Outside the Wire: Writing Grief – Public Panel

ABOUT THE PANEL

Outside the Wire is a multi-format humanities project that highlights the narratives and experiences of American veterans throughout the country’s history of conflict. This year’s panel—featuring veterans, writers, and scholars whose work intersects with issues of concern to veterans and service members—will explore the diverse ways veterans, active duty service members, and their families have responded to and been impacted by grief. How have veterans written about grief throughout history? How has the pandemic shifted the ways veterans write or discuss grief? What does it mean to write about one’s grief or trauma with an audience in mind? In this panel, we’ll be discussing the ways grief appears in and shapes each panelist’s work. From the violence of the battlefield, to the aftermath of war, to the outcome disparities of the G.I. Bill, to grieving the person one used to be before their service, the patterns of individualized and structural loss and grief in the armed forces have sometimes echoed and sometimes diverged from the conversation about grief in American society as a whole.

Panelist bios coming soon!

This panel will be held in-person in the Rutgers-Camden Campus Center, South ABC Conference Room. The location is accessible via an elevator. Registration required.

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Outside the Wire is supported in part by an Action Grant from the New Jersey Council for the Humanities.