Critical Military Studies Working Group at 2024 BISA Conference

The Critical Military Studies Working Group is delighted in its very first year to sponsor 13 events at this year's #BISA2024 Annual Conference. Find out more details on the panels and roundtables below. We look forward to seeing many of you there and would love for many more of you to consider joining the conversation and the CMS Working Group overall #CMS@BISA2024

Wednesday, 5 June

09:00 → 10:30

Panel / Sexual violence in military institutions Exec 9, ICC

10:45 → 12:15

Panel / Gendered militaries and knowledges of war Room 101, Library

15:00 → 16:30

Roundtable / Recentring Harm in Critical Military Studies Drawing Room, Hyatt

Thursday, 6 June

09:00 → 10:30

Panel / Has “militarisation” had its day?  Concerto, Hyatt

10:45 → 12:15

Panel / Everyday Militarism Boardroom, The Exchange

13:15 → 14:45

Panel / Re-thinking and resisting in Critical Military Studies Drawing Room, Hyatt

15:00 → 16:30

Panel / Militarised childhoods and resistance in education Dhani Prem, The Exchange

16:45 → 18:15

Panel / Critical engagements with war and war labour Mary Sturge, The Exchange

Friday, 7 June

09:00 → 10:30

Panel / Evaluating the Intellectual Project of Critical Military Studies: its First Decade in Review Soprano, Hyatt

09:00 → 10:30

Panel / Sites and bodies of violence Dhani Prem, The Exchange

13:15 → 14:45

Panel / War and the Earth Exec 9, ICC

15:00 → 16:30

Panel / Securing the Institution, Securing the State: Militarised Ontological Security and Strategic Narratives Exec 1, ICC

16:45 → 18:15

Panel / Gendering the Military, Militarising Gender: Military Representations in Pop Culture and Social Media Room 102, Library

 

Wednesday, 5 June

09:00 → 10:30

Panel / Sexual violence in military institutions Exec 9, ICC

Convener: Harriet Gray (University of York)

Chair: Georgina Holmes (The Open University)

• What happens when good soldiers do rape? Making sense of sexual violence in the British military courts.

Author: Hannah Richards (Cardiff University)

• Understanding Female Veteran’s Experiences of Sexual Violence in the UK Armed Forces

Authors: Lauren Godier-McBard (Anglia Ruskin University) , Charlotte Herriott (Anglia Ruskin University)

• Peacekeeping Problems

Author: Emily Gee (University of Leeds)

• The Memorialisation of Military Gender-Based Violence: When is a counter-memorial not a counter-memorial?

Author: Harriet Gray (University of York)

 

10:45 → 12:15

Panel / Gendered militaries and knowledges of war Room 101, Library

Conveners: Hannah West (Newcastle University) , Naomi Head (University of Glasgow)

Chair: Synne L. Dyvik (University of Sussex)

• Visibly welcomed, invisibly undermined: British Female Engagement Teams in Afghanistan 2010-2014

Author: Hannah West (Newcastle University)

• Gendered knowledges and counterinsurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan

Author: Naomi Head (University of Glasgow)

• The Effects of Gendered and Ethnicised Conscription on Political and Civic Life: The Case of Israeli Circassian and Druze Citizens

Author: Marketa Odlova (Trinity College Dublin)

• “Women’s work” in the Ukrainian armed forces

Author: Jennifer Mathers (Aberystwyth University)

 

15:00 → 16:30

Roundtable / Recentring Harm in Critical Military Studies Drawing Room, Hyatt

Chair: Jamie Johnson (University of Leicester)

Participants: Victoria Basham (Cardiff University), Sarah Bulmer (University of Exeter), Hannah Richards (Bristol University), Owen Thomas (University of Exeter)

Thursday, 6 June

09:00 → 10:30

Panel / Has “militarisation” had its day?  Concerto, Hyatt

Conveners: Nick Caddick (Anglia Ruskin University), Sarah Bulmer

Chair: Owen Thomas (University of Exeter)

• Taking Militarizations Seriously: What a Focus on the Heterogeneity of Militarized Childhoods Reveals about a Contested Concept

Authors: Jana Tabak (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro)*, Victoria Basham (Cardiff University)

• Beyond Militarisation: The Fylingdales Archive revealing complex negotiations, diversity, and collaborations at RAF Fylingdales

Authors: Michael Mulvihill (Teesside University), Chloe Barker (Newcastle University)

• (Fifty) shades of militariness in contemporary Britain

Authors: Nick Caddick (Anglia Ruskin University), Sarah Bulmer

• Centering the transnational dynamics of militarization

Author: Eva Johais (Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI), Bergen)

• Ready to change? Exploring the possibility of unmaking militarised identities using an ontological security approach

Author: Tara Zammit (Kings College London)

 

10:45 → 12:15

Panel / Everyday Militarism Boardroom, The Exchange

Convener: Julia Welland (University of Warwick)

Chair: Julia Welland (University of Warwick)

• The banality of everyday militarism: A comparative analysis of the UK and Finland

Authors: Louise Ridden (Tampere University), Hannah Richards (Cardiff University)

• The pleasures and depletion of reproducing militarism in the military household

Author: Julia Welland (University of Warwick)

• Eating ourselves safe: intersections of food, militarisms, and national security in Sweden

Authors: Luise Bendfeldt (Uppsala University), Emily Clifford (Royal Holloway University of London)

• Performing Militarism: From Hegemonic to Public Discourse in Critical Military Studies

Author: Ellen Martin (University of Bristol)

• Gender, War and Narrative Force: the atmospherics of soldier story-telling and self-care

Author: Alexandra Hyde (University College London)

 

13:15 → 14:45

Panel / Re-thinking and resisting in Critical Military Studies Drawing Room, Hyatt

Convener: Nick Caddick (Anglia Ruskin University)

Chair: Nick Caddick (Anglia Ruskin University)

• Refusing to Support the Troops: Support, Disengagement, and Resistance on Online Discussion Forums

Author: Ellen Martin (University of Bristol)

• The Coloniality of the British Army: A Decolonial Framework

Authors: Sara de Jong (University of York), Nick Caddick (Anglia Ruskin University)

• “I never considered myself as a soldier”: Rethinking Agency and Militarized Identities

Authors: David Jackson (University of Exeter)*, Caroline Micklewright (University of Exeter)* , Sarah Bulmer (University of Exeter)

• Embracing discomfort: an emergent research agenda for reclaiming military-veteran research as careful, critical, creative encounters

Author: Laura Mills (University of St Andrews)

 

15:00 → 16:30

Panel / Militarised childhoods and resistance in education Dhani Prem, The Exchange

Convener: Sean Carter (University of Exeter)

Chair: Sean Carter (University of Exeter)

• The opportunities and challenges of zine-making as pedagogy: Critically engaging with militarism in the classroom

Author: Emma Huddlestone (University of East Anglia)

• British Army Supporting Education (BASE): Militarism and the reproduction of (in)securities in UK Schools

Authors: Natalie Jester (University of Gloucestershire), Emma Huddlestone (University of East Anglia)

• Exploring the intersection between militarism and peace in Ukraine’s educational landscape: "I Vote for Peace"

Authors: Allyson Edwards (Bath Spa University), Iryna Budz (International University of Economics and Humanities, Rivne.)* , Yanina Pocheniuk (International University of Economics and Humanities, Rivne.)* , Yesid Cubides (Bath Spa University)*

• Childhood, Museums and Curating War Games

Author: Sean Carter (University of Exeter)

• (Re)Making home after civil war: Exploring child soldiers’ reintegration imageries in the DRC

Author: Pauline Zerla (King's College London)

 

16:45 → 18:15

Panel / Critical engagements with war and war labour Mary Sturge, The Exchange

• Convener: Mirko Palestrino (Queen Mary University of London)

Chair: Mirko Palestrino (Queen Mary University of London)

• Late modern war and the geos

Authors: Henry Redwood (King's College London) , Mark Griffiths (Newcastle University)

• Battle Imaginaries in World Politics

Authors: Tarak Barkawi (Johns Hopkins University) , Shane Brighton (Queen's University Belfast)*

• War and military power from the perspective of work and labour

Authors: Joanna Tidy (University of Sheffield) , Elena Simon (University of Sheffield)

• ‘Sow the seeds of victory’: wartime gardening and the making of military victory

Author: Mirko Palestrino (Queen Mary University of London)

Friday, 7 June

09:00 → 10:30

Panel / Evaluating the Intellectual Project of Critical Military Studies: its First Decade in Review Soprano, Hyatt

Convener: Harriet Gray (University of York)

Chair: Harriet Gray (University of York)

Discussant: Joanna Tidy (University of Sheffield)

• Embodiment as an analytical category: an inquiry into the ten-year publication of the journal Critical Military Studies

Authors: Priscyll Anctil Avoine (Swedish Defence University)*, Bibi Imre-Millei (Lund University)

• Beyond Familiarity: The Evolving Role of Theories of Masculinities in Critical Military Studies

Author: Demet Asli Caltekin (Durham University)

• Critical Military Subjects? Reflections on critical thinking and thinking critically in Professional Military Education

Authors: Hannah West (Newcastle University), Malte Riemann (Leiden University)* , Sebastian Larsson (Swedish Defence University)* , Anna Danielson (Stockholm University)* , Norma Rossi (University of St Andrews)* , Annick T.R. Wibben (Swedish Defence University)*

 

09:00 → 10:30

Panel / Sites and bodies of violence Dhani Prem, The Exchange

Convener: Owen Thomas (University of Exeter)

Chair: Owen Thomas (University of Exeter)

• Moral Injury: A Theory of Sexual Violence Against Men in Counter-terrorism Operations

Authors: Emeka Njoku (University of Birmingham), Scott Romaniuk (Corvinus Institute for Advanced Studies (CIAS) Corvinus University of Budapest) , Isaac Dery (Simon Diedong Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies, Ghana)*

• Legitimating violence: military operations within Brazilian borders

Author: David Paulo Succi Junior (São Paulo State University)

• Epistemic violence in archives of war: thinking beyond transparency in British inquiries into the use of force

Authors: Owen Thomas (University of Exeter) , Margot Tudor (City, University of London)

• The Officers' Resurgence: Military-Militia Competition and the Eruption of Civil War in Sudan

Author: Yaniv Voller (University of Kent)

 

13:15 → 14:45

Panel / War and the Earth Exec 9, ICC

Conveners: Henry Redwood (King's College London) , Mark Griffiths (Newcastle University)

Chair: Mark Griffiths (Newcastle University)

• Concrete Impacts: Blast Walls, Wartime Emissions, and the US Occupation of Iraq

Author: Oliver Belcher (Durham University)

• Historicizing Ecological Martial Violence

Author: Joanna Tidy (University of Sheffield)

• War by Biodegradable Means? Towards a Political Ecology of Green Militarism

Author: Nico Edwards (University of Sussex)

• AUKUS and Deterrence-by-Resilience: Whose Deterrence?

Author: Sarah Tzinieris (King's College London)

 

15:00 → 16:30

Panel / Securing the Institution, Securing the State: Militarised Ontological Security and Strategic Narratives Exec 1, ICC

Conveners: Veronica Barfucci (University of Warwick) , Miklas Fahrenwaldt (University of Edinburgh)

Chair: Max Warrack (University of Warwick)

• Soldierly Ontological Anxiety and the Breakdown of Institutional Narratives about the US-Japan Alliance in the Military Anime “GATE”

Author: Miklas Fahrenwaldt (University of Edinburgh)

• Seeking Ontological Security through Overseas Military Deployment: Status and (Self)-Esteem in the Japan Self-Defense Forces

Author: Veronica Barfucci (University of Warwick)

• Evaluating tensions around inclusion and "operational effectiveness": ontological security, gendered military narratives, and the British Armed Forces

Author: Tara Zammit (King's College London)