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CGSC-EJIS Conference: Security in a time of 'polycrisis'?

Date
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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)

Click here to register for the conference

 

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

10am Registration and Coffee (room LG.02)

 

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

 

5pm Drinks reception

 

Friday 19th May – Day two

Location: Newlyn Building SR1.07

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