Please consider attending some of these additional events!
Wain Journalism Series Lectures
See the English Department Home Page for more details.
March 25: Philip Gourevitch on "Extreme Reporting: Inhabiting the story from Rwanda to Abu Ghraib."
April 1: Tina Brown on "Feeding 'The Daily Beast': Re-inventing Journalism for the Internet."
April 15: Suzanne Braun Levine on "How the Woman's Movement has Re-framed the American Narrative."
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Poetry Reading featuring Ruth Schwartz
Thursday, April 9, 2009
4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m., Guilford House Parlor, 1st Floor
Ruth Schwartz is the author of Dear Good Naked Morning, Edgewater, Singular Bodies, and Accordian Breathing and Dancing. She will sign copies of her book following the reading. Refreshments will be provided.
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Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence Lecture
Dr. Joy Ladin
Monday, April 13, 2009
7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m., Inamori Center (Crawford Hall, Ground Floor)
At least since Emerson, Americans have been exhorted to "be ourselves" - to live authentically, in the face of others. Throughout her forty-odd years as a deeply closeted transsexual, Dr. Joy Ladin was tormented by her failure to live up to this ideal of authenticity, by the cowardice her male persona reflected. Ladin's midlife transition from husband, father, and bearded, kippah-wearing professor at an Orthodox Jewish women's college, to living as a woman, resolved the torment of inauthenticity, but at a cost t othose closely bound up with her.
Dr. Joy Ladin holds the David and Ruth Gottesman Chair in English at Stern College for Women of Yeshiva University. Please see her full biographical note below.
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Visiting Scholar Workshop
Dr. Joy Ladin
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m., Clark 302
A reading and workshop presented by: American Studies, Women's and Gender Studies, Departmetn of Philosophy, Center for the Study of Wrtiing, and The Human Initiative Foundation.
Dr. Joy Ladin holds the David and Ruth Gottesman Chair in English at Stern College for Women of Yeshiva University. She holds a PhD in English Literature from Princeton University, and an MFA in Poetry from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Ladin has also taught in the Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Sarah Lawrence College, Princeton University, Tel Aviv University as Fulbright Poet-in-Residence, Reed College and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Her literary and autobiographical essays have appeared in Parnassus, to which she regularly contributes, Southwest Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Emily Dickinson Journal and The King's English, and are forthcoming in New Haven Review and two anthologies. Her first book of poetry, Alternatives to History, was published by Sheep Meadow in 2003, and her second, The Book of Anna, a novel-like combination of poetry and prose in the voice of a fictional concentration camp survivor, in 2007. Sheep Meadow will bring out her third book of poetry, Transmigration, next spring. Her poems have appeared in many periodicals, and in 2007 she was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in Poetry. Ladin is currently completing her new book, Inside Out: Confessions of a Woman Caught in the Act of Becoming, a book of autobiographical essays reflecting on gender transition and what it shows about identity, gender and the processes of becoming human.
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Hosted by Kelvin Smith Librarian William Claspy, these interviews shed light on recent Case Western Reserve Faculty publications. Recent posts include conversations with: Christine Cano, Daniel Goldmark, Sarah Gridley, Ted Gup, Kurt Koenigsberger, Robert Spadoni, and Thrity Umrigar.
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