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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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April 06, 2021
The Department of Anthropology will host a lecture with Sienna Craig, associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at Dartmouth College, Thursday, April 22, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. via Zoom. Craig will present “Kinship, Care and Attunement to Stories: Himalayan Lives between Nepal and New…
April 02, 2021
In a piece published by Common Reader, Deepak Sarma contemplated the meaning of hair among Hindus. Sarma, professor in the Department of Religious Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences, drew from passages that relate to the topic as well as his own personal experiences. Read the piece,…
March 31, 2021
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…
March 29, 2021
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…
March 25, 2021
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…
March 24, 2021
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…
March 23, 2021
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…
March 22, 2021
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…
March 22, 2021
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…
March 19, 2021
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…