{"id":22597,"date":"2021-08-02T10:12:17","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T14:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/?p=22597"},"modified":"2021-08-02T10:12:17","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T14:12:17","slug":"program-aiming-to-help-veterans-by-reading-the-classics-will-kick-off-with-inaugural-lecture-aug-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/2021\/08\/program-aiming-to-help-veterans-by-reading-the-classics-will-kick-off-with-inaugural-lecture-aug-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Program aiming to help veterans by reading the classics will kick off with inaugural lecture Aug. 20"},"content":{"rendered":"
Marshall University will present the inaugural lecture Friday, Aug. 20, of \u201cThe Wars Within, The Wars Without,\u201d a program designed to help connect veteran students at Marshall with veterans from throughout the state of West Virginia. The lecture, titled \u201cStoicism as a Philosophy for Modern Life,\u201d will be presented by Dr. Massimo Pigliucci, who serves as the K.D. Irani Professor of Philosophy and the chair of the Department of Philosophy at City College of New York.<\/p>\n

It is planned for 5:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 20, in Room 402 of Drinko Library on the Huntington campus. It also can be attended virtually via www.marshall.edu\/warswithin<\/a>. The lecture is free, and all are invited to attend, in person or online.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Wars Within, The Wars Without\u201d is a program with the goal of connecting veterans on campus and throughout West Virginia through a series of public discussion groups in which participants will read and discuss classic texts about war, to help veterans reflect on their experiences. New Fall 2021 courses geared toward veterans and military-connected students aim to help them cope with traumatic experiences and explore the history of war.<\/p>\n

The program will be co-directed by Marshall faculty members Dr. Christina Franzen, an associate professor of classics, and Dr. Robin Riner, a professor of anthropology.<\/p>\n

In explaining how veteran students can benefit from literature such as Lucan\u2019s Civil War<\/em>, Franzen also quoted Cathy Caruth, author of Literature in the Ashes of History<\/em>: \u201cFor these stories of trauma cannot be limited to the catastrophes they name, and the theory of catastrophic history may ultimately be written in a language that already lingers, in these texts, after the end, in a time that comes to us from another shore, from the other side of disaster.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we asked a veteran of OIF (Operation Iraqi Freedom), our former student, \u2018Why read Civil War<\/em>?\u2019 he referred to the book as a bridge \u2014 from his experience as a combat soldier to his experience as a student, from ancient Rome to now, and from his inner world to the outside one,\u201d Franzen said. \u201cHe spoke of the absurdity of Lucan\u2019s text, that it reminded him of when he was with his buddies overseas during his three deployments, and how absurd and inappropriate they were with one another \u2014 and still are \u2014 when they get together.\u201d<\/p>\n

The program is sponsored by the West Virginia Humanities Council; Marshall University\u2019s Hedrick Teaching Innovation Grant, Drinko Academy, College of Liberal Arts, and Academic Affairs; and the Ancient Worlds, Modern Communities initiative of the Society for Classical Studies.\u00a0 For more information, visit www.marshall.edu\/warswithin<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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