Dear colleagues, The LSE Department of Media and Communications is organising a post-graduate seminar on 'Mediated Wars, Mediated Refuge'. Details of the event here: MEDIATED WARS, MEDIATED REFUGE POST-GRADUATE & EARLY CAREER SEMINAR Department of Media and Communications London School of Economics and Political Science Monday, 20 JUNE, 10am-6pm To attend in person register here<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/349445289267> / To attend online register here<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/347328397587> This all-day post-graduate & early career seminar seeks to understand the relationship between communication, global politics, and war. It examines the role of global media in shaping the global conversation around war, global security, resistance, and refuge. The seminar evaluates how media’s coverage of recent wars, and their discursive production of knowledge informs and legitimizes practice in global politics. The interdisciplinary character of the seminar and of the case studies of media from Western and non-Western traditions brings together conceptual and theoretical strands from multiple disciplines: media and communications, history, politics, war studies, migration studies. In particular, the seminar seeks to address the following questions: * How is war imagined and narrated by internationally oriented media? * Who speaks in the stories of war, resistance, and refuge? * What specific issues are promoted? What identities are constructed? * What goals, norms, values, and moral purposes are endorsed? * What kind of new world order is emerging from the mediated discourse of wars, resistance, and refuge? THE SEMINAR IS ORGANISED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH: LSE Media, Collegium Civitas, NAWA, POLIS THE SEMINAR IS FINANCED BY: Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA) Project No.: PPI/APM/2018/1/00019 PROGRAMME PANEL 1: GLOBAL MEDIA AND THE GEOPOLITICS OF WAR The Consequences of Diplomatic Neutrality in the Russia/Ukraine Conflict: An analysis of media coverage in two Global South countries; Camila Bailey and Talia Nanton The impact of the Russia-Ukraine War on international security framed in CGTN’s news reports; Zichen Jess Hu, Suheng Issac Fu and Zhigang David Dong, Xinyu Kurt Deng French portrayal of the major political actors involved in the War in Ukraine; Liliana Alloueche, Ella Startt, Malvina Adorno German broadcaster’s coverage of the Ukraine and Gaza conflicts; Luke Gonnella and Yasmina El Farkh PANEL 2: WARS, RESISTANCE AND THE HISTORY OF THE PRESENT Settler Colonialism: Presence and Absences in Media Narratives of Palestine; Vartika Rastogi How do mainstream news media uphold American imperialism within contexts of Israel and Palestine? Comparing BBC and Al-Jazeera; Shivani Mathur The western principles of journalism cannot support the Palestinian struggle: A case study of how the BBC mediated Palestine; Lea Markidis Hierarchy of resistance: media framing of anti-occupation resistance in Ukraine and Palestine; Lea Markidis and Cima Chehab PANEL 3: NARRATORS AND AUDIENCES IN THE COVERAGE OF WAR Speaking to whom? Comparing CGTN and China Daily in reporting the Russia-Ukraine War; Zichen Jess Hu, Xinyu Kurt Deng, Botao Xu and Zhigang David Dong Who really builds the narratives of wars: a study of the Ukrainian National News Agency; Petra Radic Voice of Palestinians in Gaza raid, comparison of BBC and Al-Jazeera reporting; Haelin Jeon A critical analysis of media coverage of Ukraine: the voices elevated through war reporting; Hunter Morgan PANEL 4: THE CONSTRUCTION OF REFUGEES Changing attitudes towards refugees in Europe: ‘Hierarchy of being a refugee: comparative perspective of Syrian and Ukrainian refugee crises’; Katarina Zajacova Distant Suffering as Political Agenda: The Mediated Spectacle of Operation Ganga by Indian national press; Vaishnavi Nair How are South-Eastern Asian refugees (underdeveloped ‘other’) represented by mainstream Western media outlets during Russian-Ukraine War? Karlav Joshi and Fanmeng Wu PANEL 5: GLOBAL CONVERSATIONS AROUND WAR, RACE AND GENDER Discursive construction of Ukrainian refugees on CNN: are displaced Ukrainians framed as more deserving of sympathy? Xinyu Kurt Deng, Kedi Zhou War doesn't have a woman's face' again: visualised values of wartime: the case of Ukrinform; Anna Tashchenko Women, Gender, and Refugees: The differentiated focus of media representation between China Daily and CNN; Kedi Zhou Exploring discursive formation of mediated Palestinian masculinities; a comparative study of Al Jazeera and the BBC; Anoushka Schellekens, Vartika Rastogi -- Dr Eva Polonska-Kimunguyi Department of Media and Communications Department of Government London School of Economics and Political Science Room FAW2.7.01|Houghton Street | London WC2A 2AE