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Dr. Loren Lybarger will lecture on “Islam & the Arab Uprisings” on Thursday, March 7, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the Kennedy Museum. Lybarger, Associate Professor of Classics and World Religion and Director of Islamic Studies, will survey the different types of religious movements and politics that manifested during and […]

The Kennedy Museum of Art at Ohio University showcases the art exhibit The Absence of the Syrian Artist from Feb. 4 through March 10 at the Kennedy Museum. The exhibition features the work of several Syrian artists who lived through part of the Syrian crisis and currently reside outside of Syria […]

Dr. Ilana Feldman will lecture on the “Humanitarian Predicaments & Palestinian Refugee Politics” on Friday, March 22, at 7 p.m. at the Baker Theater. Feldman, Professor of Anthropology, History, and International Affairs at George Washington University, will give the keynote lecture at the 2019 Ohio University History Graduate Conference. She is […]

The History Graduate Student Association hosts the 14th Annual History Graduate Student Conference at Ohio University on March 22-23. The program combines a keynote lecture with a series of panel presentations that showcase some of the cutting-edge, in-progress historical work of graduate students in a variety of discipline from multiple […]

Science Café presents Dr. Jacqueline Wolf discussing “A High Cesarean Rate and a Low Breastfeeding Rate: How Did We Get Here?”on Wednesday, March 27, at 5 p.m. in the Front Room at Baker University Center. In the 1970s, women celebrated “natural” childbirth. Yet by 2009, cesarean section was the most commonly […]

As part of its efforts to compliment in-class education and serve as a resource to the Ohio University community, the History Department is pleased to present the following events during the Spring 2019 term. All events are free and open to the public. Film Screening: The Judge Tuesday, Feb. 5 […]

The Contemporary History Institute presents a stage reading of the play Ajax, a 2,000-year-old Greek tragedy that reveals the timelessness of the veteran experience, on Feb. 2 from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Athena Cinema. The performance of Sophocles’ Greek tragedy from the 5th century BC using a translation […]