CGSC-EJIS Conference: Security in a time of 'polycrisis'?
- Date
- Thursday 18 - Friday 19 May, 2023
- Location
- University of Leeds
The Centre for Global Security Challenges and the European Journal of International Security are pleased to announce the 2023 Conference will be taking place on 18-19th May, 2023 (University of Leeds)
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Security in a Time of ‘Polycrisis’?
The term ‘polycrisis’ has gained prominence over recent years as a way of articulating the sum of the multiple, intersecting crises of our contemporary world. Interlocking environmental disasters, a global pandemic, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the potential for nuclear conflict are happening within entrenched and often entrenching structures of militarisation, exploitation and inequality. We live, according to this discourse, in an age of potential plural catastrophe. This age of polycrisis emphasises the importance of understanding how these multiple crises intersect and affect each other.
‘Security’ as a logic through which to comprehend and respond to this circumstance has been increasingly stretched while also becoming inescapable. As a concept, security rests on the drawing of lines between security/not security and security/insecurity. These lines have been critiqued for producing and reproducing imperial, gendered, racist, violent and exclusionary structures. But does an age of polycrisis dissolve even the ability to make the distinctions on which security as an organising logic relies?
The Centre for Global Security Challenges (University of Leeds) and the European Journal of International Security (British International Studies Association and Cambridge University Press) are pleased to announce a joint conference on the theme of ‘Security in a time of Polycrisis’. The conference will take place on 18-19th May 2023 at the University of Leeds.
Finding us in Leeds…
The conference will take place in the Newlyn Building, University of Leeds (24 Mount Preston Street, Woodhouse, Leeds, LS2 9ND). Details about getting to the University are available here.
For those travelling to Leeds from elsewhere, there are several accommodation options available in the city centre.
Any questions?
Please email Didar with any questions at pr16mdi@leeds.ac.uk
Conference programme
Thursday 18th May – Day one
Location: Newlyn Building SR1.07 |
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10am | Registration and Coffee (room LG.02)
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10.15am | Welcome |
10.30am-12.15pm | Panel 1: Security in a time of ‘polycrisis’ |
12.15-1.15pm | Lunch (will be provided) |
1.15-3pm | Panel 2: Everyday security |
3-3.15pm | Coffee break |
3.15-5pm | Panel 3: The global security politics of Russian foreign policy and the war in Ukraine
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5pm | Drinks reception |
Friday 19th May – Day two
Location: Newlyn Building SR1.07 |
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9.30-11.15am | Panel 4: Transnational inequalities |
11.15-11.30am | Coffee break |
11.30am-1.15pm | Panel 5a: CVE and policing |
11.30am-1.15pm | Panel 5b: Critical security * |
1.15-2pm | Lunch (will be provided) |
2-3.45pm | Panel 6: Environmental security |
*Panels 5b will take place in Newlyn Building LG.02
To reduce plastic waste, we will not be providing bottled water. Please bring your own bottle or reusable cup to fill at the water fountains on campus. We will also not print programmes. A QR code to access the final programme will be available in all conference rooms
Download the full programme (with speakers and paper titles) (pdf), File Download