War and conflict continues to shape lives, landscapes and communities long after the actual fighting has passed. Civilians are killed by left-over ordnance, and landscapes reshaped, in the forms of memorials, museums and battlefields. Unsurprisingly war continues to be an object of fascination, appearing not only in formal artistic representation, but also in popular media, and in personal and family histories and memories. Scholars in the cluster working in these areas are interested in the multiple ways in which war and conflict are represented and remembered, with a particular focus on issues of memorialisation, remembrance and the cultural memory of conflicts, the concept of the 'postwar', civilian death and grief.
