The TCU Department of History announces the 2022 LCpl. Benjamin W. Schmidt Symposium on War, Conflict, and Society:
The Afghanistan Wars
March 18-19, 2022
All events held at the Dee J. Kelly Alumni and Visitors Center, 2820 Stadium Drive Fort Worth, TX 76129 (visitors' parking available adjacent to the visitors' center)
Keynote Address on Friday, March 18, 2022 at 7 pm by Elliott Woods, co-creator and host of the Third Squad Podcast
Dessert reception and book signing immediately following
Panel Sessions on Saturday, March 19, 2022 beginning with a breakfast at 8 am
Wars in and for Afghanistan
Anand Gopal, Arizona State University
Elisabeth Leake, University of Leeds
Brandon Marsh, Bridgewater College
Wesley Morgan, Freelance Journalist
Historians and Military Service
Gregory A. Daddis, San Diego State University
Stephanie Erwin, U.S. Air Force Air Command and Staff College
Mark Folse, U.S. Army Center for Military History
The Costs of War
Muska Daskageer, American University of Afghanistan
Kyleanne Hunter, U.S. Air Force Academy
Lauren Katzenberg, The New York Times
David Kieran, Washington and Jefferson College
Free and open to the public. Registration required here https://forms.gle/4rugySweFN3ax7ZZA
Kara Dixon Vuic
LCpl. Benjamin W. Schmidt Professor of War, Conflict, and Society in 20th-Century America
TCU Department of History