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Daniel Sarefield, History: "The Symbolics of Bookburning," in The Early Christian Book, eds. William E. Klingshirn and Linda Safran (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of American Press, 2007): 159-73.

Graduate student David Dennis, History, has been awarded a research fellowship by the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD, the German Fulbright agency) for the 2007-2008 academic year. During the tenure of the fellowship, he will be a student at the Freie Universitaet Berlin.

Graduate student Chris LaHue, History, received a Small Research Grant from the College of Humanities; and presented "The Resurrection of John Wise: Congregational Republicanism and Popular Mobilization in Revolutionary New England, 1770-1772" at the Consortium of the Revolutionary Era's Annual Conference in Washington, D.C., March 2, 2007

Carla Wilks, senior outreach program coordinator, AAAS Community Extension Center, received the Above and Beyond the Call of Duty Award bestowed by the College of Humanities Staff Advisory Committee during winter quarter for her extensive support of the Department of African American and African Studies Community Extension Center.

Kenneth Andrien, History, presented "Secularization and the Struggles over Clerical Reform in Bourbon, Peru, 1749-1761" at the Virginia-Carolinas-Georgia Colonial Latin American Studies Seminar at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, March 9-10.

Franco Barchiesi, African American and African Studies, gave a talk on "Labor and Social Citizenship in Colonial and Postcolonial Modernity: South African Perspectives in a Continental Context" for the Program in African-American and African Studies, University of California, Irvine, March 14.

Carole Fink, History, presented "The Palestine Question and the Paris Peace Conference" at an international conference: "From the Great War to the Peace Settlement: A Retrospective Evaluation," sponsored by the International History Institute, of Boston University. She presented "Minority Rights/Human Rights" to the History Department and "Bonn-Washington-Jerusalem: The Struggle over Ostpolitik" to the Faculty Research Seminar of the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, March 21.

Graduate student Chris LaHue, History, presented "The Resurrection of John Wise: Congregational Republicanism and Popular Mobilization in Revolutionary New England, 1770-1772" at the Consortium of the Revolutionary Era's Annual Conference in Washington, D.C., March 2.

Judson Jeffries, African American and African Studies, presented "Achieving Diversity on College Campuses" at the Prevail-Respect Conference held at the Frank Hale Black Cultural Center, March 23-24.

Stephanie Shaw, History, has been appointed to the OAH Merle Curti Award Committee, and she has been appointed Second Vice President of the Southern Association of Women's Historians.

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.

Ian Moyer (Pomona College) will present "Greeks, Egyptians and the Animal Kingdom: Cultural Strategies from Herodotus to the Ptolemies," 4:30 pm, March 30, 448 University Hall, for the Focus Program in Mediterranean Religions and Cultures. Contact: Sarah Johnston, johnston.2@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, oraldama.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.

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.

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

The Department of African American and African Studies Community Extension Center is currently accepting applications for its Summer Residential Program for High School Juniors and Seniors, June 17-23. The theme of this year's program is "Bookmarks: African Americans in a Cultural Revolution." During this week-long program students will engage in a focused study of the remarkable achievements of African American artists from Blacks in Vaudeville to the crossover into mainstream culture. Application deadline is, April 18. For more information, visit aaascec.osu.edu to download an application or contact Chauncey Beaty, 614-292-3922.

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.