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Edison State Community College
Peace Week
Brings Award-Winning Author to Campus
Held in conjunction with the Dayton Literary Peace Prize (DLPP), Edison
State Community College’s English Department will be hosting Peace Week
at the Piqua Campus. The week will culminate with a visit from the 2017
DLPP nonfiction winner, David Wood on Monday, November 6 in the
Robinson Theater at 10:30 a.m. The event is offered free of charge and
is open to the community.
During his visit, author David Wood will discuss his award-winning
novel, “What Have We Done: The Moral Injury of Our Longest Wars,” which
chronicles the moral costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Sharing
numerous stories from individuals who served, Wood sheds light on the
harrowing effect modern warfare has created on both a personal and
national level.
David Wood, a veteran war reporter, is a staff correspondent for the
Huffington Post, where he won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for national
reporting on severely wounded warriors. A birthright Quaker and raised
as a pacifist, Wood has spent more than thirty years covering the U.S.
military and conflicts around the world, most recently in extended
deployments embedded with American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The event follows the Dayton Literary Peace Prize awards ceremony,
which is held on Sunday, November 5 at the Benjamin J. Shuster Center
in Dayton.
Inspired by the 1995 Dayton Peace Accords that ended the war in Bosnia,
the DLPP is the only international literary peace prize awarded in the
United States. The Prize celebrates the power of literature to promote
peace, social justice, and global understanding.
Leading up to Wood’s visit to campus, a series of peace-focused events
will be held beginning Monday, October 30. A peace graffiti wall will
be on display near the Myers Vacarro Art Gallery in the East Hall of
Edison State’s Piqua Campus for visitors to take pictures and write a
message for peace.
For a complete list of Peace Week events, visit www.edisonohio.edu. For
more information, contact William Loudermilk at
wloudermilk@edisonohio.edu.
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