Robert Imre

Dr. Robert Imre is currently affiliated with the Faculty of Social Science as a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Tampere, Finland. He moved to Finland in 2017 after working in Australia as an academic from 2000, including as a Senior Lecturer at the University of Newcastle (2008-2017). Prior to that he lived in Budapest in the latter half of the 1990s. In Finland Robert was a fellow in the Institute for Advanced Social Research (IASR) in 2016-2018 at the University of Tampere as well as a brief stint with the Space and Political Agency Research Group (SPARG) in 2015. In 2018 he joined the Tampere Peace Research Institute (TAPRI) and has been teaching courses on Global Tourism, Comparative Genocide, and Memorialization of Trauma for the Peace Studies Master’s program as well as supervising MA and PhD students. He has developed and taught courses in Australia, Finland, Germany and Hungary and he is a native speaker of Hungarian.

Robert has a long list of guest lectures, presentations, and keynote talks around the world over the past two decades. His training is grounded in political theory, and he has degrees in political studies from Queens University (BAHons), University of Victoria (MA), and a PhD from The University of Queensland. Robert’s research interests divide in to 3 main areas: nationalism, political communication, and political violence. This interdisciplinarity covers a broad range of topics from international relations (theory), questions about global security and terrorism, new media and various social media platforms, foundational questions about education, political responses to the climate emergency, as well as problems dealing with the changing nature of borders and nations in the contemporary world. At the Centre for Global Studies Robert will be mostly concerned with his larger research project entitled ‘Extreme Politics and Renationalization: Political Violence, Social Media, Solidarity’. He will also be involved with a number of specific corollary projects that include a monograph on Hungarian nationalism, a project on the politics of outer space, polar politics, and global (failed) responses to the climate emergency.