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Winter 2006 Calendar

(all events take place in Knight House unless otherwise indicated)

January 12 4:00 pm	Literacy and Social Action Panel Literacy Working Group (contact blackburn.99@osu.edu)
January 13 11:30 am	“Oral History and the Digital Revolution” Michael Frisch, History, University at Buffalo, SUNY Literacy Working Group (contact graff.40@osu.edu)
January 13 3:30 pm Gutherie Seminar Rm 168 Dulles Hall	“Mapping The Great Meadow: GIS as a Tool for Local Environmental History” Brian Donahue, American Studies, Brandeis University History Cartographic Working Group co-sponsored with Early American History Seminar (contact OSUHistoryProf@columbus.rr.com)
January 20 2:00 pm	Welcome and Kick-Off Event Cultural Difference and Democracy Working Group (contact shank.46@osu.edu)
January 25 12:00 noon Columbus Metro-politan Club 4:30 pm Glenn Institute	“Talking Politics and Religion” E. J. Dionne, Brookings Institution Public Faith, Public Reason lecture series co-sponsored with the John Glenn Institute for Public Service and Public Policy Ohio Union Lounge (contact livingston.28@osu.edu)
January 26 7:00 pm Columbus Museum of Art	“Memories of the Present: Arthur Leipzig’s New York” David Neal Miller, Germanic Languages and Literatures In conjunction with the “Arthur Leipzig: On Assignment” exhibition The Big Picture lecture series (contact lantz.38@osu.edu)
January 27 11:30 am	Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Seminar in Literacy Studies Literacy Working Group (contact hanson.94@osu.edu)
January 27 2:00 pm	Ethnic Studies Research Group (contact stevens.368@osu.edu)
January 29 10:00 am	Ohio Chautauqua 2006 rehearsal (contact lantz.38@osu.edu)
February 3 10:30 am	“Abnormal Justice” Nancy Fraser, Philosophy and Politics, New School for Social Research Cultural Difference and Democracy Working Group (contact shank.46@osu.edu)
February 8 4:30 pm	“Faith in a Combat Zone: The Work of Christian Peacemaking” David Jehnsen, Institute for Human Rights and Responsibilities and the Christian Peacemakers Public Faith, Public Reason lecture series co-sponsored with the John Glenn Institute for Public Service and Public Policy (contact livingston.28@osu.edu)
February 17 2:00 pm	Ethnic Studies Research Group (contact stevens.368@osu.edu)
February 20 4:00 pm	"From Zeus to Christ? Inventing the Sacred Image in Early Byzantium" Robin Cormack, Courtauld Institute of Art and the Getty Research Institute The Focus Program in Mediterranean Religions and Cultures
February 22 4:30 pm Place TBA	“Religious Faith and Partisan Politics” Sara Fritz, Faith and Politics Institute Public Faith, Public Reason lecture series co-sponsored with the John Glenn Institute for Public Service and Public Policy (contact livingston.28@osu.edu)
February 23 7:00 pm Columbus Museum of Art	“Alice Schille in her Time: The Idea of Independence” Barbara Groseclose, History of Art In conjunction with the “Alice Schille: An Independent Spirit” exhibition The Big Picture lecture series (contact lantz.38@osu.edu)
February 24 11:30 am	Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Seminar in Literacy Studies Literacy Working Group (contact hanson.94@osu.edu)
February 24 1:00 pm	“God Bless America” Samuel Weber, Humanities, Northwestern University Co-sponsored with Comparative Studies (contact livingston.28@osu.edu)
	A New Working Group
	Cultural Difference and Democracy (led by Barry Shank (Comparative Studies), Nancy Ettlinger (Geography), Tanya Erzen (Comparative Studies) The Working Group in Cultural Difference and Democracy will provide an opportunity for the comparative exchange of ideas and the production of new theoretical and empirical knowledge about the complex intertwinings of cultural difference and democracy. We intend to build on Ohios current status as both a bell weather state in national politics and a state where cultural differences have become the axes along which political alliances are built. But our interests extend well beyond the local and the national. Our goals include the development of innovative ways of investigating and understanding the values, beliefs, practices, institutions, processes, and relationships that enable and that are enabled by recognizably democratic politics. Among the topics we will investigate will be the relationships between concepts of citizenship and the state, the relationship between subjectivity and political desire, the role of rituals of communication and greeting in the structuring of public debate, the role of cultural legitimacy in the justification of political claims, the value of transparency in the dissemination of public information, relationships between economic practices and political assumptions, and substantialist versus proceduralist concepts of democracy.