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FALL 2006 EVENTS

Unless otherwise noted, all events are free and open to the public. An online version of the Arts and Sciences calendar is available through the university’s WebEvent page: www.case.edu/webdev/calendar/

SEPTEMBER

September 5, 2006, 11:30 am - 1 pm
Public Lecture — HOKUM: A History of Black Popular Culture
Karen Sotiropoulos,

Cleveland State University
Mather House, Room 100

September 8, 2006, 12:30 pm - 2 pm
2nd Annual Anisfield-Wolf Lecture
Rita Dove

Severance Hall

September 14, 2006, 4 pm - 6 pm
Ameripalooza: A Celebration of the American Studies Program
SAGES Café, Crawford Hall
Featuring live entertainment, food, and a raffle for an iPod Nano.
Students interested in American Studies are encouraged to attend.

September 18-20, 2006
Fifty Years’ Perspective on the Hungarian Revolution of 1956
A three-day conference with talks by Istvan Deak, John Grabowski, and Csaba Bekes
www.case.edu/artsci/hungarian/ProgramSchedule.html
Thwing Center
Free and open to the public.
Please make reservations by September 8th.

September 21, 2006, 4 pm - 6 pm
Work-in-Progress Colloquium Series
China Express: Railroads in the Imperial, Nationalist, and Communist Experience
Elisabeth Köll,
Department of History
Refreshments at 4 pm, presentation at 4:30 pm Clark Hall, Room 206

September 24, 2006, 4:00 pm
Second Annual Case/CSU/Oberlin Honors Band Concert
Waetjen Auditorium
, Cleveland State University

September 27, 28, 29, and 30, 2006
(see October performances below)
Cleveland Play House / Case Western Reserve University Conservatory Ensemble Series
Heartbreak House,
by George Bernard Shaw
Directed by Jerrold Scott and featuring the second-year MFA Acting Ensemble
The Studio Theatre at The Cleveland Play House
For performance times and ticket information, call
The Cleveland Play House Box Office: 216-795-7000, ext. 4

September 28, 2006, 4 pm
Public Lecture
Gordon Davidson (MA ‘57)
, founding artistic director of the Center Theater Group’s Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles
Eldred Theater

September 29 and 30, 8 pm; October 5, 6, and 7 at 8 pm; October 1 & 8 at 2:30 pm
Eldred Theater Drama Series
On the Verge,
by Eric Overmyer
Directed by Russ Borski
General admission: $10 / Adults 60+ and Case faculty/staff: $7 Students with ID: $5
Eldred Theater Box Office: (216) 368-6262

OCTOBER

October 3, 2006, 4:30 pm
Public Lecture —The Merchant of Venice: Shylock in Christian and Jewish Imaginations
Susannah Heschel,
Dartmouth College
Venue to be announced.
Sponsored by the Samuel Rosenthal Center for Judaic Studies

October 1, 4, 5, 6, and 7, 2006
Cleveland Play House / Case Western Reserve University Conservatory Ensemble Series
Heartbreak House,
by George Bernard Shaw
The Studio Theatre at The Cleveland Play House
The Cleveland Play House Box Office: (216) 795-7000, ext.4

October 5, 2006, 11:30 am - 1 pm
Public Lecture
Avital Ronell
, University of California, Berkeley,
Baker-Nord Visiting Fellow
Clark Hall, Room 206

October 13, 2006
Public Lecture
Mary Frances Berry
, former chair of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
Case School of Law
Sponsored by the Department of History, the School of Law, and the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences

October 15, 2006, 4:00 pm
Wind Ensemble / Symphonic Winds / Parma Symphony Orchestra
Severance Hall
General Admission: $15/ Box Seating: $25
Severance Hall Box Office: (216) 231-1111

October 18, 2006
If Amadiume, Dartmouth College
The public program (time and venue to be announced) will be the culmination of a day-long series of events with this award-winning author and poet.
Sponsored by the Women’s Studies Program

October 19, 2006, 4:30 pm - 6 pm
Oral Performance and Ethnic Identity Series
Ntozake Shange

Strosaker Auditorium
Sponsored by the Ethnic Studies Program

October 26, 2006, 4 pm - 6 pm
Work-in-Progress Colloquium Series
The Wisest Virgin and the Wise King: Music, Art, and Literature for Emperor Maximilian I
David Rothenberg,
Department of Music
Clark Hall, Room 206
Sponsored by the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities and the Northeast Ohio Medieval and Renaissance Studies Group

October 26, 27, and 28, 2006, 8:00 pm
Footlighters’ Fall Musical
Reefer Madness: The Musical

Carlton Commons
General Admission: $5

NOVEMBER

November 3, 2006, 9 am - 5 pm
Western Reserve Studies Symposium
Transformation of a Region: The Western Reserve and “The Livable City
Venue and program to be announced.

November 5, 2006, 3 p.m.
Chapel, Court & Countryside
Fretwork
Jewish Viol Players at the English Court

Harkness Chapel
For ticket information, call 216-368-2402

November 10, 11, 16, 17, and 18, 8:00 pm
November 12, 2:30 p.m.

Mather Dance Series
Montage

An evening of dance works including “Daughters of Okeanos” by Erick Hawkins and a new technology-based work by Gary Galbraith.
Mather Dance Center
General admission: $10 / Adults 60+ and Case faculty/staff: $7 Students with ID: $5
For reservations, call 216-368-6262

November 10, 11, 16, 17, and 18, 8:00 pm
November 12 and 19, 2:30 pm

Eldred Theater Drama Series
A Bright Room Called Da
y, by Tony Kushner
Directed by Mark Alan Gordon
General admission: $10 / Adults 60+ and Case faculty/staff: $7 Students with ID: $5
Eldred Theater Box Office: 216-368-6262

November 16, 2006, 11:30 am - 1 pm
Public Lecture
Blasphemous Images, Secular Media
S. Brent Rodriguez-Plate
, Texas Christian University,
Baker-Nord Visiting Fellow
Clark Hall, Room 206

November 16, 2006, 4 pm - 6 pm
Work-in-Progress Colloquium Series
The Logic of Stories: New Cognitive and Semiotic Ideas on Narrative Structure
Per Aage Brandt,
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
Clark Hall, Room 206

November 19, 2006, 2:30 pm
University Circle Wind Ensemble
Music majors from Case and the Cleveland Institute of Music.
Harkness Chapel

November 30, 2006, 11:30 am - 1 pm
Public Lecture — Cloning Terror: The War of Images, September 11 to the Abu Ghraib Photographs
W.J.T. Mitchell
, University of Chicago,
Baker-Nord Visiting Fellow
Clark Hall, Room 206

November 30, 2006, 8 pm (see December performances below)
MaDaCol (Mather Dance Collective) Second Stages
Mather Dance Center
Tickets on sale at the door prior to each performance: $4.

DECEMBER

December 1, 2006, 7:30 pm
Windi and Jazz XVII: “Lord of the Rings” Symphonic
Winds and Jazz Ensemble pops concert
Thwing Student Center Ballroom
Tickets: $8 each or $56 for a table of eight
Call music department office at 216-368-2400 or visit Haydn Hall, room 201.

December 1, 2006, 8 pm
December 2, 2006, 7 pm and 8:30 pm
MaDaCol (Mather Dance Collective) Second Stages
Mather Dance Center
Tickets on sale at the door prior to each performance: $4.

December 4, 2006, 7:30 pm
Cleveland Youth Wind Symphonies I & II
Severance Hall
General Admission: $15/Box Seating: $25
Severance Hall Box Office: 216-231-1111

December 7 , 2006, 4 pm - 6 pm
Work-in-Progress Colloquium Series
Archipelagos and Networks of the Second Slavery: Mapping the Plantation World
Charles Burroughs,
Department of Art and Art History
Clark Hall, Room 206