In Their Own Words: A Conference on Veterans’ Memoirs

Fri Apr 10 2026 at 10:00 am to 05:00 pm UTC-04:00

CUNY Graduate Center | New York

Biography and Memoir Program, CUNY Graduate Center
Publisher/HostBiography and Memoir Program, CUNY Graduate Center
In Their Own Words:  A Conference on Veterans\u2019 Memoirs
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All are welcome to this one-day conference devoted to the lived experience of military service as expressed through memoir and life writing.
About this Event

Please join us for an all-day presentation and discussion with veterans as they embark on or have published their memoirs on military service. Featuring roundtables of speakers and two keynote presentations by Michael Ramos, author of the acclaimed memoir After the War: Veterans’ Notes on Coming Home, and Dr. Elizabeth Samet, ·editor of the Library of America’s two-volume collection World War II Memoirs and a leading scholar of military literature and memoir.

This is event is organized by Todd Tinius and Antonio Waters and sponsored by the CUNY Graduate Center's MA Program in Biography and Memoir.

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CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Avenue, New York, United States

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