The School of Environment and Natural Resources & Office of Energy and Environment invite you to the 4th Environmental Film Series. Along with the film showing will also be an expert-led discussion and free pizza/beverages at 6:30 PM. 

"A River Below" tells of a gripping tale of two South American activists' attempts to use media coverage and images to save the Amazon's endangered pink river dolphin, but forced to struggle with ethics and social issues. 

For more details, visit epn.osu.edu 

*Barb Revard (Director of Sustainability. Columbus Zoo & Aquarium) and Beth Armstrong (PhD, Associate Director, OSU Humanities Institute) will be present to lead a discussion on the topic. 

Join the Area Studies Centers from the The Ohio State University's Office of International Affairs for a four-part Minority Issues Around the World Global Fellowship Program for K-12 teachers. 

The K-12 Global Fellowship Program will engage K-12 teachers in a series of four guided readings, lectures, and group discussions over the course of the 2018-19 academic year. K-12 teachers will explore minority issues in East Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East under the guidance of a regional expert. Teachers may opt to attend individual sessions, or the whole series. Each participant will receive a contact hour certificate for each session that they attend. Readings will be sent to registered participants two weeks prior to each discussion date below.

Enarson Classroom Building*, Room 160, 10:00AM-12:00PM on the following Saturdays:

November 17, Center for Slavic and East European Studies presents:
"Roma and Minorities in Southeastern Europe" by Dr. Sunnie Rucker-Chang, U. of Cincinnati

February 9, East Asian Studies Center presents:
"Ethnicity in China: Ethnic Minority Cultures in Southwest China" by Dr. Mark Bender, Ohio State U.

February 16, Center for Latin American Studies presents:
"Afro-Brazilian Journeys Towards Freedom" by Dr. Isis Barra Costa, Ohio State U.

March 23, Middle East Studies Center presents:
TBD

Tinker Fellow, Santiago Gualapuro Gualapuro, traveled to Ecuador during the summer to study Ecuadorian Kichwa in the pr ovince of Imbabura.

Gualapuro adds, "Being a native speaker to the language and being familiar to the region gave me an enormous advantage in reaching the individuals who were going to be my future informants." He visited the communities of Tocagon, Huaycopungo, Peguche, Libertad de Azama, Gualapuro and Yambiro in the Otavalo area. He chose to work in El Cercado in Cotacachi and in Tocagon, Huaycopungo and Gualapuro in Otavalo. 

Interestingly, Santiago explains that this was the first time that an indigenous PhD student visited the community. His goal was to create a connection between the OSU academic world and Andean communities. The data obtained during this summer-held research will serve as the primary data towards his MA thesis.

Ashlee Dauphinais, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, will conduct her dissertation research in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for 12 months studying Linguistic Practices among Women with Turner Syndrome in Brazil.

Dauphinais will examine the topic of linguistic practices and the construction of womanhood among individuals with Turner Syndrome (TS), one of the most common chromosomal intersex conditions. Her project examines linguistic variation and other discursive practices to explore how TS individuals mitigate personal and group identity in light of larger discourses of womanhood and femininity in Brazil. Her research facilitates insights on intersections of language, the body, health practices, and social conceptions of gender for scholars and medical practitioners.

To learn more about her achievements, along with the other four recipients, click here.