By Roger Stahl For more details click here Now that it has become so commonplace, we rarely blink an eye at camera footage framed by the crosshairs of a sniper’s gun or from the perspective of a descending smart bomb. But how did this weaponized gaze become the norm for…
Memoirs and Meanings of The Great War from Britain, France and Germany Authors: Palmer, Jerry Click here for more information This book analyses soldiers’ memoirs from the Great War of 1914-18 from Britain, France and Germany. It considers both the authors’ composition of the memoirs and the public response to…
Geopolitics, Gender and Nationalism in Film and Television Images of the 1992-95 War New book by Stephen Harper Click here for more information The Bosnian war of 1992-1995 was one of the most brutal conflicts to have erupted since the end of the Second World War. But although the war…
Edited by Tatiana Prorokova & Nimrod Tal Click here for more info and purchase “What makes this collection exciting and groundbreaking is its eagerness to look beyond familiar works devoted to familiar conflicts. The result is a refreshingly non- USA-centric survey of the graphic novel medium and its engagement with…
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…
