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BISA PGN Conference 2025 Programme
The BISA PGN Conference final programme is now available!
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Public event: Belfast blitz history talk by Scott Edgar, editor of Wartime Northern Ireland
Belfast blitz history talk by Scott Edgar at #BISA2025
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Unlock the power of academic blogging: Storytelling, tips and tools
If you missed Global Souths Hub academic blogging masterclass, find the recording and slides here.
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Take Five - 25 April 2025
Eve Harrison-Taylor gives you a rundown of the 5 best IR podcasts and articles this fortnight.
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Global Politics and Development
Our aim is to assemble a community of scholars who research and/or teach on issues of politics an
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Contested heritage: Curating conflict in and about Northern Ireland
Join the Critical Military Studies Working Group for a public panel on Contested Heritage: Curating conflict in and about Northern Ireland
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Public event - BISA chair roundtable: 50 years and counting: reflecting on the discipline and profession of International Studies
A roundtable with past BISA chairs. Part of the #BISA2025 conference.
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Global health research and pedagogy workshop
The Global Health Working Group are holding a research and pedagogy workshop in Belfast.
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Take Five - 11 April 2025
Eve Harrison-Taylor gives you a rundown of the 5 best IR podcasts and articles this fortnight.
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IR career starters - May 2025
Over 350 internships, traineeships, fellowships and entry-level positions in International Relations
Policies and procedures
Here you'll find all our policies and procedures.
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BISA-ISA joint workshops
Join us for the inaugural BISA/ISA joint workshops
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CPD Paper Prize Winner 2024 - Affective Sovereignty: A decolonial politics of emotion in Palestine
Andy Hom interviews Jamal Nabulsi, who won the BISA CPD Working Group's Early Career Paper Prize.
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CPD Paper Prize Honourable Mention 2024: Decolonisation and the displacement of the Chagos Islanders
RIS Editor Cian O'Driscoll talks to Alice Engelhard (LSE) about her paper for the CPD annual prize.
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Challenges of Peripheral Development in Open Economies: Financial Markets and Policy Space in Brazil
Join the International Political Economy Working Group for the sixth session Financialisation in Latin America series.
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The latest in IR - spring book round up
Each quarter we bring you updates on the latest book releases from BISA members.
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Executive Committee candidates 2025 announced - vote now!
Voting is open for elections to our Executive Committee. View all the nominations and how to vote.
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Improving EDI in funding and prizes - What are the challenges and how do we overcome them?
Laura McLeod reflects on our funding and prize awarding processes and their improvement.
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BISA at 50: Reflections and perspectives - From small acorns grow large postgraduate networks!
Founding Postgraduate Network Chair James A Malcolm reflects on the beginnings of the Network.
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CPD Paper Prize Honourable Mention 2024 - Towards an Anticolonial Aesthetic Politics: Surrealist Praxis & Epistemic Refusal
Cian O'Driscoll talks to Sara Wong (LSE) about her paper for the CPD Working Group annual prize.
Voices from BoisMitidja
Welcome to CPD's blog - a platform to create against the grain of empire, coloniality, and injustice
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The best books that explain why the West keeps getting the world wrong
Oz Hassan gives us his best books that explain why the West keeps getting the world wrong.
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The best books on the effectiveness of international criminal courts
Tom Buitelaar shares his best books on international criminal courts. Published with Shepherd.
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Decoloniality in Eastern Europe: a field of struggle
Ana Vilenica reflects on the proceedings from the International Conference: “Postcolonial, Decolonial, Postimperial, Deimperial,”
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Call for papers: BISA-ISA joint workshops - Transforming the international: Scholarship and solidarity in a world of inequalities
Submit your paper proposal for the BISA-ISA joint workshops taking place in October 2025.
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Film, narrative agency, and the politics of care in veteran Britain
Nick Caddick discusses his new RIS article along with the video abstract.
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Call for papers: International Political Economy in a world on fire
Submit your papers for the new International Political Economy Workshop!
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Event summary: Publishing your first research article
Professor Maria Mälksoo led a workshop on publishing your first research article for the PGN.
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UG event: Geographies of escalation - Disputes on territory, sovereignty and control in an ever-changing international system
New event catered towards undergraduate students on the geographies of escalation.
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