3rd Annual Symposium on Modern Warfare

06 October 2018
International Cultural Center - Lubbock, TX

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Saturday, October 6th

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[ICC Auditorium]
8:45 AM-10:15 AM. Session 1: Session 1

  •   Doctrine and Experience: Teaching Modern Counterinsurgency Doctrine
  •   Teaching the Experience and Ethics of Modern Warfare: Companion Animals and War
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10:30 AM-12:00 PM. Session 2: Session 2

  •   Outside the Wire: How Documentary Films and Photographs Reveal Truth and Cultivate Understanding About the War in Afghanistan
  •   Commemorating Combat: Analyzing Soldier-Produced Digital Memorabilia in the War on Terror
  •   The Art of Counter-Insurgency: An Analysis of Artwork from the U.S. Army Artist Program Post-9/11
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12:15 PM-1:15 PM. : Keynote Address

  •   Keynote Address
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1:30 PM-3:00 PM. Session 3: Session 3

  •   Overcoming a Stigma by Creating Another: The United States Army's Campaign to Encourage Mental Health Treatment
  •   Media Culture in the Military: An Oral History Project
  •   Shaping the Fog: Verbatim Theatre and U.S. Veteran Experience of the Global War on Terror
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3:15 PM-5:00 PM. Session 4: Session 4

  •   Embodying and Sharing Veterans' Stories from Vietnam to the Present
  •   Graphic Violence, Necessary Medicine: War Comics and Veterans