The Islamic State’s Utopia: A Visual Tour of the Caliphate

Charlie Winter is a Senior Research Fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) at King’s College London. Based on a three-year archive of its media output, his presentation will comprise a visual tour of the ‘calipate’ utopia, shining a light on how the group was able to attract tens of thousands of foreign fighters to Iraq and Syria in 2014 and 2015 and why it made sense for it to provoke the international intervention that spelled its material collapse in 2018.

This event will be in Peabody Hall, Room 104.

Sponsored by PWAD, Department of Communication, and UNC Global & Global Partnership Fund.