimensions Sponsor: European Security Working Group Room: Widcombe
Room 1st floor Convenor: Adrian Treacher, University of Sussex
Chair: Adrian Treacher, University of Sussex Discussant: Heidi
Maurer, LSE European Cyber-diplomacy in the post-liberal order
Andre Barrinha, University of Bath The Internal-External Security
Nexus in the fight against radicalisation: EU and French narratives
under scrutiny Ana Paula Brandao, CICP - University of Minho The
Securitization of Cyber in Germany – A discourse analysis of the
German Bundestag 2013-2017 Konstantin Macher, Queen's University
Belfast
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The European Union’s External Governance of Organised Crime: a
ripple effect or a sinking stone? Helena Farrand Carrapico, Aston
University
FA05: Friday 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM Panel Data and Prejudice on
Migration and Policy Making Sponsor: International Politics of
Migration, Refugees, and Diasporas Room: Lansdown 2 Groundfloor
Convenor: Maria Koinova, University of Warwick Chair: Luca Mavelli,
University of Kent Labour Migrants in Qatar: Issues and Policy
Developments Carol Lafferty, Community College of Qatar Data on the
Displaced Tabitha Poulter, City, University of London Understanding
Prejudice: From Weimar anti-Semitism to Islamophobia in
Contemporary Britain Maryyum Mehmood, Dept of War Studies, King's
College London Borders, Bodies, (un)Belonging and the ‘Precarity’
of the Territorialized State: The Case of Kashmir Ananya Sharma,
Jawaharlal Nehru University
FA06: Friday 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM Panel Russian foreign policy
towards its European neighbours Sponsor: Russian and Eurasian
Security Room: Kingsmead 1 1st floor Convenor: Natasha Kuhrt,
King's College London Chair: Natasha Kuhrt, King's College London
Nationalism and foreign policy: Insights from Russia’s war in
Donbass Sofia Tipaldou, University of Manchester ‘Meddling in the
West’s Backyard’? Russia’s Contemporary Balkans Policy James
Headley, University of Otago Russia, Ukraine and the influence of
presumed media influence in international relations Joanna Szostek,
Royal Holloway University Energy Great Games in East Central Europe
Roland Dannreuther, University of Westminster
FA07: Friday 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM Roundtable Virtue and
Responsibility: how to build character and judgment globally
Sponsor: Intervention and Responsibility to Protect
Room: Camden Room 1st floor Convenor: Jess Gifkins, The
University of Manchester Chair: Jess Gifkins, The University of
Manchester Jamie Gasgarth, The University of Birmingham Kirsten
Ainley, London School of Economics and Political Science James
Pattison, The University of Manchester Joe Hoover, Queen Mary
University of London Anthony Lang, The University of St Andrews
FA08: Friday 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM Roundtable Interrogating
Archives in International Relations Sponsor: Colonial, Postcolonial
and Decolonial Working Group (CPD) Room: Bathwick room 1st floor
Convenor: Kalathmika Natarajan, University of Copenhagen Chair:
Lisa Tilley, Queen Mary, University of London Vipul Dutta, Indian
Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India Alexander Davis, La Trobe
University, Melbourne, Australia Medha Medha, German Institute of
Global and Area Studies (GIGA) Kalathmika Natarajan, University of
Copenhagen, Denmark Sharinee Jagtiani, University of Oxford
FA09: Friday 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM Roundtable Pedagogies of
Solidarity: Critique, Collaboration, and Care in the Neoliberal
University Sponsor: Post-Structural Politics (PPWG) Room: Lansdown
1 Groundfloor Convenor: Aggie Hirst, King's College London Chair:
Aggie Hirst, King's College London Daniel Dunleavy, University of
Kent Aggie Hirst, King's College London Joe Gazeley, University of
Edinburgh
FB01: Friday 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Panel Trump and the
Unpredictability Doctrine Sponsor: US Foreign Policy Room: Lansdown
2 Groundfloor Convenor: Michelle Bentley, Royal Holloway,
University of London Chair: Clara Eroukhmanoff, London South Bank
University Discussant: Clara Eroukhmanoff, London South Bank
University
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Trump’s foreign policy narratives: Unpredictability creating
opportunities for critical interventions Ben Fermor, University of
Leeds Jack Holland, University of Leeds * A Piece of (Chocolate)
Cake: Trump, Unpredictability, and Chemical Weapons Michelle
Bentley, Royal Holloway, University of London The Unpredictability
Doctrine in Trump’s Russia Policy Maxine David, Leiden
University
FB02: Friday 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Panel International Relations
and Epistemic Crisis Sponsor: International Relations as a Social
Science Room: Kingsmead 1 1st floor Convenor: Matthew Fluck,
University of Westminster Chair: Hannah Hughes, Cardiff University
Discussant: Hannah Hughes, Cardiff University The Historical
Particularity of Causal Explanation Adam Humphreys, University of
Reading Truth is a thing of this network: Foucault, Latour, and
social totality Philip Conway, Aberystwyth University The Epistemic
Crisis of Frankfurt School theory in IR Davide Schmid, University
of Sheffield Epistemic concepts in modern international relations
Matthew Fluck, University of Westminster
FB03: Friday 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Panel Science and Technology at
War Sponsor: Post-Structural Politics (PPWG) Room: Bathwick room
1st floor Convenor: David Galbreath, University of Bath Chair: Paul
Higate, University of Bath Scientific innovation and security
concerns Brett Edwards, University of Bath Technology and boundless
warfare David Galbreath, University of Bath The Third Offset as a
sociotechnical imaginary - the super soldier and US military
visions of the future Tom Hobson, University of Bath Binaries and
boundary work: Conceptualising the complex landscape of
cybersecurity Clare Stephens, Bristol University
FB04: Friday 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Panel Law, Justice, Global
Governance and the Colonial Question Sponsor: Colonial,
Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group (CPD) Room: Walcot Room
1st floor Convenor: Lisa Tilley, Queen Mary University of London
Chair: Alvina Hoffman, King's College London The imperialist in my
trishaw: explorations on Lay Buddhist nationalism in post war Sri
Lanka Anupama Ranawana, Centre for Poverty Analysis Colonialism,
law and legitimacy: the transformations of the Israeli military
legal system Maayan Geva, University of Roehampton Temporalizing
and spatializing justice: narratives and discourses on retribution
and redemption in international law Renato Sabbagh Bahia,
Aberystwyth University Decolonising the philosophical anthropology
of sustainability in global governance Jenneth Parker, The
Schumacher Institute Re-Narrating San Francisco: The United Nations
and Anti-Colonial Resistance Katy Harsant, University of
Warwick
FB05: Friday 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Panel Understanding Foreign
Policy: Prestige, Power and Strategy Sponsor: Foreign Policy
Working Group Room: Widcombe Room 1st floor Convenor: Victoria
Honeyman, University of Leeds Chair: James Strong, Queen Mary
University of London The US Foreign Policy on Nuclear Programs and
the Strategic Implications on Regional Security Complexes Hae Won
Jeong, Abu Dhabi University The role played by Strategic Culture
and Operational Code in Australia’s participation in the anti-ISIS
coalition 2014–2017 Joakim Eidenfalk, University of Wollongong
Frederik Doeser, Swedish Defence University Small State Foreign
Policy in an Era of Great Power Politics Bec Strating, La Trobe
University
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The challenges of developing a coherent grand strategy' William
James, University of Oxford The End of US Petrodollar Hegemony?
David Hughes, University of Lincoln
FB06: Friday 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Panel New Directions in
Feminist IR Sponsor: Gendering International Relations (GIRWG)
Room: Camden Room 1st floor Convenor: Julia Welland, University of
Warwick Chair: Julia Welland, University of Warwick Can the
situated learning of Unarmed Civilian Peacekeepers subvert
Hegemonic Gender Regimes? Derek Oakley, Lancaster University Queer
Civil-Military Relations: The Performative Citizenship of Support
for the Troops and the Repeal of Don’t ask Don’t Tell Katharine
Millar, London School of Economics Taking Militarism to Market:
Entanglements of Race, Caste, Gender in marketing Nepali security
Hanna Ketola, Newcastle University Integrating women, peace and
security with countering violent extremism: can a leopard change
its spots? Sahla Aroussi , Coventry University Refugees and
Europe’s women, peace and security agenda: Wilful omissions Audrey
Reeves, Cardiff University
FB07: Friday 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Panel Islamic and National
Discourses of Insecurity Sponsor: International Studies of the
Mediterranean, Middle East & Asia (ISMMEA) Room: Lansdown 1
Groundfloor Convenor: Ayla Gol, Aberystwyth University Chair: Maria
Holt, University of Westminster The Islamic State group's expansion
in South Asia Sharad Joshi, Middlebury Institute of International
Studies National Discourses of ‘Othering’ and Exclusion Shivali
Lawale, Symbiosis International University Iran and the West: The
Constellation of Concepts and Entry into the International Society
Alireza Shams Lahijani, LSE
FB08: Friday 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Panel New Directions in IR
Theory
Sponsor: Contemporary Research on International Political Theory
(CRIPT) Room: Kingsmead 2 1st floor Convenor: Sarina Theys,
Newcastle University Chair: Roland Dannreuther, University of
Westminster I think therefore IR: Assumptions of human nature in
international politics Alena Drieschova, Cardiff University
Interpretation and Rationality: Developing Donald Davidson’s Ideas
in IR Nikolay Gudalov, Saint Petersburg State University Iran and
Nuclear Weaponization: Why Do Mainstream Theories Fail to Explain
Non-Weaponization Shameer Modongal, Jawaharlal Nehru University
FB09: Friday 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Panel Evaluating Regions and
Rule-making in the Global Economy Sponsor: International Political
Economy (IPEG) Room: Brew House Meeting Room Convenor: Johnna
Montgomerie, Goldsmiths University of London Chair: John Ravenhill,
Balsillie School of International Affairs What Does Germany Want?
The Cris(e)s of the European Union and the Role of Germany Neil
Dooley, University of Sussex Crafting Peace— Explaining the
Dynamics of Trilateral Cooperation between China-Japan-Republic of
Korea 1999-2015 Yeajin Yoon, University of Oxford Centralization of
rule-making in the Eurozone Maja Savevska, Nazarbayev
University
FB10: Friday 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Panel The Future of BISA:
Informal Conversations with Members of the Board of Trustees
Sponsor: N/A Room: Restaurant Groundfloor Convenor: Kyle Grayson,
Newcastle University
FC01: Friday 11:45 AM - 13:15 PM Panel International Relations
and Space Security: The Arrival of Astropolitics Sponsor:
Interpretivism in International Relations Room: Walcot Room 1st
floor Convenor: Bleddyn Bowen, King's College London
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Chair: Sarah Lieberman, Canterbury Christ Church University
Orbital canons: The evolution of strategic thinking on the military
uses of outer space Michael Sheehan, Swansea University Spacepower
in the International System: Measuring Power in Heaven Bleddyn
Bowen, King's College London Beyond Earth, beyond the state:
NewSpace and the international political economy of space security
Mark Hilborne, King's College London Tim Stevens, King's College
London * Foreign Policy Analysis: An underutilised research
resource and the rise of India and China in space Dimitrios
Stroikos, University of York Kevin Pollpeter, King's College London
* Technopolitics above the Karman Line Cameron Hunter, University
of Bristol
FC02: Friday 11:45 AM - 13:15 PM Panel Contesting War Sponsor:
Ethics and World Politics Group Room: Widcombe Room 1st floor
Convenor: Cian O'Driscoll, University of Glasgow Chair: Dan Bulley,
Oxford Brookes Discussant: Elke Schwarz, University of Leicester
Political Violence in the Private Sector Amy Eckert, Metropolitan
State University Denver The Return of Reprisals Eric Heinze,
University of Oklahoma Pacifism and the Critique of State Violence
Iain Atack, Trinity College Dublin
FC03: Friday 11:45 AM - 13:15 PM Panel Trust in Global Health
Sponsor: Global Health Working Group Room: Lansdown 1 Groundfloor
Convenor: Joao Nunes, University of York Chair: Anne Roemer-Mahler,
University of Sussex Trusting Women, Trusting Government: The
Politics of Trust in the Zika outbreak Clare Wenham, London School
of Economics and Political Science Trust in global health research
ethics Adele Langlois, University of Lincoln The Role of Trust in
Resilient Health Systems Sonja Kittelsen, University of Oslo
Vincent Keating, University of Southern Denmark
Inspiring communities: Trust and the idea of community in global
health Joao Nunes, University of York Alexander Medcalf, University
of York *
FC04: Friday 11:45 AM - 13:15 PM Panel South East Europe and the
international (II): re-imagining justice, identity, and social
mobilisation Sponsor: South East Europe Room: Kingsmead 2 1st floor
Convenor: Daniela Lai, London School of Economics and Political
Science Chair: Maria-Adriana Deiana, Dublin City University
Discussant: Catherine Baker, University of Hull Victimhood in the
post-Yugoslav space: beyond ethno-national and international
conceptualizations Caterina Bonora, University of Bremen In between
nationalising fields: Croatia’s policies towards Croats in
Herzegovina Mate Subašić, University of Liverpool Protests to
polling booths: electoral legacies of the Bosnian plenums Indraneel
Sircar, London School of Economics and Political Science Partners
in Peace: Dating and Reconciliation in Bosnia-Herzegovina and
Croatia Ivor Sokolić , London School of Economics and Political
Science
FC05: Friday 11:45 AM - 13:15 PM Panel Bridging Trust Deficits
in the Global Nuclear Order Sponsor: Global Nuclear Order Working
Group Room: Lansdown 2 Groundfloor Convenor: Ana Alecsandru,
University of Birmingham Chair: Laura Considine, University of
Leeds US–Russia: From “Great Irresponsibles” to Special
Responsibles Ana Alecsandru, University of Birmingham * Nicholas J.
Wheeler, University of Birmingham Bridging the Trust Deficit in the
NPT after the Nuclear Ban Treaty Thomas E. Doyle, II, Texas State
University (Dis)Trusting Deterrence Nick Ritchie , University of
York Trust Among Friends: NATO's Changing Role in the Global
Nuclear Order
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Heather Williams, King’s College London
FC06: Friday 11:45 AM - 13:15 PM Panel The International
Dimensions of Cybersecurity: Security and Governance Challenges of
the Internet and Emerging Technologies such as the Internet of
Things Sponsor: International Relations as a Social Science Room:
Bathwick room 1st floor Convenor: Leonie Tanczer, University
College London Chair: James S. Johnson, University of Leicester
Discussant: André Barrinha, University of Bath A Difficult pas de
deux: Ethics and Technology Transfers in International Security
James Shires, University of Oxford Trust, Information Sharing and
Incident Response: The Role of Computer Security Incident Response
Teams (CSIRTs) in the International Cybersecurity Realm Leonie
Maria Tanczer, University College London Jason Blackstock,
University College London * The International Governance of Cyber
Weapons Jacqueline Eggenschwiler, University of Oxford Jantje
Silomon, University of Oxford The International Politics of the
Internet of Things Madeline Carr, University College London
FC07: Friday 11:45 AM - 13:15 PM Panel Organisations and
institutions: responsibility and capacity for meeting environmental
challenges Sponsor: Environment Working Group Room: Brew House
Meeting Room Convenor: Ross Gillard, University of Leeds Chair:
Ross Gillard, University of Leeds Chinese corporate social
responsibility in the extractive sector Linda Etchart, Birkbeck
Comparing organisations through histories: learning from IPCC and
IPBES Hannah Hughes, Cardiff University The Miracle of Cooperation:
Finding Common Ground in the Arctic Council Hannes
Hansen-Magnusson, Cardiff University
FC08: Friday 11:45 AM - 13:15 PM Panel Resolving Conflicts to
Foster Durable Peace: Lessons Learned from Conflict and
Post-Conflict Situations
Sponsor: Central and East European International Studies
Association Room: Kingsmead 1 1st floor Convenor: Kyle Grayson,
Newcastle University Chair: Andrew Payne, University of Oxford
Extralegal Groups in Post-Conflict Liber