No-Man’s Land: Dialogues on the Experience of War
FAIN: AV-260625-18
Bergen Community College (Paramus, NJ 07652-1504)
Thomas La Pointe (Project Director: November 2017 to present)
John Giaimo (Co Project Director: October 2018 to present)
The training of student veterans as discussion leaders for three discussion groups
comprised of student veterans and other residents of the Bergen, New Jersey
community.
As the ongoing wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and, more recently, Syria continue unabated, veterans and non-combatants with experience of war have become a growing segment of the Bergen County community and, more specifically, of the student population at Bergen Community College (BCC) in Paramus, NJ. There is a crucial need to create a space for these individuals to discuss, reflect on, and share their experiences with others. BCC’s proposed No Man’s Land: Dialogues on the Experience of War series focuses on the intersections of World War I and the ongoing wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. Using humanities resources, the series will facilitate an open-ended dialogue with veterans and non-veterans on the experience of war, one that encourages exploration, discovery, and reflection. We envision a core of three combat veterans in residence who will support discussion leaders to extend the dialogues and expand the program beyond the grant period.
Associated Products
No Man's Land: Dialogues on the Experience of War (Web Resource)Title: No Man's Land: Dialogues on the Experience of War
Author: Peter Molin
Abstract: We created a comprehensive website for the second year of the project. The website is structured as a series of links to stories used in the dialogues and includes additional stories for further dialogue and discussion. Each web page offers a general overview of the story (theme, plot, characters), an embedded video with supplemental context (such as an interview with the author), discussion questions, and a link to the text.
Year: 2020
Primary URL:
http://bccveteransdialogue.wordpress.comNo Man's Land: Difficult Dialogue (Film/TV/Video Broadcast or Recording)Title: No Man's Land: Difficult Dialogue
Writer: Daniel Fernandez
Director: Daniel Fernandez
Producer: Nela Navarro
Abstract: This dialogue explored the ways that trauma is transmitted and remembered across generations and focused on the relationship of perpetrators and victims of genocide. It brought together the daughter of a member of the French resistance, who later died in the Neuengamme Concentration Camp in 1945, and the son of a member of the “Ordnungspolizei,” the uniformed police force in Nazi Germany, in a constructive, open-ended dialogue.
The session also included a screening and discussion of a brief documentary film, Amnesia, which explores the ways in which empathy and the arts can help people come to terms with the trauma of war.
Year: 2020
Access Model: Open access
Format: Video
Format: Digital File