Centre for Security Studies
The Centre for Security Studies (CSS) is a multidisciplinary research centre based at Loughborough University. Located within Politics and International Studies, in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities, the centre brings together researchers from across the university to analyse emerging security challenges from a mix of innovative, cross-disciplinary perspectives. Our research expertise cuts across five principal thematic areas:
Events
| Event | Speaker | Title | Date | Room | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Invited speaker | Prof Richard Jackson (University of Otago) | A (Pacifist) Case for Military Abolition | 11 October 2023 | CC110 or online | 15:00-16:30 |
Past events (2021-22)
| Event | Speaker | Title | Date | Room | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seminar series | Nina Jorden, Dr Dan Sage and Dr Chris Zebrowski | Communications in Crisis: The Politics of Information-Sharing in the UK’s Covid-19 response | 13 October 2021 | Online | 14:00-15:00 |
| Invited Speaker | Dr Illan Rua Wall (Warwick University) | The State of Unrest: Affect, Emotion and Civil (Dis)Order | 10 November 2021 | Online | 14:00-15:00 |
| Seminar series | Dr Guy Aitchison | Suicide Protest (Cancelled due to Industrial Action) | 1 December 2021 | Online | 14:00-15:00 |
| Invited Speaker | Dr Lesley Masters (Nottingham Trent University) | On the Pillars of Pan-Africanism | 23 February 2022 | Online | 14:00-15:00 |
| Seminar series | Dr Guy Aitchison | Suicide Protest (Cancelled due to Industrial Action) | 16 March 2022 | Online | 14:00-15:00 |
Past events (2020-21)
| Event type | Speaker | Event details | Time & date | Room |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seminar series | Professor Michael Henshaw | TBC | 14:00-15:00 28 October 2020 |
Online |
| Invited Speaker | Professor Morten Bøås, Norwegen Institute of Intrernational Affairs | "The EU, migration management and state fragility in Niger: How unintended consequences can undermine fine-tuned domestic elite political compromises" | 14:00-15:00 18 November 2020 |
Online |
| Seminar series | Professor Paul Thomas | "TOXI-Triage" | 14:00-15:00 9 December 2020 |
Online |
| Seminar series | Dr Hannah Partis-Jennings | "The Military-Peace Complex: Gender and Materiality in Afghanistan" | 13:00-14:00 10 February 2021 |
Online |
| Seminar series | Professor Caroline Kennedy-Pipe | "On the pacifism of Vera Brittain" | 14:00-15:00 March 10 2021 |
Online |
| Invited Speaker | Professor Caron Gentry (University of St. Andrews) | "Disordered Violence: Why Right-Wing Terrorism Has Always Been Misogynist Terrorism" | 15:00-16:00 19 May 2021 |
Online |
Past events (2019-20)
| Event type | Event details | Time & date | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
| General meeting | 13:00-14:00 30 September 2019 |
K109 (Manzoni Building) | |
| Seminar Series | Dr Ksenia Chmutina - "Disaster Risk Reduction or Disaster Risk Production?" | 13:00-14:00 9 October 2019 |
K109 (Manzoni Building) |
| Seminar Series | Dr Guy Aitchison - "Hunger strikes and the ethics of self-destructive resistance" | 13:00-14:00 5 February 2020 |
K109 (Manzoni Building) |
| Seminar Series | Dr Brian Jarvis - "Inside ’The Circle’: exploring the digital panopticon" | 13:00-14:00 26 Feburary 2020 |
K109 (Manzoni Building) |
| Seminar Series | (CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19) Prof Paul Thomas - "TOXI-Triage" | 13:00-14:00 18 March 2020 |
K109 (Manzoni Building) |
| Seminar Series | (CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19) Prof Michael Henshaw - TBC | 11:00-12:30 6 May 2020 |
K109 (Manzoni Building) |
| Invited Speaker | Dr Marsha Henry (LSE) - "Critical Interventions: Accounting Theoretical Inheritance and Debt in Peacekeeping Studies" |
14:00-16:00 |
Online |
Past events (2018-19)
| Event | Speaker | Title | Date | Room | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seminar Series | Imogen Lambert | "The Syrian Uprising and the Communication of Events" | 22 May 2019 | K109 (Manzoni Building) | 13:00-14:00 |
| Seminar Series | Alexandre Christoyannopoulos | "The Creeping Militarisation of the Poppy: A Tolstoyan Reading of the Evolution of British War Remembrance" | 15 May 2019 | K109 (Manzoni Building) | 13:00-14:00 |
| Public Lecture | Andrew Neal (University of Edinburgh) | "Security as politics: beyond the state of exception" | 8 May 2019 | SCH101 (Schofield Building) | 13:00-14:30 |
| Seminar Series | Ali Bilgic | "Who is entitled to feel in the age of populism?: Women Resistance to Migrant Detention in Britain" | 6th March 2019 | K109 (Manzoni Building) | 13:00-14:00 |
| General meeting | 27th February | K105 (Manzoni) | 12:00-13:00 | ||
| Seminar Series | Hannah Partis-Jennings | "Absence and Contestation: The Politics of Disappearances in Sri Lanka" | 6th February 2019 | K109 (Manzoni Building) | 13:00-14:00 |
| Public Lecture | Clemens Hoffmann (University of Stirling) | "Beyond Securitising Nature and Environmental Determinism: Nature as a Social Relation in the Middle East" | 12 December 2018 | K109 (Manzoni Building) | 13:00-14:00 |
| Seminar Series | Caroline Kennedy-Pipe | "The state of War" | 14 November 2018 | K109 (Manzoni Building) | 16:30 - 18:00 |
| Seminar Series | James Rogers | "‘They Were Ingenious Little Devils’: Remembering the First Cluster Bomb and its Use on Civilians" | 14 November 2018 | K109 (Manzoni Building) | 13:00-14:00 |
| Workshop | Christina Oelgemoller | Abstract Writing and Review Workshop | 31 October 2018 | K109 (Manzoni Building) | 13:00-14:00 |
Past events (2017-18)
| Event | Speaker | Title | Date | Room | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Public Lecture | James Sidaway (National University of Singapore) | Securing urbanization’s multiple frontiers: a view from Yangon, Myanmar (co-hosted with LUNN) |
17 May 2018 | K105 (Manzoni Building) | 15:00- 16:00 |
| Seminar Series | Ali Bligic | A Human Security Perspective on Migration: A Compass in the Perfect Storm (Eventbrite registration) | 4 May 2018 | LDN.1.04, Loughborough University London | 17:00-18:00 |
| Workshop | Christina Oelgemoller | Abstract Writing and Review Workshop | 2 May 2018 | K109 (Manzoni Building) | 13:00-14:00 |
| General Meeting | "CSIG in London away day" | 4 May 2018 | LDN.1.04, Loughborough University London | 13:00-16:00 | |
| Seminar Series | Paolo Cossarini | "People’s quest for sovereignty? Victimisation, humiliation, and banal populism in the Spanish/Catalan clash" | 25 April 2018 | K109 (Manzoni Building) | 13:00-14:00 |
| Workshop | Chris Zebrowski | "Reflecting CSIG in our Teaching" | 18 April 2018 | K109 (Manzoni Building) | 13:00-14:00 |
| Workshop | Giulia Piccolino | “Grant application review session” | 14 March 2018 | K109 (Manzoni Building) | 13:00-14:00 |
| Seminar Series | Christos Kourtelis | 'The EU's normative power as hegemony in the EU's neighbourhood policy' | 21 February 2018 | K109 (Manzoni Building) | 13:00-14:00 |
| General meeting | Nicola Chelotti | “Diplomacy and International Governance theme discussion” | 07 February 2018 | K109 (Manzoni Building) | 13:00-14:00 |
| General meeting | Giulia Piccolino | “Peace and Conflict theme discussion” | 13 December 2017 | K109 (Manzoni Building) | 13:00-14:00 |
| General meeting | Giulia Picolino | The consequences of rebel governance : preliminary results from Northern Cote d’Ivoire” | 13 December 2017 | K109 (Manzoni Building) | 12:00-13:00 |
| General meeting | Christina Oelgemoller | “International Political Theory theme discussion” | 15 November 2017 | K109 (Manzoni Building) | 13:00-14:00 |
| General meeting | Chris Zebrowski | “Crisis and Emergency Governance theme discussion” | 08 November 2017 | K109 (Manzoni Building) | 13:00-14:00 |
| Seminar Series | Phil Parvin | "Democracy without participation: A new politics for a disengaged era" | 18 October 2017 | K109 (Manzoni Building) | 12:00-13:00 |
| Public Lecture | Eunice Romero Rivera (Open University of Catalonia) and Paolo Cossarini | "Catalonia’s independence: When nationalism and democracy clash" (link) | 17 October 2017 | U020 (Brockington Extension) | 13:00-15:00 |
| Public Lecture | Bissan Fakih (The Syria Campaign) | "The White Helmets" | 24 May 2017 | U020 (Brockington Extension) | 13:00-15:00 |