Current News
April 6, 2006
Send Current News items to: lorbach.1@osu.eduAnnouncements
Dionisio Viscarri, Spanish and Portuguese-Newark, has won a 2006
Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching Award.
The College of Humanities will host the 2nd annual Meet Me at the Oval, 8:30 am, April 22, Hagerty Hall. The event is open to faculty, staff and students. An RSVP is required. Contact: College of Humanities, 292-1882, or visit our Humanities Alumni page.
Publications
C. Magbaily Fyle, African American and African Studies: Historical Dictionary of Sierra Leone (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2006).
David Herman, English: "Prosodic Foundations of Language-in-Use," review of Ann Wennerstrom, The Music of Everyday Speech: Prosody and Discourse Analysis, in American Speech 81.1 (2006): 94-99.
Christopher Phelps, History: "C. L. R. James and the Theory of State Capitalism," in American Capitalism: Social Thought and Political Economy in the Twentieth Century (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006).
Awards, Grants and Honors
Arc of Justice, written by Kevin Boyle, History, has been awarded the Simon Wiesenthal Center for Tolerance Book Award. This award is presented to the author of a non-fiction work on the subject of tolerance.
Nick Breyfogle, History, was awarded an American Philosophical Society Sabbatical Fellowship for 2006-07 for his project, "Baikal: The Great Lake and its People."
Lucy Murphy, History-Newark, has been awarded the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) Faculty Fellowship in conjunction with the CIC American Indian Studies Consortium for the academic year 2006-2007; she will be in residence at the Newberry Library in Chicago.
Graduate student Kate Faber Oestreich, English, has been awarded a G. Micheal Riley International Academic Fund Scholarship.
Presentations/Service
David A. Brewer, English, presented "Poetry and the Fate of Authorial Names," March 30, and chaired a panel on "Atlantic History and Literary History," March 31, at the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Montreal, Quebec.
Graduate student Wendy Chrisman, English, presented "Disturbing Behaviors: Disrupting the Hierarchy of Disability in Higher Education," Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, March 23.
Graduate student Marisa Cull, English, presented "Cymbeline and The Valiant Welshman: Jacobean Constructions of Welsh Identity," Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, San Francisco, March 24.
Susan Delagrange, English-Mansfield, presented "Wunderkammer, Cornell, and the Canon of Arrangemen," workshop, Columbia College, Chicago, March 19; "’Tears Shed at an Anonymous Man’s Funeral’: Digital Wunderkammern, Feminist (re)Arrangement, and Embodiment by Design," and "Reading New Media," half-day workshop, Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, March.
Scott DeWitt, English, presented "Reading New Media," March 22, and "New Media, New Curriculum," March 25, Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago.
Alcira Dueñas, History-Newark, organized a panel on Indigeneity and the State in Latin America and presented "The Colonial Pedagogy of Conversion: Mentoring Indian Missionaries in the Escuelas de Caciques" at the Latin American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 15-18.
David Herman, English, presented "Trends in Cognitive Narrative Analysis," March 30; "Narrative Theory: Prospects and Problems," and "Aspects of Consciousness Representation in Narrative," a roundtable discussion, March 31, sponsored by the Finnish Graduate School of Literary Studies, University of Helsinki; Helsinki, Finland.
Robert Hughes, English-Newark, presented "Badiou, Rancière, and the Return of the Aesthetic in Criticism," Annual Conference of the American Comparative Literature Association, Princeton University, New Jersey, March 26.
Hasan Kwame Jeffries, History, presented "Black Power Black Belt Style" at Race, Roots, & Resistance: Revisiting the Legacies of Black Power" at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, March 29-April 1.
Graduate student Aaron McKain, English, presented "New Media, New Curriculum," Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, March 25.
Graduate student Kate Faber Oestreich, English, presented "Dangerous Dressing: Reversing the Appearance of Chastity in Matthew Lewis’s The Monk," The Human and Its Others: The American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, Princeton University, New Jersey, March 24.
Graduate student Jason Palmeri, English, presented "Reading New Media," March 22, and "New Media, New Curriculum," March 25, Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago.
Amy Shuman, English, presented "Welcome to Holland: Storytelling in Everyday Life," New York University, invited by Humanities Council 2005-06 Workshop Storytelling in Performance and the Department of Performance Studies, March 31; she participated in The Canary in the Gemeinschaft? Jews, Disability, & Film Workshop sponsored by the New York University Center for Religion and Media, March 31.
Graduate student Cormac Slevin, English, presented "New Media, New Curriculum," Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, March 25.
Neil Tennant, Philosophy, presented "The Global Implications of the Christian Right's Politics of Sexuality" at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, March.
Graduate student Sara Webb-Sunderhaus, English, presented "Resisting the Connection: Appalachian Students in the College Composition Classroom," Appalachian Studies Association, Dayton, March 17; and "(Re)Inventing the University: Appalachian Students Composing Community in the Composition Classroom," Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, March 23.
Events
Melani McAlister (George Washington University) will present "The Global Visions of American Evangelicals," 4:30 pm, April 10, George Wells Knight House, 104 East 15th Avenue, in the 2006 Davis Lecture in Christianity Studies. Contact: Department of Comparative Studies, 292-2559.
Carola Hilfrich (Hebrew University) will present "Beside Oneself: On Subject Ex/Positions in Autoethnographic Fiction, " 1:30 pm, April 10, 311 Denney Hall. Contact: Amy Shuman, shuman.1@osu.edu; http://cirit.osu.edu/clustertwo/calendar2.html
Pekka Tammi (University of Tampere) will present two lectures: "Crossing the Borderlines? The Most Typical (Comic) Book in World Literature," 3:30 pm, April 10, 311 Denney Hall; Jared Gardner, English, will serve as commentator; contact: Michelle Herman, herman.145@osu.edu; and "Exploring Terra Incognita Probing the Borderlines of Free Indirect Discourse: Two Case Studies from Nabokov," 4:30 pm, April 11, 406 Hagerty Hall. Contact: http://cirit.osu.edu/clustertwo/calendar2.html
Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink (University of Saarbrücken) will present "Between Ethnology and Romantic Discourse: Jesuit Accounts of South America" in English, 5:30 pm, April 10, 255 Hagerty Hall. Contact: Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, 292-6985, and Department of Spanish and Portuguese, 292-4958.
Anne Bower, English-Marion, will present "Exploring Food and Culture: Cookbooks, Thin Ice, Movies, and Cultural Identity," 6:30 pm, April 11, Mershon Center, 1501 Neil Avenue, for the Center for Folklore Studies Spring Quarter Dinner/Lecture. All members of the OSU community are welcome, but space for the dinner is limited to 50 people. RSVP: Sheila Bock, bock.42@osu.edu by April 5.
Charlie Webber (Smithsonian Institution) will lead a discussion on "Jerusalem: Gates to the City," 9:30 am, April 13, Knight House, 104 East 15th Avenue, for the Cultures in Disputed Territory Working Group. Contact: Amy Shuman, shuman.1@osu.edu.
John Murray (University of Toledo) will present "The Role of Parents in Literacy Acquisition: Historical Evidence," 4:00 pm, April 13, Knight House, 104 East 15th Avenue, for the Literacy Studies Working Group. Contact: Harvey Graff, graff.40@osu.edu.
Lamin Sanneh (Yale Divinity School) will present "History and the Study of Religion in Africa: The Intercultural Dimension," 2:00 pm, April 14, 347 University Hall. Contact: Department of African American and African Studies, 292-3700.
The 4th Annual Graduate Colloquium Identity, "Identity and Identifications: Cultural Politics in the Ancient World," is scheduled from 7:00 am to 6:00 pm, April 15, Knight House, 104 East 15th Avenue. Co-sponsored with the Department of Greek and Latin. Contact: peterson.402@osu.edu or buchholz.21@osu.edu.
John Broome (University of Oxford) will present "Are the Requirements of Rationality Normative?," 3:30 pm, April 17, 347 University Hall, as part of the Philosophy Department Spring 2006 Colloquia. Contact: Department of Philosophy, 292-7914.
The 4th Annual CIRIT Gender & Ethnicity across Divides Symposium, Beyond the Language of Truth: Testimony, History, Fiction, begins at 4:00 pm, April 20, Mershon Center, 1501 Neil Avenue. Ileana Rodriguez, Spanish and Portuguese, will chair the event. The speaker is Nora Strejilevich (San Diego State University). Panelists include: Wendy Hesford, Theresa Kulbaga, and James Phelan, English, and Rebecca Wanzo, Women’s Studies and African & African American Studies. The sponsors are: Women in Development, Center for Latin American Studies, and the Departments of English, Spanish and Portuguese, and Women’s Studies. Contact: http://cirit.osu.edu/clustertwo/calendar2.html.
The Ethnic Studies Research Group will meet at 2:00 pm, April 21, Knight House, 104 East 15th Avenue. Contact: Maurice Stevens, stevens.368@osu.edu.
Nancy Mason Bradbury (Smith College) will present "Representing Peasant Wisdom: Folklore Genres in Late Medieval Literary Texts," 1:30 pm, April 21, 122 Main Library, in honor of Frances Lee Utley (English) in the Anniversaries Lecture Series. Contact: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 292-7495.
James Brown and Max Baber (Samford University) will present "Using Geographic Information Systems to Teach the Humanities," time TBA, April 24, location TBA, for the History Cartographic Working Group. Contact: Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities, 688-0265.
Wendy Hesford, English, will present "Staging Terror: Human Rights and Humanitarian Appeals," and Tanya Erzen, Comparative Studies, and Rebecca Wanzo, African-American and African Studies, will respond, 1:00 pm, April 28, Knight House, 104 East 15th Avenue, for the Cultural Difference and Democracy Working Group. Contact: Barry Shank, shank.46@osu.edu.
Tom Priestly (The University of Alberta) will present "From Phonological Analysis at My Desk to Linguistic Activism with Slovene in the Austrian Alps," 3:30 pm, April 28, Faculty Club, for the Ninth Annual Kenneth E. Naylor Memorial Lecture in South Slavic Linguistics. Contact: Karen Nielsen, Nielsen.57@osu.edu; Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures, 292-6733; or Brian Joseph, 292-4981, joseph.1@osu.edu.
