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Call for Hacker Yoga: deep ecology or power builder? research proposals hat happens “on the mat” should ally Hacker died of cancer in 1988 Wtransform the way we live—in S at the peak of a varied and even other words, the practice of yoga is flamboyant career. At the time of the naturally green. OSU sociologist’s death, friends and So say members of one subset of the family members established a fund to estimated 15 million yoga adherents in keep alive the kind of passionate work the today. The “green she pursued. The Center is now yoga” movement has developed over accepting applications from students the past two decades, said Stuart and community members for two Sally Sarbacker, as certain leaders in the Hacker Awards of up to $1,500 each, in global yoga community pushed for support of research and writing aimed formal commitment to ecological at promoting social justice, especially principles as an aspect of contem- for women. porary practice. Engagement can take Though expelled from high school as a variety of forms, from personal a consequence of pregnancy, Hacker choices such as diet and consumer won a scholarship to the University of behavior, to active involvement in Chicago where she earned doctoral and Stuart Sarbacker politics and organizations. undergraduate degrees. There followed (Continued on Page 8) stints as a research assistant at the and Harvard University; clinical instructor in 2012-13 Fellowships Awarded psychiatry at Baylor University College of Medicine; staff sociologist at the he Center has named seven OSU Julie Green Tfaculty members as resident Art Faculty (Continued on Page 9) Research Fellows for 2012-13. School of Arts and Communication Sally Hacker OSU Fellows receive one term of The Last Supper support to be relieved of teaching and other responsibilities, though they are Charlotte Headrick considered in residence for the full Theatre Arts Faculty academic year. They are provided a School of Arts and Communication comfortable office in Autzen House Women of Some Importance: Essays on along with a computer and support Irish Artists Who Have Influenced services. Theatre, 1900 to the Present The call for applications for 2013-14 Fellowships will go out in the fall. The Nancy Froehlich new Fellows and their projects are: Andrea Marks Art Faculty, Graphic Design Richmond Barbour School of Arts and Communication English Faculty Occupy: Visualizing a Grass-Roots School of Writing, Literature, and Film Movement in the 21st Century The Loss of the ‘Trades Increase’ (Continued on Page 8) Early tapestries figured on page and stage

ngland had Shakespeare but no have been very concrete. . . I argue that Michelangelo, at least, so goes the tapestry provided a narrative model Ethe usual view of Renaissance arts. to which England’s first published Literary scholar Rebecca Olson writers aspired, one that was beautiful offers a different perspective. While by virtue of its complexity, dimension, it’s true that England had no painter and non-linear structure.” such as Michelangelo, she argues, Olson’s study pays close attention to there was a lively visual arts culture in tapestries that were mentioned but not the form of huge, vivid tapestries. described in a literary text. “I propose “The standard account is that while that writers deliberately left arras painting and architecture flourished in hangings ‘blank’ so that their readers Italy during the Renaissance, the could project their own imagined iconoclasm of the Protestant surfaces—memories of tapestries they Reformation left England virtually had seen in life, for example—onto the devoid of visual representation,” said text for a more interactive and personal Olson, a Center Research Fellow and reading experience.” assistant professor of English in OSU’s School of Literature, Writing, Rebecca Olson Two important examples are the and Film. “What the English did have, tapestry through which Hamlet stabs scholars have maintained, was poetry come from the Latin “texere,” meaning Polonius, and Innogen’s “tapestry of and drama.” to weave, and narrative terms such as silk and silver” in Cymbeline, both of In fact, she said, Early Modern “plot,” “clue,” and “spinning yarns” which function as far more than mere England was rich in opulent tapestries refer explicitly to textile vocabulary. background in the dramas. known as arras that were on view to “Interestingly, we continue to use “Although we have traditionally read men and women of all social levels. textile words as metaphors for new early modern texts as propagandistic or Olson’s book-in-progress, Weaving technologies,” Olson said, and offered straightforwardly didactic, paying Device: The Arras in Early Modern “web” and online “threads” as attention to the tapestries within the Fiction, is the first extensive study of examples. “In the early modern period, texts helps us to see the ways writers the representation of the tapestries in when most households still produced actually encouraged readers to make the English literature.To understand the their own cloth, such metaphors would texts their own.” tapestries and the part they played in contemporary life, she said, it’s important to understand their repre- sentation in works by Shakespeare and other writers. “While scholarship on tapestries is dominated by critics interested in the role they played in supporting European imperialism, my work reveals that in the literature of the period, tapestries are associated with people with little or no political power, women in particular.” Renaissance tapestries often featured words as well as images, and therefore resist categorization as either “image” or “word.” Tapestries in literature underscore the similarities between woven images and written narrative. “Text” and “textile” both

2 There’s more to Tex-Mex than meets the palate

ex-Mex” is said to be the most neighborhood of Westside. His Eagle popular ethnic food in this Brand Chili remains a popular seller. Tcountry but it is a lot more Another example of “appropriated” complicated than a plate of tacos, food is the familiar fajita. Originally beans and rice. backyard fare, fajitas are now served “The Tex-Mex brand of Mexican food in restaurants as a choice dish with an is an expression of strength, creativity, “authentic” presentation. resourcefulness, and performativity,” Thus, said Cárdenas, fajitas have said Norma Cárdenas become a Tex-Mex imitation of Mexican At the same time, it is also a “vehicle food. The “complex, nuanced, and for the expression of racial and class tenuous relationship between food, hostility. . . Food representations of race, and space” was highlighted Mexican-Americans have served to recently by a report that suggested construct racialized images and to corn tortillas—the emblematic food of appropriate culture for the tourist and working-class Mexicans—could be restaurant industry.” responsible for high cancer rates in the A Center Research Fellow and Westside area. “At the intersection of assistant professor of ethnic studies in Norma Cárdenas race, geography, and citizenship, the OSU’s School of Language, Culture, report had the potential to wreak havoc and Society, Cárdenas is drawing on first appeared in print in the 1960s, and on local food production and ethnographic work carried out in San was made better known by English-born consumption.” Antonio—home to more than 700 Diana Kennedy, a Mexican cookbook By focusing on Mexican and Mexican- Mexican restaurants—to write a book, author who derided the “detestable” American manufacturers in the food The Reconquest of Tex-Mex: culinary tradition as Americanized industry, along with menu standards, Representation, Identity, and Food. Mexican food. specialties, descriptions, prices, décor, In her consideration of Tex-Mex food, “After several iterations of Tex-Mex and terminology, Cárdenas will argue which is the first full, book-length as Spanish, Nouvelle Hispanic, Nuevo that “Mexican restaurants blur the treatment of the subject, Cárdenas Latino, Fusion Latino, and then division between public and private aims to highlight the contributions of rebranding as Southwestern with an spaces, serve a sense of belonging and Mexican-Americans to American elegant and refined new American repositories of culinary memory, and culinary history and to explore regional cooking style, Nuevo Tex-Mex express pan-ethnicity.” contradictory attitudes toward is back in vogue, thus resignifying Mexican-Americans. Her Fellowship identity,” said Cárdenas. Tex-Mex food efforts will focus on a key chapter in is represented as exotic, slovenly, which she will “examine how Mexican uncivilized, servile, “natural”— a ethnic restaurants define Tex-Mex and characterization that Cárdenas says how they negotiate the tensions of extends by analogy to Mexican- ‘Fajitas have cultural homogenization.” American people as well. become a Tex-Mex San Antonio is a recognized tourist A good example of the cultural destination in large part because of disjunction in the history of Tex-Mex imitation of Mexican-American culture. And yet, food involves the signature dish chili. Mexican food’ said Cárdenas, the predominant Latino/ Chili stands were among San Antonio’s Latina population presents a problem earliest informal public restaurants. for tourism because race and ethnicity Established by people of Mexican are associated with underdevelopment descent in plazas in the 1830s, they and pathological behaviors. It is this were shut down by city health officials, slippage between the commodification yet in 1896, German immigrant Willie of Mexican-American culture and the Gebhardt founded a chili powder realities of that culture that interest her. company based in San Antonio’s The term “Tex-Mex” to describe food predominantly Mexican-American

3 Writer employed drama to spur resistance

o country believes more Some plays were patriotic, others deeply in the power of drama, such as The Problem of Face, were Nand no country uses it more satirical, poking fun at such things as frequently in the cause of political the Chinese obsession with social purges and ideological feuds than the status and prestige, corrupt officials, People’s Republic of China. shallow and opportunist intellectuals, “Because of its mass appeal and and educated women preoccupied by propaganda value, drama was made ‘to fashion and romance. serve politics’ as Mao Zedong called “Even the positive characters are not for,” said Shiao-ling Yu, a Center fully committed to the nationalist Research Fellow and associate cause,” said Yu. “All of Lao She’s professor of Chinese in OSU’s School plays expose the faults within Chinese of Language, Culture, and Society. society which hamper the resistance.” “Politicization of drama reached its Lao She’s concern for national height during the Cultural Revolution salvation transformed him from a writer when the stage was turned into a with no interest in politics to an battleground under the direction of advocate for using literature and art to Mao’s wife Jiang Qing.” Shiao-ling Yu support a political cause. Modern drama, with its spoken “Before the war, he showed little dialogue and realistic portrayal of life, As head of the All-China Anti- interest in politics—he did not was introduced to China in the early Aggression Writers and Artists participate in the debate on 20th century and since then has been Association, he promoted the use of revolutionary literature or join the closely linked to the social and political folk media such as drum songs, comic League of Chinese Left Wing Writers. conditions of the country. One of the dialogues, storytelling and ballads to In fact, he was critical of revolutionary most important writers, novelist Lao rally resistance to the invaders. Besides literature because of its lack of She (1899-1966), turned to theater and composing many of the folkloric pieces, substance, lifeless characters, and produced 22 plays in response to a 33- Lao She also began to write plays in the political slogans.” year period of cataclysmic change that hope that they would reach a wider Persuaded that national survival was included the Japanese invasion and the audience than his fiction. at stake, however, he changed style, move from a Nationalist to a Communist government. (Continued on page 9) “Given the truism that drama reflects the society that produces it, these plays by Lao She provide a rich source for studying the relationship between politics and drama,” said Yu. Her research project, “Politics and Theater in 20th Century China: A Study of Lao She’s Dramatic Works,” will focus on plays written during the war years and after 1949, new interpretations of his work, and his influence on younger playwrights.

The Japanese invasion of China in 1937 set off an eight-year war that united the Chinese people; even the Nationalists and Communists formed a joint front to combat Japanese aggression. Lao She left his wife and children in Beijing and rushed to the wartime capital Chongqing to join the war effort. 4 Faith and ‘physic’ linked for millennia

ecent highly-publicized faith approach to medicine can be found in healing cases have ancient the approximately 70 Hippocratic R . roots in Western culture—to medical treatises that furnish the cure illness was one of the prime greatest evidence for Greek rational functions of religion going back at medicine. A component of Hippocratic least five thousand years. medicine was the creation of medical Though medicine and religion now ethics that was meant to provide a mostly have parted ways, their long professional standard for physicians. intersection from the earliest At the same time, said Ferngren, Greek civilizations of Mesopotamia and healing was complemented by religious Egypt to our own 21st century world healing, especially in the cult of reveals a great deal about Western Asclepius, the most important of many cultural beliefs and practices. In his Greek healing gods. book-in-progress, Medicine and Following the death of Alexander in the Religion: A Historical Introduction, fourth century B.C., this complementary Center Research Fellow Gary Ferngren professional and religious approach will examine healing within the spread through the Mediterranean world polytheistic belief systems of the Gary Ferngren and, “without conflict or competition, ancient world and the succeeding was adopted everywhere throughout the faiths of Judaism, Christianity, and “A new interest in ‘whole-person health Roman Empire.” Islam. care’ and growing dissatisfaction with Intended to be a broad survey, Three thousand years ago in Greece, traditional medical models that many Ferngren’s book, which is under illness was treated by “empirics” who view as mechanistic and reductionist contract with Johns Hopkins dealt with symptoms while lacking have led to new interest in examining University Press, draws on 35 years of theoretical understanding of disease. the humane values of religious and research that produced dozens of The empirics were followed by spiritual traditions over the centuries. articles, papers, book chapters, and shamanistic healers who attributed Recent highly publicized and encyclopedia entries in addition to his disease to demons and angry gods, controversial cases of families who previous book. The work is intended and treated patients through prayer have chosen faith healing over medical for academics and general readers alike, and incantations. care have highlighted another more and will aim to avoid the “privileging of By the fifth century B.C., Greek questionable side of some religious Western values” that has too often medicine began to take a systematic alternatives to conventional healing.” distorted the understanding of both approach to disease, naturalistic and While religious traditions are well religion and science. theoretical, with a rational basis and known for their historic role in ethical standards reflected in Hip- providing explanations of sickness and pocratic medical treatises. Even so, suffering as well as motivating Greek medicine continued to include a compassionate care, in the ancient ‘In the ancient world religious component. world it was almost universally held “A complementary relationship that one function of religion was to it was almost universally between these alternatives permitted heal disease. held that one function Greeks to seek healing from the best A primary object for Ferngren in available source,” said Ferngren, writing Medicine and Religion is to of religion was professor of history in OSU’s School of broaden understanding of the history to heal disease’ History, Philosophy and Religion. His of spirituality within Western medical most recent book, Medicine and Health and healing traditions. The book will Care in Early Christianity (Johns explore the historical continuity of Hopkins UP: 2009), was supported by a certain leading themes and motifs previous Center Fellowship. found in every culture in which religion The current book comes at a and medicine intersect, while also particularly good time for an highlighting features specific to a exploration of the relationship between particular culture. medicine and religion, said Ferngren. A naturalistic and theoretical 5 Two quilters speak different textile languages

Quilt: A coverlet or blanket made concerned about the preconception me,” she said. After taking a of two layers of fabric with a of what makes a quilt—a quilt is a workshop from well-known quilter layer of cotton, wool, feathers, or construction concept, one of our Nancy Crow in 1997, Snell moved down in between, all stitched oldest. A quilt is three layers joined even farther from traditional quilting firmly together, usually in a together. They started as body and began creating art quilts. decorative crisscross design. armor and are still used this way.” Snell says inspiration “comes from Given their layered construction, everywhere—print ads in a hough they began as utilitarian even athletic shoes could be magazine, tiles on a bathroom floor, Tobjects, quilts have long been regarded as quilts, said Lohmann. or simply the desire to try something considered an art form, and “Think about your home—an new. . .Making art is not the job of certainly a folk art form. The Spring interior wall, an exterior wall, and the cowering perfectionist. I’ve Term exhibit at the Center will most often fiberglass insulation as learned not only to live with, but also feature quilts by two artists, the ‘batting’ in between. The wall to love my mistakes, to see them as Clayborn Jackson Lohmann and studs give structure and act as the an opportunity for further exploration Sidnee Snell, with very different quilting pattern. Nail it together, and and adventures.” approaches to the medium. voila!” Lohmann’s quilts reflect his Sidnee Snell began making quilts background as a painter and in the late 80’s using traditional The show will be at the Center printmaker while also echoing the patterns and techniques. “But the from early April through June and can geometric quality of traditional quilt colors and patterns of be seen 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays. patterns. Snell’s most recent quilts contemporary quilts soon seduced Information: 541-737-2450. tend to be pictorial, using photographs to recreate images in a style she describes as reminiscent of the paint- by-number craft of her youth. Born in Texas, Lohmann was raised on cattle ranches in Oklahoma and Kansas, and attended school on the Osage Reservation. His BFA in printmaking is from Wichita State University. In 2010, his quilts were shown at the Schneider Museum of Art in Ashland, and the Textile Arts Center in Brooklyn, NY. “I am not concerned about materials as such,” he said. “I am

Sacred Seating, quilt by Sidnee Snell 6 Rio’s Quilt, by Clayborn Jackson Lohmann

‘A quilt is a construction concept, one of our oldest’ Clay Lohmann

‘Making art is not the job of the cowering perfectionist’ Sidnee Snell

New York City, quilt by Sidnee Snell 7 Green yoga. . . (continued from page 1)

A Center Research Fellow and logical discourse that situates yoga intimate relationships between rulers, assistant professor of philosophy in within a moral framework of nonviolence politicians, and religious specialists, OSU’s School of History, Philosophy and a virtuoso discourse that sees yoga and that green yoga can be viewed as and Religion, Sarbacker practices yoga as principally a means to an individual’s a variation on this theme.” in addition to his scholarly work on the power over the world and community.” Sanskrit is Sarbacker’s primary historical context for the development The second section will examine research language, though he also of modern yoga. His OSU course, “The economic assumptions, especially works in Pali, Tibetan, and Hindi. His Theory and Practice of Modern Yoga,” respecting connection between origins research includes extensive fieldwork includes an active session following of yoga traditions and the economic in India on Hindu and Buddhist the lecture. He is the author of the 2005 conditions relevant to yoga practice at traditions, as well as the study of yoga book Sama˜dhi: The Numinous and the time. traditions in the United States. Cessative in Indo-Tibetan Yoga. “Of particular interest here is the Not all yoga adherents follow the thesis that the development of yoga same physical and philosophical paths. traditions was tied in with social and Sarbacker’s Center research project, economic disruptions in early Indian ‘Political engagement “The Ecology of Contemporary Yoga: civilization, and that yoga can be seen Philosophy, Economics, Politics,” as a response to particular social and has been a consistent focuses on “green yoga” with the aim ecological conditions. . . Along these theme in Indian of clarifying the role of ecological lines, contemporary forms of yoga are thought and activism within con- seen by some of its key proponents as traditions of asceticism temporary yoga traditions. He will an attempt to recover the ‘self’ that is and yoga’ examine the relationships (or their alienated from its own body and the absence) between the ecological world due to the structure of modern concerns characteristic of post-industrial life and society.” contemporary traditions of yoga and Sarbacker maintains that although those of their historical precursors there are clear differences between the within Hinduism, Buddhism, and cultural worlds of ancient Indian yoga Jainism. and contemporary yoga, both can be Fellowships. . . (from page 1) “The proposed project is intended viewed, at least in part, as a response to to bring greater sophistication to our the disruption of life due to rapid social Kirsi Peltomaki understanding of the role of ecological and ecological change in the wake of Art Faculty thought and activism within urbanization and globalization. School of Arts and Communication contemporary yoga traditions,” said The third part of the project will look at The Experiential Turn: The Art Sarbacker.The first part of the study ways in which political activism has been Encounter in the 1970s will address the question of whether included in, or excluded from, the the philosophical principles of yoga— discourse of yoga in its various forms, Gregg Walker historical and contemporary—might be and the emergence of ecological Speech Communication Faculty said to represent a type of ‘deep discourse as a key philosophical thread in School of Arts and Communication ecology,’ one that roots the practice of contemporary yoga. It will include Dominant Discourses of Climate yoga in social concerns and discussion of the role of prominent Change: Power and Culture in the considerations. modern yoga figures in Indian nation- Search for Common Ground “This section will address the notion alism, and a look at the work of some that there exists a ‘yoga morality’ and important contemporary yoga Lei Xue that yoga is fundamentally a philosophy practitioners who have called for activism, Art Faculty of nonviolence and simplicity, concep- especially in regard to ecological issues. School of Arts and Communication tions that are at the foundation of Sarbacker writes that “political Models for Writing and the Culture contemporary green yoga,” said engagement has been a consistent of Chinese Calligraphy Sarbacker. There is a tension within theme in Indian traditions of asceticism traditions of yoga “between an eco- and yoga, often manifested through the

8 Hacker award. . . (continued from page 1) Lao She. . . (from page 4)

Texas Research Institute of Mental particularly in the fields of telecom- and began to employ long speeches Science; assistant professor of munications and agribusiness. She was and to disregard dramatic conflict and at Drake University; lecturer the author of Pleasure, Power & the demands of a central plot. He in formal organization at Tufts Technology: Some Tales of Gender, wrote: “In time of war, cannons are University; assistant professor of Engineering, and the Cooperative useful, as are bayonets. Likewise, in medical sociology and sociology of Workplace, and the essay collection the War of Resistance, writing novels technology at Rhode Island College. ‘Doing It the Hard Way’: Investi- and plays is useful, as is writing drum From 1977 onward, she was a gations of Gender and Technology. songs and popular tunes. My pen professor of sociology at OSU. Much To apply for a Sally Hacker Award, must be a cannon and also a bayonet.” of Hacker’s work focused on tech- please see the Center’s website: http:// The question of whether literature nological change and its effects on oregonstate.edu/dept/humanities/, or should be used as propaganda was gender stratification. To deepen her send your name and contact inform- hotly debated, but under Lao She’s understanding of the topic, she took ation, along with the names of two leadership, the All-China Anti- classes in engineering at MIT and referees (students should include at Aggression Writers and Artists architecture at Linn-Benton Community least one faculty member), plus a one- Association promoted resistance College. In 1982, in order to perform an page description of the project and a literature with the slogan: “Literature ethnographic study of aerospace and brief summary of your education and go down the countryside, literature related industries in the Los Angeles background to: join the army.” area, she worked as an executive The playwright “walked a tightrope secretary in an engineering firm. Sally Hacker Award between political duty and artistic In 1985, she spent a sabbatical year in Center for the Humanities integrity,” said Yu, and his suicide the Basque Country of Northern Spain Oregon State University during the Cultural Revolution makes studying the worker-owned production 811 S.W. Jefferson Ave. his story all the more powerful as a case cooperatives of Mondragon. Corvallis, OR 97333-4506. study of the impact of political Hacker published and spoke exten- campaigns on Chinese writers and, in sively on the effects of engineering Application deadline: turn, the reception given their creations. education and changing technology, Friday, April 27, 2012 ‘My pen must be a cannon and also a bayonet’ Lao She

Center Advisory Board 2011-12 Sharyn Clough Michael Osborne Ex-officio Philosophy History David Robinson Lisa Ede Susan Shaw, Chair Center Director English Women Studies Wendy Madar Evan Gottlieb Stacey Smith Associate Director English History

Joseph Orosco Andrew Valls Philosophy Political Science

9 Peter J. Copek Fund

During Peter J. Copek’s sixteen years as the founding director of the Center, he regularly made Center money available to support cultural events on campus. In addition to conferences, music festivals, and film series, the Center supported many special and unusual lectures and programs, including visits to OSU by Gore Vidal, the San Francisco Mime Troupe, and venerable South African township jazz singer and film star Dolly Rathebe. The level of support for such events has always depended on the state of the Center’s finances from year to year. After Peter died suddenly in June, 2001, there was much discussion of how best to keep his name alive so that his impact on OSU intellectual life would not be forgotten. What resulted is the Peter J. Copek Fund, intended to provide more regular and stable support for the same kinds of cultural events that he supported through the Center. Recent examples of efforts that have received support from the Fund include OSU’s new Asian Studies Program and the new Center for Latin@ Studies and Engagement (see story on page 11), the annual Magic Barrel reading to raise money to combat hunger, the OSU Holocaust Memorial Program, and the plays My Name is Rachel Corrie, about a student killed in Gaza while working for Palestinian human rights, and The Feeble-mindedness of Women, about the struggles of the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in physiology/medicine.

PLEASE JOIN US IN SUPPORTING THE PETER J. COPEK FUND For information on how to contribute, please see the Center’s website and click on “Make a gift” http://oregonstate.edu/dept/humanities/ You may also send a check, made out to the OSU Foundation, Peter J. Copek Fund, to: Center for the Humanities 811 S.W. Jefferson Avenue Corvallis, OR 97333-4506 Gifts made in response to this solicitation are tax deductible to the amount permitted by law, depending on individual donor tax situations.

10 Winter & Spring Calendar

WINTER TERM SPRING TERM

Art Exhibit: January-March Art Exhibit: April-June An American Sometimes in Paris Contemporary Quilts Photos by Mina Carson Clay Lohmann & Sidnee Snell

Lectures are at 4 p.m. April

January 16 Visiting educators from Mexico. Details TBA. 17 Around the Globe: Shakespeare’s Words and his Theatre. Patrick Spottiswoode, 23 Tex-Mex Borderlands: Mexican Ethnic Center Guest, Director of Education, Globe Restaurants and Identity. Norma Theatre, London. Cárdenas, Center Fellow, Ethnic Studies Faculty, School of Language, Culture, and 19 The Genetic Reification of “Race”: A Society, OSU. Story of Three Mathematical Methods. Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther, Center Guest, 30 Green Giants Are Golden Opportunists: Philosophy Faculty, UC-Santa Cruz. Environmental Foreign Policy in the Americas. Amy Below, Center Fellow, 30 The Social and Biological Realities of Political Science Faculty, School of Public Race. Jonathan Kaplan, Center Fellow, Policy, OSU. Philosophy Faculty, School of History, Philosophy, and Religion, OSU. May

February 7 Reading Textiles in Early Modern Texts. Rebecca Olson, Center Fellow, English 13 A Difference of Opinion about ‘Definite Faculty, School of Writing, Literature, and Variations’: Henry Fairfield Osborn, Film, OSU. Thomas Hunt Morgan and the early-20th century study of evolution. Miranda 14 Saving Our Children from Other Women: Paton, the Center’s Horning Postdoctoral Narratives of Rescue, Migration, and Fellow in the History and Philosophy of Illegitimate Motherhood. Patti Duncan, Science. Center Fellow, Women Studies Faculty, School of Language, Culture, and Society, 20 Multi-Cultural Education and Immigrant OSU. Communities. Katherine Richardson Bruna, Center Guest, Multicultural and 21 Politics and Theater in 20th Century International Curriculum Studies Faculty, China: A Study of Lao She’s Dramatic State University. Works. Shiao-ling Yu, Center Fellow, Foreign Languages and Literatures Faculty, 27 The Ecology of Contemporary Yoga: School of Language, Culture, and Society, Philosophy, Economics, Politics. Stuart OSU. Sarbacker, Center Fellow, Philosophy Faculty, School of History, Philosophy, and Religion, OSU.

11 The Center for the Humanities The Center was established in 1984 as an out- growth of the Humanities Development Program, which had been creating innovative interdisciplinary courses since 1977. The Center’s focus has broadened to a concern for improving the quality of humanities research as well as teaching at OSU. This is accomplished through the awarding of resident research fellowships to both OSU and visiting scholar, including the Horning Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History and Philosophy of Science, as well as by sponsoring conferences, seminars, lecture series, art exhibits and other events. The Center occupies Autzen House, 811 S.W. Jefferson Avenue, Corvallis, OR, 97333-4506.

David Robinson Wendy Madar Alison Ruch Director Associate Director Office Coordinator

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