The President and Provost's
2007-08 Diversity Lecture & Cultural Arts Series

This program, now in its eighth year, offers the campus and Columbus community opportunities to benefit from some of the most eminent scholars, artists, and professionals who discuss and exemplify diversity with excellence. The series extends from October 2007 through May 2008 and will feature:

David Carrasco
Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation: Interpreting a 16th Century Indigenous Mexican Map of the World
Monday, May 5, 2008
7:00 p.m.
Location tba

(Reception and book signing immediately following)


President-Designate E. Gordon Gee and Interim President and Provost Joseph Alutto invite you to attend the eighth annual Diversity Lecture and Cultural Arts Series on the campus of The Ohio State University. This program offers the campus and the Columbus community opportunities to benefit from some of the most eminent scholars, artists, and professionals who discuss and exemplify diversity with excellence.

A professor at Harvard University and historian of religions, David Carrasco has specialized in Mesoamerican religions, as well as the Mexican-American borderlands. Utilizing a comparative perspective, he has focused on the symbolic nature of cities. During his twenty years of research, he has studied the excavations and archives associated with the sites of Teotihuacan and Mexico-Tenochtitlan. This has inspired publications on ritual violence and sacred space; the Myth of Quetzalcoatl, the Feather Serpent; and the Formation of Colonial Regions in Mesoamerica. He is the author of Alambrista and U.S.-Mexico Border: Film, Music, and Stories of Undocumented Immigrants (New Mexico), which focus on the life and struggles of undocumented Mexican farm workers in the United States.

Amy Bloom
"Amy Bloom Reads From Her Work"
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
7:00p.m.
Film and Video Theatre, Wexner Center, 1871 North High Street
Co-sponsored by the Department of English and its Creative Writing Program


Amy Bloom, author of two novels, two collections of short stories, and a book of nonfiction, and a nominee for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
http://www.amybloom.com

Kerry James Marshall
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
4:30 p.m.
Film & Video Theatre
Wexner Center, 1871 North High Street
Co-sponsored by the Wexner Center for the Arts


Kerry James Marshall, recipient of a 1997 MacArthur and Fellowship 2006-07 Wexner Center for the Arts' Residency Award in the Visual arts, will present an exhibition at the Wexner Center that will showcase African and African American superheroes from his "Rythm Mastr" comic book narrative.
http://www.wexarts.org

All programs are free and open to the public. Please contact Edie Waugh in advance to inquire about disability arrangements: (614) 292-4355

The President and Provost's Diversity Lecture & Cultural Arts Series is produced with the help of many university offices and units. We extend a special thanks to Alpha Zeta Partners, the College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, the Creative Writing Program, the Department of English, the Multicultural Center, The Women's Place, and the Wexner Center for the Arts, for their sponsorship.

Program contacts

Dr. Mac A. Stewart
Special Assistant to the President for Diversity, Office of Minority Affairs

Ms. Edie Waugh
Program Manager
Office of Minority Affairs
waugh.2@osu.edu
(614) 292-4355

http://osu.edu/diversity

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