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A Roundtable Discussion on Banning Literary Texts by African American Authors is Thursday, Oct. 3, at 4 p.m. in the Faculty Commons, third floor of Alden Library. Recently a school board in North Carolina banned Ralph Ellison’s novel Invisible Man, concluding that the text lacked “literary value.” Invisible Man is […]

Dr. Christopher Hook of the Mayo Clinic presents a lecture on “The History of American Eugenics: Lessons for the Second Genetic Century” on Wednesday, Oct. 2, at 8 p.m. in Baker University Center Ballroom A. The end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries saw an explosion of […]

The Contemporary History Institute speaker series presents Hudson Institute Senior Fellow Seth Cropsey on the current state of America’s maritime defense strategy, “Whither American Seapower?,” on  Thursday, Oct. 3, at 4:30 p.m. in Baker Center 242. Cropsey began his career in government at the Defense Department as Assistant to the […]

The first annual Department of Environmental and Plant Biology Internship Symposium is Thursday, Oct. 3, from 6 to 8 p.m., in Porter 104. “We invite the entire department of faculty, staff, graduate and undergraduate students, but also all who might be considering becoming a PBIO major or minor and want […]

Film and Media Professor Matthew Jordan Ph.D. and Film Producer Eric Zudak—both Athens High School graduates—return to Athens and Ohio University with their one-of-a-kind touring College Town Film Festival 2013. Opening Night on Thursday, Oct. 3, at 7 p.m. at the Athena Theater on Court Street. Jordan’s father, Don, is Professor […]

The Ohio University Department of History announces the 36th Costa Lecture, “Meeting Monsters in the Streets of Restoration London,” by Dr. Mary Fissel on Tuesday, Oct. 8, at 7:30 p.m. at the Walter Hall Rotunda. Fissel is Professor in the Department of the History of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University, […]

The inaugural cohort of students in the Law, Justice & Culture Certificate program mingled with local attorneys, judges and faculty at a reception sponsored by the Center for Law, Justice & Culture on Sept. 16. “The reception was a lovely opportunity for students to have informal conversations with center faculty […]