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‘Military and the Media’ Symposium
Schedule for 2 June 2015
School of Media and Communication, Clothworkers’ Building North
9:15 – 9:45
Registration and tea/coffee, Seminar Room 1.17
9:45 – 11:30
Welcome and Panel 1:
Veterans in the Media, Philip M Taylor Cinema (LT 2.31)
 Jenna Pitchford-Hyde (University of East Anglia) - Invisible Bodies: Trauma,
American Identity, and the Ethics of Representation in the Iraq Wars
 Matthew Green (Aftershock author) - Tsunamis, “time bombs” and “bow
waves” – how competing narratives over PTSD in Britain’s military are leaving
the big questions unanswered
 David Jackson and Kevin Spruce (Veteran to Veteran) - Using Poetic
Representation within Visual Media to gain some ‘sense’ of the Aftermath of
War
 Katharine Millar (University of Oxford): Doing Their Bit: "Supporting the
Troops" as Form of Military Participation
(chair: Nancy Thumim)
11:30 – 11:45
Tea/coffee break, Seminar Room 1.17
11:45 – 13:15
Panel 2:
Military Social Media, Philip M Taylor Cinema (LT 2.31)
 Alasdair Pinkerton, David Denny, and Rikke Jensen (Royal Holloway,
University of London): The Social Military: Social media, military personnel
and their families
 Helen Thornham (University of Leeds ) and Sarah Maltby (University of
Sussex): ‘Beyond’ Pseuydonmity: the socio-technical structure of online
military forums
 Adi Kuntsman (Manchester Metropolitan University): Selfie Militarism: social
media, military occupation, and ordinary violence
 Maria Hellman, Eva-Karin Olsson and Charlotte Wagnsson (Swedish National
Defense College): Armed Forces’ use of social media in areas of deployment
(chair: Katy Parry)
13:15 – 14:00
Lunch (provided), Seminar Room 1.17
Military and the Media Symposium, 2nd June 2015, University of Leeds
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14:00 – 15:30
Panel 3:
(In)visibilities and the Soldier, Philip M Taylor Cinema (LT 2.31)
 Neil Jenkings (Newcastle University): Friendly Fire, by a (un)friendly news
media: Accounting for (our misunderstanding of) Fratricide
 Nick Robinson (University of Leeds): Military Videogames - from a virtual to a
lived experience of war?
 Pierluigi MusarÓ (University of Bologna): Mare Nostrum: the visual politics of
a military-humanitarian operation in the Mediterranean Sea
 Chris Paterson and Toussaint Nothias (University of Leeds): Underrepresentation of the US military in Africa
(chair: Simon Popple)
15:30 – 16:00
Tea/coffee break, Seminar Room 1.17
16:00 – 17:30
Panel 4:
Documentary and the Military, Philip M Taylor Cinema (LT 2.31)
 Debra Ramsay (University of Glasgow): Whose War? Soldiers, Archives and
the Afghanistan War
 Eileen Culloty (Dublin City University): Images as Evidence: strategies of filmtruth in Iraq War Documentaries
 Chris Terrill (Uppercut Films): Shooting Soldiers
(chair: TBD)
17:30 – 18:00
Closing comments: John Corner and Katy Parry, Philip M Taylor Cinema (LT 2.31)
 Summing up main themes for the day and discussing future plans
18:00
Pub for drinks, Location TBD
See separate ‘List of Abstracts’ for details of the presentations (which will be provided on the day).
We are very grateful to the British Academy for funding this symposium, as part of a British Academy Small
Grant: ‘Representations of contemporary soldiering in digital and visual cultures’ (Ref: SG130350),
undertaken by Katy Parry, Nancy Thumim, Simon Popple and Ysabel Gerrard.
Military and the Media Symposium, 2nd June 2015, University of Leeds