Conference on the image of war
3 September 2008 - 3 September 2008
Sweden
A conference entitled 'Imaging war: intergeneration perspectives' is scheduled from 3 to 7 September in Vadstena, Sweden.
The conference will address issues of how war is portrayed in modern times of highly technological warfare, where over half of the world's research and development is now military and an ongoing revolution in military affairs (RMA) is changing the rules and weapons that will be used to define the future in a global society. Yet most of the public are getting their information on the implications of these developments, not from learned scientific or technological treatise but from the media, films, literature, computer games and simulations. The way that war is imaged varies considerably between artists, scientists, urban geographers, media theorists and indeed between generations.
This conference will explore what these various cultures are saying to each other and how organised knowledge systems, scenarios and stories are used to legitimate or deconstruct new paradigms on war and its consequences.
The conference seeks to explore dissonance and common ground between the image builders and the image consumers; the weapons manufacturers and the story tellers; the politicians and the children.
Invited speakers from various backgrounds will talk about some of the following subjects:
- selling modern warfare technologies and strategies;
- screening war;
- war games;
- deconstructing the technology of war;
- war and the media;
- intergenerational perspectives.
This conference is organised by the European Science Foundation (ESF) in partnership with Linköping University, Sweden.For further information, please:
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The conference will address issues of how war is portrayed in modern times of highly technological warfare, where over half of the world's research and development is now military and an ongoing revolution in military affairs (RMA) is changing the rules and weapons that will be used to define the future in a global society. Yet most of the public are getting their information on the implications of these developments, not from learned scientific or technological treatise but from the media, films, literature, computer games and simulations. The way that war is imaged varies considerably between artists, scientists, urban geographers, media theorists and indeed between generations.
This conference will explore what these various cultures are saying to each other and how organised knowledge systems, scenarios and stories are used to legitimate or deconstruct new paradigms on war and its consequences.
The conference seeks to explore dissonance and common ground between the image builders and the image consumers; the weapons manufacturers and the story tellers; the politicians and the children.
Invited speakers from various backgrounds will talk about some of the following subjects:
- selling modern warfare technologies and strategies;
- screening war;
- war games;
- deconstructing the technology of war;
- war and the media;
- intergenerational perspectives.
This conference is organised by the European Science Foundation (ESF) in partnership with Linköping University, Sweden.For further information, please:
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