Events

On Friday, Nov. 16, the sisters of Sigma Psi will host the 34th annual Mr. CWRU pageant. Mr. CWRU is a mock male beauty pageant held every fall at Case Western Reserve University. Tickets are $4 presale or $6 at the door. CaseCash is accepted. All proceeds will be donated to the Cleveland Rape…

The “Shameless Self-Promotion” series continues Nov. 29 with “Social Media for Women Faculty.” At the event, writer Jill Miller Zimon will present tips on using social media to keep research alive, network, create a meaningful blog and self-promote. Her work has been featured in the Washington…

To help debunk radical associations with the word “feminist,” the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women will host two events as a part of the national “Who Needs Feminism” campaign. All faculty, staff and students are invited to join the discussions examining the importance, beliefs and associations…

On Thursday, Nov. 15, the Case Western Reserve University Energy Alliance Speaker Series will continue with the lecture, “The Energy Renaissance and Implications for U.S. Energy Policy,” led by Oklahoma State University Professor Betty Simkins. In her talk, Simkins will discuss the United States’…

The Freedman Fellows Presentation Series continues Nov. 16 with a talk titled “The Inscriptions on the Antikythera Mechanism,” led by Freedman Fellow Paul Iversen. Iversen, an associate professor of classics, will discuss two new technologies he is using to read the inscriptions incised on the…

From Nov. 12 to Nov. 17, Case Western Reserve University will celebrate International Education Week with a series of events. International Education Week was founded in 2000 as a joint initiative of the U.S. Department of State and U.S. Department of Education under the leadership of President…

Case Western Reserve University’s Youth for Unity, Virtue and Action (YUVA) annually presents a speaker series featuring various community and national leaders to discuss a variety of issues pertaining to the theme of multicultural understanding. This year, Sudharsan Sathe, an Indian-born…

In the next Faculty Work-in-Progress session, Sarah Gridley, assistant professor of poetry, will give an update on her work, “Out Flew the Web and Floated Wide: Tennyson and Green Eschatology.” Forthcoming from Omnidawn in 2013, Gridley’s third book of poems—titled Loom—searches for…

This Friday, Nov. 9, the President’s Interfaith and Community Service Challenge at CWRU will sponsor “Religions of the World:  Celebrating our Religious Diversity at CWRU.” Planned in collaboration with the Interreligious Council and the Department of Religious Studies, the program will take place…

On Monday, Nov. 12, at 1:30 p.m., Vladimir Swirynsky will be signing copies of his book, Church of the Backyard Fire: Poems at the Case Western Reserve University Bookstore. His book is a collection of poems touching on issues ranging from Cleveland neighborhoods to Vietnam veterans.