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  1. Sponsored by Institute for Advanced Studies

  2. Sponsored by Institute for Advanced Studies 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

  3. Sponsored by Institute for Advanced Studies Touching War Programme2008-2009 November 2008 Attractions and Costs of Today’s 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

  4. Sponsored by Institute for Advanced Studies Touching War Programme2008-2009 December 2008 War Touching Justice Workshop on Ethics, Justice, and War With Professors Mervyn Frost, War Studies, King’s 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@lancaster.ac.uk

  5. 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 Man’s Land (2001) Dir Danis Tanovic Film and War, a talk by Jayne Steel, October 29, LU Cinema, 5:00. 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

  6. Sponsored by Institute for Advanced Studies Touching War Programme2008-2009 January 2009 Words, Wounds and Memories Workshop on War Literacies: What War is Like When You’re 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@lancaster.ac.uk 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

  7. Sponsored by Institute for Advanced Studies 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

  8. Sponsored by Institute for Advanced Studies 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@lancaster.ac.uk

  9. Sponsored by Institute for Advanced Studies 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@lancaster.ac.uk

  10. Sponsored by Institute for Advanced Studies 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@lancaster.ac.uk

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