Post Tagged with: "Café Conversations"

Café Conversations presents Dr. Joshua Sosin on “Ancient Texts in a Modern Age: The Promise and Perils of Digital Scholarship” at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, March 9, in the Baker Center Front Room. Papyri on the Internet? It seems like a strange match of communication tools, but it could revolutionize our understanding of Roman Society […]

Café Conversation presents Dr. Brian Schoen, Associate Professor of History, discussing “The U.S. Civil War and Global Crisis: Then and Now,” on Wednesday, Feb. 24, at 5 p.m. in the Baker Center Front Room. “It’s a century in which you have millions of people moving for the first time, a […]

Café Conversation presents photographer Stan Alost on “Nobody Wants to See That: Images that Disturb and Our Freedom to Know” on Wednesday, Oct. 28, at 5 p.m.,  in the Baker Center Front Room. Alost, Ohio University professor of visual communication, talks about the ethics and politics of photojournalism, noting that […]

Watch Vedder’s Café Conversation on A&S TV. Dr. Richard Vedder, Professor Emeritus of Economics and Director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity, made his Sept. 30 presentation on Capitol Hill half an hour early so he could catch a plane back to Ohio University to talk with students […]

Café Conversation  presents Dr. Richard Vedder on “America’s Leaders: You’re Harming Our Future,” at 5 p.m. on Wed., Sept. 30, in the Baker Center Front Room. Vedder is director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity and Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University. Young Americans have accrued a […]

Café Conversation presents Dr. Katherine Jellison on “Unelected Leaders: America’s First Ladies” on Wednesday, March 11, at 5 p.m. in the Baker Front Room. Betty Ford, Michelle Obama, and Hilary Clinton—first ladies, but also powerful women. These first ladies played an important role in the political system by representing the […]

Café Conversations presents Dr. Chester Pach on “The Age of Reagan and Madonna” on Wednesday, Feb. 11, at 5 p.m. in the Baker Center Front Room. Madonna and President Reagan have little in common except for their influence on the 1980s. Pach, Associate Professor of History, discusses how these two […]