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