Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, Florida, 23-25 February 2012

This conference examines the experiences of civilians in warfare in broad comparative chronological, disciplinary and regional focus.

Studies of war have conventionally focused on soldiers and armies – on battle, and on those most visibly seen to be doing the “fighting.” However, this emphasis has begun to shift in recent years. In the discipline of history, the “new military history” has prompted deeper engagement with the broader social meaning of war.

Meanwhile, the blurred line between combatants and non-combatants in many recent military conflicts has prompted the resurgence of philosophical and political questions about the meaning, in wartime, of the categories of civilians and soldiers, forcing scholars to look beyond the action and agency of the most prominent participants in warfare.

This conference will bring together the best new work on civilians and non-combatants within the humanities and social sciences in a comprehensive range of geographical areas and time periods.

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Confirmed Participants

 Bernard Bachrach, Professor of Medieval History, University of Minnesota

David Bachrach, Associate Professor of Medieval History, University of New Hampshire

John Chappell, Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations, Webster University

Stephen Conway, Professor of History, University College London

Jocelyn Courtney, Columbia University Law Department

Karen Colvard, Program Director, Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation

John Cox, Associate Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Gwyn Davies, Associate Professor of Archeology, Florida International University

Nicole Dombrowski, Associate Professor of History, Towson University

Alexander Downes, Associate Professor of Political Science, George Washington University

Kathy Gaca, Associate Professor of Classics, Vanderbilt University

Susan Grayzel, Director of the Sarah Isom Center for Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Mississippi

Jeffrey Hass, Associate Professor of History, Ave Maria University

Tryntje Hellferich, Assistant Professor of History, Ohio State University

René  Harder Horst, Professor of Latin American History, Appalachian State University

Geoffrey Hudson, Associate Professor in the History of Medicine, Northern Ontario School of Medicine 

Golzar Khielash, Program Director, Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict (CIVIC)

George Kieh, Professor of Political Science and African-American Studies, University of West Georgia

Erika Kuhlman, Associate Professor of Women’s Studies, Idaho State University

John Lango, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Hunter College, CUNY

Jan Lemnitzer, Director of the Changing Character of War Program, Oxford University 

James Marten, Professor of History, Marquette University

Michael Neiberg, Professor of History, U.S. Army War College

Nadya Popov, Assistant Professor of History and Classics, University of West Georgia

Rajmohan Ramanathapillai, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Peace Studies, Gettysburg University

Francis Shor, Professor of History, Wayne State University

Judith Hicks Stiehm, Professor of Political Science, Florida International University

Jason Warren, Assistant Professor of History, United States Military Academy at West Point

Marilyn Young, Professor of History, New York University