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Announcing the 2022 Post-MFA/Postdoctoral Researcher Roundtable Series

March 3, 2022

Announcing the 2022 Post-MFA/Postdoctoral Researcher Roundtable Series

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The Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme is pleased to announce our 2022 series of Post-MFA/Postdoctoral Researcher roundtable webinars, which features presentations and moderated conversations that foster cross-disciplinary exchange. Each roundtable showcases 2-3 members of the Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme's post-MFA and postdoctoral cohort whose work shares disciplinary, methodological and/or topical alignment.

About the Post-MFA and Postdoctoral Program

This program supports post-MFA and postdoctoral researchers and creative practitioners and provides professional development opportunities with the goal of facilitating their entry into tenure-track positions in the academic marketplace and the public arts and humanities. The valuable presence of these researchers and practitioners adds intellectual energy and vitality to the College of Arts and Sciences as a whole, contributing to interdisciplinary collaboration between academic units and the development of innovative scholarship and curricula.


ROUNDTABLES

(click links below for more information on featured scholars and to RSVP)

 

Roundtable One: On Indigenous Displacement and Reconciliation
March 11, from 11 a.m. to noon on Zoom

  • MICHAEL CHARLES | Postdoctoral Researcher, Newark Earthworks Center
    Presentation Title: Land Grant Institutions and Indigenous Displacement — A Path Towards Truth and Reconciliation
  • GREGORIO GONZALES | Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Comparative Studies
    Presentation Title: On an Indigenous Peoples' History of New Mexico, Challenge and Opportunity
  • (Moderator) MELISSA CURLEY | Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Studies
  • (Moderator) JOHN LOW | Director of Newark Earthworks Center

 

Roundtable Two: On Power, Trauma and Representation
April 1, from 11 a.m. to noon on Zoom

  • RASEL AHMED | Post-MFA Researcher in Creative Arts, Department of Theatre
    Presentation Title: Disposable Immigrants
  • SONA HILL KAZEMI | Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of English
    Presentation Title: Disabling Relations — Injured Bodyminds and Active Witnessing
  • DIONNE LEE | Post-MFA Researcher in Creative Arts, Departments of Art and WGSS
    Presentation Title: Castings
  • (Moderator) CARMEN WINANT | Roy Lichtenstein Chair of Studio Art, Department of Art

 

Roundtable Three: On Archive as Method
April 22, from 11 a.m. to noon on Zoom

  • RACHEL HOPKIN | Postdoctoral Researcher, Center for Folklore Studies and Humanities Collaboratory 
  • Presentation Title: Working with the OSU Folklore Archives
  • JULIA KEBLINSKA | Postdoctoral Researcher, Center for Historical Research; Center for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies; East Asian Studies Center
    Presentation Title: Pulpy Archives
    (Moderator) Katherine Borland | Associate Professor, Comparative Studies; Director, Center for Folklore Studies
  • (Moderator) Angela Brintlinger | Interim Department Chair of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures & Director of the Center for Slavic and East European and Eurasian Studies)