Talks and Presentations

Invited Talks and Lectures

• 2026Agentic Business AIs for Sustainability Workshop, University College Dublin
  Invited Speaker, “OMG Chat GPT, Chill Claude, Decide Gemini: Agentic Business AIs for Sustainability?!?”
• 2026PeaceRep Conference, University of Edinburgh
  Invited Speaker, Roundtable for PeaceTech Panel
• 2026Edinburgh Climate Coalition
  Invited Speaker (with Extinction Rebellion, Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, and ScotE3), “Environmental Protest and Climate Policy Strategy”
• 2026Working Across the Pond: Applying to Academic Positions in Europe, International Studies Association Annual Convention, Columbus, Ohio
  Panelist
• 2025Political Economy of Climate and Environment (PECE), Vancouver, Canada
  Invited Presenter
• 2025International Summer Course on (Im)mobilities (ISCM), SOAS University of London
  Invited Seminar Convenor, “From Structural Violence to ‘Resource Wars’: The Climate Change, Conflict and Displacement Nexus”
• 2025Bridging the Gap: International Policy Summer Institute (IPSI), Washington, D.C.
  Bridging the Distance, an interactive data story, grew out of this program.
• 2025EPSA LLM Pre-Conference Workshop, Madrid, Spain
• 2025APSA Research Group
  Invited Participant, Advancing the Use of Computational Tools in Political Science
• 2025Junior Scholars in Quantitative Conflict Workshop Series
  Invited Talk, “Geography of Peace: Proximity and Success in Conflict Resolution”
• 2025Rebel Financing and Rebels’ Use of Economic Instruments for Rebel Governance Pre-Conference Workshop
  Presenter, “The Role of Militarized Mediators in Modern Insurgencies”
• 2025SPIRe Seminar Series, University College Dublin
  Invited Talk, “From Disaster to Dispute in the DRC: Climate’s Role in Resource Wars”
• 2024–2025PGR Methods Café, University of St Andrews
  Roundtable Discussant for Quantitative Methods
• 2024“Anthropocene” Ringvorlesung Lecture Series, Universität Basel
  Invited Lecture on Anthropocenic Mobilities
• 2024Violence, Instability, and Peace (VIP) Workshop
  Invited workshop of a project on humanitarian-based conflict mediation after displacement shocks
• 2024Progress, Pitfalls, and Promises of Political Science in Migration and Citizenship Research
  Inaugural APSA Virtual Research Meeting
• 2023Solutions to Environmental Problems (STEP): Climate Action
  Invited Speaker, “Migration-Preventative Adaptation Responses”
• 2023Back in Business: Bringing Firms into Global Local Networks of Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding, ISA Annual Convention, Montréal
  Invitation-only session
• 2022Journeys in World Politics, University of Iowa
  Sponsored by Women in Conflict Studies (WICS)
• 2022Ideas, Interests, Institutions, & Nation-State Climate Politics: Mitigators, Adapters, & Mitigator-Adapters Workshop, Tulane University

Invited Talks, 2023–2025

Harvard Law School, University of Oxford (Lady Margaret Hall and Campion Hall), University of Pennsylvania, Brown University, University of California Berkeley, Northwestern University, University of Edinburgh, King’s College London, Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin, University of Zurich, University of Essex, University of Strathclyde, University of St Andrews, University of Oregon, and Lafayette College.

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Conference Presentations

• 2026ESOC-ReCIPE Annual Meeting, Empirical Studies of Conflict Project and CEPR ReCIPE Programme, University of Chicago in Paris and Paris School of Economics
• 2026CCEW Symposium, Conflict Early Warning in Times of Power Competition: Limits and Challenges, Center for Crisis Early Warning (KompZ KFE), Universität der Bundeswehr München, Berlin
• 2026Interdisciplinary Workshop on Climate Change, Natural Resources, and Conflict, Milan, Italy
• 2026Southern Political Science Association (SPSA)
• 2026Conference-within-a-Conference, Shifting Sands and Uncharted Waters: Navigating Political and Policy Changes Amid Complex Crises and Disasters, SPSA
• 2025Political Methodology (PolMeth) Europe
  Watch the poster walkthrough (LSE Methodology)
• 2024Causal Data Science Meeting (CDSM)
• 2024Conference on Advanced Research Methods and Analytics (CARMA), 6th Meeting on Internet & Big Data in Economics & Social Sciences
• 2022–American Political Science Association (APSA), 2022, 2023, 2024 (virtual and in person), 2025 (virtual and in person), 2026
• 2024–European Political Science Association (EPSA) & European Political Science Society (EPSS), 2024, 2025, 2026
• 2023, 2026Empirical Studies of Conflict (ESOC) Annual Meeting
• 2018–International Studies Association (ISA), 2018, 2022, 2024, 2025, 2026
• 2018–2023Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA), Chicago, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023