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2003 ICRPH Calendar


(All events will take place in Knight House unless otherwise indicated.)

Spring 2003
March 30
10:00 am		 2003 Ohio Chautauqua
"Ohio Frontier" Dress Rehearsal

April 3
3:30 pm

 "Apocalypticism and Violence: Dynamics of Their Interaction"
Bernard McGinn, University of Chicago Divinity School
Religion and Violence Working Group
(contact urban.41@osu.edu)
5:30 pm Medieval English Reading Group
(contact zacher.1@osu.edu )
April 4
9:00 am -5:00 pm		 "Gender and Ethnicity Across Divides" Symposium
Variously co-sponsored
(contact rodriguez.89@osu.edu)
April 6
10:30 am-5:00 pm
1st fl, Pressey Hall Studies		 Roundtable symposium on the James Ossuary
Co-sponsored with the Center for Epigraphical and Paleographical
(contact graf.65@osu.edu )

April 11
12:00 noon

 Humanities Institute Book Club
Brownbag discussion of W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz
Led by Daniel Farrell (Philosophy)
(contact antony.3@osu.edu or pestana.1@osu.edu)

April 14
4::30 pm

Horizons: Lectures by New Senior Faculty
"What was Postmodernism?"
Brian McHale (English)
(contact zacher.1@osu.edu )

April 17
3:30 pm

"Terrorism, Modernization, and Other Threats to Religious Art"
Susan Huntington (History of Art)
Religion and Violence Working Group
(contact johnston.2@osu.edu )

April 24
3:30 pm

 "Martyrs"—a panel discussion with Maureen Ahern (Spanish & Portuguese),
John King (English), and Karen Winstead (English)
Religion and Violence Working Group
(contact johnston.2@osu.edu)

April 26
9:00 am
448 Univ Hall

 Roundtable on Sacred Texts
Midwestern Consortium of Ancient Religions
(contact johnston.2@osu.edu )

April 28
4:00 pm
212 Cunz Hall

 "Merlin's Mother: Medieval Origins of the Demon Lover"
Richard Firth Green (English)
Co-sponsored with Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
(contact johnston.2@osu.edu )
April 29
3:30 pm		 "The Situation of the Slavic-speaking Minority in Greek Macedonia: Ethnic Revival, Cross-border Cohesion or Language Shift?"
Christian Voss, University of Freiburg
Endangered and Minority Languages and Cultures Working Group
(contact joseph.1@osu.edu )
April 30
4:00 pm
300 Cunz Hall 		"On Some Items of Interest to Historical Linguists and Historical Linguistics"
Eric Hamp, University of Chicago
Historical Linguistics Study Group
(contact unger.26@osu.edu)

May 9
1:00 pm

Adrienne Kennedy Symposium
Co-sponsored with the Department of Theater, College of the Arts, College of Education
(contact ferris.36@osu.edu)

May 15
3:30 pm
200 Campbell Hall

"Humanities Forum 2003: The Future of the Public Research University"
Stanley Katz (Princeton University), James Duderstadt (former President, University of Michigan), Peter Magrath (President, National Association of State Universities and Landgrant Colleges)
May 16
TBA		 "From the Inquisition to Franco: The Politics of Women and Terror"
Mary Giles, California State University - Sacramento
Religion and Violence Working Group
(contact graf.65@osu.edu)

May 19
4:30 pm

 Horizons: Lectures by New Senior Faculty
"Words and Rituals: A Philology of Religion or the Religion of the Philologist?"
Fritz Graf (Greek and Latin)
(contact zacher.1@osu.edu)

June 6
3:00 pm
TBA

 "The Death and Rebirth of Dialect Diversity in Pennsylvania German"
Steven Hartman Keiser, Marquette University
Endangered and Minority Languages and Cultures Working Group
(contact joseph.1@osu.edu )
TBA Ad hoc Interdisciplinary Committee presentations
(contact freudenburg.1@osu.edu)
 

Passion is the Big Idea for Spring Quarter
One-credit course HUM 294
Meets five times during Spring 2003
Starting April 16 at 5:30
North Commons Dining Hall

What place does passion have in human life? How does it move us, and towards what ends? How should we judge passion? Why has the law traditionally recognized "crimes of passion"? Should we live out our passions or be wary of them? In this course, we will consider various angles on the experience and the idea of passion. Speakers with experience in political science and women's studies, engineering, philosophy and the arts will share perspectives and invite students into a quarter-long discussion of the topic. The class will meet five times during the spring quarter, starting Weds April 16.

April 16 Cindy Burack (Women's Studies), Reasons and Passions
April 23 David Wood (Engineering), Engineering for Emergencies
May 7 Justin d'Arms (Philosophy), Emotions and Morals
May 14 Jeff Mann (English/Appalachian St, Virginia Tech), A Poet's Passion May 21 Graeme Boone (Musicology), Passion in Music (Sondheim)

Winter 2003
January 16
2:30 pm
156 Univ Hall

Center for Folklore Studies Lecture
"Theorizing Genres - Interpreting Works"
Peter Seitel, Smithsonian Institution
(contact shuman.1@osu.edu)

January 17
12:00 noon		 Humanities Institute Book Club
Brownbag discussion of Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections
Moderated by Louise Antony (Philosophy) and
Carla Pestana (History)
(contact antony.3@osu.edu or pestana.1@osu.edu)
January 21
11:30 am		 First New Faculty lunch discussion
January 23
3:30 pm 		Historical Linguistics Study Group
3:30 pm "Latin noun morphology: athematics, i-stems, and imparisyllabics"
Wayne Redenbarger (Spanish & Portuguese)
(contact unger.26@osu.edu)
January 30
3:30 pm 		Religion and Violence Working Group
Discussion of Bruce Lincoln's
Holy Terrors: Thinking about Religion after September 11
(contact graf.65@osu.edu)
January 31
3:30 pm
122 Oxley Hall 		Endangered and Minority Languages & Cultures Working Group
"Erie Old Believer Russian: A Grave Situation"
Jeffrey Holdeman, Indiana University
(contact joseph.1@osu.edu)
February 25
3:30 pm		 Historical Linguistics Study Group
"Adjectives (keiyoshi) in Japanese: a verb-phrasal genesis"
Charles Quinn (East Asian Languages and Literatures)
(contact unger.26@osu.edu)
February 27
3:30 pm		 Religion and Violence Working Group
Readings for discussion:: 1) D. Frankfurter, "Ritual as Accusation and Atrocity: Satanic Ritual Abuse, Gnostic Libertinism and Primal Murders," History of Religions 40 (2001) 352-80; 2) J. LaFontaine, Speak of the Devil: Tales of Satanic Abuse in Contemporary England (Cambridge 1998) chapters 1 and 2; 3) M. DeYoung, "One Face of the Devil: The Satanic Ritual Abuse Moral Crusade and the Law," in Behavioral Sciences and the Law 12 (1994) 389-407
(contact graf.65@osu.edu)
February 28
10:30 am		 Endangered and Minority Languages & Cultures Working Group
"Language Shift and Loss in Creole Communities: A Comparison
with the Endangerment of Native American Languages"
Salikoko Mufwene, University of Chicago
11:30 am

Lunch sponsored by African-American & African Studies
(contact joseph.1@osu.edu)
3:00 pm
014 Univ Hall 		"Why Ebonics and Most Black African Languages are Surviving
Globalization"
(sponsored by African-American and African Studies)
March 4
7:00 pm 		Endangered and Minority Languages & Cultures Working Group
"Pontic, an endangered dialect of Greek spoken in Turkey"
Pietro Bortone, Princeton University
(contact joseph.1@osu.edu)
March 6
12:30 pm 		"Images of Ritual Violence, From Antiquity to the Satanic Ritual Abuse Panic"
David Frankfurter, University of New Hampshire
6:30 pm
The Mershon Center 		"The Construction of Evil and the Violence of Purification"
(contact graf.65@osu.edu)
March 11
156 Univ Hall
3:30 pm		 Perspectives on Martha Nussbaum
Multi-disciplinary discussion of the work of philosopher Martha Nussbaum. Participating Humanities faculty are Louise Antony (Philosophy), Cynthia Burack (Women's Studies), Jon Erickson (English), David Hahm (Greek & Latin) & Jim Phelan (English)
(hosted by the Humanities Institute)
Readings pertinent to the discussion are available on Electronic Reserve through OSCAR (under Nussbaum reading group).
(contactlivingston.28@osu.edu)
March 12
3:30 pm		 Historical Linguistics Study Group
"Internal Reconstruction in Hungarian"
James Unger (East Asian)
(contact unger.26@osu.edu)
March 14
1:30 pm		 Ohio and the World Lecture Series (OWLS)
Advisory Committee meeting
 

War and Peace Are Big Ideas for Winter Quarter
One-credit course HUM 294A
5 successive Thursday nights beginning January 23rd
downstairs at the North Commons

As the U.S. prepares for a possible conflict in the Middle East, the ICRPH is organizing an opportunity for students to reflect on the larger questions raised by the use of military force. Part of a series of one-credit courses on "Big Ideas"--concepts and concerns that cut across the academic disciplines--"War and Peace" will meet over dinner on five successive Thursday nights (5:30-7:18 pm) beginning on January 23rd downstairs at the North Commons.

Students will be asked to consider questions about the justification of violence, the changing nature of combat, the status of civilians in wartime, and the relation of law and war. Participating in the discussions are OSU faculty members Daniel Farrell (Philosophy), John Guilmartin (History), Mark Grimsley (History) and Mary Ellen O'Connell (College of Law), along with Rick Livingston (Comparative Studies), Associate Director of ICRPH.

Big Ideas courses began in Spring 2002 with a look at "What is Evil?" and will continue in Spring 2003 with an examination of "Passion." For more information, contact Rick Livingston (livingston.28@osu.edu).