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Humanities Institute

Upcoming Events

What the Fridays
October 10, 2025

What the...? Fridays!

Event Start Time: 10:00 am
Event Location: 455 Hagerty Hall
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October 10, 2025

Utley Lecture: Memorial Landscapes, Elegy, and "Ingvar's Expedition"

Event Start Time: 4:00 pm
Event Location: 18th Ave Library Research Commons
Medieval Japan AU25 Film Series
October 22, 2025

Medieval Japan Film Series: Rashōmon (1950)

Event Start Time: 7:00 pm
Event Location: 180 Hagerty Hall
Davis Colloquium on Christianity and Healing
October 24, 2025

Davis Colloquium: Christianity and Healing

Event Start Time: 10:00 am
Event Location: 1120 Thompson Library

Recent News

Center for Ethnic Studies Asian American Studies Graduate Interdisciplinary Specialization

Asian American Studies Graduate Interdisciplinary Specialization Launched for Spring 2026!

The Center for Ethnic Studies now offers a Graduate Interdisciplinary Specialization in Asian American Studies (AAS)! The Asian American Studies Graduate Interdisciplinary Specialization (GIS)…

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OSU Outreach at Festival Latino 2025

The 2026 Festival Latino was hot in all possible ways! The music, food and lively community made the event a success, and the OSU booth volunteers offered nonstop engagement with community members…
Death's Futurity

CES Associate Director Sam Aranke Wins MLA Book Award

Associate Director of the Center for Ethnic Studies Sam Aranke (Associate Professor of History of Art) has won a major award from the MLA (Modern Language Association) for her book, Death’s…

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On View: Winged Creatures and Flying Shamans

The Humanities Institute is currently hosting a mini exhibition from the Kawsay Ukhunchay Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Art and Cultural Artifacts Research Collection. "Winged Creatures and…

People Directory

Metaphors of Reception, Reception as Metaphor Working Group Leader; Associate Professor, Department of Classics
Program Director, Asian American Studies; Associate Professor, Department of English
Postdoctoral Scholar at CFS and the Humanities Institute
Director, Center for Ethnic Studies; Associate Professor, Department of History of Art