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Anthropology Professor Lee Hoffer receives funding for two new projects
Lee Hoffer, associate professor of anthropology, recently received funding for two new projects. The first project, “Understanding psylocibin (‘magic mushrooms’) in the context of the modern ‘psychedelic renaissance’”, received funding by the College of Arts and Sciences’ “Expanding Horizons Initiat...
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Filipino American History Month: Mariana Tamayo
October is Filipino American History Month, which commemorates the first recorded presence of Filipinos in the continental United States. To learn more about Filipino culture, The Daily is putting the spotlight on Filipino American members of the Case Western Reserve University community to celebrat...
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“Battle of the Bands: Instruments, Mechanical Cultures, and Sonic Metaphors of Nineteenth-Century French Empire”
The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will host a Graduate Work-in-Progress lecture with Samuel Nemeth, PhD candidate in the Department of Music, Tuesday, Nov. 1, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in Clark Hall, Room 206. Nemeth will present “Battle of the Bands: Instruments, Mechanical Cultures, and Sonic ...
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Case Men's Glee Club and University Chorale Concert
Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to the Case Men's Glee Club and University Chorale Concert Thursday, Oct. 20, from 7:30 to 9 p.m. in Harkness Chapel. This concert will feature the University Chorale, a campuswide treble ensemble, and the Case Men's Glee Club, th...
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Book launch: Until She Goes No More (Hasta ya no ir) new translation
Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to a book launch for the translation of contemporary Chilean author Beatriz García Huidobro’s Hasta ya no ir (Until She Goes No More) by Jacqueline Nanfito, associate professor of Spanish. The book launch will be held Wednesday, O...
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“All Stigmas are Equal, but Some are More Equal than Others: Connecting Self, Social Stigma, and Global Health”
The Department of Anthropology will host the 2022-23 Kassen Lecturer Thursday, Oct. 27, at 4 p.m. in the Tinkham Veale University Center Senior Classroom. Alexandra Brewis, President’s Professor at the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University, will present “All Stigmas...
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Professor Shannon French’s work honored at United States Naval Academy
If you don’t know what’s worth dying for, you don’t know what’s worth living for, either. That’s a topic of military ethics that Shannon French has explored for decades, both in her role as the Inamori Professor of Ethics at Case Western Reserve University and, before that, when she was teaching e...
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Book launch: Great Books by German Women in the Age of Emotion, 1770–1820
The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures will host a book launch for Margaretmary Daley’s Great Books by German Women in the Age of Emotion, 1770–1820. David Price, professor of religious studies at Vanderbilt University, will present during this event, which will be held today (Oct. 13) ...
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Film screening: Takeaway
Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to attend the Cleveland premiere of the 2022 Italian film Takeaway Thursday, Oct. 20, at 7 p.m. in Strosacker Auditorium. The film’s director, Renzo Carbonera, also will be in attendance for a Q&A following the showing. This even...
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Spartan Showcase: Joshua Bates
Area of Study: Master of Fine Arts in ActingYear: Second year This week, students in Case Western Reserve University's Master of Fine Arts acting program with Cleveland Play House will take to the stage to ponder an age-old question: What happens when we die? Among them will be Joshua Bates, a se...