Events
Upcoming Events
Monday, January 25, 4:00 at Knight House 104 E. 15th Ave.
"Cultures of Empathy" Fritz Breithaupt, Indiana University
co-sponsored with the Department of Germanic Languages and Literature and the working group on the Public Sphere and Modern Social Imaginary
Wednesday January 27, 4:00 Denny 311
"Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Cultural History" Lennard Davis, Professor of English, University of Illinois at Chicago
Co-sponsored with the Disability Studies Program and the Nisonger Center
Thursday January 28, 3:30 Thompson Library, Room 204
A Roundtable on Early Modern Narrative: "Monstrous Crossings in Narrative Fiction/Nonfiction and the Shaping of Early Modern Culture" Frederick Aldama, Department of English
Jennifer Higginbothom, Department of English
Elizabeth Davis, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Barbara Becker-Cantarino, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
Wednesday February 3, 3:30 Denney 311
A Roundtable on Postcolonial Narrative Anita Mannur, Miami of Ohio
Akhila Ramnaryan, University of Dayton
Paramara Sarkar, University of Toledo
Respondent, Chadwick Allen, OSU Department of English
Tuesday February 23 , 3:30 in Denney 311
Work in Progress by Visting Scholars Sarah Copland, Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada Post-doctoral Fellow
Katja Mellmann, Universität Göttingen
Wednesday March 3, 4:00 Knight House, 104 E. 15th Ave.
Focalization and Character Narration in German Narrative Katra Byram, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Ohio State
Silke Horstkotte, Universität Leipzig/ University of Newfoundland
March 4-5, 2010, Wexner Center
*Human Rights Confronting Images and Testimonies Conference*
This conference begins with the question What is Evidence? Artists, activists and scholars will discuss their work in the context of human rights as it transforms the raw material of individual and collective suffering into legible and convincing data, confrontational imagery or testimony. The conference begins on Thursday March 4 at 4:00 with a presentation by the artist-activist Coco Fusco. Among the presenters on March 5 at the symposium ?Questions of Evidence? are Caroll Bogert (Associate Director Human Rights Watch); Brenda Brueggemann (Professor of English and Disability Studies, OSU), Sam Gregory (Project Director Witness), Sharon Hayes (multi-media artist), Andrew Herscher (Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan), Amy Horowitz (OSU, lecturer), Ratna Kapur (Professor and Director of the Centre for Feminist Legal Research, New Delhi, India); Hagar Kotef (Postdoctoral Fellow, Columbia University); and Leigh Payne (Professor of Sociology, Oxford University). The conference will conclude with the collaborative project Combatant Status Review Tribunals, pp. 002954?003064: A Public Reading.
Sponsors of the conference include: OSU College of Arts and Humanities, Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities, The Institute of Women, Gender, and Public Policy, Mershon Center, Departments of Art, English, Women?s Studies, Project Narrative, Sexuality Studies, Folklore, Disability Studies, OSU-WID, Multicultural Center, and Melton. For more information contact the conference organizers Wendy Hesford ( hesford.1@osu.edu), Amy Shuman (shuman.1@osu.edu), or Ann Hamilton ( ann@annhamiltonstudio.com).
