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Publications
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Peer-Reviewed Publications

Abandoned gunpowder factory in Italy

  • Schmidt, Leah Madelaine. (In Press, expected Winter 2026). "Affective Fortresses: Luxury Bunkers and the Emotional Life of Crisis Capitalism." in Feeling Contemporary War: How Global Regimes of Sensing and Emotion Facilitate and Resist Military Power. eds. Drs. Amy Gaeta & Alex Adams. 

  • Anderson, C. K. & Leah Madelaine, Schmidt. (In Press, expected Winter 2026). "Sensing Queer Warfare: Affective Regimes of Technosecurity and War on Queer Bodies." in Feeling Contemporary War: How Global Regimes of Sensing and Emotion Facilitate and Resist Military Power. eds. Drs. Amy Gaeta & Alex Adams. 

  • Schmidt, L. M., McClintock, L. Abbott, N. & Modra, L. (2025). “You’re on Your Own, Kid: Absent Analysis, Heteronormative Biopolitics, and Lavender (Haze) Capitalism in Swiftian Lore.” Taylor Swift: Culture, Capital, Critique. Routledge.

  • Schmidt, Leah Madelaine. (In Press, expected Fall 2025). "Boundary-Disruptive Tactics: Queering the Normative Regulation of Canada’s #MeToo Movement." Sexual Violence in Canada: Critical Perspectives from the #MeToo Era. Canadian Scholars Press. ed. Kharoll-Ann Souffrant.

  • Schmidt, L. M., Abbott, N. & McClintock, L. (In Press). “I’ve Got a Blank Space, Baby: Strategizing Foucauldian Heterotopias in Swiftian Lore.” Taylor Swift, Narrative, Fandom. York University Press (In Review). ed. 

Conferences & Presentations

  • Anderson, C. K. & Schmidt, L. M. (2025). Academic Workshop: "Queer Bodies at Borders." Borders in Motion: Critical Conversations on Race, Migration, and Intersectionality. King's College London.

  • Schmidt, L.M. (2025). Early Career Workshop Selection: “Colonial Recursion: Spirals and the Temporal Materiality of Empire.” The European International Studies Association. Krakow, Poland.

  • Schmidt, L. (2025). Early Career Workshop Selection: “Anxiety in the Anthropocene: Hyperobjects and the Politics of Tentacular Affect.” European Workshops in International Studies. Krakow, Poland.

  • Schmidt, L. (2025). International Theory Workshop Selection: “Panic! in the Public Mind: Anxiety, Fear, and Social Order in the Genealogy of Political Thought.” International Studies Association – Latin America. Huatulco, Mexico. June 2025.

  • Schmidt, L. & McClelland, K. (2025). "Laughing in the Face of Power: Humour-as-Affect in Civil Society Engagement with State-Owned Military and Space Technologies." International Studies Association – Latin America. Huatulco, Mexico. June 2025.

  • Schmidt, L. (2025). Workshop selection: "Panic! in the Public Mind: Anxiety, Fear, and Social Order in the Genealogy of Political Thought." International Studies Association. Chicago, IL. March 2025.

  • Schmidt, L. (2025). "Despair Futurity: The Doomsday Prepper’s Guide to Survival in the Algorithmic Age." International Studies Association. Chicago, IL. March 2025.

  • Schmidt, L. (2025). "Algorithmic Anxiety: How International Security Affect Forms the Queer Body as-Threat." International Studies Association. Chicago, IL. March 2025.

  • Schmidt, L. M., Abbott, N., McClintock, L. & Whiteford, L. (2024). ​​"You’re on Your Own, Kid: Absent Analysis, Heteronormative Biopolitics, and Lavender (Haze) Capitalism in Swiftian Lore." Swiftposium 2024: An academic conference on Taylor Swift. Melbourne, Australia. February 2024.

  • Schmidt, L. (2024). "The Fruit Machine: Deconstructing Canadian Cold War Queer Anxiety." University of Cambridge Corpus Christi College Pride Conference. Cambridge, UK. June 2024 (Keynote Speaker).

  • Schmidt, L. (2024). ​​"PARIS IS BURNT: New Queer Cinema and Dialogical Flows of Knowledge in Queer of Colour Critique." 10th World Conference on Women’s Studies. Colombo, Sri Lanka. May 2024.

  • Stowe, L. and Schmidt, L. (2017). "Defining and Assessing the Impact of Group Dynamics on Student Learning in Short Term Travel Study Programs: Findings and Conversation." National Society for Experiential Education. St. Petersburg, FL. September 2017.

  • Schmidt, L. (2015). "Gendercide: The Roots of Sexualized Military Violence during the Bosnian War (1992-1995)." Centre for Military and Strategic Studies Graduate Strategic Studies Conference: Security, Strategy, and Defense. Calgary, AB. February 2016. Centre for Military and Strategic Studies, Alberta, Canada.

  • Schmidt, L. (2015). "Herstories: Feminism, Women, and Comic Books." Calgary Comic Expo Academic Panel Series. Calgary, AB. March 2015.

  • Schmidt, L. (2015). "Queerness: Exploring Student Engagement in a Campus Environment." CivicCON Conference. Calgary, AB. March 2015.​

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Unclassified Policy Publications

Saint-Nazaire submarine base, concrete structure

  • Schmidt, Leah Madelaine and Peremarty, Leà. (2024). “L'architecture de sécurité transatlantique: Potentialité de l'alliance franco-canadienne [Policy Brief].” Forum de Défense et de Stratégie.

  • Schmidt, Leah. (April 2021). Primary Speechwriter: “Remarks by Canadian Ambassador to France, Isabelle Hudon, to the 2021 G7 Gender Equality Advisory Council.” Delivered at the 2021 UK-hosted G7 Summit. [Unclassified Document].

  • Schmidt, Leah. (February 2020). Contributing Writer: “G20 2020 Riyadh Leaders Declaration.” Delivered at the 2021 Saudi Arabia-hosted G20 Summit. Saudi Arabia, Riyadh. [Unclassified Document].

Op-Eds and Public Engagement

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