ATHENS — For Women’s History Month, Ohio University will host late South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s daughter, the Rev. Notombi Naomi Tutu, to speak to the Ohio University community and
OHIO will host Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s daughter, the Rev. Notombi Naomi Tutu, to speak to the OHIO community and general public about the plight of women around the world and where they are now.
The Ohio University Division of Diversity and Inclusion will host a special virtual event with Native American scholar Dr. Anton Treuer on Nov. 2, in celebration of American Indian Heritage Month.
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“Fear is an act of the imagination,” said Karen Thompson Walker. “Not just an act of imagination, but an act of storytelling a kind of unconscious storytelling. So our fears are announcing these terrible stories to us.”
Walker is a novelist whose scary stories explore common fears in uncommon circumstances. She said the famous shipwreck of the Essex of Nantucket is a warning about the power of fear.
“In the middle of the ocean they had this idea that there were cannibals in that direction that really just activated some kind of primal, imaginative and salacious version of the story. And that story of like, ‘what if we arrive on the island and were eaten by cannibals’ was more powerful in their brains than this kind of maybe more subtle but more serious, ultimately, risk of starvation, she said. And so what happened is they chose the long route and most of them did not survive because they ran out of food. And by the time the last survivors were rescued, they them