Meeting

“The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam,” a presentation by Max Boot

Tuesday, March 6, 3:30-5pm, Mershon Center for International Security Studies, 1501 Neil Ave., Rm. 120

Max Boot is a historian, a best-selling author, and a foreign-policy analyst who has been called one of the “world’s leading authorities on armed conflict” by the International Institute for Strategic Studies. He is the Jeane J. Kirkpatrick senior fellow in national security studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and a national-security columnist for the Washington Post.

“Fairies and Witches: An Unexplored Connection,” by Richard Firth Green, Humanities Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English, The Ohio State University

Friday, February 23, 6pm, Sullivant Hall [Rm. 220], 1813 N. High St.

The European witch hunts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries have long been a standard paradigm for the official repression of divergent minorities (witness the common characterization of the House Un-American Activities Committee’s actions in the Fifties as “a witch hunt”), and early-modern historiography has understandably had far more to say about the oppressors than the oppressed.

Ready for 100 Columbus Volunteer Kickoff Meeting

Tuesday, February 20, 6-8pm, Northwood-High Building, 2231 N. High St., Rm. 100

Are you ready to see the city of Columbus commit to 100% renewable energy? Join us to make it happen!

The Sierra Club’s Ready for 100 Columbus team will be holding its Volunteer Kickoff Meeting on Tuesday, February 20, 6pm, at the Northwood-High Building, 2231 N. High St., Rm. 100

Come learn why we are undertaking this campaign and four ways you can get involved: Grassroots, Grasstops, Communications/Media, and Digital.

“Water and Cities in Ohio: Are We Prepared for Climate Change?”

Friday, February 16, 12noon-1pm, Thompson Library [Rm. 165], 1858 Neil Ave.

The OSU Center for Urban and Regional Analysis (CURA), in cooperation with the OSU Office of Energy and Environment and the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission (MORPC), is pleased to present the first of three events for Spring 2018, focusing on cities, water, and green infrastructure.

Panel Discussion: “Water and Cities in Ohio: Are We Prepared for Climate Change?”

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Prisoner Letter Writing and Film Screening

Tuesday, February 13, 5-8pm, Driving Park Branch Library, 1422 E. Livingston Ave.

Cages are disabling and traumatizing environments. As a result, prisoners suffer from low morale. They also suffer from a variety of human rights abuses committed by jail and prison officials such as torture and “extremely-poor-quality health care.” These forms of violence are state-sanctioned. Therefore, we can’t expect meaningful oversight of Ohio’s concentration camps to come from the state.

Prisoner Letter Writing and Film Screening

Saturday, February 24, 9:30am-1pm, Parsons Branch Library, 1113 Parsons Ave.

Cages are disabling and traumatizing environments. As a result, prisoners suffer from low morale. They also suffer from a variety of human rights abuses committed by jail and prison officials such as torture and “extremely-poor-quality health care.” These forms of violence are state-sanctioned. Therefore, we can’t expect meaningful oversight of Ohio’s concentration camps to come from the state.

“Has the Islamic ‘Reformation’ Already Happened?: Reformist Thought and the Beginning of Islamic Modernity,” by Sean Anthony

Wednesday, February 14, 7pm, Page Hall [Rm. 020], 1810 College Rd.

Public discourse on Islam often opines that Islam still stands in need of a Reformation similar to the Reformation of European Christianity. What this discourse misses, however, is that early modern Muslim societies did witness the rise of Reformist thought. This talk examines the most important Sunni expression of Reformist thought in modern Sunni Islam — Salafism — and explores some of the reasons why it failed to achieve much of its political program and reformist aims.

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