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Nominations for the College's Alumni Awards of Distinction are due February 11. This year's process is completely online. The awards will be presented at the Baccalaureate on June 10.

Georgios Anagnostu, Greek and Latin: "Private Heirlooms, Public Memories: Tradition and Greek America as Translation," Gramma: A Journal of Theory and Criticism Vol. 12 (2004): 109-125; and "Model Americans, Quintessential Greeks: Ethnic Success and Assimilation in Diaspora," Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies Vol. 12.3 (2003): 279-327.

Daniel Avorgbedor, African American and African Studies and the School of Music, "Musical Traditions of the Ewe and Related Peoples of Togo and Benin," In The Ewe of Togo and Benin: A Handbook of Eweland, ed. Benjamin N. Lawrance (Accra, Ghana: Woeli Publishing Service): 197-214.

Samuel Chu, History, edited Madame Chiang Kai-shek and Her China (Signature Books, 2005).

Steven Conn, History: "Don't Know Much about (the History of) History, American Literary History 17.4 (Winter 2005): 793-807.

Richard Dutton, English: review of Patrick Cheney, Shakespeare, National Poet-Playwright, in Shakespeare Quarterly 56 (2005): 371-74.

Angie Estes, English: "Proverbs," (reprint) Pushcart Prize XXX: Best of the Small Presses, ed. Bill Henderson (Norton, 2006): 207-208; "Dance of Ancient Knossos," Ninth Letter 2.1 (2005): 33; and "Shocking," "Amuse-Bouche," Inkwell 18 (2005): 122-25.

Steven Fink, English: "Book Publishing," American History through Literature, 1820-1870, eds. Janet Gabler-Hover and Robert Sattelmeyer (Charles Scribner's Sons, 2006): 148-54.

David Herman, English: "Gesture, Narrative, and the Construction of Place," Proceedings of the 2005 SAALA/LSSA Conference, Pretoria, South Africa: The Southern African Applied Linguistics Association/The Linguistic Society of Southern Africa, 2006: 1-21.

"The Rebirth of Brewing and Distilling in the United States in 1933: Government Policy and Industry Structure," an essay written by K. Austin Kerr, History, can be found at the following web site: http://www.thebhc.org/publications/BEHonline/2005/kerr.pdf [PDF].

Nicholas Breyfogle, History, has been awarded an ACLS Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars. He will take his fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute to work on his project "Baikal: the Great Lake and its People."

Saul Cornell, History, has been appointed to the Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lectureship Program, 2006-2009.

Angie Estes, English, received a 2006 Pushcart Prize for her poem "Proverbs."

Graduate student Lakesia Johnson, Women's Studies, was selected one of seven recipients of the 2006 Woodrow Wilson Women's Studies Dissertation Fellow.

Daniel Avorgbedor, African American and African Studies and the School of Music, organized a panel and presented a paper on the theme "Bending, Melding, and Mending Pitches: Hybridity and the Critic's Voice in African American Art Music" at the 50th anniversary meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology in Atlanta, November 16-20.

Pranav Jani, English, presented "The Multiple Cosmopolitanisms of Postcolonial Fiction," Culture, Difference and Democracy Working Group, Ohio State University, Columbus, January 20.

Nancy Fraser (New School for Social Research) will present "Abnormal Justice," 10:30 am, February 3, Knight House, 104 East 15^th Avenue. Contact: Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities, 688-0265.

Michael Glanzberg (University of California-Davis) will present "Context and Unrestricted Quantification," 3:30 pm, February 3, 347 University Hall. Contact: Department of Philosophy, 292-7914.

Stephen Kuusisto, English, will present "Disability, the Media, and the New Vulgarity" in a Fireside Chat, 5:30 pm, February 7, 311 Denney Hall. He will talk about contemporary trends that problematize the human body in the media. All are welcome. Organized by the Dean's Student Advisory Group. Contact: College of Humanities, 292-1882.

David Jehnsen (Institute for Human Rights and Responsibilities) will present "Faith in a Combat Zone: The Work of Christian Peacemaking," 4:30 pm, February 8, George Wells Knight House, 104 East 15^th Avenue, in the Public Faith, Public Reason Lecture Series sponsored by the Institute for Collaborative Research and the John Glenn Institute for Public Service and Public Policy with support from the Ohio Humanities Council. Contact: Humanities Institute, 688-0265.

Stephen Elliott will give a Reading from Stumbling and Raging, 7:00 pm, February 8, Wexner Center for the Arts. A book signing by Elliott and other contributors (Courtney Brkic, Michelle Herman, Stefan Keisbye, and Jeff Parker) will follow. Contact: Department of English, 292-6065.

Chester Dunning (Texas A&M University) will present "New Research on the Fall of the Gudonov Dynasty and the Mysterious Tsar Dmitrii" in the Anniversaries Lecture Series, 1:30 pm, February 10, 122 Main Library. Contact: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 292-7495.

Eugene Holland, French and Italian and Comparative Studies, will present "The Death State and Nomad Citizenship" in the French and Italian Lecture Series, 2:00 pm, February 10, 42 Hagerty Hall. Contact: Department of French and Italian, 292-4938.

Katherine Burkman, English, will appear in a staged reading of GERTRUDE STEIN GERTRUDE STEIN GERTRUDE STEIN, by Marty Martin and directed by Jane Cottrell, 2:00 pm, February 12, Leo Yassenoff Jewish Community Center, 1125 College Ave. Tickets: $15 or $10 for students/seniors and members of the JCC: Group rates available. Contact: 451-9906.

Jason Vuic, Center for Slavic and East European Studies, will present "Crime and Corruption in Postwar Yugoslavia" in a Fireside Chat, 5:30 pm, February 16, 156 University Hall. All are welcome. Organized by the Dean's Student Advisory Group. Contact: College of Humanities, 292-1882.

Poet Ann Townsend will give a Reading, 7:00 pm, February 16, 311 Denney Hall. Contact: Creative Writing Program, 292-2242.

The Klezmatics will perform at 7:30 pm, February 16, Fawcett Center, in the Jewish Music, East & West series. Contact: Melton Center for Jewish Studies, 292-0967.

Scott DeWitt, English, will present "New Directions: Multimodal Compositions," 3:30 pm, February 17, 56 Hagerty Hall, in the Foreign Language Center Technology Forum. Contact: Foreign Language Center, 292-4361.

Fiction/non-fiction writer Kathryn Harrison will give a Reading, 8:00 pm, February 21, Wexner Film/Video Theater. Contact: Creative Writing Program, 292-2242.

The College will host its 9^th annual career-exploration event designed for Humanities majors, 6-8:00 pm, February 23, Faculty Club. Please encourage students at all ranks to attend. Contact: College of Humanities, 292-1882.

W. Mark Ormrod (University of York) will present "Jubilee: English Royal Anniversaries in the Foruthteenth Century" in honor of the late Professor Emeritus Frank Pegues, in the Anniversaries Lecture Series, 1:30 pm, February 24, 122 Main Library. Contact: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 292-7495.

Dan Reff, Comparative Studies, will present "Narratives of Otherness and the Jesuit-Orchestrated 'Tour' of Europe by Japanese Samurai (1584-85)" in the College of Humanities' fourth Inaugural Lecture of the academic year, 4:30 pm, February 24, OSU Faculty Club. During the "age of discovery" Europeans often combined texts and real others to convey the strangeness of newfound peoples and lands. (When Columbus returned from his first voyage to the New World he brought seven Taino captives back with him to Spain.) Professor Reff will relate his on-going research on Jesuit narratives of Japan and a Jesuit-orchestrated tour of Europe by Japanese samurai (1584-85). In referring to the Japanese visit to Europe as a "tour," he will emphasize how the four young Japanese converts were ostensibly actors in a conversion drama orchestrated by the Jesuits to impress Europe's Catholic elite and to secure their support of the Jesuit enterprise in Japan. The drama as such featured a Japanese "other" who was paradoxically civilized yet antipodean, who was rendered fully civilized or un-problematically so as a result of conversion to Christianity (the organizing theme of Jesuit literary narratives). RSVP: 292-1882.