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…
Journal of Applied Journalism and Media Studies SPECIAL ISSUE CFP: Should I post that picture or issue that story? Journalistic practices in the representation of the migrant crisis Guest editors: Vittoria Sacco and Valérie Gorin Human migration is not a new phenomenon. However, recently it has gained substantial space in…
For those unable to attend the one day Symposium INSIDE CONFLICT: WAR THROUGH THE LENSES OF SOLDIERS AND CIVILIANS held at University of Sussex on Friday 30th October we have captured all the tweets from the day and posted below and here on Storify. You can also visit #insideconflict on Twitter. [View the story…
New York-based Australian Matt Huynh has created an interactive graphic novelisation of Nam Le’s award-winning story, The Boat a story about a 16-year-old refugee sent off alone by her parents after the fall of Saigon. The Boat forms part of SBS’s commemoration of 40 years of Vietnamese resettlement in Australia.…
Blog post By Andrew Hoskins, University of Glasgow @andrewhoskins Digital networks and databases appear to crush historical distance. Archives of war increasingly come to us. A simple YouTube search throws up a chaotic mix of official and unauthorised, user-generated content, from helmet cam footage to images of snipers in the…
