Elisa D’Amico

Talks and Presentations

Invited Talks and Lectures

  • 2026Agentic Business AIs for Sustainability Workshop, University College Dublin, 1 May 2026
    Invited Speaker, “OMG Chat GPT, Chill Claude, Decide Gemini: Agentic Business AIs for Sustainability?!?”
  • 2026Connected_Politics Lab Seminar, University College Dublin, 1 April 2026
    Invited Speaker (with Andreas Hoepner and Diego P. Guisande), “Political Economy of Climate Finance: Disasters, Lobbying, and Market Responses”
  • 2026PeaceRep Closing Conference, Time to Make a Change: Reimagining Peace Processes in a Fragmented World, Edinburgh Law School, University of Edinburgh, 11–12 March 2026
    Invited Speaker, panel on Mediation Futures and PeaceTech
  • 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), Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, 10 September 2025
    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., 9–12 June 2025
    Bridging the Distance, an interactive data story, grew out of this program.
  • 2025EPSA LLM Pre-Conference Workshop, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain, 25 June 2025
  • 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, ISA Annual Convention, Chicago, 1 March 2025
    Presenter, “The Role of Militarized Mediators in Modern Insurgencies”
  • 2025SPIRe Early Career Researcher Forum, University College Dublin, 11 November 2025
    Invited Speaker, “Navigating the Current Academic Job Market”
  • 2025SPIRe Seminar Series, University College Dublin, 8 October 2025
    Invited Talk, “From Disaster to Dispute in the DRC: Climate’s Role in Resource Wars”
  • 2024–2025PGR Methods Café, University of St Andrews, 14 February 2024 and 19 March 2025
    Roundtable Discussant for Quantitative Methods
  • 2024“Anthropocene” Ringvorlesung Lecture Series, Institute for European Global Studies, Universität Basel, 19 November 2024
    Invited Lecture, “Anthropocene Mobilities: Navigating the Complexities of Climate-Induced Migration”
  • 2024Violence, Instability, and Peace (VIP) Workshop, 25 April 2024
    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, 8–9 February 2024
    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.

Conference Presentations