The War and Media Network recognises the intersection between war and media as an important area of research and debate. The aim of the War and Media Network is to establish productive dialogue between academics and practitioners interested in the relationship between war and media including - but not limited to - journalists, policy makers, military members, researchers, artists, authors and film-makers. Join the network to keep in touch and up to date with relevant news and events.
Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester UK 24th & 25th May 2018. (Deadline for CFP: January 12, 2018) A conference on the intersections of conflict and pictures from the end of WWII until today. Since the end of World War II, the nature and depiction of geopolitical conflicts have changed in technology, …
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 …
Impressions Gallery, Bradford Until 30 December 2017 Curated by Dr Pippa Oldfield, No Man’s Land brings together rarely seen photographs made by women during the First World War, alongside contemporary works made by female artists a century later. Admission is free and more details, including links to press and a …
Round table at Carleton University, Dec. 1-3, 2017 Carleton University’s School of Journalism and Communication, in collaboration with the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) and the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) at Concordia University, will host a major international round table – Media and Mass Atrocity: …
by Joanna Bourke Reaktion Books £40.00 This sumptuously illustrated volume, edited by eminent war historian Joanna Bourke, offers a comprehensive visual, cultural and historical account of the ways in which armed conflict has been represented in art. Covering the last two centuries, the book shows how the artistic portrayal of …
Saturday 4th Nov to Monday 6th Nov The Centre for Film & Ethics at Queen Mary University of London, in collaboration with Close-Up Cinema, is pleased to present American documentary director John Gianvito’s complete seminal diptych For Example, the Philippines over one weekend. A screening of Vapor Trail (Clark) (2010) on Saturday, 4 November will …
An international conference investigating war, literature, and art at the United States Air Force Academy on September 20-21, 2018 solicits both disciplinary and interdisciplinary presentations on “Representing and Remembering War.” The conference seeks a variety of genre submissions, both critical and creative, including literary criticism, journalism, rhetorical analysis, cultural …
26th to 29th October 2018 The Oxford Centre for Life Writing, in partnership with the Western Front Association and the Wilfred Owen Association, is pleased to be hosting a conference to mark the centenary of Wilfred Owen’s death. Call For Papers: The closing date for submissions is Friday 20 October …
By Robertson Allen “A rigorous and fascinating glimpse of what is more than just one online game. America’s Digital Army opens up crucial issues about the conflation of war and work, play and drill, pleasure and simulation, as well as the labor involved in the production of the militarized, fear-ridden cultural politics of …
By Kent Puckett Associate Professor of English at UC Berkeley Click here for more information In this original and engaging work, author Kent Puckett looks at how British filmmakers imagined, saw, and sought to represent its war during wartime through film. The Second World War posed unique representational challenges to …
Edited by Ann-Marie Einhaus, Katherine Isobel Baxter A new exploration of literary and artistic responses to WW1 from 1914 to the present This authoritative reference work examines literary and artistic responses to the war’s upheavals across a wide range of media and genres, from poetry to pamphlets, sculpture to television …
By Daniel Binns ISBN 9781783207541 Published July 2017 Combining action, violence, and deeply conflicted emotions, war has always been a topic made for the big screen. In The Hollywood War Film, Daniel Binns considers how war has been depicted throughout the history of cinema. Looking at depictions of both …
