Imaging War: Intergenerational Perspectives

Dates: 3-7 September 2008
Location: Klosterhotel, Vadstena, Sweden

Programme and applications: accessible online at http://www.esf.org/conferences/08258(odnośnik otworzy się w nowym oknie)

Chair: Professor David Webb, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK
Co-chair: Professor Stephen Graham, University of Durham, UK

Grants: are available for young researchers to cover the conference fee and travel costs.

Further information: http://www.esf.org/conferences/08258(odnośnik otworzy się w nowym oknie) or Ms. Anne Blondeel-Oman (ablondeel@esf.org)

Topics:
- Different types of war imagers (political, PR and weapons procurement, media journalism, games, stories, literature etc.) and their interactions
- How organised knowledge systems, scenarios and stories are used to legitimate or deconstruct new paradigms on war and its consequences.
- Dissonance and common ground between the image builders and the image consumersESF Research Conferences: http://www.esf.org/conferences(odnośnik otworzy się w nowym oknie)