Books Related to War, Trauma, and Consciousness
  • Packing Inferno: The Unmaking of a Marine
    Packing Inferno: The Unmaking of a Marine
    by Tyler E. Boudreau
  • HIDDEN BATTLES ON UNSEEN FRONTS: Stories of American Soldiers with Traumatic Brain Injury and PTSD
    HIDDEN BATTLES ON UNSEEN FRONTS: Stories of American Soldiers with Traumatic Brain Injury and PTSD
    by Patricia Driscoll, Celia Straus
  • The Great War and Modern Memory
    The Great War and Modern Memory
    by Paul Fussell
  • Just And Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument With Historical Illustrations
    Just And Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument With Historical Illustrations
    by Michael Walzer
  • Dispatches
    Dispatches
    by Michael Herr
  • Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence--from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
    Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence--from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
    by Judith Herman
  • Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum (American Empire Project)
    Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum (American Empire Project)
    by Michael T. Klare
  • All Quiet on the Western Front
    All Quiet on the Western Front
    by Erich Maria Remarque
  • For Whom the Bell Tolls
    For Whom the Bell Tolls
    by Ernest Hemingway
  • Notes from Underground
    Notes from Underground
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Surviving Iraq: Soldiers' Stories
    Surviving Iraq: Soldiers' Stories
    by Elise Forbes Tripp
  • Mrs. Dalloway
    Mrs. Dalloway
    by Virginia Woolf
  • The Things They Carried
    The Things They Carried
    by Tim O'Brien
  • Homage to Catalonia
    Homage to Catalonia
    by George Orwell
  • Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character
    Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character
    by Jonathan Shay
  • Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph
    Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph
    by T.E. Lawrence
  • The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World
    The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World
    by Elaine Scarry
  • Essays (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics)
    Essays (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics)
    by George Orwell
  • With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
    With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
    by E.B. Sledge
  • Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered from All Sides
    Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered from All Sides
    by Christian G. Appy
  • War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning
    War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning
    by Chris Hedges

READINGS & EVENTS*   Photo by Heratch Ekmekjian  

 

 

 

 

   

November 17, 5pm - Art & the War Experience 

(Amherst, MA) Discussion in UMASS Cape Cod Lounge (For more info see Journal.)


September 11 - Artists in Context

(Holyoke, MA)


 March 16 & 17 - Conference on Moral Injury

(Berkeley, CA)

 

March 18th - 9:30 am

(Oakland Unitarian Universalist)                 

 

March 18th - 2:00 pm  

(San Jose Peace and Social Justice) 

 

 October 7th - 12:00 pm

(University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Tobin Hall - RM 521B 

 

October 25th - 7:00 pm

(Mount Holyoke College)                 

 

 

November 8th - 6:00 pm

(Boston University - "The Castle")

 

 

 November 11th - 12th

(Washington DC- Truth Commission on Conscience in War)

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   PAST EVENTS  Heratch Ekmekjian

 

 

Bookstores & Libraries:

 

Broadside Bookshop (Northampton, MA)

 

Odyssey Books (Hadley, MA)

 

Jones Library (Amherst, MA)

 

Williston Library (Easthampton, MA)

 

Elliot Bay Books (Seattle, WA)                              

 

Read it Again Books (Wenatchee, WA)

 

Auntie's Bookstore (Spokane, WA)

 

Bookpeople  (Moscow, ID)

 

Zandbroz (Fargo, ND)

 

MayDay Books (Minneapolis, MN)

 

Quimby's Bookstore (Chicago, IL)

 

Greenfield Public Library (Greenfield, MA)

 

Carneegie Library (Turners Falls, MA)

 

Arms Library (Shellburne Falls, MA)

 

Worcester Public Library (Worcester, MA) 

 

Springfield Library Author Fair (Springfield, MA)

 

 

Universities, Colleges & High Schools: 

Indiana University - South Bend (South Bend, IN)

 

Hampshire College

 

University of Massachusetts

 

Mount Holyoke College

 

Smith College

 

College of Saint Rose (Albany, NY)

 

Greenfield Community College

 

Mount Wachusett Community College

 

Deerfield Academy

 

Williston Northampton School

 

Northampton, Easthampton, Amherst High Schools

 

Four Rivers Charter School

 

Springfield Citizen's School

 

RFK School for Girls

 

Hampshire Education Collaborative - Northampton

 

 

Other Events:

Human Costs of Iraq War (Northampton, MA)

 

Memorial Challenge Ride2Recovery (DC to VA Beach)

 

Center for Theology and Social Analysis (St. Louis, MO)

 

Truth Commission - Riverside Church (Manhattan, NY)

 

Jeannette Rankin Peace Center (Missoula, MT)

 

Real Food Market & Deli (Helena, MT)

 

Billings Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (Billings, MT)

 

Bismarck Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (Bismarck, ND)    

 

Hobgoblin Stoney End (Red Wing, MN)

 

Escape Java Joint (Madison, WI)

 

Poplar Grove Airport Vintage Wings & Wheels Museum (Poplar Grove, IL)

 

Massachusetts State Capitol

 

Civil Liberties and Public Policy Annual Conference (Amherst, MA)

 

Medical Consequences of War Seminar (Springfield, MA)

 

Mass Humanities & 100 Faces of War Experience (Springfield, MA)

 

Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock (New York, NY)

 

Unitarian Society at Northampton (Northampton, MA)

 

Unitarian Society at Amherst (Amherst, MA) 

 

Saint Ann's Warehouse Theater (New York, NY)

 

The Half King (New York, NY)

 

 

  Media Appearances

National Public Radio, "Rachel Maddow Radio Show," "Karrang Radio" Great Britain, WMUA "Writer’s Voice", KRXA Peter B. Collins Show, KPFA, KUCI "Weekly Signals", KSLA "Friendly Fire", Capital 9 Television News (NY),

 

 

CNN, CBS Radio, KZSU-Raising Sand, WHMP-The Bill Dwight Show, WFCR- NPR Western New England, WAMC- Northeast Public Radio, CBS Evening News (Springfield), STCC Public Radio

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 *Schedule Tyler Boudreau for a Reading