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Homer’s Odyssey is one of the oldest masterpieces of world literature and its influence extends beyond the confines of a specific discipline or time period. We will analyze and discuss this epic poem, which is made up of 24 books. We will also delve into related topics such as Odysseus’ voyage and adventures the Greek concepts of challenge, honor, heroism and otherness and the conflicting concepts of death v. memory v. fame and of poetry v. history v. mythology.
Read: Suggested translation: The Odyssey by Homer, Robert Fitzgerald (Translator) (ISBN 978-0374525743) More 
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Tuesdays, April 6 - May 11 | 4 - 5:30 p.m. ET
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30 seats
Speaker: Steven Litt, Art and Architecture Critic for the Plain Dealer, Cleveland.com
“Designing Cleveland: What’s Next?” From the Group Plan to the Terminal Tower, Urban Renewal, and University Circle, Cleveland’s history is full of attempts at building a better community. In a mayoral election year, amid a pandemic and the aftermath of the Trump Administration, what lies ahead for Cleveland and Northeast Ohio in architecture, urban design and city and regional planning? We’ll discuss big projects, big bets, inflection points, and trends that will shape the future of the city and the region. A brief business meeting with the election of officers will precede the lecture. More
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Monday, May 24 | 1 - 3 p.m. ET
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20 open seats left
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75 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, 2020 - August 31, 2021
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700 seats
A casual conversation with Gila Silverman, Director of Jewish Lifelong Learning, dedicated to further discussion of a book or topic featured in a recent Jewish Studies course or lecture.
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Monday, June 28 | 1:30 - 3 p.m. ET
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50 seats
A casual conversation with Gila Silverman, Director of Jewish Lifelong Learning, dedicated to further discussion of a book or topic featured in a recent Jewish Studies course or lecture.
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Monday, May 24 | 1:30-3 p.m. ET
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50 seats
Allied leaders met frequently during the war to develop strategy and to set a course for the post-war world. We will focus on the several high-level meetings – those which involved the “Big Three” – from Casablanca to Potsdam. Status of the war effort against the Axis will be reviewed at the time of each conference. Material includes historians' articles, documents and maps.
This course is offered with the generous support of the Association for Continuing Education (ACE). More
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Thursdays, April 8 - May 27 | 2 - 3:30 p.m. ET
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25 seats
While American literary history didn't begin in the 1850s in Concord, Massachusetts, it certainly blossomed there. This small town an hour west of Boston was home to a band of writers whose works still resonate with modern readers. In this course, we will read Susan Cheever's American Bloomsbury and examine the way the writers in this group challenged, influenced, and ultimately bettered one another. We'll also read a selection of each author's work in full.
Read: American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau: Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Work , Susan Cheever (ISBN 9780743264624) More
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Thursdays, May 6 - June 24 | 10 - 11:30 a.m. ET
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30 seats
The Merchant of Venice, Oliver Twist and Trilby are English literary classics, which have stood the test of time. Each work’s lasting relevance is due, in large part, to the influence of its leading Jewish character. In fact, the characters have become so synonymous with their Jewishness, that their names are part of modern antiSemitic vernacular. In this class, we will study the portrayal of these characters – Shylock, Fagin and Svengali – while examining how and why numerous anti-Semitic tropes thrive and endure.
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Thursdays, June 3 - 24 | 7 - 8:30 p.m. ET
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32 open seats left
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35 seats
This talk discusses the branch of archaeology known as “intensive survey,” in which teams of archaeologists systematically walk across a landscape, collecting artifacts and recording features in order to glean a holistic and diachronic picture of a region. Examples are drawn from the speaker’s fieldwork in Greece—around the Panhellenic sanctuary of Zeus at Nemea, and in the Mazi Plain, on the northern reaches of Athens’ territory—during which he has engaged in a variety of digital methods for studying and representing past landscapes.
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Wednesday, August 4 | 1:30 - 3 p.m. ET
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197 open seats left
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200 seats
In this course, we will read and discuss five plays by Aristophanes, the earliest comic playwright whose works survive in European literature. Aristophanes was a native Athenian who wrote and staged his plays during the time usually seen as the Golden Age of Greek civilization. Yet, in this period the fortunes of Athens changed dramatically. Athens went from a position of pride and power in the mid-fifth century to suffering ignominious defeat at the hands of the Spartans, barely surviving internal political upheavals by the end of the century. Throughout this period Aristophanes wrote comedies that reflect and comment on people, places, and politics in Athens and
the Mediterranean.
Read: Acharnians, Birds, Clouds, Frogs, Lysistrata, Aristophanes
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Thursdays, July 8 - 29 | 10 - 11:30 a.m. ET
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25 open seats left
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30 seats
This course will look at the life of former Vice President Spiro Agnew through the eyes of Rachel Maddow.
Maddow’s book follows Agnew’s career first, as Governor of Maryland; then as Richard Nixon’s Vice President; and finally, his fall from power. We will review the legal issues he encountered, the prosecution case against him, his resignation from office, and his life following that event.
We will also look at the case of United States v Nixon, which was happening simultaneously, diverting national attention away from Agnew and onto Watergate.
Read: Bag Man: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-Up, and Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House, Rachel Maddow and Michael Yarvitz
This course if offered with the generous support of the Association for Continuing Education
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Tuesdays, June 22 - July 13 | 10 - 11:30 a.m. ET
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9 open seats left
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25 seats
Books of Wisdom and Wanderings, April 19 - June 7 (10 a.m. - noon) 4/19 Psalms: among the Bible's most well-known verses, these Eddie Sukol, Rabbi, The Shul 4/26 Proverbs: wit and wisdom in the form of one-line advice to the young and old. Leonie Jacob, Graduate of Program of Advanced Talmud Study, Yeshiva University 5/3 Job: a tormented character asks thorny questions about good, evil, and human suffering. Ezra Blaustein, Ph.D, University of Chicago Divinity School 5/10 Daniel: a dramatic narrative woven into fantastical visions, together map out the ultimate guide for life in exile. Jo Bruce, Program Manager, Whole in One at CWRU-Siegal 5/24 Ezra and Nehemiah: present the triumphs and challenges of returning home from exile. Susan Stone, Director of Spiritual Care, Hillcrest Hospital 6/7 Chronicles: Offers a telescope-view of history all over again, raising the obvious question, Why? Jonathan Berger, Associate Head of School, Gross Schechter Day School. Book: The Jewish Bible JPS Tanakh or Jerusalem Bible, Koren More
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Mondays, April 19 - June 7 10 a.m. - noon EDT (No Class May 17, 31)
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20 seats
Books of Wisdom and Wanderings, April 19 - June 7 (10 a.m. - noon) 4/19 Psalms: among the Bible's most well-known verses, these 150 poems put words to feelings of thanksgiving, joy, and lament. Eddie Sukol, Rabbi, The Shul 4/26 Proverbs: wit and wisdom in the form of one-line advice to the young and old. Leonie Jacob, Graduate of Program of Advanced Talmud Study, Yeshiva University 5/3 Job: a tormented character asks thorny questions about good, evil, and human suffering. Ezra Blaustein, Doctoral Candidate, University of Chicago Divinity School 5/10 Daniel: a dramatic narrative woven into fantastical visions, together map out the ultimate guide for life in exile. Jo Bruce, Program Manager, Whole in One at CWRU-Siegal 5/24 Ezra and Nehemiah: present the triumphs and challenges of returning home from exile. Susan Stone, Director of Spiritual Care, Hillcrest Hospital 6/7 Chronicles: Offers a telescope-view of history all over again, raising the obvious question, Why? Jonathan Berger, Associate Head of School, Gross Schechter Day School. Book: The Jewish Bible JPS Tanakh or Jerusalem Bible, Koren
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Mondays, April 19 - June 7 7 - 9 ET (No Class May 17, 31)
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25 seats
The Great Depression presented Jewish women with a unique set of challenges and choices. In response, Jewish women found new survival strategies to cope with the difficult economic conditions and changing family dynamics of these turbulent years.
This program is part of the Association of Jewish Studies Distinguished Lecture Series More
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Thursday, May 20 | 7 p.m. ET
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185 open seats left
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200 seats
This course focuses on major developments already impacting our lives and adaptations that will be needed to address them. These developments include the threat of continuing pandemics, the ever-growing digitalization of our world, increasing racial and ethnic diversity in historically white countries, growing economic inequality and job displacement, political polarization, rising nationalism and right-wing extremism, economic competition between the U.S. and China, and the possibility of a bi-polar economic world. Each class
will focus on a discussion of the challenges posed in the text. Supplementary articles and other informational materials will be provided.
Read: Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World, Fareed Zakaria
This course is offered with the generous support of the Association for Continuing Education
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Fridays, June 4 - July 2 | 10 - 11:30 a.m. ET
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25 seats
Recent years have seen increasing interest in the histories of museum collections of archaeological material in the United States. Both the formation of these collections
and the provenance (or modern ownership histories) of individual objects have drawn attention, from scholars and the public alike. While some American museums have undertaken Nazi-era provenance research, similar investigations of ancient art collections are a more recent development. In this lecture Powers will discuss the process of exploring the provenance of the San Antonio Museum of Art’s ancient Mediterranean collection and share recent results of this ongoing project.
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Wednesday, August 11 |1:30 - 3 p.m. ET
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200 seats
Abydos is one of the most important cemetery sites in Egypt, as the burial site of the first kings of state-level Egypt, the site of multiple cemeteries in near constant use for 3500 years, and as a major cult center to Osiris. During the period of Macedonian Ptolemaic rule, indigenous Egyptians and Greek-speaking groups were intensely interested in the site. Research over the past 20 years, including the excavation of a large priest’s tomb by the Abydos Middle Cemetery project, have begun to shed light on the development of Ptolemaic Abydos’ funerary and ritual landscape.
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Wednesday, July 14 |1:30 - 3 p.m. ET
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200 seats
We are experiencing a major crisis and conflict in our country’s political life with highly polarized political parties and voters. However, the country has experienced this in the past and this course will discuss those conflicts and how they were resolved. These conflicts include the battle over the approval of the Constitution the long political struggle over the future of slavery reconstruction, Jim Crow and the rise and fall of the Ku Klux Klan the Gilded Age and its growing economic disparities (similar to our own era) and the response of the progressive movement FDR’s struggles with the Republican party and the Supreme Court in enacting the New Deal during the depression the black list and the rise and fall of McCarthyism and the battle over civil rights legislation in the 1960s.
Read: The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels, Jon Meacham The course is offered with the generous support of the Association for Continuing Education (ACE). More
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Fridays, April 9 - May 28 | 10 - 11:30 a.m. ET
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25 seats
Three Aegean cities dominated much of the cultural development of Europe during the Bronze Age: Knossos in Crete, Mycenae in Greece, and Troy in Asia Minor. What were their cultures and lifestyles like? How did they interact and trade? What do the ancient Greek myths, legends, and Homeric epics reveal about the history of these locations and their peoples? Who were the archaeologists who competed to discover, unearth and interpret these sites and their contents –and who twisted ethics and science in doing so? And how has the knowledge gleaned from these locales inspired and helped shape subsequent thought, including that of modern day psychology? Lecture and discussion will be supplemented by Powerpoint slides to provide visual and contextual enhancement. This course is offered with the generous support of the Association for Continuing Education (ACE). More
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Tuesdays, April 6 - May 11 1 - 2:30 p.m. ET.
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Become a leader in your field and an asset to your company by taking part in the Siegal Lifelong Learning program at Case Western Reserve University. In collaboration with Lightweighting Innovations for Tomorrow (LIFT) and other industry partners, our specialized programming offers you the opportunity to increase your team’s knowledge of lightweight materials and other additive manufacturing technologies.
No matter your age or career stage, all STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) professionals can benefit from this program. You’ll learn from experienced instructors and your peers in this nationally certified program and leave with the tools necessary to be more confident in your role. Course Overview: • Learn where Additive Manufacturing (AM) technologies can be applied for design or economic advantage • Understand lightweighting AM technologies, trends and applications in transportation industries • Demonstrate problem-solving skills in lightweighting through analysis of case studies • Learn the fundamentals of materials science and how to improve properties such as strength, stiffness and ductility in a wide array of lightweight material options • Understand the use of advanced materials databases (e.g., Granta) and the impact of key market drivers on the selection criteria for critical applications in the transportation industry Learning Objectives • Understand practical uses of AM and advanced materials in advanced manufacturing • Learn to diagnose and solve practical problems using additive manufacturing • Gain insights into practical problems through case study analysis • Earn CEUs to advance your career Curriculum Development Partners: CWRU SLLP gratefully acknowledges our curriculum-development partners, including ASM International, MAGNET and Granta Design. More
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Tuesday, October 5 | 1 - 5 p.m. ET
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