https://iamcr.org/awards/peace-fellowships With the goal of fostering academic dialogue and collaboration across conflict zones, the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) is pleased to announce the establishment of IAMCR Peace Fellowships. These two-year fellowships aim to unite scholars from regions or communities currently or recently embroiled in antagonistic conflicts. By offering travel grants, membership benefits, and platforms for academic discourse, we seek to create collaborative contact zones that transcend geopolitical boundaries and contribute to peace-building and mutual understanding.  The deadline for application is 15 December 2023.  Rationale Established during the Cold War by researchers from East and West, IAMCR has a long history of promoting academic collaboration and dialogue in situations…

Martin Sheen in Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 1979)

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…

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…

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