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From September 15-17, the ISU History Department and the Sustainable Peace Faculty Learning Community are hosting the 2023 Peace and Justice Studies Association annual conference. They are currently accepting proposals for papers at:  https://www.peacejusticestudies.org/conference/2023-submit-your-proposal/.

Faculty, students, and staff are invited to propose papers that engage with questions of peace in the following ways:

• Conceptualizing positive peace
• Interrogating late modern consumer capitalism and current models of economic growth
• Considering sustainability and the right use of resources
• Respecting the rights of all sentient beings and deconstructing hierarchies of human value
• Truth telling, deep listening, justice, and healing
• Building positive peace for LGBTQ+, ethnic and racial underrepresented populations, and other communities marginalized by mainstream culture
• Rethinking/deconstructing “the enemy” and “welcoming the stranger”
• Embracing the roles and contributions of specific disciplines to the study and practice of positive peace and social justice
• Preserving and furthering the rights of women and women peacebuilders
• Promoting spirituality, wonder, and awe in peace-filled contexts
• Creating and curating peace-filled narratives, storytelling, myths, folklore, poems, ballads
• Connecting peacebuilding with non-traditional peace studies disciplines, including but not limited to food and nutrition, health, agriculture, education, business, music, engineering, architecture, fashion, environmental science, history, and library science

Submissions may include a range of formats:

• Individually submitted papers (to be organized into panels by the conference committee)
• Panels (3-4 individual papers or presenters linked thematically)
• Films, creative works, art presentations
• Roundtable discussions (interactive, facilitated discussion led by presenter(s))
• Teaching and/or skill-building interactive workshops

The PJSA conference creates a welcoming community designed to facilitate the sharing of work and ideas across disciplines and vocations.