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2021 Spring Literary Festival | March 17-19

2021 Spring Literary Festival | March 17-19

The English Department’s 2021 Spring Literary Festival is being held virtually from Wednesday, March 17, to Friday, March 19. Authors include Chris Abani, Nina Li Coomes, Ada Limón, Jason Schneiderman, and Lidia Yuknavitch. Wednesday, March 17 7:30 p.m. — A reading by Chris Abani, with a Q&A to follow. Join […]

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March 2, 2021 at 8:00 pmEvents

Science Cafe | The Brain, Body, and Biomechanics of Injury Recovery, March 17

Science Cafe | The Brain, Body, and Biomechanics of Injury Recovery, March 17

 Ohio University’s Science Café series features Dustin Grooms Steven Pfeiffer and Janet Simon discussing “The Brain, Body, and Biomechanics of Injury Recovery” on March 17 at 5 p.m. Watch on YouTube Watch on Facebook This café will give an immersive experience from the point of view of an orthopedic patient […]

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Ecolunch | Breathing Life into Ancient Sea Dragons, March 17

Donald Morgan

The Ecolunch Seminar Series presents Donald Morgan discussing “Breathing life into ancient sea dragons: Evolution of the vasculature, brain, and nasal cavity in sauropterygians and mosasaur” on Wednesday, March 17, from 11:50 a.m. to 12:40 p.m. Morgan is a Biological Sciences Ph.D. student. For more information, contact Dr. Willem Roosenburg […]

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Lit Fest | The Artistry of Chris Abani: ‘What we know about how to be who we are comes from stories,’ March 17

Chris Abani

Chris Abani reads from his work on March 17 at 7:30 p.m. as part of Spring Literary Festival. By Candace Walsh Nigerian and American writer Chris Abani chooses and uses fiction, poetry, essays, and screenplays to tell bracing stories that have earned a Guggenheim Award, a PEN USA Freedom-to-Write Award, […]

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March 2, 2021 at 8:00 pmEvents

Mathematics Colloquium | What Is Behavioral Epidemiology and What Does Math Have to Do with It? March 17

Dr. Winfried Just

The Mathematics Colloquium series presents Dr. Winfried Just discussing “What is behavioral epidemiology and what does math have to do with it?” on March 17 at 4 p.m. Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/97235712165?pwd=OHFSL2lXVnVUWU9pdUxRQlhkRG1oUT09 Meeting ID: 972 3571 2165 Passcode: 8nuxSQ Just is Professor of Mathematics at Ohio University. ABSTRACT: Behavioral epidemiology studies […]

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Lit Fest | Nina Li Coomes Brings Her Writings to OHIO, March 18

Nina Li Coomes

By Morgan Riedl Ohio University’s English Department virtually presents writer Nina Li Coomes for this year’s Spring Literary Festival at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, March 18. Coomes is a Japanese and American writer born in Nagoya and currently residing in Chicago, where she is a student at the Litowitz MFA […]

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March 2, 2021 at 7:45 pmEvents

Lit Fest | Homecoming Songs: the Poems of Ada Limón, March 18

Ada Limón

By Paul Pickering The English Department welcomes poet Ada Limón to the Spring Literary Festival to read from her work on Thursday, March 18, at 7:30 p.m. We are also delighted to follow the reading with a conversation with the poet Jason Schneiderman on Friday morning, March 19, at 10:30 a.m. […]

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March 2, 2021 at 7:45 pmEvents