Spring 2012
Celebrity, Fame, and the Concept of Genius
Past Events of Spring 2012
The Notion of Borders Today
Dr. Tanella Boni
| Date: | 01-30-2012 |
| Time: | 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm |
| Location: | Clark Hall Room 309 |
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The Program in Ethnic Studies, the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, and the Department of Philosophy are honored to welcome a pioneer of African philosophy and feminism, Tanella Boni, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Abidjan (Côte-d’Ivoire)and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Paris-VIII. Boni isan award-winning scholar and author, and her works include eight collections ofpoetry, four novels, and two renowned book-length essays (Que vivent les femmes d’Afrique? and La diversité du monde) as well as dozens of scholarlyarticles. Dr. Boni will give anall-campus lecture entitled, “"La question des frontières: où ensommes-nous aujourd'hui?" [The Notion of Borders Today].
This program has been approved for 1.5 CEUs for social workers and counselors. Certificates cost $25.
This program is free and open to the public, but registration is requested. Register now: msass.case.edu/ce
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A Bedouin at the Window: Readings from "The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia"
Mary Helen Stefaniak
| Date: | 02-01-2012 |
| Time: | 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm |
| Location: | Wolstein Building Auditorium |
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Author Mary Helen Stefaniak will read from and talk about her Anisfield-Wolf-award-winning novel, The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia (W. W. Norton & Company). Most of the novel takes place in 1938-39, when a well-traveled new schoolteacher turns the little town of Threestep, Georgia, upside down. Miss Spivey not only abandons the prescribed curriculum, providing a few dozen white children with a more worldly and inclusive education; she also reinvents the town's annual festival as a Baghdad Bazaar, complete with camels. But neither Miss Spivey nor the narrator, young Gladys Cailiff, her student and ardent fan, is the hero of the novel. That role belongs to the Cailiffs' 17-year-old African-American neighbor, Theo Boykin. Theo, who is known to all as the smartest person in Piedmont County, soon becomes Chief Engineer and creative genius behind the Baghdad Bazaar. He makes dangerous enemies in the process. Stefaniak will alternate readings from the novel with stories of the surprising research that led her to "discover" a real-life ancestor for her fictional hero in the person of Bilali Mahomet, a literate African Muslim enslaved first in the Bahamas and then on Sapelo Island, Georgia. Bilali Mahomet was famous in his lifetime for his intelligence, his Muslim faith, and his abilities as plantation overseer and leader of men.
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Elsa Leichter's Second Chance: Interruptions and Continuities in a Refugee Social Worker's Transatlantic Career
Barbara Reiterer
| Date: | 02-08-2012 |
| Time: | 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm |
| Location: | Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, Room 320 a,b,c |
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Barbara Reiterer, who holds a doctoral fellowship at the German Historical Institute in Washington D.C. and is a PhD candidate in the Program in History of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of Minnesota, explores the life and work of Elsa Leichter (1905-1997), a Jewish refugee social worker from Vienna who came to the United States on the eve of World War II. This presentation is intended to inform our understanding of refugee resettlement and gender. Leichter received a degree in social work from Case Western Reserve University and went on to work for the Jewish Family Service in New York City, where she earned distinction in the field of family therapy. Starting in the 1970s, she traveled to Europe to give lectures and workshops, thus contributing to the transatlantic circulation of knowledge in the applied social sciences.This talk traces the complex, often difficult, but eventually very successful professional trajectory of an Austrian refugee social worker in the United States. Leichter's story informs the larger history of Austrian and American social work in the mid-twentieth century, and it deepens our understanding of the experiences of Jewish women exiles in the United States.
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A New Future for the Past: The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History
John Grabowski
| Date: | 02-09-2012 |
| Time: | 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm |
| Location: | Clark Hall, Room 206 |
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With the publication of its first hardcopy edition in 1987, The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History opened a new era in the presentation of urban history. When it moved to the World Wide Web in 1998, it pioneered the concept of an on-line, vetted, urban history resource. Today the on-line ECH stands as one of the university�s most visible digital humanities projects. However, in the midst of the growing number of on-line wikis, blogs, and social networks, it is changing again to remain competitive as a popular, attractive, scholarly historical source. Editor John J. Grabowski will discuss the past, present, and future of the ECH at this Baker-Nord digital humanities program.
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Para una Nueva Historia del Cine Cubano: Toward a New History in Cuban Cinema
Juan Antonio Garcia Borrero
| Date: | 02-10-2012 |
| Time: | 4:00 pm to 6:30 pm |
| Location: | Clark Hall Room 309 |
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Film Screening and Discussion: Bill Cunningham New York
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| Date: | 02-20-2012 |
| Time: | 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm |
| Location: | Wolstein Building Auditorium |
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The focus of this award-winning documentary is on New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham. For decades, this Schwinn-riding photographer has been obsessively and inventively chronicling fashion trends and high society charity soirées for the Times Style section in his columns "On the Street" and "Evening Hours." Cunningham's enormous body of work is more reliable than any catwalk as an expression of time, place and individual flair. The film is a delicate, funny and often poignant portrait of a dedicated artist whose only wealth is his own humanity and unassuming grace.
Immediately following the screening, Mary Davis, Associate Director of the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, will lead a discussion with Jean Druesedow and William Perrine.
Druesedow is director of the Kent State University Museum. She was previously Associate Curator in Charge of the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. She has served as curator or organizer for more than 40 exhibitions, is professionally active both nationally and internationally, lectures widely and contributes to publications in the field of costume studies.
Perrine is a lecturer and Ph.D. candidate at The Fashion School of Kent State University. His research interests include social justice in the apparel industry, sustainable consumption of apparel products, fashion student internship experiences, retail in emerging markets such as India and Turkey, paradoxical consumption patterns and network theory as related to the fashion industry.
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Organizing Justice: Forming the Preußischer Richterverein and Advocating for Judges
Kenneth F. Ledford
| Date: | 02-23-2012 |
| Time: | 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm |
| Location: | Clark Hall, Room 206 |
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For years at the end of the 19th century, Prussian judges chafed at the higher pay and status granted to their colleagues in the general administrative bureaucracies, who had been their classmates while studying at the University. Ledford examines what were the social and cultural circumstances that in 1909 led those Prussian judges to defy the pressure from the Prussian Ministry of Justice, and to form a professional association that increasingly toward 1914 pressured the government to equalize pay and status for judicial and administrative officials. This episode of professional organization weaves together important aspects of the histories of the German state, the rule of law, the independence of the judiciary, and the cultural values of the German educated middle class in the final years of the German Empire.
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The Digital Muse: Technology & The Classics
Paul Iversen, Andrea De Giorgi
| Date: | 03-01-2012 |
| Time: | 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm |
| Location: | Clark Hall, Room 206 |
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De Giorgi will discuss how Classical archaeology, as with most sciences that have an interest in the spreading of human phenomena over space, has developed a way to harness GIS (Geographic Information Systems). Theoretically and methodologically confined to the observation of single sites and their settlement history, archaeology through GIS lenses has begun to articulate more refined questions about regions and districts in antiquity and how these were experienced and shaped by human agencies. A landscape in southwestern Anatolia is the case-study that this presentation brings into focus.
Iversen will talk about recent technologies he has used in to study the inscriptions on the Antikythera Mechanism, a bronze geared device from the 2nd or 1st century BCE that is the world�s oldest known analogue computer and one of the most important artifacts ever discovered for understanding ancient astronomy and engineering. The inscriptions are studied via images created using a method called Polynomial Textured Mapping (PTMs), as well as CT-scans taken by means of a technology called Micro-Focus X-rays, the latter of which produces 2-D images that are then reconstructed into 3-D images with astounding clarity by a vector graphics program.
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The Double Life of Celebrity
Sharon Marcus
| Date: | 03-05-2012 |
| Time: | 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm |
| Location: | Clark Hall, Room 309 |
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The power of celebrity is the power of contradiction and paradox. Celebrities are extraordinary and typical, trendy and transcendent, vulnerable and omnipotent; they can seem simultaneously masculine and feminine, straight and gay, and the greatest stars appeal across ethnic, religious, linguistic and national boundaries. In this lecture, Sharon Marcus, the Orlando Harriman Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, explores the dual nature of celebrity by focusing on nineteenth-century actress Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923), known for much of her lifetime as the most famous woman in the world.
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The Hollywood Sign: How a Temporary Commercial Sign Became a Permanent International Icon
Leo Braudy
| Date: | 03-08-2012 |
| Time: | 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm |
| Location: | Clark Hall, Room 309 |
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Originally erected as a real estate advertisement in 1923, the Hollywood Sign only gradually became the most familiar representation of the movie industry. Ignored, mocked, destined for demolition, then celebrated and treasured, Braudy, University professor and Bing Professor of English and American Literature at the University of Southern California, will discuss how its checkered history mirrors the development of Hollywood itself.
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Progress and Organization: How "Representative Government" Explains "On Liberty"
Piers Turner
| Date: | 03-22-2012 |
| Time: | 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm |
| Location: | Clark Hall Room 206 |
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Piers Turner, assistant professor of Philosophy at Ohio Sate University, will discuss John Stuart Mill in this talk.
In the enormous literature on John Stuart Mill’s two most influential moral-political essays, “On Liberty” and “Utilitarianism,” there is little that connects them systematically to his other nearly contemporaneous political work, “Considerations on Representative Government.” Our understanding of all three works suffers when “Representative Government” is read mainly for details of Mill’s democratic theory, with only glancing attempts to integrate it into his overall moral and political framework. Turner aims to partially rectify this state of affairs by arguing that “On Liberty” and its “principle of liberty”—according to which social or political coercion can be justified only by considerations of “harm to others”—are best understood in the context of Mill’s institutional design structure, as presented in “Representative Government” and a number of other essays. The upshot is a new and natural reading of “On Liberty” that demystifies some of its traditionally more difficult interpretive problems."
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Arabic Culture and Mental Health
Jamal Samani, M.D.
| Date: | 03-27-2012 |
| Time: | 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm |
| Location: | Clark Hall Room 309 |
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Jamal Samani, M.D., received his M.D. from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Damascus in Syria in 1999 and his specialization in psychiatry in 2004. His M.D. thesis was on the teaching of medicine in Arabic. After completing residencies in Syria and Saudi Arabia, he has been a psychiatrist at the Mental Health Hospital of Taif, Saudi Arabia since 2009. He has presented on numerous topic in his field including addiction, psychosis, ad schizophrenia.
This event is sponsored by the CWRU Program in Ethnic Studies.
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Gaming the World: How Sports in Europe and America Reflect the Global and the Local in Similar and Different Ways
Andrei Markovits
| Date: | 03-28-2012 |
| Time: | 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm |
| Location: | Clark Hall, Room 309 |
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Markovits, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and the Karl W. Deutsch Collegiate Professor of Comparative Politics and German Studies at the University of Michigan, will discuss how the culture of what he has come to call "hegemonic sports" — meaning those few ball-centered team sports that billions follow around the globe — arose in the 19th century, how it spread during that period best associated with what Markovits calls "the first globalization" and how this construct is in the process of persisting but also transforming in our current time that Markovits associates with the "second globalization". Following his argument delineated in his book Gaming the World: How Sports are Reshaping Global Politics and Culture (Princeton University Press, 2010) — co-authored with Lars Rensmann — Markovits will present this sports culture's immensely enlightening, inclusive, meritocratic and cosmopolitan aspects while at the same time producing some of the ugliest manifestations of counter-cosmopolitanism, racism sexism, and other prejudices of the advanced industrial world.
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Urban Modernity: A two-part Talk: Writing the Book and Rethinking Paris, London, Berlin, Chicago & Tokyo
Miriam Levin
| Date: | 03-29-2012 |
| Time: | 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm |
| Location: | Kelvin Smith Library - Dampeer Room |
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This talk will explore how five very independent historians worked out an efficient plan for collaboration and how they connected expositions, urban rebuilding and museums into a new understanding of modernity's history. Their book, "Urban Modernity: Cultural Innovation in the Second Industrial Revolution" was recently honored by the American Library Association's Choice list of outstanding academic books of 2001.
At the close of the nineteenth century, industrialization and urbanization marked the end of the traditional understanding of society as rooted in agriculture. "Urban Modernity" examines the construction of an urban-centered, industrial-based culture - an entirely new social reality based on science and technology. It shows that this invention of modernity was brought about through the efforts of urban elites-businessmen, industrialists, and officials - to establish new science- and technology-related institutions. In this effort they contributed to a steady continuum of scientific and technical progress through connections they developed among urban planning projects, museums, educational institutions, and expositions in Paris, London, Chicago, Berlin, and Tokyo from 1870 to 1930.
This talk is presented by Miriam Levin, CWRU Professor of History and Art History and Art, and is sponsored by Kelvin Smith Library.
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Luminarium: A Conversation with Alex Shaker
Alex Shakar
| Date: | 03-29-2012 |
| Time: | 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm |
| Location: | Clark Hall Room 206 |
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Novelist Alex Shakar, whose work has been highly praised by such novelists as Dave Eggers and Jonathan Franzen and who has won acclaim from the New York Times, Washington Post, and The Los Angeles Times, will discuss the philosophical dimensions of his latest novel, Luminarium (2011).
This event is sponsored by the Philosophy Department and the Beamer-Schneider Professorship in Ethics. Refreshments will be served.
As Tremont bookstore Visible Voice writes about Shakar's novel:
"Luminarium considers how our perceptions of the world are manipulated and controlled, exploring the nature of reality and the interplay of technology and perception. Shakar has set his story against the background of personal and national grief, and the result is a strikingly metaphysical novel that never dematerializes into misty cliches, a book to challenge the mystic and the doubter alike. The great pleasure of Shakar’s writing, besides his luxuriously cool style, is his ability to weave old metaphysical issues through a plot electrified with contemporary details.
"Moving between the research hospitals of Manhattan, the streets of a meticulously planned Florida city, the neighborhoods of Brooklyn and the uncanny, immersive worlds of urban disaster simulation; threading through military listserv geek-speak, Hindu cosmology, the maxims of outmoded self-help books and the latest neuro-scientific breakthroughs, Luminarium is an exploration of the way we live now, a novel that’s as much about the role technology and spirituality play in shaping our reality as it is about the undying bond between brothers, and the redemptive possibilities of love."
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"Come Back Tomorrow Night and Try It Again": Originality and Imitation in Early Rock and Roll
Nora Morrison
| Date: | 03-30-2012 |
| Time: | 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm |
| Location: | Clark Hall Room 206 |
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In Little Richard's song "You Keep A-Knockin" from 1957, he sings, "Keep a-knockin' but you can't come in / Come back tomorrow night and try it again." American pop musicians of the 1940s and 1950s did just that - they relentlessly tried a range of new and recycled musical approaches in a quest for money and fame. In fact, Little Richard's own song liberally borrowed from another, which riffed on a long line of songs going back at least to the Caribbean in the 19th century. All of these versions were trying it again.
This talk looks at the phenomenon of cover songs in the early rock and roll era. Through cover songs, musicians exchanged ideas across boundaries of genre, race, geography, gender, era, and style. Rock musicians repurposed, mimicked, borrowed, rewrote, and rejected other musicians' work via the cover song. Present-day ideas of musical "ownership" rely on artistic originality, but this talk instead considers the collaborative musical world from which rock and roll emerged.
Nora Brennan Morrison works on the history of popular music and jazz. In 2011 she completed a three-year term as a fellow and lecturer in Music at CWRU. She has also taught at Lehman College-CUNY and Harvard. For two years she was a visiting scholar at Columbia University. She has written and presented on early rock and roll, Michael Jackson, Jelly Roll Morton, Josephine Baker, Caribbean influences on jazz, and other topics. She is wrapping up her Ph.D. in Harvard's History of American Civilization department this semester.
This event is sponsored by the CWRU Department of English and the Popular Culture Working Group.
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Poetry in the Museum
Jorie Graham
| Date: | 04-01-2012 |
| Time: | 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm |
| Location: | Cleveland Museum of Art |
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Poet Jorie Graham has -- with great regret -- been forced to cancel her trip to Cleveland due to medical circumstances.
The event, however, will go on as scheduled, and will feature an announcement of the winners of the Poetry in the Museum contest, which called for a descriptive response to a work of art in the CMA collection. Contest winners will read their poems in proximity to the described work of art.
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The Art of Playing: As You Like It
Tom Bishop
| Date: | 04-03-2012 |
| Time: | 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm |
| Location: | Guilford Parlor |
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Plays in Shakespeare's day were called "plays", theaters were "playhouses" and actors were "players". This paper discusses an identification of drama as play in the thinking and practice of the late medieval and early modern theatre, looking in particular at some theatrical games that affect theshape and subject matter of Shakespeare's "As You Like It".
TOM BISHOP is Professor of English at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He has taught at Yale University and at Case Western Reserve University, where he also directed the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities. He is the author of Shakespeare and the Theatre of Wonder (Cambridge, 1996), the translator of Ovid’s Amores (Carcanet, 2003), and a general editor of The Shakespearean International Yearbook. He has published articles on Elizabethan music, Shakespeare, Jonson, Australian literature and other topics, and is currently working on Shakespeare’s Theatre Games.
This event is sponsored by the CWRU Department of English.
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Women Writers from Gabon: A Conversation with Alice Endamne: An Afropean Author
Alice Endamne
| Date: | 04-03-2012 |
| Time: | 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm |
| Location: | Clark Hall Room 206 |
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Alice Endamne is a French author born to parents from Gabon. She is the author of two novels, C'est demain qu'on s'fait la malle ( 2008) and Garçons et filles(2010) as well as two children’s books. She was also the long-time editor of Black Arts Quarterly at Stanford University.
The event is sponsored by the CWRU Ethic Studies Program.
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Climate Catastrophes in the Solar System: Lessons for Earth
David Grinspoon
| Date: | 04-04-2012 |
| Time: | 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm |
| Location: | Wolstein Building Auditorium |
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Grinspoon, author, Curator of Astrobiology in the Department of Space Sciences at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, and Adjunct Professor of Astrophysical and Planetary Science at the University of Colorado will present an interplanetary perspective on climate change. What happened to the lost oceans of Venus and Mars? Grinspoon will discuss how studying the evolution of other planets contributes to understanding and predicting climate change on Earth. Along the way he'll lead us on a journey through the solar system�and deep time�discovering runaway greenhouses, snowball planets, and the long-term fate of Earth.
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Breaking Flesh: Performance, Anatomy, Memory
Elina Gertsman
| Date: | 04-05-2012 |
| Time: | 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm |
| Location: | Clark Hall, Room 206 |
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In his Christmas sermon Puer natus est nobis, Jean Gerson, the outspoken chancellor of the University of Paris, raged against a vile statue he saw in a local Carmelite church: a sculpture of the Virgin whose body split open to unveil the Trinity placed within. Gertsman will explore one such statue — the so-called Shrine Madonna — within the context of late medieval mnemotechnic discourses, anatomical and childbirth treatises, and performance practices that foreground obsession with uncanny anthropomorphic puppets. Through her study of Shrine Madonnas, Gertsman will explore the processes of empathetic beholding of a performing object, which both controls and is controlled by the viewer.
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Digital Storytelling
Bryan Alexander
| Date: | 04-09-2012 |
| Time: | 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm |
| Location: | Clark Hall, Room 309 |
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People have been creating digital stories since before the web began but only recently have so many powerful media for sharing these stories become available to the general population. Today's digital storytelling is not just for tech-savvy individuals; anyone with a desire to express their creativity can learn to use modern technology to share their stories.
Bryan Alexander will discuss the modern expression of the ancient art of storytelling, weaving images, text, audio, video, and music together. He will draw upon the latest technologies, insights from the latest scholarship, and his own extensive experience to describe the narrative creation process with personal video, blogs, podcasts, digital imagery, multimedia games, social media, and augmented reality -- all platforms that offer new pathways for creativity, interactivity, and self-expression.
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Deng Xiaoping and the Opening of China
Ezra Vogel
| Date: | 04-10-2012 |
| Time: | 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm |
| Location: | Mandel Center, Room 108 |
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Perhaps no person in the 20th century affected more people or had a greater long-term impact on world history than Deng Xiaoping. Drawing from his latest book, Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China, award-winning social scientist Ezra Vogel argues that the economic reforms instituted by the Chinese leader resulted in more people rising out of poverty than in any other period. Presiding over unprecedented economic expansion and engagement with the West, but also the authoritarian crackdown in Tiananmen Square, Deng was single-minded in his drive to modernize his county. Called "a masterful new history of China's reform era" by the Washington Post, Vogel's 2011 accounting of the parallel rise of Deng and the world's second-biggest economy provides the basis of the lecture.
This event is co-sponsored by the CWRU Program in Asian Studies, The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, and the CWRU Department of Political Science.
For more information, please contact Paul Schroder at pes15@cwru.edu.
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ANGRY WOMEN: A Party for Classicists and Closet Classicists
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| Date: | 04-14-2012 |
| Time: | 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm |
| Location: | Mather House, 4th Floor |
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Enjoy an evening of angry women dramatized by (cross-dressing) Classics faculty and students. See Wutrich as demented Medea, Iversen as defiant Antigone, DeGiorgi as vehement Dido.
Event includes food, drink, and entertainment.
Sponsored by the Department of Classics.
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Rembrandt van Rijn: A Conversation
Mariët Westermann, Svetlana Alpers
| Date: | 04-15-2012 |
| Time: | 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm |
| Location: | Cleveland Museum of Art |
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This event features a conversation with Dr. Mariët Westermann, Vice President, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and Dr. Svetlana Alpers, Professor Emerita, University of California, Berkeley, moderated by Dr. Catherine Scallen, Associate Professor and Chair of Art History and Dr. Jon Seydl, Vignos Curator of European Painting and Sculpture, 1500-1800. These prominent scholars of Dutch art will discuss why Rembrandt van Rijn's technique and subject matter continue to fascinate art viewers hundreds of years after his own time. This conversation immediately follows Fresh Perspectives on an Old Master: Rembrandt Van Rijn, a symposium which features art historians who are contributing to the scholarship on Rembrandt, and is co-sponsored by the CWRU Department of Art and Art History and the Cleveland Museum of Art.
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Creating a Sense of Place: University Circle -- Where the Arts have Created a Life-Enhancing Environment
Nina Gibans, Jesse Epstein, Chris Roynane
| Date: | 04-19-2012 |
| Time: | 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm |
| Location: | Clark Hall, Room 206 |
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Producers Jesse Epstein and Nina Gibans, along with University Circle Inc. President Chris Roynane, discuss this multi-layered project on the history, public art, and architecture in University Circle. University Circle is the core of Cleveland's powerful history and embodies the civic dream of the Cleveland industrialists who donated the land, lived there, and envisioned and endowed its institutions. This program will include video clips and commentary on the project.
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Ancient Greeks/Modern Lives: A National Conversation: Staged reading and Town-Hall Style Discussion
The Aquila Theatre
| Date: | 04-19-2012 |
| Time: | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm |
| Location: | Hawken School, Lyndhurst Chapel |
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Case Western Reserve University's Department of Classics, and the Hawken School are proud to present a staged reading by The Aquila Theatre of selections from Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, with a Town Hall style discussion to follow.
This performance is the first event in "Ancient Greeks, Modern Lives: A National Conversation," a major national humanities program traveling to 100 public libraries and art centers across America with a mission to inspire people to come together to read, see, and think about classical literature and how it continues to influence and invigorate American cultural life.
The program will continue this fall at the museum with an exploration of the theme of Homecoming through a multi-session reading group and public lecture by Dr. Timothy Wutrich, from the Department of Classics at Case Western Reserve University.
For more information about this program, please contact Bethany Corriveau at bcorriveau@clevelandart.org or Timothy Wutrich at timothy.wutrich@case.edu. Discover more about Aquila Theatre and "Ancient Greeks, Modern Lives" at http://www.ancientgreeksmodernlives.org/.
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Getting Published
Eleanor H. Goodman
| Date: | 04-20-2012 |
| Time: | 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm |
| Location: | Clark Hall, Room 206 |
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This workshop will offer participants an insider's perspective on the changing climate of scholarly publishing in the humanities and provide an overview of the key issues associated with publishing with an academic press. Questions to be considered include how to identify an appropriate press; effective ways to approach a publisher; how to "pitch" your book; the kind of information to include in a prospectus; and the difference between a doctoral dissertation and a book. Goodman will also take a look at what can be expected if a publisher is interested in your book, from the review and approval process, all the way to book's publication (whether published on paper, electronically, or both).
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The Edward S. & Melinda Melton Sadar Lecture in Writing in the Disciplines: Mixed Feelings, or What Happens When Scientists Read "Sense and Sensibility"
Daniel M. Gross
| Date: | 04-20-2012 |
| Time: | 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm |
| Location: | Clark Hall Room 309 |
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What are mixed feelings? Are they a matter of mere folk psychology or can they be specified with scientific rigor? What might their specification tell us about human beings and the typically fraught situations in which we find ourselves? In this presentation, Daniel Gross will address these questions by examining mixed feelings at the intersection of happiness psychology (Daniel Kahneman), cognitive science (Lawrence Barsalou et al.), and the sentimental novel satirized (Jane Austen). His conclusion will point to surprising ways in which writing and rhetoric constitute mixed feelings and other emotional phenomena in a manner that renders them available to cross-disciplinary analysis.
Daniel M. Gross is Associate Professor of English and Director of Composition at the University of California, Irvine. He is author of The Secret History of Emotion: From Aristotle's Rhetoric to Modern Brain Science (Chicago 2006) and co-editor, with Ansgar Kemmann, of Heidegger and Rhetoric (SUNY 2005). Current projects include a book on The Art of Listening and a study of sentimental literature from the perspective of situated cognition theory. Also, with his wife Carla Wilson, he is producing a film documentary Black American Gothic about the forced exodus of black folks from the inner city.
This event is sponsored by the Center for the Study of Writing and the Department of English.
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Ancient Greeks/Modern Lives: A National Conversation: Staged reading and Town-Hall Style Discussion
The Aquila Theatre
| Date: | 04-20-2012 |
| Time: | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm |
| Location: | Cleveland Museum of Art Recital Hall |
| Registration: This Event is Already Past |
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Case Western Reserve University’s Department of Classics, and the Hawken School are proud to present a staged reading by The Aquila Theatre of selections from Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, with a Town Hall style discussion to follow.
This performance is the first event in “Ancient Greeks, Modern Lives: A National Conversation,” a major national humanities program traveling to 100 public libraries and art centers across America with a mission to inspire people to come together to read, see, and think about classical literature and how it continues to influence and invigorate American cultural life.
The program will continue this fall at the museum with an exploration of the theme of Homecoming through a multi-session reading group and public lecture by Dr. Timothy Wutrich, from the Department of Classics at Case Western Reserve University.
For more information about this program, please contact Bethany Corriveau at bcorriveau@clevelandart.org or Timothy Wutrich at timothy.wutrich@case.edu. Discover more about Aquila Theatre and “Ancient Greeks, Modern Lives” at http://www.ancientgreeksmodernlives.org/.
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Discover the best in Austen-Inspired fiction!
Sandy Lerner, Karen Doornebos
| Date: | 04-21-2012 |
| Time: | 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm |
| Location: | Clark Hall Room 309 |
| Registration: This Event is Already Past |
The Jane Austen Society of North America - Ohio North Coast Region welcomes two popular new Austen-Inspired authors:
Sandy Lerner author of Second Impressions (as Ava Farmer)
As the Co-founder of Cisco Systems and founder of her own cosmetics company, Sandy Lerner has made her mark on the commercial world. She now spends her time on her organic farm in Virginia, contemplating cows and the scourge which is industralized, chemical agriculture. She is also the author of a now-obsolete dictionary of terms related to digital music, and the translator/editor of an old book on carriage driving.
Her deep love of Jane Austen's works eventually led her to purchase Chawton House, the estate Austen's brother inherited, on which her cottage was situated. She has spent the last several years turning Edward's home into Chawton House Library, a non-profit resource for the study of early English women’s writing to support students and research of women writers, pre-1830, writing in English, world-wide.
Sandy has also spent several years working on her debut novel, Second Impressions, which has been hailed as a truly authentic continuation of Austen's most popular novel.
To learn more about Second Impressions, follow this link: chawtonhousepress.com/home.html *All profits from Second Impressions go to Chawton House Library.*
Karen Doornebos author of Definitely Not Mr. Darcy
Once an award-winning copywriter for brands such as Diet Coke and Johnnie Walker, Karen switched to tea with her debut novel, Definitely Not Mr. Darcy. She graduated with honors in English Literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and lived and worked in London. That inspired the book, but the reality of life in a Chicago suburb with her husband, son, daughter, and various pets provided the opportunity to write it.
To learn more about Definitely Not Mr. Darcy, follow this link: karendoornebos.com/
Bring your pocketbooks! Jane Austen Books will be having a special sale!
Program will include a brief education in the history of works inspired by Austen. Our guests will share their experiences as authors, and as Austen fans and supporters. Authors will sign and personalize their books for attendees!
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