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Past Events 2008-09(most recent to oldest)

June 5, 2009
"Audiencing Research" Round-table discussion
Time: 2:00 pm Location: 4012 Smith Laboratory
Qualitative Inquiry Working Group
(Contact mailto:stout.127@osu.edu)
May 29, 2009
Diversity Enhancement Program Research Working Group
Time: 3:30 pm Location: Knight House
Diversity Enhancement Program Research Working Group
(contact allen.559@osu.edu)
"Career Opportunities in Literacy Studies"
Time: 11:30 am Location: Knight House
Karin Hooks. English
Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Seminar on Literacy Studies
(contact casey.169@osu.edu)
May 28, 2009
Religious Studies Roundtable
Time: 6:00 pm Location: Knight House
(contact trimble.38@osu.edu)
May 19, 2009
Discussion of Vinay Gidwani, Capital, Interrupted, chapter 3, 'Machine'
Time: 4:00 pm
Local Worlds Working Group
(contact: wainwright.11@osu.edu)
May 15, 2009
Diversity Enhancement Program Research Working Group
Time: 3:30 pm Location: Knight House
(contact allen.559@osu.edu)
"The Shattered Carrack: Voice and Submersion in Early Modern Portugal"
Time: 12:00 pm Location: George Wells Knight House, 104 E. 15th
Josiah Blackmore, Spanish and Portuguese
University of Toronto
Lusophone working group (contact pereira.37@osu.edu)
May 14, 2009
"Can Critical Literacy Change the World?"
Time: 4:30 pm Location: Knight House
Ira Shor, City University of New York
Literacy Studies at OSU
(contact graff.40@osu.edu)
May 9, 2009
2009 Ohioana Book Festival
Time: 10:00 am Location: State Library of Ohio, 274 East First Ave
May 4, 2009
'The Transitions of Place: A Longitudinal Study of Transnationalism in the Ecuadorian Andes'
Time: 4:00 pm Location: Knight House
Brad Jokisch, Geography
Ohio University
Migration, Transnationalism, and Border Politics Working Group
(contact cohen.319@osu.edu)
May 2, 2009
Greek and Latin Graduate Student Colloquium
Time: 8:00 am Location: Knight House
(contact teitel-paule.1@osu.edu)
May 1, 2009
Déjà vu All Over Again: Qualitative Research in The Shifting Federal Scene
Time: 2:00 pm Location: Rm 4012 Smith Lab
Patti Lather, Education and Human Ecology
Qualitative Inquiry Working Group
(contact stout.127@osu.edu)
April 30, 2009
Religious Studies Roundtable
Time: 6:00 pm Location: Knight House
Contact trimble.38@osu.edu
April 28, 2009
Discussion of Sangtin Writers and Richa Nagar, : Playing with Fire: Feminist Thought and Activism Through Seven Lives in India
Time: 4:00 pm
Local Worlds Working Group
(contact wainwright.11@osu.edu)
April 27, 2009
Walkscape OSU: A Project with Legs
Time: 12:00 am
Co-sponsored with the Arts Initiative
One Creative University
(contact: livingston.28@osu.edu)
April 24, 2009
Spanish and Portuguese Graduate Student Conference
Time: 6:30 pm Location: Knight House
(contact armstrong.336@osu.edu)
Discussion of the works of Ira Shor
Time: 11:30 am Location: Knight House
Led by Audra Slocum, Teaching & Learning
Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Seminar on Literacy Studies
(contact casey.169@osu.edu)
April 23, 2009
Going Public: Introduction to PAGE (Publicly Active Graduate Education): fellowship opportunities for 2009 Imagining America Conferene in New Orleans
Time: 4:30 pm

Contact: Rick Livingston at livingston.28@osu.edu
'Abroad at Home: Racialized Belonging of Transnational Okinawan-Bolivians in Colonia Okinawa, Bolivia'
Time: 4:00 am Location: Knight House
Taku Suzuki, International Studies
Denison University
Migration, Transnationalism, and Border Politics Working Group
(contact cohen.319@osu.edu)
April 22, 2009
Writing the Self, Writing the Other: Author and Audience in Popular Disability Narrative panel presentation
Time: 3:00 pm Location: Knight House
"Words and Worlds in Disability Studies and Narrative Theory" by Nicholas Hetrick, English
"Empathy, Rhetoric, and Bodily Displacement in Parent Narratives of Autism" by Melanie Yergeau, English
"Gender, Authority, and Audience in Bipolar Life Writing" by Krista Paradiso, Comparative Studies
Project Narrative
(contact phelan.1@osu.edu)
April 17, 2009
"Educating Our Indians in Our America: Anti-Imperialist Imperialism and the Construction of Brazilian Modernity"
Time: 3:30 pm Location: 255 Hagerty Hall
Tracy Devine Guzman, Latin American Cultural Studies and Literature
University of Miami
Co-sponsored with the Center for Latin American Studies
Lusoglobe Working Group
(contact gordon.367@osu.edu)
'A Genealogy of Homo-Economicus: Foucault, Neoliberalism, and the Production of Subjectivity' Foucault Studies 6 (February 2009): 25-36
Time: 11:30 am Location: 451 Hagerty Hall
Seminar and open discussion
Jason Read, Philosophy
University of Southern Maine
Respondents: Gene Holland, Comparative Studies and Shannon Winnubst, Women's Studies
Cultural Difference and Democracy Working Group
(contact armstrong.202@osu.edu)
April 16, 2009
'The Production of Subjectivity: From Transindividuality to the Commons'
Time: 5:30 pm Location: Knight House
Jason Read, Philosophy
University of Southern Maine
Cultural Difference and Democracy Working Group
(contact armstrong.202@osu.edu)
April 13, 2009
'Peruvian Women’s Emigration: Changes in Family Structures and Gender Roles'
Time: 3:30 pm Location: Knight House
Juan Ulises Zevallos-Aguilar, Spanish and Portuguese
Migration, Transnationalism, and Border Politics Working Group
(contact cohen.319@osu.edu)
April 11, 2009
"Midwestern Consortium on Ancient Religions"
Time: 9:00 am Location: Knight House
(contact graf.65@osu.edu)
April 10, 2009
Diversity Enhancement Program Research Working Group
Time: 3:30 pm Location: Knight House
(contact allen.559@osu.edu)
April 4, 2009
Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) Conference reception
Time: 6:30 pm Location: Knight House
Contact roberts.21@osu.edu
April 3, 2009
Expanding Literacy Studies
Time: 12:30 pm Location: various locations
An International, Interdisciplinary Conference for Graduate Students
Literacy Studies at OSU
Co-sponsored with various University departments and colleges
(contact graff.40@osu.edu)
"Ugly Democracy" Seminar
Time: 9:30 am Location: Knight House
Dana Nelson, English and American Studies Vanderbilt University
With Rebecca Wanzo, Women's Studies and English
Cultural Difference and Democracy Working Group
(contact shank.46@osu.edu)
April 2, 2009
Joint Talk: "Bad for Democracy: How the Presidency Undermines the Power of the People"
Time: 4:30 pm Location: Knight House
Dana Nelson, English and American Studies, Vanderbilt University and "Madison's Nightmare: How Executive Power Threatens American Democracy"
Peter Shane, Moritz College of Law
Cultural Difference and Democracy Working Group
(contact shank.46@osu.edu)
March 31, 2009
"The Prophetic Power of The Birds"
Time: 4:00 pm
John Hellmann, English, OSU-Lima
With a response by Linda Mizejewski, Women’s Studies
Project Narrative
March 30, 2009
Rebels with Causes: Portuguese Cinema since the 60's
Time: 4:00 pm Location: Knight House
Paulo Monteiro, Drama, Cinema, and Fiction
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Lusoglobe Working Group
(contact pereira.37@osu.edu)
March 20, 2009
Diversity Enhancement Program Research Working Group
Time: 3:30 pm Location: Knight House
(contact allen.559@osu.edu)
March 15, 2009
Journeys in the Afterlife
Time: 2:00 pm Location: Columbus Museum of Art
Sarah Johnston, Greek and Latin
In conjunction with the "To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures from the Brooklyn Museum" exhibition
The Big Picture lecture series
Contact zacher.1@osu.edu
March 9, 2009
"Decolonizing Development: Colonial Power and the Maya by Joel Wainwright"
Time: 12:00 am Location: Knight House

Contact: Morgan Liu at liu.737@osu.edu
a book discussion led by Mytheli Sreenivas, History and Marc Auerbach, Geography
March 6, 2009
Workshop: The Form of Value in Global Traditions
Time: 10:00 am Location: Knight House
A collaboration with the Program in Folklore, UC-Berkeley
Co-sponsored with the Center for Folklore Studies
Contact noyes.10@osu.edu
February 28, 2009
Modern Greek Executive Board meeting
Time: 9:00 am Location: Knight House
Contact jusdanis.1@osu.edu
February 27, 2009
Expanding Literacy Studies Conference Prequel
Time: 11:30 am Location: Knight House
Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Seminar on Literacy Studies
Contact casey.169@osu.edu
February 26, 2009
Religious Studies Roundtable
Time: 6:00 pm Location: Knight House
Contact trimble.38@osu.edu
"Digital Storytelling: Giving Purpose to Pixels"
Time: 4:00 pm Location: Knight House
Joe Lambert Center for Digital Storytelling, Berkley
Project Narrative
Contact phelan.1@osu.edu
February 23, 2009
Migration, Transnationalism, and Border Politics Working Group
Time: 4:00 pm Location: Knight House
Contact cohen.319@osu.edu
February 21, 2009
Religious Studies Roundtable
Time: 9:00 am Location: Knight House
Contact trimble.38@osu.edu
February 20, 2009
Mirrors and Compasses: An 85th Birthday Symposium for Erika Bourguignon
Time: 9:00 am Location: Mershon Center
Co-sponsored with the Center for Folklore Studies, the Center for the Study of Religion, The Melton Center for Jewish Studies, the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, and the Department of Anthropology
Contact noyes.10@osu.edu
February 13, 2009
Diversity Enhancement Program Research Working Group
Time: 3:30 pm Location: Knight House
Contact allen.559@osu.edu
February 12, 2009
"Musical Experience and Private Language"
Time: 4:30 pm Location: Knight House
Nick Zangwill, Philosophy
Durham University, England
sponsored with the Departments of Philosophy, Art, and History of Art, and the School of Music
Contact hubin.1@osu.edu
February 6, 2009
Seminar on the Phenomenology of Democratic Life
Time: 9:30 am Location: Knight House
with Noelle McAfee, Philosophy, George Mason University
Cultural Difference and Democracy Working Group
Contact shank.46@osu.edu
February 5, 2009
"Terror, Trauma, and Democracy"
Time: 4:30 pm Location: Knight House
Noelle McAfee, Philosophy, George Mason University
Noëlle McAfee is a visiting associate professor of philosophy at George Mason University. She is the author of Habermas, Kristeva, and Citizenship (Cornell University Press, 2000); Julia Kristeva (Routledge, 2004); and the forthcoming Democracy and the Political Unconscious (Columbia University Press). She co-edited, with James Veninga, Standing with the Public: the Humanities and Democratic Practice (Kettering Foundation Press)
Cultural Difference and Democracy Working Group
Contact shank.46@osu.edu
January 29, 2009
The Word and the World: The Cultural Politics of Literacy in Brazil
Time: 4:00 pm Location: Knight House
Lesley Bartlett, Teachers College, Columbia University
Literacy Studies at OSU
Contact graff.40@osu.edu
January 28, 2009
"Aesthetic Formalism"
Time: 4:30 pm Location: Knight House
Nick Zangwill, Philosophy
Durham University, England
sponsored with the Departments of Philosophy, Art, and History of Art, and the School of Music
Contact hubin.1@osu.edu
January 23, 2009
Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Seminar on Literacy Studies
Time: 11:30 am Location:
Discussion of works by Lesley Bartlett
(contact casey.169@osu.edu)
January 22, 2009
Religious Studies Roundtable
Time: 6:00 pm Location: Knight House
Contact trimble.38@osu.edu
"Thinking Africa in the Neoliberal World Order with James Ferguson's Global Shadows"
Time: 4:00 pm Location: Knight House

Contact: Morgan Liu at liu.737@osu.edu
Discussion led by Rohit Negi, Geography
Local Worlds Working Group
January 15, 2009
Comparative Studies Student Conference
Time: 7:30 pm Location: Knight House
Contact gregg.86@osu.edu
November 21, 2008
Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Seminar on Literacy Studies
Time: 11:30 am Location: Knight House
casey.169@osu.edu
November 16, 2008
Objects of Wonder: the Art and Science of Collecting
Time: 2:00 pm Location: Columbus Museum of Art
Panel discussion: Thomas Minnick, Special Assistant to the Vice Provost for Minority Affairs, moderator; Erika Bourguignon, OSU Professor Emeritus, Anthropology; Dale Gnidovec, Curator, Orton Geological Museum
Big Picture lecture series in conjunction with the Objects of Wonder from The Ohio State University exhibition
Contact: Elizabeth Lantz at lantz.38@osu.edu
November 13, 2008
Parallels and Nonparallels between Music and Language
Time: 12:00 am
location: tba
Ray Jackendoff, Philosophy and Cognition, Tufts University
Music as a Biological Imperative Working Group
Contact fisher.14@osu.edu
November 12, 2008
Adam Smith in Beijing: reading Arrighi on multi-centric capitalism
Time: 4:30 pm Location: Knight House
Joel Wainwright, Geography
Local Worlds Working Group
Contact liu.737@osu.edu
November 10, 2008
The Costs of Transnational Migration
Time: 3:30 pm Location: Knight House
Jeffrey Cohen, Anthropology
Migration, Transnationalism, and Border Politics Working Group
Contact cohen.319@osu.edu
November 5, 2008
Why the Humanities Matter
Time: 3:00 pm Location: 311 Denney Hall
Jonathan Gottschall, Washington and Jefferson College
Narrative and Cognition Working Group
Contact aldama.1@osu.edu
November 4, 2008
New Literacy Studies
Time: 4:00 pm Location: Knight House
"Health Literacies" Sandy Cornett (Health Sciences); "Scientific Literacies" Susan Fisher (Biological Sciences); "Visual Literacies" Carol Gill (Design); "Spatial Literacies" Kay Bea Jones (Architecture)
Literacy Studies at OSU
Contact graff.40@osu.edu
October 31, 2008
Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Seminar on Literacy Studies
Time: 11:30 am Location: Knight House
Contact casey.169@osu.edu
October 30, 2008
Religious Studies Roundtable
Time: 6:00 pm Location: Knight House
Contact trimble.38@osu.edu
October 26, 2008
The Kindness of Friends: Philanthropy at the Ohio State University Libraries
Time: 2:00 pm Location: Columbus Museum of Art
Geoffrey Smith, University Libraries
Big Picture lecture series in conjunction with the Objects of Wonder from The Ohio State University exhibition
Contact: Elizabeth Lantz at lantz.38@osu.edu
October 20, 2008
Basketball, Indigeneity, and the Contestation of Modernity: Mexican Migrants in Southern California
Time: 3:30 pm Location: Knight House
Bernardo Rios, Anthropology
Migration, Transnationalism, and Border Politics Working Group
Contact cohen.319@osu.edu
October 18, 2008
Sixth Graduate Colloquium on Slavic Linguistics
Time: 9:00 am Location: Knight House
Contact curtis.199@osu.edu
October 16, 2008
What Can Walter Benjamin's ‘Work of Art in the Age of Technical Reproducibility’ Teach Us about Literacy as a Labyrinthine and Protean Concept?
Time: 4:00 pm Location: Knight House
Jerry Zaslove, Simon Fraser University
Literacy Studies at OSU
Contact graff.40@osu.edu
October 12, 2008
Contemporary Collecting from Local to Global
Time: 2:00 pm Location: Columbus Museum of Art
Ron Pizzuti, art collector, Chairman and CEO of The Pizzuti Companies
Big Picture lecture series in conjunction with the Objects of Wonder from The Ohio State University exhibition.
Contact: Elizabeth Lantz at lantz.38@osu.edu
October 6, 2008
Silk Road City of Exchange: Idioms of Societal Transformation in Urban Place
Time: 4:00 pm Location: Knight House
Morgan Y. Liu, Near Eastern Languages & Cultures
Local Worlds Working Group
Contact: Morgan Liu at liu.737@osu.edu
September 26, 2008
Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Seminar on Literacy Studies
Time: 11:30 pm Location: Knight House
Contact casey.169@osu.edu
September 25, 2008
Executive Committee meeting
Time: 11:30 am Location: Knight House
Contact hanson.94@osu.edu