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2021 Cleveland Humanities Festival: IDENTITY
Over the next two months, the annual festival from ӰƵ partners with numerous cultural organizations to stage a diverse spate of events on race, class, gender, ethnicity and other identity-related topics The 2021 Cleveland Humanities Festival (CHF) will explore a theme o...
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“Doctors, Suffragists, Socialists, Eugenicists: Identities and Politics in the Early Birth Control Movement”
The Dittrick Medical History Center will host the 2021 Percy Skuy Annual Lecture with a talk presented by Lauren Macivor Thompson titled “Doctors, Suffragists, Socialists, Eugenicists: Identities and Politics in the Early Birth Control Movement” Thursday, April 1, from 6 to 7 p.m. Lauren Macivor T...
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Vaccine hesitancy: What it is and what it is not
The term vaccine hesitancy is frequently in the news these days, but what does it mean and why is it important to understand it as we continue the COVID-19 vaccine roll out? Janet McGrath, professor and chair of the Department of Anthropology at the College of Arts and Sciences, shared her expertise...
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In the Continuum
Members of the community are invited to a production of In the Continuum, which was written by Danai Gurira (who played Okoye in Black Panther) and Nikkole Salter, and made it to Off-Broadway while both women were still in grad school. It tells the parallel stories of two black women, one in Los An...
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Book by history’s Jay Geller named a runner-up for Sachbücher des Monats prize
Die Scholems: Geschichte einer deutsch-jüdischen Familie, a book by Jay Geller—the Samuel Rosenthal Professor of Judaic Studies—was named a runner-up for the Sachbücher des Monats prize, given to the best non-fiction book in Germany each month. The prize is awarded by an independent jury of scholar...
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Friday Public Affairs Discussion Lunch—“What’s the Problem With Big Tech?”
The Friday Public Affairs Discussion Lunch has been a ӰƵ tradition since 1989. It is sponsored by the Center for Policy Studies within the College of Arts and Sciences. The Friday Lunch gathers every Friday from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. when classes are in session during fall ...
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Student draws from history to understand university life amid a pandemic
Over the past year, students at universities across the world have faced unique challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic. For many, it has meant wearing masks everywhere, studying remotely, gathering virtually with friends and plenty of uncertainty. And for one ӰƵ undergr...
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She Reads Rocks
Where other people see rocks, geologist Beverly Saylor, PhD, sees a story. And not just any story—our story, the story of life on Earth. Saylor, the Armington Professor focusing on stratigraphy and sedimentology at ӰƵ, sees traces of the world as it once was, millions o...
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How do the COVID-19 vaccines work? Chemistry’s Blanton S. Tolbert explains
Blanton S. Tolbert Blanton S. Tolbert, professor of chemistry at the College of Arts and Sciences, and his research group study the basic biochemistry of viruses, including SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Since he was in graduate school, he has worked on the biological molecule RNA, rib...
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Fundraiser for the Frederica Ward Memorial Scholarship featuring Claudia Rankine
The Department of English will host a featured speaker event with author Claudia Rankine as a fundraiser for the Frederica Ward Memorial Scholarship Friday, Feb. 26, from 3:15 to 4:30 p.m. Rankine is the author of: Five books of poetry, including Citizen: An American Lyric and Don’t Let Me Be Lo...