This year's Military Frontiers conference showcases the scholarship of 12 graduate students, all of whom study topics relating to the management of force and power in international affairs. The conference is interdisciplinary; the presenters represent a range of academic fields, and their research is based in a variety of methodologies. While all the papers to be presented share certain common themes, the subjects of the presentations are quite diverse. These include the public impact of memoirs published by intelligence officers, data governance in the European Union, and fear and rumors in the United States during World War I. Keynote address by Hal Brands (left), Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. Read more and register at go.osu.edu/militaryfrontiers2019

Jennifer Erickson is associate professor of Political Science and International Studies at Boston College. Her research interests include conventional and nuclear weapons, sanctions and arms embargoes, and the laws and norms of war. Her book, Dangerous Trade: Conventional Arms Exports, Human Rights, and International Reputation (Columbia, 2015), explains states' commitment to and compliance with new humanitarian arms export initiatives. Her current book project explores the historical and contemporary cases of new weapons technologies and the creation of new laws and norms of war. In this event, she will discuss the "nuclear taboo." Read more and register at go.osu.edu/ericksonj

Cullen Hendrix is director of the Sié Chéou-Kang Center for International Security and Diplomacy and associate professor at the Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver. With Idean Salehyan, he created and maintains the Social Conflict Analysis Database. At the Korbel School, he leads the Environment, Food and Conflict (ENFOCO) Lab, which leverages collaborations between physical and social scientists and policymakers to produce scholarship and analysis on issues at the intersection of the environment, food security, and conflict. In this event, he will discuss how natural resource exploitation and food security are linked to conflict through a study of conflict in Uganda and fisheries in Lake Victoria. Read more and register at go.osu.edu/hendrixc

David Hooker is associate professor of the practice of conflict transformation and peacebuilding at University of Notre Dame and former assistant attorney general for the state of Georgia. His areas of expertise include post-conflict community building, environmental justice, public policy and social justice, multi-party conflicts, negotiation, and mediation. He will discuss concerns driving the rise of populism and decline of liberal democratic institutions, and propose strategies drawn from narrative practices. Read more and register at go.osu.edu/hookerd

Neta Crawford is professor and chair of the political science at Boston University. Her most recent book is Accountability for Killing: Moral Responsibility for Collateral Damage in America's Post-9/11 Wars (Oxford, 2013). She is currently working on a new book, To Make Heaven Weep: Civilians and the American Way of War. She will discuss Department of Defense concerns about the potential for climate change to spark armed conflict and negatively impact U.S. military installations and operations. Read more and register at go.osu.edu/crawfordn

Sabina Čehajić-Clancy is associate professor of social and political psychology at Sarajevo School of Science and Technology and a former dean of the Political Science and International Relations Department. Her research and work fit into four main categories: intergroup emotions, morality, intergroup contact and education policies. In this talk, she will present a new framework demonstrating the use of moral exemplars as a mechanism to (re)create positive and functional intergroup relations after violent conflicts such as wars, genocides and ethnic cleansing. Read more and register at go.osu.edu/clancys

Aisha Ahmad is assistant professor of political science at University of Toronto, director of the Islam and Global Affairs Initiative at Munk School of Global Affairs, and chair of the board of directors of Women in International Security (WIIS)-Canada. She is the author of Jihad and Co.: Black Markets and Islamist Power (Oxford, 2017), which won the Mershon Center's Furniss Award for the best new book in international and national security, and the 2018 Best Book in Comparative Politics Prize by the Canadian Political Science Association. In the book, Ahmad tracks the economic activities of jihadist groups in Afghanistan, Somalia, Pakistan, Mali, and Iraq, to uncover an unlikely actor: the local business community. Read more and register at go.osu.edu/ahmada

Gilbert Joseph is Farnam Professor of History and International Studies at Yale University and recently served as president of the Latin American Studies Association. Joseph has published 17 books on Latin American revolutions and social movements and U.S.-Latin American relations, including Revolution from Without: Yucatán, Mexico, and the United States, 1880-1924 (Cambridge, 1982) and Mexico's Once and Future Revolution: Social Upheaval and the Challenge of Rule since the Late 19th Century (Duke, 2013). This event is sponsored in part by a U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant to The Ohio State University Center for Latin American Studies.