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    • MWC Special Issue (12:1) Media and Terrorism in France
    • MWC Special Issue (11:4) Framing
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    • Spaces of War, War of Spaces Conference
      • For those who missed the Spaces of War Conference
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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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    Resistance to War 1914-1924

    January 28, 2015

    Documentary Screening of John Gianvito

    October 18, 2017

    Cultures of sound and the war without end

    February 27, 2015
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    Why Remember?: Tracing the Past

    March 23, 2023 /

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

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    REIMAGINING THE FIELD OF MEDIA, WAR AND CONFLICT

    October 27, 2022

    Women and War: Ireland in the Twentieth Century

    January 9, 2015

    CFP:Memory, Commemoration and Communication: Looking Back, Looking Forward

    November 10, 2015
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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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    Spaces of War: Corporeal War: CFP Deadline 10th Jan 2020

    January 8, 2020

    Visualising War Workshops

    February 26, 2021

    Fragment 53: UK Film Premiere

    April 12, 2016
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    REIMAGINING THE FIELD OF MEDIA, WAR AND CONFLICT: Deadline 31st Jan

    January 12, 2023 /

    Don't miss the deadline for abstracts for the MWC 15th Anniversary pre-conference at ICA. 31st January.

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    Killing for Show

    November 16, 2020

    CFP: Communication and Conflict: Syria and Iraq

    December 9, 2015

    The Media and WWI

    January 20, 2015
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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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    Contemporary Conflicts Talks: Imperial War Museum

    January 11, 2016

    Cry havoc! and let slip the dogs of war!

    January 11, 2016

    CFP: The global uses and abuses of hate speech discourse, approaching hate speech as political communication

    March 1, 2018
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