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The events listed below are organised by external partners of the War and Media Network. Please use to the links provided to obtain more information about each event. To advertise an event please email Sarah Maltby with the relevant details. |
Ordnance: War, Architecture and Space SCREENS OF TERROR
REPRESENTATIONS OF WAR AND TERRORISM SINCE 9/11 IN FILM, TV DRAMA & DOCUMENTARY
In an effort to ‘re-brand’ US foreign policy, Washington consulted with the advertising and PR industries and within days of 9/11 – itself often described as being ‘like a movie’ – also consulted Hollywood. At the time, it was widely expected that the film and television industries would help out with the ‘war on terror’ declared by the Bush administration after 9/11. Nearly ten years on, this conference examines whether those initial expectations have been borne out. For further details please contact Phil.Hammond@lsbu.ac.uk or visit the website Politics of Fear; Fear of Politics We anticipate that these and related issues will be of interest to people working in, among others, philosophy, ethics, political theory, politics, sociology, social policy, literature, cultural studies, history, art, architecture, photography, geography, psychology, planning, refugee studies, urban studies and area studies. Global Media and the ‘War on Terror’: an international conference Monday 13 - Tuesday 14 September 2010 : University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London Organized by Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI) of the University of Westminster, London, in collaboration with the Department of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London. Conference organizers: Professor Daya Thussu, University of Westminster, and Dr Des Freedman, Goldsmiths, University of London. As we enter the tenth year after the events of 9/11, it is an appropriate time to evaluate the media’s relationship to a changed geo-political environment and to pose questions about media performance and influence in relation to this post-9/11 period. Have the media contributed to exacerbating the political, cultural and religious divides within Western societies and the world at large? Has the digital revolution given voice to a multiplicity of views that have helped to counter hegemonic media discourses? How can media be deployed to enrich not inhibit dialogue and to what extent has the media, in all its forms, questioned, celebrated or simply accepted the unleashing of a ‘war on terror’? This international conference brings together leading scholars and eminent journalists from across the globe to examine and discuss how the world’s media have been influenced by 9/11 and its aftermath. Although nearly a decade has passed, the continuing conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, the persistent phenomenon of terrorism, and the domestic repercussions of the ‘war on terror’ (including Islamophobia, a growing surveillance culture and restrictions on civil liberties) still shape media discourses around the world today. Suggested topics for papers include, but are not restricted to, the following: Rethinking the politics of terrorism – global and national perspectives Representations of terrorism in popular culture – from TV to gaming Public opinion in the post-9/11 era Surveillance, spying and subversion of democracy Comparative studies of global terrorism Cultural contexts of 9/11—demonization of Islam and the West Spinning the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan Reporting and conducting the wars online Media strategies of terrorists Frontline forum – journalistic experiences of covering terrorism Hollywoodization and Bollywoodization of the ‘war on terror’ Evaluating the ‘al-Jazeera effect’ Keynote speakers:
Professor Todd Gitlin: Columbia University, USA Other plenary speakers to include Professor Jean Seaton, University of Westminster; Professor Rune Ottosen (Norway); Dahr Jamal (US-based independent journalist); Professor Stig Arne-Nohrstedt (Sweden); Professor Elena Vartanova (Russia) and Professor Lena Jayyusi (UAE). The conference reflects the substantial and growing research in international journalism within CAMRI which runs numerous innovative and international conferences every year. In its 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, the UK’s Higher Education Funding Council ranked CAMRI as the best media and communication research centre in the country. For more information: one to Professor Daya Thussu at D.K.Thussu@westminster.ac.uk and another to Helen Cohen, Events Administrator for the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication at journalism@westminster.ac.uk. Anti-Terrorism, Citizenship and Security in the UK
Lee Jarvis (Swansea University) and Michael Lister (Oxford Brookes University) would like to invite you to participate in an ESRC-funded workshop on Anti-Terrorism, Citizenship and Security in the UK. The workshop will be held at Swansea University's Department of Political and Cultural Studies on 15-16 July 2010, and we are pleased to offer accommodation, travel and subsistence for those presenting papers. The aim of the workshop is to bring together scholars from across the social sciences with an interest in the consequences and impacts of contemporary anti-terrorism policy. The workshop's remit is a broad one, but potential topics to be explored include the following:
The workshop concludes a one year research project exploring these themes thorough the conduct of focus groups within the United Kingdom. Further information on this project is available here. Should you have any further questions on the workshop please do contact the organisers:
Lee Jarvis: l.jarvis@swansea.ac.uk Michael Lister: mlister@brookes.ac.uk
REPORTING WAR: EXPLORING THE WAY FORWARD
Media in conflict situations, with special focus on Iraq and Afghanistan
Reporting War: Exploring the Way Forward will bring together academics, researchers, journalists and bloggers to facilitate a debate on improving conflict reportage, relating it to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Below is an indicative list of questions that may be discussed at the symposium. You are welcome to suggest/contribute on other related topics as well:
The event is free, open to anyone interested in
exploring the topic. Please register your name
by emailing Chindu Sreedharan, or visit the website.
Lunch and beverages will be provided free of charge.
War and the Body Exhibition Organised by The War and Media Network and City University The War and the Body exhibition explores the intertwining of war and body in the sculpture, drawing, painting, photography and installation art work of contemporary artists. Artists will be discussing their work during a private view and networking evening on the 10th June.
The exhibition is running in coordination with the War and Body Conference. For more information visit the website or contact Sarah Maltby War and the Body War and the Body invites proposals that seek to explore the embodied history of war as well as recent transformations in warfare. Through what practices, techniques and metaphors has war historically occupied various bodies? From advanced warfighters to private military contractors, child soldiering to ethnic cleansing, is war assuming predatory new embodied formations? To what extent is war deterritorialized and brought home through bodily practices such as militarized leisure and fashion, security and surveillant assemblages? How do bodies bear witness to the histories and transformative power of war through representations of bodily violence and corporeal memorializations? Recognizing the growing interest in the embodiment of human life and social action across the humanities and social sciences, War and the Body aims to bring together international scholars and researchers from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds and perspectives who share a common thematic concern with the intertwining of war and the body. As such, it acknowledges the importance of the body as an increasingly productive site for rethinking and retooling the historical and sociological imaginations. For more information please visit the website Organizing Committee Kevin McSorley, University of Portsmouth (kevin.mcsorley@port.ac.uk) Sarah Maltby, City University, London (sarah.maltby.1@city.ac.uk) Gavin Schaffer, University of Portsmouth (gavin.schaffer@port.ac.uk)
The Inaugural Media Operations
and Public Affairs Symposium
For further details Contact Caroline Dawson on: T: +44(0) 1793 785268 E: caroline@symposiaatshrivenham.com or visit the website www.symposiaatshrivenham.com Abstacts should be submitted by 6 November 2009 Selling Politics and War Invited speakers include Paolo Mancini (Università di Perugia) and Philip Hammond (London South Bank University). The last years have witnessed an increasing interest in how the media relate to the political sphere, and more specifically within the realm of our present mediatized world, on the relationship between media coverage of crisis situations such as elections and war. Indeed, the media is more and more implicated as an agent in the political process and as a privileged intermediary to sell the wars to the mass publics, and, as a result of it, politics and war have become a second-hand reality to the public who do not encounter them in a direct manner but rather through the media. Furthermore, the recent developments of information technology and the spread of internet have impacted both on the media landscape and the communication of politics resulting in an increasingly uncertain environment. The I International Graduate conference on Media and Communication (ICMC) at the University of Porto will provide a timely opportunity to spark a discussion on the dynamics between media and the political world, in different countries, with a particular focus on the role of the media in exceptional times: the way candidates and parties are covered during elections campaigns and the media performance in wartime periods.
For more information, please visit: http://icmc2010.wordpress.com/ Islam and the Media Media, Communication and the Spectacle 26-27 November 2009 Venue: Erasmus University Rotterdam Organised by ERMeCC (Erasmus Research Centre for >Media, Communication and Culture) together with ECREA's Gender & >Communication, Communication & Democracy, and Film Studies sections >and the Young Scholars' Network. For more information visit the website Representing the War on Terror: post 9/11 television drama and documentary 21 November 2009 Venue: One day conference at the ATRiuM, CCI, University of Glamorgan, Cardiff The phrase ‘the War on Terror’ has become shorthand for the West’s response to the attack on New York’s twin towers in September 2001, and has never been far from our television screens since. Although the phrase itself is controversial, television has engaged directly, and obliquely, with the new realities of the post-9/11 world. Much of the coverage has been in news, current affairs and documentaries, but there have also been several significant one-off filmed dramas made by UK companies (largely independents) and transmitted by broadcasters in the UK and abroad to considerable acclaim. These range from an account of the attack itself (The Hamburg Cell, C4 2004); to an examination of the David Kelley affair (The
Government Inspector C4, 2005); to a projected assassination of the US President (Death of a President C4 2006); to an analysis of the radicalisation of British Muslims in the BAFTA-winning Britz (C4 2007); to an account of the arrest, imprisonment and release of British citizens in Guantanamo Bay (The Road to Guantanamo C4 2006); to an exploration of the
role of the British army and mercenaries in Iraq (Occupations, BBC 2009). War at a Distance: Documentary Practice, Visual Culture, and Public Conversations about Canada in Afghanistan October 30 & 31, 2009 Ryerson Universiy Keynote Speaker Barbie Zelizer
Raymond Williams Chair of Communication at the University of
Pennsylvania
"When Images of War Don't Show Us War and What They Show Us Instead"
This two-day symposium and associated exhibition at Gallery TPW will
explore the ways in which new representational practices are mediating
the terms on which Canadians struggle to make sense of military conflict
and in particular, the war in Afghanistan. While war has always been
mediated through image and narrative, new technologies and forms of
documentary and artistic practice are continuing to alter the range of
impressions available to a civic culture. Representations of the Afghani
conflict have appeared (and continue to appear) in forms as diverse as
television news reportage, feature length documentary film, radio
docudrama, hand held videos posted on YOUTUBE, illustrated Internet
blogs, and recorded conversations with the family and friends of
Canadian servicemen and women (as well as those of non-military
personnel working in non-governmental organizations).
The Costs of War: Photography from the Gaza-Israel-Lebanon Frontlines 19-22 October it will be on view in the Chapel of King’s College London Friday 23 to Thursday 29 October it will be on display at the Blackall Studios, 73 Leonard Street, EC2. The exhibit of war photography, featuring the work of Palestinian and Israeli photo-journalists working on the Gaza-Israel-Lebanon frontlines, will debut at the LCACE Inside Out Festival in October 2009 For more information visit the Costs of War page
Today, war is conducted not only by the dispatch of Tomahawks in the air or Kalashnikovs and suicide attacks on the ground but also by means of bytes, tweets, digital images, and social networking forums. (New) media technology, in other words, has become a medium of war and diplomacy. This multidisciplinary two-day symposium in October hosted by the Department of International Relations at the ANU will map the shifting arena of war, conflict, terrorism, and violence in an intensely mediated age. The symposium will bring together international relations academics, media scholars and media practitioners, policymakers and defence staff. It will explore cultural, political, strategic, and technological transformations in media platforms and media participation and assess their impact on policy, publics, and outcomes of political conflict. The symposium addresses questions such as: What is 'new' about new media? How have the transformations in media technology influenced media-military relations? How have these transformations impacted upon traditional media actors? How are war, conflict, terrorism and violence represented; what are the consequences of these representations? In what ways has new media technology empowered marginalised voices in war, conflict, and terrorism? And how has the transformation of the media landscape impacted on the way states conduct their foreign policy?
Keynote speakers: Click here for more information Photography and International Conflict 25-27 June 2009 University College Dublin This conference will bring together scholars and practitioners in the fields of visual media and international relations to examine the roles of image producers and the functions of photographic imagery in the documentation and communication of wars, violent conflicts and human rights issues. The conference is the first major event of an international research project on this topic. Speakers include: Papers might address one or more of the following topics:
Please submit a 300 word abstract by 30 April 2009 to Dr Caitlin Patrick. For further details, see www.ucdclinton.ie
Strategic Communications in Countries Emerging from Violent Conflict Albany Associates and Post Conflict People 24-25th June 2009 Cumberland Hotel This two-day event for policy-makers, communications practitioners, academics and media will establish how strategic communications can be incorporated into policy at an early stage and how to win the critical battle for 'hearts and minds'. Bringing together experts from a range of backgrounds, this will be a platform to share experience and knowledge, to formalise thinking and to consider models for implementation. We are expecting delegates from the UK and US Governments, the EU, NATO, the United Nations and other International organisations, NGO's, Academics, Media, Independent Communications Experts, Defence Specialists and the Private Sector. To register your interest at no obligation, please click on the following link www.albanyassociates.com/conference.php
Conference themes
Call for submissions:
We encourage scholars, researchers, journalists and civil society groups
from across the world and with different disciplinary backgrounds to
participate in this timely and unique conference. Please send all submissions and enquiries to Khalil Agha (Conference
Coordinator) on: e-mail: info@cammro.com; Tel: +44 (0) 78998 78485 Conflict prevention in the multimedia-age
Opportunities and challenges posed by new technologies and consumer habits
Digitalization, on-demand services, blogs and Web 2.0: The world of multimedia is in transition. The second Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum will primarily highlight the rapid technological development in the world of media and debate the ensuing questions related to modified usage.
In light of these changes, the conference will examine the future of content delivery, especially for topics pertaining to peace and security.
Do the changes in technology and user profiles influence the way in which the media report on conflicts - or do they directly influence the way in which a war is fought? What about the impact on peace-building processes and conflict prevention strategies? What are the main challenges for the international media during this technological revolution? How have the expectations of viewers, listeners and users changed, and what is the best way to reach them in the digital age?
Deutsche Welle's Global Media Forum 2009 will bring together media users and producers, peace building and conflict prevention specialists, representatives from the fields of media technology and security, public relations, the military, the arms industry as well as members of government and political parties to network and discuss the challenges and solutions for the future.
For more information visit the website
"These are the days after. Everything is now measured by after." This conference aims to gather together literary and cultural critics with historians to explore the multiple meanings of the 'post-war', a term that only arrived in the English language after 1945. Is there a distinctive post-war sensibility or 'structure of feeling'? Can we speak of post-catastrophic society or 'aftermath cultures'? What is the role of war in recent historical periodisations and cultural histories? Who gets to define the post-war? How do literary or cultural representations transform understanding of war experience and legacy? Have rhetorics of collective liberation and struggle been replaced by individualising discourses of melancholy and trauma?
We invite papers on any relevant area of research in the post-1945 era. Topics might include: World War II memory, historical revisionism, sacrificial logics, literatures of war, war trauma, homecomings, individual & collective legacies of conflict, war and nationality, war and historical periodisation, photojournalism, reportage, guerrilla war, war and the avant-garde, veterans and survivors, memorialisation, reparations, home fronts, civilians and rules of engagement, women and war, truth and reconciliation, apologies, war crimes tribunals, war and melancholia, The war on terror, colonial war, wars of resistance, Holocaust testimony, wars of liberation, Korean War, Algerian War, Vietnam, Northern Ireland, the Gulf Wars, Yugoslavia.
Send suggestions for papers or panels to: Professor Roger Luckhurst, or Claire Feehily by 31st December 2008.
Is war an extension of politics by other means? The locomotive of technology?
Is it humankind in its most natural state; or is human society - despite
perceptions and ongoing conflict around the world today - actually moving
toward an aversion to war and a state of peace? This inter-disciplinary and
multi-disciplinary conference seeks to provide a challenging forum
for the examination and evaluation of the nature, purpose and experience of
war, and its impacts on all aspects of security, human security and to
communities across the world. Viewing war as a multi-layered, multi-factorial
phenomenon, the conference series seeks to explore the historical, legal,
social, human, religious, economic, and political contexts of conflicts, and
assess the place of art, journalism, literature, music, the media and the
internet in representation and interpretation of the experience of warfare.
The conference is part of the 'Probing the Boundaries' programme of
research projects. It aims to bring together people from different areas
and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are
innovative and exciting. A number of volumes of themed papers are in
preparation and/or in print from the previous meetings of this project.
All papers accepted for and presented at this conference will be
eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers accepted for
and presented at the conference will be published in a themed hard copy
volume.
For further details about the project please visit: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ptb/wvw/war.htm For further details about the conference please visit: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ptb/wvw/wvw6/cfp.html
For many years, terrorism has been a hot button issue that has preoccupied academics, media professionals and citizens throughout the world. Terrorism itself is a contested concept and different societies/nations/groups have had divergent experiences with terrorism. Until the catastrophic events of 9/11 and the consequences set into motion for the world, United States’ experience with international terrorism was limited. Reactions to those events, through passage of laws, vigorous police measures, and military initiatives have placed the United States on a continuous war footing. The new measures adopted both in US and worldwide put restraints on freedoms, such as freedom of expression and of the press, that Americans themselves cherished and exported to other nations.
We are inviting scholars and public figures interested in mass communications and media studies, law and policy, history, political science, psychology, sociology and education to submit a 500-word maximum proposal on terrorism, conflict and society.
For further information about the conference, contact: Dr. Banu Baybars-Hawks
War and Public Sphere Undoubtedly, the playing out of war in the public sphere is one of the most significant developments of modern warfare. The inclusion of civilians, not only as “manpower” and an increasingly vulnerable target of hostile actions but also for legitimating war in face of its tremendous economic and social consequences, requires the mobilization of society as a whole. Consequently, the “total war”, so dramatically experienced for the first time in World War I, brought along with it massive changes in the social organization of warfare, including the role of the media and public opinion. Click here for more information Twenty Years at the Margins:
The Herman-Chomsky Propaganda Model
and Critical Media and Communication Studies, 1988-2008 Please submit a detailed paper proposal/abstract (500 words) to Dr Andy Mullen no later than Friday 12 September 2008 or to register your interest in attending. Media, Security & Religion The annual conference of the Political Studies Association's Media and Politics Specialist Group invites submissions for this conference on the relationship between security, religion and representations of this within contemporary media. Contemporary discourse tends to characterise security concerns in the language of religion. According to politicians, media and an increasing number of academics, the resurgence of religion as a major actor in domestic and international politics, especially in its fundamentalist expressions in Islam and Christianity, has profound security implications as most obviously espoused in domestic and foreign policy making. At a time when political ideological divisions are less prominent, it can be suggested that religion now forms the 'other' in political discourse. In this way, political conflict is not between, for example, the ideas of Marx and Adam Smith, but between followers of Darwin, Mohammed and Jesus, and for some this might suggest a return to a kind of pre-Enlightenment thinking. The role of religious actors as protagonists and/or mediators in the war on terror has been variously developed, sustained and challenged by media coverage. The conference is themed around this discourse, which suggests a linkage of security with religion, and is also concerned to explore the role of the modern media in the re-presentation and construction in this process. Please send abstracts of around 250 words to either Heather Savigny h.savigny@uea.ac.uk or Lee Marsden l.marsden@uea.ac.uk Media, War and Conflict-Resolution Our presenters will discuss subjects from interdisciplinary perspectives to explore and contest themes about the media’s role in the current geopolitical context. Accomplished faculty members, graduate students and professionals from the media will explore the relationship among media, war, and conflict resolution historically and as they relate to current events nationally and internationally. The goal of this conference is to question the paradigms and practices associated with the study of media as it relates to wars, conflicts and the processes involved in ending or resolving wars and other conflicts. For more information http://scs.bgsu.edu/mwcrConf/index.php Reconsidering Conflict, Terror and Resolution The Strathclyde Conflict and Resolution (SCAR) group is hosting an interdisciplinary conference which will analyse the themes of conflict, terror and resolution at various levels: past-present; private-public; local-global. In doing so it aims to reach across disciplinary barriers by bringing together experts from the whole of the social sciences spectrum, including (but not limited to) politics, history, law, sociology and psychology. Such a holistic analysis of conflict and terror will provoke, stimulate and question contemporary thought, while advocating the need for joint efforts to address common challenges. For more details please visit www.strath.ac.uk/scar or contact us at Understanding Conflicts-Cross-Cultural Perspectives An international, interdisciplinary research conference
on the diversity of conceptions and cultural images of conflicts
www.understandingconflicts.net
For more details please visit: www.understandingconflicts.net or contact Johanna Seibt at filseibt@hum.au.dk Peace Journalism Commission The Peace Journalism Commission will be inaugurated at the IPRA 2008 conference, following the successful launch of the Peace Journalism Working Group at Calgary, Canada, 2006 under the leadership of Dr Lea Mandelzis and Prof Mohammed Dajani.
The Commission aims at promoting research which illuminates the choices available to editors and reporters – about what stories to report, and how to report them – and advocates for those choices to be made in ways that create opportunities for society at large to consider and to value non-violent responses to conflict.
Participation in the Commission is sought, and granted to media researchers, scholars, students, and practitioners who regardless of national, ethnic, religious, and other affiliations, are actively engaged in the performance, research, teaching and policy of Peace Journalism and closely related areas.
For more details please visit IPRA website: www.ipra2008.org or contact Jake Lynch at jake.lynch@arts.usyd.edu.au 6th International Conference on COMMUNICATION AND MASS MEDIA Representing Islam. Comparative Perspectives Representations of 'Islam' have a profound influence on political cultures
and national identities, as well as on attitudes to immigration, security
and multiculturalism. The complexity of the notion of 'Islam' and the
heterogeneous responses that it elicits are such that there is no uniform
approach to its representation and social construction. The conference
addresses this complexity by treating the comparative dimension of recent Information Operations: Influence - What Works and Why
March 5-6th , 2008 Politics and Propaganda April 3-5, 2008 The Cultural Politics of 'Terror' in the Middle East MEDIA COVERAGE OF THE 'WAR ON TERROR' Politics and Propaganda Registration and accommodation information available November 1, 2008: http://www.english.uwosh.edu/roth/ncsa/index.html Ireland: At War and Peace As part of its commitment to furthering research and critical inquiry in
the field of Irish Studies, NEICN organises regular conferences, seminars
and readings. In the past four years we have had plenary papers delivered
by Terry Eagleton, Robert Welch, Luke Gibbons, Ailbhe Smith, Kevin Barry,
Siobhan Kilfeather, Shaun Richards, Lance Pettitt, Stephen Regan, Lord
David Puttnam, Andrew Carpenter, John Nash and Willy Maley, with readings
from Ciaran Carson Medbh McGuckian, Bernard O'Donoghue and Eilis Ni
Dhuibhne.
The conference will take place at St Peter's Campus. Please see our websites @ www.sunderland.ac.uk and www.neicn.com for
further details. 'Constructions of Conflict: Transmitting Memories of the Past in European
Historiography, Literature and Media' Communication and Conflict: Propaganda, Spin and Lobbying The conference will be an international gathering of leading experts and researchers in the area of propaganda, spin, lobbying, media management and investigative journalism. It will also feature hand on sessions on how to investigate propaganda and lobbying activities, led by Spinwatch. Speakers include For further information email: David Miller davidmiller@strath.ac.uk. This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it 8th Annual Conference of the European Sociological Association
Conflict, Citizenship and Civil Society Keynote speakers include Margaret Archer, Donatella Della Porta and Nicos Mouzelis. The deadline for submission of abstracts is the 28th of February and the submission form and guidelines can be found here As part of the conference the ESA will be holding a PhD Workshop the weekend prior to (and including) the conference. This is free for 30 selected PhD students. Applications and information can be found here For more information visit www.esa8thconference.com Peacemaking in the World of Film: From Conflict to Reconciliation This working conference will draw on presentations, papers,
workshops, screenings and informal discussions with filmmakers and
scholars to discuss the depiction and promotion of peace in and through cinema.
Organized by: New College, University of Edinburgh For more information visit http://www.div.ed.ac.uk/research/film07/ CIDRA, Hallsworth & IPOW 'War and our World' International Conference The University of Manchester is committed to promoting informed debate on the major issues of our time. One of the most pressing issues concerns the changing nature and consequences of war. Today's news media are full of stories of war, the sources of armed conflict and its impact on individuals and societies. An international conference, War and our World, will provide the opportunity to address this recurrent feature of human society. The conference will provide an opportunity to reflect on the changing nature, causes and consequences of conflict in the modern era. The organisers wish to encourage informed debate on the role and responsibilities of the public intellectual in understanding and communicating issues around armed conflict and intervention.
A three-day major international conference on the theme of war/conflict is in the planning stages. The conference will be devoted to the conceptualisation, conduct and aftermaths of war in the modern world. Our programme allows for two platform debates and a number of parallel sessions, together with other events. Platform debates will provide a forum for leading international figures to discuss issues of modern war: how it has been, is presently, and is likely to be conducted; by whom; and for what purposes? We have termed this 'Being at war'. The second platform debate is organised around the theme of 'Aftermaths of war', and will encourage discussion of peacemaking and reconciliation, retribution, reconstruction and commemorative activity. In each case the conference organisers are keen to promote consideration of the role and responsibilities of the public intellectual in understanding and communicating issues around armed conflict.
The parallel panel sessions will be structured around issues of 'new wars/old wars' and security in the modern world, including technical aspects of security; explaining conflict in the modern world; humanitarian crises and crises of humanitarianism, including population displacements; and performing, narrating and commemorating war. Other events include a series of performances and installations. Funded by: University of Manchester Hallsworth Fund, CIDRA, In Place of War via the AHRC. For more information visit http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/cidra/events/conferences/warandourworld/ Media and Propaganda Conference University of Windsor
Communication Studies Program
(Windsor, Canada) The year 2008 will mark the 20th Anniversary of the publishing of the book Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of Mass Communication (Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky, Pantheon, 1988). In this book the authors put forth a model, the Propaganda Model (PM), as a way of understanding the way our mass media system interrelates with our economy, political system, and society in general. Since putting forth their propaganda model there have been both praise and criticism of this model, and there have also been many changes and technological advances in our entire communication and media landscape. This May 2007 conference and Spring 2008 publication will, though vigorous debate/discussion and fresh insight, make great strides in critically analyzing (revising/updating) the ongoing relevance of the Herman/Chomsky Propaganda Model as a useful model for understanding 21st century media and society. CONFIRMED PARTICIPANTS & PRESENTERS:
Noam Chomsky, Edward Herman, Sut Jhally, James Curran, Robert McChesney, Janet Wasko, Vincent Mosco, DeeDee Halleck, Robert Hackett, Peter Golding, James Winter, James Compton, Jim Wittebols, John Downing, Jeffery Klaehn
Valerie Scatamburlo-D'Annibale. For More Information Contact: Dr. Paul D. Boin Communication in Peace/Conflict in Communication The Faculty of Communication and Media Studies at Eastern
Mediterranean University, Famagusta, Cyprus Website: http://fcms.emu.edu.tr/cpcc/callforpaper.htm
The conference a ims at bringing together scholars to present their research and exchange ideas in a wide range of topics under the general theme including but not limited to:
Peace Journalism,
Media and Mediation in Conflict,
Conflict Resolution,
Forgiveness and Reconciliation
Gender, Ethnicity, Nationality, Race, Religion, Age and Peace/Conflict
Communication Education and Peace
Communication Ethics and Peace
Film and Peace/Conflict
Peaceful Films, Disturbing Films
Adcult, Ad-diction, Adbusting
Communication and Miscommunication
Miscommunication in Communication
Peace/Conflict in Intercultural Communication,
Self-Other Communication and Ethnocentrism
Epistemic Violence in Communicating With the Other,
Love and Friendship
Citizenship and Cosmopolitanism
Migrancy, Exile, Diaspora
Communication in Divided Cities/Lands
Borders that Divide/Unite
Enclosure of the Net in the Age of Access
The language of our international conference will be both English and Turkish.
The deadline for submitting proposals is 12 January 2007. Please send your abstracts (not more
than 300 words) by Friday 12 January 2007 to: cpcc@emu.edu.tr Faces of Terrorism: Cross-Disciplinary Explorations Maritime Museum, Liverpool, UK For policy makers, practitioners, academics and researchers. Click here for more information: Media War and Conflict Journal, Launch Conference Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin The launch conference for Media, War, and Conflict will provide a scholarly forum for discussion of a wide range of topics that the journal will address: A selection of papers from the conference will be included in the first issues of Media, War, and Conflict.
The deadline for submission of paper and panel proposals is October 1, 2006. Submission should be in the form of an abstract of no more than 150 words. For panels, include names and
e-mail addresses of all panel members.
All submissions must be sent electronically as Microsoft Word documents to: conference@mediawarjournal.net Pre-register for free online access to volume one of Media, War and Conflict.
To register, visit the journal's home page at http://mwc.sagepub.com and follow the link to FREE TRIAL The Media and the War on Terror Professor Stephen Hutchings was awarded a supplementary grant to his
second AHRB Research Grant to investigate post-Soviet Russian Television
Culture. Website: http://www.llc.manchester.ac.uk/Research/Projects/AnAnalysisofPost-
SovietRussianTelevisionCulture/ Redefining Conflict in Post-Cold War Media Website: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/american/res/conferences/conflict.htm Topics may include, but are not limited to the following types of conflict:
- Racial/Ethnic
- Cultural War in Iranian Cinema Media Coverage of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: Perception, Public
Opinion and Foreign Policy Weaponizing the Media The conference is co-sponsored by the University of Amsterdam, Marquette University, the journal Media, War, and Conflict, the Amsterdam Center for Conflict Studies, and the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation. Email: Philip Seib at pseib@earthlink.net / Nel Ruigrok at p.c.ruigrok@uva.nl. British International Studies Association 2006 Conference The International Communications section will include papers on the impact
of both ‘new’ and ‘old’ media on the study and practice of international
relations and foreign policy. Abstracts of not more than 250 words and also bearing the authors name, For further information about BISA and the annual conference, please Email: maura.conway@dcu.ie Fundamentalism and the Media October 10-12, 2006 This conference will focus on the central questions of Fundamentalism and the Media. It is intended to be a starting point of a global conversation about how best to address religious misunderstanding and conflict in the media sphere, and how the media sphere itself might be used to more positive ends of peace and understanding. The media clearly have the capacity to divide and to unite, to feed ignorance and to feed understanding. This conference will open a dialogue between academics, practitioners, and members of the religious community on how to move forward. Fundamentalism in Religious Culture and History These presentations will, in addition to their regional foci, also reflect on political, social, cultural, and institutional implications in their various contexts. Email: FundMed@colorado.edu The 6th Annual Conference of the Global Studies Association With Keynote Address by Professor Johan Galtung and Presidential Address by Professor Leslie Sklair
Registration forms can be requested from bssconferences@roehampton.ac.uk Hostile takeovers. On Violence and Media 23 July 2006 to 4 August 2006 Mainz, Germany, Germany The Summer School follows an explicitly political perspective. In Focus are the interrelations between economic-political power and the cultural Website: http://performedia.uni-mainz.de Al-Jazeera phenomenon and its impact on audiences and international journalism practice 10th July Hogg Lecture Theatre, University of Westminster, Marylebone Campus, London NW1 5LS (nearest tube: Baker Street) This conference gathers academics, students, researchers, journalists and policy makers to discuss the impact of the Al-Jazeera channel on ondiences and international journalism practice. In a world saturated with information outlets yet information poor, Al-Jazeera satellite TV raises a challenging alternative to the western global broadcasters. Competition has been rife since the coverage of 11th September tragic events, the war in Afghanistan, the Arab/Israeli conflict and the War on Iraq have been seen from an alternative perspective. So challenging the coverage of Al-Jazeera has been that it angered politicians and others from across the globe. The latest has been the claimed American government attempt to silence the channel by flattening its headquarters in Qatar. Themes: - What does this mean to international journalism? - What influences Al-Jazeera has exercised on audiences and journalism norms in the Arab world and beyond? - Above all what Al-Jazeera channel is all about? What programmes does it have? What are its journalism ethics in covering wars and conflicts? - Is not Al-Jazeera promoting some unwanted voices like Al-Qaida by claiming it is a platform of those with none? - How much can Al-Jazeera contribute to the social and political changes in the Arab region? - Will Al-Jazeera International (the English speaking sister channel) be a challenging alternative to the well-established gloabl broadcasters like the BBC and CNN? Contact Noureddine Miladi (PhD) for more info: Muslim Media and the 'War on Terror' 6-7 July 2006 Department of Politics, University of Bristol Although there has been considerable research, particularly since Papers will engender a wide-ranging discussion of the role of Muslim media of all kinds in generating discourses about, and/or attitudes among Muslims towards
Central questions that might be asked include:
For more information, also please contact Jutta Weldes and Gennaro As part of 'Space, Haunting,
Discourse,' an interdisciplinary conference sponsored by the Department of
English at Karlstad University
Please email abstracts of 250-300 words, for presentations of 15-20 minutes to Dr Andrew Hill
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