Barnes provides expert analysis for media outlets including BBC World Service, Time Magazine, TRT World news channel, and BBC The World Tonight. Her research has been reviewed and discussed in key practitioner forums including Foreign Affairs, The Strategy Bridge, War on the Rocks, and The Diplomat. It has also been included in popular history outlets like History Today magazine and podcasts including BBC History Extra and The History of the Cold War. She regularly delivers presentations and public lectures.
Recent appearances:
The Path Forward for US-ROK-Japan Trilateral Relations, Wilson Center event, August 2024. Watch here.
Pearl Harbor Episode 2: America on the Eve of War, BBC History Extra Podcast, 7 December 2021. Listen here.
Working with History Series interviews from the Centre for Modern History at City, University of London, 2020. Watch here.
Tempest in the Barber Shop, BBC The World Tonight, 20 Jan 2020
Presentations and Public Lectures:
- American Historical Association Washington History Seminar 2025
- Society for Military History Annual Conference 2025
- The Path Forward for US-ROK-Japan Trilateral Relations, Wilson Center 2024
- Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) Annual Conference 2024
- Cooperation and Conflict in East Asia, Security and Foreign Policy Initiative, William & Mary 2024
- Association for Asia Studies Annual Conference 2023
- The Cornell Club of New York, 2020
- US Think Tanks and Foundations in World Politics Workshop, 2020
- Biennial Symposium in American History, Queen Mary University, 2019
- Modern Japan History Workshop, Tokyo University, 2019
- Centre for Modern History Lectures, City University of London, 2019
- Center for Development Democracy and Rule of Law Seminar, Stanford University, 2018
- FSI Japan Program, Stanford University, 2017
- Pearl Harbor Symposium, Kansas University, 2016
- Waging Peace Conference: Studying the Challenges of a Postwar Peace, 2016
- Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) Annual Conference, 2016
- Global Elite Knowledge Networks and Anglo-American Power, London School of Economics, 2016
- Public Lecture Series, Center for Asia Pacific Studies, University of San Francisco, 2015
- Power Transition in Asia: Adjusting to the Rise of China, University of Western Sydney, 2013