May 21st-22nd 2020
Building on the success of our 2018 international conference ‘Spaces of
War: War of Spaces’, the Editors of the Media, War and Conflict Journal are
holding our second conference at Accademia Europea Di Firenze, Florence, Italy
in May 2020.
Alongside traditional papers, the expected conference programme will
include film screenings and methodological workshops on Digital verification;
Visuality/photography; The archive; Performance that are designed to facilitate
the development of new ideas, networks and/or research proposals through
dialogue with practitioners.
Conference Themes
In 2018 we were motivated by a feeling that broad theses on the
transformation of war in new media environments was distracting attention from
the richness of detailed work being conducted on specific cases. Macro
theorisations were ignoring the varieties and intricacies of spaces through
which war was being waged. That conference drew together a new generation of
researchers in the field of war and media, and led to the forthcoming Spaces
of War book due to publication in 2020. But what emerged and gave meaning to
the temporal and spatial dimensions of those dynamic, ever evolving spaces was
the overarching theme of bodies and the profoundly corporeal, embodied nature
of war and its relationship to space.
For this new conference, we invite contributions that explore the
intersections of body and space in the field of war and media through two broad
themes:
- Bodily Presence/Absence: How can research illuminate how bodies occupy, inhabit and live through and in spaces of war? When and how are bodies made visible in spaces of war, whose bodies (civic, military, technologized etc) and why? What are the implications of bodily presence and absence in relation to the transformative properties of the space? What are the consequences of post-bodily inhabitation?
- Embodied Participation: How do media and digital technologies alter and shift the affective, sensory, mnemonic qualities of space? How are bodies, and the corporeal reality of war, transformed by spaces and visa versa? What are the consequences of our engagement with spaces of war for ourselves, others and the space itself?
Drawing on these broad themes and questions, the conference will
showcase exciting new research in this field while pinpointing the emerging
puzzles and lines of enquiry we face at the intersection of bodies, media,
space and war. We are interested in scholarly and practice contributions that
speak to these themes through a range of topics across various spheres and
powers relations. While the main theme of this conference is the corporeal
nature of war and its relationship to space, we also welcome papers dealing
with any aspect of media, war and conflict.
Please submit an abstract of 250 words with author affiliation and brief
biog to: Sarah Maltby: s.maltby@sussex.ac.uk by 10th January 2020
Panel submissions are welcome. Panel proposals should include no more
than 4 papers in total, a short description (200 words) together with abstracts
for each of the papers (150-200 words each including details of the
contributor), and the name and contact details of the panel proposer. The panel
proposer should coordinate the submissions for that panel as a single proposal.
Registration Open: 24th January to 27th March 2020
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