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Join Siegal Lifelong Learning for an engaging evening of short lectures from popular instructors in celebration of Siegal's 10th anniversary. Dessert reception to follow.
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Wednesday, September 14 7 p.m. ET
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102 open seats left
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200 seats
One hundred years ago the tomb of Tutankhamun was uncovered in Luxor, Egypt. This discovery revolutionized archaeology, catapulted Howard Carter onto the world stage, and shed light on a minimally understood period of ancient Egyptian history. We will explore these stories, among others, through an analysis of some of the “wonderful things” found in Tut’s tomb.
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Wednesdays, September 7 - October 5 | 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. ET
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51 open seats left
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80 seats
An obsessive genealogist and descendent of one of the most prominent Jewish families since the American Revolution, Blanche Moses firmly believed her maternal ancestors were Sephardic grandees. Yet she found herself at a dead end when it came to her grandmother’s maternal line. Professor Leibman will overturn the reclusive heiress’s assumptions about her family history to reveal that her grandmother and great-uncle, Sarah and Isaac Brandon, actually began their lives as poor, Christian, and enslaved in Barbados. Leibman traces the siblings’ extraordinary journey around the Atlantic world, using artifacts they left behind in Barbados, Suriname, London, Philadelphia, and, finally, New York. While their affluence made them unusual, their story mirrors that of the largely forgotten people of mixed African and Jewish ancestry that constituted as much as ten percent of the Jewish communities in which the siblings lived.
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Thursday, September 1 | 7 - 8:30 p.m. ET
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367 open seats left
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400 seats
“A series of
unfortunate
events weave
together the
complex and
beautifully-
rendered lives of an old man, a
young girl, and a
reluctant villain in this heartfelt page-turner set in 1977 Youngstown, Ohio." D.M. Pulley
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Friday, August 19 | 11:30 a.m. - 2 p.m. ET
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28 open seats left
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45 seats
ACE Lecture Day
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Monday, October 10 | 9:30 a.m. - 2 p.m. ET
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19 open seats left
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30 seats
The Association for Continuing Education is a volunteer organization dedicated to providing and supporting continuing education programs in cooperation with the Laura and Alvin Siegal Lifelong Learning Program at Case Western Reserve University.
Membership is open to those who love to learn. ACE independently provides the Grazella Shepherd Lecture Day, Discussion Day, Acclaimed Authors Luncheon and the Annual Book Sale, trips, a semi-annual newsletter and a summer luncheon series featuring local authors. More
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September 1, 2021 - August 31, 2022
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700 seats
The Association for Continuing Education is a volunteer organization dedicated to providing and supporting continuing education programs in cooperation with the Laura and Alvin Siegal Lifelong Learning Program at Case Western Reserve University.
Membership is open to those who love to learn. ACE independently provides the Grazella Shepherd Lecture Day, Discussion Day, Acclaimed Authors Luncheon and the Annual Book Sale, trips, a semi-annual newsletter and a summer luncheon series featuring local authors. More
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September 1, 2022 - August 31, 2023
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699 open seats left
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700 seats
The lecture will look at Africa’s positioning in the major global transformations underway including demographic shifts, climate change, hegemonic rivalries, rise of populism, and implications of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
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Friday, November 11 | noon - 1:30 p.m. ET
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62 open seats left
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80 seats
We will explore the history and literature of the philosophy and counterculture of American Transcendentalism (c. 1830-1860) in a selection of readings by Amos Bronson Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman. Our survey will include the movement’s origins in German idealism and subsequent development in New England through the activism of the Transcendental Club. We will acquaint ourselves with the Club’s sponsorship of the literary journal The Dial (1840–44) and experiment in communal living at Brook Farm, Massachusetts. The movement's affirmation of subjectivity, intuition, and nature, along with its critiques of sexual inequality and slavery, will also be covered. Readings provided through Internet resources in the public domain.
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Mondays, October 3 - November 7 | 4 - 5:30 p.m. ET
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24 open seats left
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30 seats
This course, with an initial look into key figures of the 1950s, will cover a sampling of movements during this prosperous decade of the 1960s as well as contempor-aneous European responses. In addition, a biographical approach to the works of Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol will provide important insights into their works. The 1960s is one of the most fascinating decades in art history of the last century: some artists focus on news events with photographs of key moments, some on purified reductive forms in elegant metals, while others long for the untouched lands of the West by the use of actual earth in their vast projects.
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Fridays, October 7 - November 11 | 10 - 11:30 a.m. ET
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26 open seats left
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30 seats
Every museum collection has a story to tell. This course offers a critical look at how benefactors have helped shape the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Using the CMA’s expansive holdings as a model, audiences will gain an understanding of how art museum collections are built, and how collecting patterns and priorities have changed over time. This course will also include a session on The Keithley Collection, an exhibition that celebrates the extraordinary gift of 100 Impressionist and Modernist works of art to the museum by Clevelanders Joseph P. and Nancy F. Keithley to the Cleveland Museum of Art – the most significant gift since the bequest of Leonard C. Hanna Jr. in 1958.
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Tuesdays, September 27 - November 1 | 1 - 2 p.m. ET
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25 seats
Every museum collection has a story to tell. This course offers a critical look at how benefactors have helped shape the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Using the CMA’s expansive holdings as a model, audiences will gain an understanding of how art museum collections are built, and how collecting patterns and priorities have changed over time. This course will also include a session on The Keithley Collection, an exhibition that celebrates the extraordinary gift of 100 Impressionist and Modernist works of art to the museum by Clevelanders Joseph P. and Nancy F. Keithley to the Cleveland Museum of Art – the most significant gift since the bequest of Leonard C. Hanna Jr. in 1958.
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Thursdays, September 29 - November 3 | 1 - 2 p.m. ET
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18 open seats left
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25 seats
Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932) and Langston Hughes (1901-1967) are two of the most celebrated African American writers in the history of American literature and both called Cleveland their home. The 2021-2022 Cleveland Arts Prize “Past Masters” series, commemorating its 60th anniversary, announced that both were among the 60 honorees and the title for this summer’s 2022 Front International Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art – “Oh, Gods of Dust and Rainbows” - also takes its inspiration from the words of Langston Hughes. This lecture series will focus on materials that were written by and about Hughes and the lesser known Chesnutt, and the vast influence of their literary art in both the racialized America of their lifetimes and in the 21st century.
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Tuesdays, October 11 - November 15 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. ET
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64 open seats left
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80 seats
Ever since the dawn of existence there has been conflict, violence and warfare. And for just as long, there has been the need for care, nurturing and humanitarianism. Two modern examples who demonstrate these traits in the 19th century are Henri Dunant and Clara Barton with their connection to the laws of war, the Geneva Conventions and the founding of the Red Cross.
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Thursday, October 13 12 - 1:30 p.m. ET
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75 open seats left
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80 seats
With the rise in antisemitism nationwide, exploring the world’s oldest hatred is more relevant and important than ever before. This course will explore the past, present, and future of antisemitism. We’ll delve into the history of antisemitism tropes, their modern manifestations, and will question how social media, Israel, and more impact how antisemitism shapes Jewish life today. Throughout, we will explore the Jewish future, including the choices that current and future generations are making in the face of rising antisemitism, and how Jewish identities are impacted by internal and external pressures.
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Tuesdays, October 25 - November 29 | 7 - 8:30 p.m. ET
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30 seats
In this course, we will consider what it might mean to bring a contemporary lens to the work of 19th and 20th century American authors William Faulkner, Henry David Thoreau, Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, Mark Twain and Flannery O’Connor. Brilliant and timeless though their work may be, they were also fully human and products of their time and place. How might these texts reveal themselves anew when we bring our contemporary - and often polarized - sensibilities to bear on them?
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Thursdays, November 3 - December 15 | 10 - 11:30 a.m. ET
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30 seats
This course explores the foundations of theater in Western civilization, beginning with Greece and then charting and analyzing the developments in playwriting, design, acting and theater architecture. Students read a wide variety of plays from Aeschylus to the English Renaissance in order to obtain a comprehensive understanding of the history of the art form, but also learn how theater has played an integral societal function as a medium of political, economic, and cultural commentary.
Read: Several plays, all available online, including works by Aeschylus, Euripides, Sophocles, Plautus, and Marlowe.
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Tuesdays, October 11 - November 29 |10 - 11:30 a.m. ET
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30 seats
Build your digital music production skills during this four-week Online Foundations of Digital Music Production Course in partnership with Delta Sound Labs. With 180 minutes of real-time instruction per week, Delta Sound Labs will teach you all you need to know about music production and using Ableton Live. Students will receive a license for Ableton Live Intro, a license for Fold - A Distortion Synthesis Audio FX Plugin, and a license for Stream - A Granular Sampler Audio FX Plugin. Students can continue to use this software after the course has concluded. Course topics include:
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Mondays and Wednesdays, September 5 - September 28 7 - 8:30 p.m. ET
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48 open seats left
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50 seats
Jews prepare for their New Year by engaging in teshuvah, a word that is usually translated as "repentance" and literally means "return." But the ideal of teshuvah also contains possibilities beyond individual penitence. Jewish thinkers have interpreted this concept to speak of many kinds of turnings and returnings - to tradition, to home, or to a whole self. In this class, we will read a variety of modern Jewish thinkers who bring teshuvah beyond the walls of the synagogue to speak to the spiritual and ethical challenges of modern life.
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Tuesdays, August 23 - September 13 7 - 8:30 p.m. ET
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21 open seats left
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25 seats
Nothing is more basic than food to all of our daily lives, and therefore to our cultures, our social interactions, and our very identities. This has been true throughout history. Food is inextricably interconnected with the development of agriculture and other technologies, with the rise and fall of empires, with increasing understanding of diet and nutrition, with laws and regulations, with the arts, with economic development and consumer culture, and with religious and ethnic identities. By selective examination of representative episodes pertaining to each of these topics, this course explores the history of food, from the neolithic agricultural revolution to the consumer revolution of the last generation. In this way, we seek to understand more fully food, history, and food in history.
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Wednesdays, October 12 - November 16 | 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. ET
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63 open seats left
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80 seats
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