Our events

We host regular events to share our research and welcome eminent guest speakers.

The majority of our events are open to all Loughborough University staff and postgraduate students.

Our Work-in-Progress webinars allow us to share our ongoing and evolving research. Audience discussion and feedback help us to refine our thinking and move our work forward.

We also invite guest speakers to present papers and join panel discussions on issues that are of interest to us.

Staff affiliated with the CSS also organise additional research dissemination activities, such as the Geopolitics and International Affairs (GIA) seminar series, chaired by Dr Duncan Depledge.  

Event highlights

  • Legacies of insecurity
    19 May 2026, 12.00pm
    This half-day sandpit event will explore the legacy and long-term impact of events that greatly affect human security, including armed conflicts, genocides and natural disasters.
  • Book launch
    18 March 2026, 12.00pm 
    Redefining Peace in a Shifting World IGAD, South Sudan, and the New African Security Paradigm by Dr Ibrahim Magara (Coventry University and Loughborough University alumnus) 
  • What do we know about religion and conflict?   
    4 February 2026, 2.00pm 
    Professor Matthias Basedau (GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg)  
  • Venezuela and the world after Maduro. What’s next after the US intervention? 
    29 January 2026, 4.00pm  
    Professor Leslie Wehner (University of Bath), Dr Maryhen Jiménez (University of Oxford), Mr Jesus Antonio Renzullo Narvaez (GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg) and Dr Eduardo Velosa (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogota)
  • The Architecture of fear in the Middle East 
    7 January 2026, 2.00pm 
    Dr Aya Al Kadi Jazaierly (Loughborough University) 
  • Pacifist Rejoinders to the Hitler Question 
    19 November 2025, 3.00pm 
    Dr Alexandre Christoyannopoulos (Loughborough University) 
  • Book launch
    15 October 2025, 2.00pm
    Transatlantic relations after the Russian-Ukrainian War: a neo-realist approach by Dr Lorenzo Cladi (University of Plymouth and Loughborough University alumnus)  
  • Climate Change, Security and Low Carbon Warfare 
    2 July 2025, 1.00pm 
    Professor Bruno Charbonneau (IAS Visiting Fellow – Royal Military College Saint-Jean, Canada)
  • Desecuritising Working-Class Struggle 
    5 June 2025, 2.00pm  
    Dr Itoitz Rodrigo-Jusué (Loughborough University) 
  • Does trust matter in multilateral negotiations? Evidence from a survey experiment with UN diplomats   
    12 March 2025, 2.00pm  
    Dr Nicola Chelotti (Loughborough University) 
  • Security Sector Reform (SSR) and local civil society: the Civil Military Cells in Côte d'Ivoire 
    12 February 2025, 2.00pm  
    Dr Giulia Piccolino (Loughborough University) 
  • Revisiting and Rebuilding ‘Collective Security’: An anarcho-pacifist critique and counterproposal 
    17 January 2025, 2.00pm  
    Dr Alex Christoyannopoulos (Loughborough University) 
  • The Asian Century: India and China’s quest for strategic space 
    5 December 2024, 3.00pm  
    Amrita Jash (IAS Visiting Fellow – Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India)
    This event was co-sponsored with CHADS 
  • Sociotechnical imaginaries of low-carbon warfare 
    20 November 2024, 2.00pm 
    Dr Duncan Depledge (Loughborough University) 
  • Security and Policy: a chat with the Policy Unit 
    7 November 2024, 2.00pm 
    Dr Charlotte Hamilton (Loughborough University) 

Get in touch

Centre members are available for policy and media enquiries. Our contact details can be found on our Meet the team page.

If you would like to join the Centre or receive regular updates about our activities, please get in touch.

Dr Giulia Piccolino 
Centre Director
g.piccolino@lboro.ac.uk