3rd Annual Virtual Conference: April 19-20, 2024

Featuring:
“Memory Keeping, Material Culture, and Modern War:
Some Reflections on Writing New Narratives of Conflict.”

Keynote by Susan Grayzel, Professor of History at Utah State University
Friday, April 19: 12:00pm - 1:30pm EST

The Rethinking War Virtual Conference is excited to return for a third year, and eager to continue our conversations and investigations around the history, experience, and impacts of war across disciplines and types of narrative.

The work of recovering, constructing, and sharing narratives in an inherently political one, in that it negotiates, analyzes, and contests multiple forms of power structures. This political nature of this work becomes especially evident in discussions of state-sanctioned and organized violence. The threat, experience, and aftermath of war permeate every aspect of our lived experiences; therefore, multiple frameworks, disciplinary perspectives, and forms of expression are required to create multidimensional and impactful narratives.

More important is the act of recognizing the voices, knowledges, and narratives from as diverse a range of identities and experiences as possible. Therefore, this conference seeks to engage in the deep political work of studying war, and welcomes participation in multiple forms, including traditional conference presentations, works-in-progress, pedagogical analyses, and discussions from scholars, students, and professionals of all levels, including undergraduates, public historians, museum specialists, veterans, and military professionals. 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.