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Guest Lectures (Selection)

  1. Public Lecture [Japan]: “Between a Rock and a Hard Place” | SSRI Talk on ‘Dangerous Diplomacy’ | Alumni House, International Christian University (ICU), Tokyo, Japan, 15 January 2020.
  2. Moderator [Japan]: “The Role of Emerging Powers in UN Peacebuilding: Challenges and Opportunities”, Tokyo Peacebuilding Forum, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Tokyo, Japan 2 November 2019.
  3. Guest Lecture [Japan]: “Peacekeeping, Peacebuilding and the Tragedy of the UN Secretariat”, 19th United Nations History Colloquium, Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan, 21 September 2019.
  4. Respondent [Japan]: “Is Peacebuilding Dead? What’s Next”, JICA Peacebuilding Seminar, Japan International Cooperation Agency, Tokyo, Japan, 19 April 2019.
  5. Visiting Professorship Public Lecture [China]: “The United Nations as a Challenge to International Relations Theory”, School of International Studies, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, 6 April 2019.
  6. Visiting Professorship Public Lecture [China]: “Who is the CEO of the UN?”, School of International Studies, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, 30 March 2019.
  7. Guest Lecture [Japan]: “The United Nations Secretariat, Bureaucracy, and Great Power Relations”, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, 14 December 2018.
  8. Participant [Japan]: JICA Seminar on Refugees and Sustainable Development Goals, Japan International Cooperation Agency, Tokyo, Japan, 8 December 2018.
  9. Participant [Japan]: Global Peacebuilding Association of Japan Annual Convention, Japan International Cooperation Agency, Tokyo, Japan, 17 November 2018.
  10. Panelist [China]: East Asian Annual Seminar on the United Nations System, China Academic Network for United Nations Studies, Beijing, China, 11 November 2018.
  11. Public Lecture [United Kingdom]: “Power Politics and Bureaucracy in the United Nations Secretariat”, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, 31 May 2018.
  12. Public Lecture [United Kingdom]: “Peacekeeping, Peacebuilding, and the Role of the United Nations Secretariat in Rwanda”, Exeter College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, 30 May 2018.
  13. Public Lecture [Nepal]: “The United Nations, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity: A Tale of Two UN Departments”, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal, 5 March 2018.
  14. Graduate Seminar [Japan]: “Bureaucracy, Power Politics, and the Struggle for the United Nations Secretariat”, Rotary Peace Seminar, International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan, 13 December 2017.
  15. Public Lecture [Cambodia]: “Two United Nations? The Secretary-General, Member States, and the Struggle to Control the UN Bureaucracy”, The American University of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 8 May 2017.
  16. Seminar [Bangladesh]: “Bureaucracy, Power, and Tragedy in International Relations”, Center for Teaching and Scholarship, Asian University for Women, Chittagong, Bangladesh, 21 March 2017.
  17. Public Lecture [Nepal]: “Promises and Perils of United Nations Security Council Reform”, Tribhuvan University and Samyak Bimarsha, Kathmandu, Nepal, 19 March 2015.
  18. Guest Lecture [Nepal]: “Global Governance, the United Nations and Nepal: The Way Forward”, Foreign Affairs Select Committee, Parliament of Nepal, Daayitwa Office, Kathmandu, Nepal, 16 March 2015.
  19. Panelist [Ireland]: “The United Nations and the Concept of Post-Modernity in International Relations”, British International Studies Association (BISA) Annual Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 19 June 2014.
  20. Research Seminar [Bangladesh]: “Archival Research on the United Nations”, Centre for Teaching and Scholarship, Asian University for Women, Chittagong, Bangladesh, 23 January 2014.
  21. Instructor [United Kingdom]: “The UN, Leadership and Tragedy: The Promises and Perils of An Elite Private Archive”, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, 26 Nov. 2012.
  22. Guest Lecture [United Kingdom]:  “Ideas of Women in Islam: A Critical Approach to the Veil Issue”, Department of International Politics, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, 25 Oct 2012.
  23. Speaker, Public Event [United Kingdom]: “The United Nations and Rwanda”, International Politics Research Seminar, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, 11 October 2012.
  24. Guest Lecture [United Kingdom]: “Unintended Consequences: Professional Lapses and Weak Accountability at the UN”, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK, 20 March 2012.
  25. Guest Lecture [United Kingdom]: “Room Without a View: The Secret Meetings of the UN Security-Council on Rwanda”, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK, 6 March 2012.
  26. Guest Lecture [United Kingdom]: “Human Rights, the West and the Islamic Veil”, Lecture for the Module ‘Islam and Foreign Policy’, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK, 21 March 2011.
  27. Speaker, Public Lecture [Iceland]: “The Legal Authority of the United Nations Secretary-General”, University of Akureyri, School of Law, Akureyri, Iceland, 8 January 2011.
  28. Speaker, Public Event [Iceland]: “China, Political Dissent, and Falun Gong in Iceland”, Reykjavík Culture House, Reykjavík, Iceland, 29 December 2010.
  29. Discussant, Book Launch [United Kingdom]: C. Laborde, Critical Republicanism, Veil Controversy and Political Philosophy, St Antony’s College, The University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, 6 May 2009.
  30. Speaker, Public Lecture [UK]: “Dangerous Diplomacy: Anatomy of the UN Failure in Rwanda”, Exeter College, Oxford University, UK, 5 February 2009.
  31. Speaker, Public Lecture [New Zealand]: “France, the Veil and Human Rights”, The University of Auckland, Department of Political Studies, Auckland, New Zealand, 17 May 2007.
  32. Speaker, Conference [New Zealand]: The Visit of the Chinese President to Iceland”, International Advocates for Justice (IAJ), Crowne Plaza Hotel, Auckland, New Zealand, 27 October 2004.
  33. Speaker,  Conference [Australia]: “The Price of Terror in America and France: Security v Freedom in the Age of Terror”, XII Annual Conference of the Australian & New Zealand Society of International Law (ANZSIL), Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 17 June 2004.
  34. Speaker, Public Lecture [Iceland]: “Racism and Multiculturalism in Japan and the United Kingdom: A MRSI Lecture”, Icelandic Human Rights Centre, Reykjavík, Iceland, 10 April 2002.