2026 Peace in the Age of Forever Wars Symposium
April 3 - 4, 2026
Gladfelter Hall, 10th Floor, Global Studies Lounge
The relationship between war and peace is complex and uneasy. Sometimes, war and peace are understood as opposites, sometimes as symbiotic, such as when we justify going to war as a means of producing peace. The relationship between war and peace has become more fraught in the twenty-first century and stands in even greater need of examination and theorization. This symposium brings together scholars from the humanities and social sciences to present new scholarship on how to achieve and maintain peace in the age of forever wars. Our hope is to reexamine old frameworks and to bring to light new ones, to understand more deeply the core questions of peace and conflict in historical and transnational context.
Organizers
- Lee-Ann Chae - Associate Professor of Philosophy, Temple University
- Petra Goedde - Professor of History, Temple University
Keynote Speakers
- Mary Dudziak - Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law, Emory University School of Law
- Samuel Moyn - Kent Professor of Law and History, Yale University
- Graham Parsons - Visiting Professor of Philosophy, Vassar College
Participants
- David Chan - Professor of Philosophy, University of Alabama at Birmingham
- Mikkel Dack - Associate Professor of History, Rowan University
- Christian DeVos - Visiting Assistant Professor, CUNY School of Law
- Dario Fazzi - Professor of Transatlantic Environmental History, Leiden University and the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies in the Netherlands
- Christin Hansen - Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Department of History – Modern History, University of Trier
- Sari Kisilevsky - Associate Professor of Philosophy, Queens College CUNY
- Jen Kling - Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
- Ryan Liss - Assistant Professor of Law, University of Western Ontario, Faculty of Law
- Margot Minardi - Professor of History and Humanities, Reed College
- Adam Stone - Doctoral Candidate, History, Rutgers-New Brunswick
- Elad Uzan - Lecturer, Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford; Faculty of Philosophy, Oxford
- Jessica Wolfendale - Professor of Philosophy, Case Western Reserve University