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Sasaki Associates


When: February 10, 2010 - 3:45 pm
Where: Y-Boutique 1572 N. High St.
The Neighborhood Institute working group

Discussion of University’s long-range master planning process
(contact conn.23@osu.edu)

Upcoming Events

February 11, 2010
"The Best Movies You've Never Seen"
4:00 pm -- Wexner Center Film/Video Theater
Discussion with film clips hosted by Humanities Institute Associate Fred Andrle with David Filipi, Wexner Center Film and Video Curator Co-sponsored with the Wexner Center. The second in the series Conversations in the Humanities, with Fred Andrle. (contact lantz.38@osu.edu)
Religious Studies Roundtable
6:00 pm
Contact wiles-op.1@osu.edu
February 12, 2010
Youth and Social Media
time tba -- Moritz College of Law
A Symposium sponsored by I/S:A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society, Moritz College of Law, The Justice for Children Project, The Center for Interdisciplinary Law and Policy Studies, and LiteracyStudies@OSU. For more information, contact, contact Peter Shane at shane.29@osu.edu.
History of the Book Reading and Discussion Group
3:30 pm -- 311 Denney Hall, 164 W. 17th Av
Daniel Hobbins will discuss an essay from his recent research on authorial colophons, "The Authorial Colophon: Its History and Meaning"
February 18, 2010
David Scobey, Director of the Harward Center at Bates College Neighborhood
The Neighborhood Institute working group
time tba
February 24, 2010
"Lost Allusions: Machado de Assis in an International Context"
Michael Wood, English and Comparative Studies
Princeton University
Lusoglobe working group
12:00 pm
February 25, 2010
Invited Speaker: Megan Sweeney (University of Michigan)
4:00 pm -- ICRPH Knight House, 104 E. 15th Av
"The Underground Book Railroad: Women Prisoners and the Art of Reading." Co-sponsored with Women's Studies.
Religious Studies Roundtable
6:00 pm
Contact wiles-op.1@osu.edu
February 26, 2010
Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Seminar in Literacy Studies
Women's Literacies
11:30 am -- ICRPH Knight House, 104 E. 15th Av
Activism, Ethics, and Performance in Qualitative Research
Soyini Madison, Performance Studies, Northwestern University
Qualitative Inquiry working group
2:00 pm -- 010 Page Hall
"The Nineteenth-Century Novel in Latin America: Toward a Public Sphere?"
Fernqando Unzueta, Spanish and Portuguese
The Public Sphere and Modern Social Imaginaries working group
2:30 pm
History of the Book Reading and Discussion Group
3:30 pm -- 311 Denney Hall, 164 W. 17th Av
David Staley will lead a discussion and exercise on the future of the book.
March 3, 2010
“Focalization and Character Narration in German Narrative”
Katra Byram, Ohio State University
4:00 pm
Silke Horstkotte,Universität Leipzig / University of Newfoundland
Project Narrative
(contact phelan.1@osu.edu)
March 4, 2010 - March 5, 2010
"Human Rights: Confronting Images and Testimonies" Conference
time tba -- Mershon Center
March 7, 2010
"Telescopes: Capturing Light with Glass"
2:00 pm -- Columbus Museum of Art
Barbara Ryden, Astronomy Big Picture lecture series in conjunction with the Chihuly Illuminated exhibition (contact lantz.38@osu.edu)
March 8, 2010
Reading Escobar's Territories of Difference
4:30 pm
Discussion led by Ignacio Corona, Spanish and Portuguese, and Ulises Zevallos, Spanish and Portuguese
Local Worlds Working Group
(contact liu.737@osu.edu)
March 9, 2010
"Do Museums Still Need Objects?"
4:30 pm -- Wexner Film/Video Theatre
Roundtable moderated by Institute Associate Fred Andrle with
Steve Conn, History, Director of Public History Program
Co-sponsored with the Wexner Center
Conversations in the Humanities with Fred Andrle
(contact lantz.28@osu.edu)
April 1, 2010
Corbett Lecture: John Duffy (University of Notre Dame)
3:30 pm -- 311 Denney Hall, 164 W. 17th Av
Co-sponsored with Disability Studies and Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy Studies,
Department of English.
April 7, 2010
"From North Korea to Iran to Al Qaeda: Is America Exaggerating the Nuclear Threat?"
7:00 pm -- Old Worthington Library, 820 N. High St.
Institute Associate Fred Andrle
Conversations in the Humanities with Fred Andrle
Co-sponsored with Worthington Libraries
(contact lantz.38@osu.edu)
April 9, 2010
"Brotherhood as a Social Metaphor"
Susanne Luedemann, Germanic Studies, University of Chicago
The Public Sphere and Modern Social Imaginaries working group
2:30 pm
April 11, 2010
"Secrets of Glass"
2:00 pm -- Columbus Museum of Art
Charles Drummond, Engineering
In conjunction with the Chihuly Illuminated exhibition
Big Picture lecture series
April 17, 2010
Greek and Latin Graduate Student Colloquium
8:00 am -- Knight House
(contact: Wayne Lovely at lovely.9@osu.edu)
April 22, 2010
Chris Lukinbeal, Geography, Arizona State University
"Geographic Theories of Landscape and Their Role in the Public Sphere and Modern Social Imaginaries"
The Public Sphere and Modern Social Imaginaries working group
12:30 pm -- Knight House
April 23, 2010
"The Future of Qualitative Research"
Yvonne S. Lincoln, Higher Education and Educational Administration, Texas A&M
Qualitative Inquiry working group
2:00 pm -- 4012 Smith Lab
April 30, 2010
Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Seminar in Literacy Studies
Indigenous Literacies
11:30 am -- ICRPH Knight House, 104 E. 15th Av
May 1, 2010 - May 2, 2010
The Teaching of Modern Greek Literature
time tba
Contact jusdanis.1@osu.edu
May 6, 2010
LiteracyStudies@OSU Spring Lecture
Teresa McCarty (Arizona State University)
4:00 pm -- ICRPH Knight House, 104 E. 15th Av
Language Pedagogy and Politics in Indigenous America - Miner's Canary or Mariner's Tern?
"Language Pedagogy and Politics in Indigenous America - Miner's Canary or Mariner's Tern?"
4:00 pm -- Knight House
Teresa McCarty, Education and Linguistics, Arizona State
Literacy Studies at OSU
contact graff.40@osu.edu
May 7, 2010
"A Grounded Theory-like Approach to Theory Development on Urban Youth Violence"
Deanna Wilkinson, Human Development and Family Science
Qualitative Inquiry working group
2:00 pm -- 4012 Smith Lab
Kam Shapiro, Political Science, Illinois State University
"Critical Feelings and Pleasurable Association"
The Public Sphere and Modern Social Imaginaries working group
2:30 pm -- Knight House
May 14, 2010
Mike Neblo, Political Science
The Public Sphere and Modern Social Imaginaries working group
2:30 pm -- Knight House
May 20, 2010
"Counterintuitive Approaches to Videogames: Emotion, Reason, and Meaning"
Narrative and Cognition working group
time tba
May 28, 2010
Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Seminar in Literacy Studies
Visual Literacies
11:30 am -- ICRPH Knight House, 104 E. 15th Av