Critical Drone Studies: Conference Abstracts due 30 January 2026

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Critical Drone Studies: Conference Abstracts due 30 January 2026 ⋆

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  • Reflection: Understanding Drone Warfare through Virtual Reality

    Blogpost by Rory Siah, January 2026

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  • The Sounds of War in Ukraine

    A radio documentary produced by Alina Kostrubitska, October 2025

    Listen here

  • Podcast: Is Organised Violence Central to Capitalism?

    Produced by the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute (SPERI)

    Featuring Dr Joanna Tidy, Dr Beryl Pong, Dr Frank Maracchione, Dr Elena Simon, and Vicki Reif-Breitwieser

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  • Re-imagining the World from Above: The Semiotics of Drone Visuals

    Online talk by Elisa Serafinelli (Manchester Metropolitan University)

    Thursday 6 November 2025, 12-1pm GMT

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  • Beware Blue Skies: The Psychology of Drone Warfare

    A Pop-Up VR Experience

    14 - 17 August 2025, Imperial War Museum (Duxford)

    30 October - 2 November 2025, Imperial War Museum North (Manchester)

    Details here

  • Big Data Visuality and Interstitial Spaces of Autonomy: Drones and Blockchains in and around Myanmar's Civil War

    Article by Beryl Pong and Elliott Prasse-Freeman, March 2025

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  • How to Weaponize your Gender: Drone Operators' Bodies in Contemporary Cultural Production

    Online Talk, Dr Alex Adams

    Wednesday 7 May 2025

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  • Droned Attractions

    Essay by Dr Beryl Pong (March 2025)

    Read here

  • Lines of Flight

    Article and creative project by Dr Richard Carter (2025)

    Read here

  • Testing-in-the-Wild: Innovation Nationalism and the Colonial Dynamics of New Technology Testbeds

    Online seminar talk with Dr Thao Phan (ANU)

    Tuesday 21 January 2025

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  • Militarisation and Pleasure

    Special journal issue edited by Dr Alex Adams and Dr Amy Gaeta, March 2023

    Read here

  • Nonhuman Witnessing: Drone Warfare and its Violent Mediations

    Online talk by A/Prof Michael Richardson (UNSW), 20 June 2024

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Centre for Drones and Culture

How are drones impacting the way we see and relate to our world? How are unmanned technologies, and their relationships to AI, sensors, and simulation, influencing the way we interpret and experience social, political, and ecological events?

The Centre for Drones and Culture (CDAC) engages in the interdisciplinary study of drones in art, war, humanitarianism, and the environment.

The CDAC puts together projects, events, and publications related to the study of technology, aesthetics, and culture.

It brings together different disciplines, including from the humanities, social sciences, and computer sciences, for understanding how drones are affecting facets of everyday life.

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Recent Projects

Beware Blue Skies:

The Psychology of Drone Warfare

Dronotope:

Emerging Technologies and the Politics of Timeline Visualisations

The Centre for Drones and Culture is funded by a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship, ‘Droned Life: Data, Narrative, and the Aesthetics of Worldmaking’. The fellowship is hosted by the Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge.

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