10th Anniversary of STR's Annual Postgraduate Conference: Current Themes in the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence
Friday, 29 May 2026 -
09:00
Monday, 25 May 2026
Tuesday, 26 May 2026
Wednesday, 27 May 2026
Thursday, 28 May 2026
Friday, 29 May 2026
09:00
Welcome Remarks by the Society for Terrorism Research and the University of Manchester: Welcome Remarks by the Society for Terrorism Research and the University of Manchester
Welcome Remarks by the Society for Terrorism Research and the University of Manchester
09:00 - 09:30
Room: 4.08
09:30
Digital Extremism: Mobilisation, Prediction, and Prevention
09:30 - 10:30
Room: 4.08
Contributions
09:30
“I’m Right, Not Far-Right”: Feminine Aesthetics and Pro-British Branding in GenAI Amelia Content
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Allysa Czerwinsky
(
University of Manchester
)
09:45
Forecasting Extremism Behavioural Change Using AI in Extremist Online Networks
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James Stevenson
(
University of Bristol
)
10:00
Combatting Online Extremism: The Algorithmic Amplification of Counter-Speech
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Ellie Rogers
The Manosphere and Incel Extremism: Identity, Grievance, and Violence
09:30 - 10:30
Room: 4.07
Contributions
09:30
Understanding Incel Violence as a Terrorist Threat: Between Personal Grievance and Political Ideology
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Martina Lucia Zambelli
(
Malmö University
)
09:45
Ideological Mixing in the Manosphere: A Critical Review of Literature
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Annabel Hoare
(
Anglia Ruskin University
)
10:00
Left Behind” as a Collective Identity: Constructions of Economic Victimhood in the Incel Community
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Jana Roth
10:30
Coffee & Tea
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Williamson Building, 4th Floor
11:00
Counter-Terrorism in Practice: Surveillance, Risk, and Intervention
11:00 - 12:00
Room: 4.08
Contributions
11:00
Prick Us, Do We not Bleed? Latent Risk Profiling of Violent Extremist Social Media Users Based on Online Leakage Behavior
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Brant Marcus
(
University of North Florida
)
11:15
Policing the Digital Frontier: Rethinking EU Counter-Terrorism in the Age of Online Radicalisation
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Shreya Sinha
(
Dublin City University
)
11:30
Police Cooperation Against Cross-Border Paramilitaries on the Island of Ireland
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Kathryn Cribbin
(
Queen's University, Belfast
)
Security Responses to Political Violence: Cooperation, Strategy, and Public Impact
11:00 - 12:00
Room: 4.07
Contributions
11:00
Reassurance or Reminder: the impact of protective security measures on the public
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KT Sonnen
(
Coventry University
)
11:15
The Standardization Trap: Doctrinal Rigidity and Strategic Failure in Contemporary Counter-Terrorism
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Chiara Caterina Gatti
11:30
Operation Banner from a new perspective: Understanding the Human Cost of Counterinsurgency
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Andrew Lawler
(
University of Liverpool
)
12:00
Lunch
12:00 - 13:30
Room: Williamson Building, 4th Floor
13:30
Keynote Speech
13:30 - 14:30
14:30
Media, Culture, and the Politics of Radicalisation
14:30 - 15:30
Room: 4.08
Contributions
14:30
From Views to Violence? Islamist Narratives on TikTok
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Lea Brost
14:45
Music and the Countering of Radicalization during the ISIS Offensive in Iraq (2014–2017)
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Hannaneh Akbarpour
(
Yale University
)
15:00
Visualising Terror: Gendered Representations of Muslim Women in British Television
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Ruby Bashir
(
Royal Holloway, University of London
)
Narratives, Affect, and Extremist Subjectivities
14:30 - 15:30
Room: 4.07
Contributions
14:30
Imagined Extremist Communities: The Paradox of the Community-Driven Lone-Actor Terrorist
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Inger Isabella Storm Sandboe
(
University of Oxford
)
14:45
Right After the Cut: Subjectivity and the Real in Iran’s 2025–2026 Uprising
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Nazanin Shahbazi
(
University of Manchester
)
15:00
Extremist narratives as mechanisms of emotion construction
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Katrien Vanlerberghe
(
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
)
15:30
Coffee & Tea
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Williamson Building, 4th Floor
16:00
Gender, Counter-Terrorism, and Structural Violence
16:00 - 17:00
Room: 4.08
Contributions
16:00
This-Order: L’Étourdit and Structural Violence
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Nazanin Shahbazi
(
University of Manchester
)
16:15
Gendering Prevent: Gendered Constructions in Prevent Policy and Policing
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Kat Osborne
(
Royal Holloway, University of London
)
16:30
“It’s Not About Ideology”: Emerging Findings on Prevent Practice and Extreme Right-Wing Terrorism
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Caitlin Jordan
(
Edge Hill University
)
State Terror and Political Violence: Visibility, Resistance, and Contestation
16:00 - 17:00
Room: 4.07
Contributions
16:00
State Terror in West Papua: Slow-Motion Genocide, Ecocide, Ethnocide, and the Politics of Invisibility
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Putri Kristimanta
(
Department of Politics, The University of Manchester
)
16:15
How to make slow violence visible
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Katarina Kemp
(
University of Manchester
)
16:30
Contesting Drone Warfare in Counterterrorism as a Non-State Actor: the Alignment Model on Offsetting Risks to the Antipreneurial Advantage
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Jana-Christina von Dessien
17:00
Closing Remarks
17:00 - 17:15
Room: 4.08