Meeting

Continuing the Sustainability Conversation: “Shale gas development in Ohio and environmental justice”

Friday, November 17, 3-5pm, Thompson Library [Rm. 165], 1858 Neil Ave.

Areas in Ohio are experiencing a surge in the development of unconventional sources of fossil fuels, especially the use of hydraulic fracturing [HF] technologies to gain access to natural gas trapped in shale rock. HF combines horizontal drilling with an extremely high-pressure injection of “brine” deep underground that fractures shale rock and releases trapped bubbles of gas that then rise to the surface.

Franklin County Green Party monthly meeting

Tuesday, November 14, 6pm [business meeting]; 7pm [general meeting]; Northwood-High Building, 2231 N. High St., Rm. 100

Join the Franklin County Greens to help our local candidates at 6pm or to plan the Party’s annual events at 7pm. We meet on the second Tuesday of each month.

Free parking is available in the “R” spaces — “R” for “Rardin Clinic” — behind the building.

Contact: fcgreenparty@gmail.com

European Teenage Soldiers of World War I: From Transgression to Filiation

Tuesday, November 14, 4:30-6pm, Mershon Center for International Security Studies, 1501 Neil Ave., Rm. 120

The study of “teen-combatants” is a growing subfield in the history of children at war, the history of war violence in general, and World War I in particular. Too young to be legally enlisted as conscripts in 1914-1918, teen combatants also felt that they were too old to remain on the home front. This lecture will explore the cross-European phenomenon of “teen-combatants” both as a rite of passage into male adulthood and as a transgression of wartime norms.

2017 Ohio Marxism Day School

Saturday, November 4, 9:30am-8pm, Hitchcock Hall, 2070 Neil Ave.

During the past ten months of the Trump Administration, we’ve seen a barrage of right-wing atrocities and social suffering — from the far-right carnival of hate in Charlottesville, to the unnatural disasters of Harvey and Irma, to increasing police violence and terror, to the Trump administration ending DACA protections and increasing deportations.

Jewish Voice for Peace New Member Gathering

Sunday, October 29, 3-5pm, Northwood-High Building, 2231 N. High St., Rm. 100

Columbus has two active Jewish Voice for Peace [JVP] chapters and we would like to invite you to stop in and see what we are up to lately.

This casual gathering has multiple goals. First, new and prospective members will have an opportunity to attend and ask their questions. Second, those who have always been interested in a just and lasting peace for Israel and Palestine can see what’s happening with JVP on a local and national scale without making any major commitments.

New Religions and American Law

Tuesday, October 10, 3:30-5pm, Thompson Library [Rm. 165], 1858 Neil Ave.

What is a religion, and how does U.S. law decide what counts? What is law, and what role does it play within American religious communities? This symposium will address these questions, among others, through a consideration of particular case studies, including the Church of Scientology and the Moorish Science Temple of America. Presenters will reflect on the varied ways in which new religions challenge us to think differently about both religion and law.

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