Climate Security workshop delivered at the Fiji Ministry of Home Affairs and Immigration, Suva, Fiji Islands
INVITED TALKS
2024| Great Power Competition and Pacific Islands' Responses. The Australian Centre on China in the World, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
2024| Understanding International Relations Theories: Constructivism. Department of International Relations, Faculty of Political Science & Islamic Studies, Imam Sadiq University, Tehran, Iran.
2024| Proposal Writing. Talanoa Session organised by the Research Office at the University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji.
2024| Political (in)Stability. Faculty of Law, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
2023| Climate Security. Fiji Ministry of Home Affairs and Immigration, Suva, Fiji Islands.
2023| Thesis Writing. Organised by the University of the South Pacific and the Norway-Pacific Ocean-Climate Scholarship Programme at the University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji Islands.
2023| Special Panel Discussion: One Year Since Russia's Invasion of Ukraine. Organised by the University of the South Pacific and the European Union at the University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji Islands.
2022| Proposal Writing. Organised by the University of the South Pacific and the Norway-Pacific Ocean-Climate Scholarship Programme at the University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji Islands.
2020| The political power of non-Western small states and the ontological (in)security of Pacific island countries in the context of climate change. Political Science Department, The Univeristy of Utah in the United States.
2020| Exploring new horizons: the nexus of climate change and religion in Samoa. Centre for Small States in London, United Kingdom. With Rev. Dr Latu Latai.
2020| The ontological security of Pacific island countries and the islanders in the context of climate change. Malua Theological College in Samoa.
2020| Ontological Security in the Context of Climate Change, Centre for Samoa Studies, National University of Samoa in Samoa.
2015 | Soft Power Through Narration: The Case of Qatar, American Political Science Association MENA Workshop, Kuwait City, Kuwait.
2015 | Standing Tall on the Wings of Gross National Happiness, Workshop on ‘Non-Western Small States: What Agency in an Unequal World?’, Annual Conference of the British International Studies Association, London, United Kingdom.
2015| Collecting and Managing Data, Newcastle University, United Kindom.
CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS AS PRESENTER
2024| A Window of Opportunity: The United States-China battle for influence in the Pacific, China in the World Forum, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
2024| Regional Climate and Ocean Strategies, Policies and Frameworks, Pacific Ocean Climate Crisis Assessment (POCCA), University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.
2023| The ontological (in)security of Fijians in the context of sea-level rise, the 1st Archipelagic & Island States Forum Research and Development Conference: Advancing the Blue Frontier on Innovative Ocean Science, Bali, Indonesia.
2023| Regional Climate and Ocean Strategies, Policies and Frameworks, Pacific Ocean Climate Crisis Assessment (POCCA), Nadi, Fiji.
2022| Regional Climate and Ocean Strategies, Policies and Frameworks, Pacific Ocean Climate Crisis Assessment (POCCA), University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.
2021| The geopolitics of non-Western small states: explaining Bhutanese and Nepalese foreign policies through role theory, Annual Convention of the International Studies Association.
2020| Negotiating Territorial Sovereignty: Law, Politics and Sea-level Rise in Tuvalu, International Conference of the Commission on Legal Pluralism, Brisbane, Australia.
2020| Understanding climate change in Samoa, annual conference of the British International Studies Association, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom. Paper co-authored with Rev. Dr Latu Latai.
2020| The geopolitics of non-Western small states: explaining Bhutanese and Nepalese foreign policies through role theory, annual conference of the British International Studies Association, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom. Paper co-authored with Dr Bibek Chand.
2019 | Qatar: An agent of change or stuck in the international system?, Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, Toronto, Canada.
2017 | Credibility Fault Lines in Qatari Strategic Narratives, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, United States.
2016 | Soft Power Through Narration, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, United States.
2016 | Soft Power Through Narration: The Case of Qatar, World Congress of Political Science, International Political Science Association, Poznan, Poland.
2016 | Sports as Politics through other means: Qatar’s pursuit of status and the 2022 World Cup, Annual Conference of the British International Studies Association, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
2015 | The Quest of the Thunder Dragon: The silent scream of Bhutan’s soft power in today’s tumult, Postgraduate Conference of the British International Studies Association, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
2013 | Bhutan’s Soft Power Journey in a World of ‘Great Powers’, First European Workshops in International Studies of the European International Studies Association, Tartu, Estonia.
2013| Punching Above their Weight in World Politics: The soft power of small states, Politics Postgraduate Conference, Newcastle University, United Kingdom.
CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS AS CONVENER/ORGANISER
2017 | Convener of a panel titled ‘Legitimacy, Soft Power, and Authority’, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association in San Francisco, United States.
2016 | Convener of a panel titled ‘Small States in a World of Inequality: Agential Power vs. Structural Constraints’, World Congress of Political Science of the International Political Science Association, Poznan, Poland.
2016 | Co-convener of a panel titled ‘Small state foreign policy between power politics’, Annual Conference of the British International Studies Association, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
2016| Co-organiser of a Workshop titled 'Life after PhD, Governance Research Cluster, Politics Department, Newcastle University, United Kingdom.
2014| Co-organiser of a workshop titled 'Soft Power of Hard States', Politics Department, Newcastle Univeristy, United Kingdom.
2013| Co-organiser of the Humanities and Social Science first year interdisciplinary postgraduate conference titled 'Breaking Boundaries' at Newcastle University, United Kingdom.
2013| Co-organiser Politics postgraduate conference titled 'Glances at the Political', Politics Department, Newcastle University, United Kingdom.
CONFERENCES AS CHAIR
2020| Chair of a panel titled 'Foreign Policy in and toward Asia', annual conference of the British International Studies Association, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.
2016 | Chair of a panel titled ‘Small States in a World of Inequality: Agential Power vs. Structural Constraints’, World Congress of Political Science of the International Political Science Association, Poznan, Poland.
CONFERENCES AS DISCUSSANT
2016 | Discussant for a panel titled ‘Small States in a World of Inequality: Agential Power vs. Structural Constraints’ at the World Congress of Political Science of the International Political Science Association, Poznan, Poland.
2016 | Discussant for a panel titled ‘Power and Governance in an Uneven World’ at the World Congress of Political Science of the International Political Science Association, Poznan, Poland.
2016 | Discussant for a panel titled ‘Small state foreign policy between power politics’, Annual Conference of the British International Studies Association, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
First Practical Academic Writing Workshop @ The USP in Suva, Fiji Islands.
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