Handgonne ca. 1400.

Loosely modelled after the Tannenberg castle gun, mine is loaded with around 50-60 gr. of 2F black powder and fires a .75 calibre lead ball.

The War and Media Studies Special Interest Group is issuing a call for current members to serve a three-year term as a SIG co-chair!

#SCMS goers! The War & Media Studies SIG is sponsoring this screening and discussion at Northwestern on April 5, organized by the SCMS Palestine Solidarity Working Group and the Chicago Palestine Film Festival.

I already cancelled my trip and I‘m not the only one I‘ve seen this conference season, I expect more people to do the same as SCMS, PCA and other events in my field get closer (like by this point we were all long booked and it‘s financially tougher to back out than simply not to book).

For the first time in a decade, I canceled my #SCMS participation. W/ TSA harassment & travel doc confiscations of trans people, ICE’s treatment of visa holders, for political & random reasons, & the measles outbreak—I don’t feel safe traveling to the U.S. as a trans, immunocompromised immigrant.1/4

📢 Sn 2, ep. 1 of COLD WAR CINEMA is live!

Join me, @tonyjballas.bsky.social, and our new co-host,
@ptklein.com, for a discussion of Sergei Eisenstein's two-part Soviet historical epic IVAN THE TERRIBLE (1945/1958)!

sites.libsyn.com/501203/s2-ep...

The SCMS preliminary conference schedule is out! If you would like the War and Media Studies SIG to sponsor your panel please let us know by January 14 (that's this Tuesday) by sending an email to rankicw@bgsu.edu. We're looking forward to hearing what you're working on!

Over the past year, we have been verifying, geolocating, and mapping white phosphorus use by Israel over Lebanon.

Today, we’re officially launching whitephosphorus.info, a platform dedicated to tracking the distribution of this toxic weapon. 🧵

We will hold our online meeting during the @scmstudies.bsky.social Virtual Symposium on Friday, December 6 from 12–1 PM CT (10 AM PST). We hope to see you there!

Join us on the Zoom Events platform for the SCMS 2024 Virtual Symposium. We’re keeping things simple and accessible with the same Zoom interface, you know. Access invitations and a helpful user guide will be sent on December 4. All session times are in U.S. Central.
www.cmstudies.org/page/VSsched...

The time has come for our SIG's grad student writing award! We're very excited to partner again with @mwcjournal.bsky.social! Winning author will receive a $100 prize and the opportunity to be published in the journal. Entrants must be members of the @scmstudies.bsky.social
War & Media Studies SIG.

New book from @dukepress.bsky.social:

Settler Militarism: World War II in Hawai'i and the Making of US Empire by Juliet Nebolon

www.dukeupress.edu/settler-mili...