Teach-in and alumni panel discuss solidarity and allyship for Asians and Asian Americans</h1> <article> <h1>Teach-in and alumni panel discuss solidarity and allyship for Asians and Asian Americans</h1> <p>swargo — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 13:10:15 +0000</p> <span>Teach-in and alumni panel discuss solidarity and allyship for Asians and Asian Americans</span> <span><span>swargo</span></span> <span><time datetime="2021-03-25T09:10:15-04:00" title="Thursday, March 25, 2021 - 09:10">Thu, 03/25/2021 - 09:10</time> </span> <div class="text-content field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Two upcoming events will provide an opportunity to learn about the work of solidarity and how to be an ally in addressing anti-Asian violence.</p> <p><strong>On Monday, March 29, at 7 p.m.</strong>, a teach-in sponsored by the Department of Comparative American Studies and the <a href="/about-oberlin/presidential-initiative-racial-equity-and-diversity" target="_blank">Presidential Initiative on Racial Equity and Diversity</a> will provide a forum to educate participants on the hard work of solidarity. It is also an opportunity, as Shelley Lee, professor of history and chair of comparative American studies, noted in her recent op-ed in the <em>�鶹��Ƶ Review</em>, to recognize that while we live in “attention- and resource-scarce times, when it feels like everything is at stake all at once, simply learning, valuing, and wanting to know about one another does seem both a hopelessly naïve and insurmountably tall order. But this may also be our only way forward.” Advance registration <strong>for the webinar is required</strong>. </p> <p><strong>On Wednesday, March 31 at 12 p.m.</strong>, the <a href="/mrc" target="_blank">Multicultural Resource Center</a> welcomes all students, staff, and faculty to a panel discussion featuring �鶹��Ƶ alumni working in various fields to discuss their efforts in supporting Asian and Asian-American communities and how their work has evolved during COVID-19. Moderator Shelley Lee will be in conversation with Anjan Chaudry ’09, director of dommunity empowerment, National Coalition for Asian Pacific Americans Community Development; Daniel Domaguin ’06, co-founder, NorCal Filipinx Wellness Collective, and Nancy D. Nguyen ’05, executive director of VietLead. Advance registration <strong>is required for the event</strong>.</p></div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item">Campus News</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-date field--type-datetime field--label-hidden field__item"><time datetime="2021-03-25T12:00:00Z">Thu, 03/25/2021 - 12:00</time> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Office of Communications</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2763">Multicultural Resource Commons</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=3490">Presidential Initiative</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-programs field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?program=25311">Comparative American Studies</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?program=25381">History</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-departments field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/arts-and-sciences/departments/comparative-american-studies" hreflang="und">Comparative American Studies</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/arts-and-sciences/departments/history" hreflang="und">History</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-pin-school-page field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">Off</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-photo-gallery-top field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">false</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-image-credit field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Jason Leung</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-media field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> </div> </article> <article> <h1>Undergraduate Research Symposium Showcases Student Research Virtually</h1> <p>hhempste — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 19:34:54 +0000</p> <span>Undergraduate Research Symposium Showcases Student Research Virtually</span> <span><span>hhempste</span></span> <span><time datetime="2020-04-24T15:34:54-04:00" title="Friday, April 24, 2020 - 15:34">Fri, 04/24/2020 - 15:34</time> </span> <div class="text-content field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Despite restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the �鶹��Ƶ College Undergraduate Research Symposium will continue—in an online format—to showcase collaborative work between �鶹��Ƶ students and faculty. </p> <p>Typically held as a one-day, in-person event, the Undergraduate Research Symposium is an annual conference that highlights �鶹��Ƶ students’ research, along with the academic and artistic work of each year's graduating class.</p> <p>This year’s online symposium spans six days. The new format makes all research broadly available through recorded video and poster presentations that may be viewed online by anyone. Research is accessible between April 27 and May 2 through the <a href="/undergraduate-research/symposia/virtual-presentations">Office of Undergraduate Research website</a> and can be viewed at any time. Authors, titles, abstracts, and Q&A information is also available on the page. </p> <p>Many student presenters will also hold live Q&A sessions on <a href="https://blackboard.oberlin.edu/">Blackboard</a>, which can be accessed by those in the �鶹��Ƶ community.</p> <p><a href="/leslie-kwakye">Leslie Kawakye</a>, associate professor of neuroscience and director of the Office of Undergraduate Research, says that it is vital to provide students a platform to share their projects. “By presenting their research, students can engage in the final step of the research process: sharing their newly created knowledge with the world. It's important to honor and acknowledge their hard work, their dedication, and the new knowledge that they are producing.”</p> <figure class="captioned-image obj-right"> <figcaption>Eder Aguilar will present research that analyzes experiences of Latinx students at �鶹��Ƶ.<br> Photo credit: Courtesy of Eder Aguilar</figcaption> </figure> <p>For senior comparative American studies major Eder Aguilar, research with Professor of Comparative American Studies <a href="/gina-perez">Gina Pérez</a> on Lantinx students has taken place over two years. His presentation of “Am I Latinx Enough?” Latinx Ethnic Identity, Belonging, and Expression of Latinidad at �鶹��Ƶ College” analyzes experiences of Latinx students at �鶹��Ƶ “through a focus of their ethnic identity formation, their feelings of belonging, and their expression of their Latindad.” </p> <p>“This research has been two years in the making,” says Aguilar. “Though these circumstances have been incredibly strenuous, I am proud of the work I have done and I am incredibly grateful for the students who participated in my research.”</p> <p>Third-year economics major Sun Moon, whose research with Assistant Professor of Economics <a href="/martin-saavedra">Martin Saavedra</a> explores the impacts Japanese internment during World War II had on life spans, says the research experience has been valuable. </p> <p>“I didn’t realize how much I would learn from engaging in the research process. I’ve discovered so many different ways and methods to explore our research question. It was rewarding to apply the knowledge I gained in the classroom.”</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/oberlin/sets/72157714013515596/">In this gallery</a> <span aria-hidden="true" class="fa fa-external-link"></span> , view some of the 2020 presenters working on research at �鶹��Ƶ (prior to the transition to remote classes) and at home.</p></div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item">Campus News</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-date field--type-datetime field--label-hidden field__item"><time datetime="2020-04-24T12:00:00Z">Fri, 04/24/2020 - 12:00</time> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Hillary Hempstead</div> <div class="text-content field field--name-field-intro-text field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p>The Office of Undergraduate Research invites everyone to an online symposium between April 27 and May 2, featuring research from �鶹��Ƶ of Music students.</p></div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2358">Undergraduate Research</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2410">Students</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2363">Academics & Research</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-programs field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?program=4861">Neuroscience</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?program=25311">Comparative American Studies</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?program=25341">Economics</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-faculty field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/leslie-kwakye" hreflang="und">Leslie Kwakye ’06</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/gina-perez" hreflang="und">Gina Pérez</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-departments field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/arts-and-sciences/departments/neuroscience" hreflang="und">Neuroscience</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/arts-and-sciences/departments/comparative-american-studies" hreflang="und">Comparative American Studies</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/arts-and-sciences/departments/economics" hreflang="und">Economics</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-image-caption field--type-string-long field--label-hidden field__item">Charlotte Babarinsa '20 uses electroencephalography (EEG) in a study to understand the neural mechanisms that lead to decreased crossmodal temporal acuity. Study authors Babarinsa, Zoey Keeley, Kathryn Hirabayashi, Samantha Papadakis, Zoii Barnes-Scott, and Russell Jaffe will present their research in the 2020 Undergraduate Research Symposium.</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-pin-school-page field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">Off</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-photo-gallery-top field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">false</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-image-credit field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Mike Crupi</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-media field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> </div> </article> <article> <h1>Unraveling Medicinal Recipes from the 17th Century</h1> <p>ygay — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 21:27:05 +0000</p> <span>Unraveling Medicinal Recipes from the 17th Century</span> <span><span>ygay</span></span> <span><time datetime="2019-11-18T16:27:05-05:00" title="Monday, November 18, 2019 - 16:27">Mon, 11/18/2019 - 16:27</time> </span> <div class="text-content field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>A classroom in the Science Center was the perfect location for an English department project. For several hours throughout the day, more than 50 student volunteers filed in and out of room A255 to transcribe medicinal recipes from the 17th century that played a central role in scientific evolution.</p> <p>The English department’s transcription project was part of the <a href="https://emroc.hypotheses.org/ongoing-projects/the-folger-manuscript-v-b-400-project" target="_blank">5th Annual Early Modern Recipe Collection Transcribathon</a> <span aria-hidden="true" class="fa fa-external-link"></span>. The goal of this international event is to welcome scholars, students, and the general public in the preservation, transcription, and analysis of recipes written in English from 1550 to 1800, and to make searchable, encoded versions of these texts freely available for scholars and the general public. Volunteers received on-the-spot training of the Folger Shakespeare Library’s online transcription platform and support from English faculty members. They also received insight into the background of these recipes.</p> <p>“We wanted students to understand the pivotal role women played in the development of scientific and medical discourses, and that a lot of these developments took place in the home and kitchen,” says <a href="/node/5626">Danielle Skeehan</a>, assistant professor of English and comparative American studies. “Once transcribed, these recipes become accessible and searchable for a wider audience who wants to learn more about early modern women, domesticity, science, and medicine.”</p> <p>There would be even more learning outcomes, days after the Transcribathon. <a href="/node/5596">Wendy Hyman</a> associate professor of English and comparative literature, explains. “I found something related to the Transcribathon that thought it would be interesting to share,” she writes. </p> <p>“I was working with a student on a manuscript (call #V.a.621, written by Catherine Bacon) on the Folger Library website the other day. We chose it pretty much at random. And we came across a recipe which utilizes ‘they’ as a singular third person pronoun, just as contemporary trans activists are urging us to do. … It is for a compound to relieve birth pangs (or travails):”</p> <p>‘‘To help a woman if her travell [travail] be hard and if they have been long without children & or of the first child to open the wombe.’’</p> <p>“In other words, the woman giving birth is, later in the sentence, referred to as ‘they.’ This is not an anomaly; ‘they’ had occasionally been used just like ] ‘she’ and ‘he’ since the middle ages. But I think it’s pretty neat to see it there in seventeenth century handwriting.’’</p> <p class="obj-center"></p> <p><br> <a class="view-more" href="https://flic.kr/s/aHsmJgp1Uu" target="_blank">View more images from the Transcribathon on �鶹��Ƶ Flickr</a></p></div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item">Campus News</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-date field--type-datetime field--label-hidden field__item"><time datetime="2019-11-18T12:00:00Z">Mon, 11/18/2019 - 12:00</time> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Yvonne Gay</div> <div class="text-content field field--name-field-intro-text field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Student volunteers work to produce searchable transcriptions of two 17th-century recipe books in a single day.</p></div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2354">Campus Life</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-programs field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?program=25346">English</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?program=25311">Comparative American Studies</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?program=25316">Comparative Literature</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-faculty field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/wendy-beth-hyman" hreflang="und">Wendy Beth Hyman</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/danielle-skeehan" hreflang="und">Danielle Skeehan</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-departments field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/arts-and-sciences/departments/english" hreflang="und">English</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/arts-and-sciences/departments/comparative-american-studies" hreflang="und">Comparative American Studies</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/arts-and-sciences/departments/comparative-literature" hreflang="und">Comparative Literature</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-pin-school-page field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">Off</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-photo-gallery-top field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">false</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-image-credit field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Audrey Tran ’22</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-media field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-flex-content field--type-entity-reference-revisions field--label-hidden vertical-spacing--basic field__items"> <div class="field__item"> <div id="obj-28791" class="paragraph paragraph--type--para-el-photo-gallery paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div class="section--photo-gallery o-flex--photo-gallery"> <p class="header-tag">Photo Gallery</p> <div class="o-flex--photo-gallery__grid"> <div class="o-flex--photo-gallery--overlay"> <div class="o-flex--photo-gallery--overlay__content"> <button class="btn js-modal" data-modal-prefix-class="fullscreen" data-modal-content-id="28791" data-modal-background-click="disabled"> View photo gallery </button> </div> </div> <div class="o-flex--photo-gallery__grid__img-wrapper"> </div> <div class="o-flex--photo-gallery__grid__img-wrapper"> </div> <div class="o-flex--photo-gallery__grid__img-wrapper"> </div> <div class="o-flex--photo-gallery__grid__img-wrapper"> </div> </div> </div> <div id="28791" class="photo-gallery-wrapper"> <div class="photo-gallery"> <div class="photo-gallery__slides"> <div class="photo-gallery__slide__wrapper"> <figure class="photo-gallery__slide"> <div class="photo-gallery__slide__image"> </div> <figcaption> <span class="figure__caption">Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature Wendy Hyman writes instructions on the chalkboard.</span> <span class="figure__credit">Photo credit: Audrey Tran ’22</span> </figcaption> </figure> </div> <div class="photo-gallery__slide__wrapper"> <figure class="photo-gallery__slide"> <div class="photo-gallery__slide__image"> </div> <figcaption> <span class="figure__caption">Students work on transcribing recipes in room A255 of the Science Center.</span> <span class="figure__credit">Photo credit: Audrey Tran ’22</span> </figcaption> </figure> </div> <div class="photo-gallery__slide__wrapper"> <figure class="photo-gallery__slide"> <div class="photo-gallery__slide__image"> </div> <figcaption> <span class="figure__credit">Photo credit: Audrey Tran ’22</span> </figcaption> </figure> </div> <div class="photo-gallery__slide__wrapper"> <figure class="photo-gallery__slide"> <div class="photo-gallery__slide__image"> </div> <figcaption> <span class="figure__credit">Photo credit: Audrey Tran ’22</span> </figcaption> </figure> </div> <div class="photo-gallery__slide__wrapper"> <figure class="photo-gallery__slide"> <div class="photo-gallery__slide__image"> </div> <figcaption> <span class="figure__caption">Students use the the Folger Shakespeare Library’s online transcription platform.</span> <span class="figure__credit">Photo credit: Audrey Tran ’22</span> </figcaption> </figure> </div> <div class="photo-gallery__slide__wrapper"> <figure class="photo-gallery__slide"> <div class="photo-gallery__slide__image"> </div> <figcaption> <span class="figure__credit">Photo credit: Jack Lichtenstein ’23</span> </figcaption> </figure> </div> </div> <div class="photo-gallery__navbar"> <figure class="photo-gallery__navbar__item"> </figure> <figure class="photo-gallery__navbar__item"> </figure> <figure class="photo-gallery__navbar__item"> </figure> <figure class="photo-gallery__navbar__item"> </figure> <figure class="photo-gallery__navbar__item"> </figure> <figure class="photo-gallery__navbar__item"> </figure> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article> <h1>�鶹��Ƶ College Receives Grant Supporting the �鶹��Ƶ Sanctuary Project</h1> <p>hhempste — Tue, 28 May 2019 15:27:40 +0000</p> <span>�鶹��Ƶ College Receives Grant Supporting the �鶹��Ƶ Sanctuary Project</span> <span><span>hhempste</span></span> <span><time datetime="2019-05-28T11:27:40-04:00" title="Tuesday, May 28, 2019 - 11:27">Tue, 05/28/2019 - 11:27</time> </span> <div class="text-content field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>From �鶹��Ƶ’s historic decision in 1835 to enroll students “irrespective of color,” to its roles as an Underground Railroad stop, a welcoming place for Japanese American students during World War II internments, and a refuge for Kent State University students after the May 4, 1970 National Guard shootings, the practice of providing sanctuary has been a central value of the college and town.</p> <p>�鶹��Ƶ College has been awarded $10,000 from the <a href="https://www.cic.edu/Pages/default.aspx" target="_blank">Council of Independent Colleges</a> <a href="https://www.cic.edu/programs/public-humanities" target="_blank">Humanities Research for the Public Good</a> program to both expand and extend �鶹��Ƶ’s existing work around the concept of sanctuary. To that end, the college and city’s commitment to providing shelter for and affirming the humanity of individuals at key points of U.S. history will be highlighted through undergraduate research, the creation of a traveling exhibit, and online educational resources.</p> <p>The impetus for this project was “inspired by a strong movement on campus to further assert �鶹��Ƶ College’s position as a sanctuary,” says Alexia Hudson-Ward, Azariah Smith Root Director of Libraries. “After a series of conversations with former Dean Tim Elgren and College Archivist Ken Grossi, the Libraries and Archives were charged with creating a sustaining educational program that would explore our institution’s role as sanctuary from our early beginnings through the modern era. Hence, the �鶹��Ƶ Sanctuary Project was born.”</p> <p>A variety of individuals will help bring this project to fruition, including Associate Professor of Africana Studies and Comparative American Studies <a href="/meredith-gadsby">Meredith Gadsby</a> and Professor of Comparative American Studies <a href="/gina-perez">Gina Pérez</a>, who will serve as researchers and faculty mentors to a student researcher. Grossi will be the collections expert and Hudson-Ward will be the project administrator.</p> <p>Gadsby says that it’s vital to undertake this research because it provides the opportunity to illuminate how alive this particular history is.</p> <p>“At �鶹��Ƶ, we celebrate the history of the city and the college as a space that offered safe haven to African Americans escaping enslavement. In the present, there are students and faculty here who are first-generation and have diverse immigration experiences and stories.</p> <p>‘‘The college was also the leader in admitting students ‘without respect to race.’ �鶹��Ƶ has been superbly situated to actively participate in almost 300 years of sanctuary practices. Today, this issue touches Africans, Caribbeans, Latin Americans from Central and South America, and many others. It is important that we remember our history and act decisively in the present and future,’’ she says.</p> <p>Pérez hopes that the resulting research and exhibit will inspire others to investigate their community’s efforts related to activism so that they can work to change unjust practices. She also hopes it will serve as a reminder of the history of sanctuary movements.</p> <p>“Current sanctuary movements and struggles have long histories that affect a range of communities, including enslaved African Americans in the 19th century, interned Japanese and Japanese Americans during WWII, and even those protesting U.S. military power, including antiwar activists during the Vietnam War.”</p> <p>The <a href="http://www.oberlinheritagecenter.org/" target="_blank">�鶹��Ƶ Heritage Center</a> will serve as the community partner for the project, providing support through research and interpretation of both �鶹��Ƶ’s abolitionist history and the community’s acceptance of Japanese Americans during World War II.</p> <p>�鶹��Ƶ Heritage Center Executive Director Liz Shultz says she hopes that those who engage with the resulting exhibit and programming can obtain some insight into how sanctuaries originate. </p> <p>“I hope they gain a better understanding of how sanctuaries were created,” says Shultz.<br> “It’s often not through one big easy decision but through individuals making recurring, small, difficult, and personal decisions.”</p> <p>Hudson-Ward believes that the project has the power to galvanize individuals into a different way of thinking. “I hope that people will be inspired by the concept of supporting community members in times of need, and they will see how this concept influenced the history of our nation.”</p> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item">Campus News</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-date field--type-datetime field--label-hidden field__item"><time datetime="2019-05-28T12:00:00Z">Tue, 05/28/2019 - 12:00</time> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Hillary Hempstead</div> <div class="text-content field field--name-field-intro-text field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p>A $10,000 grant awarded from the Council of Independent Colleges Humanities Research for the Public Good program will fund exploration of �鶹��Ƶ College and the city of �鶹��Ƶ’s shared 185-year commitment to providing a safe place for humanity to live, learn, and work.</p> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2563">Grants</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2374">Archives & Special Collections</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2384">Libraries</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2496">�鶹��Ƶ History</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2414">Faculty</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2551">Staff</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-programs field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?program=4821">Africana Studies</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?program=25311">Comparative American Studies</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-faculty field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/gina-perez" hreflang="und">Gina Pérez</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/meredith-gadsby" hreflang="und">Meredith Gadsby</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/ken-grossi" hreflang="und">Ken Grossi</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-departments field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/arts-and-sciences/departments/comparative-american-studies" hreflang="und">Comparative American Studies</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/arts-and-sciences/departments/africana-studies" hreflang="und">Africana Studies</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-pin-school-page field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">Off</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-photo-gallery-top field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">false</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-image-credit field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">John Seyfried</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-media field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> </div> </article> <article> <h1>Professor of History Renee Romano Selected for Cultural Exchange Residency in Japan</h1> <p>anagy — Mon, 27 May 2019 16:16:30 +0000</p> <span>Professor of History Renee Romano Selected for Cultural Exchange Residency in Japan</span> <span><span>anagy</span></span> <span><time datetime="2019-05-27T12:16:30-04:00" title="Monday, May 27, 2019 - 12:16">Mon, 05/27/2019 - 12:16</time> </span> <div class="text-content field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Beginning in late May, Professor of History, Comparative American Studies, and Africana Studies <a href="/renee-romano">Renee Romano</a> will spend several weeks visiting academic institutions in Japan through a residency awarded by the Organization of American Historians (OAH).</p> <p>Romano is one of two U.S. historians selected by the OAH and the Japanese Association for American Studies to receive the 2019 residency on cultural history of the 20th century at Tohoku University. The residency was announced April 5 during the OAH annual meeting in Philadelphia. Her work is also supported by the Japan-United States Friendship Commission.</p> <p>Romano specializes in modern American history, with research interests in the racial politics of post-WWII United States, African American history, civil rights, and historical memory. In 2018, she codirected the traveling exhibit <em><a href="/news-and-events/special-events/courage-and-compassion">Courage and Compassion: Our Shared Story of the Japanese American World War II Experience.</a></em></p> <p>Romano will be in Japan May 29 through June 16. During her time there, she will give lectures on American history at the annual meeting of the Japanese American Studies Association in Tokyo, at Doshisha University in Kyoto, at Osaka University in Osaka, and at Tohoku University in Sendai.</p> <p>“This residency is a wonderful opportunity for me to meet and engage with Japanese scholars who study U.S. history,” Romano says. “I’m excited to share my work with students and scholars there and to gain a deeper perspective on how America and its history are viewed in Japan. I’m also thrilled to have the opportunity to give talks at several different universities in different areas of the country and to do some sightseeing along the way.”</p> <p>Romano is the author and coeditor of several books, including the 2018 anthology <a href="https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/historians-on-hamilton/9780813590318"><em>Historians on Hamilton: How a Blockbuster Musical is Restaging America’s Past.</em></a> She serves on the executive board of the OAH and is an OAH Distinguished Lecturer. Founded in 1907, OAH is the world’s largest professional association dedicated to American history scholarship.</p> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item">Campus News</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-date field--type-datetime field--label-hidden field__item"><time datetime="2019-05-27T12:00:00Z">Mon, 05/27/2019 - 12:00</time> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Amanda Nagy</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2414">Faculty</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2363">Academics & Research</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-programs field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?program=25311">Comparative American Studies</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?program=4821">Africana Studies</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?program=25381">History</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-departments field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/arts-and-sciences/departments/history" hreflang="und">History</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/arts-and-sciences/departments/comparative-american-studies" hreflang="und">Comparative American Studies</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/arts-and-sciences/departments/africana-studies" hreflang="und">Africana Studies</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-image-caption field--type-string-long field--label-hidden field__item">Renee Romano, professor of history, comparative American studies, and Africana studies </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-pin-school-page field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">Off</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-photo-gallery-top field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">false</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-image-credit field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Jennifer Manna</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-media field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> </div> </article> <article> <h1>Tuesday Tea Explores Professor- and Student-Curated Exhibition</h1> <p>Anonymous — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 18:19:24 +0000</p> <span>Tuesday Tea Explores Professor- and Student-Curated Exhibition</span> <span><span>Anonymous (not verified)</span></span> <span><time datetime="2016-11-07T13:19:24-05:00" title="Monday, November 7, 2016 - 13:19">Mon, 11/07/2016 - 13:19</time> </span> <div class="text-content field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>As the semester draws to an end, so too does the Allen Memorial Art Museum (AMAM) exhibition <em><a href="http://www.oberlin.edu/amam/lookinginlookingout.html">The Body: Looking In and Looking Out</a></em>. The exhibition features more than 40 works by visual artists and philosophers of natural science from the AMAM collection and on loan from �鶹��Ƶ College Library Special Collections, the Science Library, and the Clarence Ward Art Library and is an examination of instruments of perception and discovery. The objects in the exhibition—lenses, mirrors, cross-sections, and vanishing points—challenge viewers to examine the relationship between the truth and our ideas about truth, to imagine what can be known but never accurately portrayed, and to examine the technologies and media that, in turn, look at us.</p> <p>The exhibition bodes nicely with AMAM’s 2015-16 theme, <a href="http://oberlin.edu/amam/information.html">The Body</a>, but is also distinguished because it was curated not by AMAM staff, but by Associate Professor of English Wendy Hyman and students in her spring 2015 senior seminar Words and Things. Chair and Professor of Comparative American Studies Wendy Kozol also provided curatorial assistance.</p> <p><a href="https://calendar.oberlin.edu/event/tuesday_tea_9250#.VmBfjWSrRaR">On December 8</a>, Kozol will speak about the exhibition at the monthly AMAM event, Tuesday Tea. She offers a sneak peek of her presentation now.</p> <h3>How did you become involved with the Allen Memorial Art Museum exhibit <em>The Body: Looking In and Looking Out</em>?</h3> <p>Wendy Hyman and I are office neighbors and talk often about shared interests in questions of representation and embodiment. When she told me about her plans for curating an exhibit with her seminar students, I got very excited about the questions at the heart of the exhibition. I teach the course Visible Bodies and the Politics of Sexuality that addresses related questions. In our first conversations, we explored the possibility of getting both courses involved, but that couldn't work out logistically, as her seminar class was in spring 2015, and I am teaching my course this semester. As a result of these conversations, Wendy invited me to assist her and her students on the show.</p> <p>This fall in Visible Bodies and the Politics of Sexuality, my class has taken the objects from this exhibit and designed their own show using concepts from our course. They have created a virtual exhibit using Omeka, a free Internet collections-management program. The students have presented it to Allen Memorial Art Museum staff, and some of them will join me for the Tuesday Tea on December 8.</p> <h3>Who did you work with at the museum, and what was it like to coordinate with the museum staff?</h3> <p>We worked most closely with Liliana Milkova and her assistant. We also consulted with the curators, Andaleeb Banta and Denise Birkhofer, as well as Director Andria Derstine. During the installation process, Megan Harding, Kendall Christian, and Michael Reynolds were enormously helpful. Everyone was extremely supportive and patient as we learned the ins and outs of curating an exhibition.</p> <h3>Did you collaborate with Wendy Hyman’s students?</h3> <p>I visited Wendy's seminar to talk with the students about their work on the exhibit and to discuss the challenges of writing object labels. I then also joined the class at the museum as they designed the layout for the exhibition. It was very rewarding to work with the students who were extremely knowledgeable about their specific sections and deeply committed to producing a high-quality exhibition. I was most impressed with how committed they were to the process and how effective they were at discussing, listening, and learning from each other.</p> <p>Collaboration with the English majors in the spring, in turn, prepared me to work with students in my fall semester class. I had a keener understanding of the challenges they would face with regard to both curating coherent themes and writing for non-academic audiences.</p> <h3>What are you most proud of about this exhibit?</h3> <p>Students and faculty worked hard to bring coherence to the range of objects in the exhibition. This was fairly challenging as the show is thematically oriented, rather telling a chronological story. I am particularly impressed with the students' work on the section and object labels, for they are both informative and accessible.</p> <h3>What is one of the takeaways you learned from this process?</h3> <p>The biggest takeaway is the joy of collaboration. So much of what academics do is individual research and individual class preparation. This was a wonderful opportunity for me to work closely with my colleague Wendy Hyman, as well as to get to work with some very talented English majors.</p> <p>Tuesday Tea featuring Wendy Kozol will be held from 2:30-4 p.m. on December 8 in the East Gallery. The exhibition <em>The Body: Looking In and Looking Out</em> will be on display in the Ripin Print Gallery through December 23.</p></div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item">Campus News</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-date field--type-datetime field--label-hidden field__item"><time datetime="2015-12-03T12:00:00Z">Thu, 12/03/2015 - 12:00</time> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Communications Staff</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2378">Allen Memorial Art Museum</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-programs field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?program=25311">Comparative American Studies</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-departments field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/arts-and-sciences/departments/comparative-american-studies" hreflang="und">Comparative American Studies</a></div> </div> </article> <article> <h1>The Buzz on How to Win a Beauty Pageant</h1> <p>Anonymous — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 18:20:42 +0000</p> <span>The Buzz on How to Win a Beauty Pageant</span> <span><span>Anonymous (not verified)</span></span> <span><time datetime="2016-11-07T13:20:42-05:00" title="Monday, November 7, 2016 - 13:20">Mon, 11/07/2016 - 13:20</time> </span> <div class="text-content field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>The comparative American studies course <a href="http://catalog.oberlin.edu/preview_course_nopop.php?catoid=22&coid=39686">How to Win a Beauty Pageant: Race, Gender, Culture, and U.S. National Identity</a> was recently recognized on the popular pop culture website <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/video/abefg/7-college-courses-you-wont-believe-actually-exist">BuzzFeed</a> for the second time in the past six months; the first mention was a <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/sbkasulke/23-awesomely-weird-college-classes-to-enroll-in-immediately">BuzzFeed list that came out in August</a>, which also included an �鶹��Ƶ ExCo course.The class, taught by Afia Ofori-Mensa, director of the Office of Undergraduate Research and a visiting assistant professor, was also one of 26 nationwide featured on an <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk5JkNapIdc&feature=share">episode of the popular video blog Mental Floss</a>—at about 3:06—that has gotten over a million views on YouTube since it was first posted in November.</p></div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item">Campus News</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-date field--type-datetime field--label-hidden field__item"><time datetime="2014-02-19T12:00:00Z">Wed, 02/19/2014 - 12:00</time> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Communications Staff</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-programs field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?program=25311">Comparative American Studies</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-departments field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/arts-and-sciences/departments/comparative-american-studies" hreflang="und">Comparative American Studies</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-pin-school-page field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">Off</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-photo-gallery-top field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">false</div> </article> </main></body></html>