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Winter 2007 Calendar


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

January 5
3:30 PM
Viva Rhode Island, Viva Portugal! Performance, Tourism, and
Transnationalism in Portuguese-American Bands”
Kate Brucher, Musicology
Bowling Green State University
Lusophone Globalicities Working Group
(contact gordon.397@osu.edu)

January 7
10:00 AM
2007 Ohio Chautauqua rehearsal
(contact lantz.38@osu.edu)

January 16
2:30 PM
"The Battle of Coachella Valley: Filipino Workers, Hiring Halls and the United Farm Workers?"
Matt Garcia, History
Brown University
Ethnic Studies Research Group
(contactstevens.368@osu.edu)

January 18
4:00 PM
Evans Lab 1008
“Love in the Multitude”
Michael Hardt, Literature
Duke University
Cultural Differences and Democracy Working Group
(contact shank.46@osu.edu)

January 19
8:30 AM
First Annual Comparative Studies Graduate Student Conference:
“Rethinking Precarity”
(contact armstrong.202@osu.edu)

January 19
10:00 AM
“On Jefferson”
Michael Hardt, Literature
Duke University
In conjunction with the Comparative Studies Grad Student Conference
Cultural Differences and Democracy Working Group
(contact shank.46@osu.edu)

January 25
4:00 PM
“Literacy and Writing Across Space and Place”
Moderated by Mindy Wright (English) and Beverly Moss (English)
Literacy Studies Working Group
(contact dicuirci.2@osu.edu)

January 26
11:30 AM
“Literacy and Representations of Trauma”
Alana Kumbier and Wendy Wolters Hinshaw
Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Seminar on Literacy Studies
(contact dicuirci.2@osu.edu)

January 26
3:30 PM
Ethnic Studies Research Group
(contact stevens.368@osu.edu)

February 2
3:30 PM
“The Enigma of Bumba-meu-Boi”
Kazadi wa Mukuna, Music
Kent State University
Lusophone Globalicities Working Group
(contact gordon.397@osu.edu)

February 8
7:00 PM
Columbus Museum of Art
“Mauritius, Island of the Lost”
John Wenzel, Biological Sciences
In conjunction with the “Harrio Kallio: Dodos and Mauritius Island” exhibition
The Big Picture lecture series
(contact zacher.1@osu.edu)

February 17-18
Executive Board meeting
Modern Greek Studies Association
(contact Jusdanis.1@osu.edu)

February 21
11:30 AM
"Rationalism, Empiricism, and Mechanism"
Lisa Downing, Philosophy
Horizons lecture series (lunch by reservation only)
(contact zacher.1@osu.edu)

February 23
11:30 AM
"A Literacy Studies Miscellany: Recent Work and Work in Progress"
Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Seminar on Literacy Studies
(contact dicuirci.2@osu.edu)

February 23
3:30 PM
046 Hagerty Hall
5:30 PM reception
Knight House
"The Performance of Late-Eighteenth-Century Portugal and Brazil in 'Novo entremez Os Malaquecos, ou Os costumes brazileiros' [ca. 1787]"
Richard Gordon, Spanish and Portuguese
Lusophone Globalicities Working Group
(contact gordon.397@osu.edu)

February 23
3:30 PM
Ethnic Studies Research Group
(contact stevens.368@osu.edu)

March 1
4:00 PM
"The Book as an Object of Historical Inquiry"
Panel discussion moderated by Cynthia Brokaw (History)
with Alan Farmer (English), Stephen Hall (History), Richard Torrance (East Asian Languages and Literatures), David Staley (History; The Goldberg Center)
Literacy Studies Working Group
(contact dicuirci.2@osu.edu)

March 2
3:30 PM
“Wayfinding, Narrative, Evolution, and Ontology”
Nancy Easterlin, English
University of New Orleans
Narrative and Cognition Working Group
(contact aldama.1@osu.edu)

March 5
4:00 PM
“Mexican Cinematic Narratives”
Gerardo Cummings, Spanish
Bowling Green State University
Narrative and Cognition Working Group
(contact aldama.1@osu.edu)

March 9
3:30 PM
“The Lusophone World: Eight Countries Joined and Divided by the Same Language"
Russell G. Hamilton, Spanish and Portuguese
Vanderbilt University
Lusophone Globalicities Working Group
(contact gordon.397@osu.edu)

March 15
7:00 PM
Columbus Museum of Art
“Flat is the New Deep”
John McMorrough, Architecture
In conjunction with the “Optic Nerve: Perceptual Art of the 1960s” exhibition
The Big Picture lecture series
(contact zacher.1@osu.edu)

Upcoming Events

April 4
Time TBA
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 dicuirci.2@osu.edu)

April 6
3:30 PM
046 Hagerty Hall
5:30 PM reception
Knight House
“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 11
Time TBA
Frank Espinosa, comic book author
Co-sponsored with Cartoon Research Library, Project Narrative
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 Composing"
Cynthia Selfe, English
Horizons lecture series (lunch by reservation only)
(contact zacher.1@osu.edu)

April 27
11:30 AM
Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Seminar on Literacy Studies
(contact dicuirci.2@osu.edu)

May 3
4:00 PM
”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 25
11:30 AM
Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Seminar on Literacy Studies
(contact dicuirci.2@osu.edu)

Date TBA
11:30 AM
“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)

Upcoming Events


April 4
Time TBA
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 dicuirci.2@osu.edu)

April 6
3:30 PM
046 Hagerty Hall
5:30 PM reception
Knight House
“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 11
Time TBA
Frank Espinosa, comic book author
Co-sponsored with Cartoon Research Library, Project Narrative
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 Composing"
Cynthia Selfe, English
Horizons lecture series (lunch by reservation only)
(contact zacher.1@osu.edu)

April 27
11:30 AM
Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Seminar on Literacy Studies
(contact dicuirci.2@osu.edu)

May 3
4:00 PM
”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 25
11:30 AM
Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Seminar on Literacy Studies
(contact dicuirci.2@osu.edu)

Date TBA
11:30 AM
“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)