For Immediate Release
April 14, 2011
Contact: Daphne Larkin
802-485-2886 or 595-3613(m)
dlarkin@norwich.edu
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NORTHFIELD, Vt. – Norwich University will host award winning author Helen Benedict for a presentation on her book The Lonely Soldier: Women at War and Home Again followed by a Q&A on Monday, April 25 from 5 – 6:30 p.m. in Dole Auditorium.
Benedict is a professor of journalism at Columbia University and the author of six novels and five books of nonfiction. Her latest novel, Sand Queen, the story of a female American soldier and an Iraqi woman in the Iraq War, will be published by Soho Press in August, 2011.
Benedict has written a play and many books and articles about sexual assault within the military and without. Her 2010 book, The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq, received the Exceptional Merit in Media Award from the National Women's Political Caucus and the Ken Book Award from the National Alliance on Mental Illness, both in 2010. Her play on female soldiers, The Lonely Soldier Monologues, was produced in New York City in 2009 and 2010 and is currently being performed on several campuses throughout the country.
Benedict has published numerous articles on the subject of women soldiers for the New York Times, Salon, Ms., In These Times and elsewhere. In 2008, she won the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism for this work.
She has testified twice before Congress on this subject, and continues to lecture at campuses and military academies about gender justice within the military. Her book inspired the current class action suit against the Pentagon on women and men who have been sexually assaulted in the military while serving.
Her articles have also appeared in the Washington Post, the Women’s
Review of Books, The Nation magazine, the BBC and NPR. Her work has been widely anthologized, as well as translated and published in Italy, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Germany, Portugal and is forthcoming in Holland.
This event – sponsored by the Schools of Humanities, Mathematics & Sciences and Social Sciences – is free and open to the public.
Norwich University is a diversified academic institution that educates traditional-age students and adults in a Corps of Cadets and as civilians. Norwich offers a broad selection of traditional and distance-learning programs culminating in Baccalaureate and Graduate Degrees. Norwich University was founded in 1819 by Captain Alden Partridge of the U.S. Army. Norwich University is the oldest private military college in the United States of America and the birthplace of our nation's Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC). www.norwich.edu
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Thursday, April 7, 2011
Award winning author to speak at Norwich
For Immediate Release
April 7, 2011
Contact: Daphne Larkin
802-485-2886 or 595-3613(m)
dlarkin@norwich.edu
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NORTHFIELD, Vt. – Norwich University’s School of Social Sciences welcomes Pulitzer-prize winning journalist and author of nine books, Thomas Powers, on Thursday, April 21 from 12-1 p.m. in the Kreitzberg Library Multipurpose Room.
Powers will speak about his most recent book, The Killing of Crazy Horse, in a talk entitled: “Crazy Horse: Why the US Army Wanted to kill him and why he let Them do it.”
This book was short-listed for two literary prizes: the National Book Critics Circle prize in biography and the Los Angeles Times prize for history.
Powers has written several books and numerous essays and reviews on the history of American intelligence, and has been a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books, the New York Times Book Review, The Atlantic and many other magazines.
This event is free and open to the public.
Norwich University is a diversified academic institution that educates traditional-age students and adults in a Corps of Cadets and as civilians. Norwich offers a broad selection of traditional and distance-learning programs culminating in Baccalaureate and Graduate Degrees. Norwich University was founded in 1819 by Captain Alden Partridge of the U.S. Army. Norwich University is the oldest private military college in the United States of America and the birthplace of our nation's Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC). www.norwich.edu
April 7, 2011
Contact: Daphne Larkin
802-485-2886 or 595-3613(m)
dlarkin@norwich.edu
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ADVISORY
NORTHFIELD, Vt. – Norwich University’s School of Social Sciences welcomes Pulitzer-prize winning journalist and author of nine books, Thomas Powers, on Thursday, April 21 from 12-1 p.m. in the Kreitzberg Library Multipurpose Room.
Powers will speak about his most recent book, The Killing of Crazy Horse, in a talk entitled: “Crazy Horse: Why the US Army Wanted to kill him and why he let Them do it.”
This book was short-listed for two literary prizes: the National Book Critics Circle prize in biography and the Los Angeles Times prize for history.
Powers has written several books and numerous essays and reviews on the history of American intelligence, and has been a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books, the New York Times Book Review, The Atlantic and many other magazines.
This event is free and open to the public.
Norwich University is a diversified academic institution that educates traditional-age students and adults in a Corps of Cadets and as civilians. Norwich offers a broad selection of traditional and distance-learning programs culminating in Baccalaureate and Graduate Degrees. Norwich University was founded in 1819 by Captain Alden Partridge of the U.S. Army. Norwich University is the oldest private military college in the United States of America and the birthplace of our nation's Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC). www.norwich.edu
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Norwich to hold 16th annual military writers’ symposium
For Immediate Release
March 15, 2011
Contact: Daphne Larkin
dlarkin@norwich.edu
802-485-2886 or 595-3613(m)
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NORTHFIELD, Vt. (March 15, 2011) – Norwich University will hold its 16th annual Colby Military Writers’ Symposium March 30-April 1with five authors engaged in presentations and a panel discussion titled: “An Uncertain Future in Afghanistan: Assessing the Conflict Ten Years On.”
“As the United States prepares for its tenth year of military involvement in Afghanistan, questions remain as to what the future holds, what victory means, and the ever present concern over how it will end. Writers will discuss the American mission in Afghanistan, its impact on the international community, and what it means for American servicemen and women.”
The panel discussion will be held on Thursday, March 31 from 1-3 p.m. in Plumley Armory with authors Chris Coppola, Donna McAleer, Doug Stanton, Karl Marlantes (this year’s winner of the Colby award), and Jack Segal and moderated by best-selling author James Hornfischer.
A full schedule of events and author biographies can be accessed here.
Founded in 1996 by Carlo D´Este, W.E.B Griffin, and Ambassador William E. Colby, and renamed in the latter’s memory in 1997, the Colby Symposium has brought more than 50 top authors, historians, and filmmakers to Norwich University in Northfield, Vt., for a two-day residency to participate in open forums, lectures and other related functions.
Norwich University is a diversified academic institution that educates traditional-age students and adults in a Corps of Cadets and as civilians. Norwich offers a broad selection of traditional and distance-learning programs culminating in Baccalaureate and Graduate Degrees. Norwich University was founded in 1819 by Captain Alden Partridge of the U.S. Army. Norwich University is the oldest private military college in the United States of America and the birthplace of our nation's Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC). www.norwich.edu
March 15, 2011
Contact: Daphne Larkin
dlarkin@norwich.edu
802-485-2886 or 595-3613(m)
Follow our news releases
or on Twitter @NorwichNews
NEWS RELEASE
NORTHFIELD, Vt. (March 15, 2011) – Norwich University will hold its 16th annual Colby Military Writers’ Symposium March 30-April 1with five authors engaged in presentations and a panel discussion titled: “An Uncertain Future in Afghanistan: Assessing the Conflict Ten Years On.”
“As the United States prepares for its tenth year of military involvement in Afghanistan, questions remain as to what the future holds, what victory means, and the ever present concern over how it will end. Writers will discuss the American mission in Afghanistan, its impact on the international community, and what it means for American servicemen and women.”
The panel discussion will be held on Thursday, March 31 from 1-3 p.m. in Plumley Armory with authors Chris Coppola, Donna McAleer, Doug Stanton, Karl Marlantes (this year’s winner of the Colby award), and Jack Segal and moderated by best-selling author James Hornfischer.
A full schedule of events and author biographies can be accessed here.
Founded in 1996 by Carlo D´Este, W.E.B Griffin, and Ambassador William E. Colby, and renamed in the latter’s memory in 1997, the Colby Symposium has brought more than 50 top authors, historians, and filmmakers to Norwich University in Northfield, Vt., for a two-day residency to participate in open forums, lectures and other related functions.
Norwich University is a diversified academic institution that educates traditional-age students and adults in a Corps of Cadets and as civilians. Norwich offers a broad selection of traditional and distance-learning programs culminating in Baccalaureate and Graduate Degrees. Norwich University was founded in 1819 by Captain Alden Partridge of the U.S. Army. Norwich University is the oldest private military college in the United States of America and the birthplace of our nation's Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC). www.norwich.edu
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