The Responsibility, Morality, and Costs of War symposium blends performing and visual arts with leading research to explore the costs of war. Jonathan Shay, author of A chilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character and Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming, will deliver the symposium's keynote address. Renowned Czech designer Simona Rybáková leads the creation of a performance/installation and delivers the Ohio State Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute lecture. Assistant Professor Kevin McClatchy (pictured) performs his new solo play, Scrap Heap, about a Special Forces veteran with PTSD. Other notable participants include Mershon affiliate and decorated veteran Peter Mansoor, Ohio State endowed chair of History Bruno Cabanes, founder of American Women Veterans Genevieve Chase, and award-winning playwright and actor Bianca Sams. Read more and register at go.osu.edu/costsofwar

Ishan Ashutosh is a critical human geographer whose work encompasses the study of migration, the politics of race and ethnicity from an international and comparative perspective, and urban studies. His research examines the multiple and contested representations of South Asia through projects situation in migration and area studies. The first research project focuses on transnational politics of South Asian diasporas in multiple urban centers in the United States, Canada and Britain. The second research project examines the constructions of South Asia in the social sciences as a site of knowledge production. This talk examines the shifting relations between the Indian nation-state and the South Asian diaspora. Read more and register at go.osu.edu/ashutoshi

David Edelstein is associate professor in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and Department of Government at Georgetown University. His research and teaching focus on international security, international relations theory, and U.S. foreign policy. His first book is Occupational Hazards: Success and Failure in Military Occupation (Cornell, 2008). He is currently engaged in two major research projects. One is on the time horizons of political leaders in international politics, and the other examines exit strategies from military interventions. In this talk, Edelstein will explore what past cases of rising great powers might lead us to expect in the case of China. Read more and register at go.osu.edu/edelsteind

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• See more connections between Ohio State and Ghana
• View the video report: Cardinal Peter Turkson visits Ohio State
• See the Storify: Cardinal Peter Turkson's Visit to Ohio State University
• See the university feature Ohio State Sustainability in Action

While it is commonplace for women to conduct fieldwork in Antarctica today, this was not always the case. With funding from the National Science Foundation and facing skepticism from the U.S. Navy, a team from Ohio State's Institute for Polar Studies (now called the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center) arrived in Antarctica in 1969. The expedition received much attention for breaking the gender barrier, but undertook serious research in the McMurdo Dry Valleys. Terry Tickhill, one of the members of the team, pursued studies in ecology following the expedition and recently retired from a career in the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and National Park Service. Read more

Joshua Sanborn is head of the Department of History and chair of the Russian and East European Studies Program at Lafayette College. He is author of Imperial Apocalypse: The Great War and the Destruction of the Russian Empire (Oxford University Press, 2014); Drafting the Russian Nation: Military Conscription, Total War, and Mass Politics, 1905-1925, and, with co-author Annette Timm, Gender, Sex, and the Shaping of Modern Europe. Pizza and refreshments will be served.

• Humanities and the Arts Discovery Themes Block Grants ($320,000)
• Impact Grants ($330,000)
• International Affairs Academic Enrichment Grants ($150,000)
• OSU CARES/OSU Extension Seed Grants ($80,000)
• Service-Learning Grants ($40,000)
• Undergraduate and Faculty Community-Based Research Grants ($90,000)