Events

T. Kenny Fountain, assistant professor of Case Western Reserve University’s Department of English, will kick off this year’s Baker-Nord Center for Humanities’ Faculty Work in Progress series with the talk “Affective Circuits: Networks of Feeling in the Flesh of New Media.” He addresses the emotional...

Habitat for Humanity will host its annual “Let’s Shack Up!” event on Friday, Sept. 16, on Freiberger Field. The event seeks to drive awareness about substandard housing issues, as teams of students build cardboard structures to sleep in over night. The most creative teams will win prizes. Students ...

This year’s George B. & Elsa Golden Memorial Lecture will be “Israelis and Palestinians: The Possibilities for Peace,” featuring David Makovsky, director of the Project on the Middle East Peace Process at the Washington Institute for Near East Studies, and Ghaith Al-Omari, executive director of the ...

This year’s Constitution Day Forum, held Sept. 15 at 4:30 p.m. in the School of Law Moot Courtroom, will discuss “Same-sex Marriage and the Constitution.” The program will feature Mark Strasser, Trustees Professor of Law at Capital University Law School in Columbus, and George W. Dent Jr., Schott-va...

GradLink, a graduate student support group, will hold its first meeting of the semester Tuesday, Sept. 13, from noon to 1:15 p.m. in the Spartan Room at Thwing Center. Come eat pizza and share your thoughts and experiences about being a graduate student at Case Western Reserve University. Connect wi...

This fall, Case Western Reserve University will host BlueBash, a special kickoff to Homecoming and Alumni Weekend highlighting the university’s innovative community and featuring a concert by Goo Goo Dolls, presented by University Program Board. BlueBash will be held Oct. 13 in Veale Convocation, R...

David Eltis and David Richardson, recipients of the 2011 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Nonfiction for Atlas of the Transaltantic Slave Trade, will discuss new findings and new directions for future research in a Sept. 14 lecture, “Digital Scholarship and the African Diaspora.” Eltis is Robert W. Woo...

The Case Western Reserve University LGBT Faculty Welcome Reception will be held Sept. 12 from 5 to 6:30 p.m. in the LGBT Center at Thwing Center. Beverages and hors d’oeuvres will be provided. Significant others and LGBT allies are welcome. RSVP to lgbt@case.edu, or for more information, contact Li...

Learn about participating in the three-credit course/service learning opportunity to Costa Rica over winter break during the information meetings Sept. 6 and 9. Information meetings will be held in Thwing Center from 12:50 to 1:10 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 6, in meeting room A, and Friday, Sept. 9, in ...

Women Faculty Connect reconvenes on Wednesday, Sept. 14, from noon to 1:30 p.m. in the Cleveland Room of Thwing Center. This is an informal luncheon where women faculty members from across campus come together to network, chat and relax. To reserve a lunch, RSVP to Susan Freimark at sbf@case.edu. Th...