[ecrea] Newpapers, War and Society 29 April-1 May 2014

*Newspapers, War and Society *

*Fifth Aberystwyth Media History Conference*

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29 April-1 May 2014 at Gregynog Hall, Wales, UK.

This conference explores the relationship between newspapers and society 
during times of war. It is held at the historic University of Wales 
conference centre Gregynog Hall, near Newtown, Powys, Wales, and is 
jointly organised by the Centre for Media History, Aberystwyth 
University, and the journal /Media History/ 
<http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/carfax/13688804.html>, with the 
financial support of the Leverhulme Trust.

*Participants include: *Adrian Bingham, David Clampin, Martin Conboy, 
Lorna Hughes Chandrika Kaul, Rachel Matthews, Sian Nicholas, Tom 
O'Malley, Simon Potter, John Steel, Nelson Ribeiro, Anne Toews.

*Keynote speaker:* Professor Chris Williams (Cardiff University).

Newspapers have played a fundamental role in societies during times of 
war. They relay the experience of war, provide a means for the state to 
communicate to the population directly, and serve to entertain readers. 
However, little attention has been paid to the dynamics of their 
production, circulation and reception during wartime and how the wider 
context of war affects those processes. This conference addresses these 
issues through a series of papers addressing aspects of the newspaper 
coverage of wars in Europe, the USA, Africa, the Far East and the 
Pacific, from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. There will be 
special sessions on the digitisation of First World War archive 
materials, and on the social history of newspapers in the Second World 
War, as well as a roundtable on newspapers as sources for historians of war.

The conference will include sessions on: war reporting; justifying 
intervention and non-intervention; seeking to win hearts and minds; home 
fronts; nationalism and imperialism; war and race hate; barbarities; 
stories told and not told; wartime newspapers and their readers.

*Conference programme and registration form: *available at 
http://www.aber.ac.uk/en/history/departmental-research-centres/centre-for-media-history/2014-media-history-conference/

*Deadline for registration:* 31 March 2014.

Please email Dr Rebecca Edwards at: (cmhstaff /at/ aber.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(cmhstaff /at/ aber.ac.uk)> if you have any queries.