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October 31, 2013
The architectural style of the 1950s, made popular by fashion magazines and such fictional television families as the Nelsons and Cleavers, is the focus of the 2013 Richard N. Campen Lecture in Architecture and Sculpture.
The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities invites the campus community to hear...
October 31, 2013
Space is still available in the following CaseLearns courses, open to all Case Western Reserve University faculty, staff, students and alumni:
Making Your First Map
In this workshop, attendees will receive a general introduction to GIS (geographic information systems) and ArcGIS (v10.2) software. At...
October 30, 2013
The weekly Public Affairs Discussion Group will continue this week with a talk titled, “Press Freedom and the Edward Snowden Affair.”
Jim Sheeler, the Shirley Wormser Professor of Journalism and Media Writing, will lead the discussion, which will take place Friday, Nov. 1, from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. i...
October 29, 2013
Visit the Jolly Scholar on Tuesday, Nov. 5, at 7 p.m. for Puzzle Palooza—an evening of competitive games and activities themed around autism awareness.
Enter as a team of four to six and compete against other teams in various games to win prizes. All proceeds will go to Autism Speaks.
Donated priz...
October 29, 2013
For the last pre-law event of the semester, Sharona Hoffman will present a talk titled "What is Law-Medicine?" on Friday, Nov. 1, from 12:30 to 1:45 p.m. in Sears Building, Room 356.
Hoffman, the Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law, professor of bioethics and co-director of the Law-Medicine Center, will...
October 28, 2013
RePlay for Kids will host a toy repair and modification workshop Tuesday, Oct. 29, from 4 to 6 p.m. in Crawford Hall A09.
Volunteers will adapt or repair toys for children with disabilities in Northeast Ohio. Most repairs involve testing and fixing broken wires or other simple repairs. Anyone inter...
October 28, 2013
Janice Radway, the Walter Dill Scott Professor of Communication Studies at Northwestern University, will give the annual Carl W. Ubbelohde lecture, titled "Girls, ‘Zines, and Divergent Networks of Dissent: Some Thoughts on Subjectivity and Social Movement in the 1990s.”
The lecture will take place ...
October 25, 2013
Lynne Huffer, the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University, will be on campus next week for multiple talks.
Huffer is the author of numerous books and is a pioneer in the idea of queer feminism.
On Monday, Oct. 28, she will present a talk “Ethics...
October 25, 2013
O’Henry prize-winning author Thomas Glave will speak about his new book, Among the Blood People: Politics and Flesh on Wednesday, Oct.30, from 4 to 6 p.m. in Clark Hall, Room 206.
Glave was named a Village Voice “Writer on the Verge” in 2000. He is the author of Whose Song? And Other Stories, Words...
October 25, 2013
As a part of Bioethics Day, Gerrit Kimsma will give a talk on euthanasia and its associated movements.
Kimsma is a Dutch general practitioner who has been deeply involved in the development and regulation of euthanasia in the Netherlands. Euthanasia traditionally has been performed by physicians on...