The international and interdisciplinary conference, Rethinking War in the Humanities, focuses on a number of issues related to war, history, memory, nationalism and their prospective development in the humanities.

The conference will be held online & in-person on June 22-23, 2023. The event is organized by the Department of Historical Studies at the Faculty of Humanities of Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. Participation is intended for

Doctoral students who are engaged in the study of history, sociology, anthropology, political science, literature and other humanities.

The main research areas are:

• Memory Politics, Historical politics, and Instrumentalisation of the Past
• War and Changing Methodological Agenda in Humanities
• War, Education and Militarized Patriotism
• Gender, Violence and Social Conflict: the Social Effects of Wartime
• War in Media Discourse
• Visual Culture as a Symbolical Response to War
• History as Strategy: the Construction of Historical Narratives in Modern Conflicts

The aim of the conference is to stimulate a critical discussion between PhD students from different humanities disciplines. By providing a common platform for critical thinking, it is hoped that new approaches will be developed to combat the current challenges facing these disciplines in the context of contemporary geopolitical change.

The main question of the conference remains: how does the geopolitical situation affect the potential, status and development of the humanities? In response to the current challenges facing our disciplines, we aim to investigate the ways in which the new generation of scholars (PhD students) will address change both from methodological and thematic perspectives.

Selected papers will be published in a special issue of the peer-reviewed journal Oriens Aliter (Department of Central European Studies and the Institute of East European Studies of the Faculty of Arts of the Charles University).

There is no participation fee.

For any questions relating to the conference, please email: war.conference2023@gmail.com