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Winter Term is a time of year when ���سԹ� students are encouraged to conduct independent or group projects outside of courses related to their majors. Pursuits can be done on or off campus with students choosing to work almost anywhere on the map. This year we highlight some of the work by the more than 900 students who completed projects in ���سԹ�.

Student volunteers work to produce searchable transcriptions of two 17th-century recipe books in a single day.

In his life and work, Deppman embodied the border-crossing, eclectic ethos of Comparative Literature in an exemplary way.

Emerita Professor Phyllis Gorfain, founder and artistic director of ���سԹ� Drama at Grafton, received the 2019 Governor’s Award for Arts Administration from the Ohio Arts Council.

Professors Anuradha Dingwaney Needham, Danielle Skeehan, and Harrod Suarez—along with three faculty from Kenyon College—have received a $47,520 grant from the Great Lakes Colleges Association under its Expanding Collaboration Initiative, which is supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

A series of events is taking place this weekend, including the symposium Asian Cinemas in a Global Context; the lecture “Why Cinema Has Not Yet Been Invented: or Taking the Digital in Hand,” by University of Chicago Professor Tom Gunning; and the lecture “Globalization from a Local Lens: Creative Conceptions of a Taiwanese Director,” by documentary filmmaker Ho Chao-ti. The symposium is the first to explicitly bring together Indian and Chinese cinemas for discussion.