Current News

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 Services): 197-214.

Valerie Lee, English: "Biblical Characters"; "Caul"; "Color Struck"; "CP Time"; "Double-Dutch"; "Granny Women"; "Seventh-day Adventist,." The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Folklore, ed. Anand Prahlad, Vol. 1-3 (Greenwood: Wesport, Connecticut, 2006).

Stuart Lishan, English: Winter Count, 1964,Creative Nonfiction 27 (2005): 27-29; Understory,The National Poetry Review 5 (Fall/ Winter 2005): 33. Fall/Winter 2006; Paradise in the City of Shivering Bells,The American Poetry Journal 2.2 (Winter/Spring 2005): 27.

Julian Markels, English: "Socialist Hope, Tragic Witness, and AESA Antiessentialism," Rethinking Marxism, 18.1 (2006): 83-99.

Julia Watson, Comparative Studies: "The Trouble with Autobiography: Cautionary Notes for Narrative Theorists" with Sidonie Smith, in A Companion to Narrative Theory, eds. James Phelan and Peter Rabinowitz (New York & London: Blackwell, 2005): 356-71.

Heretics and Colonizers: Forging Russia's Empire in the South Caucasus, written by Nicholas Breyfogle, History, has been given this year's Outstanding Publication Award by the Northeast Ohio Journal of History. The award will be presented at the Ohio Academy of History's spring meeting at Muskingum College in April.

The Ohio State University Press and The Journal are delighted to announce that Jean Nordhaus has been selected as this years winner of The Charles W. Wheeler Prize for her poetry collection Innocence. The OSU Press will publish Innocence in the Autumn of 2006. Innocence is the 20^th volume of exceptional poetry to be selected by a readerscommittee of OSU poets on behalf of The Ohio State University Press and The Journal, the literary magazine of The Ohio State University. In addition to publication, the award carries with it a cash prize of $3000, thanks to the generosity of the family of the late Charles W. Wheeler, Professor Emeritus of the English Department. Over 600 manuscripts were submitted for this years competition, and we would like to thank them for their participation. The quality of this years submissions was extremely high, and the judges worked hard and with considerable pleasure. For further information about The Ohio State University Press/The Journal Award and The 2006 Charles W. Wheeler Prize, please contact The Poetry Editor, The Ohio State University Press, 180 Pressey Hall, 1070 Carmack Road, Columbus, OH 43210-1002

Carla Wilks, program coordinator, African American and African Studies Community Extension Center, has been awarded an Arts and Sciences Staff Professional Development Award, a Critical Difference for Women Professional Development Grant, and an Ohio State Staff Career Development Grant.

Wendy Hesford, English, presented "Staging Trauma: Human Rights and Humanitarian Appeals," A Forum for Human Rights, OSU John Glenn Institute, January 31.

Norman Jones, English, presented "'What has Athens to Do with Jerusalem?': The Place of Christianity in the Public University," Honors Lecture, OSU-Mansfield, January 25.

Sebastian Knowles, English, performed in the College of Music's celebration of Mozart's 250th birthday, playing Mozart's Sonata in D (K. 381) for Piano 4-hands (with Patrick Woliver), Weigel Hall, January 27.

Lecturer Marian Lupo, English, presented Popular Literacy Lockdown: Contractual Censorship of Glenn Meades Resurrection Day,Annual Modern Language Association Conference. Washington, D.C. December 2005; On the Record: The Hegemonic Praxis of Guerilla Exposes,Annual Modern Language Association Conference, Washington, D.C. December 2005.

Julia Watson, Comparative Studies, presented "Convergences: Pre-Texts for an Autobiographical Reading of Charlotte Salomon's Life? Or Theatre?as an invited presentation at the Autobiography Across the Disciplines Conference, Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University, October 29, and "Tradition, Excision, and the African Globalized Village: Ousmane Sembene's Moolaadé," as a session on "Africans in Film: Revising History, Decolonizing Memory" at the Midwest Modern Language Association, November 12.

Brett Walker (Montana State University) will present Sanemoris Revenge: Insect Technologies, Eco-System Accidents, and Environmental Toxicity in Japan,1:00 pm, February 10, 82 University Hall. Co-sponsord by the Department of History, the Institute for Japanese Studies, and the Mershon Center. Cotnact: Department of History, 292-2674.

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 Citizenshipin 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.

Judith Grant (Ohio University), candidate for the Chair in Womens Studies, will present "The Social Construction of Andrea Dworkin," 3:30 pm, February 16, Faculty Club. Contact: Department of Womens Studies, 292-1021.

Jason Vuic, Center for Slavic and East European Studies, will present Crime and Corruption in Postwar Yugoslaviain a Fireside Chat, 5:30 pm, February 16, 156 University Hall. All are welcome. Organized by the Deans 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.

Robin Cormack (Courtault Institute of Art and the Getty Research Institute) will present From Zeus to Christ? Inventing the Saccred Image in Early Byzantium,4:00 pm, February 20, Knight House, 104 East 15^th Avenue. Contact: Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities, graff.40@osu.edu.

Sara Fritz (Faith and Politics Institute) will present Religious Faith and Partisan Politics,4:30 pm, February 22, Columbus Museum of Art, in the Public Faith, Public Reason Lecture Series. Co-sponsored with the John Glenn Institute. Contact: Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities, Livingston.28@osu.edu.

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 Humanitiesfourth Inaugural Lecture of the academic year, 4:30 pm, February 21, 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.

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.

Neil Jacobs, Germanic Languages and Literatures, will present A Code of Many Colors: The Language of Jewish Cabaret,in the Tenth Thomas and Diann Mann Distinguished Symposium Series, Yiddish Culture in Transition, 3:30 pm, February 22, 210 Main Library. Contact: Melton Center for Jewish Studies, 292-0967.

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.

Barbara Groseclose, History of Art, will present Alice Schille in Her Time: The Idea of Independence,7:00 pm, February 23, Knight House, 104 East 15^th Avenue. Contact: Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities, lantz.38@osu.edu.

Roland Coloma (Otterbein), Education; Bill Meezan (OSU), Social Work; Debra Moddelmog, Humanities and English; and James Sanders, Art Education, will participate in Queers in the Academy,a panel discussion about working in higher education as an out and proud gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgendered person, noon, February 24, 436 Multicultural Center in the Ohio Union. Sponsored by GradQueers and Out in Business. Contact: Sarah at smith.2447@osu.edu.

The Center for Folklore Studies will hold its 5^th Professionalization Workshop of the year, 10:00 am, February 24, 308 Dulles Hall. The topic is "Grant Hunting and Gathering" and will be led by Dr. Timothy Lloyd (Executive Director of the American Folklore Society) and Barbara Lloyd (Associate Director of the Center for Folklore Studies). All students are welcome. The Center also invites all faculty, staff, and students to the monthly Final Fridays lunch, immediately following the workshop. Contact: Center for Folklore Studies, 292-1639.

W. Mark Ormrod (University of York) will present "Jubilee: English Royal Anniversaries in the Fourthteenth Centuryin 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.