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Apply Now To The FY 2021 Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad Program!

The Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad Program (SA) provides U.S. educators in the social sciences and humanities with opportunities to participate in short-term seminars abroad to improve their understanding and knowledge of the peoples and cultures of other countries. In 2021, summer seminars will be offered in Iceland, Morocco, and Mexico. The application deadline is Dec. 18, 2020.

Quechua and Andean/Amazonian Studies at OSU

Justin Bland, Quechua Ambassador at The Ohio State University, has created a slideshow video describing the different opportunities here at OSU to study the Quechua language and Andean/Amazonian studies. Click the button below to view this video, accompanied with links to helpful resources.

MEDREN 2618: Travel and Exploration

Spring 2021, Prof. Lisa Voigt (Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese) will be teaching MEDREN 2618: Travel and Exploration. The class will meet online Wednesday and Friday from 11:10 AM-12:30 PM.

Course Description: The European “Age of Discovery,” initiated by Portuguese conquests in North Africa and exploration of the Atlantic islands in the 1400s, involved a revolution in navigational and geographic knowledge and contact with other cultures that ushered in the first era of globalization. In this course we will explore narratives of travel and intercultural contact—not only victorious accounts of discovery and conquest, but also tales of failed expeditions, shipwreck, and captivity—produced by the Portuguese and their main competitors in European imperial expansion, particularly the Spanish, English, and French. Through the study of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century texts as well as films based on those texts, we will examine how such narratives shaped Europeans’ perceptions of their own and other cultures, generated and perpetuated stereotypes, and reflected and/or challenged imperial, colonial, and nationalist discourses.

If you have any questions, please contact Prof. Lisa Voigt at voigt.25@osu.edu.

2021 Boren Awards

All Boren Awards-funded programs must include language study as a core element for the duration of the grant. Applicants are encouraged to select or design programs that will provide an immersive environment both in the classroom and through extracurricular activities in order to demonstrate their commitment to language study. Quechua and Portuguese are both eligible languages.

The deadline for Boren Scholars (undergraduate) is Feb. 3, 2021.
The deadline for Boren Fellows (graduate) is Jan. 27, 2021.

Critical Language Scholarship 2021 Application Now Open!

Applications are now being accepted for the U.S. Department of State’s Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program for intensive language study abroad in summer 2021. The CLS Program is a fully-funded intensive overseas language and cultural immersion program for U.S. undergraduate and graduate students enrolled at U.S. colleges and universities. Students spend eight to ten weeks abroad studying one of 15 critical languages, Portuguese included. Applications are due Tuesday, November 17, 2020 by 8:00pm EST.

Pachaysana Workshop Series- Epistemic Justice Workshop #2

The Reflection on Workshop #2 will take place on October 30 from 9:30-10:30 AM.

Although it is encouraged, you do not need to participate in every workshop of the series. See below a full list of workshop sessions:

• Oct. 30 (9:30-10:30 AM): Reflection on Workshop #2
• Nov. 13 (9:30-11:00 AM): Epistemic Justice Workshop #3
• Nov. 20 (9:30-11:00 AM): Reflection on Workshop #3

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