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Chair Barry Shank Speaks on "The Mood of a Democracy Looking at Itself"
Professor and Chair Barry Shank will be speaking to the annual meeting of the Bayerisch-Amerika-Akademie (Bavarian American Academy) on "The Mood of a Democracy Looking at Itself."
Chair Barry Shank to Deliver Keynote Address
Professor and Chair Barry Shank will be delivering the keynote address for the Unpopular Culture conference co-hosted by Amerika-Institut of Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich and Bayerisch-Amerika…
Graduate Student Damon Berry Guest Hosts FLC Yiddish Radio Program
On October 9th, PhD Candidate Damon Berry appeared as a guest on an OSU Yiddish radio program broadcast via the web. Damon reports, "My appearance was on October 9th on the topic of 'Yinglish' music…
Hugh Urban Awarded The Rodica C. Botoman Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching and Mentoring in Humanities
Professor Hugh Urban was awarded The Rodica C. Botoman Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching and Mentoring in Humanities this week for his outstanding investment in undergraduate education…
Comparison as Method series hosts Maria Cotera
As part of the "Comparison as Method" workshop series Professor Maria Cotera (U Michigan, Ann Arbor) will speak on "'Between the Lines': Comparison and the Poetics of Difference" on Monday, October…
MALCS 2013 Summer Institute ¡Aquí Estamos! / We Are Here!: Movements, Migrations, Pilgrimage and Belonging
OSU hosted the annual gathering of MALCS: Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social (Women Active in Letters and Social Change), an organization of Chicanas, Latinas and Native American women, trans…
Marxist Literary Group Summer Institute on Culture and Society
Marxist Literary Group Summer Institute on Culture and Society: This year's special topic was "Representation, Marxism and the Global Spaces of Politics." The Keynote Speakers were Michael Hardt and…
Annual Department Awards
Marilyn R. Waldman Award for best essay by an undergraduate : Tamira Stephens, “Media Discourse and the Shroud of Turin,” in Comp St 651, Mike McVicar Honorable Mention: Jordan Kelsey, “Altering…
Presidential Fellowship Award
Brian Murphy, Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Studies, has been awarded the Presidential Fellowship for 2013-14.