We are pleased to announce that next year's postgraduate conference will be hosted by the Department of Politics, University of Manchester on Friday 29th May 2026.

Papers are invited for themes including but not exclusive to:

• Conceptual and Defintional Debates
  
• Causes, Development and Consequences of Terrorism
  
• (De-)Radicalization
• Ideologies of Terrorism
  
• Lone-Actor Terrorism
• Psychology of Terrorism
  
• (Pro-) State Terrorism
• Single-Issue Terrorism
  
• Emerging Threats
• Children and Terrorism
• Warfare and Terrorism
• Religion and Terrorism
  
• Gender and Terrorism
• Crime-Terror Nexus
• Counter-Terrorism
  

Manchester's special themes:

• Visual Politics of Terrorism
• Terrorism & Emotions
• Terrorism & Memory
• Terrorism, Urban Space, Vulnerability & Resilience

If you wish to organise a conference panel, please email the conference organisers regarding the theme and panellists’ names. All panellists should submit individual abstracts before the deadline.

To submit an abstract for consideration either click the link in the description on the pdf version of the call for papers or use this link: https://indico.global/event/15845/

You do not need to present a paper to attend the conference and we welcome nonpresenting postgraduates and interested practitioners but you will need to pay the conference fee.

The cost of the conference will be $80 (approx. £60), which will give postgraduates one year’s membership in the Society for Terrorism Research for 2026.

If you pay the conference fee and then cannot come to the conference, we will refund the fee minus $35 to cover the cost of subsidised STR membership for 2026. STR will not be able to refund after May 15th 2026.

Please only pay once, if you are unsure if your payment has gone through please check with us before trying again. We will try to send confirmation of registration emails on a daily basis.

Paper and Panel Proposals: Tuesday April 7th 2026

Notification of Acceptance: Wednesday April 15th 2026

Conference Payment (Registration) Deadline: Wednesday May 15th 2026

All queries should be directed to the organising committee: 2026PGConference@SocietyforTerrorismResearch.org