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SUMMARY:The History of Travel in America
DESCRIPTION:Come visit the Marvin Memorial Library for an Ohio Humanities’ Speakers Bureau event with Mark Holbrook about the history of travel! \n\n\n\nNot so long ago few people traveled far from home. Vacations and travel for leisure were either unaffordable or impractical. The industrial age\, new technologies and shifting perspectives on work and leisure changed all of that in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. We’ll explore those changes and the impact a traveling population on or economy and culture. \n\n\n\nMark Holbrook is currently the executive director for the Marion Area Convention and Visitors Bureau. Prior to that\, Mark served as the marketing manager at the Ohio History Connection for nine years and has been a consultant for tourism and history-based organizations for 12 years. He is a native Ohioan\, graduate of The Ohio State University (BA in Communications) and an avid student of history. \n\n\n\nMark is the editor of the The Buckeye Vanguard about the 49th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Mark recently retired from a 20-year career as a Civil War reenactor\, serving as a Union officer throughout the country at such places as Gettysburg\, Chattanooga\, Richmond and Shiloh. Mark also served as military coordinator for the film Light of Freedom released in the fall of 2013 and had a supporting role in the 2015 film Wings of the Wind. Mark served on the Civil War Sesquicentennial Advisory Committee for the state of Ohio and has appeared in several television history-themed television programs. \n\n\n\nCurious about our Speakers Bureau? Check out speakers and topics here. \n\n\n\nWant to see other Ohio Humanities events? Check out our calendar!
URL:https://www.ohiohumanities.org/event/the-history-of-travel-in-america-2/
LOCATION:Marvin Memorial Library\, 29 W Whitney Ave.\, Shelby\, Ohio\, 44875\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speakers' Bureau
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SUMMARY:Moving Off the Farm and Trying to Stay Amish
DESCRIPTION:Come visit the Marvin Memorial Library for an Ohio Humanities Speakers’ Bureau event with Susan Trollinger about Amish culture in Ohio! \n\n\n\nBy now most Americans likely know something about Amish life—that the Amish depend on horse and buggy for transportation\, that they do not plug into the electrical grid\, that their cuisine is delicious\, and that they live according to a much slower pace of life than most Americans do. What many people do not know is that Amish life is changing in some very significant ways due economic pressures that have pushed them off the farm. In the course of this presentation\, we will look at what Amish life has been like for the better part of a century in the US and how it is changing now as a result of what has been called “the Amish industrial revolution.” We will explore these changes and ask the question—can the Amish remain Amish? \n\n\n\nSusan Trollinger is professor of English at the University of Dayton where she teaches courses on writing and rhetoric. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Communication Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her Master’s and PhD in Rhetoric and Communication from the University of Pittsburgh. Her first book\, Selling the Amish: The Tourism of Nostalgia (Johns Hopkins University Press\, 2012)\, explores Amish Country tourism especially in eastern Ohio. In her more than ten years of research for the book\, she learned a great deal about Amish culture and its significance for all who are not Amish\, which she enjoys sharing with others. Her second book\, titled Righting America at the Creation Museum (Johns Hopkins University Press\, 2016) and co-authored with her husband\, William Vance Trollinger\, Jr.\, provides a close reading of the arguments and appeals at the Creation Museum in Petersburg\, Kentucky as well as situates those arguments and appeals within the long history of Protestant fundamentalism in the US. She has been interviewed in a number of media outlets including CSpan-2’s BookTV\, RadioWest\, the Washington Post\, and GQ. \n\n\n\nCurious about our Speakers Bureau? Check out speakers and topics here. \n\n\n\nWant to see other Ohio Humanities events? Check out our calendar!
URL:https://www.ohiohumanities.org/event/moving-off-the-farm-and-trying-to-stay-amish-2/
LOCATION:Marvin Memorial Library\, 29 W Whitney Ave.\, Shelby\, Ohio\, 44875\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speakers' Bureau
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SUMMARY:May 4th Voices: Speaking Through the Wound of the Kent State Shootings
DESCRIPTION:Come visit the Tremont Road Branch of the Upper Arlington Public Library for an Ohio Humanities Speakers’ Bureau event with David Hassler about the Kent State Shootings. \n\n\n\nOn May 4\, 1970\, four students were killed and nine injured on the campus of Kent State University by Ohio National Guard during a Vietnam War protest. Nearly forty years later\, David scripted a play\, May 4th Voices\, based on the ongoing Kent State Shootings Oral History Project. This talk includes readings of excerpts from the play and discussion about the process of writing and staging; as well as  the power of testimony in the oral history archives\, which includes over 110 interviews that document first-person narratives and personal reactions to the events of May 4\, 1970. \n\n\n\nKent State carries the symbolic wound of the Vietnam War and the protest movement in this country\, along with the tragedy ten days later at Jackson State in which two African American students were killed and twelve others wounded in a similar anti-war protest. Engaging any community in the healing process of creating art and providing venues for the public to witness has the power to heal. If\, as the 14th century Persian poet Rumi says\, “the medicine is in the wound\,” then May 4th Voices is an attempt to speak directly through the wound of Kent State and this cultural period\, to move beyond a polarizing silence\, and to create a space – like the ritual space of theatre – in which we might listen and respond to each other. \n\n\n\nDavid Hassler is the Director of the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University and is the author of Growing Season: The Life of a Migrant Community. \n\n\n\nPlease register ahead of time for the event here. \n\n\n\nCurious about our Speakers Bureau? Check out speakers and topics here. \n\n\n\nWant to see other Ohio Humanities events? Check out our calendar!
URL:https://www.ohiohumanities.org/event/may-4th-voices-speaking-through-the-wound-of-the-kent-state-shootings/
LOCATION:Tremont Branch of the Upper Arlington Library\, 2800 Tremont Rd\, Upper Arlington\, Ohio\, 43221\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speakers' Bureau
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SUMMARY:Statues\, Flags\, and the Ongoing Battle over the Meaning of the Civil War
DESCRIPTION: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! \n\n\n\nThe 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 flags. What sometimes gets lost in this debate is that monuments and flags are not history themselves\, but are commemorations of a particular interpretation of history. This is particularly true in this case. Most Confederate monuments were not constructed in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War\, but\, instead\, were put up as part of the effort to create a “Jim Crow” South that rendered African Americans politically invisible and powerless. And the revival of Confederate flags was part and parcel of the mid-twentieth-century white resistance to the Civil Rights movement. In effect\, the Confederate monuments and flags – and the fierce defense of both – are manifestations of the fact that the South lost the Civil War but won the writing of history. And the current opposition to Confederate monuments and flags grows out of a very deep desire to tell a new and more accurate story about our past. \n\n\n\nWilliam Trollinger is professor of history in the History and Religious Studies Departments at the University of Dayton. He is also director of UD’s Core Integrated Studies Program\, which features an innovative\, five-semester interdisciplinary curriculum. He earned his B.A. in English and History from Bethel College (MN) and his M.A. and Ph.D. in History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research has focused on 20th/21st-century American Protestantism\, particularly fundamentalism\, creationism\, and Protestant print culture. His publications include God’s Empire: William Bell Riley and Midwestern Fundamentalism (University of Wisconsin Press\, 1990) and Righting America at the Creation Museum (Johns Hopkins University Press\, 2016)\, the latter which he co-authored with his wife\, Susan Trollinger. He has also done a good deal of research on the Ku Klux Klan in Ohio in the 1920s; one result of this work is “Hearing the Silence: The University of Dayton\, the Ku Klux Klan\, and Catholic Universities and Colleges” (American Catholic Studies\, Spring 2013)\, for which he won the 2014 Catholic Press Award for Best Essay in a Scholarly Magazine. He enjoys speaking on the 1920s Ohio Ku Klux Klan. \n\n\n\nCurious about our Speakers Bureau? Check out speakers and topics here. \n\n\n\nWant to see other Ohio Humanities events? Check out our calendar!
URL:https://www.ohiohumanities.org/event/statues-flags-and-the-ongoing-battle-over-the-meaning-of-the-civil-war-2/
LOCATION:Cleo Redd Fisher Museum\, 203 E Main St\, Loudonville\, Ohio\, 44842\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speakers' Bureau
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SUMMARY:Rebels in Corsets: The Embodied Rhetoric of the Women’s Suffrage Movement
DESCRIPTION:Come visit the Northwest Territory Museum for an Ohio Humanities Speakers’ Bureau event with Susan Trollinger about the Women’s Suffrage Movement! \n\n\n\nThe 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 movement for women’s suffrage was a 72-year struggle that demanded a great deal from women emotionally\, politically\, and physically. This lecture looks at what it was like to be a woman in the 19th century with little power to change her circumstances because she did not have access to the ballot box\, how it was that women became convinced in the 1840s that it was time to take on that struggle\, and how they finally won it through rhetorical strategies that might not look radical to us now but then appeared so radical as to have been called “disgusting.” \n\n\n\nSusan Trollinger is professor of English at the University of Dayton where she teaches courses on writing and rhetoric. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Communication Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her Master’s and PhD in Rhetoric and Communication from the University of Pittsburgh. Her first book\, Selling the Amish: The Tourism of Nostalgia (Johns Hopkins University Press\, 2012)\, explores Amish Country tourism especially in eastern Ohio. In her more than ten years of research for the book\, she learned a great deal about Amish culture and its significance for all who are not Amish\, which she enjoys sharing with others. Her second book\, titled Righting America at the Creation Museum (Johns Hopkins University Press\, 2016) and co-authored with her husband\, William Vance Trollinger\, Jr.\, provides a close reading of the arguments and appeals at the Creation Museum in Petersburg\, Kentucky as well as situates those arguments and appeals within the long history of Protestant fundamentalism in the US. She has been interviewed in a number of media outlets including CSpan-2’s BookTV\, RadioWest\, the Washington Post\, and GQ. \n\n\n\nCurious about our Speakers Bureau? Check out speakers and topics here. \n\n\n\nWant to see other Ohio Humanities events? Check out our calendar!
URL:https://www.ohiohumanities.org/event/rebels-in-corsets-the-embodied-rhetoric-of-the-womens-suffrage-movement-2/
LOCATION:Campus Martius Museum\, 601 Second Street\, Marietta\, Ohio\, 45750\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speakers' Bureau
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SUMMARY:Modern Art and Popular Culture
DESCRIPTION:Come visit Earnest Brew Works for an Ohio Humanities Speakers’ Bureau event with Matthew Donahue about modern art and pop culture! \n\n\n\nThis 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 1960s to today’s contemporary art scene in the so called “outsider art” movement. This presentation highlights the ways in which and examples of popular culture crossing over into the arts. \n\n\n\nDr. Matthew Donahue is a Teaching Professor at the Department of Popular Culture at Bowling Green State University\, specializing in topics related to popular culture\, popular music\, film\, media and culture and popular culture and the arts.  He has lectured on such topics regionally\, nationally and internationally and has served as an authority on popular culture topics for national and international publications.   In addition to his academic work\, he is also a musician\, artist\, filmmaker and writer.  As a musician\, he has released sound recordings internationally working within a variety of popular music genres.  As an artist\, he uses popular culture as the basis of his artistic creations working in two and three-dimensional collage/mixed media\, street photography and art cars and has exhibited his work at exhibitions\, galleries\, festivals and museums throughout the United States.  He is an award-winning documentary filmmaker for such films as “The Hines Farm Blues Club”\, “The Amsterdam T-Shirt Project” and “Motorhead Matters”.  Additionally\, he has made documentaries on the history and culture of art cars such as “Taking It to the Streets: An Art Car Experience” and “Car Power: Another Art Car Experience”.  His written work consists of the award winning “I’ll Take You There: An Oral and Photographic History of the Hines Farm Blues Club” and a collection of photography related to his art cars titled “Taking It to the Streets: An Art Car Experience” as well as writings on popular music and the arts.  His academic and creative efforts can be viewed at www.md1210.com. \n\n\n\nCurious about our Speakers Bureau? Check out speakers and topics here. \n\n\n\nWant to see other Ohio Humanities events? Check out our calendar!
URL:https://www.ohiohumanities.org/event/modern-art-and-popular-culture/
LOCATION:Earnest Brew Works\, 4342 S Detroit Ave\, Toledo\, Ohio\, 43614\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speakers' Bureau
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SUMMARY:Ohio In the Civil War
DESCRIPTION:Come visit the Stark County Civil War Roundtable for an Ohio Humanities’ Speakers Bureau event with Mark Holbrook about the Ohio in the Civil War! \n\n\n\nWith troops\, generals\, factories and farms\, Ohio and Ohioans helped to change the outcome of the Civil War. And that war changed Ohio and its people. We’ll explore those changes and take a look at the contributions of Ohio and its people during America’s Civil War. Its citizens\, politicians\, soldiers\, nurses and businessmen. \n\n\n\nMark Holbrook is currently the executive director for the Marion Area Convention and Visitors Bureau. Prior to that\, Mark served as the marketing manager at the Ohio History Connection for nine years and has been a consultant for tourism and history-based organizations for 12 years. He is a native Ohioan\, graduate of The Ohio State University (BA in Communications) and an avid student of history. \n\n\n\nMark is the editor of the The Buckeye Vanguard about the 49th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Mark recently retired from a 20-year career as a Civil War reenactor\, serving as a Union officer throughout the country at such places as Gettysburg\, Chattanooga\, Richmond and Shiloh. Mark also served as military coordinator for the film Light of Freedom released in the fall of 2013 and had a supporting role in the 2015 film Wings of the Wind. Mark served on the Civil War Sesquicentennial Advisory Committee for the state of Ohio and has appeared in several television history-themed television programs. \n\n\n\nCurious about our Speakers Bureau? Check out speakers and topics here. \n\n\n\nWant to see other Ohio Humanities events? Check out our calendar!
URL:https://www.ohiohumanities.org/event/ohio-in-the-civil-war-3/
LOCATION:Stark County Civil War Roundtable\, 1275 E Nimisila Rd\, North Canton\, Ohio\, 44720\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speakers' Bureau
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250308T130000
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SUMMARY:Moving Off the Farm and Trying to Stay Amish
DESCRIPTION:Come visit the Coshocton County District Library for an Ohio Humanities Speakers’ Bureau event with Susan Trollinger about Amish culture in Ohio! \n\n\n\nBy now most Americans likely know something about Amish life—that the Amish depend on horse and buggy for transportation\, that they do not plug into the electrical grid\, that their cuisine is delicious\, and that they live according to a much slower pace of life than most Americans do. What many people do not know is that Amish life is changing in some very significant ways due economic pressures that have pushed them off the farm. In the course of this presentation\, we will look at what Amish life has been like for the better part of a century in the US and how it is changing now as a result of what has been called “the Amish industrial revolution.” We will explore these changes and ask the question—can the Amish remain Amish? \n\n\n\nSusan Trollinger is professor of English at the University of Dayton where she teaches courses on writing and rhetoric. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Communication Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her Master’s and PhD in Rhetoric and Communication from the University of Pittsburgh. Her first book\, Selling the Amish: The Tourism of Nostalgia (Johns Hopkins University Press\, 2012)\, explores Amish Country tourism especially in eastern Ohio. In her more than ten years of research for the book\, she learned a great deal about Amish culture and its significance for all who are not Amish\, which she enjoys sharing with others. Her second book\, titled Righting America at the Creation Museum (Johns Hopkins University Press\, 2016) and co-authored with her husband\, William Vance Trollinger\, Jr.\, provides a close reading of the arguments and appeals at the Creation Museum in Petersburg\, Kentucky as well as situates those arguments and appeals within the long history of Protestant fundamentalism in the US. She has been interviewed in a number of media outlets including CSpan-2’s BookTV\, RadioWest\, the Washington Post\, and GQ. \n\n\n\nCurious about our Speakers Bureau? Check out speakers and topics here. \n\n\n\nWant to see other Ohio Humanities events? Check out our calendar!
URL:https://www.ohiohumanities.org/event/moving-off-the-farm-and-trying-to-stay-amish/
LOCATION:Coshocton County District Library Main Branch\, 655 Main Street\, Coshocton\, Ohio\, 43812\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speakers' Bureau
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250225T190000
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SUMMARY:Coded Language of Negro Spirituals during the Underground Railroad
DESCRIPTION:Come visit St. Paul’s United Church of Christ with the Auglaize County Historical Society for an Ohio Humanities’ Speakers’ Bureau event with Valerie Boyer about the spirituals during the Underground Railroad in Ohio! \n\n\n\nNegro Spirituals\, which have since been renamed African American Spirituals\, have been sung by enslaved people and their descendants since as early as the 18th century\, and are still sung today. This talk covers what makes them such a brilliant form of resistance by discussing the hidden messages coded within them. When someone who didn’t need to know\, such as an overseer or master\, heard these songs\, the assumption was often that they sang about heaven\, scripture\, or biblical reference in folklore. They had no clue that these freedom seekers were singing songs of liberation\, escape routes\, planned resistance\, and so much more. \n\n\n\nValerie Boyer is a woman of many callings. She is a vocalist\, musician\, dancer\, poet\, activist\, minister\, historian\, and most of all an educator. In every space\, she breathes knowledge. Born and raised in Galveston\, TX\, Valerie Boyer was groomed in southern hospitality and shares that kindness everywhere she goes. \n\n\n\nHer life’s work reflects the southern colloquialisms of her childhood and the tenacity of her adulthood. As a member of the National Forensics League\, 2012 Miss Juneteenth Ambassador\, Black Historian of the Year in 2019 UpStart Magazine\, Valerie been able to travel the country\, and has been featured at venues such as Ohio History Center\, Nandi’s Knowledge Cafe\, Columbus Color of Summer\, Wednesday Night Live Howard University\, Westerville Historical Society\, Columbus City Schools GearUp initiative\, Ohio Black Collective at Walsh University\, NinaImani at Youngstown State university\, SOBO at Ohio Black Expo\, just to name a few.  \n\n\n\nValerie is an active member of Ohio Black Expo\, and Advocates of Diversity for the state of Ohio. Valerie has taught Social Studies for years\, and is currently the School and Inclusive Community Programs Coordinator at Ohio History Connection. Valerie Boyer is a proud graduate of Howard University\, and resides in Columbus\, Ohio. \n\n\n\nCurious about our Speakers Bureau? Check out speakers and topics here. \n\n\n\nWant to see other Ohio Humanities events? Check out our calendar!
URL:https://www.ohiohumanities.org/event/coded-language-of-negro-spirituals-during-the-underground-railroad/
LOCATION:St. Paul United Church of Christ\, 101 Perry St\, Wapakoneta\, Ohio\, 45895\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speakers' Bureau
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250222T140000
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SUMMARY:Underground Railroad in Ohio
DESCRIPTION:Come visit the Garst Museum at Darke County Historical Society for an Ohio Humanities’ Speakers’ Bureau event with Valerie Boyer about the Underground Railroad in Ohio! \n\n\n\nDo we really know the story of Underground Railroad? This talk discusses the food\, the clothes\, the Ohio Black codes\, the technicalities around “freedom”\, and the length of the journey—in all its complexity. The nuance of some of these things is often not taken into consideration when telling this story of heroes. The practices created to navigate this railroad of sorts are cultural customs and norms. This talk will illuminate how we still carry many of them with us today. \n\n\n\nValerie Boyer is a woman of many callings. She is a vocalist\, musician\, dancer\, poet\, activist\, minister\, historian\, and most of all an educator. In every space\, she breathes knowledge. Born and raised in Galveston\, TX\, Valerie Boyer was groomed in southern hospitality and shares that kindness everywhere she goes. \n\n\n\nHer life’s work reflects the southern colloquialisms of her childhood and the tenacity of her adulthood. As a member of the National Forensics League\, 2012 Miss Juneteenth Ambassador\, Black Historian of the Year in 2019 UpStart Magazine\, Valerie been able to travel the country\, and has been featured at venues such as Ohio History Center\, Nandi’s Knowledge Cafe\, Columbus Color of Summer\, Wednesday Night Live Howard University\, Westerville Historical Society\, Columbus City Schools GearUp initiative\, Ohio Black Collective at Walsh University\, NinaImani at Youngstown State university\, SOBO at Ohio Black Expo\, just to name a few.  \n\n\n\nValerie is an active member of Ohio Black Expo\, and Advocates of Diversity for the state of Ohio. Valerie has taught Social Studies for years\, and is currently the School and Inclusive Community Programs Coordinator at Ohio History Connection. Valerie Boyer is a proud graduate of Howard University\, and resides in Columbus\, Ohio. \n\n\n\nCurious about our Speakers Bureau? Check out speakers and topics here. \n\n\n\nWant to see other Ohio Humanities events? Check out our calendar!
URL:https://www.ohiohumanities.org/event/underground-railroad-in-ohio-2/
LOCATION:Garst Museum\, 205 North Broadway\, Greenville\, Ohio\, 45331\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speakers' Bureau
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250212T180000
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SUMMARY:Underground Railroad in Ohio
DESCRIPTION:Come visit the Coshocton County District Library for an Ohio Humanities’ Speakers’ Bureau event with Valerie Boyer about the Underground Railroad in Ohio! \n\n\n\nDo we really know the story of Underground Railroad? This talk discusses the food\, the clothes\, the Ohio Black codes\, the technicalities around “freedom”\, and the length of the journey—in all its complexity. The nuance of some of these things is often not taken into consideration when telling this story of heroes. The practices created to navigate this railroad of sorts are cultural customs and norms. This talk will illuminate how we still carry many of them with us today. \n\n\n\nValerie Boyer is a woman of many callings. She is a vocalist\, musician\, dancer\, poet\, activist\, minister\, historian\, and most of all an educator. In every space\, she breathes knowledge. Born and raised in Galveston\, TX\, Valerie Boyer was groomed in southern hospitality and shares that kindness everywhere she goes. \n\n\n\nHer life’s work reflects the southern colloquialisms of her childhood and the tenacity of her adulthood. As a member of the National Forensics League\, 2012 Miss Juneteenth Ambassador\, Black Historian of the Year in 2019 UpStart Magazine\, Valerie been able to travel the country\, and has been featured at venues such as Ohio History Center\, Nandi’s Knowledge Cafe\, Columbus Color of Summer\, Wednesday Night Live Howard University\, Westerville Historical Society\, Columbus City Schools GearUp initiative\, Ohio Black Collective at Walsh University\, NinaImani at Youngstown State university\, SOBO at Ohio Black Expo\, just to name a few.  \n\n\n\nValerie is an active member of Ohio Black Expo\, and Advocates of Diversity for the state of Ohio. Valerie has taught Social Studies for years\, and is currently the School and Inclusive Community Programs Coordinator at Ohio History Connection. Valerie Boyer is a proud graduate of Howard University\, and resides in Columbus\, Ohio. \n\n\n\nCurious about our Speakers Bureau? Check out speakers and topics here. \n\n\n\nWant to see other Ohio Humanities events? Check out our calendar!
URL:https://www.ohiohumanities.org/event/underground-railroad-in-ohio/
LOCATION:Coshocton County District Library Main Branch\, 655 Main Street\, Coshocton\, Ohio\, 43812\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speakers' Bureau
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ORGANIZER;CN="Coshocton County District Library":MAILTO:info@coshoctonlibrary.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250210T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250210T200000
DTSTAMP:20260418T042305
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SUMMARY:The Newark Earthworks: One of the World's Ancient Wonders
DESCRIPTION:Come visit the Cleo Redd Fisher Historical Museum for an Ohio Humanities’ Speakers’ Bureau event with Brad Lepper about the Newark Earthworks! \n\n\n\nThe Newark Earthworks are the largest set of geometric enclosures and mounds in the world. The work of the Hopewell people who lived in Ohio circa A.D. 1-  400\, these geometric earthworks covered nearly five square miles\, using more than seven million cubic feet of earth. Why did the Hopewell build such monumental works? Were they prehistoric forts or ancient American cathedrals? \n\n\n\nBrad Lepper is the Senior Archaeologist for the Ohio History Connection’s World Heritage Program. In addition\, he has occasionally been a Visiting Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Denison University. His primary areas of interest include North America’s Ice Age peoples\, Ohio’s magnificent mounds and earthworks\, and the history of Archaeology. Noteworthy research includes excavation of the Burning Tree mastodon and discovery of the Great Hopewell Road\, featured in a documentary that was first broadcast on PBS in 1998. \n\n\n\nCurious about our Speakers Bureau? Check out speakers and topics here. \n\n\n\nWant to see other Ohio Humanities events? Check out our calendar!
URL:https://www.ohiohumanities.org/event/the-newark-earthworks-one-of-the-worlds-ancient-wonders-8/
LOCATION:Cleo Redd Fisher Museum\, 203 E Main St\, Loudonville\, Ohio\, 44842\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speakers' Bureau
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ORGANIZER;CN="Cleo Redd Fisher Museum":MAILTO:info@crfmuseum.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250208T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250208T150000
DTSTAMP:20260418T042305
CREATED:20241204T203125Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241204T203126Z
UID:3276-1739023200-1739026800@www.ohiohumanities.org
SUMMARY:Looking Back at Being Black in Rural Ohio
DESCRIPTION:Join the Warren Branch of the Warren-Trumbull County Public Library for an Ohio Humanities’ Speakers Bureau event with Ric Sheffield about his experience growing up Black in rural Oho. \n\n\n\nThis program presents a glimpse into the Black experience in small town America as reflected in Sheffield’s book “We Got By: A Black Family’s Journey in the Heartland.” With actual and projected increases in the number of people of color taking up residence in rural America\, it would be wise for small towns to better understand the factors that have impacted minority communities within them as well as the challenges of people who have lived in communities where few others looked like them. This program works well as a book talk as well as broader discussion of rural diversity. \n\n\n\nRic Sheffield is Professor Emeritus of Legal Studies and Sociology at Kenyon College. In addition to having served as Associate Provost of the College\, he is the Director of Kenyon’s Law & Society Program and the John Adams Summer Scholars Program in Socio-legal Studies. His research has focused upon the relationship between law and issues of gender\, race\, and ethnicity. He has lectured widely on issued of race and law as well as African Americans in rural Ohio. \n\n\n\nCurious about our Speakers Bureau? Check out speakers and topics here. \n\n\n\nWant to see other Ohio Humanities events? Check out our calendar!
URL:https://www.ohiohumanities.org/event/looking-back-at-being-black-in-rural-ohio/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Speakers' Bureau
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250123T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250123T193000
DTSTAMP:20260418T042305
CREATED:20241204T200304Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241204T200306Z
UID:3270-1737657000-1737660600@www.ohiohumanities.org
SUMMARY:The Burning Tree Mastodon and Ohio's Ice Age
DESCRIPTION:Come visit the Tremont Rd. Branch of the Upper Arlington Library for an Ohio Humanities’ Speakers Bureau event with Brad Lepper about the mastodon discovery that sparked a knowledge revolution. \n\n\n\nThe 1989 discovery of this giant\, ancient elephant-like creature opened an unprecedented window onto Ohio’s Ice Age. Archaeologists\, biologists\, and geologists studied the mastodon’s nearly complete remains (including its last meal) and other Ice Age animals and plants. This presentation will describe their findings and address the question of whether ancient human hunters or environmental changes drove mastodons into extinction. \n\n\n\nBrad Lepper is the Senior Archaeologist for the Ohio History Connection’s World Heritage Program. In addition\, he has occasionally been a Visiting Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Denison University. His primary areas of interest include North America’s Ice Age peoples\, Ohio’s magnificent mounds and earthworks\, and the history of Archaeology. Noteworthy research includes excavation of the Burning Tree mastodon and discovery of the Great Hopewell Road\, featured in a documentary that was first broadcast on PBS in 1998. \n\n\n\nPlease register ahead of time here! \n\n\n\nCurious about our Speakers Bureau? Check out speakers and topics here. \n\n\n\nWant to see other Ohio Humanities events? Check out our calendar!
URL:https://www.ohiohumanities.org/event/the-burning-tree-mastodon-and-ohios-ice-age-2/
LOCATION:Tremont Branch of the Upper Arlington Library\, 2800 Tremont Rd\, Upper Arlington\, Ohio\, 43221\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speakers' Bureau
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250115T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250115T183000
DTSTAMP:20260418T042305
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UID:3266-1736962200-1736965800@www.ohiohumanities.org
SUMMARY:Visions of the New Nation in the Northwest Territory
DESCRIPTION:Come visit Muskingum County History for an Ohio Humanities’ Speakers Bureau event with Brandon Downing about how the Northwest Territory shaped the development of early America! \n\n\n\nThis talk examines Marietta as a cultural heritage site that serves a crucial role in redefining American collective history by reconstructing a national identity based on the Northwest Ordinance\, one of the most important\, progressive\, and far-reaching legislative acts in American history. By using the interlinked aspects of place\, Marietta’s importance as the “first organized settlement of the Northwest Territory” illustrates how it became the birthplace of equality through the preservation of the public domain. This is in contrast with the myth of freedom and independence of a seemingly limitless land. The lessons learned from Marietta as “place\,” then\, expands the American narrative by challenging our understanding of territorial expansion within the United States in the early nineteenth century. \n\n\n\nBrandon C. Downing is an Assistant Professor of History at Marietta College. He teaches early American history classes in Native and Colonial America\, the American Revolutionary War\, and in Public History. His primary interests are Native-White interactions in the Ohio Valley\, the War of 1812\, and the history of Marietta\, OH. He is currently working on a project titled\, “Performative Violence as Political Discourse: Delawares during the Seven Years’ War\, 1755-1758\,” which provides a Native perspective on the Penns Creek and Great Cove Massacres in Pennsylvania. \n\n\n\nCurious about our Speakers Bureau? Check out speakers and topics here. \n\n\n\nWant to see other Ohio Humanities events? Check out our calendar!
URL:https://www.ohiohumanities.org/event/visions-of-the-new-nation-in-the-northwest-territory/
LOCATION:Muskingum County History\, 115 Jefferson Street\, Zanesville\, Ohio\, 43701\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speakers' Bureau
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ORGANIZER;CN="Muskingum County History":MAILTO:director@muskingumcountyhistory.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241216T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241216T190000
DTSTAMP:20260418T042305
CREATED:20241204T192941Z
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UID:3265-1734372000-1734375600@www.ohiohumanities.org
SUMMARY:From the Nuremberg Laws to the Night of Broken Glass: Race\, Law\, and the Foundations of the Holocaust
DESCRIPTION:Come visit the Marvin Memorial Church for an Ohio Humanities’ Speakers Bureau event with Barry Jackisch about the history that led up to Night of Broken Glass. \n\n\n\nThis presentation explores the increasing persecution of Jews and other targeted groups in Nazi Germany. Far from a random process\, this persecution developed with the entire weight of the German state and legal system. Outsiders soon became legally excluded from German society on the basis of overt racial discrimination. This legal segregation allowed systematic violence against Jews and other groups in the Nazi regime\, culminating in the nightmare of the Holocaust. \n\n\n\nBarry Jackisch is an associate professor at the University of Toledo and Director of UToledo’s Roger Ray Institute for the Humanities. He received his Ph.D. in history from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo in 2000. He is an historian of modern central and eastern Europe with research interests (including one book and multiple articles) related to democracy\, fascism\, and communism in the mid-20th century. At UToledo\, he teaches courses in modern German and Russian history\, war and revolution in Europe\, the age of world wars\, the contemporary world\, and the history of the Holocaust and comparative genocide. \n\n\n\nCurious about our Speakers Bureau? Check out speakers and topics here. \n\n\n\nWant to see other Ohio Humanities events? Check out our calendar!
URL:https://www.ohiohumanities.org/event/from-the-nuremberg-laws-to-the-night-of-broken-glass-race-law-and-the-foundations-of-the-holocaust/
LOCATION:Marvin Memorial Library\, 29 W Whitney Ave.\, Shelby\, Ohio\, 44875\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speakers' Bureau
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241119T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241119T160000
DTSTAMP:20260418T042305
CREATED:20241001T180937Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241001T180938Z
UID:3167-1732028400-1732032000@www.ohiohumanities.org
SUMMARY:Two Hillbillies and a Queered Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Come visit the University of Akron Sociology Department for an Ohio Humanities’ Speakers Bureau event with LuSter Singelton and Julia Applegate! \n\n\n\nJoin Julia Applegate and LuSter P. Singleton in an audience-driven conversation about growing up in the ‘hills and hollows’ of southern and southeastern Ohio while trying to sort out questions of sexuality\, sexual identity\, and gender. These topics are further complicated by race\, class\, and higher education. Their candor and willingness to be vulnerable while sharing their truths is a unique opportunity to gain insight into Appalachian Ohio\, a community rarely valued for its insight\, commentary\, or contributions. \n\n\n\nJulia M. Applegate\, MA\, MPH is an HIV and LGBTQ+ health advocate\, researcher\, and administrator who has taught Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies classes at Ohio State\, Wright State University\, and Ohio University since 1996. Presently\, she is directing and producing an Ohio Humanities-supported documentary film project that tells the story of Ohio’s longest running lesbian bar.  \n\n\n\nLuSter is a Zanesville native fascinated by the intersections of ‘isms’ and how they inform and instruct positive perceptions of faith and gender in our daily lives. They are a community leader and creator of queer programming\, educational series\, presenter-led-discussions and more. Currently\, they are co-directing an Ohio Humanities-supported documentary film project that tells the story of Ohio’s longest running lesbian bar.  \n\n\n\nThis event is a part of Ohio Humanities’ United We Stand initiative. \n\n\n\nCurious about our Speakers Bureau? Check out speakers and topics here. \n\n\n\nWant to see other Ohio Humanities events? Check out our calendar!
URL:https://www.ohiohumanities.org/event/two-hillbillies-and-a-queered-conversation-2/
LOCATION:University of Akron Sociology Department\, 302 Buchtel Mall\, Akron\, Ohio\, 44325\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speakers' Bureau
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241116T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241116T120000
DTSTAMP:20260418T042305
CREATED:20241001T180400Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241001T180401Z
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SUMMARY:Terrorizing Immigrants and Catholics: The Ohio Ku Klux Klan in the 1920's
DESCRIPTION:Come visit the Campus Martius Museum in Marietta for an Ohio Humanities’ Speakers Bureau event with William Trollinger about the influence of the Ku Klux Klan in Ohio in the 1920’s. \n\n\n\nHaving virtually disappeared in the late nineteenth century\, the Ku Klux Klan exploded onto the national in the early 1920s\, with perhaps five million members at its peak. While the original Klan concentrated its animus against the newly freed slaves\, this “second” KKK had an expanded list of social scapegoats that included immigrants\, Jews\, and Catholics. While the original Klan was based primarily in the South\, the second Klan had its greatest numerical strength in the West and Midwest. In fact\, Ohio may have had more KKK members than any other state in the Union\, with an estimated 400\,000 Klansmen and Klanswomen. In this presentation we will explore why the Klan was so strong in Ohio\, what activities the Ohio Klan engaged in\, and in what ways the folks targeted by the Klan fought back. \n\n\n\nWilliam Trollinger is professor of history in the History and Religious Studies Departments at the University of Dayton. He is also director of UD’s Core Integrated Studies Program\, which features an innovative\, five-semester interdisciplinary curriculum. He earned his B.A. in English and History from Bethel College (MN) and his M.A. and Ph.D. in History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research has focused on 20th/21st-century American Protestantism\, particularly fundamentalism\, creationism\, and Protestant print culture. His publications include God’s Empire: William Bell Riley and Midwestern Fundamentalism (University of Wisconsin Press\, 1990) and Righting America at the Creation Museum (Johns Hopkins University Press\, 2016)\, the latter which he co-authored with his wife\, Susan Trollinger. He has also done a good deal of research on the Ku Klux Klan in Ohio in the 1920s; one result of this work is “Hearing the Silence: The University of Dayton\, the Ku Klux Klan\, and Catholic Universities and Colleges” (American Catholic Studies\, Spring 2013)\, for which he won the 2014 Catholic Press Award for Best Essay in a Scholarly Magazine. He enjoys speaking on the 1920s Ohio Ku Klux Klan. \n\n\n\nCurious about our Speakers Bureau? Check out speakers and topics here. \n\n\n\nWant to see other Ohio Humanities events? Check out our calendar!
URL:https://www.ohiohumanities.org/event/terrorizing-immigrants-and-catholics-the-ohio-ku-klux-klan-in-the-1920s/
LOCATION:Campus Martius Museum\, 601 Second Street\, Marietta\, Ohio\, 45750\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speakers' Bureau
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241114T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241114T200000
DTSTAMP:20260418T042305
CREATED:20240905T173048Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240905T173050Z
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SUMMARY:Statues\, Flags\, and the Ongoing Battle over the Meaning of the Civil War
DESCRIPTION:Come visit the South Dayton Church of Christ with the Springboro Area Historical Society for an Ohio Humanities’ Speakers Bureau event with William Trollinger about how statues are used to interpret the history of the Civil War! \n\n\n\nThe 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 flags. What sometimes gets lost in this debate is that monuments and flags are not history themselves\, but are commemorations of a particular interpretation of history. This is particularly true in this case. Most Confederate monuments were not constructed in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War\, but\, instead\, were put up as part of the effort to create a “Jim Crow” South that rendered African Americans politically invisible and powerless. And the revival of Confederate flags was part and parcel of the mid-twentieth-century white resistance to the Civil Rights movement. In effect\, the Confederate monuments and flags – and the fierce defense of both – are manifestations of the fact that the South lost the Civil War but won the writing of history. And the current opposition to Confederate monuments and flags grows out of a very deep desire to tell a new and more accurate story about our past. \n\n\n\nWilliam Trollinger is professor of history in the History and Religious Studies Departments at the University of Dayton. He is also director of UD’s Core Integrated Studies Program\, which features an innovative\, five-semester interdisciplinary curriculum. He earned his B.A. in English and History from Bethel College (MN) and his M.A. and Ph.D. in History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research has focused on 20th/21st-century American Protestantism\, particularly fundamentalism\, creationism\, and Protestant print culture. His publications include God’s Empire: William Bell Riley and Midwestern Fundamentalism (University of Wisconsin Press\, 1990) and Righting America at the Creation Museum (Johns Hopkins University Press\, 2016)\, the latter which he co-authored with his wife\, Susan Trollinger. He has also done a good deal of research on the Ku Klux Klan in Ohio in the 1920s; one result of this work is “Hearing the Silence: The University of Dayton\, the Ku Klux Klan\, and Catholic Universities and Colleges” (American Catholic Studies\, Spring 2013)\, for which he won the 2014 Catholic Press Award for Best Essay in a Scholarly Magazine. He enjoys speaking on the 1920s Ohio Ku Klux Klan. \n\n\n\nCurious about our Speakers Bureau? Check out speakers and topics here. \n\n\n\nWant to see other Ohio Humanities events? Check out our calendar!
URL:https://www.ohiohumanities.org/event/statues-flags-and-the-ongoing-battle-over-the-meaning-of-the-civil-war/
LOCATION:South Dayton Church of Christ\, 300 S. Main St.\, Springboro\, Ohio\, 45066\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speakers' Bureau
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ORGANIZER;CN="Springboro Area Historical Society":MAILTO:springboromuseum@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241107T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241107T203000
DTSTAMP:20260418T042305
CREATED:20240813T164718Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240813T164719Z
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SUMMARY:The Anti-Apartheid Movement in the United States
DESCRIPTION:Come visit Bristol Village for an Ohio Humanities’ Speakers’ Bureau event with Zeb Larson! Larson will speak about the anti-apartheid movement as it appeared in the United States. \n\n\n\nActivists today look back on the anti-apartheid movement as an inspiration\, ranging from climate change activists to the BDS Movement. The movement had humble beginnings; how did it take off so successfully? This talk will focus on the growth of anti-apartheid activism\, the different reasons Americans responded to it so strongly\, and what lessons it can offer us today. \n\n\n\nZeb Larson is a writer\, historian\, and software developer in Columbus. He graduated from The Ohio State University with a PhD in History in 2019. His research focused on the anti-apartheid movement in the United States and the passage of sanctions against South Africa. He writes about 20th-century U.S. history\, food history\, and politics. \n\n\n\nCurious about our Speakers Bureau? Check out speakers and topics here. \n\n\n\nWant to see other Ohio Humanities events? Check out our calendar!
URL:https://www.ohiohumanities.org/event/the-anti-apartheid-movement-in-the-united-states/
LOCATION:Bristol Village\, 660 E 5th St\, Waverly\, Ohio\, 45690\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speakers' Bureau
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241104T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241104T110000
DTSTAMP:20260418T042305
CREATED:20241001T175223Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241001T175224Z
UID:3161-1730714400-1730718000@www.ohiohumanities.org
SUMMARY:Rhetoric of the Rainbow: Living Between the Gay Movement and Civil Rights Movement
DESCRIPTION:Come visit the University of Akron’s Sociology Club for an Ohio Humanities’ Speakers’ Bureau event with LuSter Singleton! LuSter will discuss the intersections and departures of both the gay and Civil Rights Movement. \n\n\n\nIn the early 2000s\, LuSter disclosed their long-time struggle with finding a place of belonging within the so-called “gay movement” and the civil rights movement. With both having supported or encouraged notions of gender binaries\, misogyny\, transphobia\, and racial fetishization\, Singleton found it difficult to get fully ‘settled’ in either camp. Singleton shares this history to engage discussions on cancel culture\, Black Lives Matter\, and disappearing lesbian visibility and asks whether history is repeating itself. \n\n\n\nThis event is a part of Ohio Humanities’ United We Stand initiative. \n\n\n\nCurious about our Speakers Bureau? Check out speakers and topics here. \n\n\n\nWant to see other Ohio Humanities events? Check out our calendar!
URL:https://www.ohiohumanities.org/event/rhetoric-of-the-rainbow-living-between-the-gay-movement-and-civil-rights-movement-2/
LOCATION:University of Akron Sociology Department\, 302 Buchtel Mall\, Akron\, Ohio\, 44325\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speakers' Bureau
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241030T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241030T200000
DTSTAMP:20260418T042305
CREATED:20240801T164618Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240801T164620Z
UID:3063-1730314800-1730318400@www.ohiohumanities.org
SUMMARY:The Newark Earthworks: One of the World's Ancient Wonders
DESCRIPTION:Come visit Case Western Reserve University with the Cleveland Archaeological Society for an Ohio Humanities’ Speakers’ Bureau event with Brad Lepper about the Newark Earthworks! \n\n\n\nThe Newark Earthworks are the largest set of geometric enclosures and mounds in the world. The work of the Hopewell people who lived in Ohio circa A.D. 1-  400\, these geometric earthworks covered nearly five square miles\, using more than seven million cubic feet of earth. Why did the Hopewell build such monumental works? Were they prehistoric forts or ancient American cathedrals? \n\n\n\nBrad Lepper is the Senior Archaeologist for the Ohio History Connection’s World Heritage Program. In addition\, he has occasionally been a Visiting Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Denison University. His primary areas of interest include North America’s Ice Age peoples\, Ohio’s magnificent mounds and earthworks\, and the history of Archaeology. Noteworthy research includes excavation of the Burning Tree mastodon and discovery of the Great Hopewell Road\, featured in a documentary that was first broadcast on PBS in 1998. \n\n\n\nCurious about our Speakers Bureau? Check out speakers and topics here. \n\n\n\nWant to see other Ohio Humanities events? Check out our calendar!
URL:https://www.ohiohumanities.org/event/the-newark-earthworks-one-of-the-worlds-ancient-wonders-7/
LOCATION:Case Western Reserve University\, 10900 Euclid Ave.\, Cleveland\, Ohio\, 44106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speakers' Bureau
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241026T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241026T140000
DTSTAMP:20260418T042305
CREATED:20240801T163038Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240801T163042Z
UID:3058-1729947600-1729951200@www.ohiohumanities.org
SUMMARY:Blood\, Brains\, and Lobotomies
DESCRIPTION:Come visit the Stow-Munroe Falls Public Library for an Ohio Humanities’ Speakers’ Bureau event with Mindy McGinnis! She will share the research behind her Edgar Award-Winning Gothic historical thriller\, A MADNESS SO DISCREET. Learn about how doctors treated brain injuries in the 1890’s and the different aspects of care for the mentally ill – for better or for worse. Also included is a brief history of The Athens Lunatic Asylum\, the setting for the novel. \n\n\n\nMindy McGinnis is a YA author who has worked in a high school library for thirteen years. Her debut\, Not A Drop to Drink\, a post-apocalyptic survival story set in a world with very little freshwater\, has been optioned for film by Stephenie Meyer’s Fickle Fish Films. The companion novel\, In A Handful of Dust was released in 2014. Her Gothic historical thriller\, A Madness So Discreet was released in October of 2015 from Katherine Tegen Books. \n\n\n\nCurious about our Speakers Bureau? Check out speakers and topics here. \n\n\n\nWant to see other Ohio Humanities events? Check out our calendar!
URL:https://www.ohiohumanities.org/event/blood-brains-and-lobotomies/
LOCATION:Stow-Munroe Falls Public Library\, 3512 Darrow Road\, Stow\, Ohio\, 44224\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speakers' Bureau
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241017T200000
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SUMMARY:From Mrs. Satan to Madame Speaker:  150 Years of Ohio Women Running for Public Office
DESCRIPTION:Come visit the Silver Lake Historical Society in Silver Lake for an Ohio Humanities’ Speakers Bureau event with Barbara Palmer! Dr. Palmer will discuss the fascinating history of Ohio women running for public office. \n\n\n\nIn 1872\, Victoria Woodhull\, an Ohio native\, was the first woman to ever run for president. In the early 20th century\, Ohio was one of the first states to ratify the 19th Amendment. In 1922\, six women were elected to the state legislature\, and Florence Allen was the first woman to ever be elected to a state supreme court in the nation.  \n\n\n\nOne hundred years later\, Ohio has never elected a woman to the US Senate or as governor. The 2022 election was the first time in 10 years that the number of women serving from Ohio in the US House increased. The number of women serving in the Ohio Statehouse is stalling.  The proportion of female candidates for local offices has been flat for a decade. \n\n\n\nOver the past century\, we can see a great deal of change in women’s representation in public office; Ohio can claim some remarkable “famous firsts.” Ohio is represented by an increasingly diverse group of women. But some things have remained stubbornly the same. The pool of political candidates is still overwhelmingly male. What are the challenges—and opportunities—that women candidates face? \n\n\n\nCurious about our Speakers Bureau? Check out speakers and topics here. \n\n\n\nWant to see other Ohio Humanities events? Check out our calendar!
URL:https://www.ohiohumanities.org/event/from-mrs-satan-to-madame-speaker-150-years-of-ohio-women-running-for-public-office/
LOCATION:Silver Lake Historical Society\, 2879 Silver Lake Blvd.\, Silver Lake\, Ohio\, 44224\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speakers' Bureau
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241017T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241017T193000
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SUMMARY:Serpent Mound — an Icon of Ancient Ohio
DESCRIPTION:Join the Firelands Archeological Research Center at the Ritter Public Library for an Ohio Humanities’ Speakers’ Bureau event with Brad Lepper! Lepper will talk about the fascinating archeology and history of the Serpent Mound. \n\n\n\nSerpent Mound in Adams County is one of the largest and most spectacular earthen sculptures in the world. The age of the serpent is a subject of current debate with some archaeologists arguing that it was built by the Adena culture at around 300 B.C.E. and others favoring the Fort Ancient culture at around 1100 C.E. Although much about Serpent Mound still is shrouded in mystery\, ancient cave paintings in Missouri may provide a key to unlocking some of its secrets. \n\n\n\nBrad Lepper is the Senior Archaeologist for the Ohio History Connection’s World Heritage Program. In addition\, he has occasionally been a Visiting Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Denison University. His primary areas of interest include North America’s Ice Age peoples\, Ohio’s magnificent mounds and earthworks\, and the history of Archaeology. Noteworthy research includes excavation of the Burning Tree mastodon and discovery of the Great Hopewell Road\, featured in a documentary that was first broadcast on PBS in 1998. \n\n\n\nCurious about our Speakers Bureau? Check out speakers and topics here. \n\n\n\nWant to see other Ohio Humanities events? Check out our calendar!
URL:https://www.ohiohumanities.org/event/serpent-mound-an-icon-of-ancient-ohio-3/
LOCATION:Ritter Public Library\, 5680 Liberty Ave.\, Vermillion\, Ohio\, 44089\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speakers' Bureau
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241005T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241005T150000
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SUMMARY:Frankenstein! Myth\, Monster\, and Popular Culture
DESCRIPTION:Come visit the Liberty Branch of the Delaware County Library for an Ohio Humanities’ Speakers Bureau event with Linda Mizejewski! \n\n\n\nMary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein towers over Western literature as one of the most influential novels ever written and science’s most enduring myth.  Technologies of artificial intelligence\, laboratory fertilization\, cloning\, and titanium body parts make Shelley’s monster more relevant with each passing decade. Frankenstein also launched the horror and science fiction genres that have dominated popular culture for two centuries\, developing into the monster-in-the-house tradition of Psycho and serial-killer movies. This presentation explores the richness of the Frankenstein tradition in film and literature\, the gendered implications of the motherless monster\, and the social and psychological meanings of the monster who will not die. \n\n\n\nLinda Mizejewski is a Distinguished Professor of Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies at the Ohio State University. She has published six books on women in popular culture\, including a book about the romantic comedy It Happened One Night. In her 2002 book Hardboiled and High Heeled: the Woman Detective in Popular Culture\,she analyzes the female investigator character in cinema\, television\, and best-selling novels.  Her most recent two books are Hysterical! Women in American Comedy (2017) and Pretty/Funny: Women Comedians and Body Politics (2014).  Linda has been a Fulbright Lecturer in Slovakia and Romania\, and her research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies. In 2004 she was a winner of Ohio State University’s Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award.
URL:https://www.ohiohumanities.org/event/frankenstein-myth-monster-and-popular-culture-2/
LOCATION:Liberty Branch of Delaware County Library\, 7468 Steitz Road\, Powell\, Ohio\, 43065\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speakers' Bureau
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240912T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240912T193000
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SUMMARY:Ohio In the Civil War
DESCRIPTION:Come visit the Dover Public Library for an Ohio Humanities’ Speakers Bureau event with Mark Holbrook about the Ohio in the Civil War! \n\n\n\nWith troops\, generals\, factories and farms\, Ohio and Ohioans helped to change the outcome of the Civil War. And that war changed Ohio and its people. We’ll explore those changes and take a look at the contributions of Ohio and its people during America’s Civil War. Its citizens\, politicians\, soldiers\, nurses and businessmen. \n\n\n\nMark Holbrook is currently the executive director for the Marion Area Convention and Visitors Bureau. Prior to that\, Mark served as the marketing manager at the Ohio History Connection for nine years and has been a consultant for tourism and history-based organizations for 12 years. He is a native Ohioan\, graduate of The Ohio State University (BA in Communications) and an avid student of history. \n\n\n\nMark is the editor of the The Buckeye Vanguard about the 49th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Mark recently retired from a 20-year career as a Civil War reenactor\, serving as a Union officer throughout the country at such places as Gettysburg\, Chattanooga\, Richmond and Shiloh. Mark also served as military coordinator for the film Light of Freedom released in the fall of 2013 and had a supporting role in the 2015 film Wings of the Wind. Mark served on the Civil War Sesquicentennial Advisory Committee for the state of Ohio and has appeared in several television history-themed television programs. \n\n\n\nCurious about our Speakers Bureau? Check out speakers and topics here. \n\n\n\nWant to see other Ohio Humanities events? Check out our calendar!
URL:https://www.ohiohumanities.org/event/ohio-in-the-civil-war-2/
LOCATION:Dover Public Library\, 525 N. Walnut Street\, Dover\, Ohio\, 44622\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speakers' Bureau
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240905T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240905T190000
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SUMMARY:Blood\, Brains\, and Lobotomies
DESCRIPTION:Come visit the Heritage Golf Club with the Friends of Nursing History for an Ohio Humanities’ Speakers’ Bureau event with Mindy McGinnis! She will share the research behind her Edgar Award-Winning Gothic historical thriller\, A MADNESS SO DISCREET. Learn about how doctors treated brain injuries in the 1890’s and the different aspects of care for the mentally ill – for better or for worse. Also included is a brief history of The Athens Lunatic Asylum\, the setting for the novel. \n\n\n\nMindy McGinnis is a YA author who has worked in a high school library for thirteen years. Her debut\, Not A Drop to Drink\, a post-apocalyptic survival story set in a world with very little freshwater\, has been optioned for film by Stephenie Meyer’s Fickle Fish Films. The companion novel\, In A Handful of Dust was released in 2014. Her Gothic historical thriller\, A Madness So Discreet was released in October of 2015 from Katherine Tegen Books. \n\n\n\nCurious about our Speakers Bureau? Check out speakers and topics here. \n\n\n\nWant to see other Ohio Humanities events? Check out our calendar!
URL:https://www.ohiohumanities.org/event/blood-brains-and-lobotomies-2/
LOCATION:Heritage Golf Club\, 3525 Heritage Club Dr.\, Hilliard\, Ohio\, 43026\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speakers' Bureau
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240822T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240822T200000
DTSTAMP:20260418T042305
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SUMMARY:Rhetoric of the Rainbow: Living Between the Gay Movement and Civil Rights Movement
DESCRIPTION:Come visit Elizabeth’s Bookshop and Writing Centre for an Ohio Humanities’ Speakers’ Bureau event with LuSter Singleton! LuSter will discuss the intersections and departures of both the gay and Civil Rights Movement. \n\n\n\nIn the early 2000s\, LuSter disclosed their long-time struggle with finding a place of belonging within the so-called “gay movement” and the civil rights movement. With both having supported or encouraged notions of gender binaries\, misogyny\, transphobia\, and racial fetishization\, Singleton found it difficult to get fully ‘settled’ in either camp. Singleton shares this history to engage discussions on cancel culture\, Black Lives Matter\, and disappearing lesbian visibility and asks whether history is repeating itself. \n\n\n\nThis event is a part of Ohio Humanities’ United We Stand initiative. \n\n\n\nCurious about our Speakers Bureau? Check out speakers and topics here. \n\n\n\nWant to see other Ohio Humanities events? Check out our calendar!
URL:https://www.ohiohumanities.org/event/rhetoric-of-the-rainbow-living-between-the-gay-movement-and-civil-rights-movement/
LOCATION:Elizabeth’s Bookshop & Writing Centre\, 647 E Market Street Unit 3\, Akron\, Ohio\, 44304\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speakers' Bureau
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240816T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240816T123000
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SUMMARY:Why Ohio? Understanding the Opioid Crisis
DESCRIPTION:Come visit the Prevention Action Alliance in Columbus for an Ohio Humanities’ Speakers Bureau event with Daniel Skinner! \n\n\n\nWhile the opioid crisis has swept across the entire United States\, leaving no community untouched\, it has hit Ohio particularly hard. But why Ohio\, in particular? Drawing on his experience in compiling a collection of more than 50 perspectives from across Ohio\, Dr. Daniel Skinner\, Assistant Professor of Health Policy at Ohio University explains some of the rarely discussed aspects of the opioid crisis\, including its intersections with affluence and poverty\, race and sexuality\, and particular aspects of Ohio’s culture\, such as religion\, sports\, and its changing economy. Along with Dr. Berkeley Franz\, Assistant Professor of Community-based Health at Ohio University\, Dr. Skinner is co-editor of the book Not Far From Me: Stories of Opioids and Ohio (Ohio State University Press\, 2019)\, as well as author of numerous publications in political theory\, medical humanities\, and health policy. \n\n\n\nCurious about our Speakers Bureau? Check out speakers and topics here. \n\n\n\nWant to see other Ohio Humanities events? Check out our calendar!
URL:https://www.ohiohumanities.org/event/why-ohio-understanding-the-opioid-crisis/
LOCATION:Prevention Action Alliance\, 6171 Huntley Road Suite G\, Columbus\, Ohio\, 43229\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speakers' Bureau
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