BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY

 
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Brett Holden speaks at the National Museum of Health and Medicine.

Last summer, Dr. Brett Holden, theatre and film, taught a class at the Chautauqua Institution in New York called “Witnessing War: The 20th- and 21st-Century Soldier Experience in Literature and Film.” Though rewarding in itself, the class resulted in a special opportunity for Holden and a possible new avenue for helping soldiers who have been through war.

Holden has studied and taught about the impact of war on soldiers and their families for many years. A major focus has been the reintegration of the warrior into civilian life; he is particularly interested in how film and veteran literature might be used to aid in the process.

In the class, he later discovered, was Dr. William Gardner, a pathologist with the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Since a large part of what goes on at Walter Reed is helping heal returning soldiers, not only physically but psychologically, Gardner was especially interested in Holden’s work. He followed up on the class by inviting Holden to give the Calendar/Binford Lecture on Nov. 19.
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