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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 17, 2022
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,…
October 17, 2022
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…
October 13, 2022
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…
October 13, 2022
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)…
October 12, 2022
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…
October 11, 2022
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…
October 07, 2022
What does it mean to engage in social justice-related research? Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to join the Social Justice Institute for the next Social Justice R+R (Research + Refreshments) event Thursday, Oct. 13, from 11:40 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. in Crawford Hall,…
October 06, 2022
Announcement that new department chair will edit poetry section for the publication comes on National Poetry Day An established poet, scholar and educator, Walt Hunter joined Case Western Reserve University this fall as chairperson and associate professor for the Department of English. Timed…
October 03, 2022
In the last several decades, work across cognitive neurosciences has drawn increasingly frequently on the metaphor of the “neural orchestra,” which maps the activities of localized cortical areas onto sections of a musical ensemble. Although the model was embraced as a novelty in the mid-1990s (a…
September 30, 2022
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson handed over the reins to successor Liz Truss earlier this month. Luke Reader, a teaching fellow in the Department of History at the College of Arts and Sciences, wrote about his exit from power. Reader reflected Johnson’s time as prime minister and considered the…