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Afghanistan: The Choices

November 9, 2009 at 5:00 pm
Saxbe Auditorium, Moritz College of Law
Should we bring our troops home, increase their number, stay the course, alter our strategy? A discussion of the way forward for the United States in Afghanistan, with a panel of leading Ohio State experts (Richard Herrmann, Peter Mansoor, John Mueller, and Alam Payind), moderated by Fred Andrle.

Co-sponsored with the Mershon Center for International Security Studies
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Working Groups

Local Worlds

Led by: Morgan Liu (Near Eastern Languages and Cultures) and Joel Wainwright (Geography)

This working group proposes to build an interdisciplinary discussion at OSU around disciplines across the humanities and social sciences that have rendered and analyzed what we refer to as the "local worlds" of human endeavor – distinct, particular forms of socio-spatial human knowledge and practice – through a variety of modes of writing, including ethnography, historiography, biography, and fiction. These local worlds are manifest in sites as diverse as everyday routines, oral narratives, official documents, images, ritual, performance, and architecture. The group will consider how to talk about and make sense of local worlds of knowledge and practice and how to think theoretically about human endeavor in a way that yields insightful, empirically-grounded scholarship on the ways of being human.
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About the Institute

Our Double Mission:
To facilitate emergent research collaborations between humanities faculty and others across the university;
To enable the humanities to act as a significant bridge from the University to the city of Columbus and the broader public culture.

The Institute seeks to be an active forum for exchange among scholars and citizens, both on and off campus, and a place where the University can think creatively about what it does.

Founded in 1997, the Institute is located just east of OSU's main campus, in the George Wells Knight House, originally the home of the first chair of History at Ohio State. ICRPH is underwritten by the College of Humanities, by an Academic Enrichment award from the Office of Academic Affairs, by generous special allocations from the Ohio General Assembly's Urban Initiative Program, and by project grants and gifts.

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