[MES Forum] Our First Forum Next Semester: Observing Culture Through Pictures

[McClimans, Melinda]

Dear MES Forum,

We’re going to meet in person next semester on Wednesday, January 24th at 4:00pm in the Research Common’s<https://library.osu.edu/researchcommons> Brainstorming room. We all value student success yet we rarely focus on undergraduates in these forums. We’re going to amend that with an interactive discussion about culture using pictures. Please send me pictures of your fieldwork! Or, pictures taken in the Middle East or surrounding areas that mean something to you personally.

Please share this forum with your students, especially undergraduate. We are forming a group of student consultants who will get special mentorship opportunities and will shape our programs going forward. This is their chance to get in on the ground floor and access perks early.

The Brainstorming room is fully equipped for hybrid events so there will be a zoom option for those who wish to join remotely.  Please RSVP<https://mesc.osu.edu/form/2024-01-24-middle-east-studies-f> by January 18th to let me know if you will be joining remotely or in person so I will know how much food to bring. Thank you so much. Here is the full list of events (correction: I had written it would be a Thursday when it will actually be a Wednesday).:


Spring Semester Events and Important Dates

  *   Monday, January 8, 2024, 4:00PM, Hagerty Hall Room 186, “To Be the Wife of a Talmid Hacham [Torah Scholar]: How Ultra-Orthodox Women Perceive the Socio-Economic Reality of the 'Learners’ Society'” https://nesa.osu.edu/events/be-wife-talmid-hacham-torah-scholar-how-ultra-orthodox-women-perceive-socio-economic-reality for further details. Hosted by Near Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures.
  *   Monday, January 15 MLK Holiday
  *   Wednesday (corrected), January 24 4:00pm, MES Forum, in-person in the Research Common’s<https://library.osu.edu/researchcommons> Brainstorming room. Please RSVP<https://mesc.osu.edu/form/2024-01-24-middle-east-studies-f> by January 18th
  *   Saturday, January 27th, 2024, Somali Night, hosted by the Somali Students Association, at the Archie M. Griffin Grand Ballroom
  *   Wednesday, February 28 10:00am, MES Forum with Dodie McDow<https://history.osu.edu/people/mcdow.4>, in person! In the Research Commons<https://library.osu.edu/researchcommons>, Brainstorming Room, hybrid, 18th ave library
  *   March 11- 15 Spring Break
  *   March (Exact Date tba), Jérémie Schiettecatte, Visiting Scholar, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World - New York University
  *   Thursday March 28th 4:00pm, MES Forum, online
  *   April (Exact Date TBA) Wouter Henkelman on Persepolis and the Achaemenids. He is the world’s leading scholar of Achaemenid history and the Elamite language and is a professor at the École Pratique des Hautes Études.
  *   Wednesday, April 10, 10:00am, MES Forum, Fireside in Hagerty Hall Crane Café area, end-of-year celebration showcasing faculty and student work.
  *   Monday, April 22nd, Last day of classes

Exhibit Ongoing Throughout SP24

  *   The upcoming exhibit The Silk Road, to be held during the Spring '24 semester at The Ohio State University-Marion, is another unique opportunity.  Our colleague, Amanda Respess, curated the exhibit with Gayle Strege, the curator of OSU's Historic Costumes and Textiles Collection.  The exhibit will run from January 19- March 15, 2024 at the Kuhn Fine Arts Gallery on the Marion campus (1465 Mount Vernon Avenue, Marion, Ohio 43302).  Stay tuned for details on an opening event in January.

We will host author and critic Dr. Adania Shibli of an online event in March – stay tuned for the date and time.  The event is organized by OIA, NESA, MESC and others.
If there are other events you believe your colleagues would be interested in attending, please feel free to write directly to this list.

Best wishes,

Melinda
[The Ohio State University]
Melinda McClimans, PhD
Assistant Director
International Affairs Middle East Studies Center
145 Enarson Classroom Building, 2009 Milikin Rd, Columbus, OH 43210
614-292-6506 / 614-974-4331Mobile
go.osu.edu/melindamcclimanszoom<https://go.osu.edu/melindamcclimanszoom>
mcclimans.2 at osu.edu<mailto:mcclimans.2 at osu.edu> / mesc.osu.edu<https://mesc.osu.edu/>
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