Siegal Lifelong Learning Program
May 02, 2017
Cleveland's East Side/West Side rivalry is a tired cliché—one that's counterproductive to our ability to move forward as a region. Major investments and new opportunities exist on both sides of the Cuyahoga River, but there are some key differences. Some of the most exciting recent…
April 17, 2017
Join the Laura and Alvin Siegal Lifelong Learning Progam and the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women for a lecture by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Distinguished University Professor at New York University. Kirshenblatt-Gimblett will present “Listening with Love: A Daughter Discovers Her Father’s…
April 17, 2017
The Siegal Lifelong Learning Program’s Origins Science Scholars series continues Tuesday, April 25, at 5:30 p.m. at the Tinkham Veale University Center. Paul Butler, a staff scientist at The Carnegie Institution for Science, will give a talk titled “Alien Worlds and the Origin of Science.” Over…
April 14, 2017
The Siegel Lifelong Learning Program will host a lecture titled “Rising from the Rubble: Creating a Museum of the History of Polish Jews” Monday, April 24, at 7 p.m. at The Temple-Tifereth Israel (26000 Shaker Blvd.). Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, chief curator of the POLIN Museum of the History…
April 11, 2017
Neutrinos may be oddest of all the fundamental particles of nature. Almost a century after their prediction, and 60 years after they were first detected (by Frederick Reines, a future chair of the CWRU physics department, and his collaborators), we know that they come in three varieties (flavors)…
April 10, 2017
The Northeast Ohio Public Policy Forum series will continue Tuesday, April 18, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the Lakewood Public Library main branch (15425 Detroit Ave.). The topic of this event will be “Is the Child Foster Care System in Northeast Ohio Broken?” This panel will examine the issues faced…
March 17, 2017
Join the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women and the Laura and Alvin Siegal Lifelong Learning Program for a global conversation Wednesday, March 22, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Kelvin Smith Library, Room 125. The conversation, titled “Gender equality and empowerment of women's rights,” is organized…
March 13, 2017
The Siegal Lifelong Learning Program’s Northeast Ohio Public Policy Forum series continues Tuesday, March 21, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Cuyahoga County Library Parma-Snow Branch (2121 Snow Road, Parma). Titled “The Impact of State Budget Cuts on Northeast Ohio Communities,” the event will feature…
March 10, 2017
Join the Siegal Lifelong Learning Program for a lecture by Michael Berkowitz, professor of modern Jewish history at University College, London, Wednesday, March 22, at 7 p.m. at the Landmark Centre Building, Suite 100 (25700 Science Park Dr., Beachwood). Berkowitz will present “Jews, Photography…
February 10, 2017
Join the Siegal Lifelong Learning Program for a lecture by a visiting scholar titled “A Jewish Messiah: Tale of a Convincing Impostor, 1666” Monday, Feb. 20, at 7 p.m. at the Landmark Centre Building, Suite 100 (25700 Science Park Dr., Beachwood). Matt Goldish, the Samuel M. and Esther Melton…