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Friday, April 19

8:30am: Tech checks, Opening Remarks

8:45am - 10:15am: Revisiting Historical Narratives and Collective Memories

“Whose memory? Whose truth?”: Fluctuations of memory, remembering and forgetting in the “comfort women” narratives”
Shreyashi Sharma

Comprehending Shadows from the Vietnam War: A Study of Post-War Trauma and Survivorship through Nguyen Phan Que Mai’s Dust Child
Bhavya Srivastava, Dinisha Nayak, Dr.Punyashree Panda

Anger, Violence and the Liberation of Nazi Camps
Mark Celinscak

The April Revolution in Afghanistan in 1978 and the Soviet Union's Special Military Intervention: An Investigation based on the Decision-making Process of the Soviet Politburo
Ruikai Xue

10:30 - 12:00pm: Rethinking War in Digital Media

Unearthing Ninoshima’s Wartime Past for a More Peaceful Future
Jen Woronow

Drones and the Weaponized Perspective of Contemporary Conflict
John R. Heckman

Striking a (well-known) pose: Portrayals of the ‘ideal’ soldier in Islamic State and contemporary British military influence campaigns
Hirah Azhar 

12:00pm - 1:30pm: Keynote Address

Memory Keeping, Material Culture, and Modern War: Some Reflections on Writing New Narratives of Conflict
Dr. Susan Grayzel, Utah State University

2:00pm - 3:30pm: Rethinking Gender in War 

Pour La Service de L'hopital: African Women and Women of African Descent in the French-Chickasaw Wars
Olivia Barnard

“Widowed Wretches and Pitiable Orphans”: Military Families in Eighteenth-Century Ireland
Karen Sonnelitter

Agency through Rhetoric: Women’s Diaries during the American Civil War
Whitney Snow

Military culture change: Recognizing value beyond the uniform
Marshall Gerbrandt

3:30pm - 5:00pm: Revealing What Has Been Hidden

Identification Tags: Tiny Keys to a Long Memory and Scientific Insights (The Case of Pavlo Shevchenko (1914–1942))
Yuriy Dolzhenko & Antonina Kizlova

The war after the war: visual and literary effects of PTSD on mental health
Sajed Mohamad

Decentralizing the Kosovo War’s Enduring Legacy: The Untold Story of Roma, Ashkali, and Egyptian Oppression in Kosovo
Paul Persaud

Fighting Another’s War: The Algerian Revolution in British and American Novels
Souad Baghli Berbar