Undergraduate Research Conference 2026 Keynote Address

There Is No Later. This Is Later considers how encounters with war, displacement, and their human consequences have reshaped Dr. Stephen Connor's practice of military history and his approach to teaching. This keynote is not an argument that history offers reassurance, warning, or moral immunity, but a claim about method and ethics in a moment when distance between past and present has collapsed.

Stephen Connor is an Associate Professor of History at Nipissing and co-founder and Associate Director of the Centre for the Study of War, Atrocity, and Genocide. Dr. Connor’s research focuses on popular culture, collective memory, and the ways conflict is represented and understood by public audiences. His work sits at the intersection of military and cultural history, with particular attention to how pop culture shapes historical knowledge, ethical interpretation, and public memory.

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