The Higher Research Seminar: Victoria Basham, University of Cardiff – “War Beyond the Battlefield: Sites and Spatialities”

Professor Victoria Basham is the 2026 holder of the Kerstin Hesselgren visiting professorship at the Swedish Defence University.

War Beyond the Battlefield: Sites and Spatialities 

The question of how societies prepare for war and how people make sense of that preparation in their everyday lives has long been a pertinent one. In an era of intensifying global re-armament, it has become important to once again consider the role that lived experience, identity, and sense-making play in animating militarism. Drawing on lessons from past research and more recent insights into practices of war preparedness, this talk aims to map out some of the key sites and spatialities through which preparing for war becomes routinised but also contested. 

The Higher Research Seminar is the Department’s main research seminar series. Researchers from the Department, alongside leading national and international scholars, present and discuss ongoing research and analysis on a wide range of timely and thought-provoking topics relevant to Political Science.

The seminar is held on Wednesdays 13.15 to 14.30 in Eden 367, unless otherwise indicated. PhD mid-term seminars 13:15 to 14:45

Convenors: Ian Manners and Anders Uhlin

The seminars are open to the public. Welcome to join us!

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