{"id":3174,"date":"2017-10-16T15:44:54","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T15:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/edge\/?p=3174"},"modified":"2017-10-16T15:44:54","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T15:44:54","slug":"cla-week-101617","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/edge\/2017\/10\/16\/cla-week-101617\/","title":{"rendered":"CLA This Week \u2014 10\/16\/17"},"content":{"rendered":"

Events<\/h2>\n

Tuesday, Oct. 17<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Art of the Reformation\u00a0\u2014 <\/span><\/strong><\/b>Joanna Lindell, Director and Curator of the Thrivent Financial Collection of Religious Art, will give a presentation on the Art of the Reformation at\u00a07 p.m.<\/b>\u00a0at the\u00a0LaSells Stewart Center, C&E Auditorium. <\/b>Refreshments to follow presentation. \u00a0This event is free and open to all.<\/p>\n

Wednesday, Oct. 18<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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The Fall MA Symposium \u2014 <\/span><\/b><\/strong>The School of Writing, Literature and Film’s MA s<\/span>tudents will present on their research, delivering 15-20 minutes talks, after which they will take questions from the audience. The symposium will take place at The Center for the Humanities<\/strong> at 4 p.m.<\/strong> with a catered reception to follow.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Friday, Oct. 20<\/strong><\/h3>\n

OSU Anthropology Lecture Series \u2014<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0<\/b>Dr. Nelson Ting<\/strong>, Associate Professor\u00a0of Anthropology at the University of Oregon, will give a lecture titled, “Monkeys, Migration, and Microbes: Factors Shaping Migration and the Microbiome in African Colobus Monkeys.” \u00a0Dr. Ting will speak\u00a0from 12 to 12:50 p.m.<\/span><\/span> <\/strong>in Waldo Hall Room 201A<\/strong>. This event is part of the\u00a0Anthropology Program’s<\/a>“Tan Sack” Lecture Series.<\/p>\n

Music \u00e0 la Carte<\/b>\u00a0\u2014<\/span>\u00a0Cameron O’Connor<\/span><\/b>\u00a0on guitar<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/b>will take place<\/span>\u00a0at 12 p.m.<\/strong> in the Memorial Union Lounge.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

A Critical Discussions Roundtable: Romantic Studies in 20<\/strong>17\u00a0<\/strong>\u2014\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/b>The literary subfield of Romantic Studies has long by a locus of forward-thinking scholarship, criticism and theoretical work. But what are its central concerns and methods today? This roundtable brings together five Romanticists from different institutions to explore this question; their short position pieces will be followed by extended discussion with the audience. 4 p.m., Memorial Union Room 206.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Join the School of History, Philosophy and Religion for a conversation with Kevin Van Meter<\/strong>, author of Guerrillas of Desire<\/a>, about revolution, organizing, and everyday resistance at\u00a04 p.m.<\/b>\u00a0in Memorial<\/strong> Union 213, Pan Afrika Room<\/b>. The conversation is open to all. Food will be provided.<\/p>\n

Illuminate and Provoke<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 <\/span><\/strong><\/b>The Society of Photographic Educators Conference\u00a0<\/span>will take place Friday, Oct. 20 and Saturday, Oct. 21 at the Learning Innovation Center<\/strong>, 165 SW Sackett Place. The School of Arts and Communication and Spring Creek Project are conference co-sponsors. The full conference schedule is available here.\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The SAC Visiting Artists and Scholars Series<\/strong> presents a talk by esteemed photographer Richard Misrach<\/b>, \u201cForty Years of Photography,\u201d at 6:30 p.m<\/strong>. in LinC 128<\/strong>. A pre-talk reception will take place in Fairbanks Hall<\/strong> at 5 p.m.<\/strong> All are welcome.<\/p>\n

Sunday, Oct. 22<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Corvallis-OSU Piano International: 20 Dancing Fingers<\/strong> will take place at 5 p.m.<\/strong> in the LaSells Stewart Center.\u00a0<\/strong>This event is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n

Upcoming Events<\/h2>\n

OSU Center for the Humanities Proposal Writing Seminar \u2014\u00a0<\/b>Members of the Center\u2019s Advisory Board, faculty, and staff will be on hand to discuss the Center\u2019s fellowships and other programs. Come hear suggestions for effective proposal writing strategies and learn more about opportunities for arts and humanities research support at OSU and beyond. Presentations followed by a Q & A. No registration required. Monday, October 23, 4-5 p.m., Autzen House, 811 SW Jefferson<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

News<\/h2>\n

PACE Course: The Conscience of Hollywood: The Rise of Social Protest Cinema<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/b>Hollywood in the 30s, in all its uncanny and prescient wisdom, was quick to respond to the social injustices it perceived at the time with a stream of hard-hitting and uncompromising entertainments designed to ignite the passions and fuel the hopes of beleaguered movie-goers across the country. View and study some of these films in this course which runs from October 28 through December 16.<\/strong> You can register here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Current Research, Publications and Creative Activity\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

World Languages and Cultures coordinator Tony Trujillo<\/strong> examined the online multilingual\/multimodal communication strategies of gay Latinx men in \u201cThe Languages of Identity and Desire: Latinx (Re)presentation on MSM Dating Apps\u201d at the third conference of the Association of Joter\u00eda Arts, Activism, and Scholarship (AJAAS) in Minneapolis, Minnesota. OSU accepted the organization\u2019s invitation to host the 2019 conference in collaboration with Portland State University, University of Oregon, and Portland non-profit Unite Oregon.<\/p>\n

Instructor of Music Nicola Nine<\/strong> accompanied the OSU Chamber Choir<\/strong> on Thursday, October 12 at a clinic lead by renowned choral music educator Kevin Fenton.<\/p>\n

Professor of Music Marlan Carlson<\/strong> and Instructor of Music Sean Mills<\/strong> were both invited guests on radio broadcasts with legendary classical music host Peter Van de Graff on KWAX FM 91.1 in Eugene, Oregon<\/p>\n

Elizabeth Root<\/strong>, Speech Communication associate professor had her article, “Staging Scenes of Co-Cultural Communication: Acting Out Aspects of Marginalized and Dominant Identities\u201d\u00a0published<\/a> in the October special issue of Communication Teacher, which focuses on critical communication pedagogy.<\/p>\n

Visiting Assistant Professor of Speech Communication\u00a0Shannon Cruz\u00a0<\/strong>presented \u201cThe Politics of Environmental Attitudes: Synthesis and New Directions\u201d on Friday, October 13 in STAG 110. Two studies were reviewed: the first synthesizing historical trends in environmental attitudes that have culminated in the current political divide, the second exploring options for attempting to overcome it.<\/p>\n

As part of\u00a0acquisition of his work at the Museum of Contemporary photography, art instructor Evan Baden\u2019s<\/b> photographs were included in \u201cRe:collection,\u201d an exhibition of recent acquisitions at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago. The exhibition<\/a> closed last week.\u00a0Baden also recently had three pieces from his first body of work purchased by the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, NY.<\/p>\n

Art faculty\u00a0Evan Baden, Julia Bradshaw, Kerry Skarbakka, Lorenzo Triburgo,<\/b>\u00a0and Matt<\/strong> Williams<\/b>\u00a0have organized the Northwest regional conference<\/a> for the Society for Photographic Educators which will take place at Oregon State on October 20 and 21.<\/p>\n

Professor of Art Julie Green’s<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cThe Last Supper in Glasstire<\/a>,\u201d was recently reviewed in the leading contemporary art journal in Texas. Green continues to be busy on sabbatical, and recently gave a talk in Austin.<\/p>\n

Instructor of Art Stephen Hayes<\/strong>\u00a0discussed his new exhibition<\/a> on display at the Elizabeth Leach Gallery on NPR\u2019s Think Out Loud on October 10. Hayes\u2019 \u201cIn The Hour Before\u201d series portrays locations where violence has occurred in America, as seen from a Google Street View perspective.<\/p>\n

Assistant Professor of Latina\/o Studies and Ethnic Studies, Daniel L\u00f3pez-Cevallos<\/strong>, recently presented the following:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n