Current News

Carter Findley, History: Turkish translation of his book, Turks in World History (Kitapyayinevi, 2006).

Michelle Herman, English: "El Fin del Mundo," short story, Stumbling and Raging: Politically Inspired Stories, ed. Stephen Elliott (San Francisco: MacAdam/Cage, 2006): 31-57.

William E. Nelson Jr., African American and African Studies and Political Science: Black and Latino/a Politics: Issues in Political Development in the United States edited with Dr. Jessica Lavariega Monforti (Miami, Florida: Barnhardt and Ashe Publishers, 2005).

John Conteh-Morgan, French and Italian: from the original French, a translation with an introduction: Dark Side of the Light: Slavery and the French Enlightenment by Louis Sala-Molins (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006).

Neil Tennant, Philosophy "A Note on the Irrelevance of Probabilistic Irrelevance," Analysis 66.1 (2005): 32-35.

Deborah Burks, English, has received two grants to support her book project entitled "On Watch: Women and the Cultures of Surveillance in Early Modern England." One grant is an Arts and Humanities Seed Grant, and the other is a Franklin Research Grant from the American Philosophical Society.

Rebecca Wanzo, Women's Studies, has been awarded one of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowships for the 2006-07 academic year. She will be associated with the African American Studies & Research Program there.

James N. Upton, African American and African Studies, is featured in "A Crisis of Color and Class," Ohio State Alumni Magazine, (January-February 2006): 24-25.

Harvey Graff, English and History, presented "Many Literacies: Reading Signs of the Times & Lessons from the History of Literacy," Distinguished Lecture in the Mary Lou Fulton Endowed Symposium Series, Arizona State University, February 16.

Michelle Herman, English, gave Readings at the Wexner Center with Stephen Elliott and other Stumbling and Raging contributors, Columbus, February 8, and at the Upper Arlington Public Library. Columbus, February 14.

Frank Coulson, Greek and Latin, organized and moderated a panel, "Translation in the Renaissance," at the annual meeting of the American Philological Society, January 4-6. He has been appointed to the editorial board of the Catalogus Translationum et Commentariorum. The project, begun by P.O. Kristeller and currently edited by Virginia Brown, seeks to catalogue all Latin commentaries on classical authors written from late antiquity to 1600. Professor Coulson's catalogue of commentaries on Ovid will appear in volume 11.

Christopher Phelps , English, presented "Politics and the Novel" at a symposium on The Centennial of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle sponsored by the Chicago Urban History Seminar, Chicago Historical Society, Chicago, February 18, and "The Audacity of Rosa Parks," Black History Month, OSU-Mansfield, February 13.

Margaret Newell, History, will present "Race Frontiers: Indian Slavery in Colonial New England," noon, February 27, 120 Mershon Center. This lecture is open to the public. Lunch will be served to invited students and faculty; RSVP required by February 24. Contact: Viki Jones, jones.1959@osu.edu.

Jill Bystydzienski (Iowa State University), Women's Studies Chair Candidate, will present "Negotiating Race, Class and Gender in Intercultural Domestic Partnerships," 3:30 pm, February 28, West Dining Room, Faculty Club. Contact: Department of Women's Studies, 292-1021.

Melissa V. Harris Lacewell (University of Chicago) will present "For Colored Girls Who've Considered Politics When Being Strong Wasn't Enough," 2:00 pm, March 1, 347 University Hall. Contact: Department of African American and African Studies, 292-3700.

Elizabeth Davis, Spanish and Portuguese, will present "Perilous Crossings: Spanish Sea Writing during the Early Modern Period, 1492-1650." 1:30 pm, March 3, 451 Hagerty Hall. Contact: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 292-7485.

Judith Mayne, French and Italian and Women's Studies, will present "Strangers in the House: French Cinema and the Occupation," 2:00pm, March 3, 351 Hagerty Hall. Contact: Department of French and Italian, 292-4938.

The Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities invites you to "Performance Literacy: When do 'hearing' and 'seeing' result in 'experiencing'", moderated by Edward Adelson, Colleges of the Arts and Sciences and Professor of Music, 4:00 pm, March 7, Knight House, 104 East 15^thAvenue. Panelists include Graeme Boone, Music; Sheila Marion, Dance; and Jan Radzynski, Music. Contact: Elizabeth Lantz, 688-0265 or lantz.38@osu.edu.