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3rd Annual Conference
30th March 2015, King’s College, London
#BISAPGN2015
Dear Conference Participant,
Welcome to BISA Postgraduate Network’s 3rd Annual Conference. This conference has
been made possible with the support of the BISA and King’s College, London. We are
pleased to have attracted scholars engaged in a wide range of research on international
studies and we hope that this conference will provide you not just with an opportunity to
receive feedback on your work today, but an opportunity to move your work forward as part
of this network of postgraduate scholars.
We are delighted to have such an engaging selection of papers of speakers. Our keynote
address by Professor Nicola Phillips, University of Sheffield addresses ‘Worlds of Inequality’
in all of its manifestations in international politics. We are also pleased to have Dr Martin
Coward, University of Newcastle and Editor of Politics joining us to take part in a question
and answer session on the ever important topic of how as postgraduate scholars we should
go about getting our research published.
We would also like to encourage you to get involved with the BISAPGN:
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Join the BISA Postgraduate Network Committee! We are now accepting
nominations for the positions of committee member and Vice Chair for 2015/16. Full
details on how to put yourself forward are on our website and in this conference
pack.
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Get involved with the BISA Postgraduate Network! Alongside our annual
conference, we run a first year PhD workshop, annual funding competition to support
postgraduate events and a ‘Meet the Editors’ closed panel session at the main BISA
Conference where you can get feedback on your paper from a journal editor (there is
still time to put a paper forward for this session – read on for details on how to apply
or speak to one of the committee here today).
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Keep up-to-date on social media! Follow us on twitter @BISAPGN or
#BISAPGN2015, like us on facebook, and you can now find us on academia.edu and
linkedin or visit our website.
Finally, we would like to thank BISA and King’s College, London for the funding and
support which has made this conference a reality.
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With best wishes for a successful and stimulating conference!
The BISAPGN Committee 2014-15 - Paul Tobin, University of York (Chair), Katharine A. M.
Wright, University of Surrey (Vice Chair), Benedict Docherty, University of Leeds, Hannah
Partis-Jennings, University of St Andrews and Neil Wilson, City University London (coconvenors)
Programme
9.00-9:30
Registration, Great Hall
9.30-9:45
Welcome
9.45-10:00
Panel 1
11.00-11:15
Break
11.15-12:30
Panel 2
12.30-13:15
‘Meet the Editor’ Q&A session, Great Hall
Dr Martin Coward, Senior Lecturer in International Politics and
Editor of Politics
13.15-14:00
Lunch
14.00-15:15
Panel 3
15.15-15:30
Break
15.30-16:45
Panel 4
16.45-18:00
Keynote Address, Great Hall
Worlds of Inequality’ in all of its manifestations in international
politics.
Professor Nicola Phillips, University of Sheffield and Chair of BISA
18.00-18:45
Drinks reception
Sponsored by King’s College London
Speaker’s Biographies
Dr Martin Coward
Senior Lecturer in International Politics, University of Newcastle
and Co-Editor Politics
I work at the intersection of International Political Theory and Security Studies and am
particularly concerned with questions of war, violence, (in)security, identity, and community .
To date my research has focused on the conceptual understanding of (in)security and
organised violence in an urban context, particularly the ‘urbanisation of security’, attacks on
critical infrastructure and urbicide. My current research addresses the political and ethical
entailments of network thinking, particularly insofar as it legitimates various forms of
violence. My work is informed by post-structuralist international theory and continental
philosophy (especially the work of Martin Heidegger, Jean-Luc Nancy and William Connolly).
From January to March 2015 I will be a Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study, Durham
University (https://www.dur.ac.uk/ias/fellows/iasfellows/1415/coward/)
In May 2015 I will be a visiting scholar at The University of Groningen
(http://www.rug.nl/research/icog/research/research-centres/htir/visiting-scholars)
Selected recent publications
Coward M. Hot Spots/Cold Spots: Infrastructural Politics in the Urban Age. International
Political Sociology 2015. In Press.
Coward M, Grayson K, Barr M, Clough E, Feklyunina V. Editorial 2015 – Diversity in Politics.
Politics 2015, 35(1). In Press.
Coward M. Recombinant resilience and the temptations of global interdiction. In: Houen, A,
ed. States of War since 9/11: Terrorism, Sovereignty and the War on Terror. London, UK:
Routledge, 2014, pp.204-223.
Professor Nicola Phillips
Professor in Political Economy the Head of Department, University of Sheffield and
Chair of BISA
After completing an MSc in Comparative Government and a PhD in International Relations
at the London School of Economics and Political Science, her first job was as a lecturer in
International Political Economy at the University of Warwick. She moved to the University of
Manchester in 2002, where she was promoted to Professor in 2006. She has held visiting
positions and fellowships at a range of institutions across the world, most recently at the
Australian National University and the University of British Columbia.
Among her wider professional activities, she is the Vice-Chair and Chair-elect of the British
International Studies Association and a member of the 2014 Research Excellence
Framework (REF) sub-panel for Politics and International Relations. Until 2013 she was one
of the editors of the journal New Political Economy, and its Editor-in-Chief between 2004 and
2010. She is a member of the International Advisory Boards of New Political Economy, the
Review of International Political Economy and the Lynne Rienner International Political
Economy Yearbook series, and a member of the Editorial Boards of Contemporary Politics
and the Caribbean Journal of International Relations and Diplomacy.
Professor Phillips’ research and teaching interests cluster around the study of global political
economy, global economic governance, and the political economy of development.
Selected recent publications
Anthony Payne and Nicola Phillips (eds), The Handbook of the International Political
Economy of Governance, Edward Elgar, 2014, viii + 492pp.
Nicola Phillips and Fabiola Mieres, ‘The Governance of Forced Labour in the Global
Economy’, Globalizations, DOI: 10.1080/14747731.2014.932507, 2014, pp. 1-17.
Nicola Phillips, Resmi Bhaskaran, Dev Nathan and C. Upendranadh, ‘The Social
Foundations of Global Production Networks: Towards a Global Political Economy of Child
Labour’,
Third
World
Quarterly,
35:3,
2014,
pp.
428–46.
DOI:
10.1080/01436597.2014.893486.
Panel Sessions
9.45 to 11:00 Panel Session One
Environmental Governance – K0.16
Chair: Robert Ojambo – Kyambogo University
Harriet Thew, University of Leeds
Procedural Intergenerational Justice in Global Environmental Governance: Analysing
the Agency of Youth NGOs in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change
Samuel Rogers, University of Bristol
Capital as Power: Multinational Oil and Gas Companies and the Global Recession
Lisa Soares, University of Warwick
Recasting Rights in the Caribbean: The Formation of a Regional Fisheries Policy
Helga Haflidadottir, University of St Andrews
Modern inequality and distribution of natural resources
BISA International History WG Panel 1 – K0.18
Chair: Benedict Docherty, University of Leeds
Itzel Toledo-García, University of Essex
The role of the United States in the recognition of post-revolutionary Mexico by
Germany, France and Great Britain, 1920-1925.
Steven Murphy, University College Cork
Neutral Learning: The importance of the other European neutrals to Irish policymaking, 1939 – 1945.
Charlie Hall, University of Kent
Comparing Policies of Plunder: British and American Approaches to Exploitation of
German Science and Technology after the Second World War.
BISA Africa WG Panel 1 National security and state formation in post-colonial
environments – K0.19
Chair: Abukar Sanei – Ohio University
A. Kifordu, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Elite Transformation and Good Governance in a Prototypical Post-Colonial African
State – Nigeria
Zanardi, King’s College London, UK
The Myth of Energy Resources at the Core of China-Algerian Relations
BISA Critical Studies in Terrorism WG – K0.20
Chair: Peter Finn, Kingston University
Maria Werdine, London School of Economics
Louise Pears, University of Leeds
Ask the Audience: Making Sense of Terrorism on Television
Caitlin Knight, University of Surrey
Journalistic Accounts of Genocide: Emotional Silences
11.15 to 12:30 Panel Session Two
Europe and Beyond – K0.16
Chair: Milena Romano, University of Bath
Yelter Bollen, Ghent University
China’s Rise and the Political Economy of European Trade Policy
Zeno Leoni, King’s College London
European Union, Inequality, the Crisis: Uneven Development and German
Imperialism
Empire, Society and the Global Order – K0.18
Chair: Koldo Casla – King’s College London
Sofa Gradin, Queen Mary, University of London
Value as Voice: Prefiguring Post-Capitalist Production Against the Global Division of
Labour
Maja Spanu, European University Institute
The Idea of Self-Determination: Hierarchy and Order After Empire
Jose Ricardo Villanueva Lira, University of Glasgow
Brailsford’s socialist theory of imperialism: A challenge to the orthodox IR
historiography
Perspectives from the Global South: Ideas and Narratives – K0.19
Chair: Samuel Rogers – University of Bristol
Mohamed Haji Ingiriis, University of Oxford,
Victims or Victories: Women of Somalia after 1991
Jenna Marshall, Queen Mary, University of London
Subjugated Knowledges: Decolonising International Relations research from the
Caribbean
Maria Gloria Polimeno, City University London
Between spatial justice, securitization and identity: why taking the risk of
reassessing the debate over Islamic actors in manatiq al-shabiyya in today’s Egypt.
Peter Chonka, University of Edinburgh
‘Development of Society after the Deception of the Agencies’: Islamist Critiques of
Humanitarian Action and the Politics of Aid Dependence in the Public Sphere of
Modern Somalia
Security: Reforms, Threats and Challenges – K0.20
Chair: Peter Finn, Kingston University
Niloy Biswas, City University London
Partyarchy and Transitional State: Actors and Civilian Security Sector Reform in a
Transitional Democracy-A Case of Bangladesh
Emilio Rodriguez, King’s College London
Between Local and Global Processes: The Dynamics of Peace and War in Colombia
Pablo Adriano Rodriguez Merino, University of Warwick
From securitization to terroristization: exploring a discursive-centric approach to the
study of terrorism
Cian Moran, National University of Ireland
Galway- Recipe for Hate: the use of torture and internment in counter-terrorism
under international law
14.00 to 15:15 Panel Session Three
BISA Africa WG Panel 2 Socio-economic inequality – K0.16
Chair: Peter Chonka, University of Edinburgh
Abukar Sanei, Ohio University, US
“Reconsidering Economic History, Policies and Analytical Approaches of
Development in Tanzania”
Gediminas Lesutis, University of Manchester, UK
“Planetary urbanisation in rural Mozambique: Land grabbing, cyborgisation and
political subjectivity”
Robert Ojambo, Kyambogo University, Uganda
“The Kasoskoso-Kiganda Land Wrangles: A Struggle between the Urban Poor and
Capitalist Investors for Land in Peri-urban Areas of Kampala”
BISA Historical Sociology WG – K0.18
Chair: Olivier Lewis, University of St Andrews
Salman Ayaz, University of East Anglia
Ibn Khaldun: ‘Asabiyya and its impact on social disintegration in Iraq and Syria
Johannes Jüde, European University Institute
Pathways to Successful State Formation
Bao Chau Nguyen, University of East Anglia
Why there is no NATO in Southeast Asia: a constructivist analysis of security
cooperation
Deividas Slekys, Vilnius University
The Forgotten Dimension of Social Theory
BISA Russian and Eurasian Security WG: Conflict dynamics, security, and political
power in Russia and Eurasia – K0.19
Chair: Elene Melikishvili, King’s College London
Giorgio Bertolin, King’s College London
The Role of Strategic and Organisational Culture in Counterinsurgency: the Case of
the North Caucasus
Giovanna Di Mauro and Vladimir Rauta, University of Nottingham and University of
St Andrews
When the Black Sea Freezes: A Regional Assessment of the Transnistrian Crisis
Thomas Martins, King’s College London
Militarisation of the Russian Arctic: addressing Cold War threats or responding to
geopolitical reality? Is Russia restoring its Soviet might or merely protecting its
interests?
Ana Maria Albulescu, King’s College London
Rethinking the relationship between violence, politics and conflict resolution in the
aftermath of de-facto secession. The dynamics of contested statehood in Moldova
and Georgia
Fabian Burkhardt, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Presidential power and institutional change in the Russian Federation
BISA Environment WG – K0.20
Chair: Maja Spanu, European University Institute
Charis Gerosideris, Keele University
Climate Change as a Security Issue in the Case of Greece
Ioanna Ferra, University of Leicester
Information Communication Technologies (ICT) and Environment Mobilizations in
Greece
Vera Kaempfen, University of Basel
Improving the Implementation of Environmental Commitments by Drawing Lessons
from the Sustainability Concept
Anna Agafonova, Cheropovets State University
Problems of Statutory Regulation of Water Pollution in Provincial Cities in the
Russian North, 1870-1914
Elena Gorianova, University of Sussex
Snow as a Factor of Non-Implementation? Why Context is Important: Implementing
Top-Down Environmental Regulations in Federal Russia
15.30 to 16:45 Panel Session Four
BISA International History WG Panel – K0.16
Chair: Benedict Docherty – University of Leeds
Adam Storring, University of Cambridge
‘He Preferred the Love of Glory to the Possession of the World Entire’: King
Frederick the Great of Prussia’s Comparison of Himself with Charles XII of Sweden.
Jon Singerton, University of Edinburgh
“One of the Greatest Philosophers” and the “thoroughly ugly” gentleman –
Comparing Viennese Perceptions of Benjamin Franklin and William Lee in the
Struggle for American Recognition with the Habsburg Monarchy 1776-1778.
Reflections on Europe as a Crisis Manager – K0.18
Chair: Giovanna di Mauro, University of St Andrews
Milena Romano, University of Bath
The EU As a Crisis Manager: A Comparison Between Georgia and Ukraine
Koldo Casla, King’s College London
Order or Justice? International Human Rights Norm Promotion by Western European
states
Krenar Gashi, University of Ghent
Europe’s Capability-Expectation Gap in the Post-Lisbon Setting: the Case of EULEX
Kosovo
Viktoriya Fedorchak, University of Hull
Ukrainian-Russian Conflict: the Revival of the Classic IR Realism?
State, Power and Militarisation – K0.19
Chair: Deividas Slekys, Vilnius University
Daniel Edler Duarte, King’s College London
Militarization, pacification and illiberal governance in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas
Arthur Learoyd, University of Oxford
Sovereignty, Semi-Sovereignty, and International Personhood
Patrick Bury, University of Exeter
The Quiet Revolutoin: The Transformation of Western Military Logistics
Ismail Erdem, Royal Holloway, University of London
Understanding the nexus of international organisations and local governance in
humanitarian-military intervention
Perspectives on the Global South: Economics and Law – K0.20
Chair: Jenna Marshall, Queen Mary University of London
Annabel Beales, City University London
Decolonising the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Ivica Petrikova, University College London
The Effects of Village-Level Economic Inequality on Communal Social Capital:
Evidence from India
Ranjamrittika Bhowmik, Jadavpur University
Plutocracy,Pareto’s Principle,Oligarchy and The Evolution of Inequality (co-author:
Susmit Sen)
Get involved with the BISA Postgraduate Network!
Funding Competition
As a part of our mandate to support and encourage intellectual advancement and
networking opportunities for postgraduates we had £2000 available to assist with the
cost of organising and running two high-caliber postgraduate-focused events. This
year’s successful bids came from the Archbishop Desmond Tutu Centre for War and
Peace Studies at Liverpool Hope University, and a joint submission from the
University of York and University College London.
Look out for calls for next year’s funding competition in autumn 2015.
Women in Peace and Conflict - Liverpool Hope University
This event took place on the 4th of March, marking International Women’s Day, and
was the first “Women in Peace and Conflict” conference to be held in Liverpool. On
the day there were over eighty participants, with multiple opportunities for
postgraduate presentation and networking, including panels and a poster session.
The conference was highlighted in CNN’s online feature “10 International Women’s
Day events you’d be crazy to miss” , and the keynote address - “Sowing trust in
minefields: Women’s Peace’s Activism in Post War Bosnia and Herzegovnia”, was
given by Dr Julianne Funk of the University of Zurich. BISA PGN funding helped to
provide postgraduate travel bursaries, and facilitated the involvement of the Migrant
Arts Mutual Aid, who performed on the day providing - as conference organiser
Susan Forde pointed out - an interesting and engaging platform for women’s voices
to be heard. The full conference report is available to download on the centre
website. Congratulations to Susan and the centre on a fantastic event.
Representation of Ethnic Minorities; Perspectives and Challenges – York/UCL
This workshop will take place at the University of York on the 15th May. It aims to
bring together both theoretical and empirical scholars working in the field of minority
representation (ethnic minorities, religious minorities, racial minorities, migrants) and
intersectionality, and the programme show-casts a fascinating and diverse selection
of postgraduate and other research in this field. The keynote speaker will be
Professor Michael Saward of the University of Warwick, who will discuss “Liminal
Representation”. More information can be found on the event blog. BISA PGN
wishes the organisers the best of luck with what promises to be an excellent
workshop.
‘Thriving and not just surviving’ - First Year PhD Workshop
November 7th 2014 saw the School of Politics and International Studies at the
University of Leeds host our second annual PhD welcome event. During this friendly,
informal and peer led event our forty-five attendees discussed making the most of
your PhD experience and practical advice on how to successfully live with a PhD
rather than simply for living for it. More details are available on our website.
Meet the Editors @ BISA 40th Annual Conference, London
Call for papers for closed session with journal editors for PGRs and ECRs
The BISA Postgraduate Network is supporting a closed workshop to ‘meet the
editors’ during the BISA conference. The purpose of the closed-session workshop is
for postgraduates and early career researchers to receive feedback on draft articles,
which will be considered in terms of their ‘fit’ and level of development. Submissions
will be allocated to journals in groups of 3 or 4. The finished papers will be circulated
to editors, before being discussed at the event in the groups, so that the editor(s) can
critique and engage with the papers.
The full CfP is below or see www.bisapgn.com
Social Media
@BISAPGN #BISAPGN2015
We have added academia.edu and LinkedIn to our online presence over the last few
months, so find us there as well as on Facebook and Twitter.
Call for Nominations for BISA Postgraduate Network Executive 2015-2016
The BISA Postgraduate Network is looking for two committee members and a Vice-Chair (who then
becomes Chair) to join their committee for 2015/16. The nomination period will run from Monday 23rd
March to Friday 10th April. Following the nomination period, the election will run from Monday 20th
April to Monday 27th April at midnight. Voting will be online and all postgraduate BISA current
members will be eligible to vote.
Launched in April 2010, the British International Studies Association's (BISA) Postgraduate Network
(PGN) became the new body responsible for representing the association's postgraduate members
and for delivering a more fulfilling membership. Our aim is to provide for professional development,
funding, and network opportunities for postgraduate students. Our main activities include:
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Our Annual Conference, the third of which takes place on the 30 March 2015 at King’s
College, London with 100 participants.
Our funding competition, with £2000 available to support the organisation of two postgraduate
events; this year we supported events at Liverpool Hope University and York/UCL.
Our autumn workshop for first year PhDs which in 2014 took place at the University of Leeds.
You will be joining the BISA PGN committee at a very exciting time, as BISA celebrates its 40
anniversary in 2015.
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Nominations are sought for committee members and vice-chair on the PGN’s executive committee,
offering an exciting opportunity to individuals to further shape the development of the network.
Becoming a member of the BISA Postgraduate Network Committee will enable you to contribute to
postgraduate activities and help to enhance the postgraduate research community in international
studies. It is also a good opportunity to gain experience working within the academic sphere.
Members of the committee are allocated specific tasks, which could include being the lead for a
specific activity or, for example, overseeing our social media presence. The Committee meets four
times a year in a mutually convenient location (travel expenses are kindly paid by BISA in full to
facilitate attendance at these meetings). You will also be expected be in correspondence via email
regularly.
The Chair is responsible for planning and chairing BISAPGN committee meetings, coordinating
activities and overseeing the work of the committee. In addition, the Chair represents the interests of
postgraduate members at BISA Executive Committee meetings.
Specifically, we are looking for:
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A Vice-Chair - serving two years (1 as Vice Chair and 1 as Chair), the Vice Chair shall assist
the PGN Chair with his/her responsibilities including - developing the strategic vision of the
network and managing network activities.
Two committee members - serving for one year, execitove members provide advice and ideas
to the Chair and Vice Chair and contribute to the delivery of network activities.
Eligibility:
 Current member of BISA
 For the position of Vice Chair you must be a fully paid up BISA Postgraduate member and
have a minimum of 18 months of your university registration period remaining on Thursday
26th March 2015.
 For the position of an Committee member you must be a fully paid up BISA Postgraduate
member and have a minimum of 6 months of your university registration period remaining on
Thursday 26th March 2015.
Further details about the responsibilities of each position are available by emailing the current Vice
Chair, Katharine A. M. Wright at k.wright@surrey.ac.uk
Nominations for each position must be received by email to bisapgnexec@gmail.com, by no later than
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Friday 10 April.
They should include:
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Position sought Candidate name Candidate BISA membership number Candidate institutional affiliation & email address Contain the consent of the candidate (that you meet the requirement concerning
remaining registration period)-
And be proposed by a fully paid up BISA postgraduate member with:
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Proposing BISA member name –
Proposer BISA membership number Proposer Institutional Affiliation & Email Address -
Finally the nomination should be accompanied by a statement from the nominee of not more than
200 words, outlining their reasons for seeking office and confirmation from the nominee of their
eligibility for the position. The statement, along with the name of the proposer, will be published on the
ballot paper, which will be made available on the BISA website. If you are having any difficulties in
finding a proposer, please let Katharine A. M. Wright know (k.wright@surrey.ac.uk or
bisapgnexec@gmail.com), and we will be sure to find a solution.
Further details about the BISA Postgraduate Network can be found on our association website:
www.bisapgn.com
This election has been called by the PGN President ex-officio, Cristian Nitoiu
Approved by the BISA PGN Chair, Paul Tobin
BISA WORKING GROUPS
The BISA Working Groups are always looking for new PhD members. Membership is free for
all BISA members, and the Groups are a great way to meet those interested in your
particular area. Why not drop them an email now and sign up to their mailing list?
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Africa and International Studies- carl.death@manchester.ac.uk; d.beswick@bham.ac.uk
Art and Politics- simon.philpott@newcastle.ac.uk
British Foreign Policy- jamie.gaskarth@plymouth.ac.uk
British International History Group (BIHG)- rogelia.pastor-castro@strath.ac.uk
Contemporary Research on International Political Theory (CRIPT)- bisagroup.cript@gmail.com
Critical
Studies
on
Terrorism
(CST)c.heath-kelly@warwick.ac.uk;
christopher.bakerbeall@ntu.ac.uk; mailto: l.jarvis@uea.ac.uk
Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial (CPD)- ms140@soas.ac.uk; r.shilliam@qmul.ac.uk;
mkp4@aber.ac.uk
Environment- h.stevenson@sheffield.ac.uk
Gendering International Relations (GIRWG)- laura.mcleod@manchester.ac.uk
Global
Healths.harman@qmul.ac.uk;
s.elbe@sussex.ac.uk;
adam.kamradtscott@sydney.edu.au
Global Nuclear Order (GNO)- ajf57@le.ac.uk; nick.ritchie@york.ac.uk
Historical
Sociology
and
International
Relationsg.lawson@lse.ac.uk;
j.p.rosenberg@sussex.ac.uk
International Law (I-Law)- math.noortmann@brookes.ac.uk
International Mediterranean Studies- ayg@aber.ac.uk
International
Political
Economy
(IPEG)HS@ifs.ku.dk;
S.Raszewski@leeds.ac.uk;
A.Nunn@leedsmet.ac.uk
International Relations, Security and Religion (IR, SR)- rosemary.durward@kcl.ac.uk;
sara.silvestri.1@city.ac.uk
International
Relations
as
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Social
Scienceh.turton@sheffield.ac.uk;
felix.roesch@coventry.ac.uk
Interpretivism in International Relations- od21@leicester.ac.uk; mbevir@berkeley.edu;
ian.hall@anu.edu.au
Intervention and Responsibility to Protect- a.gallagher@leeds.ac.uk; a.hehir@westminster.ac.uk;
james.pattison@manchester.ac.uk
Learning and Teaching (BLT)- s.curtis@londonmet.ac.uk; jsimon.rofe@soas.ac.uk
Non-Governmental
Organisations
(NGO)angela.crack@port.ac.uk;
Erla.Thrandardottir.1@city.ac.uk
Post-Structural Politics (PPWG)- evanveeren@globalmatter.org
Russian and Eurasian Security- natasha.kuhrt@kcl.ac.uk; valentina.feklyunina@ncl.ac.uk
South East Europe- d.kostovicova@lse.ac.uk; Gemma.Collantes-Celador@city.ac.uk
US Foreign Policy- N.J.Kitchen@lse.ac.uk; o.a.hassan@warwick.ac.uk
Meet the Editors @ BISA 40th Annual Conference 2015
Call for papers for closed session with journal editors for PGRs and ECRs
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Date of event: 19 June 2015 (please note the conference runs from the 16 -19 June)
Time: 12:30-14:00 (lunchtime)
Location: BISA Conference, The Guoman Tower Hotel, London
The BISA Postgraduate Network is supporting a closed workshop to ‘meet the editors’ during the
BISA conference. The purpose of the closed-session workshop is for postgraduates and early career
researchers to receive feedback on draft articles, which will be considered in terms of their ‘fit’ and
level of development. Submissions will be allocated to journals in groups of 3 or 4. The finished
papers will be circulated to editors, before being discussed at the event in the groups, so that the
editor(s) can critique and engage with the papers.
Participating journals:
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Review of International Studies
European Security
Politics
Advanced postgraduate students and early career researchers are invited to submit paper proposals
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for this closed session workshop by Thursday 2 April 2015. This would involve submitting a
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complete draft paper by Friday 29 May 2015 (attendance is limited to those who have submitted
papers).
This is an invaluable opportunity to get details feedback on your work direct from journal editors.
Papers submitted to the workshops can be on any topic relating to international studies.
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Spaces are limited and applications should be submitted by Thursday 2
April 2015 to
bisapgnexec@gmail.com. These should include a title, abstract, what stage of your PhD you are at or
ECR status and (if applicable) contact details of your supervisor.
Key dates
Deadline for applications: Thursday 2
following week).
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April 2015 (notifications of acceptance will be sent the
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Deadline for full papers: Friday 29 May 2015
Registration deadline: This event is organised by the BISA Postgraduate Network (BISAPGN),
however, (if accepted) you must be registered to attend the conference to participate in the Meet the
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Editors event. Deadline: 10 April 2015.
“Excellent initiative from BISA Postgraduate Network to organise a Meet the Editors! It’s good to know
how it all works”. – ‘Meet the Editors’ participant 2014
YOUR BISA
Postgraduate Network
NEEDS YOU!
STAND FOR THE BISAPGN COMMITTEE 2015-16
Full details on www.bisapgn.com, in the programme and/or speak to a committee
member at the conference!