[ecrea] cfp: Media, War & Memory Conference

Journalism, Media and Democracy (JMAD) Conference

Call for Papers:

Media, War and Memory

September 18–19, 2014

Auckland University of Technology

Venue: Sir Paul Reeves Building

Keynote Speakers:  Andrew Hoskins, University of Glasgow

                                Fay Anderson, Monash University






A century after 1914, it is timely to consider how World War I was 
started, prosecuted and reported on, from different national 
perspectives. How does this conflict appear in retrospect? As a prequel 
to World War II? The ‘beginning’ of the 20th century? Or as an 
avoidable, stand-alone catastrophe? These questions provoke wider 
reflection upon the connections between media, war and memory. What are 
these connections? How have they changed over time? Conference 
participants will, we hope, respond to these questions. To this end, the 
following themes suggest themselves.

World War I

·       Paths to war, patterns of news coverage

·       Diplomacy, communication and the telegraph

·       Atrocities and propaganda

·       Frontline testimonials, journalism, poetry

·       Domestic dissent


Australia and NZ coverage of ‘overseas’ conflicts

·       Boer War, WWI, WWII

·       Cold war conflicts; Malaysia, Vietnam, Timor, Kuwait, Iraq, 
Afghanistan etc.

·       ANZAC mythologies

·       Wartime censorship

·       War, mobilization and dissent

Race, culture, genocide

·       Imperialism, colonialism, indigineity

·       Jewish holocaust

·       Armenian massacres

·       Testimonies, amnesia


War, propaganda, ideology

·       Chomsky, Herman and the ‘propaganda’ model

·       News ‘framing’ and war coverage

·       Orientalism and colonial wars

·       War and national identity

·       Memorialism; ceremonies, monuments, museums

·       Forgotten wars

Gender and depictions of war

·       Masculinity, heroism

·       War and patriarchy

·       War, rape, testimony

·       Women war journalists

·       Women combatants


Frontline war reporting

·       War correspondents

·       ‘Embedded’ journalists

·       Journalistic ethics

·       Patriotism and ‘independent’ reporting

Journalism, media, civil conflict

·       Spanish civil war

·       Sri Lanka

·       Balkans, Bosnia, Serbia

·       US civil war

·       Occupation, resistance, testimony


Information-communication technologies and war

·       Global television, 24/7 ‘real time’ wars

·       War and media spectacle

·       Media space, battle space, ‘full spectrum dominance’

·       Information and cyber warfare

·       Online journalism, blogospheres, social media

War, historiography and revisionism

·      War novels

·       Non-fiction tomes, wars, battles

·       Military biographies

·       Documentaries

·      Conflicting retrospectives of major conflicts


Media constructions of ‘terrorism’

·       Legitimate vs. illegitimate violence

·       Terrorists, revolutionaries, freedom fighters

·       Post 9-11 media discourses in US, Middle East

·       Terrorism and orientalism

Abstracts due: June 30, 2014 (400 words maximum)
Send to: (jmad /at/ aut.ac.nz) / (wayne.hope /at/ aut.ac.nz) / (verica.rupar /at/ aut.ac.nz)

Conference enrolment: $270 NZ

Earlybird before July 31: $230 NZ

Postgraduates: $180 NZ

Online registration code available soon—see JMAD website for details and 
updates: www.aut.ac.nz/jmad


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Gerard Goggin
ARC Future Fellow
Professor of Media and Communications
Department of Media and Communications
University of Sydney

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