2025 Conference:
Peace and Conflict in the Space Between

University of Kansas (KU)

Lawrence, Kansas

May 28-30, 2025

The Space Between Society welcomes you to the 2025 Space Between Conference: “Peace and Conflict in the Space Between.” Please review the Conference Information page (link above) for more details on travel, events, grants, and other details.

This year’s Space Between Conference, “Peace and Conflict in the Space Between,” will be held May 28-30 at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, KS. Peace and Conflict are foundational to the years 1914-1945, given the lasting repercussions of WWI, the two-decade-long anticipation of WWII, and the horrors of both conflicts. We are interested in exploring literary and cultural facets of the myriad conflicts during our period, both within and outside the rubric of war and wartime, as well as within the histories of the many feminist, liberation, social, and artistic struggles of the era. Just as importantly, we invite papers meditating on the nature of peace, both as a cessation to the violence of the conflicts of the era and as an ideological goal in itself to pursue. We look forward to proposals that consider literary, artistic, social, and cultural responses to the many varieties of proliferating conflict, as well as concurrent efforts to secure peace within international, national, regional, local, and interpersonal spaces in the years 1914-1945. 

The conference theme highlights KU’s proximity to the National WWI Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, established in 1926 as a monument to all the individuals who served in WWI. The Memorial’s emphasis on peace in the aftermath of war echoes our conference theme’s attention to both peace and conflict in the space between. 

See the 2025 Conference Information page for more information!