The War and Media Studies (WMS) special interest group will again offer three small travel grants for members accepted into the annual conference. Each grant will be $100, and the competition will be restricted to our graduate student members and those who are precariously employed. Recipients will be determined through random selection from among applications received by the annual deadline. These grants are named in honor of Eileen Rositzka, a founding WMS member. Special thanks is due to previous SIG co-chair Karen Ritzenhoff who has generously donated $10 ..read more

The War and Media Studies SIG is holding its annual graduate student writing award competition to showcase innovative work in the field by our graduate student members. We will again be partnering with the Sage journal Media, War & Conflict and the winning author will have the opportunity to be published in the journal in addition to receiving a $100 cash prize. War and Media SIG Graduate Essay Award ..read more

Dear WMS Members! We hope this announcement finds everyone enjoying the summer. For the 2024 Boston SCMS Conference, we’re hosting a Zoom get together to support members in organizing pre-constituted panels, open call papers, workshops, seminars, and/or roundtables. WMS Zoom Networking Meeting: Friday, July 28, 2022, 2-3 pm EST (US & CAN). Join Zoom Meeting https://bgsu-edu.zoom.us/j/86362246500?pwd=enFRVFBXb0VqUmZacmJRajg4cGt5QT09 If you cannot attend the meeting, don’t stress. After the meeting, we’ll post a Shared Google doc where members can continue networking to organize proposa ..read more

SCMS Conf 2023–Whoohoo! It’s here! WMS Sponsored Panels & Recommended Panels/Rountables/Papers   Sponsored Panels F26      Representation and Militarism   Chair: Mary Schmitt, Quinnipiac University Mary Schmitt, Quinnipiac University, “Reading Black Panther Through/With The Spook Who Sat by the Door: Lessons on Black Internationalism and US Militarism” Karina Griffith, University of Toronto, Berlin University of Art (UdK), “G.I. Dreams in Black Authored German Cinema” Samantha Welwood, University of Texas – Dallas, “Disabling Po ..read more

WMS: SPECIAL CALLS for the Midwest Popular Culture conference, CFPS & PUBLICATIONS [03-24-23]   SPECIAL FOCUS: Midwest Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Cambridge Scholars Publishing: East Asian Studies Volume (related project) For details, please click: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2023/03/18/east-asian-popular-culture-call-for-completed-chapters-to-publish-in-cambridge Requesting: COMPLETED chapters of 7-8,000 words including citation Bionote: 100 words Citations: Chicago Manual of Style (Author-Date) Deadline: Monday, March 27, 2023 Cultural So ..read more

Dear Colleagues! What a wonderful annual meeting we had with our WMS members!  We want to update members on the review of the past year and the plans for the upcoming year. ***For the past year & the 2023 Denver conference: 1. Graduate Student Writing Prize Winner: Hugo Ljungbäck, University of Chicago, “Vertical Interference: Video, Drone Witnessing, and the Myth of Precision Targeting” Abstract: Artists and filmmakers have frequently problematized drone warfare through their creative practices, contesting military surveillance and violence by appropriating, parodying, and turning th ..read more

Dear Colleagues, The year is already racing towards SCMS’s main event: the 2023 Denver Conference! 1. WMS’s SPONSORED PANELS Please go to the following Google doc to register your panel by February 10th. Like all the SIGs, we can sponsor EIGHT panels. So, please fill in the information here ASAP. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BRZ3Lk5-O9GrXhE3B-CQ6qI8ckqaKHHCZ0ZZvyKojhM/edit 2. In wonderful news, our previous co-chair Karen Ritzenhoff has generously donated $100 to support another travel grant. She donates this grant in honor of Eileen Rositzka, a founding WMS member. Please follow t ..read more

WMS: Updates, Special Call for Co-Editor, Jobs, Podcasts, CFPS & Publications [01-13-23]   Conference REMINDERS: *For the SCMS 2023 Denver conference, presenters must register by Jan 27th. *The virtual preconferences have been moved to Feb 24-25.   UPDATE: We’re well into our essay contest review process and will make our decisions soon. We’ll keep everyone posted.   SPECIAL CALL FOR a Co-Editor and Contributors: Trinh T. Minh-ha volume Title: Refocus volume on Trinh T. Minh-ha (Film Studies emphasis) About: Vivienne Tailor is working with Edinburgh University Press (E ..read more

Framing the Dead to Expose the Past: Catalyzing Postmemory in Almodóvar’s Bad Education (2004) and Parallel Mothers (2021)   On a movie set, a fratricidal brother hyperventilates after acting a scene presenting just one imagined variation of his brother’s murder. In a maternity ward, two women—whose lives are haunted by trauma—calm their breathing while birthing the new Spanish generation. These scenes represent pivotal moments in two of auteur filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar’s works—Bad Education (Education, 2004) and Parallel Mothers (Parallel, 2021). In the imaginative realms of postmemory c ..read more

Announcement: Call-for-Papers:   International edited collection titled:   Taking Control: the critical and creative uses of digital tools and the now, the past, the foreseeable future and beyond.   I am seeking a number of academics and professionals in the field who might like to send me an abstract for consideration for inclusion in the book.   Due to the continuing effects of the coronavirus pandemic, we have extended the deadline date for abstracts. Abstracts now due: 30 March 2023. The aim of Taking Control is to highlight the human-computer blend and AI as a vibrant ..read more