Events

2025-2026

Forthcoming…Our 2025-2026 programme will be available soon.

Past Events

Date / YearDescription
25 March 2025Boko Haram Counterinsurgency: Fleeing Men and Boys
Onyinyechukwu Durueke, MSCA Fellow, Aberystwyth University
27 February 2025Book Launch: “The IPCC and the Politics of Writing Climate Change” by Hannah Hughes
Discussants: Matthew Paterson (University of Manchester), Jennifer Bagelman (Newcastle University), Mark Whitehead (Human Geography, AU), Danielle Young (International Politics, AU) Event in collaboration with the Planetary Politics Research Centre
2024Stitched Voices Political Embroidery Group 
Facilitators: Gillian McFadyen and Berit Bliesemann de Guevara
5 December 2024Strategic Coloniality and the International Refugee Regime: an examination of colonial unknowing in the creation of UNHCR Gillian McFadyen, Aberystwyth University
5 November 2024Constructing Asia: Geography, Identity, and the Struggle for Global Order Ahmad Rizky M. Umar, MSCA Fellow, Aberystwyth University Colloquium in collaboration with the Planetary Politics Research Centre
November 2024“(Un-)Stitching Gazes” Embroidery Workshops for Refugees in Aberystwyth Workshop in collaboration with AberAid; facilitation: Berit Bliesemann de Guevara
22 May 2024Cosmotechnics and International Political Theory
Toni Cerkez, Aberystwyth University
1 May 2024Post-Truth Populism and the Enjoyment of Not Knowing Hannah Richter, University of Sussex
18 April 2024Epistemic Security in Global Politics
Xymena Kurowska, Central European University
15 March 2024Roundtable: The Politics of Climate Knowledge 
Joanne Yao (Queen Mary), Hannah Hughes (Aberystwyth), Danielle Young (Leeds); Chair: Regan Burles
8 February 2024Facts and Explanations in International Politics
Patrick Thaddeus Jackson, American University, Washington DC
31 January 2024Co-producing research with policy and other non-academic stakeholders  Workshop in collaboration with The Worlds We Want Hub (TWWW), the Centre for Welsh Politics and Society, and the International Politics Research Seminar
Colin McInnes, Dylan Marshall, Berit Bliesemann de Guevara (Aberystwyth University); Chair: Milja Kurki
2023Stitched Voices Political Embroidery Group 
Facilitators: Gillian McFadyen and Berit Bliesemann de Guevara
6 December 2023What can the case of ‘experts’ on the Islamic State group tell us about expertise in contemporary international politics?
Dylan Marshall, Aberystwyth University
28 November 2023Visual methodologies in academic knowledge production Workshop in collaboration with InterPol Graduate School
Beatrix Futak-Campbell, University of Leiden, NL/former MSCA Fellow at Aberystwyth University
23 March 2023Acknowledgement of responsibilities: a path towards reconciliation in Colombia Liliana Salamanca Aragón, former researcher for the Colombian Truth Commission
7 December 2022Who Needs to Reconcile? Shifting the Focus to Peace Resisters Sonia Garzon Ramirez, MSC Fellow, Aberystwyth University
6 December 2022 Russia’s War in Ukraine: Securitizing History and Militarizing Russia’s Youth Jenny Mathers, Aberystwyth University; Allyson Edwards, Bath Spa University
2 November 2022 Humanitarian Hero Projects: Trauma and the Making of Humanitarian Practice Alistair Markland, Sussex University
12 April 2022Beyond the Human, after the Cybernetic: Reflections on Techno-Ecologies of Drones.
Toni Čerkez, Aberystwyth University
16 February 2022Roundtable: Armed conflict, civilian protection, and conflict knowledge
Anna Sheftel, Concordia University; Maria Martin de Almagro, University of Ghent; Marie-Joëlle Zahar, Université de Montréal; Sarah-Myriam Martin-Brûlé, Bishop’s University;
Louise Ridden, Aberystwyth University; Chair: Berit Bliesemann de Guevara
2 February 2022Knowledge without Borders: Welsh Students on the Continent in the Fifteenth Century
Rhun Emlyn, Department of History & Welsh History, Aberystwyth University
19 January 2022When the War Hero is a Woman: Nadiya Savchenko and the Gendered Construction of War Heroism in Ukraine
Jenny Mathers, Aberystwyth University
1 December 2021Latin American knowledge in IR Roundtable
Speakers: Melissa Deciancio, FLACSO, Argentina / Münster University, Germany; Marcos Scauso, Quinnipiac University, USA; Kinti Prellana, Queen Mary University; Chair: Amaya Querejazu  
17 November 2021Creative research methods in IR: photography and film as method 2
Joe Thurgate, Louise Ridden
15 November 2021Creative research methods in IR: photography and film as method 1
Sarah Wydall, Rebecca Zerk, Joe Thurgate, Louise Ridden
20 October 2021 The International Tribunals of Rights of Nature
Natalia Greene, International Rights of Nature Tribunals Secretariat
Chairs: Anwen Elias, Amaya Querejazu
28 April 2021Relational ways of knowing and their implications for International Politics
Milja Kurki, Aberystwyth University; Arlene B. Tickner, Universidad del Rosario; Navnita Behera, University of New Delhi; Tamara Tronwsell, Universidad San Francisco de Quito; Jarrad Reddekop, Camosun College; Anahita Arian, University of Erfurt; Giorgio Shani, International Christian University (Tokyo); Chair: Amaya Querejazu
23 March 2021Employing Social Network Analysis in International Politics
Methods workshop and surgery with Gemma Edwards, Manchester University; Andrea Warnecke, Aberystwyth University
22 February 2021Embodying Bonapartism: Charles Nègre at the asile impériale de Vincennes in the French Second Empire
Samuel Raybone, School of Art, Aberystwyth University
2 February 2021Expanding knowing in international politics: creative and embodied methodologies Speakers: Amaya Querejazu, Berit Bliesemann de Guevara, Veronica Calarco, Suzanne Klein Schaarsberg; Chair: Andrea Warnecke
2 December 2020Curating and Crate-digging: Revisiting Solidarity Anti-colonially through Sankara, Palme and The Tricontinental
Dr Olivia Rutazibwa, Centre for European and International Studies Research, University of Portsmouth
24 November 2020Mixed-methods Social Network Analysis
Gemma Edwards, University of Manchester; Andrea Warnecke, Aberystwyth University
27 October 2020Knowing and Learning from a Distance – Zooming in or Zoning out?
Berit Bliesemann de Guevara, Andrea Warnecke, Birgit Poopuu, Amaya Querejazu
28 February 2020Resisting Epistemic Transformation? Limited Digitalisation and Datafication within the Field of Human Rights Advocacy
Alistair Markland, Aston University Birmingham
30 January 2020Non-violence in International Politics: Towards a New Turn?
Mary King (University for Peace; AU Honorary Fellow), Rachel Julian (Leeds Beckett), Birgit Poopuu, Suzanne Klein Schaarsberg, Berit Bliesemann de Guevara (Aberystwyth)
2019Stitched Voices Political Embroidery Group 
Facilitators: Gillian McFadyen and Berit Bliesemann de Guevara
10 December 2019Pili and the Global Politics We See.
Sophie Harman, Queen Mary, University of London
30 October 2019Ordering Compassion: Talk and discussion on the transformation of the humanitarian system
Jacintha O’Hagan, University of Queensland
19-20 October 2019Starting from violence or nonviolence in IR: why are we so fascinated with the violence lens? Organised by Birgit Poopuu, Aberystwyth
19-20 October 2019Creating knowledge of the Syrian Revolution: what and whose knowledge matters?
Organised by Birgit Poopuu, Aberystwyth University
12-14 June 2019IR as a social science in the post-truth era (BISA conference panel)
Beate Jahn, Heikki Patomäki, Richard Beardsworth, Milja Kurki, Katarzyna Kaczmarska, Amal Abu-Bakare, Berit Bliesemann de Guevara, Felix Berenskoetter
12-14 June 20191919: Myths and IR (BISA conference panel)
John Hobson, Katharine M Millar, Halvard Leira, Christine Andrä, Jan Ruzicka, Berit Bliesemann de Guevara, Katarzyna Kaczmarska
21 May 2019Regimes of Difference: Culture and Order in World Politics
Christian Reus-Smit, University of Queensland
15 May 2019Scales of Thinking: Beyond the ‘everyday’ turn in IR
Katarina Kušić, University of Bristol
28 March 2019Knowing International Politics Sensorily, Materially and Spatially: An Interactive Exhibition of Objects, Sounds and Spaces
Organised by Jelena Obradovic-Wochnik, Aston University; Berit Bliesemann de Guevara, Aberystwyth University
26 March 2019Academic Freedom, IR Knowledge and Policy Advice in the ‘Post-truth’ Era
Organised by Katarzyna Kaczmarska, Aberystwyth University; Thomas Biersteker, The Graduate Institute Geneva
13 March 2019From epistemology to ontology; or, What is a “world”?
Philip Conway, Aberystwyth University
20 February 2019The ‘Genesis’ of European Studies: Exploring European Integration by Way of an Academic Association    
Quincy Cloet, Aberystwyth University
2018Stitched Voices: Political Embroidery Group
Facilitators: Gillian McFadyen and Berit Bliesemann de Guevara, Aberystwyth University
5 December 2018Impartiality and the construction of legitimate international non-governmental organisation authority
Andrea Warnecke, Aberystwyth University
18 November 2018Political Embroidery goes Tate Liverpool: Contribution to activities programme, exhibition “Refugee Journeys Through the Balkan Route”
Facilitators: Berit Bliesemann de Guevara and Gillian McFadyen, Aberystwyth University
6 November 2018International Organisation for Migration (IOM), local knowledge and a ‘radicalisation potential of returning migrants’ in Tajikistan
Karolina Kluczewska, University of St Andrews / University of Paris 13-Sorbonne Paris Cité
30 October 2018THE COST OF BEARING WITNESS Secondary Trauma and Self-Care in Fieldwork-Based Social Research
Facilitators: Birgit Poopuu and Katarina Kušić, Aberystwyth
17 October 2018Dialogical approach to peace and conflict knowledge in Syria
Birgit Poopuu, Aberystwyth University
17 May 2018Multilingualism and invisible knowledge OR not knowing what you don’t know
Catrin Fflur Huws, Aberystwyth Law School
18 April 2018Gender, Power and Knowledge for Development
Lata Narayanaswamy, Lecturer in International Development, University of Leeds.
In collaboration with the Global Politics and Development Research Group, Aberystwyth University
7 March 2018Whose knowledge? The knowledge-power nexus in contemporary International Relations scholarship beyond the West
Katarzyna Kaczmarska, Aberystwyth
30 November 2017Can this category be saved? Reflecting on category theory and empirical evidence
Dvora Yanow, Wageningen University
30 November 2017Doing Interpretive Research
Dvora Yanow, Wageningen University; Xymena Kurowska and Berit Bliesemann de Guevara, Aberystwyth University
1 November 2017(Dis)Embodying the Border: Obscured Subjectivities of Border Guards and Researchers in Post-Transition Xymena Kurowska, Aberystwyth and Central European University
11 October 2017The Joys and Woes of Arts-based Research with Local Associates on Violent Conflict in Myanmar
Berit Bliesemann de Guevara, Aberystwyth University
23 May 2017Environmental knowledge between academia and journalism: A seminar
Mat Hope; in collaboration with the Environmental Politics Research Group, Aberystwyth University
29 March 2017Conflict Experts: Methodology, Authority, Impact, seminar aspart of the ESRC series ‘From data to knowledge: Understanding conflict from afar
Local organisers: Alistair Markland and Berit Bliesemann de Guevara
23 March – 15 May 2017Stitched Voices of Resistance
Exhibition in collaboration with Aberystwyth Arts Centre & Conflict Textiles Collection
7 December 2016Intervention Theatre: Performance, authenticity and expert knowledge in politicians’ travels to post-/conflict spaces
Berit Bliesemann de Guevara, Aberystwyth University
23 November 2016Programming Peacebuilding: Knowledge Production, Conflicting Representations and Intra-Interventionary Policy Alternatives Anna Danielsson, Aberystwyth & Uppsala University
27 October 2016Borrowed Truths: Transfers of Expertise and Evidence Across Science, Justice and Politics
Welsh Crucible project
19 October 2016 Worlding Beyond the West: Geocultural factors, institutions, and academic practices in knowledge production about international politics
Arlene Tickner, Universidad del Rosario, Colombia
5 October 2016KNOWLEDGE Centre launch & wine reception
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