6 – 7 th March 2013 Defence Academy of the United Kingdom, Shrivenham This symposia is not simply about how the military uses social media. It’s about discussing how communication towards policy and operational ends is changed by connectedness, how organisations and policymakers might adapt and how culture and social…
Using audiovisual research methods to investigate the role of images in international security. Click here for info During the last few decades, visuality and visual media has become paramount in the practices that make up international security. The instant release of video and still images from the killing of Osama…
City University, London, 29th November 2012. 1830-2000. The political and technological changes which have reshaped the world since the end of the Cold War have brought new challenges for those who report on conflict. This panel discussion will consider what those challenges are, and how they can best be met. Those…
23rd and 24th April 2013 University of Lisbon One of the greatest paradoxes of the 21st century is the fact that, even though western societies have reached an outstanding scientific and technological development, fear and insecurity continue to be very much alive in public discourse as well as in our…
Berlin December 13th-16th, 2012 The ICD Annual Conference on Cultural Diplomacy www.icd-academy.org The ICD Annual Conference on Cultural Diplomacy 2012 is the year-end concluding event of the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy. Taking place in Berlin, the aim of the conference is to review in detail, debate, and evaluate the most…
This two-day conference for activists, academics and the public aims to explore Britain’s use of torture since 1945; its complicity in torture; and what might be done to end both. Friday 15 and Saturday 16 February 2013 Venue: Amnesty International UK, London Jointly organised by the Centre for Applied Philosophy,…
Monday 18 March 2013 at Cumberland Lodge, Windsor Great Park www.cumberlandlodge.ac.uk/difficulthistories The study of history, according to David Willetts, is crucial to the operation of a ‘free society’. But what should be taught, and how? Which interpretations of contested histories should be given priority? And how should traumatic and upsetting…
Workshop at the University of Amsterdam March 4-5, 2013 The security politics of the European Union and its member states are increasingly geared toward preemptive and anticipatory objectives. From countering radicalisation to terrorist proscription and listing; from critical infrastructure protection to cybersecurity; from tracing movements of persons across borders to tracking…
Saturday 17 November, 12-5pm, Ian Gulland Lecture Theatre, Goldsmiths, University of London Day conference on media, war and terrorism to mark the publication of ‘Media and Terrorism: Global Perspectives’, edited by Des Freedman and Daya Thussu (Sage Publications) Speakers include John Pilger, Peter Oborne (Telegraph), Seamus Milne (Guardian), Jeremy Corbyn…
Memories of Conflict, Conflicts of Memory International Conference 13- 14 February, 2013 Senate House, London Organised by: Institute of Germanic& Romance Studies Faculty Institute of Graduate Studies, University College London Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory There are very few facets of public and private life that are not…
Memory, Peace and Security 9 Nov – 10 Nov 2012 To be held at the University of Indianapolis, in Athens There used to be a difference between memory and history, and journalism happened to lie in between them. It seemed to translate memory into a pool of news validated as…
Interrogating Trauma in the Humanities International Interdisciplinary Conference 20-23 August 2012 University of Lincoln, UK Since 9/11 and the so called ‘terror attacks’, questions surrounding the nature of traumatic experience and how that experience may be presented/represented have dominated the Humanities. This has led to a range of critical works…
