1st at First

Dr. Kieran and Dr. Lynch provided a panel discussion this evening for the 21st anniversary of the September 11th attacks at First Presbyterian Church’s Town Hall meeting entitled “9/11 and the Future of the Global War on Terror.” It was an excellent introduction for the Columbus community to Dr. Kieran, the new Hallock Chair in Military History, and a reminder that the department is keen to engage our neighbors on a variety of topics.

Join us on Sunday, September 11th at 5:00 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church - as we discuss 9/11 and the Future of the Global War on Terror

🤝 Meet the Discussion Panel

Panelist #2: Dr. David Kieran

David Kieran is the Associate Professor of History and the Colonel Richard R. Hallock Distinguished University Chair in Military History at Columbus State University. He is the author of Signature Wounds: The Untold Story of the Military’s Mental Health Crisis (New York University Press, 2019) and Forever Vietnam: How a Divisive War Changed American Public Memory (University of Massachusetts Press, 2014).

He is also the editor of The War of My Generation: Youth Culture and the War on Terror (Rutgers University Press, 2015); the co-editor, with Edwin A. Martini, of At War: The Military and American Culture in the Twentieth Century and Beyond (Rutgers University Press, 2018); and with Rebecca A. Adelman Remote Warfare: New Cultures of Violence (University of Minnesota Press, 2020). His scholarly articles have appeared in American Studies, The Journal of American Studies, War & Society, and the Journal of War & Culture Studies as well as in eleven edited collections, and he has published op-eds in publications including Slate, The Washington Post, Psychology Today, The Albany Times-Union and the Toledo Blade.

He is currently writing a history of organizational change in the U.S. Army after Vietnam, tentatively entitled How the Army Saved Itself: Maxwell R. Thurman and the Army’s Post Vietnam Metamorphosis (advance contract, the University of North Carolina Press) and a history of the debate over amnesty for Vietnam War resisters, tentatively entitled Moral Aftermath: The Amnesty Debate and the End of the Vietnam War. He earned his BA in English from Connecticut College and his PhD in American Studies at The George Washington University and he has received fellowships and grants from the American Culture Studies Program at Washington University in St. Louis, the Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah, the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

📣THIS SUNDAY: 🎙Join us as we talk about 9/11 and the Future of the Global War on Terror

🗓 Sunday, September 11th, 2022
⏰ 5:00 p.m.
📍 First Presbyterian Church - 1100 1st Avenue

THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

Discussion Panel:
- Dr. David Kieran, the Colonel Richard R. Hallock Distinguished Chair in Military History at Columbus State University

- Dr. Ryan Lynch, History Professor at Columbus State University

🎥 Live Stream:
https://columbusfpc.sermon.net
OR
Facebook.com/columbusfpc

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