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2016-2017 Calendar

Autumn Semester

August 28, 2016: Folklore, Crossing Cultural Contexts
August 29, 2016: Welcome Reception

September 12, 2016: Lecture: "They are Among Us": Gezi Martyrs, Affective Incarnation, and Resistance in Contemporary Turkey
September 14, 2016: Environmental Humanities/Citizenship Mobile Coffee

October 7, 2016: Columbus Folklorists' Circle Documentary Night
October 13-15, 2016: Indigenous Languages and Cultures of Latin America Symposium
October 27, 2016: Refugees, Indigenous Peoples and (Re)Settlement: The Experience of Displaced Peoples
October 27 & 28 2016: Brian Harnetty's Shawnee, Ohio
October 28029, 2016: Workshop: Having a Foot in Two Places (Appalachian Studies Network@OSU)

November 4, 2016: Publishing and the Academic Job Market: A Talk with Professor Levi Gibbs (Dartmouth)
November 10, 2016: Place Studies Discussion Group
November 12, 2016: Year of Yay!: Folklore Bike Ride
November 14, 2016: Lecture: Intersubjective Dimensions of Oral Personal Narrative (Katherine Borland)
November 14, 2016: Lectures in Musicology: Drago Kunej (Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts)
November 16, 2016: Reception: Performance as Pedagogy Working Group

December 7, 2016: Centers Holiday Party
December 10, 2016: Columbus Folklorists' Circle Gathering: The Future of Midwinter

Spring Semester

January 11, 2017: Ohio Field School Information Session
January 11, 2017: Encountering the Local: DEALL-CFS Symposium on Chinese and North American Folklore
January 26-28, 2017: Maple Syrup Tapping at Hurricane Run Farm
January 30, 2017: Lectures in Musicology: Isaac Weiner

February 3, 2017: Lecture & Conversation w/ Brian Silverstein
February 17, 2017: Lecture: Danielle Schoon

March 1, 2017: Place Studies Discussion Group: At Home with Apartheid
March 8, 2017: Pop-up Archive at the International Women's Strike Solidarity Teach-in
March 8, 2017: Folklore Course Info Pizza Party
March 10, 2017: Lecture: Myth and One-Dimensionality (William Hansen)
March 23, 2017: Lecture: Terrible Religious Experiences (Katherine Borland)
March 23, 2017: Be The Street Information Session
March 24, 2017: Fieldwork & Ethnography Panel
March 27, 2017: Affiliate Talk w/ Shilarna Stokes (Theater)

April 5, 2017: Crossroads of Entrepreneurship and Research
April 7-8, 2017: IU/OSU Student Conference: Dialogues
April 11, 2017: Lecture & Student Workshop: Mary Hufford
April 21, 2017: Utley Lecture: Gale Owen-Crocker (University of Manchester - School of Arts, Languages and Cultures)
April 26, 2017: Coffee & Treats for Finals Week
April 28, 2017: Dinner with the Editor (Ann Farrell, Journal of American Folklore)
April 29, 2017: CFS Spring Picnic