For the week of November 5, 2018
Erin Huber and John Sabraw to give International Education Week 2018 Keynote Speeches
Ohio University Professor John Sabraw will give the luncheon keynote presentation on Thursday, Nov. 15 at noon in the Baker Ballroom.
Artist Activist John Sabraw is working to return southeastern Ohio’s streams to the picture of health. Sabraw has partnered with Dr. Guy Riefler, Professor of Civil Engineering at Ohio University, to extract toxic acid mine drainage (AMD) from polluted streams and turn it into paint pigment. Once the pigment is sold on a commercial scale, revenue will be invested back into the streams’ remediation. Sabraw tells the pigments’ story via his circular artwork.

Erin Huber will present "Sustainable Development - Building the Foundation to a Future for Everyone," on Thursday, Nov. 15 at 7:00 p.m., also in the Baker Ballroom.
Erin Huber is a social entrepreneur and is the  Executive director and founder of Drink Local, an organization dedicated to inspiring individuals to recognize and solve our water issues through creative education, events and providing safe water access to people in need. This Compass article provides additional information on Huber's keynote speech.

We hope a large number of our students and faculty members, along with other members of the campus community will be able to attend these outstanding keynote presentations.

A detailed schedule of the IEW 2018 is available here and the detailed schedule for the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals and Higher Education Conference is available here .
International Dinner Tickets are still available
Wealth and Poverty Public Lecture
Dr. Ana Lucia Araujo, a full professor in the Department of History of Howard University in Washington, D.C., will be hosting a lecture on " Slavery and Its Legacies: Comparative Approaches in Memory and Reparations " on Monday, November 19 from 3-4pm in Walter Rotunda. In the last two decades many initiatives emphasized symbolic reparations, especially through the creation of monuments, memorials, and commemoration activities associated with slavery, demands of financial and material reparations, which have a long and persisting history, remain alive in former slave societies. This lecture shows that beyond a national approach the memorialization of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade in the public space along with the calls for reparations must be understood from a transnational and comparative perspective in former slave societies where racism, racial inequalities and white supremacy persist.
Wealth and Poverty Research Talk
Dr. Tarminder Kaur, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Reconciliation and Social Justice, University of the Free State, South Africa will be hosting a research talk on " Farmers Are Not 'That' Rich; Farm Workers Are Not 'That' Poor: an Ethnography of 'That' in Farm Labor Relations in the Cape Winelands, South Africa" on Wednesday, November 28 from 4-5pm in Alden 319.

While South Africa’s rich and poor remain separated by railway lines, rivers, highways and distances imposed by the apartheid’s dreaded Group Area Acts in most urban areas, this racialized inequality comes into visible contrast in the commercial farming regions of the Cape Winelands. And yet, conducting ethnographic fieldwork in the region, Dr. Kaur would often hear explanations of the kind: ‘farm workers are not “that” poor; farmers are not “that” rich’. So, how poor should the farm workers be, or how rich the farmers? What does “that” really mean in the context? What exactly was being compared in such commentaries? The stark differences in the living standards of the poorly-paid “coloured” and “black” farm workers and land-owning “white” farmers made it challenging to ask these questions without sounding cynical of the relater. In this ethnography of “that,” Dr. Kaur will examine historical continuities and disjuncture that shape this archetypical image of farm workers as not “that” poor and farmers as not “that” rich in the Cape Winelands today. Dr. Kaur argues that it is this grey and intangible space of “that” that maintains the compromised and exploitative labor conditions, rather than “that” being simply a chronological and historical comparison of relative improvements in farm labour relations and policies.

For more information, please contact Yeong Kim .
Call for Responses to Global Survey
All Ohio University faculty members are encouraged to take a  brief survey  to help enhance our understanding of the strengths of Ohio University globally. This information is being collected by the Global Education, Research, and Creativity Committee within the University International Council, and at the request of President Nellis.

The survey should take no more than 15-20 minutes to complete. Please send any questions to Dr. Nukhet Sandal  or  Dr. Purba Das . The survey will close on December 15, 2018.

The survey begins with questions about your background and international experiences, and then moves to questions about your research/creative activity, teaching, and other types of professional activity. It concludes with countries you have been working with or in within the last five years.

Please click  here  to take the survey now.
African Studies Alumni & Friends Meet Up -  November 30, 2018 in Atlanta, Georgia
Join your fellow African Studies and African Students Union alumni and friends at High Velocity, located in the Atlanta Marriott Marquis, 265 Peachtree Center Ave, NE, on November 30, 2018 from 4pm-6pm.

Come and learn more about the African Studies Alumni & Friends Network! We will have complimentary appetizers. 

We will also be fundraising for African Studies students and African Student Union members!

You can find additional information on this Facebook page.

Tropical Diseases Research and Service Learning Program (Ecuador Summer 2019)
Participate in collaborative research with the Catholic University in Ecuador. With student participation, we complete projects with positive health impacts for Ecuadorian communities. Participants take part in interdisciplinary research with social and biological components. Students contribute to service in the communities and learn about intercultural communication while working in a team. They gain practical field research experience and work in interdisciplinary teams, all experience that enhances their résumé. This 18-year initiative has contributed to knowledge about and mitigated the impact of Chagas disease in Ecuador.

If you would like to know more, attend an information session on November 7, 2018 Baker Center Room 230, 5:00pm . For more information about the program, contact Gloria Dikun Taban Thomas.
U.S. Department of State Accepting Applications for the Pathways Internship Experience Program
The  U.S. Department of State  is currently accepting applications for the  Pathways Internship Experience Program (IEP)

Visit  USAJOBS  to start the online application process and view the following vacancy announcement numbers. 

Please note the cutoff point for these positions: These vacancy announcements will be open from November 5 to November 9, 2018  or when the application cutoff limit has been reached for each position. Each vacancy will close on whichever day the first of these conditions is met. If the application limit is reached on the same day the announcement opened, the open and close date will be the same. Candidates are encouraged to read the entire announcement before submitting their application packages. Veterans’ preference regulations apply.

Student Trainees work closely with the U.S. diplomats and Civil Service professionals who carry out America’s foreign policy initiatives. To witness and participate in U.S. foreign policy formulation and implementation, consider a Pathways internship with the U.S. Department of State. 

The Internship Experience Program (IEP) allows for non-temporary appointments that are expected to last the length of the academic program for which the intern is enrolled. IEP participants, while in the program, are eligible for noncompetitive promotions. This program allows for noncompetitive conversion into the competitive service following successful completion of all program requirements. Conversion to the competitive service is not guaranteed. 

If you have any questions or would like to search for topics of interest, please contact  Pathways@state.gov or visit our  forums  or  FAQs  at  careers.state.gov .
Save the Date for Gill Berchowitz's Retirement Party
History Graduate Conference: Call for Papers
Take your Innovation to the next level with CoLab
CoLab, a new collaborative space in Alden Library is open. This space was designed as a physical hub for many of the student innovation and entrepreneurship activities taking place across campus, where students can meet and discuss entrepreneurial ideas.
 
CoLab is open from 8am-8pm Monday-Thursday and 8am-5pm on Friday's

Any questions can be directed to colab@ohio.edu .
Call for Donations for the Baker Food Pantry
The Baker Center Food Pantry needs your help with donations. Please refer to the list below on needed items. Items can be dropped off at the front desk of Yamada House or in Baker Center.
Call for papers for symposium on Global Arts and Education Scholarship in the Twenty-first Century University Curriculum
Ohio University is hosting a symposium on the theme: Global Arts and Education Scholarship in the Twenty-first Century University Curriculum. The one–day Symposium is being organized as part of Ohio University’s Global Arts Festival celebrating diversity. The symposium directors are calling for papers including, but not limited to global arts and literature. Other topics across all disciplines which address the theme of global education such as economy, gender, health, politics, media, nationalism, ethnicity, spirituality and community that highlight our diversity and interconnectedness will also be accepted. All students and faculty are encouraged to submit their research proposals. Presentations may include individual papers, workshops, lecture-demonstrations, and other original forms of presentations. This event is free and open to the public.

Paper and Session Submission Instructions
Proposals Deadline: January 15, 2019
Notification of Acceptance: February 15, 2019
To have your paper/session considered for inclusion: Send the following to Dr. Paschal Yao Younge (youngep@ohio.edu) by January 15, 2019.
-A one-page (150-250 words) abstract with a title
- Your Name
- Position or Job Title
- Affiliation and Department
- Biographical Narrative /Abbreviated curriculum vitae (one page)
- E-mail address and Telephone number
Individuals whose papers/sessions are accepted will be asked to submit papers by March 15, 2019 for distribution to our discussants/moderators. The symposium directors reserve the right to remove from the conference program papers that are not made available by that due date. Papers will be selected on the basis of clarity of the presentation and on the relevance and originality of the ideas presented.
Call for papers on Disabilities in the Ancient World
The Center for Ancient Studies at the University of Pennsylvania is calling for papers to be submitted for the CAS Graduate Student Conference on Disabilities in the Ancient World. The conference will be held on February 22-23, 2019


Job Opening at El Colegio de México for an Assistant Professor in Anthropology & Sociology
The Center for Asian and African Studies (CEAA) at El Colegio de México invites applications for a full-time tenure-track position at the assistant professor level in Anthropology or Sociology, focused on sub-Saharan Africa with preference in West and/or Central Africa. The candidates must demonstrate interest and ability to carry out research and lecturing, at post-graduate level, in methodological aspects related to current trends in African studies from anthropological and sociological perspectives, as well as specialized courses related to subjects such as tradition and modernity in African contexts, sub-Saharan African knowledge systems, religion, syncretism and identity. The range of topics for research, teaching and the design of seminars can be wider but the basis must take in account the above mentioned themes.

The application deadline is November 30, 2018. For more information, contact El Colegio de México.
Funding Opportunities
The Boren Awards are an initiative of the National Security Education Program. They provide unique funding opportunities for U.S. undergraduate students to study less commonly taught languages in world regions critical to U.S. interests and underrepresented in study abroad programs, including Africa, Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, Eurasia, Latin America, and the Middle East. The countries of Western Europe, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand are excluded.

Boren Scholars represent a vital pool of highly motivated individuals who wish to work in the federal  national security  arena. In exchange for funding, Boren Scholars commit to working in the federal government for at least one year after graduation.
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