2019 Events
September 5, 2019
American Academy of Arts and Science, Cambridge, MA
Symposium: “Mental Health and Well-Being of Students: Higher Education's Responsibility”
October 13-14, 2019
Keynote at West Point, U. S. Military Academy, Conference on Ethics of War and Peace: How to End a War
“Stoic Grit and Moral Injury”
October 31 and November 1, 2019
ARQ Foundation, the National Trauma Expert Centre in the Netherlands (Amsterdam) Two Keynotes:
“Can You Be an Empathic Stoic?”
“Moral Injury, Resilience, and Repair: Clinical, Philosophical, and Stoic Reflections”
December 5-6, 2019
University of Virginia, Darden School of Business: Western- "Western-East Asian Ethics of War and Peace," Conference
“Stoic Grit and Moral Injury”
December 10, 2019 8:30-12:00
New America
740 15th St NW #900 Washington, D.C. 20005
“Coming Home: Dialogues on the Moral, Psychological and Spiritual Impacts of War”
with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities Panel
March 28-29, 2019
McCain keynote at McCain Conference, Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership, United States Naval Academy
April 11-12, 2019
Public Address at Humanistic Perspectives on Moral Injury Conference, Jean Beer Blumenfeld Center for Ethics, Georgia State University, Atlanta
https://philevents.org/event/show/65190
April 25, 2019
Vassar Public Lecture, “Moral Injury and Resilience through a Stoic Lens”
European International Society for Military Ethics, Vienna, Austria: “Voice and Dissent in the Military"
2018/2017
March 2, 2018
Gordon Square, London.
Royal Institute of Philosophy Series, "The Passions and the Emotions.” My talk in the series is “Dancers and Soldiers Sharing the Dance Floor: Emotional Expression in Dance”
Nancy has been named a resident fellow at The Center for Ballet and the Arts at New York University, January-May, 2017. I will be doing research on dance and the emotions, with focus on soldiers and dancers sharing the dance floor! The announcement is not yet up on their site, but here is general information about the center and program: https://balletcenter.nyu.edu/cba/spring-2017-fellows/
March 13, 8pm 2017
Nancy will be giving the Henry Bugbe public lecture at University of Montana, Missoula
The Henry Bugbee Public Lecture in Philosophy is sponsored by the President’s Office, U. of Montana
http://www.umt.edu/president/events/lectures/2016-2017/Sherman.php
March 28, 6 pm
Hunter College, NYC, NEH sponsored Public Lecture in the series "Dialogues on the Experience of War,”
Roosevelt House, Hunter College, 65th between Park and Madison
View the livestream of the event here
April 20, 2017
Nancy will be giving The Joan Palevsky Public Lecture in Classics at UCLA
More Information
July 4, 2017
Nancy is heading to Adelaide, Australia to give the prestigious Alan Saunders Memorial Public Lecture, to be broadcast on the Australian Broadcasting Company (ABC Radio and TV). http://www.aap.org.au/NancySherman
July 6, 2017
Keynote Speaker, Australaisian Association of Philosophy, Adelaide, Australia,
http://www.aap.org.au/2017Conference/Keynote-Speakers
Oct. 9, 2017
International researcher and lecturer at the Danish Research Council, Copenhagen,”From Trauma to Resilience: Shifting perceptions about the psychology of war.”
Thursday, November 16, 2017
Nancy will participate in an IVY Impact Forum: An evening of Discussion on Veteran Affairs
The forum will be Thursday, November 16th @ WeWork Apollo from 6:30 - 9:00pmWeWork Apollo: 810 7th St NE, Washington, DC 20002
2016
Thursday, Sept. 15 2016
Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law, University of Pennsylvania,
Fitts Auditorium, University of Pennsylvania Law School
3501 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
Nancy will be speaking on Panel 1: Character and the Rule of Law at Producing Leaders of Character and Integrity: Instilling Values into Public Life. (PDF)
http://us5.campaign-archive2.com/?u=fc239434ef733d7fcb7dcff5e&id=dc09f241af&e=eb6e0b19a2
Sept 20th, 2016
2016 Service Member to Civilian National Summit in Birmingham, AL
Panel includes specialists in moral injury: Nancy Sherman, Rita Brock, Bill Nash, and Irene Harris. (PDF)
Birmingham Hyatt Wynfrey Hotel.
Friday Oct. 14, 2016
A Reading and Discussion with Nancy Sherman
October 14
2:30-4:00
207 Hall of Languages
Nancy will be giving a keynote public lecture and reading from AFTERWAR at Syracuse University Moral Injury Project (in conjunction with Syracuse Veterans’ Writing Group) Hall of Languages, 207 U. of Syracuse campus. More Info
Friday, Oct. 21, 2016 10 am-11:15 am.
Nancy will be giving a plenary keynote at the Listening to Trauma Conference, George Washington University, Conference is Oct. 20-22 (The Marvin Center) and features Robert Jay Lifton, David Finkel, Jessica Stern, Nancy Sherman, among others. (PDF)
http://www.listeningtotrauma.org/
October 25, 2016 7:30 pm ET.
Nancy will be doing the kick off lecture of the webinar course for the Service Members and Veterans Initiative of the American Psychoanalytic Association (APasA) in conjunction with the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. http://www.apsa.org/war-trauma-series. The Service Members and Veterans Initiative of the American Psychoanalytic Association (APasA) in partnership with the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis is offering a four-part, live Webinar course introducing healthcare professionals to psychoanalytic contributions on war-related trauma. The courses will be free and provide continuing medical education / continuing education credits* to eligible participants. The courses are especially relevant to clinicians working with veterans and service-members. http://www.apsa.org/war-trauma-series
December 9, 2016
Nancy will be teaching inmates at Jessup Prison
(Rescheduled) Date TBD – Previously scheduled forMARCH 3, 5:30-7pm
Humanities, Teachers College, Columbia University, NYC, Horace Mann 424
AFTERWAR: Healing the Moral Wounds of our Soldiers
APRIL 2-3 All Day
San Francisco Ballet School Board Room 335 Powell Street, San Francisco
Workshop: Art and Imagination: the role of metaphors, tropes, and images in shaping experience and guiding action (in connection with ArtSense, Australia and the American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division)
EMOTIONS and DANCE
JUNE 2-4, 2016
Keynote, Birmingham, UK
Character and Virtue in the Professions: An Interdisciplinary Conference, University of Birmingham
AFTERWAR: Healing the Moral Wounds of our Soldiers
Institute for Hazard, Risk, and Resilience, and Center for the Medical Humanities. Durham University (in conversation with author, Pat Barker, of the Regeneration Trilogy. WAR and MORAL TRAUMA
MONDAY, NOV. 16, 5-7 PM
Open to the public
LOHRFINK AUDITORIUM AT GU
Panel:
James Fallows, senior writer and national correspondent for The Atlantic, and author “The Tragedy of the American Military,” on the military/civilian divide; C.J. Chivers, New York Times Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent and former Marine; Brigadier Gen. (Ret, Army) Stephen Xenakis, MD, a psychiatrist who conducts clinical research on posttraumatic stress and has regularly assessed detainees at Guantanamo. He is an Adjunct Professor at the Uniformed Services of Health Sciences of the Military Medical Department; former Army Special Forces Major, Ian Fishback, who became known after he sent a letter to Senator John McCain of Arizona on September 16, 2005, in which he stated his concerns about the continued abuse of prisoners held under the auspices of the Global War on Terror. He has taught at West Point, and is currently a Ph.D. candidate at University of Michigan in Philosophy. He was named in TIME magazine’s 100 Persons of the Year (in 2006) for his moral example.
TUESDAY, NOV 3, at 3:30 pm
Professor Sherman’s book explores the moral and philosophical complexities of homecomings for modern veterans, the largest reintegration of service members back into society since Vietnam. The book has been called “urgently necessary” by National Book Award winner Phil Klay. The expert panel will include author Nancy Sherman; Professor Rosa Brooks, Georgetown Law; Col. Joe Thomas, Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies; Philip Carter, Center for a New American Security; and Professor Mitt Regan, Georgetown Law.
AFTERWAR
West Point US Military Academy, Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2015, 7:30-8:30 pm
Moral Injury Symposium
Thursday, Oct. 8, 8am-5:30pm, Union League Club Chicago
65 W. Jackson Blvd
Chicago, Il 60604
More Info
AFTERWAR
Lemnitzer Lecture, Association of the United States Army (AUSA) Institute of Land Warfare, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 5:30-7pm
2425 Wilson Blvd, Arlington Virginia
AFTERWAR
Wilson Center, DC, Thursday, Sept. 17, 12-1 pm
Wilson Center
Ronald Reagan Building and
International Trade Center
One Woodrow Wilson Plaza
1300 Pennsylvania, Ave., NW
Washington, D.C. 20004
A conversation about AFTERWAR
Mortara Center, Georgetown University, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 5-6 pm
Mortara Center for International Studies, 3600 N Street, NW
Moral Injury Symposium 8 October, 2015 at the Union League Club Chicago (ULCC). We are pleased to tell you that De Paul University has a McCormick Foundation funded program that will be collaborating with us. This collaboration will result in a powerful all day program that will take the concepts of Moral Injury to actualization at the community level.
• Keynote at the Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress (RoME), Aug.6-9, 2015, Eaton Humanities Building, U. of Colorado, Boulder
http://www.colorado.edu/philosophy/center/rome.shtml
• American Academy of Arts and Science,
New Dilemmas in Ethics, Technology and War initiative
Stanford University
June 29-July 1
• Politics and Prose, May 30, 3:30 pm
5015 Connecticut Ave, NW
Washington DC
http://www.politics-prose.com/event/book/nancy-sherman-afterwar-healing-moral-wounds-of-our-soldiers
• Weill Cornell Psychiatry Department, Manhattan and Westchester Divisions
Presbyterian/ Weill Cornell Psychiatry Grand Round, NYC
May 27
http://www.cornellpsychiatry.org/education/gr_manhattan.html
• Atlanta History Center, Memorial Day Keynote
May 23, 2-3pm
http://www.atlantahistorycenter.com/program/nancy-sherman-afterwar-healing-moral-wounds-our-soldiers
• American Psychiatric Association May 17, 8 am-11am, Toronto Panel on Afterwar: Healing the Moral wounds of our Soldiers
in Room 202 A/B, North Bldg., Level 200 in the Metro Toronto Convention Center.
• Templeton Foundation Symposium
Forgiveness and Healing in the Face of Moral Injury
University of Essex, UK. May 1-5.
• London Philosophy Club Meet-up
St Mary’s College
Can philosophy and psychology heal the moral injuries of war
Thursday, April 30, 2015
http://www.meetup.com/londonphilosophers/events/221748293/
• Betrayal Conference, Keynote Speaker Washington Psychoanalytic New Directions, VA, 23-25 April, 2015, Residence Inn Arlington Pentagon City, 555 Army Navy Drive, Arlington, VA 22202.
http://newdirectionsinwriting.com/program/basics/weekend/betrayal/
• The Atlantic's seventh annual Health Forum on March 18, 2015: Reagan Building, Washington DC
http://www.theatlantic.com/live/events/atlantic-health-forum/2015/
TRUTH & LIES SERIESNancy will be partipating in the Truth & Lies series at BAM.
BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC
VETERANS DAY EVENT
Nov. 9, 4:30 pm.
"On Truth (and Lies) in Homecoming"
BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC
VETERANS DAY EVENT
NYU on Tuesday, November 11, 2014 5:30 pm and Brooklyn Academy of Music, Sunday Nov. 9, 4:30 pm.
THURSDAY, APRIL 10
Nancy will be doing Grand Rounds at Georgetown University Hospital, Gorman Auditorium 1st Floor 3 pm.
COURAGE AS A DEMOCRATIC IDEAL
The Onassis Cultural Center
Tuesday, April 15 at 7 pm
The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum
Pier 86, W 48th St. and 12th Ave, NYC.
For more info click here.
FRIDAY, APRIL 25
Nancy will be speaking at the Tavistock Center, in London. The Afterwar
Tavistock Centre, 120 Belsize Lane, London NW3 5BA
For directions, please see www.tavistockandportman.nhs.uk/gettingtous
KEYNOTE LECTURE: HOPE AFTER WAR
Thursday, 20 Feb. 2014 at Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA
THE UNTOLD WAR & AFTER CHAVEZ
Sunday, March 17th, 10:30 AM
Segment One – The Untold War
This week on Dialogue at the Wilson Center our guest is Nancy Sherman, Distinguished University Professor in Philosophy at Georgetown . She previously served as Distinguished Chair in Ethics at the U.S. Naval Academy and was a fellow at the Wilson Center. Professor Sherman discusses her latest book,The Untold War: Inside the Hearts, Minds, and Souls of our Soldiers, which explores the psychological and moral burdens borne by those in the U.S. military.
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