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Looking Ahead

October 5, 2009
-- Department of African American and African Studies
Ray Miller Institute for Change and Leadership
Location: OSU Department of African American and African Studies Community Extension Center located at 905 Mount Vernon Avenue

December 7, 2009
-- Center for Folklore Studies
Multi-center Holiday Open House
Location: University Hall Museum

December 8, 2009
-- Melton Center for Jewish Studies
Israel and Its Neighbors Series
Matthew Silver, visiting scholar in Israel Studies, The Ohio State University: Israel and Its Arab Neighbors: The View from the Local Neighborhood
Location: Columbus JCC, 1125 College Avenue

January 4, 2010
-- College of Humanities
Winter Quarter Begins

January 8, 2010
-- Center for Folklore Studies
Friday Lunch
Location: Dulles 308

January 13, 2010
-- Center for the Study of Religion
"When You See Blood, It Brings Truth": Catholic Ritual and Resistance in a Time of War : Elizabeth Castelli, Barnard College
Location: The Grand Lounge of the Faculty Club

January 15, 2010
-- Department of Linguistics
Conference on Linguistic Pedagogy: 7th Annual MLK Day Symposium in Linghistics
Contact: Hope Dawson at dawson.165@osu.edu

-- Department of Linguistics
Kirk Hazen -- Annual Pedagogy Lecture : West Virginia University
Contact: Brian Joseph at joseph.1@osu.edu

January 16, 2010
-- Department of History
Back to History Seminar: Women and the Social Reform Movement of the 18th Century
Location: Heritage Center of Clark County, Springfield

January 19, 2010
-- LiteracyStudies@OSU
LiteracyStudies@OSU Winter Program: "Reading and Writing Spaces for Creating and Organizing Knowledge"
Location: Thompson Library 150A & B

January 20, 2010
-- College of Humanities
Inaugural Lecture: Udo Will (Music)
Location: Faculty Club, Grand Lounge

January 21, 2010
-- Center for Folklore Studies
Henry Glassie/Pravina Shukla
Location: Mershon Center, room 120

-- Department of African American and African Studies
Lecture Series: “Black Theater: From Birth to Rebirth to Survival”
Location: Department of African American & African Studies Community Extension Center 905 Mt. Vernon Ave

-- Sexuality Studies
Lecture by Sherry Wolf

January 22, 2010
-- Department of Linguistics
Grad Student Qualifying Paper Presentations, III (tentative)
Location: Jennings 40
Contact: Michael White at white.1240@osu.edu

January 25, 2010
-- College of Humanities
Inaugural Lecture: Randolph Roth (History)
Location: Faculty Club Grand Lounge

January 27, 2010
-- Department of English
Visiting Writer: Percival Everett
Location: Wexner Center Film/Video Theatre

January 28, 2010
-- Center for Folklore Studies
Tom Mould
Location: Denney 311

-- LiteracyStudies@OSU
"The Great Depresssion, the Federal Writers’ Project, the American Guides, and What the Readers Made of Them"
Location: Knight House

January 29, 2010
-- Department of Linguistics
Buckeye Language Network Symposium
Contact: Elizabeth Hume at hume-ohaire.1@osu.edu

-- Department of History
Ohio Seminar in Early amerian History and Culture
Location: Dulles 168

-- Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities
Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Seminar on Literacy Studies
Location: Knight House
Contact: Elizabeth Hume at hume-ohaire.1@osu.edu

January 30, 2010
-- Department of African American and African Studies
Volunteer Income Tax Assistance
Location: Department of African American & African Studies Community Extension Center 905 Mt. Vernon Ave

February 3, 2010
-- Center for Folklore Studies
Human Rights Representations Conference

February 5, 2010
-- Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Joyce Coleman: "Remembering Geoffrey: The Troilus and Criseyde Frontispiece as Chaucer Memento."
Location: Science and Engineering Library 090

-- Department of Linguistics
INVITED LECTURE BY PAUL PORTNER
Contact: Michael White at white.1240@osu.edu

February 9, 2010
-- Department of Greek and Latin
AIA Lecture
Location: University Hall, room 014
Contact: Timothy McNiven at mcniven.1@osu.edu

February 10, 2010
-- College of Humanities
Inaugural Lecture: Richard Blatti (Music)
Location: Faculty Club, Grand Lounge

February 11, 2010
-- Center for the Study of Religion
The Role of Maturationally Natural Cognition in Science and Religion: Robert McCauley, The Center for Mind, Brain and Culture, Emory University
Location: Location to be announced

February 12, 2010
-- LiteracyStudies@OSU
Youth and Social Media

-- Center for Folklore Studies
Eric Mortensen

-- Center for Folklore Studies
Friday Lunch
Location: Dulles 308

February 15, 2010
-- College of Humanities
Inaugural Lecture: Christine Ballengee-Morris (Art Education)
Location: Faculty Club, Grand Lounge

February 18, 2010
-- Sexuality Studies
Public lecture by Alice Echols

-- Center for Folklore Studies
Guy Beiner conversation
Location: Denney 311

February 19, 2010
-- Sexuality Studies
Identity and Diversity Studies Symposium

-- Foreign Language Center
Digital Media in a Social World (2)

-- Center for Folklore Studies
Symposium: Folklore, History, & Memory
Location: Denney 311

-- Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
CMRS Lecture: Nancy Wicker
Location: Science and Engineering Library 090

February 24, 2010
-- College of Humanities
Inaugural Lecture: Mineharu Nakayama (DEALL)
Location: Faculty Club, Grand Lounge

February 26, 2010
-- Department of History
Presentation by Dr. Barbara Ramusack, University of Cincinnati
Location: Dulles 250

-- Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities
Activism, Ethics, and Performance in Qualitative Research: Soyini Madison, Performance Studies, Northwestern University
Location: 4012 Smith Lab
Contact: Timothy McNiven at mcniven.1@osu.edu

-- LiteracyStudies@OSU
Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Seminar in Literacy Studies
Location: ICRPH Knight House, 104 E. 15th Av

February 27, 2010
-- College of Humanities
THE OSU Vs. Miami of Ohio
Mens Ice Hockey and Tailgate Party

March 1, 2010
-- Center for Folklore Studies
Maria Herrera-Sobek
Location: Denney 311

-- College of Humanities
Inaugural Lecture: Julia Watson (Comparative Studies)
Location: Faculty Club, Grand Lounge

-- College of Humanities
Read Across American Celebration
Location: Prairie Norton Elementary School, 117 Norton Rd. (close to Doctors Hospital)

March 4, 2010
-- Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities
Human Rights Representation in the Arts and Humanities Conference
Location: Mershon Center
Contact: Timothy McNiven at mcniven.1@osu.edu

March 5, 2010
-- Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Katharine E. Maus: "Being and Having in Shakespeare's Richard II"
Location: Science and Engineering Library 090

-- Center for Folklore Studies
Friday Lunch
Location: Dulles 308

March 8, 2010
-- College of Humanities
Inaugural Lecture: Mari Noda (DEALL)
Location: Faculty Club, Grand Lounge

April 2, 2010
-- Department of History
Ned Foley and Steve Huefner, Moritz law faculty, will present to the Ohio Legal History Seminar
Location: Law School Faculty Lounge

April 9, 2010
-- Center for Folklore Studies
Making Sense in Afghanistan: Interaction and Uncertainty in International Interventions: Mershon Center for International Security Studies
Location: 1501 Neil Ave., Columbus, OH 43201

-- Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
CMRS Lecture: Cynthia Robinson "Invented Pasts: Memories of Muhammad and Visions of the Virgin Between Granada and Castile, 14th-15th centuries A.D."
Location: Science and Engineering Library 090

-- Center for Folklore Studies
From International Intervention to Field Learning
Location: Mershon Center

April 12, 2010
-- Department of English
Visiting Writer: Perri Knize
Location: Wexner Center Film/Video Theatre

April 14, 2010
-- College of Humanities
Inaugural Lecture: Sydney Walker (Art Education)
Location: Faculty Club, Grand Lounge

April 15, 2010
-- Department of Linguistics
17th Balkan & South Slavic Conference
Contact: Brian Joseph at joseph.1@osu.edu

-- Department of Greek and Latin
The Twenty Second Annual Thomas E. Leontis Memorial Lecture in Modern Greek Studies
Location: Faculty Club Main Lounge, 181 South Oval Mall
Contact: Gregory Jusdanis at jusdanis.1@osu.edu

-- Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures
17th Balkan and South Slavic Linguistics, Literature and Folklore Conference
Location: Blackwell Hotel

April 16, 2010
-- Department of Linguistics
Eric P. Hamp (U of Chicago): Kenneth E. Naylor Memorial Lecture
Contact: Brian Joseph at joseph.1@osu.edu

-- Center for the Study of Religion
Prophecy and Historicity in Post-Byzantine Greece: Charles Stewart, University College, London
Location: Location to be announced

-- Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures
17th Balkan and South Slavic Linguistics, Literature and Folklore Conference
Location: Blackwell Hotel

April 17, 2010
-- Center for Folklore Studies
Dinner with AFS Executive Board

-- Department of Greek and Latin
Eighth Annual Graduate Colloquim in Classics: Post Scriptum?: Questioning the Status of Greek and Latin Literature in Late Antiquity
Location: George Wells Knight House, 105 East 15th Avenue, Columbus, OH

-- Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures
17th Balkan and South Slavic Linguistics, Literature and Folklore Conference
Location: Blackwell Hotel

April 19, 2010
-- College of Humanities
Inaugural Lecture: Valarie Williams (Arts)
Location: Sullivant Hall Theatre

April 23, 2010
-- Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Bonnie Effros: "Unearthing the Franks, Burgundians, and Visigoths in Late Nineteenth-Century France"
Location: Science and Engineering Library 090

-- Center for the Study of Religion
When God Plays Politics: Radical Interrogations of Religion, Power and Politics
Location: Knight House, 104 E. 15th Avenue

April 28, 2010
-- College of Humanities
Inaugural Lecture: Kirk Denton (DEALL)
Location: Faculty Club, Grand Lounge

April 29, 2010
-- Sexuality Studies
Black Women's Sexuality in the Hip-Hop Era: Candice Jenkins, Associate Professor of English at Hunter College

April 30, 2010
-- LiteracyStudies@OSU
Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Seminar in Literacy Studies
Location: ICRPH Knight House, 104 E. 15th Av

-- Department of History
Mary Dudziak, USC Law School, speaks
Location: Law School Faculty Lounge

May 1, 2010
-- Center for Folklore Studies
Deadline for Mullen Prize submissions

May 5, 2010
-- College of Humanities
Inaugural Lecture: Ardine Nelson (Art)
Location: Faculty Club, Grand Lounge

May 6, 2010
-- LiteracyStudies@OSU
"Language Pedagogy and Politics in Indigenous America - Miner's Canary or Mariner's Tern?"
Location: Knight House

May 7, 2010
-- Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Guido Ruggiero: "Getting a Head in the Renaissance: Mementoes of Lost Love in the Novella Tradition and Beyond."
Location: Science and Engineering Library 090

May 11, 2010
-- Department of English
Visiting Writer: Harryette Mullen
Location: Wexner Center Film/Video Theatre

May 14, 2010
-- Sexuality Studies
Guys Are Just Homophobic: Heterosexuality and Homophobia in High School

-- Department of Linguistics
ColloquiumFest (Qualifying Papers) [TENTATIVE -- additional dates possible]

May 17, 2010
-- College of Humanities
Inaugural Lecture: Cynthia Burack (Womens Studies)
Location: Faculty Club

May 18, 2010
-- Center for the Study of Religion
The Execution of Saddam Hussein: An Exercise in Ritual Studies: Kathryn McClymond, Department of Religious Studies, Georgia State University
Location: The Grand Lounge of the Faculty Club

May 21, 2010
-- Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Francis Lee Utley Lecture: Samuel Armistead: "Judeo-Spanish folk-literature: Hispanic myths and Sephardic realities."
Location: Science and Engineering Library 090

-- Center for Folklore Studies
Utley Lecture: Samuel Armistead
Location: Sci & Eng Lib 090

-- Department of Linguistics
ColloquiumFest (Qualifying Papers) [TENTATIVE -- additional dates possible]

May 22, 2010
-- Center for Folklore Studies
Spring Picnic

May 28, 2010
-- Department of Linguistics
INVITED LECTURE BY JASON BALDRIDGE
Location: Jennings 40
Contact: Michael White at white.1240@osu.edu

-- LiteracyStudies@OSU
Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Seminar in Literacy Studies
Location: ICRPH Knight House, 104 E. 15th Av

October 29, 2010
-- Department of Greek and Latin
Texts and Contexts

December 2, 2010
-- Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures
Chekhov on Stage and Page Conference
Contact: Angela Brintlinger at brintlinger.3@osu.edu

October 28, 2011
-- Department of Greek and Latin
Texts and Contexts

Events in the Upcoming Fortnight


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