Science Café presents Brian Schoen, Tim Anderson on Nov. 6

Ohio University’s Science Café/Café Conversations will present OHIO faculty members Brian Schoen and Tim Anderson discussing “Settling Ohio: First Peoples and Beyond” on Wednesday, Nov. 6, at 5 p.m. at the Baker Center Front Room on the fourth floor of Baker University Center and via You Tube.

Schoen and Anderson will discuss their co-edited book, “Settling Ohio: First Peoples and Beyond,” (Ohio University Press, 2023).

The book situates the traditional story of Ohio settlement, including the Northwest Ordinance, the dealings of the Ohio Company of Associates, and early road building, into a rich story of contested spaces, competing visions of nationhood, and complicated relations with Indigenous peoples that provides valuable insights into how chaotic and contingent early national politics and frontier development truly were.

Topics that will be discussed include 18th-century interactions between Indigenous, European, and Anglo-American peoples; the roles played by early African-American settlers; the role of public education in the early settlement of the state; and the diverse migration flows into Ohio from the East and Europe that created a complex multiethnic composition of Ohio’s early settlements.

Schoen is the chair of the Department of History and the James Richard Hamilton/Baker and Hostetler Distinguished Professor of Teaching in the Humanities at Ohio University. He is the author of “The Fragile Fabric of Union: Cotton, Federal Politics, and the Global Origins of the Civil War,” and has coedited three other collections.

Anderson is an associate professor in the Department of Geography at Ohio University. His research focuses on the historical settlement geography of the United States, especially the production of regional and ethnic cultural landscapes, governmentality and spatialization theory, and the production of cultural landscapes associated with Germanic diasporic movements and communities.

• Watch the Nov. 6 Science Café live or later on YouTube.

The Fall 2024 Science Café series

This is the 16th anniversary of the Science Café series, which is supported by the Ohio University Research Division and Ohio University Chapter of Sigma Xi.

Upcoming Fall 2024 Science Café events include:

• Wednesday, Dec. 4, Brian Clark, Biomedical Sciences

For more information, contact Howard Dewald at dewald@ohio.edu or visit the Science Café website.