MEDIATED WARS, MEDIATED REFUGE – post-graduate & early career seminar, June 20, 2022

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 seminar’s interdisciplinary character and 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, and 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 held in a hybrid mode:
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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

The 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