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News and Announcements
- A number of events are taking place in Arts and Sciences this and next week. Some notable events include:
- On Wednesday (12/7), a SAGES Celebration will take place in the newly-opened SAGES Café, in the quad level of Crawford Hall. The celebration will start at 4 pm with eating, drinking, mingling, and a toast to the many individuals who have contributed to the success of SAGES. There will be freely flowing coffee and finger food, as well as unlimited $1 espresso drinks and a raffle for a basket of Peet's coffee, cafe gift certificates, and other treats. After sunset the event will extend onto the patio for sparklers and hot drinks beside the new outdoor fireplaces. This is an open house event and attendees are invited to drop in any time and stay as long as they like.
- “Amigas,” a dramatic work based on the 30-year correspondence between a Chilean poet and a human rights activist, will be performed in English tonight at 8 pm in the Ford Auditorium in the Allen Memorial Library. Gilbert Doho, associate professor in modern languages, will direct the performance. “Amigas” is sponsored by the Women’s Studies Program, the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women, the Ethnic Studies Program, and the Presidential Initiative Fund for the Enhancement of the Humanities at Case. For more information, visit http://www.case.edu/artsci/news/amigas.pdf. (Adobe Acrobat required)
- Case art history alumnae Carolyn Kinder Carr, Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the National Portrait Gallery in the Smithsonian Institution, will return to her alma mater for a talk next week. As part of the Inaugural Annual Distinguished Alumni Lecture in Art History, Carr will give the free, public lecture “Framing Latin American Portraiture” on Thursday (12/8) at 1 pm in the Dampeer Room of the Kelvin Smith Library. For more information, visit http://blog.case.edu/artscinews.
- The first winners of the newly-created Mather Spotlight Series Prize for Women’s Scholarship were recently named. One winner from each of the schools/colleges at Case was selected. Kathleen Kash, associate professor of physics, was selected from the College of Arts and Sciences. Winners were chose for their “outstanding research and scholarship.” The Awards are funded through the Mather Spotlight Series Endowment, established in 1989 by the Mather Centennial Celebration Committee of the Flora Stone Mather Alumnae Association. The winners were honored yesterday at an award ceremony and reception on campus. For more information, and a full list of the winners, visit http://www.case.edu/provost/centerforwomen/index.html.
- An Arts and Sciences professor and student were among the researchers selected to receive support for their studies from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) in the 2004-2005 national competition. Tom Bishop (English) received an ACLS Fellowship for the book project, “Shakespeare’s Scriptures: Reading, Writing, and the Sacred in Shakespearean Poetry,” and anthropology student Michelle Nebergall was among the individual scholars selected in the Southeast European Studies Program competition. For more information, visit http://www.case.edu/news/2005/11-05/ACLS.htm.
- “Shakespeare’s Songbook,” written by Ross Duffin, the Fynette H. Kulas Professor of Music, was awarded the inaugural Claude V. Palisca Award from the American Musicological Society. It is the most recent honor bestowed on Duffin’s book, which is a scholarly investigation into the original music in Shakespeare’s plays. For more information, visit http://www.case.edu/news/2005/11-05/duffin.htm.
- The final “News and Events” e-mail for Fall 2005 will be sent next Friday, December 9, 2005. The e-mails will resume for Spring 2006 on Friday, January 20, 2006. If you have an event or news item that you would like included in or before the December 9 e-mail, please send your information to ctv1@case.edu by December 8.
Arts and Sciences Events
Below is a list of talks, seminars and other events taking place next week in Arts and Sciences. For more information on these and other events, visit http://connection.case.edu/cas/content/eventList.cfm.
November 1 through December 20 at the Allen Memorial Medical Library - “Changing the Face of Medicine” - an exhibit
Friday, 12/2/2005 at 12:30 pm in the Toepfer Room, Adelbert Hall - Public Affairs Discussion Group: “Building Community, Staging a Republic: Political Architectures in a Medieval City” by Charles Burroughs, Professor and Chair, Art History at Case
Friday, 12/2/2005 at 3 pm in Yost Hall room 300 - “Fitting a smooth function to data” by Professor Bo’ az Klartag, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University
Friday, 12/2/2005 at 8 pm in Ford Auditorium - Amigas (theatrical performance)
Friday, 12/2/2005 at 7:30 pm in Thwing Ballroom - Windi and Jazzi XVII - Symphonic Winds & Jazz Ensembles
Monday, 12/5/2005 at 4 pm in Yost Hall room 321B - “Reduced order modeling I” by Professor Michiel Hochstenbach, Case
Monday, 12/5/2005 at 4 pm in the Millis Science Center, room 123 - "Cartilage Engineering for Laryngotracheal Reconstruction" by James H. Henderson, Ph.D., Skeletal Research Center, Case Western Reserve University
Tuesday, 12/6/2005 at 11:45 am in Clark Hall room 206 - Case Conversations on Children in Research and Policy – “Pre-Adoption Stress and Its Association with Adoption Outcomes from a Global Perspective” by Victor Groza, LISW, Ph.D., Professor & Chair, Doctoral Program, MSASS
December 6 & 7, 2005 from 4:30 to 8 pm - JASON Expedition introduction 2005-06
Thursday, 12/8/2005 at 4:30 pm in Clark Hall room 206 - “Exquisite Images: Eyeing Beauty as Beheld by the Human Brain”: Work in Progress talk by Sara Waller (Philosophy)
Thursday, 12/8/2005 at 4:30 pm in Clapp Hall room 108 - “Chemical Tools for Unraveling Signaling Pathways” by Kavita Shah, Rice University (Frontiers in Chemistry lecture)
Thursday, 12/8/2005 at 1 pm in the Dampeer Room, Kelvin Smith Library - “Framing Latin American Portraiture” by Carolyn Kinder Carr, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Friday, 12/9/2005 in the SAGES Cafe at 4:30 pm - Arts and Sciences Faculty T.G.I.F.
Friday, 12/9/2005 at 12:30 pm in the Toepfer Room, Adelbert Hall - Public Affairs Discussion Group: “Zionism and its Discontents: by Gideon Shimoni, Professor and Chair of the Department of Contemporary Jewry at Hebrew University in Jerusalem; Rosenthal Visiting Professor of Judaic Studies at Case, Fall 2005
Monday, 12/12/2005 at 4 pm in the Millis Science Center, room 123 - "The Effects of Gentamycin on Marrow-derived Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells" by Yuhan Chang, M.D., Skeletal Research Center, Case Western Reserve University
Thursday, 12/15/2005 at 8 pm in The Cleveland Museum of Natural History's Murch Auditorium, 1 Wade Oval - Frontiers of Astronomy Lecture Series – “The Teenage Universe: Distant Quasars and the State of the Universe Soon After the Big Bang” by Michael Strauss, Princeton University
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