Current News

Matt Goldish History: "Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy in the 1689 London Sermons of Hakham Solomon Aailion" in Tradition, Heterodoxy and Religious Culture: Judaism and Christianity in the Early Modern Period, eds. Chanita Goodblatt and Howard Kreisel (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Press, 2007): 37-165.

Stephen G. Hall, History: "A Search for Truth: Jacob Oson and the Beginnings of African American Historiography," William and Mary Quarterly 65 (January 2007): 139-148.

Christopher Reed, History, was interviewed for the March 2007 issue of "That's Shanghai," an English-language newsmagazine published in Shanghai and sold in Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong, about his book Gutenberg in Shanghai: Chinese Print Capitalism, 1876-1937 (Hong Kong University Press, 2005) and contemporary Chinese print communism.

James E. Genova, History-Marion, presented "Cultural Politics and the Question of Cultural Imperialism in African Cinema during the 1960s: An Analysis of Sembene Ousmane's Mandabi/Le Mandat" at the Annual Conference of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies in Chicago, March 11.

Graduate student Ryan Irwin, History, presented "Apartheid in the Cold War Era: Global Perspectives on a Post-Colonial Dilemma, 1948-1963," at the 7^th Annual Graduate Student Conference on International History, Harvard University, March 16-17.

Glenn Kranking, History, presented "Från Kustbon till Sovjet-Estland: Svenska Pressen i Estland" [From Kustbon to Sovjet-Estland: The Swedish Press in Estonia] in Swedish for St. Michael's Congregation in Tallinn, Estonia, March 11.

Calvin Schrag (Purdue University) will present "Revisiting the Problem of Evil: Entwinement of the Socio-Political and the Ethico-Religious," 4:30 pm, March 28, Knight House, 104 East 15^th Avenue. Contact: Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities, 688-0265, or paridiso-michau.1@osu.edu.

Graduate students Michael Harker and Aaron McKain, English, will present "Our Space: Resituating Civic Literacy in the University Curriculum," 11:30 am, March 30, Knight House, 104 East 15^th Avenue, for the Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Seminar on Literacy Studies. Contact: Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities, 688-0265, or white.1142@osu.edu.

The Creative Writing Program presents Mother Tongue (new MFA recruitment reading), 8:00 pm, March 30, Barley's Underground in the Short North. Contact: Creative Writing Program, 292-2242.

Cartoonist and author Scott McCloud will present "Comics and Storytelling," time TBA, April 4, Wexner Film/Video Theatre, for the Narrative and Cognition Working and the Literacy Studies Working groups. Contact: Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities, 688-0265.

Stuart Lishan, Brian Wade, and Amy Monticello, English, will present a Student/Faculty Reading, 7:00 pm, April 5, 311 Denney Hall. Contact: Creative Writing Program, 292-2242.

Howard Sacks (Kenyon College) will present "Food for Thought: Preserving Family Farming in Changing Times," during dinner at 6:30 pm, April 11, Mershon Center, 1501 Neil Avenue, as part of the dinner lecture series sponsored by the Center for Folklore Studies. Space for dinner is limited, RSVP to Sheila Bock (smbock99@yahoo.com) by Monday, April 2.

Christopher Dunn (Tulane University) will present "Mr. Citizen and Defective Android: Tom Zé, Music, and Citizenship in Brazil," 3:30 pm, April 6, 046 Hagerty Hall, for the Lusophone Globalicities Working Group. Contact: Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities, 688-0265.

Comic book author Frank Espinosa will present "Storytelling and Aesthetics in Rocketo," noon, April 11, 021L Wexner Center, for the Narrative and Cognition Working Group. Contact: Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities, 688-0265, or aldama.1@osu.edu.

Comic book author Frank Espinosa will present "Comics, Animation, and Visual Explorations," 3:30 pm, April 11, 021L Wexner Center, for the Narrative and Cognition Working Group. Contact: Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities, 688-0265, or aldama.1@osu.edu.

Cynthia Selfe, English, will present "The Movement of Air, the Breath of Meaning: Aurality and Multimodal Composing," 11:30 am, April 12, Knight House, 104 East 15^th Avenue. Contact: Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities, 688-0265.

Ronald Hutton (Bristol University) will present "A General Framework for the Study of European Magic," 2:30 pm, April 13, 90 Science and Engineering Library, in The Marvelous Lecture Series. Contact: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 292-7495.

Susan Schreiner (University of Chicago) will present "A Distant Mirror: The Tyranny of the Present," 4:30 pm, April 26, 090 Science & Engineering Library, in the Religion and the Academy: Enduring Issues, New Approaches Series. Contact: Program in the Study of Religions, 688-8010.

Faculty and staff are invited to participate in the Humanities Alumni Society's 2^nd annual Golf Outing on Saturday, May 19 at Westchester Golf Course in Canal Winchester. Proceeds from the event benefit the Humanities Alumni Scholarship Fund which supports Humanities undergraduate students. For details, visit our Alumni Web pages. Contact: Shari Lorbach, 688-4532 or lorbach.1@osu.edu.

Faculty and staff are invited to the College's 13th annual Baccalaureate at 3:30 pm, Saturday, June 9, in 131 Hitchcock Hall. Alumnus Craig Zimpher (B.A./M.A. History) will give the Baccalaureate address. Mr. Zimpher is vice president of government relations for Nationwide. RSVP College of Humanities, 292-1882. Please encourage graduating students to participate. Visit our Student Information pages.

The 2007 Dean's Outstanding Staff Award Call for Nominations. Nominate a staff member who holds a regular appointment with 3+ years of continuous service within the College and who has demonstrated excellence in overall job performance, initiative, and creativity in the performance of duties, and sustained exemplary service to the unit and to the College. Details and nomination forms are available in the College Office and on the Web. Please submit the completed nomination form, the letter of nomination, and supporting letters as one packet to: Debbie Knicely, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, 398 Hagerty Hall, 1775 College Road by April 16.