Past Events

Learn how to consider the news potential of your expertise, how to look for story hooks and angles from the news, how to write a quality story pitch to section editors, and other advice. We will explain how The Conversation works, the benefits of writing for the public and how to go about it.

The Stop Cop City movement represents a convergence of racial justice, anarchism, and environmentalism. Activists employ a diversity of tactics to halt the construction of an unwanted police training facility, with canvassers, litigators, and civil resistors sharing space with rioters and arsonists. Based on participant observation and dozens of interviews collected in the movement’s forest…

In the decades following the 9/11 attacks, complex webs of anti-terrorism laws have come into play across the world promising to protect ordinary citizens from bombings, hijackings and other forms of mass violence. But are we really any safer? Has freedom been secured by active deployment of state power, or fatally undermined? In his recent…

Aimed at research students and early career researchers in the UK, this talk from Atifa Jiwa, Senior Commissioning Editor in Politics and International Relations, Bloomsbury Academic will provide an overview of things to consider when looking to publish a PhD thesis. The session will provide an outline of the work of Bloomsbury Politics and International…

To mark the 30th anniversary of the Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence, the roundtable will provide an opportunity to hear from new researchers at the forefront of their field to explore how questions of interdisciplinarity, ideology, diversity, and technology are shaping current and future research. The roundtable will also discuss…

In this talk, Rabea Khan discusses the dominant narrative that has produced the so-called Religious Terrorism Thesis, i.e. the popular assumption that terrorism at its worst and most dominant form is always religious. Rabea shows how this dominant narrative about ‘religious terrorism’s’ uniquely dangerous character builds on colonial knowledge and assumptions about ‘religion’ in the…