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2019 Conference Handbook The British International Studies Association 44th Annual Conference The Royal Society, London – 12–14 June 2019 The British International Studies Association 2019 01 Welcome to London Who’s Who at BISA 3 Dear Colleague, Conference Staff Executive Committee BISA is delighted to welcome you to London for the 2019 Annual BISA at a Glance 10 BISA Conference. Members The 2019 BISA Annual Conference promises to be our biggest conference Working Groups Journals to date. We have over 200 panels and roundtables, the annual BISA reception, postgraduate network (PGN) events, professional development Everything You Need to Know 20 Conference Data initiatives, learning and teaching group initiatives, panels sponsored by What Happens Where other disciplinary associations, satellite events, a working group convenor Prizes to Be Awarded meeting, working group annual business meetings and 22 publication Meeting Rooms and Floor Plans stands. You will find all of these at the Royal Society, Prince Philip House Conference Programme at a Glance 23 and other venues around London. Please look at the timetable carefully in Special Events 24 order to know the exact locations of events. BISA Reception We look forward to seeing you in June and hope to see you again for our Postgraduate Network (PGN) Events Professional Development Initiative Panels 45th Annual Conference in Newcastle in 2020. Learning and Teaching Group Panels Conference locations Panels sponsored by other disciplinary associations The heart of the conference is The Royal Society, 69 Carlton House Satellite Events Terrace, St. James’s, London SW1Y 5AG with some additional rooms two Working Group Convenor’s Meeting doors down at The Royal College of Engineering, Prince Philip House, 3 Working Group Annual Business Meetings Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5DG. Full Conference Programme 31 Your delegate’s badge 2019 Delegates List 68 Please pick up your delegates badge from the registration desk in Exhibitor Floor Maps, Exhibitor Information and Adverts 102 the reception of the Royal Society so we know you are at the event. The desk will be open each day from 07.15am. The Conference Team Ms Juliet Dryden – BISA Director Dr Kyle Grayson – Conference Chair Dr Maximilian Lemprière – BISA Communication Manager Dr Sarina Theys – Conference Programme Coordinator Ms Dee Pettifer – BISA Administrator The British International Studies Association 2019 2 Who’s who at BISA Conference Staff Dr Kyle Grayson – BISA Honorary Secretary and Conference Chair Newcastle University Kyle Grayson (PhD York University, Canada) is a Reader in security, politics, and culture at Newcastle University and Honorary Secretary of BISA. He is formerly an editor-in-chief of the journal Politics and currently is associate editor of Critical Studies on Security and co-editor of the Popular Culture and World Politics book series (Routledge). Kyle joined the BISA Board of Trustees as a co-opted member in 2016 and has since become the Honorary Secretary, a role with responsibilities to represent the interests of members, be the ‘conscience’ of the Association, and serve as the annual conference programme chair. Juliet Dryden – BISA Director Juliet has worked in the field of international relations for the last 25 years specialising in programme management, international development/humanitarian affairs and donor relations. She has previously worked at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), the London School of Economics (LSE Ideas) and for 15 years with the United Nations in Cairo, Gaza and Jerusalem (UNRWA, UNOCHA, UNOHCHR). Her most recent position prior to joining BISA was at the West Asia - North Africa (WANA) Institute in Amman where she was the Director of Programmes. Juliet holds an MA in International Relations from the University of East Anglia. She is currently based in Oxford. The British International Studies Association 2019 3 Who’s who at BISA – Conference Staff Dee Pettifer – BISA Administrator Dee Pettifer has been seconded to BISA as Administrator since January 2018. Based at the University of Birmingham, she has worked within the School of Government and Society for four years. Prior to that, for the best part of twenty years, she worked as an Arts Administrator providing administrative and financial management support to a number of small arts organisations based in Birmingham. Dr Sarina Theys - BISA Conference Programme Coordinator Newcastle University Sarina Theys is a Research Associate working on research impact beyond academia at Newcastle University. Previously she was a University Teacher in Politics at Newcastle University, co-editor for the Politics journal, co-editor of the Middle East and North Africa Newsletter published by the American Political Science Association (APSA), Middle East and North Africa Fellow in Qatar and Kuwait appointed by APSA and Research Fellow at Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service in Qatar. Her research interests include foreign policy, security, political power, identity, discourses, practices and small states. As a well-connected researcher, Sarina is highly experienced in the use of quantitative and qualitative research methods and has a strong record of interviewing political elites such as Prime Ministers, Ministers, Members of Parliament and Ambassadors, economic elites, social elites, cultural elites, and citizens from countries in Asia, Africa, North America, South America, and Europe. Sites of fieldwork span Belgium, Bhutan, India, Qatar, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Dr Maximilian Lemprière - BISA Communication Manager University of Birmingham Dr. Lemprière is an Associate at the School of Government and Society, University of Birmingham, where he publishes on institutionalism, policy innovation and sustainable development. He is also the founder of The PhD Proofreaders, which offers ethical language support to international PhD students struggling to write in fluent academic English. The British International Studies Association 2019 4 Who’s who at BISA Executive Committee Professor Mark Webber – BISA Chair University of Birmingham Mark Webber is Professor of International Politics at the University of Birmingham. Formerly the Head of the Department of Politics, History and International Relations at Loughborough University, he has been the Head of the School of Government and Society at Birmingham since 2011. He is a NATO specialist and a one-time scholar of Russia and the former Soviet Union. Recent work in these areas has been published in International Affairs, European Journal of International Security, Review of International Studies, European Security, West European Politics, and Journal of European Integration. He is co-editor (with Adrian Hyde-Price) of Theorising NATO: New Perspectives on the Transatlantic Alliance (Routledge 2016) and is currently completing a co-authored book (with James Sperling and Martin Smith) entitled What’s Wrong with NATO and How to Fix It. He is also co-editing (with James Sperling) the (Oxford) Handbook on the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. Professor Ruth Blakeley – BISA Vice Chair University of Sheffield Ruth Blakeley is Professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of Sheffield. She is Director of the ESRC White Rose Social Sciences Doctoral Training Partnership. Her research interests are in international security, terrorism and political violence, and human rights. Her research on the CIA’s Rendition, Detention and Interrogation programme has had considerable impact, through litigation on behalf of torture victims at the European Court of Human Rights, and through various police and government level investigations into the role of the UK’s intelligence and security services. She is lead editor of the Review of International Studies. The British International Studies Association 2019 5 Who’s who at BISA – Executive Committee Dr Kyle Grayson – BISA Honorary Secretary and Conference Chair Newcastle University See bio above. Dr Danielle Beswick– Honorary Treasurer University of Birmingham Danielle Beswick is a Senior Lecturer in International Development at the University of Birmingham, and also a UK Parliamentary Academic Fellow based part-time with the House of Commons Select Committee on international development. Her current research focuses on UK Conservative Party engagement with international development. Her parliamentary fellowship explores how committees can get beyond their ‘usual suspects’ when taking evidence to scrutinise government policy. Danielle’s latest publication is an edited collection with Jonathan Fisher and Stephen Hurt, Britain and Africa in the Twenty-First Century: Between Ambition and Pragmatism (Manchester University Press, 2019). Prof Vicki Squire — Committee Member University of Warwick Vicki Squire is Reader in International Security at the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick. Her research cuts across the fields of border, migration, citizenship and critical security studies. Vicki is author of The Exclusionary Politics of Asylum (Palgrave, 2009) and Post/Humanitarian Border Politics Between Mexico and the US: People, Places, Things (Palgrave, 2015), and Editor of The Contested Politics of Mobility (Routledge, 2011). She is currently completing a monograph based on her Leverhulme Research Fellowship Human Dignity and Biophysical Violence: Migrant Deaths across the Mediterranean Sea, as well as a co-authored monograph
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