Read a Conference Preview:
“…the exhibit that the Spencer Museum of Art, which is on the University of Kansas campus, is putting together specifically for Space Between demonstrates that these binaries are much more complicated when we look at the actual experience of war…”
Interview with Keynote Marie Grace Brown
Read the first chapter of Brown’s Khartoum at Night: Fashion and Body Politics in Imperial Sudan or her blog post “History Stands Alongside the Woman in the White Tobe: The Legacy of Sudanese Fashion and Politics”
Interview with Keynote Kent Blansett
Kent Blansett is the Langston Hughes Associate Professor of Indigenous Studies and History at the University of Kansas. He is the author of A Journey to Freedom: Richard Oakes, Alcatraz, and the Red Power Movement (Yale University Press, 2018), among many other works. His work can also be found at the American Indian Digital History Project, of which he is the founder and executive director. Blansett will deliver the second of two keynote addresses at the Space Between 2025 conference. He sat down with conference host Aimee Wilson to discuss some of the works that he’s thinking about in preparation for that keynote.
The Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945 