A Conversation with Poet Julie Ezelle Patton
September 26, 2025
3:15 pm | Guilford Parlor | 11112 Bellflower Road
This event celebrates Julie Ezelle Patton, the 2025 Great Lakes African American Writers Conference Alice Dunbar Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award Winner.
When the Evidence Changed: A Humanities Professor’s Encounters with Aerospace Insiders—and How They Transformed Her Scholarship and Belief
September 29, 2025
12:45 pm | Tinkham Veale University Center Ballroom C
Faculty Work-in-Progress - The Warrior and the Rock and Roll Princess: Humanitarian Device Design in Global Health
October 2, 2025
12:00 pm | Clark Hall Room 206
Will You Dance Into the Fire?: The Quotidian Violence of Poisoning Your Enslavers
October 7, 2025
6:00 pm | Clark Hall Room 206
In this talk, Kinitra D. Brooks, the Audrey and John Leslie Endowed Chair in Literary Studies at Michigan State University, will explore how enslaved Black women used herbal and spiritual knowledge gleaned from Conjure practices to poison their enslavers in antebellum Southern Louisiana.
Registration requested. Register .
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Fierce Desires: Variation, Conflict, and Pleasure in the History of American Sexuality
October 9, 2025
4:30 pm | Clark Hall Room 206
Feeding the Circle: A Conversation with Wampanoag Chef Sherry Pocknett
October 28, 2025
4:30 pm | Tinkham Veale University Center Senior Classroom
At this event, James Beard Award winning Wampanoag Chef Sherry Pocknett will be in conversation with artist M. Carmen Lane, founder and director of ATNSC: Center for Healing and Creative Leadership. They will discuss Indigenous foodways and storytelling through practice, experimentation, and learning using the lens of the Baker-Nord Institute’s fall programming theme of “encounters.” This theme explores how encounters challenge assumptions, generate new meanings, and transform individuals and societies.
Faculty Work-in-Progress: Concept- and Genre-Based Writing Pedagogy: Provoking and Assessing Student Development
October 30, 2025
12:00 pm | Clark Hall Room 206
Cooking Demonstration with Wampanoag Chef Sherry Pocknett
October 31, 2025
12:30 pm | Virtual Event
Please join us as Wampanoag Chef Sherry Pocknett cooks with a group of undergraduate students.
Cooking demonstration can be viewed on www.case.edu/livestream/s1. (Please note event information may not be updated until very close to the start time.)
Encountering Self and Other: A Conversation with Pádraig Ó Tuama
November 6, 2025
4:30 pm | Linsalata Alumni Center