Everything is a story, a narrative, a sequence of events...
We only accept as true what can be narrated.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Talks & Presentations
2021
Research Seminar (Politics), 23 February, School of Economics & Political Science, University of St. Gallen
Understanding Rising Power Identities and Interests: The Case of India, 1980-2020
Swiss Political Science Association, Annual Conference, Bern/Online, February 2021
Making Identity Count: Discourses of Indian National Identity, 1950-2020
2020
Research Seminar (Politics), 17 November, School of Economics & Political Science, University of St. Gallen
Substantive Aspirations Beyond the Process: Meanings of Democracy in Brazil, India, UK, and US
Guest Lecture, 28 October 2020, Hawai'i Pacific University
'Making Identity Count: Discourses of Indian National Identity, 1950-2010' for a graduate seminar, PSCI6661 Terrorism and Political Violence
Identities Cluster Research Seminar, 20 October, Asia Research Institute, NUS
'Substantive Aspirations Beyond the Process: Meanings of Democracy in Brazil, India, UK, and US'
European Consortium of Political Research, 24-28 August 2020, Virtual General Conference
'Substantive Aspirations Beyond the Process: Meanings of Democracy in Brazil, India, UK, and US', with Isabella Franchini
'Leading with Words: Crisis Leadership in Comparative Perspective', with Isabella Franchini and Ce Liang
British International Studies Association, 17-19 June 2020, Newcastle-upon-Tyne**
'The Logic of Prudence', as part of a panel titled 'Interpretivist approaches to IR theory'
'Rising Power Identities and Role Performance: Brazil and India in Global Environmental Governance ', with Isabella Franchini and Simon Herr, as part of a panel titled 'Environmental Harm and Justice'
'Anger, Fear, and (Un)Certainty: Exploring the Cognitive Consequences of Emotions in Decision Making', as part of a panel titled, 'War, emotion and foreign policy'
[**Cancelled due to Covid-19]
International Studies Association Annual Convention, 25-28 March 2020. Honolulu 2020**
'The Logic of Prudence' , Thursday, 26 March 2020, 12:15 – 2:00 p.m. (Panel TC53)
'Rising Power Identities and Role Performance: Brazil and India in Global Environmental Governance ', Saturday, 28 March 2020, 4:15 – 6:00 p.m. (Panel SE49)
[**Cancelled due to Covid-19]
‘Domestic Identity and International Security’, 19 February 2020
Department of International Relations and Governance Studies, Shiv Nadar University, India
2019
‘A Theory of Prudent Judgment for Foreign Policy Decision-Making’
British International Studies Association, General Conference, London, June 2019
School of Economics & Political Science, University of St. Gallen, April 2019
International Studies Association, Annual Convention, Toronto, March 2019
Swiss Political Science Association, Annual Conference, Zurich, February 2019
2017
‘Doing Archival Research’
Archival Research Skills Panel, 12th Singapore Graduate Forum on Southeast Asian Studies, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, July 2017
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