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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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    CFP: The War Face on Screen symposium

    March 28, 2023 /

    Martin Sheen in Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 1979)

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    CFP: Two-way Tickets: Travel, Home and War

    February 1, 2017

    Photographies and Conflict: Archiving and Consuming Images of Strife

    January 9, 2018

    Military and the Media symposium

    April 8, 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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    Inside Conflict: War through the Lens of Soldiers and Civilians

    August 24, 2015

    Are you listening now? Humanitarian communication in disasters

    April 22, 2016

    NATO on Emerging Security Challenges

    February 7, 2016
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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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    Drawing Wars: Art and Cultural Memory

    April 10, 2019

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

    March 27, 2014

    Falklands/Malvinas: War, Media and Society – History and Legacy

    January 23, 2019
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    Why Remember?: Tracing the Past

    March 23, 2023 /

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

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    Journal of Digital War Launch

    December 3, 2020

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

    January 10, 2020

    Commemoration, Memory, Archive

    May 10, 2018
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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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    Women, Gender and the First World War: Home Fronts and War Fronts

    April 28, 2015

    Killing for Show

    November 16, 2020

    This is War: British Journal of Photography

    October 2, 2014
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