Since I was responsible for setting up the technology side of the keynote, I missed all of the sessions on Friday.  Other issues ensured that I only made it to one panel - featuring the esteemed Chris Bray and Jennifer Phillips of UAB - on Saturday.  Chris presented an interesting look at state and non-state militarism in early America and Jennifer discussed the use of rape as a tool of genocide.  My contribution was tech support for Jennifer's presentation, and what seems a truly incomprehensible (and probably unfair) query about rape as part of war in different eras and geographies - if the contention is that rape is a deliberate policy of government in Sudan, how do you prove that, when it happens in all wars?  How do you separate the motivations of the janjaweed from those of Charlie Company at My Lai?

We hope to build on this conference to host an enduring conference series.  More on that later.