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Past Events 2007-08(most recent to oldest)

June 23, 2008
2008 National Endowment for the Humanities Seminar
Time: 3:00 pm Location: Knight House
Contact: Erin McCarthy at mccarthy.201@osu.edu
May 30, 2008
“Outreach and Creative Writing”
Time: 11:30 am Location: Knight House
Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Seminar on Literacy Studies
Contact: Kristin White at white.1142@osu.edu
May 29, 2008
Religious Studies Roundtable
Time: 6:30 pm Location: Knight House
Contact: rtrimble@columbus.rr.com
May 9, 2008
Lusophonia: What Language Can and Cannot Do
Time: 3:30 pm Location: 255 Hagerty Hall
Onesimo Almeida
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, Brown University
Lusophone Globalicities Working Group
Contact: Richard Gordon at gordon.397@osu.edu
May 8, 2008
“Gender, Violence, and the Christian Apocalypse”: Lee Quinby, Interdisciplinary Studies, CUNY
Time: 4:00 pm Location: Knight House
2007 Davis Lecture in Christianity Studies
Contact: Julia Watson at watson.235@osu.edu
May 5, 2008
Student Lunch and Roundtable Discussion: Davíd Carrasco, Latin American Studies, Harvard University, and Dancers of the Aztec Tradition
Time: 11:30 am Location: Knight House
Religious Studies Roundtable
Contact: Rita Trimble at trimble.38@osu.edu
May 2, 2008
Aesthetics, Politics, and Multiculturalism in Comparative Perspective
Time: 3:30 pm Location: 255 Hagerty Hall
Robert Stam, Cinema Studies
New York University
Lusophone Globalicities Working Group
(contact gordon.397@osu.edu)
May 1, 2008
“Acquiring Literacy, Acquiring Freedom: Education Among Enslaved and Freedpeople in the American South”: Heather Williams, History, African American History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Time: 4:00 pm Location: Knight House
Literacy Studies
Contact: Harvey Graff at graff.40@osu.edu
April 29, 2008
"Current Trends in Narrative Theory: International Perspectives"
Time: 4:00 pm Location: Knight House
Anniken Greve, Comparative Literature, University of Tromsø, Norway
Per Krogh Hansen, Danish Literature and Narrative Studies, University of Southern Denmark
Ellen Spolsky, English, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Richard Walsh, English and Related Literature, York University, UK
Co-sponsored with Project Narrative
Narrative and Cognition Working Group
Contact: David Herman at herman.145@osu.edu
April 28, 2008
“Spivak and Critical Regionalism”: Joel Wainwright, Geography
Time: 4:00 pm Location: Knight House
Local Worlds Working Group
Contact: Morgan Liu at liu.737@osu.edu
April 25, 2008
“Filmmaking and Society in Contemporary Angola”: Ondjaki (Ndalu de Almeida), Writer and filmmaker, Angola
Time: 3:30 pm Location: 255 Hagerty Hall
Lusophone Globalicities Working Group
Contact: Richard Gordon at gordon.397@osu.edu
“African Americans and Literacy”: Lindsay Dicuirci, English
Time: 11:30 am Location: Knight House
Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Seminar on Literacy Studies
Contact: Kristin White at white.1142@osu.edu
Open House: “Thinking Back, Looking Forward”
Time: 10:00 am Location: Knight House
Literacy Studies
Contact: hanson.92@osu.edu
Open House: "Thinking Back, Looking Forward"
Time: 10:00 am Location: Knight House
Contact: Susan Hanson (hanson.92@osu.edu)
April 19, 2008
11th Annual Symposium on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics reception
Time: 7:30 pm Location: Knight House
Department of Spanish and Portuguese graduate students
Contact: Ian Tippets at tippets.2@osu.edu or Petra Rozell at rozell.2@osu.edu
April 18, 2008
Cultural Difference and Democracy Seminar: Aihwa Ong, Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of California at Berkeley
Time: 10:00 am Location: Knight House
Cultural Difference and Democracy Working Group
Contact: Barry Shank at shank.46@osu.edu
April 17, 2008
"Languages and Literacies" panel presentation
Time: 4:00 pm Location: Knight House
moderated by Marcia Farr, Education, Fritz Graf, Greek and Latin, James Unger, East Asian Languages and Literatures, Leslie Moore, Education and Human Ecology Elaine Richardson, Education and Human Ecology
Literacy Studies
Contact: Harvey Graff at graff.40@osu.edu
“Neoliberalism as Global Form”: Aihwa Ong, Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of California at Berkeley
Time: 3:30 pm Location: 1184 Postle Hall
Cultural Difference and Democracy Working Group
Contact: Barry Shank at shank.46@osu.edu
April 11, 2008
Ethnic Studies Research and Working Group
Time: 3:30 pm Location: Knight House
Contact: Leslie Alexander at alexander.282@osu.edu
Cultural Difference and Democracy Seminar
Time: 10:00 am Location: Knight House
Cultural Difference and Democracy Working Group
Contact: Barry Shank at shank.46@osu.edu
April 10, 2008
"Deliberative Democracy and Dispute Resolution": Lawrence Susskind, Urban and Environmental Planning
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Time: 12:00 pm Location: Moritz College of Law
Cultural Difference and Democracy Working Group
Contact: Barry Shank at shank.46@osu.edu
April 7, 2008
“Tomoko Masuzawa's The Invention of World Religions” workshop: Tomoko Masuzawa, History and Comparative Literature, University of Michigan, Jeffrey Kripal, Religious Studies, Rice University
Time: 10:00 am Location: Knight House
co-sponsored with Near Eastern Languages and Cultures and the Center for the Study of Religion
Contact:Michael Swartz at swartz.69@osu.edu
April 5, 2008
Greek and Latin Colloquium
Time: 12:00 am Location: Knight House
Contact: Stephen Maiullo at maiullo.1@osu.edu
April 4, 2008
Native American Fiction: A User’s Manual discussion: David Treuer, English, University of Minnesota, with Frederick Aldama, English
Time: 3:30 pm Location: Knight House
Ethnic Studies Research and Working Group
Reception to follow 5:00-6:00 pm
Contact: Maurice Stevens at stevens.368@osu.edu
March 28, 2008
“Creating a Cross-Disciplinary Model for Collaboration”: Harvey Graff, English and History, Kelly Bradbury, English, Michael Harker, English, and Kate White, English
Time: 11:30 pm Location: Knight House
Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Seminar on Literacy Studies
Contact: Kristin White at white.1142@hotmail.com
March 27, 2008
Religious Studies Roundtable
Time: 6:30 pm Location: Knight House
Contact: rtrimble@columbus.rr.com
Two Kinds of Recognition Respect: Narrative and Truth in Human Relations": Steve Darwall, Philosophy
University of Michigan
Time: 4:00 pm Location: Knight House
Narrative and Cognition Working Group
Contact: Frederick Aldama at aldama.1@osu.edu
March 7, 2008
Compiling encyclopedias: how, why, for whom?
Time: 11:00 am to 1:00 pm Location: Knight House

Contact: Christian Zacher at zacher.1@osu.edu
March 6, 2008
"Hmong Literacy in Asia and America": John Duffy, English
University of Notre Dame
Time: 4:00 pm Location: Knight House
Literacy Studies
Contact: Harvey Graff at graff.40@osu.edu
February 29, 2008
“John Duffy Reading Discussion”: Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Seminar on Literacy Studies
Time: 11:30 am Location: Knight House
Contact: Kristin White at white.1142@osu.edu
February 28, 2008
"Image and Reality: Children and Childhood in European History": Birgitte Soland, History
Time: 7:00 pm Location: Columbus Museum of Art
in conjunction with the "Great Expectations: Aristocratic Children in European Portraiture" exhibition
Big Picture lecture series
Contact: Christian Zacher at zacher.1@osu.edu
Religion Roundtable
Time: 6:30 pm Location: Knight House
Contact: rtrimble@columbus.rr.com
February 27, 2008
"Region in Critical International Relations": Ted Hopf, Political Science
Time: 4:00 pm Location: Knight House
Local Worlds Working Group
Contact: Morgan Liu at liu.737@osu.edu
February 21, 2008
"Shipwreck Narratives and the Reinvention of Self": James V. Morrison, Classics
Centre College
Time: 4:00 pm Location: Knight House
Narrative and Cognition Working Group
Contact: Bruce Heiden at heiden.1@osu.edu
February 8, 2008
"Presentation and Dicussion of Recent Work": Pedro Costa, Filmmaker
Portugal
Time: 3:30 pm Location: 255 Hagerty Hall
Co-sponsored with the Wexner Center
Lusophone Globalicities Working Group
Contact: Richard Gordon at gordon.397@osu.edu
"Disability in Kenya: A Collaborative Initiative"
Time: 12:30 pm Location: Knight House
Roundtable discussion with Philip Armstrong, Comparative Studies, Nina Berman, Germanic Languages and Literatures, Brenda Brueggeman, English, Marian Lupo and Brian Stone, Industrial Design and Visual Communication
Contact: Rick Livingston at livingston.28@osu.edu
January 31, 2008
Religion Roundtable
Time: 6:30 pm Location: Knight House
Contact: rtrimble@columbus.rr.com
"Science Literacy" panel presentation: Susan Fisher, Biology
Time: 4:00 pm Location: Knight House
Literacy Studies
Contact: Harvey Graff at graff.40@osu.edu
January 30, 2008
"Linguistic Local Worlds: Approaches in linguistics and linguistic anthropology on region and distinction": Galey Modan, English, Mary Rose, Linguistics, and Kathryn Campbell-Kibler, Linguistics
Time: 4:00 pm Location: Knight House
Local Worlds Working Group
Contact: Morgan Liu at liu.737@osu.edu
January 27, 2008
“Edna Boies Hopkins (1872-1937): Ohio Modernist Printmaker”: Judith Sacks, affiliated scholar, American Studies, Kenyon College
Time: 2:00 pm Location: Columbus Museum of Art
In conjunction with the "Edna Boies Hopkins" exhibition
Big Picture lecture series
Contact: Christian Zacher at zacher.1@osu.edu
January 25, 2008
Ethnic Studies Research Group
Time: 3:30 pm Location: Knight House
Contact - alexander.282@osu.edu
“History of the Book:”: Beth Quitsland, Ohio University
Time: 3:30 pm Location: 168 Dulles
History of the Book reading and discussion group.
Literacy Studies
Contact: Alan Farmer at farmer.109@osu.edu
Ethnic Studies Research Group
Time: 3:30 pm Location: Knight House
"Multi-Modal/Visual Literacy": Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Seminar on Literacy Studies
Time: 11:30 am Location: Knight House
Contact: Kristin White at white.1142@osu.edu
January 24, 2008
Renaissance Dissertation Seminar
Time: 6:30 pm Location: Knight House
Contact: Alan Farmer at  farmer.109@osu.edu
January 20, 2008
Ohio Chautauqua 2008 rehearsal
Time: 10:00 am Location: Knight House

Contact: Elizabeth Lantz at lantz.38@osu.edu
January 17, 2008
Comparative Studies Graduate Conference
Time: 8:00 am Location: Knight House
Contact: Philip Armstrong at armstrong.202@osu.edu
January 10, 2008
Renaissance Dissertation Seminar
Time: 6:30 pm Location: Knight House

Contact - farmer.109@osu.edu

November 30, 2007
Publishing Literacy Studies: OSU Journals: Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Seminar on Literacy Studies
Time: 11:30 am Location: Knight House
(contact white.1142@osu.edu)
November 15, 2007
"Larger Than Life Stories: Aminah Robinson’s Water Street Journeys": Amy Shuman, English
Time: 7:00 pm Location: Columbus Museum of Art
In conjunction with the "Along Water Street: New Work by Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson" exhibition
Big Picture Lecture Series
(contact zacher.1@osu.edu)
November 9, 2007
"Satin Slippers, Vain Glories, and Talking Pictures: Manoel de Oliveira Looks at the World.": Randal Johnson, Spanish and Portuguese
Time: 3:30 pm Location: 255 Hagerty Hall
UCLA
Lusophone Globalicities Working Group
(contact gordon.397@osu.edu)
November 5, 2007
"Unreadable Minds": Porter Abbott, English
Time: 4:00 pm Location: Knight House

Co-sponsored with Project Narrative
University of California, Santa Barbara
Narrative and Cognition Working Group
(contact langendorfer.2@osu.edu)

Presented with "Social Minds" by Alan Palmer.

"Social Minds": Alan Palmer, independent scholar, London
Time: 4:00 pm Location: Knight House

Workshop on Cognitive Narratology
Co-sponsored with Project Narrative
Narrative and Cognition Working Group
(contact langendorfer.2@osu.edu)

Presented with "Unreadable Minds" by Porter Abbott.

November 2, 2007
"Building a Social World through Conversational Narrative": Joann Bromberg, independent scholar
Time: 3:30 pm Location: Knight House

Co-sponsored with Project Narrative
Narrative and Cognition Working Group
(contact herman.145@osu.edu)

November 1, 2007
Varieties of Reading Experience: Women and Literacy in Nineteenth-Century America: Barbara Sicherman, History, Women's Studies
Time: 4:00 pm Location: Knight House
American Studies
Trinity College, Hartford
Literacy Studies
(contact graff.40@osu.edu)
October 26, 2007
Reading Barbara Sicherman: Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Seminar on Literacy Studies
Time: 11:30 am Location: Knight House

(contact white.1142@osu.edu)

October 23, 2007
"Music as a Medium for the Management of Social Uncertainty": Ian Cross, Music and Science
Time: 4:00 pm Location: Faculty Club, Rooms A-D
Cambridge University
Music as a Biological Imperative Working Group
(contact fisher.14@osu.edu)
October 19, 2007
"Narrative and Ideaology after Althusser": Eugene Holland, Comparative Studies and French and Italian
Time: 4:00 pm Location: Knight House
Co-sponsored with Project Narrative.
Narrative and Cognition Working Group
(contact herman.145@osu.edu)
October 18, 2007
"Risky Representations: Seeing Ourselves/Being Seen By Others": Richelle Schrock, Women's Studies
Time: 7:00 pm Location: Columbus Museum of Art
In conjunction with the "Stories From the Somali Diaspora: Photographs by Abdi Roble" exhibition
Big Picture Lecture Series
(contact zacher.1@osu.edu)
October 16, 2007
"The Art of Books": Robert Tauber, Book Arts Specialist
Time: 4:00 pm Location: Knight House

OSU Libraries' Logan Elm Press
Literacy Studies
(contact graff.40@osu.edu)

October 9, 2007
Arts in the Brain: Herbert Lindenberger, English and Comparative Literature; Stanford University
Time: 4:30 pm Location: Knight House, 104 East 15th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43201
(contact aldama.1@osu.edu)