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  1. If it's not a bug, it's a feature: how the normalisation of hate speech has made games vulnerable to extremism

    If it's not a bug, it's a feature: how the normalisation of hate speech has made games vulnerable to extremism

    Guest speaker: Dr Rachel Kowert, Research Psychologist

    What happens when hate speech becomes so routine in a cultural space that it's treated as unremarkable background noise? This talk will examine how...

  2. Military effectiveness and the rise of military professionalism under Louis XIV

    Military effectiveness and the rise of military professionalism under Louis XIV

    the Artillery -- Cutting Edge or Laggard? with guest speaker Guy Rowlands

    Few historians bandying around the terms 'military professional' and 'military professionalism' have given much space to explaining what...

  3. Book launch -- Framing the First World War: How Divergent Views Shaped a Global Conflict

    Book launch -- Framing the First World War: How Divergent Views Shaped a Global Conflict

    ISWS Book Launch Event

    Book launch -- Framing the First World War: How Divergent Views Shaped a Global Conflict Edited by Michael Finch, Aimée Fox & David Morgan-Owen...

  4. Non-violent mobilisation against terrorism: why and how it matters

    Non-violent mobilisation against terrorism: why and how it matters

    Guest Speakers: Dr Javier Argomaniz, Dr Tim Wilson and Dr Boris Tsokov

    When studying terrorist campaigns, analysis typically centres on the two principal protagonists: the state and militant organisations. This narrow focus...

  5. Far-Right Transnationalism: From Ideology to Operations Across Spontaneous, Induced, and Infiltrated

    Far-Right Transnationalism: From Ideology to Operations Across Spontaneous, Induced, and Infiltrated

    CSTPV Online Seminar with guest speaker Dr Nicola Guerra

    Research on the contemporary far right has largely prioritised party-centred and electorally driven explanations, often overlooking the ideological,...

  6. Prospects for International Security Cooperation in East Asia

    Prospects for International Security Cooperation in East Asia

    Speaker: Professor Brendan M Howe, Graduate School of International Studies

    East Asia is a region deeply affected by conflict. Colonial, ideological and national wars have left their scars and legacies, including disputed borders and...

  7. Problems of negotiating peace and development in conflict-affected societies in Southeast Asia

    Problems of negotiating peace and development in conflict-affected societies in Southeast Asia

    Speaker: Professor Brendan Howe, Graduate School of International Studies

    This event is open to academic staff and MLitt students only. Southeast Asia is deeply affected by conflict and conflictual legacies, whether colonial, Cold...

  8. Dunkirk in Korea: On the Transwar Histories of Battle Imaginaries

    Dunkirk in Korea: On the Transwar Histories of Battle Imaginaries

    Distinguished Scholar Lecture with special guest speaker Professor Tarak Barkawi

    The battle of Dunkirk, the evacuation of British and French troops from France in May and June 1940, hovered over the first year of the American war in Korea,...

  9. Fallout: the inside story of America's failure to disarm North Korea

    Fallout: the inside story of America's failure to disarm North Korea

    Guest speaker: Distinguished Fellow Joel S Wit

    Joel S Wit is a former state department official with interesting and rare insights into negotiations on nuclear issues. His new book Fallout: The inside story...

  10. Songs of Stolen Children: Daughters of Donbas

    Songs of Stolen Children: Daughters of Donbas

    An afternoon of music, discussion and conversations from Ukraine

    Daughters of Donbas, led by the Ukrainian human rights activist, Marichka, will be performing in St Andrews as part of the group's Songs of Stolen...