[Commlist] Call for Papers: Spaces of War: Corporeal War

*Call for Papers: /Media, War and Conflict /Journal Conference*

*Spaces of War: Corporeal War*

*May 21st-22nd 2020*

*Deadline for abstracts: 10th January 2020*

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www.warandmedia.org/Spaces <http://www.warandmedia.org/Spaces>

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.

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*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 /at/ sussex.ac.uk) <mailto:(s.maltby /at/ 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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