Ritual Deterrence Team Presents Work at the CEEISA-ISA Joint International Conference 2024

University of Rijeka, Croatia, 18-21 June 2024

Ritual Deterrence team presented their work in progress at the CEEISA-ISA Joint International Conference 2024 at the University of Rijeka, Croatia on 18-21 June 2024. The project also convened a pre-conference workshop at the Moise Palace on the island of Cres on 17 June 2024, entitled ‘Interaction Ritual Chains in World Politics: Deterrence, Diplomacy, Knowledge Production’.

Maria Mälksoo spoke at the opening plenary of the main conference on ‘Knowing the global-local’. She also contributed to an experimental panel on how to apply for European Research Council grants, presented a paper on deterrence icons as status symbols in a panel on the evolving deterrence posture in the Baltic Sea region, participated in a roundtable dedicated to the JIRD special forum on epistemic politics in/of the Global East, and served as a discussant for young scholars’ section on memory, culture and freedom.

Cameron Hunter and Mariia Vladymyrova contributed both to the pre-conference project workshop. Mariia also presented her paper ‘A Show of Force: Russian Strategic Posturing, Ritual and the Baltic Sea’ as part of the main conference programme.

KU scholars at the Rijeka Conference, June 2024

RITUAL DETERRENCE is funded by the European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant (ERC-2021-COG) awarded to Dr Maria Mälksoo, University of Copenhagen, under the European Union's Horizon Europe research and innovation programme (project no 101043468) for 2022-2027.
Views and opinions expressed are however those of the authors only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Council. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

RITUAL DETERRENCE is funded by the European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant (ERC-2021-COG) awarded to Dr Maria Mälksoo, University of Copenhagen, under the European Union's Horizon Europe research and innovation programme (project no 101043468) for 2022-2027.
Views and opinions expressed are however those of the authors only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Council. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.