• THE WOMEN'S STUDIES PROGRAM will present "American Anti-Intellectualism and the Future of the Feminist Classroom: A Multimedia Presentation Exploring Religion, Feminism and the Academy" at 4 p.m. Tuesday, March 20, in Bayley Auditorium, Barbara Deer Kuss Science Center. Kelli Zaytoun, director of women's studies, and Amy Morgenstern, Wright State University, will speak at the colloquium, which is co-sponsored by the philosophy department.
• THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT will present a colloquium with Pulitzer Prize winner and former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove at 4 p.m. Thursday, March 22, Ness Family Auditorium.
• THE POLITICAL SCIENCE DEPARTMENT will present a colloquium with Professor and Deputy Dean of the School of International Affairs and Public Policy Wu Xinbo, Fudan University, Shanghai, and visiting fellow, United States Institute of Peace, Washington D.C., at 4:10 p.m. Tuesday, March 27, Kissell Auditorium. Xinbo will give a talk titled "A Rising and Changing China: Implications for Sino-U.S. Relations."
• THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT will present Kimberly Thompson Macuare, visiting instructor of English, in a colloquium at 4 p.m. Thursday, March 29, in 131 Hollenbeck Hall. Macuare will give a talk titled "Laughing at and Laughing With Merchants, The Middle English Octavian."
• THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY will present Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History Ed Beardsley, University of South Carolina, at 3:45 p.m. Thursday, March 29, Ness Family Auditorium. Beardsley's talk is titled "Franklin D. Roosevelt vs. The Great Depression."
• EAST ASIAN STUDIES will present Stan Mickel, professor of languages, in a colloquium at 4 p.m. Thursday, March 29, Bayley Auditorium. The title of Mickel's talk is "Concepts of Disaster in Ancient Chinese Oracle Bone Inscriptions."
