Histories of Terrorism Conference
The Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at the University of St Andrews is hosting a major event in June 2026 on the Histories of Terrorism conference on 23 June. Given the upturn in historical scholarship on terrorism, the conference will be an opportunity to discuss how to better articulate the specificity and significance of a historical approach to the phenomenon.
The registration fee is £50. Please register through the University shop by Friday 5 June 2026.
University accommodation is available at a discounted rate in the David Russell Apartments, Buchanan Gardens, St Andrews, KY16 9LY.
If you have any questions about registration or accommodation, please contact David Garland at [email protected].
For other matters, the CSTPV can be reached at [email protected].
Programme for the conference
10am Welcome
10.15am Keynote Chair: Tim Wilson
Beatrice de Graaf (Utrecht): The forgotten decade of modern terrorism: how Metternich's security commissions constructed the threat of radicalization, 1818-1848
11.15am Break
11.30am Panel 1 Chair: Chris Millington
Kieran McConaghy (St Andrews): Rebel soldiers: British ex-servicemen in Irish Republican paramilitary groups
Natasia Kalajdziovski (Independent): Before the war on terror: the intelligence war against the IRA and the historical foundations of counterterrorism
12.30am to 1.30pm Lunch
1.30pm Panel 2 Chair: Tim Wilson
Lara Green (Erasmus University, Rotterdam): Terrorism and transimperial imaginaries: Russian and Irish revolutionaries in the 1880s
Michele Benazzo (Geneva): The Asian Youth Movement and street vigilantism: a case for re-evaluating small-scale violence in the European history of terrorism
2.30pm Break
2.45pm Panel 3 Chair: Chris Millington
Annelotte Janse and Graham Macklin (Fribourg and C-Rex, Oslo): Recovering far-right agency: historical methods and the internal perspective in the interdisciplinary field of far-right and terrorism studies
Simon Taylor (Durham): From Archive to analysis: methodological challenges in researching state terror
3.45pm Close