Sixteenth Global Studies Conference

  • Agency in an Era of Displacement and Social Change
  • 19-21 July 2023
  • Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK + Online

Research Network Chair

Rafal Soborski

Rafal Soborski

Associate Professor, International Politics, Richmond, The American International University in London, UK

Research Network Co-Chair

Marcin Galent

Marcin Galent

Assistant Professor, Institute for European Studies, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland

Local Conference Chairs

Scott Sworts

Scott Sworts

Oxford Brooks University, United Kingdom

Supriya Akerkar

Supriya Akerkar

Oxford Brooks University, United Kingdom

Plenary Speakers 2023

The Sixteenth Global Studies Conference featured plenary sessions by some of the world's leading thinkers and innovators in the field.

Eunice Goes

Eunice Goes

Professor of Politics, Richmond University, London, UK

"Voice, Voice and More Voice: Building Countervailing Power in the Age of the Polycrisis"

Joern Langhorst

Joern Langhorst

Associate Professor, University of Colorado Denver, USA

"The Right to Place: Landscape, Identity, Conflict and Agency in Anthropocene"

Robin Mansell

Robin Mansell

Professor Emerita, Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

"Geopolitical Intersections with Everyday Life in a Digital World"

Elżbieta Korolczuk

Elżbieta Korolczuk

Warsaw University, Poland

Michał P. Garapich

Michał P. Garapich

University of Roehampton, UK

William Allchorn

William Allchorn

Adjunct Associate Professor, American University, London, UK

Emerging Scholar Awardees

For each conference, a small number of Emerging Scholar Awards are given to outstanding graduate students and emerging scholars who have an active research interest in the conference themes. Emerging Scholars perform a critical role in the conference by chairing the parallel sessions, providing technical assistance in the sessions, and presenting their own research papers. The 2023 Emerging Scholar Award Recipients are as follows:

Pratiksha Ashok

Pratiksha Ashok

UC Louvain, Belgium

(In-Person)

Alejandra Linares Figueruelo

Alejandra Linares Figueruelo

University of Barcelona, Spain

(In-Person)

​Rajit Das

​Rajit Das

Georgia State University, USA

(In-Person)

Gabriel Rached

Gabriel Rached

Università degli Studi di Milano, Itlay

(In-Person)

Stephen Murray

Stephen Murray

Queen's University Belfast, UK

(In-Person)

Alison Kuah

Alison Kuah

University of Cape Town, South Africa

(In-Person)

Ryan Glauser

Ryan Glauser

University of Michigan, USA

(In-Person)

Dechun Zhang

Dechun Zhang

Leiden University, Netherlands

(Online Only)

Nikoloz Esitashvili

Nikoloz Esitashvili

Georgian Institute of Public Affairs, Georgia

(Online Only)

Yidan Shao

Yidan Shao

Fordham University, USA

(Online Only)

George Ygarza

George Ygarza

University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

(Online Only)

Angie Hesham Abdo

Angie Hesham Abdo

University of Hull, UK

(Online Only)

Jeremy Levine

Jeremy Levine

Stony Brook University, USA

(Online Only)

Jaime Uluwehi Hopkins

Jaime Uluwehi Hopkins

University of Hawaiʻi, USA

(Online Only)

Conference Partner