27 March 2025
Departmental conference a platform for new research and ideas
The Department of European and International Studies Conference hosted its second annual conference this week.
The conference, held on 24 March, offered a platform for academics, PhD students and postgraduates from the department to share their research, take part in panel discussion and present ideas.
Each of the department’s research groups organised a panel, highlighting the diversity of research topics and methodologies. The conference was organised by PhD students, Claire Burchett and Kai Steemers.
The panels included:
André N.: 'Can capital deliver the energy transition? A critique of the political economy of renewable energy.'
Catherine Comyn: 'Cryptocurrency and Money as a Social Form'
Dr Benedetta Voltolini: 'Legal mobilisation in EU foreign policy: Comparing the case of Israel/Palestine and Morocco/Western Sahara.'
Professor Christoph Meyer: 'Future-thinking and future-making in European foreign and defence policy'
Matthew Lloyd and Dr Isabelle Hertner: 'LGBTQ+ liberation: When and why have political parties in the UK changed their policies?'
Ethan Scanlon: 'What's past is prologue' A comparative analysis of the weaponisation of the Classics in the narratives of Italian and American Far Right Groups 1945-2025.'
Dr Sevinc Bermek: 'Gender norms and electoral autocracies/ or in hybrid regimes illiberal democracies: Russia and Turkey’s instrumentalisation of traditionalist-modernist dichotomy for the authoritarian consolidation', and also: 'Stigmatising civil society to silence Womens' Voice: The Effect of "Putin-style" foreign agent laws on IPV justification and policy inaction.'
Professor Leila Simona Talani: 'Do immigrants steal our jobs?'