Touching War Programme 20082009

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Touching War Programme2008-2009

• October 2008 War and Touch
• Keynote Speaker Professor Anne Orford
• The Passions of Humanitarian War
• Law, Melbourne University, October 15, 5 pm,
  Room IAS 2/3
• Roundtable Discussion War and Touch from Diverse
  Disciplinary Perspectives
• Participants include Anne Orford and LU staff
  from Politics/IR, Educational Research, Law,
  LICA, English and Creative Writing, Sociology and
  more. October 16, 3-5, Room IAS 2/3

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Touching War Programme2008-2009
November 2008 Attractions and Costs of Todays
Wars

• Keynote Speaker US Army Colonel H.R. Master
  November 10, 6 pm, Cavendish LT, 6 pm
• Workshop Touching New Wars of Our Time, with
  Professor Stephen Chan, International Relations,
  SOAS. Other participants include Christine
  Sylvester, Amalendu Misra, Feargal Cochrane and
  more. November 12, 3-6, Room IAS 2/3
• Publishing on War What are the Trends for the
  Future?
• A workshop with Polity, Routledge, Manchester
  University Press and the journal Civil Wars for
  early career academics, November 19, 2-5, Room
  IAS 2/3

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Touching War Programme2008-2009

• December 2008 War Touching Justice
• Workshop on Ethics, Justice, and War
• With
• Professors
• Mervyn Frost, War Studies, Kings College London
• Kimberly Hutchings, International Relations,
  London
• School of Economics
• Participants Frost, Hutchings, Shuruq Naguib
  (Religious Studies), Peter Rowe (Law), Christine
  Sylvester, Graham Smith (Politics/IR) and more.
  December 8, 2-5, Room tba
• Call for Papers and Participants
• Contact c.sylvester_at_lancaster.ac.uk

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Touching War 2008-2009

• Film Festival The War Touch
• Runs October 2008 through March 2009 on the first
  and last Wednesday of the month. University
  Cinema, 6 pm. Jayne Steel Organizer, sponsored by
  the LU Film Society
• Films for 2008
• October 1 and 29
• Welcome to Sarajevo (1997) Dir Michael
  Winterbottom
• No Mans Land (2001) Dir Danis Tanovic
• Film and War, a talk by Jayne Steel, October 29,
  LU Cinema, 500.
• November 5 and 26
• Jarhead (2005) Dir. Sam Mendes
• World Trade Center (2006) Dir. Oliver Stone
• December 3 and 17
• Innocent Voices (2004), Dir. Luis Mandoki
• Battle Royale (2000) Dir. Kinji Fukasu

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Touching War Programme2008-2009
January 2009 Words, Wounds and Memories
Roundtable Discussion with War Journalists, led
by Professor Annabelle Sreberny, Global Media
and Post-National Communication, SOAS. January
28, 6 pm, Room IAS 2/3. tbc Seminar with
Professor Annabelle Sreberny Framing Iran
for War, January 29, 4 pm, Room IAS 2/3

• Workshop on War Literacies What War is Like When
  Youre Fighting It and Remembering It, led
  by Mary Hamilton (Educational Research), with
  participants from the universities of Edinburgh,
  Hofstra, Bath and more. January 23, 9-5, Room IAS
  2/3
• Contact m.hamilton_at_lancaster.ac.uk

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Touching War Programme2008-2009

• February 2009 Wars on Terror
• Keynote Speaker (tbc), February 24, 5 pm, Room
  IAS 2/3
• Workshop on Theorizing Terror and Its Aftermaths,
  with Professor Joseba Zulaika, Sociology,
  Nevada/Bilbao
• Participants include Bulent Diken (Sociology),
  Bruce Bennett (Cultural Studies) and Feargal
  Cochrane, Vicky Mason, Christine Sylvester, Cindy
  Weber (tbc) from Politics/IR. February 25, 9-5,
  Room IAS 2/3

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Touching War Programme2008-2009

• March 2009 Women Armed and Dangerous?
• With
• Megan MacKenzie, Women in Public Policy, Harvard
• Elina Penttinen, Tampere Peace Research Institute
• Laura Sjoberg, Political Science, Virginia Tech
• Roundtable Is War a Masculine Site?
  Participants MacKenzie, Penttinen, Sjoberg and
  Christine Sylvester. March 19, 4-6. Room IAS 2/3
• Workshop The War Question for Feminists.
  Participants include all of the above plus
  Corinna Peniston-Bird (history), Nayanika
  Mookherjee (Sociology), Swati Parashar and Cami
  Rowe (Politics/IR) and more. March 20, 10-5, Room
  IAS 2/3
• Call for Papers and Participants. Contact
  c.sylvester_at_lancaster.ac.uk

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Touching War Programme2008-2009

• April 2009 Bodies of War
• Keynote Speaker Brigitte Holzner, Director of
  Gender and Development, Austrian Development
  Agency. April 2, 4 pm. Room tba
• Workshop Are the War Bodies All Over There?
• April 3, time room tba
• Participants include Holzner, Nayanika
  Mookherjee (Sociology), Athina Karatzogianni
  (Hull), Adi Kunstman (Liverpool John Moores), Pat
  Noxolo (Loughborough), Lindsey Moore and Jayne
  Steel (English and Creative Writing), Swati
  Parashar (Politics/IR) and more. April 4 9-5.
  Room tba.
• Call for Papers, Artworks, Performance, and
  Literary Interventions. Contact
  c.sylvester_at_lancaster.ac.uk

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Touching War 2008-2009

• Film Festival The War Touch
• Films for 2009
• January 14 and 28
• The Killing Fields (1984), Dir. Roland Joffe
• Salvador (1986), Dir. Oliver Stone
• February 4 and 25
• The Deerhunter (1978), Dir. Michael Cimino
• Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004, Dir. Michael Moore
• March 4 and 25
• G.I. Jane (1997), Dir. Ridley Scott
• Rachida (2002), Dir. Yasmina Bachir-Chouikh
• Activities related to war and sponsored by IAS
  have been organized by staff in Health Research,
  English and Creative Writing, Sociology, and
  LICA. Check the IAS website. For further
  information on Touching War contact Professor
  Christine Sylvester by email c.sylvester_at_lancaster
  .ac.uk