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REIMAGINING THE FIELD OF MEDIA, WAR AND CONFLICT
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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Shona Illingworth: ‘Topologies of Air’ UK launch and panel discussion
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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REIMAGINING THE FIELD OF MEDIA, WAR AND CONFLICT: Deadline 31st Jan
Don't miss the deadline for abstracts for the MWC 15th Anniversary pre-conference at ICA. 31st January.
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Complex Normalities: Soldier Memories and Politics of the Post- in Northern Ireland
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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Recognising and Responding to Genocide Denial: The Case of Rwanda
Volume edited by Catherine Gilbert, Paul Rukesha and Caroline Williamson Sinalo Denial of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda has significantly increased in recent years, with prominent intellectuals and journalists finding a growing voice in the mainstream media and in academic institutions. This volume will bring together Rwandan and international experts from academia and civil society working on issues related to the genocide against the Tutsi and its denial. The volume will engage in discussions about genocide denial in its many manifestations, delineating the major arguments of genocide deniers and the forms and patterns denial takes. It will also consider the consequences of genocide denial both in terms…
