Sunday March 22

1530-2030

Registration is open

 

1700-1800

Welcome Reception

 

1800-1930

Opening Remarks and Plenary Panel: 'The Veteran Comes Back' at 75. Panel Organizer – Jim Dubinsky | Speakers Jim Dubinsky, Virginia Tech; Nancy Dallett, Arizona State University; Bruce Pencek, Virginia Tech; Jim Craig, University of Missouri Saint Louis

 

Monday March 23

0800-1530 Registration is open

 

0900-1015 BREAK OUT #1

Session 1 (Room 202) Panel Discussion: Integrating Veteran Voices in the Classroom

Panel Organizer - Sarah Myer | David Kieran, Washington & Jefferson College; Sarah Myers, Messiah College; Tanya Roth, Mary Institute and Country Day School; John Worsencroft, Louisiana Tech University; Samantha Wessel, Washington & Jefferson College; Erik Blasic, Washington & Jefferson College.

 

Session 2 (Room 204) Negotiating Identities

• Identity negotiation in Military Service Members - Taylor Piva, University of Rochester

• Veteran Identity and the Grand Narrative of Service - Katt Starnes, Lamar University

• Veteran Identity Centrality and Resource Engagement - Steve Wahle, University of South Carolina

 

Session 3 (Room 403) Defining Veterans

• Defining military veterans: implications for career transition - Michael Kirchner, Purdue University Fort Wayne; Sarah Minnis, Western Carolina University

• Post 9-11 Veterans and Identity Through Autobiographical Visual History – Stephanie K. Erwin, The George Washington University

• Nietzsche’s Abyss: This Veteran’s Dilemma – Greg Slayton, Arkansas State University – Newport

 

Session 4 (Room 404) Emotional Wounds of Service 

• One Soldier’s Heart: The Emotional Wounds of War – Ted Engelmann

• Military News and Suicide: An evaluative content analysis of the Army Times’ suicide reporting - Nicholas Eckhart & Scott Parrott, University of Alabama

• The effects of stigmatizing and counter-stigmatizing news stories on attitudes toward military veterans – Scott Parrott, David A. Albright, Nick Eckhart – University of Alabama

 

1030-1145 BREAK OUT # 2

Session 5 (Room 202) Panel Discussion: Humanities Learning and Leadership for Student-Veterans

Rosemary Erickson Johnsen, Andrae Marak, & Kevin Smith – Governors State University 

 

Session 6 (Room 204) Veterans as an Object of Scholarship

• Delineating the Concept, Widening the Field: “The Veteran” as Object of Scholarship – Howard Hastings, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

• Collective Memory Spaces of the Vietnam War and Their Effects on Veteran Identity - Abigail Buchanan, Michigan State University

• The Oral History Collection of the Netherlands Veterans Institute and the use of interviews with Dutch veterans for research on combat experience – Jeoffrey van Woensel, The Netherlands Veterans Institute

 

Session 7 (Room 403) Writing Veteran History and Literature 

• The things they did not talk about –Kathryn A. Broyles

• Archibald MacLeish: Combat Veteran and Public Poet - Jim Dubinsky, Virginia Tech

• “Your Story is Important. No Experience Necessary”: The Transformative Journey of Charlie Mike, a Community-Based Veterans Writing Workshop – Ross M. Atkinson, Colorado State University

 

Session 8 (Room 404) Who Served and Who Can Serve Them 

• Military veterans are morally typecast as agentic but unfeeling: Implications for veteran employment – Steven Shepherd, Oklahoma State University

• Who Can Serve Veterans? – Sarah E. Minnis, Western Carolina University; Michael Kirchner, Purdue University–Fort Wayne

• The Veteran Dialect: Navigating the Discursive Space between Military Identity and the Post-Service Self – Sarah Clark, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

1200-1330 LUNCH AND GUEST SPEAKER

Colonel (retired) Bill Butler, Chief of Staff, National Veterans Memorial and Museum

 

1330-1400 POSTER SESSION IN RECEPTION AREA

 

1400-1515 BREAK OUT #3

Session 9 (Room 202) Panel Discussion: Publishing with the Veteran Book Series - Matt Becker, UMass Press; Brian Matthew Jordan, Sam Houston State University; Benjamin Cooper, Lindenwood University     

 

Session 10 (Room 204) Works in Progress

• From the Battlefield to the Civilian Labor Force: What Obstacles Do Combat Veterans Face when Reintegrating To The Civilian Workforce? - Frank Hernandez Jr., Saint Leo University

• A Call for Military Veteran Best Practices in Higher Learning – Luke McClees, Saint Leo University

• Understanding Alienation among Veterans: Implications for Mental Health & Treatment – Joshua Evans, University of Missouri Saint Louis       

 

Session 11 (Room 403) Non-American Perspective on Veterans and Service

• So… did you kill anyone? - How perceived stigma leads to stronger group cohesion among Dutch veterans – Yvon de Reuver, The Netherlands Veterans Institute

• Disabled, Unemployed, Homeless: Explaining Perceptions and Stereotypes of Veterans in US and UK Society – Rita Phillips, Robert Gordon University

• A Preliminary Studies of Selflessness Republic of China (Taiwan) Veterans’ motivations, modalities, and implications to social charity – Felix Wang, Veterans Affairs Council-Republic of China (Taiwan)

• The Lebanon mission as a holiday mission? A public image of a peacekeeping mission – Marjolein van der Werf, The Netherlands Veterans Institute

 

Session 12 (Room 404) Gender, Sexuality, and Service

• “I have the deck!” Leadership style in sea-stories by LGBT U.S. Naval Officers – Nick Mararac, Georgetown University

• Thank You for Your Cervix. – Lindsey D. Huber, Iowa State University

• Bargaining with Uncle Sam: Military participation as a Patriarchal Bargain – Steven Dashiell, University of Maryland Baltimore County

• War, Women and Contested Ideas of Military and Civilian Citizenship – Rose Meza

 

1530-1645 BREAK OUT #4

Session 13 (Room 202) Panel Discussion Advocating for Veterans’ Well-Being through Research

Arpita Ghosh, University of Kansas; Casey Bodenhausen, University of Kansas; Mari Thomeczek, University of Kansas; Hannah Ahmad Ridzuan, American Psychological Association; Troy Fox, University of Kansas

 

Session 14 (Room 204) Works in Progress

• Writing therapy for Post-Traumatic Stress – Nan Darbous Marthaller, Faulkner University

• “It was not a story to pass on”: The Place of Veteran Descendants – Benjamin Cooper, Lindenwood University

• Growing University Awareness - the Impact of a Peacetime University Garden – Eric Hodges & Michael Lund, Longwood University

 

Session 15 (Room 403) Veterans on Campus

• Servicemember, Student Veteran, College Student: A Mixed-Methods Study Exploring Student Veterans’ Group Identification – Corrine Hinton & Kim Murray, Texas A&M University – Texarkana

• From Start to Completion: What Factors Impact Student Veteran Attrition? – Roxanne Long, University of North Texas; Beverly Wagner, Texas Woman’s University

• The Resilient Warrior: Veterans Finding a New Voice in Post-Secondary Education – Blake Rondeau, Minnesota Humanities Center

 

Session 16 (Room 404) Representing Military and Veteran History

• Military Museums as Sites of Dialogue – Greg Waters, New Jersey Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial Foundation

• From Sugar Cane Fields to Rice Fields: An Oral History of Puerto Ricans in Vietnam – Manuel Aviles-Santiago, Arizona State University

• Victims, Veterans, Survivors? Representation and Identity in Postwar Narratives of the Bataan Surrender – Elena Friot, University of New Mexico

• Collective Memory Spaces of Vietnam War and Their Effects on Veteran Identity – Abigail Buchanan, Michigan State University

 

1730-1830 DINNER AND GUEST SPEAKER

Fred Wellman CEO, Founder, ScoutComms

 

1900-2100 DOCUMENTARY FILM SCREENING

Josh Aronson’s To Be of Service

 

Tuesday March 24

0900-1015 BREAK OUT #5

Session 17 (Room 202) Supporting The Weight of Honor: A Film Screening and Discussion of Military Caregiver Advocacy

Corrine Hinton, Texas A&M University – Texarkana; Shawn Moore, Caregivers on the Homefront; Catherine Hoekstra, Shawnee Community College

 

Session 18  (Room 204) Works in Progress

• The Assault Weapon Crisis – A Legacy of the Vietnam war – Pedro Thomas Meza, Queensborough Community College

• Support and Advocacy for Student Veterans – Pauline Lubens & Tyler Solorio, Swords to Plowshares

• The Religious Use of Natural Spas by Veterans – Ljubica Jovanovic & Sladana Mirkovic

 

1030-1145 FINAL PLENARY

(Room 202) Introduction of the Veterans Studies Association. Panel Organizer - Mariana Grohowski, Journal of Veterans Studies

 

1145-1200 CLOSING REMARKS

(Room 202) Jim Craig, University of Missouri-St. Louis

 

1230-1330 VSA BUSINESS MEETING

(Room 203) VSA Leadership required, all VSA members are welcome

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