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Steven Fink, English: review of Authors, Inc.: Literary Celebrity in the Modern United States, 1880-1980, by Loren Glass, American Literary Realism 38.3 (Spring 2006): 279-281.

Lee Martin, English: "Sea Dogs." Glimmer Train 59 (2006): 7-19.

Robin Judd, History, received a Marcus Center Research Fellowship at the American Jewish Archives for her new project, "Love at the Zero Hour: European Warbrides, GI Husbands, and Strategies for Reconstruction, 1945-1960."

Graduate student Glenn Kranking, History, was the honored guest at the American Swedish Institute's annual Malmberg Banquet in Minneapolis, May 1-2. He was awarded the Malmberg Scholarship for dissertation research in Sweden for 2006-2007.

Graduate student James Lenaghan, History, was awarded a three-month Mershon Center Travel Grant to conduct dissertation research in Dublin, Ireland.

Graduate student Dustin Walcher, History, received a John F. Kennedy Library Research Grant from the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation and a Mershon Center Research and Study Abroad Grant for research on his dissertation, "Missionaries of Modernization: The United States, Argentina, and the Liberal International Order, 1958-1966."

David Brewer, English, gave a guest lecture on "Mapping Life in London" to Franco Moretti's course on "The Enigma of Victorianism," Stanford University, May 4.

Leslie Lockett, English, presented "Editing Medieval Latin Retrograde Verse," a workshop on Editing Medieval Texts, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, February 5; and "The Evolution of the Grammatical Categories corpus and res from Donatus through the Carolingians," 41st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 6.

Robin Judd, History, presented "Those Bloody Jews: The Current N.Y.C. Circumcision Debates" at United Synagogue's annual convention for college students (Koach) and has recently begun a six-part lecture series in Cleveland for nationally recognized Jewish leaders and philanthropists sponsored by the Wexner Foundation.

Barbara Rosenwein (Loyola University, Chicago) will present "Representing Peasant Wisdom: Folklore Genres in Late Medieval Literary Texts," 1:30 pm, May 12, 122 Main Library, in honor of Joseph Lynch (History) in the Anniversaries Lecture Series. Contact: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 292-7495.

The Folklore Colloquium, "Colonization and Narrative Migrations: Legends of Occupation from the Mediterranean to the Americas," takes place 9:00 am - 4:00 pm, May 12, Knight House, 104 East 15^th Avenue. Co-sponsors are the Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities, the Center for Folklore Studies, CIRIT, and the Department of Greek and Latin. Contact: Dorothy Noyes, noyes.10@osu.edu.

John Hawthorn (Rutgers University) will present "Singular Thought," 3:30 pm, May 12, 347 University Hall, in the Philosophy Department Spring 2006 Colloquia. Contact: Department of Philosophy, 292-7914.

Alexander Wendt, Political Sciences, will present "Sovereignty and the UFO," with responses by Nancy Ettlinger, Geography, and Eugene Holland, Comparative Studies, 1:00 pm, May 12, location TBA, for the Cultural Difference and Democracy Working Group. Contact: Barry Shank, shank.46@osu.edu.

The Third Annual History of Black Columbus Conference, "Education: Yesterday-Today-Tomorrow" convenes on May 13, at the African American and African Studies Community Extension Center, 905 Mount Vernon Avenue. The conference will feature photo exhibits, panel discussions and guest presentations. William E. Nelson, Jr., African American and African Studies, is a keynote speaker. Contact: African American and African Studies Community Extension Center, 292-3922 or visit aaascec.osu.edu.

Holly Near (singer/songwriter) and Amy Horowitz, International Studies, will present "Protest Music as Responsible Citizenship Pilot," 1:30 pm, May 15, location TBA, for the Cultured in Disputed Territory Working Group. Sponsored by the Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities and the Mershon Center. Contact: Amy Shuman, shuman.1@osu.edu.

Tiyi Morris (DePauw University) will present "Womanpower Unlimited: Womanist Activism and Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi," 11:30 am, May 16, 347 University Hall. Contact: Department of African American and African Studies, 292-3700.

Kevin Boyle, History, will present "Josie's Story: Looking for History in Some Very Small Places" in the College's final Inaugural Lecture of the year at 4:30 pm, May 30, OSU Faculty Club. For a quarter century historians have used finely-wrought stories of obscure people a heretical miller, a long-lost soldier, a frontier midwife to explore the cultures of particular times and places. While this approach has flourished in some fields, it has made almost no headway in twentieth-century American history. This presentation discusses the challenges of doing micro-histories of the modern era and the joy of uncovering the past in some very small places. Contact: 292-1882.

The Sixth National Meeting, German-American Cross Currents and Exchanges in the 21st Century, takes place June 2-4. Participants include John Maciuika (City University of New York Baruch College), Jutta Limbach, (Goethe Institut), Volker Berghahn (Columbia University), Stephen Dahms (Alfred E. Mann Foundation for Biomedical Engineering, Brenda P. Winnewisser (OSU Physics Department), and Theodore Ziolkowski (Princeton University). Contact: Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, 292-6985; visit http://www.avhaa.org/2006%20National%20Meeting%20Information.htm.

All faculty and staff are invited to the College's 12th annual Baccalaureate at 3:30 pm, Saturday, June 10, in 131 Hitchcock Hall. Alumnus Brian Besanceney (B.A. History/Political Science) will give the Baccalaureate address. Mr. Besanceney is the assistant secretary for public affairs in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. RSVP: College of Humanities, 292-1882. Please encourage graduating students to participate. Visit: http://humanities.osu.edu/studentinfo/default.cfm.

Faculty and staff are invited to participate in the Humanities Alumni Society's inaugural Golf Outing on July 17 at the OSU Gray Course. Proceeds from the event benefit the Humanities Alumni Scholarship Fund which directly supports Humanities undergraduate students. For details, visit: http://humanities.osu.edu/alumni/default.cfm. Contact: Shari Lorbach, 688-4532 or lorbach.1@osu.edu.