2024-2025

Monsters Among Us: With Claire Dederer

Stanton J. Stephens

6:00 pm
Gartner Auditorium, Cleveland Museum of Art
11150 East Boulevard

"Monsters Among Us with Claire Dederer" will be a wide-ranging discussion of the question "What do we do with great art made by bad people?" Pulling from her bestselling book Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma, Claire Dederer will explore the problem of separating the art from the artist.    

An Appetite for Ancestry: A Conversation with Mel Michelle Lewis on Food, Folklore, and Identity

Mel Michele Lewis

6:30 pm | Virtual Event

Step into the rich tapestry of Gulf South culture with Mel Michele Lewis, author of the new Biomythography Bayou, as part of our exploration of our appetite theme.

Faculty Work-in-Progress: Liquid Flesh and the Medicine of Immortality: The Nursing Virgin Mary in Egypt

Elizabeth Bolman

12:00 pm | Clark Hall Room 206, 11130 Bellflower Road

Faculty Work-in-Progress: The Necessity of Utopia? On the Importance of Hope (and Fear) to our Climate Change Discourses

Matthew Hodgetts

12:00 pm |  Clark Hall Room 206, 11130 Bellflower Road

On Eating and Reading: A Conversation with Dwight Garner

Dwight Garner

6:00 pm | Wolstein Building Auditorium

Dive into the delicious intersection of food and literature with Dwight Garner, celebrated New York Times book critic, as he discusses his latest work, The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading.

He will be in conversation with Elysia Balavage, Anisfield-Wolf Fellow and member of the CWRU Department of English.

Faculty Work-in-Progress: Use of the Standardized Oral Proficiency Interview to strengthen world language teaching and learning at Case

Ching-Hsuan Wu

12:00 pm | Clark Hall Room 206, 11130 Bellflower Road

Power of Diversity Lecture Series: Harlem Rhapsody Featuring Victoria Christopher Murray

Victoria Christopher Murray

3:00 pm | Foster-Castele Great Hall, Linsalata Alumni Center, 11310 Juniper Road

Ravenous Remediation: Documentary to AI Imaging from Eurasia

6:30 pm | Cinematheque, 11610 Euclid Avenue

Lorraine Hansberry, the Holocaust, and Race Politics in Postwar American Intellectual Life

Allison Schacter

3:15 pm | Guilford House Parlor, 11112 Bellflower Road

Presented in partnership with the Program in Jewish Studies, the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, and the Department of English.

Registration is requested. Register HERE. 

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2025 Ratner Lecture: Ambition and Hope, Here and Elsewhere

Jacqueline Hidalgo & Marcus Evans

5:00 pm | Eldred Hall Auditorium, 2070 Adelbert Road