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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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    REIMAGINING THE FIELD OF MEDIA, WAR AND CONFLICT

    October 27, 2022 /

    CFP: ICA Pre-Conference: Thursday 25th May 2023 As part of the Media, War and Conflict Journal’s 15th year anniversary events. Abstracts, indicating which type of participation is requested (paper or poster), should be emailed to Katy Parry: k.j.parry@leeds.ac.uk . The deadline for receipt of abstracts is 31 January, 2023. Accepted participants will be notified by 28 February 2023. Registration will be via the ICA website and will open in March 2023 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…

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    CFP: Communication and Conflict: Syria and Iraq

    December 9, 2015

    Through the Crosshairs: War, Visual Culture, and the Weaponized Gaze

    July 27, 2018

    Rethinking Sustainable Development and Peace: Adapting to a Changing World in Crisis

    March 27, 2023
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    CFP: The War Face on Screen symposium

    March 28, 2023 /

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    Killing for Show

    November 16, 2020

    Warrior snapshots and throwaway lines

    February 27, 2015

    Commemoration of the Battle of the Somme 1916

    November 23, 2015
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    Rethinking Sustainable Development and Peace: Adapting to a Changing World in Crisis

    March 27, 2023 /

    Online International Conference, Liverpool Hope University, Hope Park Campus 26th June 2023 Organized by the Archbishop Desmond Tutu Centre for War and Peace Studies and SEARCH Centre of Liverpool Hope Business School The second decade of the century has been marked by interrelated crises seriously disrupting the social fabric of societies, and the possibilities of peace and development across the globe. The aftermath of COVID-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine and ongoing conflicts in other parts of the world, continuing global warming at unprecedented levels and economic hardship have become interlocking crises hampering the prospects for recovery, peaceful coexistence and sustainable development. Such crises have posed unprecedented challenges to peace…

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    Spaces of War: Corporeal War: CFP Extended Deadline 17th Jan 2020

    January 10, 2020

    Graphic Brighton Symposium: Conflict and Resolution

    October 7, 2016

    Tim Hetherington collection and conflict imagery network

    March 29, 2021
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    Martial Aesthetics: How War Became an Art Form

    March 23, 2023 /

    New Book by Anders Engberg-Pedersen Book information from Stanford University Press The twenty-first century has witnessed a pervasive militarization of aesthetics with Western military institutions co-opting the creative worldmaking of art and merging it with the destructive forces of warfare. In Martial Aesthetics, Anders Engberg-Pedersen examines the origins of this unlikely merger, showing that today’s creative warfare is merely the extension of a historical development that began long ago. Indeed, the emergence of martial aesthetics harkens back to a series of inventions, ideas, and debates in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Already then, military thinkers and inventors adopted ideas from the field of aesthetics about the nature, purpose, and force…

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    Calling Blighty: Lost Films of the British Army

    June 22, 2016

    Stages of War

    July 22, 2019

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

    June 21, 2017
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    Why Remember?: Tracing the Past

    March 23, 2023 /

    "Speaking Out" Exhibition at War Childhood Museum, Sarajevo.

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    November 12, 2020

    Through a Wall: The Role of the Artist, Activist and Academic in Addressing Belief and Conflict

    April 13, 2015
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    Politics, Propaganda and the Press: International Reactions to the Falklands/Malvinas Conflict

    March 6, 2023 /

    Author: Louise Clare 20% Discount Available – enter the code AFL01 at checkout** Please note that this discount code cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer or discount and only applies to books purchased directly via www.routledge.com. This code expires on 30 June 2023. For more information visit the Routledge website Book Description This book examines British and Argentine media output in the prelude to and during the 1982 Falklands/Malvinas Conflict and acknowledges the aftermath and legacies of the media response. Yards of ink have been spilt, reinforcing the view that the Argentine Junta’s action on 2nd April 1982 was a ‘diversion’ from domestic tensions. This view, coupled…

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    War of the Worlds to Social Media

    October 25, 2013

    CFP: Spaces of Conflict

    August 4, 2015

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

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