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Veterans Book Club – Unbecoming by Anuradha Bhagwati, March 9, 5:30
The IU South Bend Veterans Book Club will meet March 9 to discuss Unbecoming: A memoir of disobedience by Anuradha Bhagwati. This book fits well with other topics inspired by Womens History Month in March. Dr. Betsy Lucal, professor of sociology and gender studies, will be facilitating our discussion. Her expertise will provide a helpful framework for understanding… Read more »
Veterans Book Club – Unbecoming by Anuradha Bhagwati, March 9, 5:30
The IU South Bend Veterans Book Club will meet March 9 to discuss Unbecoming: A memoir of disobedience by Anuradha Bhagwati. The author dropped out of an Ivy League graduate program to join the Marines, much to the dismay of her strict immigrant parents. As a bisexual woman of color in the military she faced… Read more »
Veterans Book Club, February 2, 5:30 p.m. Band of Brothers
The IU South Bend Veterans Book Club will meet Thursday Feb 2 from 5:30-7:00 to discuss Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne: From Normandy to Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest by popular historian Stephen E. Ambrose. It was adapted into the hit HBO miniseries. Dr. Jonathan Nashel, professor of 20th century American history, will lead our discussion. The Veterans Book Club… Read more »
CHANGE OF DATE: IUSB Veterans Book Club, Band of Brothers – FEB 2
The IU South Bend Veterans Book Club will meet Thursday Feb 2 (this is a date change) at 5:30 p.m. to discuss Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne: From Normandy to Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest by popular historian Stephen E. Ambrose. It was adapted into the popular HBO miniseries. We are privileged to have Dr…. Read more »
IUSB Veterans Book Club – Band of Brothers
The IU South Bend Veterans Book Club will meet Thursday January 26 at 5:00 to discuss Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne: From Normandy to Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest by popular historian Stephen E. Ambrose. It was adapted into the popular HBO miniseries. We are privileged to have Dr. Jonathan Nashel, professor of 20th century American… Read more »
Veterans Book Club – Band of Brothers, Thursday Jan 26
The Veterans Book Club will be meeting Thursday January 26 at 5:30 to discuss Band of Brothers. It is the gripping story of the Easy Company, 101st Airborne Division in WWII. This unit parachuted into France early on D-Day and captured Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest in Berchtesgaden in addition to many other against-the-odds assignments. The author, Steven… Read more »
Veterans Book Club, November 9, 5:30 p.m.
The Veterans Book Club will meet on Wednesday November 9 at 5:30 in room 301 of the Schurz Library and on Zoom. The book selection is the Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Sympathizer, by Viet Thanh Nguyen. Dr. Alfred Guillaume, emeritus professor of French and a Vietnam veteran will be leading the discussion. Dr. Guillaume… Read more »
DATE CHANGE: IU South Bend Veterans Book Club – Wednesday November 9
The date for the next Veterans Book Club meeting has been changed to Wednesday November 9 at 5:30 in room 301 of the Schurz Library and on Zoom. For questions, the Zoom link or a free copy of the book please contact Rhonda Culbertson rculbert@iusb.edu. Everyone on campus and in the community is welcome. You do… Read more »
Veterans Book Club, November 10, 5:30 p.m.
“I am a spy, a sleeper, a spook, a man of two faces. Perhaps not surprisingly, I am a man of two minds,” so begins the novel, The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen. The IU South Bend Veterans Book Club will be discussing this Pulitzer Prize winner at its meeting on Thursday November 10, 5:30-7:00 in room… Read more »