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CRIPS are incredibly excited to announce this year's annual lecture with our guest speaker Professor Andrew Baldwin from Durham University. The lecture is co-convened with the Borders, Race, Ethnicity and Migration Network (BREM) and the Environmental Politics cluster at PAIS.

Professor Tom Long鈥檚 award-winning article, co-authored with Carsten-Andreas Schulz, examines Latin American reactions to the 1884–85 Berlin Conference, best known for its role in the 鈥渟cramble for Africa鈥�. Focusing on diplomats from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico, the article shows how the conference shaped Latin American understandings of imperialism and their own position in the international order. It highlights the global repercussions of late nineteenth-century imperialism and reassesses Latin American anti-imperialism.

This article explores how participation in participatory and action-oriented research can be made more meaningful, engaged, and genuine. Introducing the concept of 鈥渜ueering participation,鈥� it challenges hierarchical power dynamics embedded within traditional participatory methods. Drawing on a case study with the LGBTIQ community in Cambodia, the article demonstrates how reconfiguring the roles of researcher and researched can disrupt normative research relationships. It highlights the importance of positionality and shared lived experience in generating deeper insights, and ultimately advocates for a queer theory-informed approach that centres the leadership of marginalised communities in knowledge production rather than their passive inclusion.

The Gendering International Relations and Critical Military Studies working groups host a Zoomside chat on Pleasure and Depletion in Contemporary Militarism (2026) by Julia Welland. The discussion explores why military personnel and families remain emotionally invested in militarism despite its significant personal costs.