Centre for Modern Conflicts and Cultures

Brings together @durham_uni researchers to investigate the roles played by intellectuals, writers, and artists in the conflicts of the 20th and 21st centuries.

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Congratulations to @bealoplop, James Smith & Guy Woodward (@PWEpropagandist) on the publication of this exciting edited collection! 🤩

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An amazing fully-funded PhD opportunity for anyone interested in the cultural history of the Second World War! 👇

[Matthew Johnson @BoredomThenFear]

🚨 Funded PhD studentship in History! 🚨

Leverhulme-funded studentship @durham_history: "Oral History, the British Cultural Imaginary, and the Lives of the SOE’s Amateur Agents"

Deadline: 11 August 2023

Details here: https://t.co/MqF5GnbqR9

Please share! #PhD #twitterstorians

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Excellent news! Huge congrats to our very own Prof. James Smith & Dr. Guy Woodward! 🎊

[The PWE and British Culture @PWEpropagandist]

Excited to announce we have secured funding from @LeverhulmeTrust for a successor project @READEnglish - ' The SOE, covert action and the British cultural imaginary' runs for four years from September 2024, stay tuned for more news!

[Centre for Modern Conflicts and Cultures @CMCCDurham]

An exciting conference for anyone interested in sound technologies & the auditory cultures of wartime! CFP deadline: 13th January. ☎️📻

[Dr Imogen Free @ImogenFree]

📢 Very excited to announce that @AnnaLSnaith and I will be co-organising 'Sounding Modernism', an interdisciplinary conference (@KingsCollegeLon, June 22-23, 2023). *The CFP is now open*, deadline Jan 13th: https://t.co/vQxO8KQCaP 📢

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🚨 CMCC Seminar 🚨 Prof. Adam Piette (@adampiette) will be giving a paper, 'The Political Novel of Ideas and the Second World War: Charles Williams and Olaf Stapledon’ on 21st November, 5.30pm at Durham University (venue TBC). All welcome! 💫

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Many congrats to our PhD member @KatieOsha - a great achievement! 🥳

[bacls @BACLS_official]

The postgrad prize goes to @KatieOsha for a "meticulously executed" interdisciplinary essay on classical music & the contemporary novel:

"Excellent research & a firm understanding of the critical terrain, with succinct, intelligent & articulate analysis"

https://t.co/w3o0EEhwiP

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JOB ALERT 🚨 Lecturer in Modern British Social History (FT - 12 months) at Durham University: https://t.co/WeKSsCaAK4

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With a chapter on 'Anglo-American Propaganda and the Transition from the Second World War to the Cultural Cold War' by James Smith & Guy Woodward (@PWEpropagandist)! 🤩

[Centre for Modern Conflicts and Cultures @CMCCDurham]

🚨 PT/FT Lecturer in War Studies job at the University of Glasgow! https://t.co/MXdb2Is0KG

[SWW Studies Edin @SWWStudiesEdin]

Please could you circulate this to your PGR students @UofGWarstudies @warstudies @WMS_UniKent @CMCCDurham

[War, Media & Society @WMS_UniKent]

🚨 CfP alert for followers working on modern Spanish history 🚨

This exciting conference will be taking place at @UniKent on the 10th-11th September. The CfP is live until 15th June, so there's plenty of time to get an abstract in!

For more info: https://t.co/zyDt5NuLTh

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A new blog post on researching traumatic topics by our PhD member @DanielEAdamson! ✨

[Durham IAS @DurhamIAS]

Recruitment for @DurhamIAS visiting Fellowships in 2023/24 is open. Details at https://t.co/b2ZyondKDS. Each Fellowship is for 3-months (Oct-Dec 23 or Jan-Mar 24). Application deadline is 17 June 2022.
@Durham_BSI;@DurhamImh; @DEI_durham; @_IHRR; @WolfsonResearch;@IMEMSDurham

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@annabel_lw @krmuth @READEnglish @durham_history @MLACresearch @coldwarhist

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A reminder that our WIP on the Cultural Cold War with @annabel_lw & @krmuth is happening *tomorrow* (4th May) at 5.30pm via Zoom. Abstracts are attached! Please DM us for the link. 📨

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📢 WIP Seminar on the Cultural Cold War on 4th May at 5.30pm via Zoom, with papers on 'Red Days and Dystopian Nights: Arthur Koestler’s Travel Writing and the Cultural Cold War' (@annabel_lw) & ‘Mapping the Cultural Cold War: Toward a Digital Humanities Approach’ (@krmuth). 1/2

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Please share and DM us for the link to join the session! 📨

[Centre for Modern Conflicts and Cultures @CMCCDurham]

📢 WIP Seminar on the Cultural Cold War on 4th May at 5.30pm via Zoom, with papers on 'Red Days and Dystopian Nights: Arthur Koestler’s Travel Writing and the Cultural Cold War' (@annabel_lw) & ‘Mapping the Cultural Cold War: Toward a Digital Humanities Approach’ (@krmuth). 1/2

[Jonathan 🦬 jsench.bsky.social @jsench]

Is there a book or articles about the growth of postwar literary studies (even better if focused on new bibliographers) through intelligence officers who became English faculty & brought methods w them? Charlton Hinman and Fredson Bowers especially? I feel like this must exist.

[CVACinDURHAM @CVACinDURHAM]

Prof Stephen Bann (@UoBrisArtHist) will give the annual @CVACinDURHAM @IMEMSDurham lecture this year: 'Signs and Traces of the English Civil War' – conflict, memory, and visual culture.
Tues, April 26th, 5pm Durham Town Hall or Zoom, all welcome!
Register https://t.co/RDblYwTVNa