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  • Media War and Conflict Journal
    • REIMAGINING THE FIELD OF MEDIA, WAR AND CONFLICT
    • Spaces of War: Corporeal War
    • MWC Special Issue (12:1) Media and Terrorism in France
    • MWC Special Issue (11:4) Framing
    • MWC Special Issue (11:1) INFOCORE
    • Spaces of War, War of Spaces Conference
      • For those who missed the Spaces of War Conference
    • MWC Special Issue (10:1) Reporting from the Front
    • MWC Special Issue (9:1): Contemporary soldiering
    • Editorial Intro to Contemporary soldiering
    • MWC Centenary Special Issue (7:3)
    • MWC Editor’s Collections: Media, Israel and Conflict
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    New Book – Sport and the Pursuit of War and Peace from the Nineteenth Century to the Present: War Minus the Shooting?

    February 22, 2023 /

    Edited by Martin Hurcombe & Philip Dine Available to pre-order. Use code SMA31 to get a 20% discount. Valid until 31 March 2023. This volume of wide-ranging essays by sport historians and sociologists examines the complex relations of war, peace and sport through a series of case studies from South and North America, Europe, North Africa, Asia and New Zealand. From formal military training in the late nineteenth century to contemporary esports, the relationship between military and sporting cultures has endured across nations in times of conflict and peace. This collection contextualizes debates around the morality and desirability of continuing to play sport against the backdrop of war as others are…

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    Mediating Gaza

    March 12, 2015

    Visualising War Podcast

    April 21, 2021

    Book Launch: When War Is Over – Photography and the Memory of War

    February 24, 2016
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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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    Military and the Media symposium

    April 8, 2015

    ISA-ICOMM Conference “Communication, Peace and Security in the 21st Century”

    October 26, 2015

    The Hollywood War Film Critical Observations from World War I to Iraq

    June 21, 2017
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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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    CFP: Taking Stock of Research on Violent Political Extremism

    February 19, 2016

    Broadcasting War

    January 25, 2017

    CFP: Objects in and after hostilities: The material culture of conflict

    December 9, 2016
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    REIMAGINING THE FIELD OF MEDIA, WAR AND CONFLICT

    October 27, 2022 /

    ICA Pre-Conference: Thursday 25th May 2023 As part of the Media, War and Conflict Journal’s 15th year anniversary events. Download Programme Download List of Participants Download Book of Abstracts Click here for Poster Exhibits 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 the sphere of mainstream media and politics, where extant research in the field of war and media has not always been acknowledged. Journalistic institutions face continued pressures on their authority as the…

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    CFP: Pack Up Your Troubles. Performance Cultures in the First World War

    October 6, 2015

    Falklands/Malvinas: War, Media and Society – History and Legacy

    January 23, 2019

    CFP: Objects in and after hostilities: The material culture of conflict

    December 9, 2016
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    Complex Normalities: Soldier Memories and Politics of the Post- in Northern Ireland

    May 16, 2022 /

    CMNH Occasional Seminar (online) Annemarie Majlund Jensen (Aarhus University, Denmark) 19th May, 6pm to 7:30pm (online) All welcome. Book now The past presence – and present absence – of the British Army in Northern Ireland often reappears in accounts of the island’s transformation from a place ridden by violent political and sectarian conflict into a place now on the surface ‘normal’, as it were. In this context, how to tell a research story able to convey a perspective of soldiering during recent times of violent political upheaval? And how to understand what it is like to remember experiences of soldiering today, amid, on the one hand: ongoing contestation over how…

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    Warrior snapshots and throwaway lines

    February 27, 2015

    Art and Reconciliation

    November 16, 2018

    Kajaki: New British War Film

    November 24, 2014
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