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Newspapers, War and Society Fifth Aberystwyth Media History Conference 29 April-1 May 2014 at Gregynog Hall, Wales, UK. This conference explores the relationship between newspapers and society during times of war. It is held at the historic University of Wales conference centre Gregynog Hall, near Newtown, Powys, Wales, and is jointly organised by the Centre for Media History, Aberystwyth University, and the journal Media History<http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/carfax/13688804.html>, with the financial support of the Leverhulme Trust. Participants include: Adrian Bingham, David Clampin, Martin Conboy, Lorna Hughes Chandrika Kaul, Rachel Matthews, Sian Nicholas, Tom O’Malley, Simon Potter, John Steel, Nelson Ribeiro, Anne Toews. Keynote speaker: Professor Chris Williams (Cardiff University). Newspapers have played a fundamental role in societies during times of war. They relay the experience of war, provide a means for the state to communicate to the population directly, and serve to entertain readers. However, little attention has been paid to the dynamics of their production, circulation and reception during wartime and how the wider context of war affects those processes. This conference addresses these issues through a series of papers addressing aspects of the newspaper coverage of wars in Europe, the USA, Africa, the Far East and the Pacific, from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. There will be special sessions on the digitisation of First World War archive materials, and on the social history of newspapers in the Second World War, as well as a roundtable on newspapers as sources for historians of war. The conference will include sessions on: war reporting; justifying intervention and non-intervention; seeking to win hearts and minds; home fronts; nationalism and imperialism; war and race hate; barbarities; stories told and not told; wartime newspapers and their readers. Conference programme and registration form: available at http://www.aber.ac.uk/en/history/departmental-research-centres/centre-for-media-history/2014-media-history-conference/ Deadline for registration: 31 March 2014. Please email Dr Rebecca Edwards at: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> if you have any queries. -------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 ------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. Membership is open to all who teach and research these subjects in HE institutions, via either institutional or individual membership. The field includes film and TV production, journalism, radio, photography, creative writing, publishing, interactive media and the web; and it includes higher education for media practice as well as for media studies. This mailing list is a free service from MeCCSA and is not restricted to members. For further information, please visit: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/ --------------------------------------------------------