Siegal Lifelong Learning Program

Don Rosenberg, editor of EMAg, The Magazine of Early Music and a former music critic for The Cleveland Plain Dealer, will present two upcoming lectures and a course offered through the Siegal Lifelong Learning Program. The first event, titled “Listening Through a Pandemic,” will be held Wednesday,...

The Siegal Lifelong Learning Program will offer a preview of the fall semester followed by a lecture by Aaron Koller, professor of Near Eastern studies and chair of the Robert M. Beren Department of Jewish Studies at Yeshiva University, Wednesday, Sept. 2, at 7 p.m. About the lecture Is the Sacrif...

After decades of campaigning, in 1920, women won the constitutional right to vote. In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment, Siegal Lifelong Learning will offer the following two upcoming remote lectures. For more information, call 216.368.2090 or visit the Siegal Lifelong Lear...

The Siegal Lifelong Learning Program will host a remote course with SAGES Teaching Fellow Anthony Wexler titled “Representing the Holocaust: From Night to Maus.” Wexler will delve into two powerful, and very different, works of Holocaust literature: Elie Wiesel’s iconic first-person testimony, Nig...

Join the students of the Case Western Reserve University Digital Skills Boot Camp program as they prepare to graduate and showcase their term-ending capstone projects during a Demo Day event Tuesday, Aug. 4, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Graduates from the spring 2020 classes in data analytics, full stack c...

The Case Western Reserve University Boot Camp program is enrolling now for classes starting soon. With options in cybersecurity and full stack coding, the CWRU Boot Camp programs are ideal for those who are considering a career switch and those who are looking to update or increase their digital s...

In the final years of the suffrage struggle, Ohio women’s efforts to gain the vote took place within a national movement that accepted the regional disenfranchisement of African Americans as part of a bargain to overcome Southern resistance. Yet in Ohio, the opposition from organized liquor interest...

Upon her passing in 2019, The New York Times called Toni Morrison a “towering novelist of the Black Experience.” Margalit Fox, in her obituary, wrote that “[Morrison] explored Black identity in America…through luminous, incantatory prose resembling that of no other writer in English.” The Siegal L...

Steve Pinkerton, a lecturer in the Department of English, is offering a remote course on Ulysses, by James Joyce, starting Tuesday, July 7, and continuing on Tuesdays from 1 to 3 p.m. EST until Aug. 11. Since its publication in 1922, Ulysses has often been called the greatest novel of the 20th cent...

Yair Nitzani, a renowned Israeli performer, will offer a look into Jewish and Israeli humor with an online presentation on Wednesday, July 8, from 12:30-2 p.m. Drawing on his experiences as an Israeli rock star, songwriter, and television host, Nitzani uses satire and comedy to present his distinct...