Thursday, March 8
1:30-3:30 p.m.
Thompson Library, Room 150 A&B

Richard Minsky will present a methodology for self- critique, curatorial selection and criticism based on the balance of object, image and metaphor for 12 invited participants, each of whom will bring one book for discussion. This workshop is open to the general public.

Minsky has offered this workshop at all levels, from postgraduate (artists in all media with MFAs, at Southampton College in the 80′s) to specific book arts undergraduate classes (many times, places like Washington University in St. Louis), for groups of mature book artists who exhibit their work (such as San Diego Book Arts) and mixed groups of faculty, students and local artists.

The Ohio State University Libraries’ Diversity and Inclusion Committee invites you the Annual Diversity Lecture

By Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of African-American History
The Ohio State University History Department
February 21, 3:30 PM

Thompson Library, 1858 Neil Ave.
11^th floor

Forty years after the death of Malcolm X, his influence is still motivating and influencing individuals all around the world in their struggles for respect and human rights. In this lecture, History Professor Hasan Kwame Jeffries sheds some light on the life of Al-Hajj Malik Al-Shabbaz, better known as Malcolm X. His talk will include a discussion of the controversy generated by Professor Manning Marable’s book Malcolm X: A life of Reinvention and will feature audios of some of Malcolm’s most important speeches.

Monday, February 6, 2012
3:30- 5:30 p.m.
Thompson Library Room 165

Wang Ning
Respondent, Heather Inwood

Professor Wang Ning is Director of the Center for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies of the
Institute of Arts and Humanities, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Professor of English and
Comparative Literature and Director of the Center for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies,
Tsinghua University. Professor Wang’s expertise covers a wide range of theoretical issues including
Chinese and Western literary theory, post-modernism, post-colonialism, cultural studies, globalization
studies, translation studies and video communication research. His books include Globalization and
Cultural Translation (Singapore: Marshall Cavendish, 2004). Translated Modernities: Literary and
Cultural Perspectives on Globalization and China (Canada: Legas Publishing, 2010).

Heather Inwood is Assistant Professor, Department of East Asia Languages and Literature at Ohio
State University. Her research bears on the relationship between new media and contemporary
culture in China. Her current book project, “On the Scene of Contemporary Chinese Poetry,” analyzes
cultural discourse on the “live scene” (xianchang) spanning different spaces of the media, and
investigates the functioning and conceptualization of the post-2000 poetry scene in mainland China.

Co-sponsored by:

• The Institute for Chinese Studies
• Project Narrative, OSU English Department
• The Chinese Collection of The Ohio State University Libraries

The next Science Café will provide background to help understand why the search is under way and understand its importance to particle physics.  The guest speaker is Gordon Aubrecht, OSU Professor of Physics.

The program will be Wednesday, February 1, at 6:30 p.m., in the Science and Engineering Library, 175 West 18th Ave.