Masters Series Masterclass with Phil Klay: Unlearned Lessons: American Citizenship and Foreign Wars
Week 7 | Tues | Smith Wilkes Hall | Ages 18+
America currently deploys lethal force around the world. In Ukraine and Gaza and elsewhere we offer a range of military assistance, and meanwhile Americans themselves are insulated from the consequences of these conflicts. How do we make sense of ourselves, both as citizens and as human beings, in modern world riven by conflict?
Phil Klay
Phil Klay is a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps. His short story collection Redeployment won the 2014 National Book Award for Fiction and The Chautauqua Prize in 2015 and his novel Missionaries was one of the Wall Street Journal's best 10 books of 2020, as well President Barack Obama's best books of the year. His latest book is Uncertain Ground: Citizenship in an Age of Endless, Invisible War. He currently teaches fiction at Fairfield University.
