The 2025 Biennial International Conference of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society

CALL FOR PAPER & PANEL PROPOSALS DEADLINE: February 24th, 2025

The Biennial International Conference of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society will be held October 24-26, 2025, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, 1800 Presidents Street, Reston, Virginia 20190.

The Program Committee is Morten Ender (Chair), Allison Abbe, Jessica Blankshain, and Morten Braender, and along with the IUS staff we are soliciting proposals for individual papers and for panel sessions.

The Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society was founded in 1960 by renowned sociologist Morris Janowitz, with the goal of providing a much-needed focal point for communication and criticism among those independently engaged in research on the armed forces across universities and research centers both in the United States and abroad. Conference participants come from around the world and include academics, military officers, students, and researchers in a variety of institutional settings, both private and public, using a broad range of qualitative, quantitative, historiographical, and other methods to study the armed forces broadly defined. The IUS Conference is an interdisciplinary organization and has included participants from political science, sociology, psychology, economics, international relations, history, geography, social work, anthropology, law, criminology, psychiatry, human relations, defense and strategic studies, veteran studies, literature/film, linguistics, and communication, among others.