Professor Gearoid Millar will share two papers, serve as a discussant on two panels, and chair one panel at the 65th International Studies Association Annual Convention, in San Francisco.
Held between April 3 and 6, this year's conference theme is, Putting Relationality at the Centre of International Studies.
Responding to this, Prof. Millar's first paper, entitled, 'Culture, Structure, and Order: Implications for Interventionary Peace Work', will be presented on Thursday, April 4 on a panel that he will also chair.
Titled, Local Ordering and Peace: Trans-Scalar Approaches to Explaining Peace, the panel springs from the forthcoming Special Issue of Civil Wars that he is co-editing with Dr Florian Kuhn (University of Gothenburg) and Dr Christine Smith-Simonsen (UIT The Arctic University of Norway).
In the paper, Prof. Millar revisits his work on a potential 'Trans-Scalar Peace System' and questions whether it does justice to the inverse capacity of local orders to structure higher scale activity.
On Friday, April 5, Prof. Millar will present his second paper on a panel, Making Space for Peace, chaired by Professor Annika Bjorkdahl (Lund University).
I demonstrate how transdisciplinary peace research in several subfields, such as memory studies, gender studies, migration studies, have all contributed ideas and approaches to rethink peace, and it asks critical questions about where knowledge about peace and conflict is produced
Entitled, 'Nested Spaces? Locating Peace Work Within and Across Scales', the study considers how spatial approaches can inform or have been informed by other concepts, such as everyday peace, mobile peace, and urban peace.
By explaining how transdisciplinary peace research in several subfields have contributed ideas and approaches to rethink peace, Prof. Millar raises questions about where knowledge about peace and conflict is produced.
In addition to these activities, Prof. Millar will serve as discussant on the panels Critical Perspectives on Peace and Conflict Studies, chaired by Professor Jennifer Llewellyn (Dalhousie University) on Wednesday, April 3, and Relationality and Relational Space in (Post)-conflict Societies, chaired by Prof. Annika Bjorkdahl on Saturday, April 6.
For further information on the event, visit the Annual Convention program, here.