Our Friday meeting will be at 10:30 AM.
See you all soon!!!
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Monday, October 13, 2008
Congratulation Tim!!!!
Tim Lloyd (GREAT GREAT PERSON)
PhD, Executive Director, American Folklore Society, Mershon Center, The Ohio State University
He has just been named Visiting Professor of Folklore at the Graduate School of Literature, History, and Philosophy of Shandong University in Jinan, China.
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Featured Mershon research project: Political Asylum Policy and International Security
VERY VERY COOL Professor!!! 
Principal Investigators: Amy Shuman, Departments of English, Women's Studies, and Anthropology
In 2005, President Bush signed the Read ID Act, requiring applicants for asylum to provide documentation of their identity and allowing judges to deny asylum to anyone whose family may be connected with a terrorist group. The act is one example of how political asylum policy is intertwined with international security issues.
In this project, Amy Shuman and co-author Carol Bohmer of Dartmouth College examine how humanitarian concerns for refugees come into conflict with security concerns in the United States and Britain. While the goal of political asylum is to provide refuge for the applicant, the process must also protect the state. This contradiction is at the root of current problems in the system.
This project builds on previous Mershon-supported research by Shuman and Bohmer that resulted in Rejecting Refugees: Political Asylum in the 21st Century (Routledge, 2008). Using in-depth accounts by asylum applicants and interviews with lawyers and others involved, this book shows what it is like to apply for asylum in the United States and Great Britain, and explores the central obstacles facing asylum applicants.
Now Shuman and Bohmer are examining how the identity of asylum seekers is represented in the media and public policy, including both asylum policy and security policy. Their data will include ethnographic observation of hearings, interviews with asylum applicants and lawyers, review of policies, and review of a wide variety of media from newspaper accounts to online postings by international aid agencies.
Shuman and Bohmer hope to answer two questions. First, why are asylum applicants under such suspicion? Their previous research found that although the system is vulnerable to abuse, terrorists prefer to stay under the radar and are not applying for asylum. Second, what is the relationship between asylum policy and foreign policy?
The researchers also hope to learn what types of documents are available to various populations in different countries. For example, education records; birth, marriage, and death certificates; medical records; and identity documents such as passports are not always available in each country.
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Friday, October 10, 2008
Author to discuss history and politics of veiling!!!
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Jennifer Heath "The Veil: Visible and Invisible Spaces"
4 p.m
Mershon Center for International Security Studies, 1501 Neil Ave.
Jennifer Heath is the editor of The Veil: Women Writers on Its History, Lore, and Politics (University of California Press, 2008). She is an independent scholar, curator and writer, the author of nine works of fiction and non-fiction, including The Scimitar and The Veil: Extraordinary Women of Islam and A House White With Sorrow: A Ballad for Afghanistan.
Heath discusses the veiling of women, men, and sacred places and objects, which has existed in countless cultures and religions throughout history. Today, veiling is a globally polarizing issue, a locus for the struggle between Islam and the West and between contemporary and traditional interpretations of Islam. But veiling was a practice long before Islam and still extends far beyond the Middle East.
Heath's multimedia presentation -- including a 24-minute film, Hollywood Harems, by Tania Kamal-Eldin -- will explore and examine the history and politics of veiling around the world.
Jennifer Heath "The Veil: Visible and Invisible Spaces"
4 p.m
Mershon Center for International Security Studies, 1501 Neil Ave.
Jennifer Heath is the editor of The Veil: Women Writers on Its History, Lore, and Politics (University of California Press, 2008). She is an independent scholar, curator and writer, the author of nine works of fiction and non-fiction, including The Scimitar and The Veil: Extraordinary Women of Islam and A House White With Sorrow: A Ballad for Afghanistan.
Heath discusses the veiling of women, men, and sacred places and objects, which has existed in countless cultures and religions throughout history. Today, veiling is a globally polarizing issue, a locus for the struggle between Islam and the West and between contemporary and traditional interpretations of Islam. But veiling was a practice long before Islam and still extends far beyond the Middle East.
Heath's multimedia presentation -- including a 24-minute film, Hollywood Harems, by Tania Kamal-Eldin -- will explore and examine the history and politics of veiling around the world.
Encyclopedia of Asian American Folklore: Call for Contributors
Click here to read the contents of a call for contributors to the Encyclopedia of Asian American Folklore, to be published in 2010.
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Pumpkin Festival Oct.15th to 18th
The Circleville Pumpkin Festival!!!
If you are interested in this please visit:
http://www.pumpkinshow.com/schedule/index.htm
Have Fun!!!
If you are interested in this please visit:
http://www.pumpkinshow.com/schedule/index.htm
Have Fun!!!
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