EVENTS AND PAPERS PRESENTED

Subsequent events:

Gow, J., ‘Viewing Contemporary Conflict: Strategy, Media and Legitimacy’, Association for the Study of Nationalities, 13 Annual Convention, New York, April 2008

O'Loughlin, B. ‘Images as weapons of war? Perceptions of threat in post-9/11 Britain’, International Studies Association Annual Convention, San Francisco, March 2008.

Hoskins, A. and O'Loughlin, B. ‘Television and Terror: Horizons of Responsibility in ‘Diffused War’’, ESRC Seminar Series on Ethics and the War on Terror, University of Leicester, November 2007.

Gillespie, M., “Media and Migration”, Public Lecture, Department of Sociology, University of Limerick 27^th September, 2007.

O'Loughlin, B. ‘Experts and the War on Terror’, BISA Working Group on US Foreign Policy Annual Conference, University of Manchester, September 2007.

Gillespie, M., (Keynote Speaker) European Communication Research and Education Association. ECREA European Workshop ‘Mediations of Cultural Difference: Debating Media and Diversity’. University of Leeds, 7th and 8th September, 2007.

Hoskins, A. and O'Loughlin, B. ‘The internet as a weapon of war? Some thoughts on radicalisation’, Future Conflict Conference, Conflict Research Society, London, 4 Sept. 2007.

Zverzhanovski, I., ‘Watching War Crimes: the Srebrenica Video and Its Impact on Serbia’, International Conference on Central and Eastern Europe, Berlin, 4-6th August, 2007.

Hoskins, A. and O'Loughlin, B. ‘The modulation of terror: amplification and containment of threats in TV news’, War and Our World Conference, University of Manchester, 19 July 2007.

Gillespie, M. ‘Researching Transnational Media Cultures: Creating Interdisciplinary Bridges ‘ Research Seminar at the Centre for Transnational Studies, School of Humanities, University of Southampton, 25th May, 2007.

O'Loughlin, B. ‘Reassessing Audiences and Citizens: the Everyday Modulation of Terror News’, Everyday Life in Politics and Economics, Centre for International Studies Conference, London School of Economics, 11 May 2007.

Gillespie, M., “Diaspora Publics: News, Citizenship and the Security Dilemma” Research seminar at the Department of Sociology, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, 30^th April, 2007.

Hoskins, A. and O’Loughlin, B. Pre-launch conference for the journal Media, War & Conflict at Marquette University, 19-20th April, 2007.

Events within the project period:

O'Loughlin, B. ‘Television and Terror: Weaponized Media and the Crisis of News Discourse’, University of Sydney, Faculty of Economic and Business, Discipline of Government and International Relations Seminar Series, March 2007.

O'Loughlin, B. and Moss, G. ‘Convincing Claims? Democracy, representation, and security threats in contemporary Britain’, University of Western Sydney, Cultural Research Network Seminar Series, March 2007.

Gillespie, M. and O'Loughlin, B. ‘Migration, Media and the Politics of Security: Re-defining Multiculturalism in an age of Speculative Pre-emption’, Paper presented at symposium, ‘Superdiversity, Media and Diasporas’. Hosted by University of Western Sydney and the Australian Research Council’s Cultural Research Network, March 2007.

O'Loughlin, B. ‘BBC in the morning, CNN tonight: Being an ‘expert’ in the war on terror’, International Studies Association Annual Convention, Chicago, Feb/Mar 2007.

Weaponization of the Media, Amsterdam, 2 February 2007. Roundtable presentations by Gow, Hoskins and O'Loughlin.

Media Change and Social Theory, St. Hugh's College, Oxford, 6-8 September 2006. Conference by the ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC).

Marie Gillespie: Tuning in: The BBC World Service as a diasporic contact zone 

Ben O'Loughlin: Representation, Representatives and Representative Claim-Making in the War on Terror (co-presented with Giles Moss of New College, Oxford)

2006 Association for Cultural Studies Crossroads Conference, İstanbul Bilgi University 20-23 July 2006

Panel: Multilingual Cosmopolitans

Marie Gillespie: At Home with the World Service? The politics of translation and translating politics

Ben O'Loughlin & Andrew Hoskins: How CNN and BBC use ‘other media’: The re-mediation of Arab television and citizen journalists

Mapping the Al-Jazeera Phenomenon, University of Westminster, 10 July 2006

Paper presented by Marie Gillespie

Freedom, Fear, Security: re-visiting insecurity after 9/11 and 7/7, The Open University, 29-30 June 2006

Marie Gillespie: Shifting Securities: Multilingual News Cultures and Cosmopolitan Citizenship

Shifting Securities Symposium

Terrorism, Media and War: From New York to London, from Iraq to Iran, King's College, London, 15-16 June 2006

Speakers include Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmit (US CENTCOM), Sir David Omand (former Head of Security and Intelligence, Cabinet Office) Prof. Philip Seib, Prof. Philip Taylor, and Prof. Sir Lawrence Freedman.

Association for the Study of Nationalities Annual Convention 2006

Columbia University, NY, 23-25 March 2006

Panel Title: Moving Images and Modern War

Chair: Ivan Zverzhanovski, King's College London, ivan.zverzhanovski@kcl.ac.uk

Papers: 

'Watching War Crimes'

Ivan Zverzhanovski, King's College London

'News reproduction as news audience research: young Muslims constructions of mediated war narratives' Habiba Noor, Researcher, Open University, habibanoor71@yahoo.com

'Televisuality and Multimodality: Covering the 'War on Terror'

Ben O'Loughlin, Visiting Fellow, King's College London

Discussant: James Gow, King's College London, james.gow@kcl.ac.uk

British Sociological Association Annual Conference 2005, University of York, March 21-23.

The Shifting Securities team are holding a panel to present our preliminary findings on perceptions of security among different socio-cultural groups. We will examine whether the heightened sense of insecurity among certain social groups, in the aftermath of September 11 2001 and the so-called ‘war on terrorism’, is perceived as a product of a new and enduring state of affairs or a media amplified panic that serves the interests of security-driven states.  

ADVISORY PANEL MEETING, 10 March 2006, King's College, London