For those who were unable to attend the MWC 10th Anniversary Conference: Spaces of War, War of Spaces in Florence this May, you can catch up on what you missed below with our curated tweets from the two days. Alternatively you visit #spacesofwar on Twitter
Friday-Saturday 9-10 November 2018 Stanford University Keynote Speaker: JAY WINTER Charles J. Stille Professor Emeritus of History, Yale University CALL FOR PAPERS At 11am on November 11, 1918, the armistice that effectively ended the First World War was signed. What came to be known as “The Great War” had a…
Investigating commemorative and memorial uses of personal, non-professional images in the digital age in the Global South For more details visit Photomemory Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, University of Sussex 4th and 5th September 2018 The commemorative and memorial use of personal, private images in the context of large-scale violence…
Workshop Two: Seeing War: War and Cultural Memory Friday 25 May St. Luke’s Chapel, TORCH, University of Oxford Funded by a British Academy Rising Stars Engagement Award This interdisciplinary seminar series ‘Cultures and Commemorations of War’ brings together early career researchers and advanced scholars working on the memory of war in…
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…
