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<p class="fluidplugincopy" style="background:white"><b><span style="color:#0D0D0D;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#0D0D0D;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;background:white">Failing to See: A Meditation on Ethnography<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="fluidplugincopy" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white"><span style="color:#0D0D0D;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#0D0D0D;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;background:white">Join us for a lecture by David Todd Lawrence, English professor
at the University of St. Thomas. In this presentation, Dr. Lawrence will explore and consider the possibilities of an unsettled and decolonized ethnography – one that surrenders rather than conquers, that opens up to rather than comprehends, that fails rather
than succeeds.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="color:#0D0D0D;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#0D0D0D;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">David Todd Lawrence teaches African American literature and expressive culture, folklore studies, and cultural
studies at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN. He is co-author of <em>
<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">When They Blew the Levee: Race, Politics, and Community in Pinhook, MO</span></em> (2018), winner of the 2019 Chicago Folklore Prize. An ethnographer, folklorist, and literary scholar – his work sits at the intersection
of identity, narrative, community, and culture. Dr. Lawrence is also co-creator of the
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">George Floyd and Anti-Racist Street Art Database</span></em> and co-director of the Urban Art Mapping research project.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#0D0D0D;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#0D0D0D;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">For more information, follow this link:
<a href="https://go.osu.edu/cfs_lawrence_ls"><span style="color:#0D0DFF;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#0D0DFF;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">https://go.osu.edu/cfs_lawrence_ls</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:white;text-align:start"><span style="color:#0D0D0D;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#0D0D0D;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">456 Hagerty Hall, 1775 College Road, Columbus, OH 43210<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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