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 MEDICAL HUMANITIES AND HEALTH STUDIES SEMINAR SERIES PRESENTS

“Altered Bodies and Relocated Dreams: Understanding reintegration and care for student veterans returning from Iraq and

Afghanistan”

By Nicholas Rattray, Ph.D.

Adjunct Professor, IUPUI Department of Anthropology

Wednesday, September 18, 2013 12:00 Noon—1:00 PM Campus Center 309

Medical Humani es & Health Studies 

425 University Blvd 

CA 141 

Indianapolis, IN 46202 

Phone: 317‐278‐1669 

Fax: 317‐278‐2525 

E‐mail: [email protected] 

This talk will explore issues of community reintegration for student veterans whose bodies have been altered by psychological and physical injuries. Drawing on long-term ethnographic research, I discuss the tensions that lie behind labels such as "reintegrated," "disaffected," and "disabled" and how they are negotiated in veterans’ everyday lives. In seeking to manage new embodiments and the tensions between care and the cultural dislocations of military service, many veterans have been forced to create new pathways that diverge from their prior plans -- dreams both deferred and transformed.

Free and open to the campus and public, but space is limited. Please RSVP to: [email protected] to save a spot.