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PSAI POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCE – 30th January 2021

9:30 – 10:00 Introductory Address – Peter Stone (PSAI President)

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88176942404?pwd=MmRLdTcvZytQQ2ZDNkp1b1QrVGprUT09

 

10:15 – 11:45 Panels:

  1. International health & environmental responses. (4 papers) Chair – Bernadette Connaughton (UL)

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83422431338?pwd=aEswYlRoZHhQNG5IMkRoL2R2UkVwdz09  

 

  1. War & Peacebuilding (4 papers) Chair – Emma Dolan (UL)

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82108015700?pwd=ZWVzOU12allXOUNtaW9EQ2Z3bmZ6Zz09

 

  1. Peace building & Consociationalism (3 Papers) Chair – Martin Chung (HKBU/QUB)

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87280672400?pwd=YVVYc3gvVS9iZmlZQ2VrZ1lWNm04dz09

 

12:00 – 1:00 Career advisory Seminar 1: Publishing with the PSAI – Dawn Walsh (Irish Political Studies Journal Co-Editor) Diarmuid Torney (PSAI Blog Co-Ordinator)

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84571995335?pwd=VGJZQ3hOaXdVNkJKb3N3MUgxdFhXdz09

 

1:00 – 2:00 Lunch.

 

2:00 – 3:15 Panels:

  1. Theories of rights and freedoms (3 papers) Chair – Andrew Shorten (UL)

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88042689131?pwd=dkZMaFRiak95YXkrMWpETDhMeHAzUT09

 

  1. Impacts of Referenda (3 papers) Chair – Conor Little (UL)

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86499348505?pwd=bmdBWEUyWUwvb2lKL3lKVm9JVURzUT09

 

  1. Polarisation, values & beliefs (3 papers) Chair – Scott Fitzsimmons (UL)

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87929138771?pwd=OXZSL09HVHRiOXdZVzRVbVR3akVYdz09

 

3:30 – 4:30 Career advisory Seminar 2: Strategies for acquiring research project funding – (TBC)

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83739568657?pwd=QjB6QnJnN3BvaXB2Y21PTGlaQ2kwdz09

 

4:30 CLOSE

International health & environmental responses. (4 papers) Chair – Bernadette Connaughton (UL)

  • The environmental and human rights defenders (EHRD) framework: costs and consequences of the judicialization of protest – Emanuela Ferrari (UCD)
  • Million dollar bequests: The role of international donors in India’s sub-national climate policy – Shruti Neelakantan (DCU)
  • Embracing Dissent as Momentum for Cross-Community and Cross-Border Dialogues on Sustainability in Northern Ireland – Juneseo Hwang (QUB)
  • How Authoritarian Regimes Address Health Emergencies: the Political Economy of COVID-19 in Russian Regions – Nikita Khokhlov (DCU)

 

War & Peacebuilding (4 papers) Chair – Emma Dolan (UL)

  • Who are the western women of the Islamic State? Agency, violence and women in conflict – Julia Canas Martinez (UCD)
  • Social cohesion of activist insurgencies and sexual violence – Amelie Freiberg (TCD)
  • Which women matter in peacebuilding? Theorising women’s informal peacebuilding and their strategies – Nandini Gupta (TCD)
  • The ‘How’ is as Important as the ‘What’: Critique of De Coning’s Adaptive Peacebuilding praxis using a Sudanese warzone case study – Megan Greely (TCD)

 

Peace building & Consociationalism (3 Papers) Chair – Martin Chung (HKBU/QUB)

  • Peacebuilding in Northern Ireland: An Analysis of the Success and Failure of Negotiations and Agreements towards Consociational Power-Sharing – Yee Tung Eleanor Chan (QUB/HKBU)
  • Peace and reconciliation after Brexit – Ping-Ho Wong (QUB/HKBU)
  • Legitimization-by-association: The Political Consequences of Peace Talks with Rebel Representatives – Miceal Canavan & Oguzhan Turkoglu (TCD)

 

Theories of rights and freedoms (3 papers) Chair – Andrew Shorten (UL)

  • Rights, Autonomy and Individualism: Constructing and Critiquing a Liberal Egalitarian Approach to Rights – Michael Coleman (UCD)
  • Negative, positive and basic Freedom in Isaiah Berlin’s Theory of Freedom – Jan Liedtke (TCD)
  • The relationship between Eastern Europe and the internationalisation of understanding the DuBoisian theory of double consciousness – Alina Abramenko (TCD)

 

Impacts of Referenda (3 papers) Chair – Conor Little (UL)

  • Free movement of persons, social benefits and Brexit Referendum – Sose Mayilyan (DCU)
  • Impacts of Referenda on party competition and unity – Shane Reynolds (UL)
  • “And now we’re facing that reality too”: Brexit, ontological insecurity, and intergenerational anxiety among border communities – Ben Rosher (QUB)

 

Polarisation, values & beliefs (3 papers) Chair – Scott Fitzsimmons (UL)

  • The nature of greedy motives: Exploring the role of ‘Sacred Values’ in International Relations Theory – Robert Patrick Whelan (Bingham University, NY)
  • Explaining the Variation in Individuals’ Conspiratorial Beliefs: The Effect of Exposure to Emotive Conspiratorial Messaging in the Media – David Moore (TCD)
  • A benefit of elite divisions? The effect of party system polarisation on positive and negative partisanship – Kevin Saude (UL)