The second event in ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½ at Stark’s 25th season of the popular Featured Speakers Series will bring acclaimed journalist Soledad O’Brien to campus. Her presentation, Diversity: On TV, Behind the Scenes and In Our Lives, will take place on Thursday, Nov. 19 at 7:30 p.m. in the Timken Great Hall, located in ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½ Stark’s Conference Center, 6000 Frank Avenue NW in Jackson Township. Tickets are required for this free Featured Speakers Series lecture. Tickets may be obtained by visiting the ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½ Stark Information Desk in Main Hall, beginning Monday, Oct. 26 at 8 a.m., ...
The School of Library and Information Science at ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½ will host the Inaugural Marantz Picturebook Research Symposium on July 24-26, 2016, at ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½, with Will Hillenbrand, Janet Evans and Philip Nel as the keynote speakers. "The Picturebook as an Art Object: Honoring the Life and Work of Dr. Kenneth A. Marantz" is the theme of this inaugural event. According to Dr. Marantz, professor of art education at the Ohio State University from 1971 to 1991, picturebooks (spelled as one word by Dr. Marantz) are “such rich repositories of visual art, so...