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October 18, 2013
The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will host a talk by Lisa Nielson, “Improvisation and Transgression: Musicians of the Harem,” on Thursday, Oct. 24 from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in Clark Hall, Room 206. Nielson, the Anisfield-Wolf SAGES Fellow, will discuss the Western perception of the harem, or…
October 18, 2013
The African-American Quilt and Doll Guild will host an opening reception for a quilt and doll exhibit on Monday, Oct. 21, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the Case Western Reserve University Studio Art Gallery, on the corner of Adelbert Road and Murray Hill Road. The show—free and open to the public— is…
October 18, 2013
Parallels Desktop 9 is now available on the Software Center for $39 to Case Western Reserve University students, faculty and staff using Macintosh computers. Licenses do not expire. Parallels Desktop enables users to run both Windows and Mac OS X applications side-by-side without rebooting.…
October 17, 2013
Two Wittenberg University faculty members will be on campus this week to present a lecture on writer and 2012 Nobel Prize Laureate for Literature Mo Yan. Their talk, titled "History in Fiction: Reading the Novels of Nobel Laureate Mo Yan," will be held Thursday, Oct. 17, from 4:30 to 6 p.m. at…
October 17, 2013
The Case Western Reserve University community is invited to attend Thursday's Ford Distinguished Lecture featuring Karl Deisseroth, the D.H. Chen Professor of Bioengineering and Psychiatry at Stanford University. Deisseroth will present his lecture, “Optical Deconstruction of Fully Assembled…
October 16, 2013
The Schubert Center Conversation Series will continue Thursday with "Children of Incarcerated Parents: The Role of Pediatricians and the Community," presented by Illya McGee, vice president of correctional programs in Cuyahoga County. The free, public presentation will take place Thursday, Oct.…
October 16, 2013
The weekly Public Affairs Discussion Group will continue this week with a talk titled, “Patenting Genes.” Craig Nard, the Tom J.E. and Bette Lou Walker Professor of Law and the director of the Center for Law, Technology and the Arts, will lead the discussion, which will take place Friday, Oct. 18,…
October 15, 2013
The Ethics Table brown bag lunch series will continue Wednesday, Oct. 16, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Thwing Center, Meeting Room A. This week's discussion is geared toward the ethics of Humans vs. Zombies and will be led by Tyler Freeto, the head administrator of Humans vs. Zombies; other game…
October 15, 2013
Ambassador Princeton N. Lyman, former U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan and South Sudan, will be on campus for an informal “meet and greet” hosted by Elliot Posner, associate professor of political science, and sponsored by the Center for International Affairs. The event will be held Wednesday, Oct. 16,…
October 14, 2013
Kelvin Smith Library will host several events as part of Octavofest, an annual celebration of the book and paper arts during the month of October. This year’s events center on the theme of travel and are free and open to the public.
Around the World in 80 Books
From Monday, Oct. 7, to Friday, Nov.…