"After the War Ends"

Vanessa Gezari, assistant professor, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism

Ethics & Excellence in Journalism Foundation Auditorium 

Tuesday, December 2

6 p.m. 

Vanessa Gezari has reported from four continents, nine countries, and many corners of the United States.  

On the eve of September 11, 2001, she left the U.S. to freelance in South Asia and spent the next three years reporting from Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Kashmir, and Sri Lanka, for the Chicago Tribune and others. Gezari went on to become a foreign and national correspondent for the St. Petersburg Time.  

Gezari's work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Slate, the New Republic, Mother Jones, Columbia Journalism Review and others. She has trained Afghan journalists with the Institute for War and Peace Reporting and mentored reporters and editors at Pajhwok Afghan News, Afghanistan's largest independent news agency.  

Her 2013 book, "The Tender Soldier," is a narrative account of an ambitious, troubled Army program that sent civilian social scientists into combat with soldiers in Afghanistan to help them understand local culture, and of one idealistic group of Americans who risked everything to try to change the course of the war.  

A 2012 Knight-Wallace Fellow and three-time Livingston Award finalist, Gezari has received grants from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and the Fund for Investigative Journalism, an International Reporting Project fellowship, and a MacDowell Colony writing residency.  

Gezari teaches international reporting and narrative nonfiction at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

NSAC is the premier student competition with over 150 schools participating. Schools develop a complete marketing plan from an actual case study for a national brand and present their plan at the district competition in Dallas. 

If successful, students advance to nationals at the American Advertising Federation's convention in Las Vegas.

This year's client is Pizza Hut. We are seeking applicants for account planners/interactive strategists, research, graphic/interactive designers, copywriters, cinematographers and media. 

NSAC is a capstone course and can be substituted for the ad campaigns course.

If you are talented, motivated and able to work within an advertising agency structure contact Phil Willet, pwillet@ou.edu, for application information.

The Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Oklahoma is hosting the renowned combat multimedia exhibit, "Conflict Zone." The exhibit is part of the fall 2014 presidential dream course "Chronicling America's Wars," taught by Professor John Schmeltzer and veteran broadcaster and war correspondent Mike Boettcher.

The exhibition is free, open to the public and runs through the end of this week.

"Conflict Zone" showcases intimate images of war, taken by some of the world's most celebrated combat journalists and photographers. The exhibit is a project of the Independence Fund, a non-profit organization focused on helping severely disabled veterans achieve mental and physical health. The organization is the brainchild of Marine combat veteran Steve "Lurker" Danyluk.

Lurker and former Washington Post correspondent Jackie Spinner were inspired to create "Conflict Zone" by New York Times photographer Joao Silva, who lost both legs in an October 2010 landmine blast in Afghanistan.

Lurker and Spinner contacted combat photographers they knew from Iraq and Afghanistan to populate the collection, and the response was overwhelming. Both military and civilian journalists volunteered work that had originally appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, USA Today and Getty Images, among others.

The exhibit, in its current form, is dedicated to Chris Hondros, one of the biggest supporters of "Conflict Zone" and a photographer featured in the exhibit. Hondros was killed in a mortar attack while covering the Libyan civil war in April 2011.

"Conflict Zone" will be available for viewing until Dec. 15 in the Hall of Fame Room on the first floor of Gaylord Hall at the University of Oklahoma. The exhibit is open door and holds the same hours as Gaylord College.

The lecture series hosted by "Chronicling America's Wars" will continue tomorrow with a visit from Vanessa Gezari. Her lecture, "After the War Ends," will take place at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 2, in the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation Auditorium on the first floor of Gaylord Hall. 

For accommodations on the basis of disability, please contact Gaylord College at  

(405) 325-2721.

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There is still time to join students who are already signed up for a six-credit-hour class experience in tourism and media in Puerto Rico for the Spring 2015 semester.  

JMC 4273/5273.25 and 4283/5283.26 offer upper-division and graduate classes in place-based learning about concepts, careers, and the media involved in travel writing and tourism marketing.

We will go to the "enchanted island" during the winter break in an exciting trip of adventure, discovery and conversations.  

Our next pre-departure class is November 15. For application, course information and details, contact Dr. C at mcarstarphen@ou.edu or Jocelyn Pedersen at jpedersen@ou.edu soon.