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REMINDER: We're Hiring!! The Center for Folklore Studies has a post doctoral scholar position in Folklore in the Age of Algorithms and AI for the upcoming academic year. Deadline to apply is 5/30. Go here: bit.ly/3EUA0Up
We're Hiring!! The Center for Folklore Studies has a post doctoral scholar position in Folklore in the Age of Algorithms and AI for the upcoming academic year. Deadline to apply is 5/30. Go here: bit.ly/3EUA0Up
It's tomorrow: A talk with Raymond Thompson on the Hawks Tunnel disaster. Find more information here: bit.ly/49jaeDU
Wednesday: Improper construction techniques led to unsafe working conditions in the Hawks Nest Tunnel, causing an estimated 764 deaths, many of them African American men. How has the story been buried in time? Find more information here: bit.ly/49jaeDU
Raymond Thompson is an artist, educator and journalist based in Austin, TX. He has worked as a freelance photographer for The New York Times, ACLU, NPR, the Associated Press and many more. Meet him Wednesday, 4 pm in Thompson Library. Find more here: bit.ly/4ghlGCb
In one week: meet Raymond Thompson (Journalism and Media, University of Texas at Austin). He's revealing the lost stories of nearly 3,000 laborers, most of them African American, and the disaster at Hawk's Nest Tunnel. Find more information here: bit.ly/49jaeDU
In two weeks: Hear a story that is shallowly buried beneath the West Virginia landscape, with very little to mark the tragedies of the Hawks Nest Tunnel. Find more information here: bit.ly/49jaeDU
In the 1930s, near Fayetteville, West Virginia, 5,000 workers traveled to the area to work on a hydroelectric dam project. What happened when the construction techniques were compromised? Find more information here: bit.ly/49jaeDU
Save the date for a talk with Raymond Thompson, from the University of Texas at Austin. He'll give a visual reexamination on the Hawks Nest Tunnel Disaster in Fayetteville, West Virginia. Find more information through the link in the first comment.
TOMORROW: @OSU_Humanities' "What the....Friday" coffee chats are a monthly tradition this semester. Connect with our community and let's discuss the issues that matter most over a cup of coffee... and don't forget the pastries! More details here: bit.ly/4ciLfkh
CFS director Merrill Kaplan was extremely busy this Halloween season! Check out another article where she talks about the folklore of this spooky time of the year: bit.ly/40vkMxv
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“(Halloween is) the season for not being entirely sure whether you believe in ghosts but walking up to that glass behind which lies the supernatural, behind which lies death, really, and tapping on the glass and running away” @OSU_Folk @ASCatOSU news.osu.edu/the-beating-hea…