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April 2018 Events:

March 28, 2018March 28, 2018

by Tessa Jacobs at 5:47pmMarch 28, 2018

We are thrilled to welcome artist/biologist Brandon Ballengée for a residency at Ohio State, April 2nd – April 6.

Events with Brandon Ballengée:

April 3 (Tuesday): Marine Species Eco-Action and Vertebrate Specimen Preservation Workshop (contact Amy Youngs if interested in participating: youngs.6@osu.edu)

12 – 1:30 pm North Market, 2:30 – 4 pm Museum of Biodiversity

April 4 (Wednesday): Praeter Naturam: Beyond Nature Artist
Talk, 4 pm, Wexner Center for the Arts, Film/Video Theatre

April 5 (Thursday): Ohio Ecology on Tap & Crude Life Portable Museum Exhibition 6-8 pm, The Spacebar, 2590 N. High Street

April 6 (Friday): Art & Science Panel 12-2 pm, Research Commons, 18^th Avenue Library

April 13, 2018:

Public Lecture: Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, “Inventing the Holocene Norm: My Victorian Geology.” 168 Dulles Hall, April 13, 2018, 3:30 – 5:00 p.m.

February Events:

February 7, 2018February 7, 2018

by Tessa Jacobs at 1:52pmFebruary 7, 2018

February 16, 2018

The Environmental Humanities Arts and Discovery Theme is helping co-sponsor a lecture with Affrilachan Poet, Crystal Good!

Crystal Good is a member of the Affrilachian Poets, a group of writers and artists whose creations and existence combat the erasure of African American identity in the Appalachian region, an Irene McKinney Scholar, and author of Valley Girl. She is the founder and CEO of Mixxed Media, a marketing and consulting firm that teaches media and engagement strategies to mission-driven organizations. She also works as an advocate for environment, education, and economic actions like industrial hemp, and she is creating a digital commons for voters to express their concerns through her self-made position of Social Media Senator for West Virginia. Crystal Good has spoken and read her poetry in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, at the West Virginia section of the Women’s March on Washington, for the 2013 TEDx conference in Lewisburg, West Virginia, for the LouderARTS Project, for the Appalachian Mountain Advocates, and for students and scholars at several universities and colleges.

Public Performance & Talk
Friday, February 16
6:00 – 7:30pm
11th floor, 305 Thompson Library

How do artists and writers affectively and critically engage diverse audiences through creative innovation? How might we approach art and performance’s relationship with activism in our ever-digital world? How do new and emerging media forms change or enhance our relationship with artistic representations and activism? Crystal Good’s performance will include a poetry reading that explores the intersections of environmental, economic, gender, language, and racial justice, especially as they exist in the Appalachian region. Because her work is invested in the interconnections of activism, creative writing, performance, and digital media, the performance will feature a unique assemblage that explores how writing and performance activism might arise in both the digital and physical world. Following the reading, Good will host a dialogue where audience members will have an opportunity to engage the poet on her creative approaches and experiences.

Workshop with Crystal Good
Saturday, February 17

Center for Folklore Studies
12:00pm – 3:00pm

How do we make our work meaningful to diverse audiences beyond the university? How can we use artistic representations and communications to engage communities in complex ways? During this workshop, students will bring in a piece of work (anything from a budding idea to a work-in-progress) for which they would like to consider creative ways to make it speak to multiple audiences within and beyond the university. The goal of the workshop is to walk students through the process of making their work more accessible, artistic, engaged, critical, meaningful, and impactful.

Workshop participants are asked to bring the following:

An idea or piece of your own work
An example of work you admire from the genre you’re working in (print copy, video link, etc.)
An anonymous letter in an unmarked envelope listing the audiences, demographics, and ‘kinds’ of people you want to connect with or encounter your work

RSVP to craycraft.31@osu.edu by Wednesday, February 14th if you would like to attend the workshop.

This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies; Environmental Humanities; the Department of African American and African Studies, the Diversity and Identity Studies Collective (DISCO); the Appalachian Studies Network@OSU; Department of Dance, and the English Graduate Organization (EGO).

January 2018 Events:

January 6, 2018January 17, 2018

by Tessa Jacobs at 9:45pmJanuary 17, 2018

January 25, 2018:

Join us for a screening of Byrd 1933 followed by a Q&A with Director/Filmmaker, Pamela Theodotou, Polar Curator for the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center Archival Program, Laura Kissel, and Geochemist, Melisa Diaz.

Byrd 1933 Press Release from Wexner Center for the Arts:

Culled from ten reels of 35mm film found in the papers of Admiral Richard E. Byrd and recently preserved by the National Film Preservation Foundation, Byrd 1933 is a glorious cinematic record of the famed explorer’s expeditions in 1928–30 and 1933–35. This unprecedented visual diary, shot by Paramount Studios cameramen, was largely a silent film with some short studio recreations. Through extensive archival research in Byrd’s own papers, filmmaker Pamela I. Theodotou has painstakingly cataloged film clips using the scripts for Byrd’s lectures, crafting a film that captures the expedition as a whole. Byrd’s own voice and the environmental and animal sounds of Antarctica originally recorded by scientists on the expedition can be heard in the film thanks to audio found in and adapted from Ohio State’s Byrd Papers archive.

Panelists:

A photographer, filmmaker and writer, artist Pamela I. Theodotou holds her Master of Fine Arts from CCAD, her Bachelor of Science in Biology from Denison University and a Law degree from Case Western Reserve University.

Her photography and films have been exhibited in Europe and the USA and toured the festival circuit garnering prizes for her experimental style. Her screen writing has been recognized in national competition. Most recently she directed and produced Byrd 1933 which premiered at the Wexner Center for the Arts in 2015, produced through her documentary, narrative, and experimental production company NYXFILM.

Laura Kissel is the Polar Curator for the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center Archival Program (Polar Archives), a position she has held since 1996. She has a bachelor’s degree from The Ohio State University and a master’s degree from Kent State University. While the Polar Archives holds hundreds of collections, the cornerstone of the repository is the Papers of Admiral Richard E. Byrd. Laura’s primary responsibilities include assisting the many researchers and scholars who use the collections, as well as donor relations, exhibitions and other education and outreach activities.

Melisa Diaz is a Ph.D. student at The Ohio State University, affiliated with the School of Earth Sciences and Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center. She has recently completed her second Antarctic season, this year at the Shackleton Glacier with 5 PIs from varying institutions, investigating how biological communities respond to the advance and retreat of glaciers.

Where: STEAM factory, 400 W. Rich Street, Columbus OH. Enter via the Blue Door

When: January 25, 2018. Doors Open at 6 p.m.; Film at 6:30 p.m.; Q&A at 7:45 p.m.

November 2017 Events:

October 30, 2017October 30, 2017

by Tessa Jacobs at 6:45pmOctober 30, 2017

November 3, 2017:

Join us for a special “Reading Room” event in collaboration with other Arts and Humanities Discovery Themes.

Participants should meet at the entrance of the 18th Ave Library to start with a Notice What You Notice walking mediation. The walking meditation will be followed by a discussion of the Introduction and two key terms (Entanglements and Risk) in the book Symptoms of the Planetary Condition, and the artistic productions of Brandon Ballengée.

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