Current News

The College will host its 10^th annual career-exploration event designed for Humanities majors, 6:00-8:30 pm, February 15, Faculty Club. Please announce in your classes and encourage your students to attend; students of all ranks will benefit from this interaction with alumni. Contact: College of Humanities, 292-1882.

Sebastian Knowles, English: Geert Lernout, and John McCourt, eds. Joyce in Trieste: An Album of Risky Readings (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2007); and "Introduction," Joyce in Trieste: An Album of Risky Readings, eds. Sebastian D. G. Knowles, Geert Lernout, and John McCourt (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2007): 1-9.

Scopas Poggo, African American and African Studies-Mansfield: "The Origins and Culture of Blacksmiths in Kuku Society of the Sudan, 1797-1955," Journal of African Cultural Studies, 18.2 (London: Routledge, Taylor and Francis, December 2006): 169-186.

Crime and the Law: The Social History of Crime in Western Europe Since 1500 (original edition London: Europa, 1980), co-edited by Geoffrey Parker, History, (with V.A.C. Gatrell and B. Lenman) has been reprinted by Indo-American Books of Delhi.

Stephanie Smith, History: "Educating Mothers of the Nation: The Project of Revolutionary Education in Yucatán," in The Women's Revolution in Mexico, 1910-1953, eds. Stephanie Mitchell and Patience A. Schell (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2006): 37-51.

Kathy Corl Germanic Languages and Literatures, received this year's Anthony Papalia Award (for excellence in teacher education) from the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages.

A Well-Regulated Militia: The Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control in America (Oxford University Press, 2006), written by Saul Cornell, History, has just been awarded the David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in legal history.

Hannibal Hamlin, English-Mansfield, has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library for 2007-2008.

Lee Abbott, Andrew Hudgins, and Erin McGraw, English, were featured in "Writers’ Choice," The Columbus Dispatch, January 28.

Lee Martin, English, gave a fiction reading at Otterbein College, Westerville, January 31.

David Staley, manager, Goldberg Project, History, was a panelist in the session "Learning with Images: Aligning IT Decisions with Visual Literacy Practices" at the 2007 Educause Learning Initiative (ELI) annual meeting in Atlanta.

Dale Van Kley, History, presented "Factoring Religion into the Century of Enlightenment, or Refracting the Enlightenment into Lights?" in a session on "Locating Religion on the Map of Early-Modern Europe" for the American Society of Church History meeting with the convention of the American Historical Association in Atlanta, January 4-7, and again for the Humanist Community of Central Ohio, January 13.

The Writing Programs of the Department of English will sponsor the Writing Pedagogy Forum with the Digital Media Project Staff speaking on "The End(s) of New Media," 1:30 pm, February 2, 343 Denney Hall. Faculty, Lecturers, and Graduate Teaching Assistants are welcome and refreshments will be provided. Contact: Department of English, 292-6065.

Kazadi wa Mukuna (Kent State University) will present "The Enigma of Bumba-meu-Boi," 3:30 pm, February 2, George Wells Knight House, 104 East 15^th Avenue, for the Lusophone Globalicities Working Group. Co-sponsored by the Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities, the Department of African American and African Studies, the School of Music, the Department of Theatre, the Center for Folklore Studies, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and the Center for Latin American Studies. Visit Lusophone Globalicities Contact: Daniel Avorgbedor,avorgbedor.1@osu.edu, or Richard Gordon, gordon.397@osu.edu.

A viewing of the documentary "The Invisible Children: Rough Cut" and panel discussion begin at 7:30 pm, February 5, in the Drexel Gateway Theater. This wonderfully reckless film exposes the effects of a 20-year long war on the children in Northern Uganda through the eyes of three young traveling Americans. The panel discussion will include Scopas Poggo, African American and African Studies-Mansfield; Antoinette Errante, Educational Policy & Leadership, and alumna Halle Butvin, who is leading a student youth summit in Uganda. Contact: Elise Kahl atkahl.25@osu.edu.

Job candidate Alexander Treiger (Yale University) will present "Medieval Islam and the Science of the Ancients," 3:30 pm, February 6, 306 Hagerty Hall. Contact: Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, 292-9255.

John Wenzel (Biological Sciences) will present "Mauritius, Island of the Lost," at 7:00 pm, February 8, Columbus Museum of Art, in conjunction with the Museum’s "Harrio Kallio: Dodos and Mauritius Island" exhibition and its Big Picture Series.  Contact: Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities, 688-0265.

The Writing Programs of the Department of English will sponsor the Writing Pedagogy Forum with the Digital Media Project Staff speaking on "Whose Text? Plagiarism, Copyright, and Cultural Differences," 1:30 pm, February 9, 131 Mendenhall Lab. Faculty, Lecturers, and Graduate Teaching Assistants are welcome and refreshments will be provided. Contact: Department of English, 292-6065.

Gerhild Scholz Williams (Washington University, St. Louis) will present "The Global and the Local: Wonders in the News," 2:30 pm, February 9, 90 Science and Engineering Library, in The Marvelous Lecture Series. Contact: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 292-7495.

David Sanson, Philosophy, will present "A Defense of Meinongian Presentism," 3:30 pm, February 12, 350 University Hall, in the Philosophy Colloquium. Contact: Department of Philosophy, 292-7914.

The Writing Programs of the Department of English will sponsor the Writing Pedagogy Forum with the Digital Media Project Staff speaking on "Breaking the Routine: Creating Innovative Writing Assignments," 1:30 pm, February 16, 131 Mendenhall Lab. Faculty, Lecturers, and Graduate Teaching Assistants are welcome and refreshments will be provided. Contact: Department of English, 292-6065