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  • Media War and Conflict Journal
    • REIMAGINING THE FIELD OF MEDIA, WAR AND CONFLICT
    • Spaces of War: Corporeal War
    • MWC Special Issue (12:1) Media and Terrorism in France
    • MWC Special Issue (11:4) Framing
    • MWC Special Issue (11:1) INFOCORE
    • Spaces of War, War of Spaces Conference
      • For those who missed the Spaces of War Conference
    • MWC Special Issue (10:1) Reporting from the Front
    • MWC Special Issue (9:1): Contemporary soldiering
    • Editorial Intro to Contemporary soldiering
    • MWC Centenary Special Issue (7:3)
    • MWC Editor’s Collections: Media, Israel and Conflict
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    REIMAGINING THE FIELD OF MEDIA, WAR AND CONFLICT

    October 27, 2022 /

    CFP: ICA Pre-Conference: Thursday 25th May 2023 As part of the Media, War and Conflict Journal’s 15th year anniversary events. Abstracts, indicating which type of participation is requested (paper or poster), should be emailed to Katy Parry: k.j.parry@leeds.ac.uk . The deadline for receipt of abstracts is 31 January, 2023. Accepted participants will be notified by 28 February 2023. Registration will be via the ICA website and will open in March 2023 Summary This is the ideal time to assess how new actors, technologies, and global power struggles have challenged the relationship between media and conflict in the 15 years since our first issue was published in April 2008. Disinformation and propaganda studies have moved into…

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    9/11 AND THE ACADEMY

    February 9, 2015

    Why soldiers fight

    October 29, 2014

    ISA-ICOMM Conference “Communication, Peace and Security in the 21st Century”

    October 26, 2015
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    Martial Aesthetics: How War Became an Art Form

    March 23, 2023 /

    New Book by Anders Engberg-Pedersen Book information from Stanford University Press The twenty-first century has witnessed a pervasive militarization of aesthetics with Western military institutions co-opting the creative worldmaking of art and merging it with the destructive forces of warfare. In Martial Aesthetics, Anders Engberg-Pedersen examines the origins of this unlikely merger, showing that today’s creative warfare is merely the extension of a historical development that began long ago. Indeed, the emergence of martial aesthetics harkens back to a series of inventions, ideas, and debates in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Already then, military thinkers and inventors adopted ideas from the field of aesthetics about the nature, purpose, and force…

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    ISA-ICOMM Conference “Communication, Peace and Security in the 21st Century”

    October 26, 2015

    Spaces of War: Corporeal War: CFP Deadline 10th Jan 2020

    January 8, 2020

    Calling Blighty: Lost Films of the British Army

    June 22, 2016
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    Why Remember?: Tracing the Past

    March 23, 2023 /

    "Speaking Out" Exhibition at War Childhood Museum, Sarajevo.

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    Deadline 10th Jan CFP: Spaces of War, War of Spaces

    January 8, 2018

    The Hollywood War Film Critical Observations from World War I to Iraq

    June 21, 2017

    Journal of Digital War Launch

    December 3, 2020
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    Politics, Propaganda and the Press: International Reactions to the Falklands/Malvinas Conflict

    March 6, 2023 /

    Author: Louise Clare 20% Discount Available – enter the code AFL01 at checkout** Please note that this discount code cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer or discount and only applies to books purchased directly via www.routledge.com. This code expires on 30 June 2023. For more information visit the Routledge website Book Description This book examines British and Argentine media output in the prelude to and during the 1982 Falklands/Malvinas Conflict and acknowledges the aftermath and legacies of the media response. Yards of ink have been spilt, reinforcing the view that the Argentine Junta’s action on 2nd April 1982 was a ‘diversion’ from domestic tensions. This view, coupled…

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    New Book: Cyprus and its Conflicts. Representations, Materialities, and Cultures

    January 8, 2018

    MWC Editor’s Collections: Media, Israel and Conflict

    September 8, 2014

    THE EYE OF WAR

    January 17, 2020
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    New Book – Sport and the Pursuit of War and Peace from the Nineteenth Century to the Present: War Minus the Shooting?

    February 22, 2023 /

    Edited by Martin Hurcombe & Philip Dine Available to pre-order. Use code SMA31 to get a 20% discount. Valid until 31 March 2023. This volume of wide-ranging essays by sport historians and sociologists examines the complex relations of war, peace and sport through a series of case studies from South and North America, Europe, North Africa, Asia and New Zealand. From formal military training in the late nineteenth century to contemporary esports, the relationship between military and sporting cultures has endured across nations in times of conflict and peace. This collection contextualizes debates around the morality and desirability of continuing to play sport against the backdrop of war as others are…

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    New Book: Friended at the Front: Social Media in the American War Zone

    October 26, 2015

    Culture, Trauma, and Conflict: Cultural Studies Perspectives on War

    March 12, 2015

    Becoming the Story War: Correspondents since 9/11

    March 1, 2018
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    Shona Illingworth: ‘Topologies of Air’ UK launch and panel discussion

    January 20, 2023 /

    Shona Illingworth: 'Topologies of Air' UK launch and panel discussion. Friday 10 February 16:00 – 18:00 Imperial War Museum London SE1 6HZ For this event, Shona will be joined by Anthony Downey, Conor Gearty KC (Hon), Nick Grief, Andrew Hoskins, Matt Lee and Catherine Loveday for a roundtable discussion about the book and upcoming events related to the Airspace Tribunal. Register to attend. Places limited

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    Early Modern Military Identity Symposium

    July 20, 2015

    (Dis)figuring War: Literature and the Arts, 1918-2018

    June 1, 2018

    Tim Hetherington collection and conflict imagery network

    March 29, 2021
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