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Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Talks & Presentations

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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