2018

Icelandic Independence 100 years: The Foreign Policy of a Very Small State. Presentation at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, 4 December 2018.

Í skjóli voldugra nágranna: Utanríkisstefna Íslands (Shelter provided by powerful neighbouring states: Iceland's foreign policy). Presentation at the Rotaryclub of Reykjavík, Hotel Saga, 7 November 2018.

The Importance of Shelter for Small States. Presentation at a conference on Iceland's External Affairs: Which world actors have and will provide Iceland with shelter?, The Institute of International Affairs, The Centre for Small State Studies, Faculty of Political Science, The Icelandic Political Science Association at the University of Iceland, 23 October 2018.

Iceland's Participation in the European Project: Shelter or Trap? Presentation at a conference on Iceland's External Affairs: Which world actors have and will provide Iceland with shelter?, The Institute of International Affairs, The Centre for Small State Studies, Faculty of Political Science, The Icelandic Political Science Association at the University of Iceland, 23 October 2018,

Iceland and its Arctic Policy. Presentation at the seminar Lessons from home: Building Arctic identities in the international system at the Arctic Circle, Reykjavik, 20 October 2018.

Review – Democracy in Small states: Persisting Against All Odds. Presentation at a book launch of Democracy in Small States: Persisting Against All Odds by Jack Corbett and Wouter Veenendaal, at the Centre for Small States, Queen Mary University of London, 18 October 2018.

Small states' campaigns to get a seat in the United Nations Security Council: Austria and Iceland, at a workshop on Small States in the UNSC, Göteborgs Universitet, Sweden, 6 December 2018.

Small States in Europe: Towards a Cross-Disciplinary Approach. Presentation at a seminar on Cross-Disciplinary Approach in Small State Studies, at the University of Malta, 28 September 2018.

Iceland's Foreign Policy in a New Era, with Pia Hansson. Presentation at a seminar on Nordic power repertories in a changing geopolitical landscape at the 12th Pan-European Conference on International Relations in Prague, 13 September 2018.

Small States in Turbulent Times: Domestic Buffer and External Shelter, opening presentation at an international conference, Small States and the New Security Environment (SSANSE), hosted by the Centre for Small State Studies at the University of Iceland and the NATO Science for Peace and Security Programme, 26 June 2018.

The Quest for Power in International Politics: The Campaign by Iceland to the United Nations Security Council for the period of 2009-2010, with Jóna Sólveig Elínardóttir. Presentation in a Seminar on International Affairs, at a conference hosted by the Icelandic Political Science Association (IPSA), 15 June 2018.

Iceland: A Nordic/Arctic Small State Building its Foreign Policy, with Pia Hansson and Auður Birna Stefánsdóttir. Presentation in a Seminar on International Affairs, at a conference hosted by the Icelandic Political Science Association (IPSA), 15 June 2018.

Small states and the new Trump era: Do the Nordic and Baltic states need a new shelter provider?, lecture at an open workshop, co-funded by the EU's Erasmus+ programme, Small States and the Changing Security Environment in Europe: The Return of Great Power Politics, hosted by the  Institute of International Relations and Political Science at Vilnius University and University of Iceland's Institute of International Affairs  - Centre for Small State Sudies, in Vilnius, 1 June 2018.