- Date(s)
- May 17, 2024
- Location
- University of Massachusetts Lowell
- Time
- 09:00 - 18:00
- Price
- Free
The School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics, together with the Political Science Department of UMASS Lowell and the journal of Media, War and Conflict are holding a two day conference at UMASS Lowell on the politics of narrating war. This conference was made possible by the generous support of the QUB North America Partnership Investment Fund, UMASS Lowell, and the journal of Media, War and Conflict which will publish the papers in a Special Issue.
Programme
What Matters? The Politics of Narrating War
University of Massachusetts Lowell May 16-17, 2024
Thursday, May 16, 2024
9-11:30 a.m.: Thursday Online Panel
Chair: Adam Lerner (UML)
Discussant: Ben O’Loughlin (Royal Holloway)
Discussant: Ben O’Loughlin (Royal Holloway)
- Alexandra Homolar (Warwick) – “Narrating Future War: Reimagining Enmity before the Collapse of Bipolarity”
- Georg Lofflman (QMUL) and Malte Rieman (Leiden)— “War and Temporal Security: Germany’s Zeitenwende and the Reframing of National Security between Ontological Disruption and Strategic Continuity”
- Jessie Barton Hronesova (UCL) - The Resonance of Victimhood as a Strategic Ontology in Serbia
- Drew Hogan (Minnesota) – “The Power and Peril of Cycle Rhetoric in Legitimating and Prolonging Military Intervention"
Friday, May 17, 2024
9–10:45 a.m.: Panel 1: Future Developments/Imaginaries of War and Conflict
Chair: Alister Miskimmon (QUB)
Discussant: Adam Lerner (UML)
Discussant: Adam Lerner (UML)
- Hannah Partis-Jennings (QUB) – “Narrating Future War”
- Shane Brighton (QUB) and Tarak Barkawi (Johns Hopkins) – “Battle Imaginaries in World Politics”
- Jarrod Hayes (UML) – “Narratives of the end: Identity, redemption, and desecuritizing the enemy”
11 a.m.–12:45 p.m.: Panel 2: States, Citizens, and War
Chair: Ben O’Loughlin (Royal Holloway)
Discussant: Rhys Crilley (Glasgow)
Discussant: Rhys Crilley (Glasgow)
- Catherine About-Khalil (Boston University), Ardeth Thawnghmung (UML) and Jenifer Whitten-Woodring (UML) – “Can Pandora’s Box be Closed? How People in Myanmar Access and Identify Trustworthy Information After the Coup”
- Zach Mondesire (Boston University)—“South Sudan and the Narrative of Self-Determination”
- Dan Levine (Alabama)— “‘Can the Comprador Speak?’ Zionism and the Strategic Ontology of ‘Greater Britain’”
- Gwen Bouvier (SISU)—“Knowing conflicts through gender politics: Tweeting to show solidarity with the women of Afghanistan”
1:30–3:15 p.m.: Panel 3: Communications in War/Conflict
Chair: Adam Lerner (UML)
Discussant: Alister Miskimmon (QUB)
Discussant: Alister Miskimmon (QUB)
- Lauren Rogers (Edinburgh) – “Ontological (In)Security: EU Foreign Policy Narratives and the War in Ukraine”
- Renée Marlin-Bennett (Johns Hopkins) – “Information Flows and Wars’ Ontologies”
- Christopher McIntosh (Bard) – “Narrating Violence Without War: Exploring the Idea of War Abolition”
- Renato Fakhoury (UML) and Gabriella Gricius (Colorado State) – “Space as Identity: Narratives of Russian Expansionist Foreign Policy”
3:30 – 5:15 p.m.: Panel 4: Technology and War
Chair: Alister Miskimmon (QUB)
Discussant: Jenifer Whitten-Woodring (UML)
Discussant: Jenifer Whitten-Woodring (UML)
- Sanne Verschuren (Boston University) – “The United States and the Forever Dream of Missile Defense”
- Natasha J Williams (Penn) – “War Influencers: Agency, Digital Memory, & Emergent Narrative Authority Online”
- Andrew Ross (Johns Hopkins) – “Pundits, Sleuthers, and Citizens: Investigating War in the Age of Epistemic Ambiguity”
- Rhys Crilley (Glasgow) – “Strategic Ontologies of Nuclear War”
- Jessica Auchter (Université Laval) – “Visualizing War Through Satellite Footage: Technological Capacity, Truth, and the View from Above”
5:15-6 p.m.: Concluding remarks and group discussion
Conference Organizers
Adam B. Lerner
Associate Professor of Political Science, Director of the Bachelor of Liberal Arts
University of Massachusetts at Lowell
Adam_Lerner@uml.edu
Associate Professor of Political Science, Director of the Bachelor of Liberal Arts
University of Massachusetts at Lowell
Adam_Lerner@uml.edu
Alister Miskimmon
Professor, School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics, Queen’s University, Belfast
A.Miskimmon@qub.ac.uk
Professor, School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics, Queen’s University, Belfast
A.Miskimmon@qub.ac.uk
Ben O’Loughlin
Professor of Politics and International Relations, Director of the New Political Communication Unit, Royal Holloway, University of London
Ben.Oloughlin@rhul.ac.uk
Professor of Politics and International Relations, Director of the New Political Communication Unit, Royal Holloway, University of London
Ben.Oloughlin@rhul.ac.uk