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Behind the Enemy News: issue salience in the Russo-Ukrainian War July 7, 2025 Matvei Makeev Marco Bastos a School of Information and Communication Studies, University College Dublin, Dublin, Irelandb Department of Media, Culture and Creative Industries, City St. George’s, University of London, London, UK
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Neo-nazi terrorism and countercultural fascism: the origins and afterlife of James Mason’s siege April 26, 2025 John P. Hendry Department of Communication, Georgia State University
‘Unite against the parasites’: how do white supremacists exploit antisemitism to mobilize non-white groups? April 14, 2025 Ariel Koch a Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy, and Strategy, Reichman University institution, Herzliya, Israelb International Institute for Counter-Terrorism, Reichman University, Herzliya, Israelc Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism (ISGAP), New York City, USADr. Ariel Koch is a lecturer at the Lauder School of Government and a Research Fellow at both the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) at Reichman University and the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP). His research focuses on transnational extremist movements, hate groups, and violent digital subcultures, with particular emphasis on the convergence of diverse forms of violent extremism. Dr. Koch teaches undergraduate courses and regularly lectures to policymakers, security professionals, academic audiences, and educational institutions in Israel and internationally.
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The Strategic Use of Emotion in Conflict; Asch seminar on November 17th, 2008

Roger Petersen, MIT

Many ongoing conflicts, especially those involving Western intervention, can be characterized in terms of a type of “game” with a fairly stable set of actors, preferences, and rules. At certain junctures, actors use emotions to change the set of actors, reshape preferences, and alter the rules. Actors […]

Jonathan Hyman, new associate director

Acclaimed photographer Jonathan Hyman has joined the Asch Center as an associate director. Jonathan is exploring the role of visual culture in the context of ethnic conflict. He has many exciting ideas for collaboration, and with his help, we will soon begin featuring the work of visual artists on our web site. A documentary film […]

Asch featured in Bryn Mawr’s Alumnae Bulletin

The August 2008 edition of the Alumnae Bulletin includes an article about Asch’s move to Bryn Mawr College. The article mentions current projects like the speaker series, and visiting scholar Muhammed Fani’s book-in-progress on the emergence of religious radicalism in Pakistan. Our plans for the future include bringing postdoctoral fellows with recent experience in conflict […]

Misreading the Arab Media

Jeremy Ginges, currently at the New School for Social Research, coauthored an op-ed piece in the New York Times on opinions of Arab journalists. Far from being our enemies, Arab journalists could be among the “most powerful weapons in the war of ideas against terrorism” according to the authors.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/25/opinion/25pintak.html? _r=1&ref=opinion&oref=slogin

Roy Eidelson video: Resisting the drums of war

A posting onThe Situationist website featured a video created by Roy Eidelson. According to Eidelson, our “Five Core Concerns” are easy targets for leaders wishing to sway public opinion. He explains how how awareness of core concerns can help us to “recognize, counter and resist the appeals of warmongers.” To view the video on Eidelson’s […]

Published by the University of Texas Press the book features 100 of Hyman's photographs and six critical essays that depict and discuss the emotional aftermath of the September 11, 2001, attacks -- a time when people from all walks of life created and encountered memorials to those who were murdered. Vernacular art appeared almost everywhere—on walls, trees, playgrounds, vehicles, houses, tombstones, and even on bodies. This outpouring of grief and other acts of remembrance impelled photographer Jonathan Hyman to document and preserve these largely impermanent, spontaneous expressions. This book, a unique archive of 9/11 public memory, is the result of his compiling a collection of 20,000 photographs, along with field notes and personal interviews. For more information about the book or to purchase it, visit the book's page at Amazon or Facebook.

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The Strategic Use of Emotion in Conflict; Asch seminar on November 17th, 2008

Jonathan Hyman, new associate director

Asch featured in Bryn Mawr’s Alumnae Bulletin

Misreading the Arab Media

Roy Eidelson video: Resisting the drums of war

New book by Asch Associate Director for Conflict and Visual Culture Jonathan Hyman: “The Landscapes of 9/11: A photographer’s Journey”