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      • For those who missed the Spaces of War Conference
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    • Editorial Intro to Contemporary soldiering
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    Shona Illingworth: ‘Topologies of Air’ UK launch and panel discussion

    January 20, 2023 /

    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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    Early Modern Military Identity Symposium

    July 20, 2015

    Commemoration, Memory, Archive: Programme Finalised, Registration Open

    August 6, 2018

    Graphic Brighton Symposium: Conflict and Resolution

    October 7, 2016
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    REIMAGINING THE FIELD OF MEDIA, WAR AND CONFLICT: Deadline 31st Jan

    January 12, 2023 /

    Don't miss the deadline for abstracts for the MWC 15th Anniversary pre-conference at ICA. 31st January.

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    Index on Censorship: The War of the words: Use of propaganda and censorship in conflicts

    March 27, 2014

    Complex Normalities: Soldier Memories and Politics of the Post- in Northern Ireland

    May 16, 2022

    CFP: Objects in and after hostilities: The material culture of conflict

    December 9, 2016
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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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    Conference : The Writer as Psychological Warrior

    June 24, 2021

    Women, Gender and the First World War: Home Fronts and War Fronts

    April 28, 2015

    Vote at Airspace Tribunal

    November 12, 2020
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    Complex Normalities: Soldier Memories and Politics of the Post- in Northern Ireland

    May 16, 2022 /

    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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    Contemporary Conflicts Talks: Imperial War Museum

    January 11, 2016

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

    February 24, 2016

    Media, War and Peacebuilding

    March 2, 2017
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    The War Seminars #3: War and Aesthetics. Live Stream

    September 22, 2021 /

    Live-Stream Links: Thursday, Sept. 23: https://youtu.be/6ohuRYLOQD8 Friday, Sept. 24: https://youtu.be/Mnnaeiz2T0A Ever since Homer opened the urtext of Western literature with the famous line “Rage – Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus’ son, Achilles,” war has been closely entwined with aesthetics. Both before, during, and after armed conflict, art and aesthetics have been a driving force in producing and inducing responses to war, oftentimes calibrating the sensuous apparatuses of populations in ways that aided the war effort, while sometimes also offering a set of counter-narratives and affects. The close bond between war and aesthetics has become ever tighter during the 20th and 21st centuries. The conquering of the perceptual field, to quote Paul…

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

    July 27, 2018

    Falklands/Malvinas: 35 Years On

    May 9, 2017

    Contemporary Conflicts Talks: Imperial War Museum

    January 11, 2016
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