Captured in Cape Horn, Chile by graduate student Steven Kenworthy,  "My Peace, Your Quiet", named Honorable Mention in the Places category of the 2017 International Photography Exhibition

Wednesday, January 24

168 Dulles Hall

The Office of International Affairs is seeking volunteers for Taste of OSU 2018 on Friday, February 16, from 5 - 8:30 p.m. in the Ohio Union.

 

The event will feature more than 40 student organizations as they present international food, cultural exhibits and performances. Volunteers are needed for tasks including check-in, distributing programs and clean up assistance. The deadline to register is January 24.

 

Additionally, volunteers are needed for event photography. Students interested in photographing the event can apply online.

The Global Health Initiative at OSU is a student group dedicated to increasing awareness and providing educational opportunities related to global health issues to help our members find their passion within the vast field of public health. The organization is looking for students who are interested in participating in their international service trip to Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala City, and Huehuetenango. 

If you or your students are interested in learning more about the program, please visit the Global Health Initiative website or contact the organization at osughi.iv@gmail.com. 

The department of History will be hosting three candidates this January for the job opening in Modern Migration History with emphasis on US-Mexico migration and secondary specialization in Latina/o Studies preferred.

Formal announcements of job talks will be publicized as they become available, but please add these dates and times to your calendar if you are interested in attending: 

The University of New Mexico Latin American and Iberian Institute (LAII) and the University Libraries are pleased to invite applications for the Richard E. Greenleaf Visiting Library Scholar travel award. The deadline for applications is Friday, March 31, 2017 at 5:00 pm (MT).

Attached is the Call for Applications. For more information and to apply, go to http://laii.unm.edu/funding/greenleaf-visiting-library-scholar-funding.html.

The Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs (CLASP) calls for nominations for its sixth annual CLASP Teaching Award for Junior Faculty. The award recognizes excellence in teaching Latin American Studies designated courses. For more information about the nomination process, please visit:  http://claspprograms.org/news/detail/66/Call-for-Nominations-for-the-2018-CLASP-Junior-Faculty-Teaching-Award-for-Professors.   

Nominations will be accepted through Friday, February 9th, 2018. 

Date: Friday, February 2, 2018

Time: 4:00 - 6:00 pm

Place: 010 Page Hall

Abstract: In this talk, Dr. Eduardo Mendieta, faculty member in the Department of Philosophy at Penn State University, will  discuss why we need to think of philosophy as a temporalizing / detemporalizing-spatializing / de-spacializing device; what Dr. Mendieta calls a chronotopological dispositif. He will present arguments for why before we begin the practice of decolonizing philosophy, we need to think of philosophy as a site of colonization, the moraine of a sedimented history of colonial practices and imaginaries. This calls for new ways of doing both the history of philosophy and expanding the repertoire of what are considered 'philosophical questions.' Mendieta will take a step back and offer two genealogies of philosophy that illustrate the contaminated origins of philosophy, and will discuss briefly what he would take to be the praxis of decolonial thinking and philosophizing from a Latinx perspective.

Sponsors: Organization of Hispanic and Latino Faculty and Staff, Departments of Spanish and Portuguese, Geography, Political Science, Comparative Studies and the Center for Latin American Studies

The 8th Latin American and Caribbean Conference on Social Sciences ( CLACSO) will take place in Buenos Aires, November 19-23, 2018. CLACSO is the first international forum on critical thinking and will offer over 500 accommodation and travel grants for participants. Abstracts may be submitted in any of 36 thematic areas in Spanish, English, or Portuguese. 

General registration closes April 12th, 2018 and selections for individual, group, or institutional lectures at the open panel discussion will be released beginning June 12, 2018.

The Office of International Affairs is seeking applications for its Academic Enrichment Research Grants, which supports activities with lasting impact across the globe. The grant competition is open to faculty, graduate and undergraduates whose applications focus on research projects that address global issues, connect discipline-specific research to programs in diverse cultural settings, explores the languages, cultures, arts, social sciences and area studies and/or promotes active collaborations with institutional partners.  Deadline to apply is February 9. Contact: oia-grants@osu.edu .

This year-long commitment involves volunteering at Fundación El Arenal, an alternative education center for children and adolescents of Cuenca, and teaching English at CEDEI, a popular language school in Cuenca, Ecuador.

 

The "Puente Cultural" Grant has two primary objectives:

Interested students should complete the Google Form Application by January 31, 2018 for program to begin June, 2018.

Please direct questions to Mark Raderstof at mark.raderstorf@gmail.com .

Each year, the Mershon Center for International Security Studies holds a competition for Ohio State faculty and students to apply for research grants and scholarship funds. The deadline for all applications is 5 p.m. on  Wednesday, February 28, 2018 .

Applications for Faculty Research and Seed Grants and Graduate Student Research Grants must be for projects related to the study of national security in a global context.  In recent years the center has funded several dozen faculty and graduate student research projects with grants for travel, seminars, conferences, interviews, experiments, surveys, library costs, and more.

The Mershon Center has also established International Security Scholarships for Undergraduate Theses and Study Abroad to support undergraduates whose professional career plans lie in the field of international security and who would benefit doing research for an undergraduate thesis or studying in a foreign country. 

The University of Illinois is hosting a FREE ONLINE Transatlantic Educators Dialogue (TED) program beginning February 11th and ending May 6th. This is a 12-week program with 90 minute online sessions.

The European Union Center at U of I  is recruiting teachers in the US and the EU to come together once a week (Sundays 5:00-6:30 pm Greenwich Mean Time) in online sessions to explore a variety of educational topics as they relate to issues of identity and difference. Participants will meet simultaneously online using the Blackboard Collaborate application; in addition, prior to each session, participants are expected access an online course website to read materials and post responses related to the week's topic. 

Date: Friday, February 9, 2018

Time: 4:00 pm

Place: Hagerty Hall 255

The Columbus Council on World Affairs is seeking volunteers to speak with their Global Scholars on Global Issues at Franklin University throughout February. Dates are indicated on the online survey.  Volunteers are needed from 10:00 am until 12:00 pm on their chosen dates and should indicate their availability on the survey .