Framing War and Peace: Russian Rhetoric and Media in the Ukraine Conflict

Session Submission Type: Panel

Brief Description

The panel will examine various aspects of the current Russian discourse on the war against Ukraine in light of recent developments. Focusing on Putin’s rhetoric as well as on Russian media such as television and Telegram channels, the proposed papers will show the transformations that the rhetoric of war has undergone in 2025, following the rapid development of international politics. A key aspect of the presentations will be the dialectic of framing peace in the context of a fundamental geopolitical confrontation with the “collective West”.

Sub Unit

• Cinema, Television, Electronic Media

Chair

• Alina Parker, U of Massachusetts Amherst

Papers

• The Geopolitical Imaginary in Putin's Rhetoric of War - Riccardo Nicolosi, Ludwig-Maximilians-U Munich (Germany)

• The Rhetoric of Peace in a War-Normalizing Discourse: Representing Peace Negotiations in Russian Telegram Channels - Vera Jarvis

• 'An honest guy with a gangster's style': Trump and Ukraine through the Kaleidoscopic Lens of Russian Propaganda - Michael S. Gorham, U of Florida

Discussant

• Vera Tolz-Zilitinkevich, U of Manchester (UK)