Wednesday, March 7, 2012 @ 6:30 pm (SEL 090/070)

Science Cafe will review “Some Mathematics in Old Babylonian Times.” Some of the same mathematical topics that we teach today were also taught to students in Mesopotamian some 4,000 years ago. The way that these topics were understood and taught was very different from today’s practices. Traces of these older approaches are found in clay tablets from Mesopotamia: student worksheets, teachers’ problem sheets, tables of information, and teachers’ manuals. The presentation will review examples of mathematics in these ancient manuscripts and consider how some of these approaches might be useful today. The presenter is Eric Conrad, of the OSU department of Mathematics.

Source:  http://www.math.ubc.ca/~cass/courses/m446-03/pl322/322.jpg

The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum  of the Ohio State University Libraries will present a four-part reading and discussion series, “Immigration in Comics,” beginning in January 2012 in conjunction with the campus-wide conversation on immigration.

The series will be facilitated by Dr. Jared Gardner of the Ohio State Department of English.  The discussions will take place in the Mortar Board Centennial Suite of the Thompson Library, 1858 Neil Avenue, Mondays from 7 – 8:30 p.m.

The schedule is as follows:

•      January 9: Four Immigrants Manga: A Japanese Experience in San Francisco, 1904-1924 by Henry (Yoshitaka) Kiyama

•       January 23: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

•       February 6: American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang

•       February 20: The Girl from H.O.P.P.E.R.S. (Love and Rockets Library, Locas Book 2) by Jaime Hernandez.

Copies of the books are available through Amazon.com, at the Columbus Metropolitan Library, and on reserve at the OSU Thompson Library.

Advance registration is required for the free reading and discussion series, which is open to interested OSU students, faculty and staff and adults in the community.  Space is limited.  To register, email Nancy Courtney at courtney.24@osu.edu or phone 614-688-8771.  Please include your name, phone number, and email address if available.

The “Immigration in Comics” series is one of several programs pertaining to the immigration issue being offered by The Ohio State University.  The Innovation Group for the OSU Center for Ethics and Human Values is leading a year-long “conversation” on immigration during the 2011-12 academic year. The conversation is involving all sectors of the University in a meaningful, productive discussion of the complex, controversial issues associated with migration and immigration.

Monday, May 9, 2011 @ 4:00-5:30 pm (Thompson Library Rm 165)

Presented by OSUL and the Department of English presenters will be Professors H. Lewis Ulman, Scott Lloyd DeWitt, and Cynthia L. Selfe and graduate students Genevieve Critel and Julia Voss, all from the Department of English.

The project poses challenges faced by many digitized humanities projects seeking new online models and venues for scholarship, both for authors and editors.

Saturday, May 7, 2011

Ohioana Book Festival: Ohioana, OSU Libraries, the Ohio Arts Council, the State Library of Ohio, WOSU Public Media, and a host of other sponsors will present  a day-long festival at the Fort Hayes Metropolitan Education Center celebrating Ohio’s authors and their recently published works. The festival brings together writers and readers, and encourages reading and the creative process.

Wednesday, April 27, 2011 @ 4:00-5:30 pm (Thompson Library, Rm 165)

Presented  by Dr. Peter Mansoor, Colonel, U.S. Army (Retired), and the General Raymond E. Mason, Jr. Chair of Military History at the Ohio State University.

Dr. Mansoor has had a 26 year career in the U.S. Army that culminated in his service as the executive officer to General David Petraeus, the Commanding General of Multi-National Force-Iraq.

Wednesday, May 4 @ 6:30 pm – SEL 090/070 (Basement)

Dr. Glen Needham OSU Extension Entomologist in the Center for Life Science Education, will update you on the most current distribution of the tick and how to differentiate it from the more common American dog tick, which can transmit Rocky Mt. spotted fever. He will also go over disease symptoms in people and dogs, offer tips on prevention and demonstrate how to properly remove an attached tick.

Wednesday, April 13, 2011 @ 4:00-5:30 pm (Thompson Library Rm 165)

Daniel J. Watkins will talk about  Isaac-Joseph Berruyer’s Histoire du peuple de Dieu and the Problems of Biblical Translation in Eighteenth-Century France.

Wednesday, April 6, 2011 @ 6:30 pm (SEL 090/070)

Anna Willow, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, OSU Marion will present “Environmental Justice: Redefining Environmentalism?” Environmental Justice (EJ) is simultaneously an environmental and a social movement. Far from the distant wilderness areas and endangered species that have frequently preoccupied mainstream environmentalists, EJ activists redefine “the environment” as the places we all live, work, and play. This evening’s talk will overview the history, main principles, and unifying goals of this emerging movement. Dr. Willow will describe her experiences as a cultural anthropologist working with indigenous anti-clearcutting activists in Northwestern Ontario. She will introduce and encourage stories about environmental justice issues that have arisen much closer to home.

Thursday, March 10, 2011, 12:00 pm, 165 Thompson Library “What Makes Life Worth Living:  Lessons from Positive Psychology” will be presented by Professors Nansook Park & Christopher Peterson both from the University of Michigan.

Presented by the OSU Libraries & the Center for Ethics and Human Values.

Wednesday, April 6, 2011 @ 6:30 pm (SEL 090/070)

Anna Willow, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, OSU Marion will present “Environmental Justice: Redefining Environmentalism?” Environmental Justice (EJ) is simultaneously an environmental and a social movement. Far from the distant wilderness areas and endangered species that have frequently preoccupied mainstream environmentalists, EJ activists redefine “the environment” as the places we all live, work, and play. This evening’s talk will overview the history, main principles, and unifying goals of this emerging movement. Dr. Willow will describe her experiences as a cultural anthropologist working with indigenous anti-clearcutting activists in Northwestern Ontario. She will introduce and encourage stories about environmental justice issues that have arisen much closer to home.