Upcoming Events

Siposium Salon - The Injustice of Climate Change

Come join us at our newest offering from The Siposium. If you love our Ted Talk style lecture events, you will enjoy our new salon format where the curious can come together and build our understanding of various topical issues through community discussions. With drinks, of course.

We will bring an article or two related to the topic to be discussed. Attendees will read the articles at the event and, as a group, we will discuss thoughts and build our understandings. Though no expert will be on hand, we will have a moderator leading group discussion with thought provoking questions and a fact checker to ensure we are respecting fact based information. Whether you know a little or a lot about the topic, come prepared to expand your understandings!

This month we will be discussing the justice or injustice of climate change and it's effects on people around the world.

You just need to come with your same curiosity and can build our knowledge and understanding together!

Bottled Up - Past, Present, & Future of Recycling in America

We will explore how the recycling systems in America are broken. Many of us struggle to think about what to do with our waste. Focusing on beverage containers, we'll take a deep dive into the past as we think about future solutions to our growing waste problems. Along the way we'll learn the history of Coca-Cola and what that companies past can teach us about creating a more eco-conscious economy in the future.

Speaker Bio: Bart Elmore is professor of environmental history and core faculty member of the Sustainability Institute at Ohio State University. He is an award-winning author of three books, Citizen Coke: The Making of Coca-Cola Capitalism (W. W. Norton, 2014), Seed Money: Monsanto's Past and Our Food Future (W. W. Norton, 2021), and Country Capitalism: How Corporations from the American South Remade Our Economy and the Planet (Ferris & Ferris, 2023). In 2022, he was honored with the Dan David Prize, the world's largest history prize.

Witch, Please: Why the Witch Won't Leave Us Alone

Why does the witch still cast such a long shadow? This talk explores how the figure of the witch continues to haunt our collective imagination—from pop culture icons to political metaphors and Instagram aesthetics. Building on foundational ghost work, our speaker dives into the witch as a spectral presence: a symbol of fear, freedom, rebellion, and otherness. What does our fascination with witches reveal about our anxieties, our desires, and the stories we tell about power? Come trace the crooked path of the witch through history, culture, and the present moment—and uncover why we just can't seem to let her go.

Speaker Bio: Nikki Kendra Davis is a multidisciplinary theatre artist, performance studies scholar, and haunted historian who holds a Master’s degree in Performance Studies from New York University. She is the creator of Theatre of the Ghostly Feminine, a feminist, political, history-adjacent performance praxis for reckoning with ghosts. She has led workshops at universities and theaters in Ohio, Kentucky, and New York, and has presented her ghost work at international academic conferences in the US and the UK. Davis lives in Columbus, OH where she has worked as an actor, playwright, director, and dramaturg since 2016.