CFP: Ideas of War and Wars of Ideas: Warfare, Information and Political Mobilization

[David Kieran]

Hello Colleagues,

Please see below a CFP that may be of interest. And please remember that our Google Group is a great way to circulate CFPs and other announcements!

Best,

Dave Kieran

American Studies

Franklin & Marshall College

CFP for the Western Political Science Association (WPSA) conference, "The Power of Information" in Seattle, April 17-19: http://wpsa.research.pdx.edu/meet/call.php

Ideas of War and Wars of Ideas: Warfare, Information and Political Mobilization

This panel seeks to interrogate the political battles that take place over information concerning actual battles and the warring subjects who fight them. From the Wilson Administration through the Obama Administration, there has long been a close relationship between information management and the justification and execution of military action. We are seeking papers that not only examine the relationship between information and warfare, but that seek to examine the effects that relationship has on the mobilization of political coalitions and movements, as well. 

We are looking for two additional panelists to join myself and AJ Bauer, and Cristina Beltrán, who will serve as the panel's chair/discussant. AJ's paper will look at the ways in which the New Right leveraged media coverage of Vietnam to spin the loss as justification of the movement's vilification of the "liberal media." My paper will consider the strategic release and promotion of data concerning sexual assaults in the military, and how such media has framed the collective identity of victims of sexual trauma, enabling and foreclosing certain acts of political solidarity.

Interested panelists should send a one-paragraph abstract of their paper and CV to elizabe...@gmail.com no later than Thursday September 12 for consideration.