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Veterans
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Courtesy listing. The Veterans in Society conferences and the Journal of Veterans Studies are now core projects of our colleagues and collaborators in the Veterans Studies Association. This event was the fifth full ViS conference and the first conducted under VSA auspices. ViS conference proceedings are curated by the University Libraries at Virginia Tech. (Authors: see submission guidelines).
Between ViS conferences, we encourage you to contribute your ideas about research on veterans in society through the Veterans Studies Conference Group on Facebook.
FIFTH VETERANS IN SOCIETY CONFERENCE
Resilience, Pedagogy, and Veterans Studies
Schedule
Suggested hashtag: #ViS2022Phx
20-21* October 2022​
Arizona State University, Downtown Campus
Phoenix, Arizona USA
​​*Veterans Studies Association officers and advisers meeting will be on the morning of 22 October.
​All events take place at the Beus Center for Law and Society, 111 E. Taylor Street.
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Read descriptions for each presentation (organized by panel) or the call for papers.
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This conference is free to attend thanks to the following benefactors:
The College of Integrative Sciences and Arts and the Office for Veteran and Military Academic Engagement at Arizona State University.
But please register by September 30.
Thursday, October 20
11:00 AM. Registration
12:00—1:15 PM. Veterans’ Transitions
Nan Darbous Marthaller, Faulkner University; Bob Beard, Arizona State University; Joshua Fletcher, Sullivan University; Robert J. White, Independent Scholar | Moderator: Bruce Pencek, Virginia Tech. Session video (partial)
1:30—2:45 PM. Resiliency for Veteran Studies: A Roundtable Discussion
D. Alexis Hart, Allegheny College; Corrine E. Hinton, Texas A&M University - Texarkana; Micah C. Wright, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio; Michael Hoffman, University of Michigan. Session video includes this and following panel.
3:00—4:15 PM. Historical Perspectives within Veterans Studies
Jeffrey S. Reznick, National Library of Medicine of the National Institutes of Health; Todd McDonald, Virginia Tech; Michael D. Visconage, US Department of Veterans Affairs | Moderator: Brooks Simpson, Arizona State University. Session video begins at 01:28:05.
4:00—5:00 PM. Registration
5:00—6:00 PM. Keynote
Remarks by LTG (ret) Benjamin Freakley, ASU
Poem by Rashaad Thomas
Presentation on Navajo Code Talkers by Zonnie Gorman Session video (limited-time availability)
6:00—8:00 PM. Reception
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Friday, October 21
7:30–8:45 AM. Breakfast and Registration
8:45–9:00 AM. Welcome Address
9:00–10:15 AM. Resilience Among Veterans
Amanda Strauss & Rachel Larson, Arizona State University; Michael Logan, The University of Texas at San Antonio; John Armenta, University of California, San Diego | Moderator: Jim Craig, University of Missouri St. Louis. Session video
10:30–11: 45 AM. Humanities and the Arts for Veteran Resilience
Victoria Sams, National Endowment for the Humanities; Alisha Ali, Annie Farnsworth, & Stephan Wolfert, New York University & DE-CRUIT; Ricardo Cate, Renowned Cartoonist | Moderator: Jerome Clark. Session video
11:45–1:00 PM. Lunch
1:00–2:15 PM. Health-Focused Approaches to Veteran Resilience
Carrie Carter, North Carolina State University; William T. Howe, Texas Tech University & Arden C. Roeder, Ph.D., Baylor University; Ayse Torres & Cheryl A. Krause-Parello, Florida Atlantic University; Rebecca Ivory & Jennifer Graber, University of Delaware | Moderator: Eric Hodges, Longwood University. Session video
2:30–3:45 PM. Teaching Veterans Studies
Inga Haugen, Virginia Tech [could not attend]; Amanda S. Hansford, Eastern Kentucky University; Jim Craig, University of Missouri St. Louis | Moderator: D. Alexis Hart, Allegheny College. Session video
4:00–5:15 PM. Veterans Studies: Considerations and Complications
Matt Porter, University of North Texas; Jim Craig, University of Missouri St. Louis, Mariana Grohowski, University of California, Irvine, Eric Hodges, Longwood University, Bruce Pencek, Virginia Tech | Moderator: Mariana Grohowski, University of California, Irvine. Session video
5:15–5:30 PM. Closing Ceremony
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Recordings of live-streamed videos are housed on ASUlive2 repository at Arizona State University.
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Conference proceedings will join those of previous ViS conferences in the VTechWorks repository at Virginia Tech.
(Presenters should consult submission guidelines. Deadline Jan 15, 2023.)
This Veterans in Society Conference is hosted by
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