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Curling Clubs as Accessible Places for Everyone
Scott Piroth
Dr. Scott Piroth, teaching professor in the BGSU Department of Political Science, will discuss the social benefits of curling clubs and the challenges clubs face when reaching out to diverse communities. In addition to discussing his experiences in the curling community, Dr. Piroth will present results from two surveys that he conducted of curlers in the United States and Canada.
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Civics and the Civil War: The Racist Origins of the Citizenship Education Industry
Tim Messer-Kruse
The term "civics" was coined soon after the Civil War as a group of America's most powerful northern politicians, jurists, and philanthropists, feared the effects of emancipation and black voting. Part of their plan was to blunt the possibility that African Americans might become a powerful voting block by delegitimizing the common practice of voting along ethnic or racial lines. Towards this end, they established the first educational foundation dedicated to "education for citizenship" throughout the nation. While the principles they promoted successfully became embedded in the structure of American schooling, the racist arguments used in launching them have been forgotten and buried. This project exhumes these ideas which reveal the inherent biases that continue to underlie our current debates about teaching civics.
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Community Health Workers, Stress Reduction, and Racial Equity in Infant Vitality
Justin Rex
How can communities help mothers reduce stress during pregnancy and provide the social supports that contribute to infant vitality? This talk presented findings from an evaluation of the Northwest Ohio Pathways HUB program, a nationally recognized best practice program model that pairs at-risk mothers with community health workers (CHWs) who connect mothers to services that reduce pregnancy risks. The talk included stories from mothers and CHWs about the challenges and stresses they face as well as data from interviews and surveys that quantify the impact CHWs have for reducing mothers' stress and providing supports that help mothers and their children thrive.
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Poetic Portraits of Older Women in the Great Black Swamp
Sandra L. Faulkner
Dr. Faulkner discusses the importance of oral histories and listening to older women by presenting poetic portraits of older women in the Bowling Green area that she co-created from oral histories. This was a collaborative project with The Wood County Committee on Aging, the BGSU archives, and local women Faulkner interviewed about their experiences across their life course and contributions to our community. These poetic portraits and oral histories will be archived at the BGSU libraries for all of us to learn from.
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Making American Opera After Einstein
Ryan Ebright Dr.
In the wake of the avant-garde opera Einstein on the Beach in 1976, opera in the United States experienced a renaissance, one which has continued to the present. My book project, Making American Opera after Einstein, centers on contemporary attempts to remake opera in an American image. In it, I detail how American opera—as a genre, a sphere of cultural institutions, an expression of national identity—has transformed significantly over the past four decades. Whereas many composers embrace operatic convention, tailoring their operas to audiences through adaptations of cherished American stories, others attempt to test the genre’s aesthetic boundaries. By exploring operas that manifest the enduring modernist impulse to innovate, Making American Opera reveals how American cultural politics and the operatic politics of institution and genre act as dialectical forces in the creation of new music theater. It presents both the visual and sonic as negotiations of these factors, in case studies ranging from Philip Glass’s Satyagraha (1980) to Missy Mazzoli’s Song from the Uproar (2012).
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Places, Please: Stage Managers, Gender, and Invisible Labor
Angela Ahlgren Dr.
Ahlgren examines the role of stage managers in live performing arts contexts using ethnographic methods of data collection. Dr. Algren’s project explores how stage managers engage in organizational, emotional, and aesthetic labor as they manage the relationships among public-facing performers, authority-wielding directors, and the often-invisible and mostly male backstage workers of the theatre industry.
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Shattering the Silence on Miscarriage and Pregnancy Loss
Lisa Hanasono
Press and Promotional Materials for Dr. Hanasono's October 25th lecture.
Brought to you by the Institute for the Study of Culture and Society
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Community-Based Organizations' Role in Combating Human Trafficking
Lara Lengel
Presentation Materials from Dr. Lengel's November 15th lecture.
Brought to you by the Institute for the Study of Culture and Society
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Ditches: A Montage of the Great Black Swamp
Cheryl Lachowski
Flyer for Spring 2017 ICS Faculty Fellow Lecture by Cheryl Lachowski.
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Rust Belt Chinatowns: Restaurants, Race, and Redevelopment in the Twenty First Century
Rebecca Kinney
Flyer for Spring 2017 ICS Faculty Fellow Lecture by Rebecca Kinney.
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The Art of Risk: Leg Up/Land On Your Feet
Michael Arrigo
Flyer for Fall 2016 ICS Faculty Fellow Lecture by Michael Arrigo.
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Transnational Poetics for Social Justice
Christina Guenther
Flyer for Fall 2016 ICS Faculty Fellow Lecture by Christina Guenther.
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Forging the Path: Establishing Contemporary Art in Trinidad and Tobago
Rebecca Skinner Green
Flyer for Spring 2016 ICS Faculty Fellow Lecture by Rebecca Skinner Green.
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Blue Skies, Black Death: Skydivers and the Ambiguity of Belief
Montana Miller
Flyer for Fall 2015 ICS Faculty Fellow Lecture by Montana Miller.
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Engineering the post-slave Subject: Louis Armstrong and the Culture of Noise in Early New Orleans
Dalton Jones
Flyer for Spring 2015 ICS Faculty Fellow Lecture by Dalton Jones.
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Moveable Backdrop: From mere pseud to Mere Pseud … or, it's about time you started thinking about the rerun which seems to be our lives
Philip Dickinson
Flyer for Spring 2015 ICS Faculty Fellow Lecture by Philip Dickinson.
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Narrative in the Digital Age: From "Light Novels" to Web Serials
Satomi Saito
Flyer for Fall 2014 ICS Faculty Fellow Lecture by Satomi Saito.
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The Medieval Remainder: Faust, Debt, and Social Contracts
Erin Labbie
Flyer for Fall 2014 ICS Faculty Fellow Lecture by Erin Labbie.
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Industrial Heritage Tourism: Landscapes of Nostalgia
Philip Xie
Flyer for Fall 2014 ICS Faculty Fellow Lecture by Philip Xie.
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Observations on Physiology: The Science Behind Nietzsche's Posthumanism
Edgar Landgraf
Flyer for Spring 2014 ICS Faculty Fellow Lecture by Edgar Landgraf.
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Cuba's Desired Revolution: Cinema and the Micro-Politics of Affect
Pedro Porben
Flyer for Fall 2013 ICS Faculty Fellow Lecture by Pedro Porben.
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