Engagement & Public Speaking ​

2023

EUROPEAN WORKSHOPS IN INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
Invited workshop participant: “Co-Design with Young People for Peace Pedagogy", Workshop on Young People and the Production of World Politics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, July 2023.

LAW AND SOCIETY ASSOCIATION (LSA)
Invited panelist: “The Feeling Rules of Humanitarian Negotiations with Armed Groups”, Panel on Sentiment, Affect and International Justice; Chair: Panel on Divergent Legal Emotions; Annual Conference of the Law and Society Association, San Juan, June 2023. 
INTERNATIONAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION (ISA)
Invited roundtable participant: “Civilian Self-Protection in High Stakes Situations of Crisis"; Invited panelist: "The Feeling Rules of Humanitarian Negotiations with Armed Groups"; Invited panelist: Participatory Action Research with Youth Displaced by War; Annual Conference of the International Studies Association, Montreal, March 2023.
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2022

UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY WEST POINT
Invited panelist: “The Pedagogical Life of International Humanitarian Law", Lieber Workshop, West Point, October 2022.

LAUTERPACHT CENTRE FOR INTERNATIONAL LAW (CAMBRIDGE)
Invited panelist: “Fresh Approaches to IHL Scholarship", Panel on New Critical Engagements with Humanitarian Law and Criminal Justice, Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge, Cambridge/Virtual, March 2022.
MANCHESTER INTERNATIONAL LAW CENTRE (MANCHESTER)
Invited Lecture: "The Humanitarian Civilian and the Role of Emotions in IHL", Manchester International Law Centre, University of Manchester, Manchester, February 2022.

2021

GENERATING RESPECT PROJECT (YORK UNIVERSITY)
Invited Roundtable Speaker: "Civilian Engagement with IHL", Religious Actors and Humanitarian Norms Compliance, Generating Respect Project, York University, York/Virtual, December 2021.

GHANDHI RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES (READING)
Invited lecture: "IHL from the Bottom-Up", Program on International Law and Armed Conflict, Ghandhi Research Seminar Series, Global Law at Reading, University of Reading, Reading/Virtual, November 2021.

HARVARD LAW SCHOOL (PILAC)
Invited lecture: "The Humanitarian Civilian", Program on International Law and Armed Conflict, Harvard Law School, Cambridge/Virtual, November 2021. Recording available here.

GENEVA GRADUATE INSTITUTE
Invited lecture: "The Humanitarian Civilian", International Law Colloquium Series, Geneva Graduate Institute, Geneva/Virtual, October 2021. 

​HAGUE INITIATIVE FOR LAW AND ARMED CONFLICT (HILAC) 
Invited lecture: “The Humanitarian Civilian”, T.M.C Asser Institute/HILAC Lecture, The Hague (virtual), September 2021. Recording available here.

LAW AND SOCIETY ASSOCIATION (LSA)
Invited panelist: “Student Experiences of the Jean Pictet IHL Role-Play Competition”, Panel on the Role of Emotion in Legal and Social Change, Annual Conference of the Law and Society Association, Chicago (virtual), May 2021. 
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD/UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH 
​Book launch: "The Humanitarian Civilian", Joint book launch by the Centre for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC) at the University of Oxford and the Edinburgh Centre for International and Global Law (ECIGL), Edinburgh (virtual), May 2021. Recording available here.

BRITISH INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE LAW (BIICL) 
Invited panelist: "Emotions, Character, and IHL Pedagogy in Humanitarian Protection Work" (Co-presented with Emily Paddon Rhoads), Teaching International Law Series, Virtual, March 2021.

MAURER SCHOOL OF LAW, INDIANA UNIVERSITY BLOOMINGTON
Invited lecture: "How the Emotions and Perceptual Judgments of Frontline Actors Shape the Implementation of International Humanitarian Law", Seminar Series on the Edward Elgar Handbook on Law and Emotions, Maurer School of Law, February 2021.

​UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK RADICAL MOOTING DISCUSSION 
​Invited lecture: "The Potential of Radical Mooting for Critical Law: Kawaskimhon and the Jean Pictet IHL Moot", CLAW Radical Mooting Discussion Event, University of Warwick, January 2021.

2020

BRITISH ACADEMY/CIFAR KNOWLEDGE FRONTIERS SYMPOSIUM
​Invited participant: "Knowledge Frontiers Symposium on Security”, Symposium for UK and Canada-based early career academics hosted by the British Academy and CIFAR, Ottawa/Virtual, November-December 2020.
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UNIVERSITY OF LEIDEN
Invited panelist: “Empathy, Humanitarian Protection and International Humanitarian Law”, Workshop on Behavioral Approaches to International Law, University of Leiden, Leiden (virtual), November 2020.

TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE RESEARCH GROUP, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
Invited lecture: “Popular Justice Practices and (Self-) Protection in Displacement Settings”, Weekly Seminar, Transitional Justice Research Group, University of Oxford, February 2020.

2019

SLSA SOCIO-LEGAL MASTERCLASS 
Invited lecture: "Is it Ethnography? Methodological Tales about Interviews and Observations from a Multi-Sited Socio-Legal Study", Annual Socio-Legal Masterclass of the Socio-Legal Studies Association, University of Oxford, July 2019.
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LAW AND SOCIETY ASSOCIATION (LSA)
Panel organizer & panelist: “The Humanitarian Actor as Ex-Girlfriend: Feelings and Perceptions in Humanitarian-Military Relations”, Emotions & International Law panel, Annual Conference of the Law and Society Association, Washington, May 2019.

GLASGOW-EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL LAW WORKSHOP
Invited panelist: “The Pedagogical Life of International Humanitarian Law: How the Idea of Distinction Circulates in Civil-Military Training Spaces”, Inaugural Edinburgh-Glasgow International Law Workshop, Edinburgh Law School, April 2019. 

INTERNATIONAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION (ISA)
Invited panelist: “How the Emotions and Perceptions of International Actors Shape International Law and Civilian Protection”, Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association (ISA), Toronto, March 2019.

​REFUGEE STUDIES CENTRE, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
Invited expert: The Future of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford, Oxford, February 2019.
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BRITISH RED CROSS/UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM
Guest speaker: “Media Professionals as Civilians under International Humanitarian Law”, British Red Cross/University of Nottingham Student Event on Journalism and War, Nottingham, January 2019.

INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL LAW & POLICY, HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Invited participant: Institute for Global Law and Policy (IGLP) Scholar’s Workshop, Harvard Law School, Bangkok, Thailand, January 2019.

2018

EUI CIVILIAN SELF-PROTECTION WORKSHOP
Invited speaker: “Humanitarian Distinction Practices as a Form of Civilian Self-Protection", Civilian Self-Protection Workshop, European University Institute, Florence, December 2018.

TMC ASSER MASTERCLASS ON SOCIO-LEGAL METHODS
Invited participant: “Methodological Questions in Socio-Legal Studies of International Law”, Master Class on Socio-Legal Methods, TMC Asser Institute, The Hague, November 2018.

GEVEVA GRADUATE INSTITUTE WORKSHOP ON KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION
Invited panelist: “How the Emotions and Perceptional Judgments of International Actors Shape the Implementation of International Humanitarian Law”, Panel on Emotions and International Law, The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, September 2018.
 LAW AND SOCIETY ASSOCIATION (LSA)
Invited panelist: “The Encounters of International Humanitarian Actors”, Panel on Encounters, Practices, and the Making of International Law, ​Annual Conference of the Law and Society Association, Toronto, June 2018.

CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL LAW JOURNAL
Invited panelist: “How International Humanitarian Actors Produce IHL’s Civilian in their Everyday Practices”, 7th Annual Conference of the Cambridge International Law Journal, Non-State Actors in International Law, University of Cambridge, April 2018.

​2017 and earlier

UK CONFLICT RESEARCH SOCIETY CONFERENCE
Invited panelist: “The Self-Protection of Civilians in South Sudan” (with Emily Paddon Rhoads), UK Conflict Research Society Conference on Ending Violence in Turbulent Times, University of Oxford, Sept 2017. 

FORDAM LAW SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LAW WEEKEND
Invited panelist: “Is there a Spectrum of Civilians in IHL?”, Emerging Voices Panel, International Law Weekend, Fordham Law School, New York, October 2016.

HISTORICIZING INTERNATIONAL LAW, UPPSALA UNIVERSITY
Invited panelist: “Perceptions, Civil-Military Relations, and IHL”, Emotional Warfare and its Limits Panel, Conference on Historicizing International Law, Uppsala University, Sweden, October 2016.

MELBOURNE LAW SCHOOL EARLY CAREER WORKSHOP
Invited speaker: “Struggles with Distinction: How Humanitarians Produce the Civilian”, presented at the Melbourne Law School Laureate Program in International Law Early Career Workshop, Melbourne, August 4, 2016.
CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF LAW TEACHERS
Invited panelist: “Teaching International Humanitarian Law: Whose Law is it Anyway?”, Canadian Association of Law Teachers Annual Conference, Calgary, May 31, 2016.

CANADIAN LAW AND SOCIETY ASSOCIATION
Invited panelist: “The Relationship between Humanitarian Actors and the Victims of War”, Canadian Law and Society Association Annual Conference, Calgary, May 28, 2016.

TRUDEAU/GOODENOUGH SEMINAR ON DIVERSITY
Panel Chair: “Addressing the International Crisis of Displacement”, Trudeau Foundation and Goodenough College Seminar on Diversity, Pluralism and the Future of Citizenship, London UK, February 2016.

CANADIAN COUNCIL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
Invited panelist: “Humanitarian Assistance in Armed Conflict: The Fragmentation of International Law”, Canadian Council on International Law 44th Annual Conference, Ottawa, November 2015.