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Research Topic Surviving modern war: the experiences of British armed forces personnel during the Falklands Campaign, 1982 AHRC PhD Studentship in collaboration with Imperial War Museums (IWM) and Keele University Reference number: HUMSS-AHRC 2018-01 Abstract This project will study the experiences of British service personnel during the 1982 Falklands …
Edited by Santanu Das and Kate McLoughlin This volume arose from a British Academy Landmark Conference organized in 2014 and is published by Oxford University Press for the British Academy. The book provides a more expanded and global understanding of First World War literature and culture Examines the work of …
VOX-Pol’s third biennial conference will take place at the University of Amsterdam on 20 – 21 August 2018, with post-conference workshops taking place on 22 August 2018. CALL FOR PAPERS We are seeking panels and papers describing and discussing in-depth and cutting-edge research on the intersections of violent extremism and/or terrorism and …
Convenors: Dina Matar & Matti Pohjonen Date: 31 May 2018 Call for papers: The public, and intellectual, mood about new media’s promise to bring about positive change globally, has recently turned eerily grim: the wisdom of crowds has been replaced by disinformation and fake news; grassroots activism by populism identified …
THE DANGEROUS NEW REALITIES OF REPORTING ON WAR New Book Lindsay Palmer More info here The September 11 attacks produced great changes in journalism and the lives of the people who practiced it. Foreign reporters felt surrounded by the hate of American colleagues for “the enemy.” Americans in combat areas …
Postgraduate and ECR Conference Saturday 26 May 2018, 9am-5pm TORCH, Radcliffe Humanities Building, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6GG Keynote Speaker: Professor Marita Sturken (Professor of Media, Culture and Communication, New York University) This one-day interdisciplinary conference is the culmination of the Mellon-Sawyer Seminar Series Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, Reconciliation. Over the …
A one-day interdisciplinary workshop exploring the crossover between IR and Art History, common concerns, and interdisciplinary advances with a view to establish a productive conceptual, methodological and analytical agenda for IR and Art Historical research. 30th June 2018; Department of War Studies, King’s College London, UK Event rationale: The nexus between …
Wanda Jakubowska’s The Last Stage and the Politics of Commemoration by Marek Haltof Order the paperback edition of Screening Auschwitz at a 25% discount at nupress.northwestern.edu: Code: NUP18 More details here Screening Auschwitz examines the classic Polish Holocaust lm The Last Stage (Ostatni etap), directed by the Auschwitz survivor Wanda …
5th International Conference of Photography & Theory (ICPT2018) International Association of Photography & Theory (IAPT) November 22-24, 2018 Nicosia, Cyprus www.photographyandtheory.com Keynote Speakers: Akram Zaatari. Filmmaker, photographer, archival artist, curator and co-founder of the Arab Image Foundation. Dr. Anthony Downey. Professor of Visual Culture in the Middle East and North Africa, …
Edited by Vaia Doudaki and Nico Carpentier http://berghahnbooks.com/title/DoudakiCyprus Introduction available here Publisher: Berghahn Books; 1 edition (November 30, 2017) ISBN 978-1-78533-724-6 Hb eISBN 978-1-78533-725-3 eBook BOOK DESCRIPTION The Mediterranean island of Cyprus is the site of enduring political, military, and economic conflict. This interdisciplinary collection takes Cyprus as a geographical, cultural and …
Postgraduate Forum Saturday 10 March 2018, 9am-5pm Oxford Brookes University, Headington Campus, Headington Road, OX3 0BP This exciting Postgraduate Creative Forum is part of the Mellon-Sawyer Seminar Series Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, Reconciliation, which explores and compares the ways in which commemorative practices across cultures both contribute to and challenge post-war …
Media, War and Conflict Journal 10th Anniversary Conference May 22nd-23rd 2018 Accademia Europea Di Firenze, Florence, Italy. Deadline for abstracts: 10th January 2018 Keynote: Professor Andrew Hoskins: MWC Founding Editor and Interdisciplinary Research Professor, University of Glasgow Film Screening: ‘The Faces We Lost’ Film Screening with Q&A with Director and Scholar …
