September Update #2 (I know, it's October now...but it was a busy month!)
All booked up for Chicago at the beginning of March - panel proposal accepted at ISA 2025 and also joining a review panel of Georg Loefflmann's new book.
Particularly excited about the panel I'm convening on Popular Culture and IR with a great line-up of colleagues:
Title: "It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)": Popular Culture, Global Politics, and the Generation of IR Knowledge
Abstract: This panel aims to address one of the central questions of the 2025 ISA Conference theme: How can international studies contribute to policy-relevant scholarship and also cultivate a knowledgeable and engaged citizenry? It seeks to do so by exploring inter-disciplinary scholarship that interrogates the co-constitutive relationship between world leaders, policymakers, popular culture outputs and activities, and citizens globally. How do people experience international relations in their everyday lives? What role is played by representations of international politics and global affairs in cultural outputs and activities? Does the exposure of audiences globally to international relations related ideas and scenarios in films, television programmes, popular music, video games, novels, comic books, internet memes, football terrace chants, and other cultural products help to cultivate an engaged and knowledgeable citizenry, or does it breed disengagement? How do cultural representations and exchanges impact policymakers and the discourses they construct to sell policies to each other and their publics? What role does 'celebrity' play? This panel reconnects a diverse group of scholars working on disparate yet interconnected aspects of culture and IR to deepen the conversation around the relevance of popular culture in international studies and its ability to generate IR knowledge.
https://lnkd.in/eziChXVu