Forum to examine cultural dimensions of (inter)national security

COLUMBUS - The Ohio State University’s College of Humanities will host “Language, Culture, Media and (Inter)National Security,” a public forum to examine the cultural dimensions of national and international security. A panel of experts will address how cross-cultural knowledge can be useful to sustain security and consider how arts and humanities scholars can help examine issues of global media, culture, language and international security.

The event is set for 3 to 5 p.m. on Thursday (4/22) at The Blackwell Inn, 2110 Tuttle Park Place.

Jacqueline Jones Royster, interim dean of the College of Humanities, will moderate the event. The panel experts are: Kathleen Woodward, director of the Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington-Seattle; James C. Early, director of Cultural Heritage Policy for the Smithsonian Institution and of the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage; Nathan J. Citino, assistant professor of history at Colorado State University; Laura J. Gurak, professor and head of the Department of Rhetoric Program in Scientific and Technical Communication at the University of Minnesota; and Richard Brecht, director of the Center for Advanced Study of Languages at the University of Maryland-College Park.

The experts will consider such questions as national and international security and their relationship to culture, language, humanities research, and the media; the impact of current U.S. security strategies on local, national, and global communities; the role of media in cultural transmission across political boundaries; and to what extent global media shape international security and cultural identities.

WHAT: Ohio State’s College of Humanities will host “Language, Culture, Media and(Inter)National Security” forum

WHEN: 3 to 5 p.m. on Thursday (4/22)

WHERE: The Blackwell Inn, 2110 Tuttle Park Place

WHY: To increase awareness of the cultural dimensions of national and international security