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Art history’s Erin Benay receives the International Fine Prints and Drawings Foundation’s Best Book of the Year award
Erin Benay, associate professor of art history, director of undergraduate studies and Distinguished Scholar in the Public Humanities, and Britany Salsbury, curator of prints and drawings at the Cleveland Museum of Art, won the Best Book of the Year Award from the International Fine Prints and…
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October 13, 2023
Jeremy Bendik-Keymer, professor in the Department of Philosophy, recently participated in a discussion on anti-fascist organizing during a salon held in recognition of philosopher Susan Neiman's short book, Left Is Not Woke. Joining Bendik-Keymer and Neiman in the conversation were fellow…
October 13, 2023
Kathryn Lavelle, the Ellen and Dixon Long Professor in World Affairs in the Department of Political Science, participated in a panel sponsored by the Wilson Center and the American History Association as part of their Washington History Seminar Series. The discussion focused on the release of New…
October 13, 2023
Jonathan Tan, the Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan Professor in Catholic Studies and associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies, participated in a recent roundtable event hosted by the Asia Research Institute (ARI) of the National University of Singapore. Marking the second anniversary…
October 10, 2023
The Department of Physics in the College of Arts and Sciences will host Brian Keating, the Chancellor's Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of California, San Diego, for the fall 2023 Gundzik Lecture Thursday, Oct. 12, from 4 to 5 p.m. in Rockefeller Building, Room 301. Keating, a…
October 05, 2023
Plan to attend the Department of Cognitive Science Colloquium, which will feature Francesca Brittan, associate professor in the Department of Music at Case Western Reserve University. Her presentation is titled: “The Neural Orchestra: Instruments of Mind” and the event will take place from 3 to 4…
October 05, 2023
Join the Department of Art History and Art for “Canal to Cuyahoga: Everlasting Plastics in Context.” This event, set to take place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 7, at Cleveland Museum of Art, explores topics of a plastic future, the rising global environmental crisis of plastic…
October 05, 2023
Since the first Tanglewood Symposium sponsored by the Music Educators National Conference (MENC) in 1967, music teachers across the United States and Canada have worked to include a range of music in their classrooms. At this event, speaker Juliet Hess will explore the possibility of coloniality…
October 04, 2023
See the Case Western Reserve University Department of Theater perform The Moors by Jen Silverman from Oct. 6 through Oct. 15 at Maltz Performing Arts Center. The Moors follows two spinster sisters who live tedious lives in a remote Victorian manor, until the mysterious arrival of a young governess…
October 03, 2023
Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to two free upcoming film screenings on campus. First, there will be a screening of La Porta Dell‘Inferno (The Door to Hell) by Michael Cavalieri Wednesday, Oct. 11, at 5:30 p.m. in Strosacker Auditorium. This documentary…
September 28, 2023
Whether your go-to Spotify playlists are filled with country music or blues, rock music or R&B, one fact remains the same: Their inspirations can all be traced back to classical music. And while classical might seem unapproachable to those who aren’t familiar with it, this broad genre offers a…