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Ohio University’s Challenging Dialogues Lecture Series presents: “The Power of In/Civility: Engaging in Challenging Conversations Across the University, Community, Nation”
Baker Center Ballroom AThe first lecture in Ohio University’s new “Challenging Dialogues” lecture series will take place at 7 p.m. Jan. 24 in Baker University Center Ballroom A with Dr. Carolyn Lukensmeyer, executive director of the National Institute for Civil Discourse. The lecture, which will also be live-streamed, is free and open to the public. For additional information,... Read More
Schuneman Symposium on Photojournalism and New Media
Baker Center Theater 1 Park Place, Athens, OH, United States"The Big Story" brings together journalists who are covering the big stories in the news today: heroin, climate change, the border wall, California wildfires, the Mueller investigation, the Rohingya refugee crisis and the Dakota Access Pipeline. Presentations on heroin and the border wall will be presented by teams who won 2018 Pulitzer Prizes for their... Read More
TEDx Ohio University
Templeton-Blackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium 33 University Terrace, Athens, OH, United StatesTEDxOhioUniversity is an independently organized event licensed by TED and will offer participants the opportunity to connect with proven and successful visionaries who have propelled ideas into action. Thought leaders from across the region will provide presentations that focus on the theme “Thriving in Rural Communities.” TEDxOhioUniversity 2020 “Thriving in Rural Communities” aims to highlight... Read More
A Reading of the Play, Free Man of Color, by Charles Smith
Templeton Blackburn Memorial Alumni Auditorium 33 University Terrace, Athens, OH, United StatesFree Man of Color, by OHIO Distinguished Professor of Playwriting Emeritus Charles Smith, is the story of John Newton Templeton, a formerly enslaved African American who graduated from Ohio University fifty years before the end of slavery. In the process, Templeton unexpectedly taught the president of the university the true meaning of education. Emancipated after... Read More