Rethinking War Conference

Following a highly successful conference last spring, Rethinking War is back, and eager to continue our study of war across disciplines and types of narrative. This is a conference that welcomes presentations, works-in-progress, and discussions from scholars and students of all levels, including undergraduates, public historians, museum professionals, veterans, and military professionals.

The work of recovering, constructing, and sharing narratives in an inherently political one. This is especially true regarding discussions of state-sanctioned and organized violence. Multiple frameworks, disciplinary perspectives, and forms of expression are required to grasp such experiences fully and consequentially. More importantly is the act of recognizing the voices, knowledges, and insight of students and scholars from a diverse range of identities and experiences. This conference welcomes inclusive examinations of war that query notions of periodization, power, and relationships with and to violence. Further, we seek to challenge traditional binaries of war/peace, veteran/civilian, home-front/battlefield, and digital/tangible sites of war as a way of querying the nature of war itself as part of the human experience.

This event is intended not only as a way of sharing research, but also, hopefully, as the tool for building a supportive community of scholars, encouraging collaboration, and offering solidarity.

For more information, please visit the conference website here.