Come visit Earnest Brew Works for an Ohio Humanities Speakers' Bureau event with Matthew Donahue about modern art and pop culture! This presentation examines the way in which popular culture has been used in the world of visual arts. This tradition goes back to Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque during the cubist era, to the pop art movement of the ... Read More
Come visit the Northwest Territory Museum for an Ohio Humanities Speakers' Bureau event with Susan Trollinger about the Women's Suffrage Movement! The story of the women’s suffrage movement is often told (even by US historians) as a peaceful transition by which white male politicians happily gave women the right to vote. This could not be further from the truth. The ... Read More
Come visit the Stark County Main Library for an Ohio Humanities Speakers Bureau event with Linda Mizejewski about women detectives! Generations of readers have enjoyed Nancy Drew, Miss Marple, and legions of spunky amateur female sleuths who picked up a flashlight to creep through the attic. But the 1980s brought a new heroine to the best seller list: the professional woman detective who gets her ... Read More
Come visit the Children's Theatre Workshop in Toledo (CTW) to see students perform the play Vietnam 101! Vietnam 101 is a historically based play by Rich Orloff. This play is a documentary theatre piece about the events of the Vietnam War from the perspective of the students at the Oberlin College campus, and was written with the help of firsthand ... Read More
Join the Aldus Society of Central Ohio at the Thurber Center for a speaker event with Rhiannon Knol! Rhiannon Knol will speak about the role wrong ideas have played in Renaissance and early modern science, focusing on the writings of Aristotle, Christopher Columbus, and Athanasius Kircher—and reactions by their readers, from Galileo and Harvey to Sor Juana de la Cruz—and ... Read More
Come visit the Cleo Redd Fisher Museum for an Ohio Humanities’ Speakers Bureau event with William Trollinger about how statues are used to interpret the history of the Civil War! The 2015 mass shooting in Charleston and now the recent events in Charlottesville have added fuel to the intense and sometimes heated debate in contemporary America about Confederate monuments and ... Read More
Join the Institute for Human Science and Culture for their speaker series on reducing harms in museums for a talk with Dr. Joe Stahlman! Dr. Joe Stahlman (Tuscarora/Pennsylvania Dutch) is an anthropologist, historian, scholar, and researcher. He has over 30 years of research experience working with First Peoples and allies. His research focuses on culture and history, as well as ... Read More
Come visit the Clyde Museum for an Ohio Humanities Speakers' Bureau event with Matthew Donahue about pop culture! This presentation focuses on the role that popular culture plays in society and in academia, and ways to interpret popular culture topics through Project M.I.R.S.H., myths, icons, rituals, stereotypes and heroes. Dr. Matthew Donahue is a Teaching Professor at the Department of ... Read More
Join the Aldus Society of Central Ohio at the Thurber Center for a speaker event with Kari Gunter-Seymore! Ohio Poet Laureate Kari Gunter-Seymour will discuss literature derived from the 32 Ohio counties “nestled within the western foothills of the Appalachian Mountains.” The Aldus Society brings literary events and programming to book lovers and educational opportunities to members. Some of our ... Read More
