June 3, 2025

Online/Cardiff University

The Tom Hopkinson Centre for Media History at Cardiff University is delighted to invite you to a free hybrid event showcasing new books and projects on media history, exploring a diverse range of media forms, including photography, digital technology, film, and journalism.

The presentations will be followed by a discussion on the current role and future directions of media history research.

The hybrid event will take place on Tuesday, June 3, 2025, from 16:00 to 17:30 (BST), both online via Teams and in person at the School of Journalism, Media and Culture (JOMEC), Cardiff University. 

All welcome!

Featured publications include:

• Conflicting images: Histories of war photography in the news, Stuart Allan and Tom Allbeson (Routledge, 2024)
  
• Picturing peace: photography, conflict transformation, and peacebuilding, Tom Allbeson, Pippa Oldfield, and Jolyon Mitchell (Bloomsbury, 2025)
  
• Incomplete: The feminist possibilities of the unfinished film, Alix Beeston and Stefan Solomon (University of California Press, 2023)
  
• Virtual holocaust memory, Matthew Boswell and Antony Rowland (Oxford University Press, 2023)
  
• Reporting skin and the wounded body in Victorian Britain, Diana Garrisi (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
  
• Film, feminism and rape culture in the Yorkshire Ripper years, Hannah Hamad (British Film Institute, forthcoming)
  

Please register via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/multi-book-launch-at-the-tom-hopkinson-centre-for-media-history-tickets-1362166238889?aff=oddtdtcreator

For any queries email us at: jomecresearch@cardiff.ac.uk