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The ISA Awakens

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by Charli Carpenter

15 February 2016, 1816 EST

A short time from now, at a conference venue far, far away (at least from Amherst, MA…):

The papers on this panel examine the relationship between the Star Wars franchise and socio-political dynamics in the area of international security, broadly defined. In other words, this panel focuses specifically on the inter-relationship between pop culture ideas and “real-world” security-seeking processes and practices. The papers span methodological approaches, but all reflect on or empirically investigate connections between Star Wars’ fictional memes, concepts or allegories and the real-world security-seeking practices of states or other actors – and reflect on those connections.

Saturday, 4:00-5:45, Hilton Atlanta Room 305. Hope to see some of you there!

Charli Carpenter is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. She is the author of 'Innocent Women and Children': Gender, Norms and the Protection of Civilians (Ashgate, 2006), Forgetting Children Born of War: Setting the Human Rights
Agenda in Bosnia and Beyond (Columbia, 2010), and ‘Lost’ Causes: Agenda-Setting in Global Issue Networks and the Shaping of Human Security (Cornell, 2014). Her main research interests include national security ethics, the protection of civilians, the laws of war, global agenda-setting, gender and political violence, humanitarian affairs, the role of information technology in human security, and the gap between intentions and outcomes among advocates of human security.

Charli Carpenter is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. She is the author of 'Innocent Women and Children': Gender, Norms and the Protection of Civilians (Ashgate, 2006), Forgetting Children Born of War: Setting the Human Rights
Agenda in Bosnia and Beyond (Columbia, 2010), and ‘Lost’ Causes: Agenda-Setting in Global Issue Networks and the Shaping of Human Security (Cornell, 2014). Her main research interests include national security ethics, the protection of civilians, the laws of war, global agenda-setting, gender and political violence, humanitarian affairs, the role of information technology in human security, and the gap between intentions and outcomes among advocates of human security.

2 Comments

  1. Drake
    Drake on 16 February 2016 at 03.21 EST

    These days, all I do is
    Wonder if you bendin’ over backwards for someone else
    Wonder if you’re rollin’ up a backwoods for someone else
    Doing things I taught you, gettin’ nasty for someone else
    You don’t need no one else

  2. LFC
    LFC on 20 February 2016 at 13.46 EST

    Haven’t been to an ISA conf. in a dog’s age and won’t be at this one, but that’s a clever/cute trailer.