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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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CFP: The War Face on Screen symposium
Martin Sheen in Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 1979)
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Rethinking Sustainable Development and Peace: Adapting to a Changing World in Crisis
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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Martial Aesthetics: How War Became an Art Form
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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Why Remember?: Tracing the Past
"Speaking Out" Exhibition at War Childhood Museum, Sarajevo.
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Politics, Propaganda and the Press: International Reactions to the Falklands/Malvinas Conflict
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…
