Make sure to check back periodically, as this post will be updated throughout the month! (Keep in mind that these are only recommendations, and any events outside of IA will fulfill the non-IA Event requirement!)
Resources for Non-IA Events
- College of Arts and Sciences
- COMPAS (Conversations on Morality, Politics, and Society)
- Mershon Center for International Security Studies
- The Multicultural Center
- STEM Outreach
How are We to Live in Our Common Home? Reflections on Laudato Si, Pope Francis’ Encyclical on Ecology
Date: Monday, Nov. 2, 2015
Time: 7:00 – 8:00 PM
Location: Mershon Auditorium
Description:
Cardinal Peter Turkson, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace and the first cardinal from Ghana, will visit Ohio State’s Columbus campus for a community discussion on global sustainability. Respected around the world as a Scripture scholar, an advocate for the poor and disenfranchised in the developing world, and as a spokesperson for protecting the environment as a matter of social justice, Turkson has long made news with his comments that link ecology and human life.
Turkson has become the face of climate change at the Vatican, having led the drafting process of Pope Francis’ encyclical on the environment, presented at the Vatican conference on climate change on April 28, and introduced the encyclical during a June 18 news conference. Cardinal Turkson’s visit will deepen the university conversation about sustainability, morality, politics and society, by raising awareness and understanding of this important statement of Catholic environmental teaching that has become a topic of conversations worldwide.
Read more and register at the Office of Energy and Environment.
BuckeyeThon’s Fashion Show
Date: Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2015
Time: 7:30 PM (Doors open at 7:00)
Location: Ohio Union, Archie Griffin Ballroom
Description:
Join BuckeyeThon on Tuesday, November 3, 2015 for our Fashion Show For The Kids! The BuckeyeThon Fashion Show brings together the Ohio State community, BuckeyeThon Kids and the latest fashions from the Greater Columbus area.
At the Fashion Show, student models and BuckeyeThon Kids will style the latest fashion. Special guest performances between style sets will be from Ohio State’s student organizations. Each attendee with be provided a grab bag with various products from sponsors.
Tickets will be on sale for $5 starting October 12, 2015 through BuckeyeThon members, models, team captains, and the BuckeyeThon site.
Water Security: Community Adaptation to Climate Change
Date: Thursday, Nov. 5, 2015
Time: 4:00 – 5:30 PM
Location: Mershon Center 120
Description:
Climate change poses major challenges to local communities throughout the world as to how best to adapt and innovate. This panel draws on a team of experts that have done community-level climate adaptation research in multiple ecological settings in North America, Latin America and Southeast Asia to identify methods that can work in terms of successful adaptation. Drawing on the community capitals framework for talking about community organization, the panel will address how natural, cultural, human, social, political, financial and built capital are affected by climate change and how different groups can mobilize these different resources to proactively respond.
Read more and register at the Mershon Center.
Graduate and Professional School Fair
Date: Thursday, Nov. 5, 2015
Time: 4:30 – 6:00 PM
Location: Ohio Union Great Hall Meeting Rooms 1 & 2
Description:
Admission representatives from more than twenty Ohio State programs, pre-law and pre-health advisors and arts and sciences career counselors will be available to answer questions. This is a great opportunity for students who are new to Ohio State to begin to think about coursework, extracurricular activities and co-curricular opportunities that will help them to prepare for graduate or professional school admissions, as well as for graduating students to learn what they need to do in order to apply to an Ohio State program.
For first years, this Fair is an option for Student Success Series credit. Admission is free and refreshments will be provided.
For more information on this event visit Arts and Sciences (ASC) Career Services.
Morning and Noon: Liberals, Lawyers, and American Global Governance in the 20th Century
Date: Friday, Nov. 6, 2015
Time: 12:00 – 1:30 PM
Location: Mershon Auditorium
Description:
The United States had an unusual amount of power at its fingertips in he mid-20th century. How did American leaders wield that power? Ryan Irwin, assistant professor at State University of New York-Albany and whose doctorate is from Ohio State, will explore how American leaders wielded power in four historical moments, covering the period from World War I to the 1990s, how a generation of U.S. elites debated the instruments and purpose of global governance.
Read more and register at the Mershon Center.
Citizen Uprising: Stories from Baltimore and Ferguson
Date: Thursday, Nov. 12, 2015
Time: 12:10 PM (Pizza will be served!)
Location: Moritz College of Law, Saxbe Auditorium
Description:
Jill Humphries (National Lawyers Guild), King Downing (Human Rights – Racial Justice Center), and Timothy Singratsomboune (#CBUS2Ferguson) will be sharing their experiences in Baltimore, Ferguson, and Columbus through their accounts, photos and videos.
Student-Only Screening of The Peanuts Movie
Date: Friday, Nov. 20, 2015
Time: 3:30 PM
Location: Wexner Center for the Arts, Film/Video Theatre
Description:
Join Ohio State alumnus Steve Martino, director, as he introduces a free screening of the recent animated feature The Peanuts Movie, based on Charles Schulz’s long-running beloved comic strip. Martino has directed such past features as Horton Hears a Who! (2008) and Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012) for Blue Sky Studios.
Co-sponsored by Ohio State’s College of Arts & Sciences, Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design (ACCAD), Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum and the Wexner Center for the Arts. Special thanks to 20th Century Fox and Blue Sky Studios.
Admission is free. Tickets available at the Wexner Center Patron Services Desk beginning at 10 a.m. on Nov. 13. Limit one per student.
Regimenting Migrants: Post-colonial Nationalism and the South Asian Diaspora
Date: Monday, Nov. 16, 2015
Time: 2:00 – 3:30 PM
Location: Derby Hall 2130
Description:
This talk examines the shifting relations between the Indian nation-state and the South Asian diaspora. Following the liberalization of the Indian economy in 1991, the Indian diaspora began to play a central role in post-colonial nation-building. No longer held at arm’s length from the post-colonial state, the de-facto position of the Indian government since partition and independence in 1947, today the Indian state treats its diaspora as a resource that plays a crucial role in economic reforms, particularly in the search for foreign investment and new consumer markets in India.
Ishan Ashutosh, assistant professor of Geography at Indiana University, will discuss, the Indian diaspora, whose population stands at approximately 25 million people, is not entirely re-integrated into the Indian nation, however. Rather, elite segments, particularly those in the United States, are targeted as reflective of the “Global Indian.” Even for these groups, the government of India has introduced a number of cultural programs and tiers of citizenship that stop short of granting full citizenship to its diaspora. Ashutosh will consider how these relations continue to signal an ambivalence between national belonging and diasporic incorporation. He will also look at how the changing status of the Indian diaspora vis-a-vis the Indian nation-state produces new divisions within the South Asian diaspora.
Read more and register at the Mershon Center.