»Invisible Fronts« – Representations of War between AI, Disinformation, and Hybrid Warfare (Publication)
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Organization: Erich Maria Remarque Peace Center
Event: Publication
Call for Papers
Yearbook KRIEG UND LITERATUR/WAR AND LITERATURE VOL. 32 (2027)
(Göttingen: V&R unipress/Universitätsverlag Osnabrückpublished since 1989 and as a yearbook since 2000; distributed to subscribers worldwide)
Invisible Fronts – Representations of War between AI, Disinformation, and Hybrid Warfare
Wars have never been fought solely on military battlefields. Cyber operations, social media, automated weapons systems, algorithmic decision-making processes, and generative artificial intelligence have transformed warfare in recent decades—as well as its media representation and public perception.
Disinformation, surveillance, and the deliberate manipulation of public perception are increasingly blurring the lines between war and peace, reality and simulation, and documentation and staging.
The 2027 issue of KRIEG UND LITERATUR/WAR AND LITERATURE explores cultural representations of these developments. The focus is on how 20th- and 21st-century media depict, reflect on, critique, or anticipate technological and hybrid forms of warfare, and how new technologies are changing the conditions under which wars are narrated, documented, remembered, and perceived as real.
Possible topics include:
• AI, autonomous weapons systems, drones, and algorithmic targeting;
• cyberwarfare, hybrid warfare, and digital infrastructures;
• propaganda, disinformation, and deepfakes;
• generative AI and synthetic images of war;
• manipulation of perception, memory, and enemy stereotypes;
• responsibility and agency in the relationship between humans and machines;
• historical imaginaries of automated and hybrid warfare.
Across all genres and formats, contributions may examine works and materials from literature, film and television, comics and graphic novels, visual and digital art, photography, social media, and video games. Interdisciplinary, comparative, and transnational approaches are also welcome.
Contributions may be submitted in German or English.
The following general formatting guidelines should be observed:
• Submit as a WORD or RTF document; language: German or English; a maximum of 25 A4 pages (excluding illustrations); Footnotes rather than endnotes);
• Figures (printed in black and white) must be submitted separately as offset film, a reproducible original, or in digital format (*.tif, *.jpg with at least 300 dpi in CMYK mode). Please mark the location in the text where each figure is to appear. Do not embed the figures in the document;
• Include correct and complete figure captions in the text or in a separate file;
• Authors are responsible for obtaining all necessary reproduction permissions.
Detailed “Guidelines for Authors” will be sent separately.
Abstracts: 1,500–2,000 characters (including spaces)
Deadline for abstract submissions: December 31, 2026
Notification of acceptance: January 31, 2027
Deadline for full paper submission: June 30, 2027
Paper length: 15–25 pages
Contact and Submission:
Claudia Junk, M.A. and Alice Cadeddu, M.A. (Editors)
Email: junk@osnabrueck.de; cadeddu@osnabrueck.de
Erich Maria Remarque Peace Center; www.remarque.de
Alice Cadeddu