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Warning about War: Conflict, Persuasion and Foreign Policy
By Christoph O. Meyer, King’s College London , Chiara De Franco, University of Southern Denmark , Florian Otto, Control Risks, Frankfurt Publisher: Cambridge University PressExpected online publication date: August 2019Print publication year: 2019Online ISBN:9781108644006 more details here Book description What does it take for warnings about violent conflict and war to be listened to, believed and acted upon? Why are warnings from some sources noticed and largely accepted, while others are ignored or disbelieved? These questions are central to considering the feasibility of preventing harm to the economic and security interests of states. Challenging conventional accounts that tend to blame decision-makers’ lack of receptivity and political will, the authors offer a new theoretical framework explaining how distinct…
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Stages of War
Academic and Popular Representations of Large-Scale Conflicts 26-27 March 2020Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands The conference ‘The Stage of War’ focuses on academic and popular representations of war and other large-scale conflicts. Nowadays, the cultural engagement with the history of violent conflicts spans a multitude of academic and above all popular genres, including (graphic) novels, films, tourism, musicals, games, exhibitions and re-enactments. Producers of popular genres try to bring the past closer to the public through interaction, performance and multi- sensory experience, often to the discontent of academic historians who fear for a distorted or trivialized past. Nonetheless, research indicates that these popular genres can significantly affect and enhance our…
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Docu-Fictions of War
U.S. Interventionism in Film and Literature by Tatiana Prorokova May 2019Visit the publishers site for more information About the Book Historical writing and fiction are not the same thing, though historians often creatively manipulate material in imposing plot structures, selecting starting and ending points, and fashioning compelling literary characters from historical figures. In Docu-Fictions of War, Tatiana Prorokova argues that the opposite is also true—war fiction offers a kind of history that both documents its subjects and provides a snapshot of the cultural representation of the United States’ most recent military involvements. She covers a largely neglected body of cinematic and literary texts about the First Gulf War, the Balkan War,…
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Drawing Wars: Art and Cultural Memory
Cultures and Commemorations of War Workshop Five Thursday 9 May, 10.30 – 17.30 Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford Registration is now open for this free event on Drawing Wars: Art and Cultural Memory at the University of Oxford. This event features a keynote conversation with the world-famous graphic novelist Joe Sacco (Palestine, Safe Area Goražde, The Fixer, Footnotes in Gaza, Journalism), as well as talks by the Yemeni street artist Murad Subay, Bram Ttwheam, Monica Bohm-Duchen, Steve Dixon, Johnny Magee and Tony Crowley. All details and links to registration below. A one-day interdisciplinary workshop considering the artistic and visual representation of war The interdisciplinary seminar series ‘Cultures and Commemorations of War’ brings together early career researchers and advanced scholars with practitioners, policy…
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Visualising War in Different Media: Interplay and Intervention
An immersive workshop organised by Alice König (arw6@st-andrews.ac.uk) Monday 8th April 2019 The aim: This immersive workshop will offer researchers an opportunity to reflect, in an interdisciplinary context, on two important issues at the heart of the Visualising War research project: the power of different media to generate varying responses to war for different viewers/audiences in different periods and places; and the ways in which interaction between different media can influence our reception of individual narratives and broader habits of visualising war. Following on from the project’s recent Ethics of Engagement workshop, there will be a particular focus on war stories as ‘interventions’, with input from researchers, artists and performers. In particular, we…
