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Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Wednesday 9 July 2025
0900 – 1400	Pre-Conference Workshop
ROOM	Matthews Building, MAT106
	Building Communities of Care and Resistance in and Beyond International Relations. Ms Sulagna Basu and Dr Monika Barthwal-Datta
1345 – 1800	REGISTRATION
1700 – 1830	OFFICIAL OPENING & WELCOME
ROOM	Scientia Building, Leighton Hall
Chair	Professor Jan Breckenridge, Head of the School of Social Science
	Welcome to Country Aunty Lola Ryan
Chair	Professor Elizabeth Thurbon
	International Relations and the Planetary Professor Robyn Eckersley
1830 – 1930	Welcome Reception

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Thursday 10 July 2025
0830 – 1700	REGISTRATION
0900 – 1030	CONCURRENT SESSION 1
Theme	PAPERS Governance in Flux	PAPERS Cooperation and Conflict between Great Powers	PAPERS The Far Right, Nationalism, and Security Narratives in Global Politics	PAPERS Human Security / Humanitarianism	PAPERS Politics of Cyber Security and Information Conflict	PAPERS Carbon and Methane Policies
ROOM	MBG3	MBG4	Gallery 2	Gallery 1	Gonski	MBG5
Chair	Student Volunteer	Student Volunteer	Student Volunteer	Student Volunteer	Student Volunteer	Student Volunteer
0900 – 0915	External Crises, Internal Struggles: ASEAN-led Security Cooperation after Economic Crises Ms Hanh Nguyen	China’s Global Civilization Initiative as Strategic Meta-Narrative Dr Kingsley Edney	Trump and Immigration 2.0: New Fronts in the Battle to Keep ‘Undesirables Out’ A/Professor William Clapton	Revisiting China’s Non-Interference Principle: Addressing Human Security Concerns in Zimbabwe Amid Evolving Bilateral Dynamics Mr Kudakwashe Praise Mutukura	Cyber Security is Human Security: Cyber Diplomacy in the Pacific Islands Dr Sally Burt	“Perfect Partners?” Symbiotic Developmentalism/s and (Re)Constructing the Australia-Republic of Korea Bilateral Relationship through Transnational Low-Carbon Cooperation between Australia and the Republic of Korea Miss Catherine Taylor
0915 – 0930	Maritime Governance Failures in the Red Sea: Ethiopia’s Port Ambitions and Turkey’s Mediating Role Dr Mohamed Osman	How Association of Southeast Asian Nations Responded to China-led Lancang-Mekong Cooperation Mr Menghu Xia	Narrative Power and Policy Legitimacy: Understanding Populist Governance Through India’s Civilisational State Claims Ms Salonee Shital	Promoting compliance with international humanitarian law and the protection of civilians: policy ideas for Australia Ms Melissa Conley Tyler	Post-Copenhagen School Cyber Securitisation: The Case of Indonesia from 2019-2024 Mrs Fadhila Pratiwi	Consensus carbon pricing: the minor miracle of the US methane fee Mr Nikolai Drahos
0930 – 0945	Power asymmetry and contestation in bilateral asylum governance: the case of the UK-Rwanda externalisation agreement Ms Jemima Mckenna	Beyond Competition: Surviving the Return of Great Power Politics Dr Benjamin Zala	Found in Unlikely Places: The Great Replacement and Other Conspiracy Theories in Malaysia’s Far-Right Geopolitical Discourses Dr Nicholas Chan	Anti-Political Security Landscapes: The International Reproduction of Iraqi Militias Professor Sarah Phillips, Dr Daniel Tower	AI-Enabled Information Operations in the Indo-Pacific: Balancing Threat Mitigation and Trust Building Dr Gavin Mount	Addressing Climate Change through Nature-Based Solutions: Forest Governance in South Korea and Taiwan Ms Sohui Jeon
0945 – 1000	Discussion	Theory and Practice of Geostrategic Security Alignment Ms Jiye Kim	Discussion	Reframing Security from a Feminist Political Economy Approach: (De)militarising Mexico’s War on Drugs Ms Daniela Philipson	Discussion	Discussion
1000 – 1015		Discussion		Discussion
1015 – 1030		Discussion		Discussion
Theme	PAPERS Space, Spatiality, and Territory	PAPERS Comparative Foreign Aid	ROUNDTABLE Unruly politics in the contemporary world
ROOM	MBG6	MAT102	Leighton Hall
Chair	Student Volunteer	Student Volunteer	Professor George Lawson
0900 – 0915	The Bottom-Up Formation of Territory: Conflicting spatial ideologies of the shogunate, domains, and villages in early modern Japan Dr Naosuke Mukoyama	Securocrats, cronies, and strategic competition: India’s emerging development financing in South Asia Mr Aaron Magunna	Roundtable Participants: Ms Catherine Hirst Professor George Lawson Professor Bina D’Costa A/Professor Nicole George Mr Lukas Nagel
0915 – 0930	The dynamics of proximity and distance in inter-state relations Dr Germana Nicklin	Minding the gaps: statecraft, policy legitimationand Australia’s foreign aid Dr Cameron Hill
0930 – 0945	From a Buffer Zone to a Frontline Region? Unmapping Eastern Europe in a Multi-Order World Dr Emilian Kavalski	Rising Power and Regional Competition: Looking through China’s Foreign Aid Mr Qian Qin
0945 – 1000	‘Friendshoring’ the Seabed: Undersea Cables, Sovereign Control and Exclusion Dr Samuel Bashfield	Limits of Shared Destiny: Decade of Pakistan-China Cooperation under BRI Mr Muhammad Faisal
1000 – 1015	Discussion	Discussion
1015 – 1030	Discussion	Discussion
1030 – 1100	Morning Tea
1100 – 1230	CONCURRENT SESSION 2
Theme	PAPERS Gendered and Racialized Politics of Identity and Solidarity	PAPERS Centres and Peripheries	ROUNDTABLE Norms Research in International Relations: Past, Present, Future	PANEL The changing landscape of global development finance: sovereign lenders, multilateral development banks and public banks	PAPERS Geopolitics	PANEL Transformative Approaches to Foreign Policy
ROOM	MAT104	MBG3	Gallery 1	Gallery 2	MBG5	MBG6
Chair	Student Volunteer	Student Volunteer	Professor Phil Orchard	A/Prof. Susan Engel	Student Volunteer	Dr Outi Donovan
1100 – 1115	Geopolitics and Settlement: Chinese Queer Diasporas Navigating Identity and Belonging in Australia Mx Shutong Chen	From Civilization to Reaction: Samuel Huntington’s “American Creed” Dr Joseph MacKay	Roundtable Participants: Professor Phil Orchard Professor Sara Davies Dr Liam Moore Professor Jacqui True Dr Carla Winston Ruji Auethavornpipat	China’s Global Development Projects: Embedded Power and the Repoliticized Infrastructure Life Cycle Mr Bo Li	Do rivers participate in politics? A more-than-human ‘assemblage’ history of India-East Pakistan boundary formation Mr Raj Kaithwar	Transformative Approaches to Foreign Policy Dr Annabel Dulhunty
1115 – 1130	Faith, Force, and Fear: Examining Structural Factors Facilitating Forced Conversions Of Hindu Women and Girls in Pakistan Miss Javeria Shams	‘We knew that peace would be harder than war’: confrontation, the Farianas and a hidden system of violence in (post)conflict Colombia Mr Connor Clery		Discursive Construction of State Interests: China, Multilateral Development Banks, and the Co-shaping of the Global Development Order Ms Wenting He	Maps as Narratives in International Relations: Reassessing China’s Understanding of the Pacific Islands Region Ms Geyi Xie	Realising Sport as a Tool for Inclusion in Australia’s Foreign Policy Dr Scott Blakemore
1130 – 1145	Internationalist solidarity: feminist praxis and sacrifice in northern Syria Dr Eda Gunaydin	The symbolic power of the IMF in its relationship with Argentina (2016-2022). The interest in disinterest and the appropriation of time Mr German Ricci		Using International Grievance Mechanisms for Eco-justice Professor Susan Park	Unlocking the Middle East: New Zealand’s relations with the Gulf states in the 21st century Mr Geoffrey Miller	Rethinking Foreign Policy: Indigenous and Feminist Approaches Dr Julie Ballangarry, Dr Outi Donovan
1145 – 1200	Discussion	Discussion		Gender Mainstreaming: Multilateral Development Banks versus Public Banks in India A/Professor Susan Engel	Discussion	Think Tanks and the evolution of Australia-India Relations Dr Stuti Bhatnagar
1200 – 1215				Discussion		Discussion
1215 – 1230				Discussion		Discussion
Theme	PANEL Australia’s Defence Partners in the Pacific	PANEL Economic Security and Statecraft amid Geopolitical Competition	ROUNDTABLE Hosting COP31 in Oceania: Implications for climate policy and statecraft	PAPERS Perspectives on Political Violence	PAPERS IPE and USA	PANEL Global energy transition and the uncertain future of sustainable development
ROOM	MAT102	MAT228	Leighton Hall	MAT230	MBG4	Gonski
Chair	Mr Marvin Girelli	Dr Darren Lim	Dr Wesley Morgan	Student Volunteer	Student Volunteer	A/Prof. Fengshi Wu
1100 – 1115	The importance of Australia in French defence literature Mr Marvin Girelli	Secondary Statecraft in the Indo-Pacific: Evidence from the Korean Peninsula Dr Alexander M. Hynd	Roundtable Participants: Dr Wesley Morgan Professor Elizabeth Thurbon Professor Robyn Eckersley Professor Matt McDonald Professor Susan Harris-Rimmer Rahkel Mercy	External Support in Targeted Mass Killing Events Dr Sascha Nanlohy	America Transformed?: The Inflation Reduction Act, Neoliberalism, and the Political Economy of Statecraft Mr Theo Mendez	Energy transition with coal?: A socio-political analysis of the mining sector in southern Sumatra Ms Alya Triska Sutrisno
1115 – 1130	Assessing Naval Diplomacy in Southeast Asia Professor Bec Strating	Varieties of Industrial Policy Amid Geopolitical Competition Mr Walter Brenno Colnaghi		Ocular Insecurity: Violence Against Vision and Sovereign Control in Palestine Miss Miriam Deprez	Competing for Chips: Decoding US-China Strategies in the Global Semiconductor Technology Race Mr Kevin Yiwei Huang	Environmental Governance, Sustainability, and Beef Industry in Brazil Professor Mario Aquino Alves
1130 – 1145	Grand compact: ASEAN-EU hybrid? Professor John Blaxland	More Economic Sanctions by Non-Democracies: New Tests with New Data on the Use, Effects, and Removal of China and Russia’s Sanctions Ms Verónica Fraile del Álamo		Gendered Extremism in the Pacific on 4chan: A Mixed-methods Exploration of Australian and New Zealanders’ Concepts of Women, Gender, and Sexual Violence on /Pol/ Dr Kiriloi Ingram	Bidenomics as a Failed Passive Revolution Dr Tom Chodor	China’s Accidental Green Soft Power in Southeast Asia: The ‘New Three Boom’ and its accumulation pathway in Southeast Asia Dr Trissia Wijaya
1145 – 1200	Discussion	Rigging the Market? Commodity Price Manipulation as an Instrument of Economic Statecraft Mr Eli Hayes		Race, Gender, and Public Perceptions of Legitimate US Drone Strikes: An Intersectional Approach A/Professor Srinjoy Bose	‘Communist China is already within our borders’: Economic interdependence and the ‘new Cold War’ Dr Madison Cartwright	Discussion
1200 – 1215		Discussion		Discussion	Discussion
1215 – 1230		Discussion		Discussion	Discussion
1230 – 1330	Lunch Meet the Editors Workshop
1330 – 1500	CONCURRENT SESSION 3
Theme	PAPERS Gendered Insecurities and Justice	PAPERS Theorising Small States and Middle Powers	ROUNDTABLE Imaginaries in World Politics	PANEL Computer Says, “War”: The Risks of AI in Resort-to-Force Decision Making	PAPERS China and Foreign Policy	PANEL AUKUS and the Public: Legitimacy, Transparency and Consultation
ROOM	MBG3	MAT228	Leighton Hall	MBG4	MAT102	MBG6
Chair	Student Volunteer	Student Volunteer	Dr Megan Price	Dr Ben Zala	Student Volunteer	Prof. Maria Rost Rublee
1330 – 1345	Stable economies/stable gender order Ms Georgia Peters	Defining Secondary States in International Society Dr Alexander M. Hynd	Roundtable Participants: Professor Christian Reus-smit Professor Robyn Eckersley A/Professor Daniel McCarthy Dr Minh Vu Dr Jack Shield	‘Borgs in the Org’ and the Decision to Wage War: The Impact of AI on Institutional Learning and the Exercise of Restraint Professor Toni Erskine	International relations as whole-part relations: A quantum holographic critique of Australia’s China strategy A/Professor Chengxin Pan	Strategic Narratives and the Case of AUKUS Professor Bec Strating
1345 – 1400	Anti-Natality as Opposition to State-Sponsored Pro-Natalist Hegemonic Masculinity in South Korea’s 4B Movement Mr Muhammad Faiq Adi Pratomo, Ms Zahra Maharani Latrobdiba	The Role of Identity in Shaping Middle Powers’ Responses to The Rise of China: A Comparative Analysis of Vietnam, Indonesia, and Australia Mrs Dung Phan Do Thuy		A King Above the Law: “Autocratic Intelligence,” Resort to Force Decision-Making, and Democratic Legitimacy in War Dr Bianca Baggiarini	Elite and Public Perception: Indonesia’s China Policy under President Joko Widodo Mr Rizky Ihsan	AUKUS, domestic debates, and social license A/Professor Danielle Chubb, Professor Maria Rublee
1400 – 1415	The Legacy of Matriliny: A Foundation for Gender Justice? Miss Guidora Julianta Kopong	Risk Mitigation vs. Benefit Maximisation – The Two Logics of Smaller Power Hedging Amidst Intensifying Great Power Rivalry Dr Alexander Korolev		Certainty and algorithmic accountability in the decision to go to war: lessons from developments in evidence in international criminal law Dr Sarah Logan	China’s Soft Power Influence through Port Projects: A Case Study Analysis of Colombo Port City Mrs Asha Thrishali	(Mis)Leading the Public into Consent: Exploring New Zealand’s Potential Shift Away from Foreign Policy Independence as a “Risky Project” Professor Alexandra Homolar
1415 – 1430	Policing Domestic Violence in Argentina and Australia Miss Brooke Jordan	Understanding power and influence in Solomon Islands Dr Anouk Ride		AI Optimized Violence and the Suffocation of Moral and Political Wisdom Dr Neil Renic	China’s international humanitarian engagement: Adaptation or differentiation? A/Professor Lina Gong	Taken for Granted? Social Licence and National Security: A Case Study of AUKUS in Western Australia Dr Troy Lee-Brown, A/Professor Paul Maginn
1430 – 1445	Expanding the WPS Agenda: Addressing Intimate Partner Violence as a Security Concern in Militarised Zones Dr Natasha Singh Raghuvanshi	Discussion		Discussion	Discussion	Discussion
1445 – 1500	Discussion	Discussion		Discussion	Discussion	Discussion
Theme	ROUNDTABLE Youth, Peace and Inclusion in Southeast Asia and the Pacific	PANEL Authoritarian Politics and Political Economy in the Digital Age	PAPERS Policy and Climate Change	PANEL Rethinking Borders: Emerging Sites of New Humanitarianism and Militarism	PANEL Queer Approaches to International Relations	PANEL Our future is in our past: Indigenous Methodologies Today
ROOM	Gallery 2	MBG5	MAT104	MAT230	Gonski	Gallery 1
Chair	Dr Caitlin Mollica	Professor Andrew Walter	Student Volunteer	Dr Umut Ozguc	Dr Jess Gifkins	Daniel Robinson
1330 – 1345	Roundtable Participants: Dr Caitlin Mollica Dr Helen Berents Ms Annie Bayly Douglas Dr Primitivo III Cabanes Ragandang Erika Yague	Authoritarian economics in the time of digital authoritarianism Dr Dara Conduit	Between a rock and hard place. Australia, Climate Change and China in the Pacific Dr Joakim Eidenfalk	Simulated Refugee Camps: Boundaries of Care and Empathy Dr Umut Ozguc	Queering R2P: LGBTQI+ Persecution as a Blind-spot within R2P Debates Dr Jess Gifkins	Panellists: Christina Thyna Aidan Craney Vili Iese Rahkel Mercy Daniel Robinson Kolaia Raisele
1345 – 1400		IFI surveillance, authoritarianism and democratic backsliding Professor Andrew Walter	Accelerating Climate Ambition through Distributive Conflict? Lessons from Norway and Japan Mr William Hopkinson	Compassionate Domination: How Powerful Actors, Past and Present, Justify Controlling the Mobility of Vulnerable Others Dr Luke Glanville	What’s Queer About Queer IR Now? Dr Cai Wilkinson
1400 – 1415		The New Political Economy of Election Campaigning Dr Ross Tapsell	Greening the International Monetary Fund: Promise, practice, prospects Dr Thomas Stubbs	Makeshift border infrastructure at Port Hedland, Western Australia Dr Ari Jerrems	Queer Inclusion and Agency in Transitional Justice: Insights from the Canadian Final Report into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Dr Caitlin Biddolph
1415 – 1430		Resilient Reporting in Repressive Regimes: Digital News Organisations in Southeast Asia’s Autocratic Landscape A/Prof Aim Sinpeng	Discussion	Towards a political geography of slow violence in the Woomera Prohibited Area Dr Samid Suliman	Discussion
1430 – 1445		Discussion		Discussion
1445 – 1500		Discussion		Discussion
1500 – 1530	Afternoon Tea
1530 – 1700	CONCURRENT SESSION 4
Theme	PAPERS Gender, Peace, and Security in the Global South	PANEL Contingency and change in global norms: new theoretical approaches to studying norm configurations	PANEL End of the Liberal International Order: The Case of Afghanistan	PAPERS The Anglosphere, Europe and Ideology	ROUNDTABLE Australia-China relations in the post-stabilisation era	ROUNDTABLE Reimagining Transitional Justice for a Less Violent, More Inclusive World
ROOM	Gonski	MBG3	Gallery 1	MBG4	MBG5	Leighton Hall
Chair	Student Volunteer	Student Volunteer	A/Professor Srinjoy Bose	Student Volunteer	Dr Edward Chan	Dr Caitlin Biddolph
1530 – 1545	Educating for Control: Evidence of Rebel Intimate Governance from South Asia A/Professor Srinjoy Bose, Dr Keshab Giri	Clashing normative meanings: The rule of law and the fundamental rights of migrants in the European Union Dr Ruji Auethavornpipat	Women’s Rights and Norms Professor Jacqui True, Dr Farkhondeh Akbari	The Return of the Repressed: Anglosphere Geopolitics in post-Brexit Foreign Policy and the UK-Australia Relationship Mr Tom Howe	Roundtable Participants: Ms Wenting He Dr Minran Liu Dr Guangyi Pan Geyi (Azure) Xie	Roundtable Participants: Dr Caitlin Biddolph Dr Caitlin Mollica Charlotte Carney Dr Wendy Lambourne
1545 – 1600	Military Humanitarianism through a WPS Lens: A Southeast Asian Perspective Ms Nanthini S.	Contested Responses to Forced Displacement Crimes: The Case of Russia’s Deportation Campaign in Ukraine Professor Phil Orchard	The Crisis of Liberal International Order and Contestation over Civil Society? Dr Niamatullah Ibrahimi	The Foreign Policy of America First: An Ideological Analysis A/Professor John Rees
1600 – 1615	Advancing Feminist Foreign Policy in Nepal: Opportunities and Constraints Ms Niha Pandey	A sea of contestation: what climate mobilities governance tells us about the future of Oceanic and International orders Dr Liam Moore	Framing non-state actors for a rules-based order: The case of the Afghan Taliban in historical perspective Professor William Maley	“Russia is a Necessary Partner:” Coral Bell on NATO in 1994 Mr Benedict Moleta
1615 – 1630	“Knowledge, Attitudes, and Perceptions on the Gender Provisions of the Bangsamoro Organic Law in Southern Philippines” Ms Yasmira Moner, Dr Sittie Akima Ali, Dr Safa Manala-o	The historical evolution of the anti-atrocity norm: convergence and conflict in the fields of international human rights and criminal law A/Professor Cecilia Jacob	International Norms and Gender Apartheid Diplomacy Dr Farkhondeh Akbari	Discussion
1630 – 1645	Did you hear the latest podcast?: Diversifying Pacific stories in gender and climate projects Dr Jane Alver	Discussion	Discussion
1645 – 1700	Discussion	Discussion	Discussion
Theme	ROUNDTABLE Artificial Intelligence and a “New” Global Arms Race	ROUNDTABLE (Re-) Building State Capacity for the Green Energy Transition	PAPERS Armed Conflict Dynamics	PANEL Settler Military Politics: Interrogating Military Practices, Security, and Identity in Settler Colonial States
ROOM	MBG6	Gallery 2	MAT102	MAT104
Chair	Dr Mohammad Eslami	Dr Alexander M. Hynd	Student Volunteer	Dr Federica Caso
1530 – 1545	Roundtable Participants: Dr Mohammad Eslami Professor Christian Kaunert Dr Maria Papageorgiou Dr Benjamin Zala Professor Alena Vieira	Roundtable Participants: Professor Elizabeth Thurbon Dr Alexander M. Hynd Professor Andrew Walter A/Professor Christian Downie Professor Heidi Norman Professor Adam Fish	The Drivers of Protracted Armed Conflicts Ms Elisabeth Austrheim	Indigenous Epistemologies: Subverting Settler Colonial Imaginaries of Cyberspace Ms Sulagna Basu
1545 – 1600			What Inspired ISIS-Inspired Attacks? Battlefield Success and Support for Violent Extremism A/Professor David Malet	Zionist Settler Nationalism and Digital Militarism in Gaza Dr. Kim Alley
1600 – 1615			Understanding Risk and Resilience to Mass Atrocities: A Longitudinal Analysis Dr Stephen Mcloughlin, Dr Deborah Mayersen	Indigenous People in the Military: Advancing Reconciliation or Militarised Inclusion? Dr Federica Caso
1615 – 1630			The Psychology of Naval Presence A/Professor Adam Lockyer	Pervasive affects of militarisation on the Indigenous and Minority groups in South Asia Mr Asaf Lone
1630 – 1645			Discussion	Discussion
1645 – 1700			Discussion	Discussion
1715 – 1850	‘Meet the Minister’ event at UNSW \| Scientia Building Hon Matt Thistlethwaite MP, Member for Kingsford Smith, Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade and Assistant Minister for Immigration

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Friday 11th July 2025
0730 – 1745	REGISTRATION
0815 – 0945	CONCURRENT SESSION 5
Theme	PANEL Gender, race and carcerality	ROUNDTABLE The Impact of Militarisation on Indigenous Peoples	ROUNDTABLE Fieldwork is Dead! Long Live Fieldwork!	PAPERS Youth-led Peacebuilding	ROUNDTABLE Blue Security in the Indo-Pacific: Assessing Maritime Security Strategies across the Region	PAPERS IPE
ROOM	Gallery 2	Gallery 1	MBG6	Gonski	Leighton Hall	MBG4
Chair	Dr Nuri Veronika	Dr Federica Caso	Dr Dara Conduit	Student Volunteer	Dr Troy Lee-Brown	Student Volunteer
0815 – 0830	Coloniality and Carcerality in the Women, Peace and Security Agenda: Complicities of Governance Feminism Professor Laura J. Shepherd	Roundtable Participants: Dr Federica Caso Dr Kim Alley Ms Sulagna Basu	Roundtable Participants: Dr Dara Conduit Dr Niamatullah Ibrahimi Professor Sarah Phillips Dr Daniel Tower Ms Sonia Qadir Dr Farkhondeh Akbari	Supporting Pacific Youth, Civil Society and Media Mr Grant Wyeth	Roundtable Participants: Dr Troy Lee-Brown Professor Bec Strating Dr Edward Chan Dr Justin Burke Dr Chulanee Attanayake	The general equilibrium effect of CJK FTA towards the Northeast Asia and East Asia Miss Fei Su
0830 – 0845	The ‘Future’ of International Criminal Justice (ICJ): Hybridity and Abolition Ms Charlotte Carney			Sing and Dance for Peace: Youth, Arts, and Peacebuilding in Southern Philippines Mr John Gieveson Iglupas		China as a Sovereign Debt Manager: How Evolving Economic Ideas Shape China’s Approach to Domestic and Global Debt Governance Mr Bo Li
0845 – 0900	Beyond Knitting and Baking: The Gendered Experience of Indonesian Terrorists’ Imprisonment Dr Nuri Veronika			The Paradox of Youth Engagement: The role of young people in historical and contemporary Southeast Asian peace Ms Erika Isabel Yague		Highways of resilience: Assessing the international political economy of the Metro Manila Skyway Ms Chelsea M Dunn
0900 – 0915	“Risky sex” at the International Monetary Fund Ms Georgia Peters			Voices of Myanmar Youth Activists in Exile. An exploratory mixed-methods design focusing on consensus-based, political demands Mr Lukas Nagel		Embedded Repression: The Political Economy of Labour Contention in South Korea Mr Christopher Khatouki
	Discussion			Discussion		Discussion
0930 – 0945	Discussion			Discussion		Discussion
Theme	PANEL Algorithmic War and the Future of Ethics	PAPERS Energy Security	PAPERS Key Challenges in International Law	PAPERS Health Governance and Political Economy
ROOM	MBG3	MBG5	MAT102	MAT104
Chair	Dr Bianca Baggiarini	Student Volunteer	Student Volunteer	Student Volunteer
0815 – 0830	The paradox of trust and ethics in seeking to engineer conditions of certainty through algorithmic war Dr Sian Troath	Power, Politics, and Possibilities: Rewriting Socio-Technical Futures for Justice in Energy Transitions Mr Muhammad Sikandar Ali Chaudary	From Refugees to Irregular Migrants: The Politics of Migrant Categorisation – The Case of Panama Ms Saniya Karimova	Viruses in the time of War: Ukraine, HIV and COVID-19 in the shadow of economic restructuring Dr Elliot Dolan-Evans
0830 – 0845	Alienation and the Poverty of Experience in War: Ethics, Narrative and Information Mr Sean Rupka	The Geoeconomics of Energy Security: Chinese Police Training in the Pacific and Resource Exports to China Mr Lin Sae-Phoo	Legal Invisibility: The Impact of Citizenship Ambiguity on Human Rights in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan Dr Ejaz Karim	It’s the (Political) Economy, Stupid!’ Toward a Negative Universal Politics of Global Health Governance Mr David Primrose
0845 – 0900	Algorithmic War and the Future of Ethics Dr Bianca Baggiarini	The role of public financial institutions in the energy transition – the case of export credit agencies Professor Christian Downie	Norm-generative practices of Universal Jurisdiction: towards clarity and consistency in the domestic enforcement of international justice Ms Mareen Brosinsky	Animal Health: Conceptual differences with Human Health, and implications for the One Health agenda through a polycentric approach Prof Sara Davies, Dr Melodie Ruwet
0900 – 0915	Meaningless Human Control: Learning from Israel’s use of military AI Dr Jeremy Moses	Discussion	Amnesty Unbound: The Philosophy and Practice of Human Rights Dr Carla Winston	Discussion
0915 – 0930	Discussion		The impacts of the labour mobility programs in the nation of Vanuatu Mrs Christina Thyna
0930 – 0945	Discussion		Discussion
0945 – 1015	Morning Tea
1015 – 1145	CONCURRENT SESSION 6
Theme	PANEL Women, Peace, and Knowledge Production: Insights from Mindanao	PAPERS Comparative Foreign Policy	ROUNDTABLE Pacific maritime security cooperation: views from the Pacific and its partners	ROUNDTABLE China and Southeast Asia Roundtable	ROUNDTABLE Critical Interventions: Women in Australian International Relations (IR)	PAPERS Sustainable Peace and Peacebuidling
ROOM	MBG3	MBG4	Leighton Hall	MBG6	MBG5	MAT102
Chair	Dr Primitivo Iii Ragandang	Student Volunteer	Professor Joanne Wallis	Susannah Patton	Dr Umut Ozguc	Student Volunteer
1015 – 1030	Inventory of Gender-Related Publications in Post-conflict Mindanao Ms Cherly Adlawan	U.S. Alliances in the Indo-Pacific: Rivalry, Territorial and Maritime Disputes, and Regional Security Dr Krista Wiegand	Roundtable Participants: Dr Henrietta McNeill Professor Joanne Wallis Dr Miranda Booth Maima Koro Ms Salote Tagivakatini Dr Genevieve Quirk	Roundtable Participants: Susannah Patton Professor Kai He Dr Greg Raymond Professor Jingdon Yuan A/Professor Patrick Jory	Roundtable Participants: Dr Umut Ozguc Dr Maria Rost Rublee Dr Maria Tanyag Dr Federica Caso Dr Caitlin Biddolph Dr Monika Barthwal-Datta Dr Cai Wilkinson	Imagining community beyond interethnic coexistence: Everyday community-making in war-affected villages in Sri Lanka Mrs Viyanga Gunasekera
1030 – 1045	Young Women Academics in Knowledge Production: experiences from Mindanao Miss Elaiza May Flores	Comparing Indonesia and Vietnam’s Military Modernization Amidst the South China Sea Conflict Mr Alfin Febrian Basundoro				Organic Farming: A Program Towards Sustainable Peace and Development in Lanao del Norte, Mindanao, Philippines Dr Irene Estrada
1045 – 1100	Gender Lens of “Scopusation” of Knowledge Mr Xeanne Brixe Malimas	The Enduring Sino–Russian Strategic Relations of Mutual Dependence—The Military Attributes Professor Ji You				The potential of intergenerational engagement for peace and security Dr Ingrid Valladares
1100 – 1115	Beyond Policy: A Decade of Gender and Development Implementation in Mindanao Universities Ms Cherly Adlawan	International Development Financing in the Second Cold War: China and Western Donors’ Uncompetitive Convergence Professor Shahar Hameiri				Discussion
1115 – 1130	Discussion	Discussion
1130 – 1145	Discussion	Discussion
Theme	PANEL Global (Dis)order in the Information Age	ROUNDTABLE An Ecology Politic for a Planetary Politics?	PANEL Studying financialisation across nature, states, and societies	PAPERS International Law and Security
ROOM	Gallery 2	Gallery 1	MAT104	Gonski
Chair	Dr Sarah Logan	Prof Anthony Burke	Dr Jacob Broom	Student Volunteer
1015 – 1030	Informational capitalism and global (dis)order: when the broligarchs came to stay Dr Sarah Logan	Roundtable Participants: Dr Stefanie Fishel Professor Anthony Burke Ms Jessica Whyte Professor Matt McDonald Professor Susan Park Ms Robyn Eckersley	Mundane practices of financialisation in social impact investment Dr Jacob Broom	Fights about the forever war: explaining the remarkable endurance of the Guantánamo Bay military prison Dr Megan Price
1030 – 1045	Agents of Global Disorder: Synthetic Agency and Misplaced Responsibility in the Age of AI Professor Toni Erskine		Transformative, but Not Disruptive: The Financialisation of State Capital in Malaysia Mr Teck Chi Wong	Good Governance as Responsible Sovereignty: Francis Deng, New Institutional Economics, and the Origins of R2P Mr Connor O’brien
1045 – 1100	Regulate Me If You Can!: Global (Dis)Order in the Age of Hyperobjects Ms Cynthia Mehboob		Financial flows: understanding water policy and financialization Dr Madelaine Moore	Self-Determination and Secession in Post-Colonial Africa- The secession cases of Biafra, South Sudan and Somaliland. Ms Francisca Ampomah-lokeland
1100 – 1115	Political Order, Civil-Military Relations, and the Ambivalent Impact of Disruptive Military Technologies A/Professor Daniel McCarthy		How do ‘big’ data and algorithms accompany financialisation in public health? Ms Rachel Rowe	Discussion
1115 – 1145	Discussion		Discussion
1115 – 1145	Discussion		Discussion
1145 – 1245	Lunch Tips for ARC Grant Success in International Relations Workshop
1245 – 1415	CONCURRENT SESSION 7
Theme	ROUNDTABLE Gender, Diversity, and the Social Construction of National Security	PANEL Concepts in historical international relations	ROUNDTABLE Studying the Pacific as a career in Australia	PAPERS Diplomacy	PANEL Liminal Mechanics: Quantum Approaches to International Relations	PANEL Rethinking Research of Youth in the Global South’s Conflict and Peace Contexts
ROOM	Gallery 2	MBG3	Leighton Hall	MBG5	MBG6	MAT102
Chair	Ms Melissa Conley Tyler	Dr Meighen McCrae	Professor Joanne Wallis	Student Volunteer	Dr Jayson Waters	Ms Shadi Rouhshahbaz
1245 – 1300	Roundtable Participants: A/Professor Danielle Chubb Ms Melissa Conley Tyler Professor Maria Rost Rublee Professor Rebecca Strating Dr Daniel Veloza-Franco Jane Hardy	The Ethical Implications of Colonial Echoes Professor Luke Glanville	Roundtable Participants: Professor Joanne Wallis Professor Jack Corbett Professor Shahar Hameiri Ms Maima Koro Mr William Waqavakatoga Dr Henrietta McNeill Priestley Habru Dr Kerryn Baker Dr Liam Moore	Drivers of Changes and Continuities in Indonesia’s South China Sea Strategy Mr Muhamad Arif	Three Roads to Quantum International Relations: Metaphors, Metaphysics, Mathematics, and the Future of QIR Dr Jayson Waters	Between posts and peace: Methodological Reflections on Studying Youth Digital Peacebuilding in post-peace accord Colombia Ms Maria Margarita Ochoa Diaz
1300 – 1315		Appeasement Beyond Munich: From Case Study to Concept Dr Benjamin Zala		Navigating Great Power Competition: Nauru’s Diplomatic Strategy in the Pacific Mr Stephen Kei	Grasping the Speed of Global Politics: a Quantum Analysis of the Effects of Social Media Livestreaming, Ms Yuting He	“They think researchers come and ask questions – and they disappear.” Research Ethics and Trust-Building with young anti-junta activists from Myanmar Mr Lukas Nagel
1315 – 1330		Deploying solidarity in international relations Ms Meredith Okell		A Cautiously Concerned Witness: Why Japanese Policymakers Are Treading with Subtlety and Nuance to Democracy and Human Rights Crises in Asia Dr Emily Chen	Spooky Action in Diplomacy: A Quantum Lens for Decision-Making in International Relations Mr Yiyang Xu	Young People Shaping Southeast Asian Peace Ms Erika Isabel Yague
1330 – 1345		Discussion		Discussion	Towards a Quantum Constructivist IPE: Incompatible Beliefs and the Limits to Change Professor Wesley Widmaier	Discussion
1345 – 1400					Discussion
1400 – 1415					Discussion
Theme	ROUNDTABLE Imagining Radically Transformed Futures	PAPERS Ethics and Atrocity Prevention	PAPERS Higher Education and International Engagement
ROOM	Gallery 1	MAT104	Gonski
Chair	Prof. Kirsten Ainley	Student Volunteer	Student Volunteer
1245 – 1300	Roundtable Participants: Professor Kirsten Ainley Ms Nadia Degregori Dr Annabel Dulhunty Ms Isabelle Zhu-Maguire	Jus ad vim and the use of military force in hybrid cases: Re(s)training the ‘warrior mindset’ Dr Shannon Ford	Pedagogy for a broken world Dr Vafa Ghazavi
1300 – 1315		Caution to avert catastrophe: constitutive luck and war Mr Tuukka Kaikkonen	International Studies Graduates: where are they and what are they doing? Dr Sharon Aris, Ms Alexis Monardo
1315 – 1330		Discussion	Higher Education Institutions & the Depoliticization of Diplomacy Dr Diane Stone
1330 – 1345			What might Global Citizenship Education have to do with Empire? Dr April Biccum
1345 – 1400			Discussion
1400 – 1415			Discussion
1415 – 1445	Afternoon Tea
1445 – 1615	CONCURRENT SESSION 8
Theme	PAPERS International Organisations, Crises, and Gender	ROUNDTABLE Between Rights and Rightfulness: Regulating gender and violence in the Pacific Islands	PANEL The Potential of Everyday Peace in a time of Polycrises	ROUNDTABLE Militarised (re)currents: Geopolitical rivalry and hypermasculinity contests in Asia and the Pacific	PAPERS Ecosystems and Sustainability	ROUNDTABLE How State Violence perpetuates and enables Violence against Women: Experiences and Responses
ROOM	MBG3	Leighton Hall	MBG4	Gallery 1	MBG5	Gallery 2
Chair	Student Volunteer	A/Prof. Nicole George	Dr Helen Berents	Dr Maria Tanyag	Student Volunteer	Professor Bina D’Costa
1445 – 1500	Agents and Structures 2.0: New Approaches for the “Middle Range Theory” Gap in Understanding IO Performance Dr Kim Moloney	Roundtable Participants: A/Professor Nicole George Professor Laura Shepherd Ms Maima Koro Dr Nayahamui Rooney Professor Simon Batterbury A/Professor Damian Grenfell	Resilience, memory, and everyday peace in Mindanao Dr Primitivo Ragandang	Roundtable Participants: Dr Maria Tanyag Professor Bethan Greener Mr Romitesh Kant Dr Samanthi Gunawardana Dr Henrietta McNeill	The extractive and exploitative dynamics of the ‘post-conflict green state’ Mr Tom Cavanagh	Roundtable Participants: Dr Zoe Bell Professor Bina D’Costa Ms Queenie Tomaro Dr Helen Stenger Dr Phyu Phyu Oo
1500 – 1515	Club of the (not necessarily) Rich: OECD enlargement & the case of Brazil A/Professor Deborah Barros Leal Farias		Beyond Everyday Peace: Conceptualising ‘Foundational Peacebuilding’ Dr Caitlin Mollica		The Evolving Hazardous Waste Trade International Regime Complex for Global Plastics Governance Dr Babet de Groot
1515 – 1530	Discussion		Bottom-up environmental peacebuilding: A qualitative comparative analysis of conditions for communal cooperation in Somalia Mr Osman Jama		Stratospheric solar geoengineering’s impacts on security: a review of causal claims Dr Jonathan Symons, Professor Matt McDondald
1530 – 1545			Discussion		Impact Assessment of Housing and Resettlement of Sendong Survivors in Iligan City and Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines: Its Implication to Sustainability Dr Sulpecia Ponce
1545 – 1605			Discussion		Discussion
1605 – 1615	Room Changeover
Theme	PAPERS Global Environmental Governance and International Law	PAPERS Climate Security and Justice	PANEL China as Hegemon: Narratives and Status Legitimation in Asia	PANEL The Politics of Inclusion: Expertise during Emergencies
ROOM	MBG6	Gonski	MAT102	MAT104
Chair	Student Volunteer	Student Volunteer	Professor Evelyn Goh	Dr Sara Davies
1445 – 1500	Strategic climate litigation in Pacific French overseas territories: What role for the law of the sea? Mr Ignacio Portela Giraldez	Climate Risks and Investor Perceptions: Trade Agreements as an Environmental Seal of Approval A/Professor Evgeny Postnikov, A/Professor Jonas Gamso	Embracing interdependence despite risks: Vietnam’s tolerance of economic interdependence with China Ms Hanh Nguyen	Blame games or good policymaking? Evaluating expert inclusion during COVID-19 Dr Diego Leiva
1500 – 1515	Critical Minerals and the International Order Professor Susan Park	Environmental Justice: Reshaping Sites and Modes of Global Environmental Governance Dr Kate O’Neill	How Ideas about Developmentalism in Myanmar and Laos Shape Elite Portrayal of Chinese Development Projects and Receptivity to Chinese Hegemony Mr Tommy Chai, Professor Evelyn Goh	Experts in Emergencies: risks, benefits, and scientific debate during COVID-19 Dr Jessica Kirk
1515 – 1530	Contesting global climate governance: an interpersonal trust perspective Dr Hai Yang	Let Them Pick Fruit’: Societal Security Discourse and Climate Migration Mr Benjamin Fullarton	Regional Power Bargains: How China and Indonesia Tap into Each Other’s Influence in Southeast Asia through Mutual Bargains on Infrastructure Investments Mr Emirza Adi Syailendra	Gender Expertise According to WHO Ms Mariel Dominique Verroya
1530 – 1545	Discussion	Discussion	Discussion	Asian Humanitarianism in wake of the Türkiye and Syria Earthquakes Ms Nanthini S.
1545 – 1605	Discussion	Discussion	Discussion	Discussion
1605 – 1615	Room Changeover
1615 – 1745	CLOSING PLENARY
	ROUNDTABLE US Foreign and Security under Donald J. Trump 2.0
Room	Leighton Hall
Chair	Dr Alexandra Homolar
	Roundtable Participants: Dr Alexandra Homolar Dr Brendon O’Connor Dr Lloyd Cox Dr Gorana Grgić Dr Timothy J. Lynch

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