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Autumn 2003 Calendar


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

September 29
4:30 pm
Music/Dance
Library
Sullivant Hall

"Burns as a Songwriter"
Fred Freeman, University of Edinburgh
Lectures in Musicology
co-sponsored with School of Music
(contact rosow.1@osu.edu)

October 3
1:30 pmp
122 Main Library

3:00 pm
212 Cunz

"Richard de Fournival: Book Collector and Eroticizer of the Bestiary"
Jeanette Beer, Purdue University
co-sponsored with Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Conversation with Jeannette Beer, Purdue University
(contact johnston.2@osu.edu)

October 9
11:30 pm
"On Nasal Dissimilation in Hittite"
Joshua Katz, Princeton University
Historical Linguistics Study Group
(contact joseph.1@osu.edu or unger.26@osu.edu)
October 10
10:30 am
Digital Media and the Core Intellectual Questions of the Liberal Arts Working Group organizational meeting
(contact ulman.1@osu.edu)

October 16
7:00 pm
Columbus Museum of Art
(following College of Humanities faculty recognition reception)

"Faberge and the Arts and Crafts Movement of Late Imperial Russia"
Myroslava Mudrak, History of Art
In conjunction with "The Faberge Menagerie: Animal Creations of the Faberge Workshops" exhibition
The Big Picture lecture series
(contact lantz.38@osu.edu)

October 21
3:30 pm
"Endangered Languages in the Andaman Islands"
Anvita Abbi, Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi)
Endangered and Minority Languages and Cultures Working Group
(contact joseph.1@osu.edu)
October 22
Time TBA
"Minority Languages in India"
Anvita Abbi, Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi)
Endangered and Minority Languages and Cultures Working Group
(contact joseph.1@osu.edu)

October 23-25
The Blackwell Inn

Conference on "Contemporary Narrative Theory: the State of the Field"
co-sponsored with Hamilton College and various OSU departments
(contact phelan.1@osu.edu)

October 29
Columbus Metropolitan Library

"The Changing Face of Frankenstein"
Rick Livingston, Comparative Studies
In conjunction with the Prior Health Sciences Library special exhibit "Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature"

October 30
3:30 pm

"On Generalizations Lost and Found: -a/-au variation in Vedic i-stem Locatives"
Hope Dawson, Linguistics
Historical Linguistics Study Group
(contact joseph.1@osu.edu or unger.26@osu.edu)

October 31-November 1
Mershon Center

Conference on "Persecution and Conflict in Ancient Mediterranean Religions"
Sponsored by the Mershon Center with support from the Religion and Violence Working Group
(contact johnston.2@osu.edu )

November 13
4 :00 am
Place TBA

"Computational Cladistics in Historical Linguistics"
Donald Ringe, University of Pennsylvania
Historical Linguistics Study Group
(contact joseph.1@osu.edu or unger.26@osu.edu)
November 13
Time TBA
Religion and Violence Working Group
Discussion of Jon Krakauer's Under the Banner of Heaven
(contact graf.65@osu.edu)

November 16
2:00 pm
Columbus Museum of Art

"Specimen, Image, Artwork: Three Ways of Looking at Nature Photography"
Lewis Ulman, English
In conjunction the "From Prarie to Field: Photographs by Terry Evans" exhibition
The Big Picture lecture series
(contact lantz.38@osu.edu)

November 23
2:00 pm
Columbus Museum of Art

Title TBA
Pheoris West, Art
In conjunction with the "Not-So-Basic BLACK" exhibition
The Big Picture lecture series
(contact lantz.38@osu.edu)

December
Date and Time TBA

"Legal Storytelling"
Richard Firth Green, English
Horizons: Lectures by New Senior Faculty
(contact zacher.1@osu.edu)


Upcoming Winter Quarter Events
January
"Parallels between Historical Linguistics Research and Evolutionary Biology from the early 19th Century to the Present"
Richard Janda, Linguistics
Historical Linguistics Study Group
(contact joseph.1@osu.edu or unger.26@osu.edu)

January

"Modern Greek Dialects of Cappadocia"
Mark Janse, University of Amsterdam
Endangered and Minority Languages and Cultures Working Group
(contact joseph.1@osu.edu)