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Monsters Among Us: With Claire Dederer

Stanton J. Stephens

6:00 pm
Gartner Auditorium, Cleveland Museum of Art
11150 East Boulevard

"Monsters Among Us with Claire Dederer" will be a wide-ranging discussion of the question "What do we do with great art made by bad people?" Pulling from her bestselling book Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma, Claire Dederer will explore the problem of separating the art from the artist.    

An Appetite for Ancestry: A Conversation with Mel Michelle Lewis on Food, Folklore, and Identity

Mel Michele Lewis

6:30 pm | Virtual Event

Step into the rich tapestry of Gulf South culture with Mel Michele Lewis, author of the new Biomythography Bayou, as part of our exploration of our appetite theme.

Faculty Work-in-Progress: Liquid Flesh and the Medicine of Immortality: The Nursing Virgin Mary in Egypt

Elizabeth Bolman

12:00 pm | Clark Hall Room 206, 11130 Bellflower Road

Faculty Work-in-Progress: The Necessity of Utopia? On the Importance of Hope (and Fear) to our Climate Change Discourses

Matthew Hodgetts

12:00 pm |  Clark Hall Room 206, 11130 Bellflower Road

A Student Conversation with Dwight Garner

12:00 pm
Clark Hall Room 206

Dwight Garner is an American journalist and longtime writer and editor for The New York Times. In 2008, he was named a book critic for the newspaper. He is the author of Garner's Quotations: A Modern Miscellany and Read Me: A Century of Classic American Book Advertisements. In 2023 he published his memoir, The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading.

On Eating and Reading: A Conversation with Dwight Garner

Dwight Garner

6:00 pm | Wolstein Building Auditorium

Dive into the delicious intersection of food and literature with Dwight Garner, celebrated New York Times book critic, as he discusses his latest work, The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading.

He will be in conversation with Elysia Balavage, Anisfield-Wolf Fellow and member of the ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ Department of English.

Faculty Work-in-Progress: Use of the Standardized Oral Proficiency Interview to strengthen world language teaching and learning at Case

Ching-Hsuan Wu

12:00 pm | Clark Hall Room 206, 11130 Bellflower Road

A Day in the Life of Al Green's Internet, A Career of Studying It: Black Language, Culture and Technology - on Campus and in Community

Adam Banks
2:00 pm | Clark Hall Room 206

From texts to techne, from technological artifacts to discourses on science and technology, from participation and innovation to critique and resistance, from FUNK to the sermon and the need for a Black digital hermeneutic, we'll explore how Black people in this society have engaged with the mutually constitutive relationships that endure between humans and their technologies.

A Student Conversation with Victoria Christopher Murray

Victoria Christopher Murray
12:30 pm
Clark Hall Room 206

Victoria Christopher Murray is an American author and editor. Having over 3 million books in print, Murray is "one of the country's top African American contemporary authors." She has won various awards such as the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literacy Work, and the Golden Pen Award for Best Inspirational Fiction. Some of her books include Joy (2001), Destiny's Divas (2012) and Stand Your Ground (2015). Murray now spends her time in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.

Power of Diversity Lecture Series: Harlem Rhapsody Featuring Victoria Christopher Murray

Victoria Christopher Murray

3:00 pm | Foster-Castele Great Hall, Linsalata Alumni Center, 11310 Juniper Road