Archive for March, 2015

The Department of History announces a special offering of HIST 3070: Famous Trials in American History in Fall 2015. The course will explore some of our nation’s most significant and fascinating legal cases and trials that captured the nation when they occurred. It will be taught by Justice Marc Kantrowitz, a […]

The Center for Law, Justice & Culture offers a special team-taught interdisciplinary seminar course for the Making & Breaking the Law theme in Fall 2016. CAS 2500: Breaking the Law focuses on law and justice in relation to citizenship, global affairs, human rights, public health, and science and technology. It also […]

Tornadoes, hurricanes, and long-range weather forecasting are on the agenda at Ohio University’s sixth annual Meteorological Symposium on Saturday, March 21, from noon to 5 p.m. in Walter 235. The speakers are from the Weather Channel, AccuWeather, FEMA, the National Weather Service and more. This event is free and open […]

The new Transcultural Encounters and Border Crossings Film Series presents Alex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer (2009) on Saturday, March 21, at 3 p.m. at the Athena Cinema. Admission is free. In Sleep Dealer, when Memo Cruz’s family is victim of a drone attack he finds himself with no option but to head […]

The Sustainability Studies theme offers the Introduction to Sustainability course (CAS 1415) in Fall 2015. The team-taught course is offered Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 11:50 a.m. in Bentley 210. CAS 1415 is open to all Ohio University undergraduate students. CAS 1415 is the foundational course for the Sustainability Studies […]

The Department of Geography Colloquium Series presents Dr. Chris Post on “(Dis)Regarding Violence and Difference in the Commemorative Landscape” on Friday, March 20, at noon in Clippinger Labs 119. Post is an Associate Professor of Geography at Kent State University. Abstract: Landscapes reveal much about the people who inhabit them […]

Ohio University Lectures in the History and Philosophy of Science series presents Clark Glymour on “The Causal Revolution, Observational Science and Big Data” Friday, March 20, at 4 p.m. in Scripps Hall, 111. The lecture series is presented by the Philosophy Department and the Spetnagel Fund. Glymour is Alumni University […]