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Inspired by Auguste Rodin’s The Thinker, the Keithley Symposium will explore of the birth, lives and afterlives of objects. The event honors the sculpture’s centennial, remarks upon its layered history and includes interdisciplinary conversations about how humans interpret impermanence and what it…

The Student Sustainability Council and the university farm will host the Farm Harvest Festival Saturday, Sept. 22, from 1 to 6 p.m. at Squire Valleevue and Valley Ridge Farms (37125 Fairmount Blvd., Hunting Valley). This year’s theme is grapes. Attendees will enjoy hayrides, corn-hole tournaments,…

Case Western Reserve University’s Think Forum 2018-19 lecture series begins with a presentation from Jonathan Haidt: “The Three Worst Ideas in the World, and How They Shape American Education.” The event will take place Thursday, Sept. 20 at 6 p.m. at the Milton and Tamar Maltz Performing Arts…

Hillel will host two Yom Kippur celebrations for the Case Western Reserve University community. A dinner and Kol Nidre services will take place Tuesday, Sept. 18, beginning at 5:15 p.m. Traditional ceremonies will be held Wednesday, starting with Shacharit and Musaf at 9:30 a.m., Yizkor at 11:30…

Contemporary American sculptor and installation artist Jim Hodges will present the keynote address for the inaugural Keithley Symposium. His keynote address, titled “Troubling Thoughts,” will be held Thursday, Sept. 27, from 5 to 6 p.m. in Tinkham Veale University Center, Ballroom A. This event…

Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to Chat with the Chief Tuesday, Sept. 18, from 9 to 11 a.m. at the tables in the Tinkham Veale University Center common area. Individuals can meet Case Western Reserve University Chief of Police Jay Hodge to introduce themselves…

Editor's note: This article has been updated to reflect a new air time. Tune into WCPN 90.3 FM Monday, Sept. 17, from 9 to 10 p.m. to hear School of Law Co-Dean Michael Scharf on the next installment of “Talking Foreign Policy.” “Talking Foreign Policy” is produced by Case Western Reserve…

The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will host poet and previous Anisfield-Wolf Book Award-winner A. Van Jordan for a conversation with Dave Lucas, Ohio’s poet laureate and an instructor in the Case Western Reserve University Department of English. Their conversation will be held Wednesday,…

Laura Grego of the Union of Concerned Scientists will give a talk on "Missile Defense and Space Weapons" today (Sept. 13) from 4 to 5 p.m. in Rockefeller Building, Room 301. Grego is an expert on nuclear weapons and policy. The event, hosted by the Department of Physics, is open to the public.

Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter Wesley Lowery will speak about the crucial role of a free press in our democracy during an English department event Friday, Sept. 14, from 3:15 to 4:30 p.m. at the Kelvin Smith Library's Freedman Center. The campus community is invited to his lecture…