Conferences

Annual Conference

The Annual Conference is the flagship of the Initiative. The archive below goes back to the inaugural session at the University Panthéon-Assas in Paris.

Upcoming

Next Annual Conference

European Security Studies Conference 2027

Jointly organised by the COST Action NetSec, the European Initiative for Security Studies (EISS), and the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Political Science.

Dates 10–11 June 2027
Venue University of Belgrade, Faculty of Political Science
EISS conferences & workshops

The full record of EISS scholarship: every speaker and every paper from our annual conferences and workshops since 2017, with abstracts, citation details and links to the published versions. Browse by person or by paper.

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494
speakers
511
papers presented
12
conferences since 2017

Archive

EISS 2025 · Thessaloniki
What the film shows

A 90-second montage set to music, with no speech, from the 2025 conference at the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki: the lecture theatre before the opening, participants talking over coffee, full panel sessions with speakers at their microphones, a researcher presenting a poster in the corridor, and the certificate of the European Security Studies Best Paper Prize.