CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Panel One : Gender and Interdisciplinarity

Chair
Nicola Smith
University of Birmingham

Paper #1
“Arriving at Feminism Through International Relations”
Marysia Zalewski
University of Aberdeen

Paper #2
“Feminism Incorporated: Gender and Political Strategy in The West Wing”
Laura Shepherd
University of Birmingham

Paper #3
“Investigating the Concept of Women’s Empowerment: Female Circumcision vs. Designer Vaginas”
Emma Foster
University of Birmingham


Panel Two: Ideas and Interdisciplinarity

Chair
Laura Shepherd
University of Birmingham

Paper #1
“Discourse and Practices of Celebrity Diplomacy: Individuals as Moral Agents?”
Annika Bergman-Rosamond
Danish Institute for International Studies
Thomas Moore
University of Westminster

Paper #2
“Image Theory in International Relations”
Ahed Al-Houis
University of Manchester

Paper #3
“Re-Politicising Myths and Unconcious Ideologies: The Need for Interdisciplinarity in IR”
Linda Ahall
University of Birmingham


Panel Three: Power, Peace, and War

Chair
Annika Bergman-Rosamond
Danish Institute for International Studies

Paper #1
“Post–Colonial and Sub Altern Studies: Defining Power and Hegemony in International Relations”
Francis Espinoza Figueroa
Universidad Católica del Norte

Paper #2
“Measuring Fear and Consensus in Hegemonic Governance”
Cornelia Beyer
University of Birmingham

Paper #3
“East Asian Security Intellectual Networks”
Wararak Chalermpuntusak
Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University

Paper #4
“Pedagogical Peacebuilding through Peace Education: the case of Cyprus”
Eleni Christodoulou
University of Birmingham


Panel Four: Political Economy and History

Chair
André Broome
University of Birmingham

Paper #1
“The open range of IPE: On narrative discourse and historical representation in times of world economic disorder”
Amin Samman
University of Birmingham

Paper #2
“Puff, But Don’t Inhale: International Relations and Its Troubled Relationship with History.”
Lucian M. Ashworth
University of Limerick

Paper #3
“Engaging Africa in a changing IPE”
Collin Zhuawu
University of Birmingham

Paper #4
“Ambiguous Goals and Blurred Accountability at the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility”
Liam Clegg
University of Birmingham