Spring 2013
Revolution!
Closer Than You Think: Thoughts on Genre Bending, Blending and Plain-Old Jumping Ship
Paula McLain
| Date: | 06-01-2013 |
| Time: | 9:00 am to 10:00 am |
| Location: | Clark Hall Room 309 - 11130 Bellflower Road |
| Registration: | Free and open to the public, registration recommended |
Paula McLain is the author of the acclaimed novel The Paris Wife. She is also the author of two collections of poetry, as well as a memoir. This is the keynote address for Breaking Genre: A Writers Conference. Only the keynote and book fair are free and open to the public. The conference will also feature presentations by Sarah Gridley, ...
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Past Events of Spring 2013
Freedman Fellows Presentation Series: Continuation of The Reilly Digital Catalogue of Mahler's Musical Manuscripts
Stephen Hefling, Stephen Toombs
| Date: | 01-18-2013 |
| Time: | 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm |
| Location: | Clark Hall, Room 206 |
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The Mahler Manuscript Catalog represents a model of the Freedman Fellowship in which the subject expertise of a faculty member is combined with the experience of a research services librarian and the skills of library IT staff to create digital scholarship.
Stephen Hefling will present an overview of his working methods illustrated with examples that are fully described in The Reilly ...
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Keeping the Stories Alive
James Sheeler
| Date: | 01-31-2013 |
| Time: | 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm |
| Location: | Clark Hall Room 206 |
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For the past few years, students in Jim Sheeler's immersion journalism/multimedia storytelling class have spent the bulk of the semester at Eliza Bryant Village, the nation's oldest continually operating African-American nursing home, located in the Hough neighborhood of Cleveland. Armed with videocameras, microphones, headphones and cell phones, they've created audio slideshows documenting the lives of former actors and gospel singers. ...
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A Conversation with Daniel Stashower
Daniel Stashower
| Date: | 02-04-2013 |
| Time: | 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm |
| Location: | Wolstein Building Auditorium |
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Daniel Stashower is an acclaimed biographer and narrative historian and winner of the Edgar, Agatha, and Anthony awards, as well as the Raymond Chandler Fulbright Fellowship in Detective Fiction. His latest book The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War uncovers the riveting true story of the "Baltimore Plot," one of the great untold ...
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The Myth of Dresden: Origins and Manifestation of the German Victim Discourse
Susanne Vees-Gulani, Richard Wisneski
| Date: | 02-08-2013 |
| Time: | 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm |
| Location: | Kelvin Smith Library, Room LL06 |
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Since in February 1945 a firestorm caused by heavy air raids largely destroyed Dresden, this German baroque city has served as a symbol for the brutality of warfare and suffering. Vees-Gulani challenges the unquestioned acceptance of the Dresden victim status, since the city was in fact neither an unjustified military target nor was the level or timing of the bombings ...
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REVOLUTION FILM SERIES: The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade
| Date: | 02-11-2013 |
| Time: | 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm |
| Location: | Wolstein Building Auditorium |
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This 1967 film -- based upon the Peter Weiss/Peter Brook iconoclastic & influential Broadway production -- tells the story of the Marquis de Sade, who -- while imprisoned in the Charenton mental hospital -- uses the patients to stage a play based on the life of the French Revolution martyr Jean-Paul Marat. A bold masterwork that weaves the theatricality of ...
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Cold War Medicine: ECT as Therapy and Social Control in an Age of Anxiety
Jonathan Sadowsky
| Date: | 02-14-2013 |
| Time: | 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm |
| Location: | Clark Hall Room 206 |
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In the 1940s & 50s, Electroconvulsive Therapy spread in the United Stated during a period of intense preoccupation with conformity and deviance. In this presentation Sadowsky, the Dr. Theodore J. Castele Associate Professor of Medical History and Chair of the Department of History, explores the relationship of a highly controversial psychiatric therapy to that era's concern with conformity, comparing uses ...
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Occupy Shakespeare: Shakespeare and/in the Humanities
Marjorie Garber
| Date: | 02-21-2013 |
| Time: | 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm |
| Location: | Wolstein Building Auditorium |
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Revolution, evolution, devolution--what is the relationship between Shakespeare and the humanities today? How has "ownership" of Shakespeare changed in the 20th and 21st centuries--and what, if anything, does that tell us about the future, for "Shakespeare," for the humanities, and for modern and postmodern culture? Garber is the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of English and Visual and Environmental Studies ...
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Navigating the Perfect Moral Storm: Climate Change Ethics in Light of a Thirty-Five Year Debate
Donald Brown
| Date: | 02-28-2013 |
| Time: | 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm |
| Location: | Clark Hall Room 309 |
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Professor Donald Brown -- scholar in residence for sustainability ethics and law at the Widener Environmental Law Center, and former director of the Pennsylvania Environmental Research Consortium -- will address the critical questions of why climate change must be understood fundamentally as a civilization-challenging ethical problem, why an understanding that climate change is an ethical problem has profound practical significance ...
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Revolutionaries: Race, Class, and Culture between the Wars
Walter Benn Michaels
| Date: | 03-04-2013 |
| Time: | 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm |
| Location: | Wolstein Building Auditorium |
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Beginning with a comparison between the great German photographer August Sander and the equally great American photographer, Walker Evans, this talk will move on to an analysis of the relation between race and class in William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!. Its central questions will be about how social structure is understood, how revolutionary change in that structure is understood, and how ...
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Renaissance Humanism as a Border-Crossing Movement: The 2013 Wish Symposium Keynote Address
Professor Anthony Grafton
| Date: | 03-08-2013 |
| Time: | 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm |
| Location: | Thwing Center, 1914 Room |
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Renaissance humanists did their best to recover, study and imitate the great works of Greek and Roman antiquity. But their intellectual project became much broader, and in some cases less Eurocentric, than their professional title suggests and than many historians have realized. Almost all humanists were as fascinated by late antiquity as by the classical periods of Greek and Roman ...
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F. Joseph Callahan Distinguished Lecture: Moral Matter
Kwame Anthony Appiah
| Date: | 03-18-2013 |
| Time: | 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm |
| Location: | Severance Hall |
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This year’s keynote speaker is philosopher and cultural theorist Kwame Anthony Appiah, author of "Cosmopolitanism" and "The Honor Code". His free lecture will discuss the evolving concepts of honor and morality.
Appiah is the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University. He is also the president of the PEN American Center, the internationally acclaimed literary and human rights ...
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Who's Laughing Now?: Indigenous Media and the Politics of Humor
Freya Schiwy
| Date: | 03-19-2013 |
| Time: | 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm |
| Location: | Clark Hall Room 206 |
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Dr. Freya Schiwy, author of Indianizing Film: Decolonization, the Andes, and the Question of Technology, will explore the socio-political dimension of how humor within indigenous videos effects the cultural politics of decolonization. She contends that humor helps to negotiate cultural and social change in indigenous communities, while also provoking white and mestizo audiences to laugh at the terms established by ...
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The Superman Revolution: A Salute to the Man of Steel
Brad Ricca, Mike Olszewski, Michael Sangiacomo
| Date: | 03-19-2013 |
| Time: | 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm |
| Location: | Clark Hall Room 206 |
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After 75 years, is Superman – the politically, artistically, and culturally radical character created by two young Clevelanders – ready for a retirement home? Or a coup d'etat? This panel – planned in anticipation of the anniversary of Action Comics #1, the first appearance of Superman – includes Brad Ricca (moderator), Mike Olszewski, Michael Sangiacomo, and others. Sponsored by the ...
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On Which Day Exactly Did Galileo Start the Scientific Revolution
J.B. Shank
| Date: | 03-20-2013 |
| Time: | 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm |
| Location: | Clark Hall Room 309 |
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J.B. Shank -- noted professor of history at the University of Minnesota, and this year's Baker-Nord Center Scholar-in-Residence -- challenges some widely-held views of Galileo as the figure who launched the Scientific Revolution. His lecture will question the necessity and usefulness of this canonical understanding while exploring all the many ways that Galileo was, nevertheless, a sparklingly brilliant embodiment of ...
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Eslanda Robeson: Black Internationalism & the Fight Against White Supremacy and Empire in the 20th Century
Barbara Ransby
| Date: | 03-21-2013 |
| Time: | 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm |
| Location: | Clark Hall Room 309 |
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On the faculty of the University of Illinois at Chicago, Ransby is an historian, writer, and longtime political activist. Her lecture will discuss the spirit of unity and solidarity that existed between an eclectic global community of politicians, radicals, and intellectuals from Asia, Africa and the Caribbean emerging from the shackles of colonialism in the 1940s and 50s and finding ...
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REVOLUTION FILM SERIES: My Perestroika
Robin Hessman
| Date: | 03-25-2013 |
| Time: | 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm |
| Location: | Wolstein Building Auditorium |
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This award-winning feature-length documentary premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and was screened in New York as part of the prestigious film series, New Directors/New Films, curated by MoMA and the Film Society of Lincoln Center. My Perestroika has been rated one of the top films of the year by leading critics, including the New York Times. The film ...
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Bibles Hot and Cold: DIY Experiments in Monotype and Hypermedia
Timothy Beal
| Date: | 03-28-2013 |
| Time: | 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm |
| Location: | Clark Hall Room 206 |
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Biblical scholars in the early decades of the print era were keenly aware that their challenge was not simply to put biblical content into pre-formatted media, but rather, to invent biblical media. Tim Beal, the Florence Harkness Professor of Religion, reflects on how particular practices of media technology shape both our processes and publication of research. He will present his ...
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Outspoken - Figuratively Speaking: A Workshop in poetry and performance
Michael Salinger
| Date: | 03-29-2013 |
| Time: | 12:30 pm to 1:50 pm |
| Location: | Clark Hall Room 309 |
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Precise and concise. Poetry is snapshot writing, recreating an instant and allowing the reader/ listener to infer meaning. This workshop will help attendees to hone their use of imagery, metaphor, and narrative in order to create word photos and then speak the results out loud. Poet Michael Salinger leads attendees in fun and instructive writing exercises and then provides some ...
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Ransacking Cultural Narratives: Horror, Prefiguration, and Freaks
Joyce Kessler, Robert Spadoni, S. Andrew Swann, Mary Turzillo
| Date: | 04-02-2013 |
| Time: | 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm |
| Location: | Clark Hall, Room 206 |
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Revolutions I Have Known
Ted Morgan
| Date: | 04-04-2013 |
| Time: | 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm |
| Location: | Clark Hall Room 309 |
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Ted Morgan -- Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and noted biographer -- will share his experiences in covering three major political uprisings of the 20th century: revolutions in Algeria, the Belgian Congo, and Viet Nam. Drawing upon research for his recent books -- "Valley of Death: The Tragedy at Dine Bien Phu That Led America into the Vietnam War" (2010) and "My ...
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Poetry in the Museum
Forrest Gander
| Date: | 04-07-2013 |
| Time: | 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm |
| Location: | Cleveland Museum of Art |
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Forrest Gander will share his work in the dramatic setting of the Reid Gallery at the Cleveland Museum of Art, co-sponsor of this event. Following his presentation, Gander will announce the winners of the 2013 Poetry in the Museum contest, who will read their winning poems. Support provided by the Helen Buchman Sharnoff Endowed Fund for Poetry at Case Western ...
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Freedman Center Colloquium: Exploring Collaboration in Digital Scholarship
Lisa Spiro, Brian Croxall, Amanda French, Francine Berman
| Date: | 04-08-2013 |
| Time: | 1:00 pm to 6:30 pm |
| Location: | Kelvin Smith Library |
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The second colloquium on digital scholarship will take place on the afternoon of Monday, April 8th & morning of Tuesday, April 9th, 2013 at Kelvin Smith Library located on the campus of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. The purpose and focus of talks for this year's colloquium is to highlight how producing and supporting digital scholarship is a ...
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Learning from the Germans: Tarantino, Spielberg, and American Crimes
Susan Neiman
| Date: | 04-11-2013 |
| Time: | 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm |
| Location: | Clark Hall Room 309 |
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This lecture is the 2013 Beamer-Schneider Lecture in Ethics & Civics.
For the last 60 years, German culture - whether philosophical, literary, artistic or cinematic - has revolved around one question: how to go on after the Nazis? Not many of these efforts are well-known to outsiders, many of them are problematic, but all of them are significant. In focusing ...
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Gaming for a Classroom (R)evolution: Transforming Learning through Play
Anastasia Salter
| Date: | 04-18-2013 |
| Time: | 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm |
| Location: | Clark Hall Room 309 |
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With new technologies and a fluctuating media landscape transforming communication, the traditional classroom and lecture hall is undergoing extensive remediation. Learning in the digital age is impacted not just by the presence of technology but by the expectations it creates for immediacy, interactivity, and responsiveness. Building classrooms centered on these principles can cultivate play and experimentation, often by incorporating games ...
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THATCamp Games 2013
An Unconference
| Date: | 04-20-2013 |
| Time: | 8:30 am to 6:00 pm |
| Location: | Clark Hall |
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THATCamp Games 2013 is an unconference, founded as a way to bring together Digital Humanities theorists and practitioners, educational and serious game designers, games enthusiasts and advocates, museum educators, and humanities instructors and scholars interested in games and pedagogy. THATCamp Games serves as a space to bring together those on all sides of humanities games to engage in challenging and ...
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Vergil Week MMXIII: Vergilian Footrace/Cursus Vergilianus
| Date: | 04-21-2013 |
| Time: | 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm |
| Location: | Clark Hall Room 206 |
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5-kilometer footrace over the north side of campus. Meet in front of Clark Hall, 11130 Bellflower Road. Registration form available at http://classics.case.edu/FootraceReg13.pdf.
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Vergil Week MMXIII: Art Contest and Exhibition
| Date: | 04-22-2013 |
| Time: | 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm |
| Location: | Crawford Hall, SAGES Cage |
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Exhibition of student and faculty art inspired by Vergil and Greco-Roman civilization. The contest was judged by graduate students in Art Education.
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Vergil Week MMXIII: Latin Recitation Contest
| Date: | 04-23-2013 |
| Time: | 4:15 pm to 6:00 pm |
| Location: | Clark Hall Room 206 |
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Latin Recitation contest for high school and university students.
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Vergil Week MMXIII Ethics Table/Brown Bag Lunch: "To spare the subjected and crush the conquered:" perspectives on Aeneid XII
| Date: | 04-24-2013 |
| Time: | 11:30 am to 1:00 pm |
| Location: | Thwing Center Room A |
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Discussion of the concept of justice and killing of Turnus at the end of the "Aeneid."
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Vergil Week MMXIII: Continuous public reading of the "Aeneid" in English/Exhibition of Art Inspired by the "Aeneid"
| Date: | 04-25-2013 |
| Time: | 8:30 am to 8:30 pm |
| Location: | Crawford Hall SAGES Cafe |
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All are invited to join in a complete reading of the "Aeneid" in the new English translation by Patricia A. Johnston.
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Vergil Week MMXIII: Juno's Compromise in Aeneid XII
Patricia A. Johnston
| Date: | 04-26-2013 |
| Time: | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm |
| Location: | Clark Hall Room 206 |
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Patricia A. Johnston, Professor of Classics and Director, Symposia Cumana, Department of Classical Studies, Brandeis University, presents the keynote lecture for Vergil Week MMXIII.
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On the Significance of Experiment for Philosophy
Dr. Chris Haufe
| Date: | 05-01-2013 |
| Time: | 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm |
| Location: | Clark Hall Room 206 |
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Dr. Haufe, from Case Western Reserve University's Department of Philosophy, will discuss how the practice and discipline of philosophy is distinguished by its emphasis on using rational intuition to support theories about ethics, truth, knowledge, meaning, and most of the other "big" questions. He will argue that philosophical theories can (and should) also be supported by experiments. Understanding how experiments ...
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