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TALKS AND CONFERENCES

Workshops organized

2018

‘Violent Non-State Actors in Modern Conflict’ workshop held at RMAS, 15 November
‘Fragile States: Challenges and Responses’ workshop held at RMAS, 7 February

2017

‘War amongst the People: Critical Assessments’ workshop held at RMAS, 30 June

2014

Co-Convener ‘Syria: A Staff-Student Colloquium’, University of Reading, 14 October

2012

‘Private Security Companies’, EISA Exploratory Symposia, Rhodes, Greece, 24–27 October

2011

‘Approaching the Dogs of War: Interdisciplinary Workshop on Mercenarism’ University of Reading, 30 June

Conference Papers/Panels/Roundtables

2020

Queering the War-machine's Origin Myth: Mercenaries, National Armies, and the Modern State, ISA Northeast Online, 5-7 November
Undoing the War/Peace Divide: Epistemic and socio-political effects of remote warfare EISA PEC Malta, 16-19 September, CANCELLED
Mercenaries and the International: Re-evaluating the 19th century shift away from mercenary use EISA PEC Malta, 16-19 September, CANCELLED
Studying Problematizations: Introducing Carol Bacchi’s What´s the problem represented to be? approach to IR IPSA World Congress Lisbon, 25-29 July, CANCELLED
Security Force Assistance, Remote Warfare and Ontological Insecurity, EWIS Brussels, 1-4 July, CANCELLED
‘"Are Words Not Seeming Bridges Between the Eternally Different?" Language, Poiesis, and the Mercenary’BISA conference Newcastle, 15-17 June, CANCELLED
‘"Are Words Not Seeming Bridges Between the Eternally Different?" Language, Poiesis, and the Mercenary’ISA Annual Convention Honolulu, 25-28 March, CANCELLED
‘Language, poiesis and the mercenary’, Translation in/of World Politics: Language, Practices, Power Conference, SOAS University of London 17-18 January

2019

‘From Subject to Project: Mapping the Transformation of Subjectivity in the Armed Forces’ Millennium Conference, 19-20 October
Convener ‘Higher Education and the Military: Re-envisioning IR Teaching and Learning in Professional Military Education’ roundtable, ISA Annual Convention Toronto, 27-30 March
‘From Subject to Project: Mapping the Transformation of Subjectivity in the Armed Forces’, ISA Annual Convention Toronto, 27-30 March
‘Problematizing the Medicalization of Violence’, ISA Annual Convention Toronto, 27-30 March
‘Remote Warfare: The socio-political effects of ever present/absent war’, BISA conference Conceptualizing Remote Warfare: The Past, Present and Future, University of Kent, 28 February-1 March

2018

Convener ‘What difference does a name make?’: Power, legitimacy and ‘Foreign Fighters’ roundtable, BISA Conference Bath, 13-15 June
Convener The power of naming in International Relations: Words, Definitions and the Politics of languagepanel, and presenter of the paper ‘Are words not seeming bridges between the eternally different?’: Language, Poiesis and the Mercenary, ISA Annual Convention San Francisco, 4-7 April

2017

Convener Private Violence and Time: History and Historical Configurations of Legitimate Violence in International Relations panel, and presenter of the paper “As old as war itself? Problematizing the eternal mercenary, ISA Annual Convention Baltimore, 22-25 February

2015

Regeneration through violence: Re-reading American wars of democracy promotion through Robert A. Heinlein’s ‘Starship Troopers’ BISA Conference London, 16 - 19 June
Roundtable: Reappraising The State of Research on Private Contractors and Military Outsourcing: Moving Towards Research Programs ISA Annual Convention New Orleans, 18-21 February
The 'Expendables': Un‐Sacrificable Warriors and The Death of Dying and Resident Evil: ‘Urban Health’ and the Cure Violence project, ISA Annual Convention New Orleans, 18-21 February

2012

Liaison dangereuse: Are Private Military Companies challenging the “Liberal Way of War”?, Workshop ‘Private Military and Security Companies: Transforming Security Governance?’ ECPR Joint Sessions – Antwerp, 11-15 April

Invited Talks

2021

Remote Warfare as ‘Security of Being’: Reading Security Force Assistance as an Ontological Security Routine, Nottingham Trent, 3 November
Decolonising Professional Military Education, Islamia University of Bahawalpur, 29 March – Keynote

2020

A Violent Cure? A critical analysis of public-health-based approaches to violence prevention, University of Manchester, 28 November

2019

‘War by Pencil’: Security Force Assistance, military education programs and Great Power Competition, organized by Egmont Royal Institute for International Relations, Peace Research Institute (PRIO), Netherlands Defense Academy (NLDA). Brussels, 28 November
‘As old as war itself’? Problematizing the eternal mercenary. Kingston University, London, 23 October

TALKS AND CONFERENCES

Workshops organized

​

2018

‘Violent Non-State Actors in Modern Conflict’ workshop held at RMAS, 15 November

‘Fragile States: Challenges and Responses’ workshop held at RMAS, 7 February

2017

‘War amongst the People: Critical Assessments’ workshop held at RMAS, 30 June

2014

Co-Convener ‘Syria: A Staff-Student Colloquium’, University of Reading, 14 October

2012

‘Private Security Companies’, EISA Exploratory Symposia, Rhodes, Greece, 24–27 October

2011

‘Approaching the Dogs of War: Interdisciplinary Workshop on Mercenarism’ University of Reading, 30 June

Conference Papers/Panels/Roundtables

2020

Queering the War-machine's Origin Myth: Mercenaries, National Armies, and the Modern State, ISA Northeast Online, 5-7 November

Undoing the War/Peace Divide: Epistemic and socio-political effects of remote warfare EISA PEC Malta, 16-19 September, CANCELLED

Mercenaries and the International: Re-evaluating the 19th century shift away from mercenary use EISA PEC Malta, 16-19 September, CANCELLED

Studying Problematizations: Introducing Carol Bacchi’s What´s the problem represented to be? approach to IR IPSA World Congress Lisbon, 25-29 July, CANCELLED

Security Force Assistance, Remote Warfare and Ontological Insecurity, EWIS Brussels, 1-4 July, CANCELLED

‘"Are Words Not Seeming Bridges Between the Eternally Different?" Language, Poiesis, and the Mercenary’BISA conference Newcastle, 15-17 June, CANCELLED

‘"Are Words Not Seeming Bridges Between the Eternally Different?" Language, Poiesis, and the Mercenary’ISA Annual Convention Honolulu, 25-28 March, CANCELLED

‘Language, poiesis and the mercenary’, Translation in/of World Politics: Language, Practices, Power Conference, SOAS University of London 17-18 January

2019

‘From Subject to Project: Mapping the Transformation of Subjectivity in the Armed Forces’ Millennium Conference, 19-20 October

Convener ‘Higher Education and the Military: Re-envisioning IR Teaching and Learning in Professional Military Education’ roundtable, ISA Annual Convention Toronto, 27-30 March

‘From Subject to Project: Mapping the Transformation of Subjectivity in the Armed Forces’, ISA Annual Convention Toronto, 27-30 March

‘Problematizing the Medicalization of Violence’, ISA Annual Convention Toronto, 27-30 March

‘Remote Warfare: The socio-political effects of ever present/absent war’, BISA conference Conceptualizing Remote Warfare: The Past, Present and Future, University of Kent, 28 February-1 March

2018

Convener ‘What difference does a name make?’: Power, legitimacy and ‘Foreign Fighters’ roundtable, BISA Conference Bath, 13-15 June

Convener The power of naming in International Relations: Words, Definitions and the Politics of languagepanel, and presenter of the paper ‘Are words not seeming bridges between the eternally different?’: Language, Poiesis and the Mercenary, ISA Annual Convention San Francisco, 4-7 April

2017

Convener Private Violence and Time: History and Historical Configurations of Legitimate Violence in International Relations panel, and presenter of the paper “As old as war itself? Problematizing the eternal mercenary, ISA Annual Convention Baltimore, 22-25 February

2015

Regeneration through violence: Re-reading American wars of democracy promotion through Robert A. Heinlein’s ‘Starship Troopers’ BISA Conference London, 16 - 19 June

Roundtable: Reappraising The State of Research on Private Contractors and Military Outsourcing: Moving Towards Research Programs ISA Annual Convention New Orleans, 18-21 February

The 'Expendables': Un‐Sacrificable Warriors and The Death of Dying and Resident Evil: ‘Urban Health’ and the Cure Violence project, ISA Annual Convention New Orleans, 18-21 February

2012

Liaison dangereuse: Are Private Military Companies challenging the “Liberal Way of War”?, Workshop ‘Private Military and Security Companies: Transforming Security Governance?’ ECPR Joint Sessions – Antwerp, 11-15 April

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Invited Talks

2021

2020

A Violent Cure? A critical analysis of public-health-based approaches to violence prevention, University of Manchester, 28 November

2019

‘War by Pencil’: Security Force Assistance, military education programs and Great Power Competition, organized by Egmont Royal Institute for International Relations, Peace Research Institute (PRIO), Netherlands Defense Academy (NLDA). Brussels, 28 November

‘As old as war itself’? Problematizing the eternal mercenary. Kingston University, London, 23 October