College of Arts and Sciences

Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to attend a webinar about the military ethics program Tuesday, April 6, at 4 p.m. Attendees will learn about the country’s only master’s degree program in military ethics. All are welcome to attend. The deadline for post-baccalaur...

The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures will host a talk with Ángel Mato Díaz titled “Emigración y Alfabetización: Fuentes Escritas y Gráficas” Wednesday, March 31, at 3:20 p.m. Ángel Mato Díaz received his PhD in history from the University of Oviedo. He has served as a professor of geo...

The Department of Anthropology will host Patricia Sunderland, founding principal at Cultural Research and Analysis, for a presentation titled “Mining Cultural Metaphors in Product Development and Design” Thursday, April 8, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. via Zoom. Sunderland is a specialist in the anthropologi...

Over the next two months, the annual festival from Case Western Reserve University partners with numerous cultural organizations to stage a diverse spate of events on race, class, gender, ethnicity and other identity-related topics The 2021 Cleveland Humanities Festival (CHF) will explore a theme o...

The Dittrick Medical History Center will host the 2021 Percy Skuy Annual Lecture with a talk presented by Lauren Macivor Thompson titled “Doctors, Suffragists, Socialists, Eugenicists: Identities and Politics in the Early Birth Control Movement” Thursday, April 1, from 6 to 7 p.m. Lauren Macivor T...

The term vaccine hesitancy is frequently in the news these days, but what does it mean and why is it important to understand it as we continue the COVID-19 vaccine roll out? Janet McGrath, professor and chair of the Department of Anthropology at the College of Arts and Sciences, shared her expertise...

Members of the community are invited to a production of In the Continuum, which was written by Danai Gurira (who played Okoye in Black Panther) and Nikkole Salter, and made it to Off-Broadway while both women were still in grad school. It tells the parallel stories of two black women, one in Los An...

Die Scholems: Geschichte einer deutsch-jüdischen Familie, a book by Jay Geller—the Samuel Rosenthal Professor of Judaic Studies—was named a runner-up for the Sachbücher des Monats prize, given to the best non-fiction book in Germany each month. The prize is awarded by an independent jury of scholar...

The Friday Public Affairs Discussion Lunch has been a Case Western Reserve University tradition since 1989. It is sponsored by the Center for Policy Studies within the College of Arts and Sciences. The Friday Lunch gathers every Friday from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. when classes are in session during fall ...

Over the past year, students at universities across the world have faced unique challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic. For many, it has meant wearing masks everywhere, studying remotely, gathering virtually with friends and plenty of uncertainty. And for one Case Western Reserve University undergr...