Events

Celebrate Case Western Reserve University’s homecoming weekend with the Blue Block Party, a dynamic street festival celebrating the innovation and talents of CWRU students and alumni with food, music, entertainment and more. The party will take place at Toby’s Plaza in Uptown on Thursday, Oct. 16,…

Laci Green, YouTube sensation and Sex+ founder, will come to campus to give her presentation on the "Best Sex Ever" Tuesday, Oct. 7, at 7:30 p.m. in the Tinkham Veale University Center Ballroom C. Attendees will learn tips on safe, healthy sex in an entertaining setting. View some of Laci’s videos…

In the next broadcast of the radio program Talking Foreign Policy, an expert panel will discuss how the extremist group known as the Islamic State quickly emerged as a threat to the United States. The panelists will critique President Barack Obama’s response and offer thoughts on America’s strategy…

Tickets still are available for the Inamori Ethics Prize events on Wednesday, Oct. 1. The symposium will be held at 12:30 p.m. in the Tinkham Veale University Center's Kelvin & Eleanor Smith Foundation Grand Ballroom. The Prize Ceremony and Recipient Lecture will take place that evening at 6…

Anisfield-Wolf Book Award winner Zadie Smith will speak at Case Western Reserve Tuesday, Sept. 30, at 7:30 p.m. in the Tinkham Veale University Center Kelvin & Eleanor Smith Foundation Grand Ballroom. Her appearance is the first lecture for the Writers Center Stage program, sponsored by the…

Patricia Fortini Brown, former chair of Princeton University’s Department of Art and Archaeology, will deliver the inaugural Edward J. Olszewski Lecture in Italian Art, sponsored by Case Western Reserve University’s Department of Art History and Art. The event will be held Wednesday, Oct. 8, at…

The Weatherhead Economic Society will host a resume review session on Tuesday, Sept. 30, at 5 p.m. in Peter B. Lewis Building, room 120. Students of all majors at the university are welcome to attend. Those interested should bring their resumes or come ready to make one.

Educators at all levels are contending with rising public anxiety about the cost and value of education. Andrew Delbanco, author of College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be and director of American studies and the Julian Clarence Levi Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, will speak…

Michael W. Clune, associate professor of English, and Lee Hoffer, associate professor of anthropology, will lead a discussion titled “The New Heroin Epidemic” on Monday, Sept. 29, from 4:15 to 5:45 p.m. in Clark Hall, room 309. From Rolling Stone to The Christian Science Monitor; WKYC Cleveland to…

Hindu YUVA, CWRU’s undergraduate Hindu organization, will host a viewing party for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speech at Madison Square Garden in New York City on Sunday, Sept. 28. Modi is visiting the United States for the first time since his recent election and his sold-out speech may…