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Spring 2007 Calendar


(All events will take place in Knight House unless otherwise indicated.)
March 28
4:30 PM
"Revisiting the Problem of Evil: Entwinement of the Socio-Political and the Ethico-Religious
Calvin O. Schrag, Philosophy
Purdue University
(contact paradiso-michau.1@osu.edu)

March 30
11:30 AM
"Our Space: Resituating Civic Literacy in the University Curriculum"
Michael Harker and Aaron McKain, English
Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Seminar on Literacy Studies
(contact white.1142@osu.edu)

April 4
4:30 PM
Wexner Center Auditorium
"Comics and Storytelling"
Scott McCloud, cartoonist and author
co-sponsored with the Cartoon Research Library, Department of English, Digital Literacy Studies, Project Narrative, the Wexner, Narrative and Cognition Working Group, and the Literacy Studies Working Group
(contact aldama.1@osu.edu)

April 7
9:00 AM
"The Many Faces of the Gods: Examining Conceptions of Divinity in Antiquity"
5th Annual Greek and Latin Graduate Student Colloquium
(contact gentile.46@osu.edu or haluszka.1@osu.edu)

April 11
12:00 noon
021L Wexner Center
"Storytelling and Aesthetics in Rocketo"
Frank Espinosa, comic book author
Co-sponsored with Cartoon Research Library, Project Narrative, and the Narrative and Cognition Working Group
(contact aldama.1@osu.edu)

April 11
3:00 PM
021L Wexner Center
"Comics, Animation, and Visual Explorations"
Frank Espinosa, comic book author
Co-sponsored with Cartoon Research Library, Project Narrative, and the Narrative and Cognition Working Group
(contact aldama.1@osu.edu)

April 12
11:30 AM
"The Movement of Air, The Breath of Meaning: Aurality and Multimodal 11:30 am Composing"
Cynthia Selfe, English
Horizons lecture series (lunch by reservation only)
(contact zacher.1@osu.edu)

April 12
6:30 PM
Renaissance Reading Group
(contact farmer.109@osu.edu)

April 13
3:30 PM
Ethnic Studies Research Group
(contact stevens.368@osu.edu)

April 13
3:30 PM
046 Hagerty Hall
"Mr. Citizen and Defective Android:  Tom Zé, Music, and Citizenship in Brazil"
Christopher Dunn, Spanish and Portuguese
Tulane University
Lusophone Globalicities Working Group
(contact gordon.397@osu.edu)

April 16
4:00 PM
"Who Listens for the Self-Telling Body?"
Rita Charon, Narrative Medicine
Columbia University
Co-sponsored with Project Narrative and the College of Nursing
Narrative and Cognition Working Group
(contact herman.145@osu.edu)

April 17
4:30 PM
"Global Pentecostalism: The New Face of Christian Social Engagement"
Donald Miller, Religion
University of Southern California
2007 David Lecture in Christianity Studies
Department of Comparative Studies
(contact mcdorman.1@osu.edu)

April 20
10:00 AM
Gender and Ethnicity Across Divides
CIRIT 5th Annual Symposium: Gender & Women’s Social Rights
Co-sponsored with Women’s Studies, Middle East Study Center, WID
(contact gottlieb.26@osu.edu)

April 23
4:00 AM
"Hamlet and Literary Ethics"
Nie Zhenzhao, English
University of Chicago
Co-sponsored with Project Narrative
Narrative and Cognition Working Group
(contact phelan.1@osu.edu)

April 26
6:30 PM
Renaissance Reading Group
(contact farmer.109@osu.edu)

April 27
11:30 AM
"Linking Literacies in Composition, Technology, and Copyright"
Vera Dukaj, Shawn Casey, and Cormac Slevin, English
Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Seminar on Literacy Studies
(contact white.1142@osu.edu)

May 3
4:00 PM
264 McQuigg Lab
105 W. Woodruff
"Writing Today"
Deborah Brandt, Education
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Literacy Studies Working Group
(contact dicuirci.2@osu.edu)

May 11
3:30 PM
Ethnic Studies Research Group
(contact stevens.368@osu.edu)

May 17
7:00 PM
David Loy discussion
Religious Studies Roundtable
(contact trimble.38@osu.edu)

May 22
12 noon
"Being a Professor and all that comes with it in the 21st century"
Judson Jeffries, Director, African-American and African Studies
Community Extension Center and African-American and African Studies
Horizons lecture series (lunch by reservation only)
(contact zacher.1@osu.edu)

May 24
12:00 noon
"Multiple Modernities: Development of Civil Society"
Salim Tamari, Bir Zeit University and Berkeley
Fred H. Lawson, Mills College
Carter Findley, History
Joseph Zeidan, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
Co-sponsored with Middle Eastern Studies Center, CIRIT, Mershon Center, Jerusalem Project, Departments of History, Political Science, and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
Cultures in Disputed Territories Working Group
(contact gottlieb.26@osu.edu)

May 25
11:30 AM
"Drafting U.S. Literacy," "Sponsors of Literacy," and "Ghostwriting and Shifting Values in Literacy
Discussion of Deborah Brandt’s recent work—available upon request
Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Seminar on Literacy Studies
(contact white.1142@osu.edu)