Upcoming seminars

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Previous seminars

2026

• Breaking Bad: Leaders’ Personality Changes and Consequences for Foreign Policies - Professor Juliet Kaarbo, University of St. Andrews
• Sexual Violence in Racial Capitalism - Professor Alison Phipps, York St. John University
• The Iron Road Home: Ukrainian Railways, Resilience, and Ontological Security in War - Dr Bohdana Kurylo, London School of Economics
• Outsourcing Genocide: A Critical Analysis of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and the evolving logics of Settler Colonialism - Professor Paul Higate, University of Bath
• Distorted Learning: Power, Identity, and Political Narratives in Times of Crisis - Dr Stephen Hall, University of Bath
• Gender Equality Resistance and Political Competition: The Emergence of a Gender Politics Cleavage? - Professor Susan Banducci, University of Birmingham
• The Power of Justification: How Framing Women’s Underrepresentation Shapes Support for Positive Action Measures - Professor Hilde Coffe, University of Bath

2025

• She’s 'Too Ambitious': Does Running for the US Presidency Penalize Women in Politics? - Professor Jennifer Piscopo, Royal Holloway
• Ableist or Accessible? A Comparative Analysis of Disability and European Parliaments - Professor Liz Evans, University of Southampton
• A Global New Right? The International of Conservative Intellectuals - Dr Valentin Behr, Institut d'études avancées de Paris
• From Confrontation to Cooperation: How Leaders' Beliefs Shape Enduring Interstate Rivalries - Dr Consuelo Thiers, University of Edinburgh
• What Comparative Area Studies (CAS) Brings to the Table: Leveraging and Integrating Area-Based Knowledge in the Social Sciences - Professor Rudra Sil, University of Pennsylvania
• X Marks the Spot: The Performance of Precise Targeted Killing of Terrorists on Social Media - Dr Chris Fuller, University of Southampton
• Strategic Representation of Women in Radical Right Parties: Evidence from Regional Council Elections in Italy - Rosella Merullo, Universität Hamburg
• Issue Ownership and Niche Parties’ Longevity in Consociations - Dr Timofey Agarin, Queen’s University Belfast

2024

• Desertion and Conscientious Objection in the Context of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine - Dr Dina Bolokan Université de Neuchâtel
• ChatGPT as a tool for reflective assessment - Professor Felia Allum, University of Bath
• Bringing War Back In: Victory, Defeat, and the State in Latin America - Dr Luis Schenoni, University College London
• Colliding Catastrophes: Climate Change and Online Misinformation - Dr Susannah Crockford, University of Exeter
• Dump her in Anatolia: Violent language in populist discourse - Lucas Scheel, University of Adelaide
• Podcasts for Assessment and Feedback__ - Professor Hilde Coffe, University of Bath
• Linking epistemological and ontological in/security: Hungary's identity crisis, Russian disinformation and Hungarians' vernacular insecurity - Dr Alena Drieschova, University of Cambridge
• Normative Agency of African States in UN Cybernorms Processes - Ndidi Olibamoyo, University of Bath
• Brexit, Facebook, and Transnational Right-Wing Populism - Dr Natalie-Anne Hall, Loughborough University
• The Emergence of Roles in British Foreign Policy: How the UK Interprets Russian Disinformation - Sean Garrett, University of Bath
• Shi'ite Environmental Ethics in a Globalising World: Man and Nature in M.H. Tabatabai's 'Ethics of Moderation' - Dr Bianka Speidl, University of Exeter
• Interpreting EU27-UK Parliamentary Diplomacy - Dr Cherry Miller, University of Glasgow
• Female Empowerment and Extreme Violence against Women - Dr Sara Polo, University of Essex
• The Role of Conflict-Seeking and Conflict-Avoidance in Explaining Gender Gaps in Political Engagement - Dr Rosalind Shorrocks, University of Manchester
• From Ontological Security to Existential Threat: Retracing the Emergence of Contemporary Anti-Technology - Dr Mauro Lubrano, University of Bath
• Meadows and Uplands: Leave’s Vision of the Post-Referendum Good Life - Dr Mike Bolt, University of Bath
• How to Encourage Citizen Empowerment in Behavioural Public Policy - Professor Peter John, King's College London

2023

• Hegel in Italy: How Ideas Became Political Practice - Dr Fernanda Gallo, University of Cambridge
• The UK Voter ID Reform: Effects on Voter Attitudes and Behaviour - Professor Petra Schleiter, University of Oxford
• "Enemies Within/Enemies Without": How Do Emotional and Security-Based Fears of "Infiltration" Direct and Shape Campaigns of Mass Violence? - Dr Leah Owen, Swansea University
• Female Empowerment and Extreme Violence against Women - Dr Sara Polo, University of Essex
• Understanding Territorial Withdrawal: Israeli Occupations and Exits - Dr Robert Geist-Pinfold, Durham University
• Meme-ing Waves: Unpacking Political Narratives in the Romanian Context - Ms Mimi Mihailescu, University of Bath
• The Syrian Conflict in the News: Coverage of the War and the Crisis of US Journalism - Dr Gabriel Huland, University of Bath
• En/Countering the State: Understanding Citizen Agency at the Front Lines of Democratic Government - Professor John Boswell, University of Southampton
• Class, Power, Democratic Socialism: The Politics and Legacy of Aneurin Bevan - Dr Nye Davis, Cardiff University