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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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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
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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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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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. The version used will be Jeff Henderson's translation published by Hackett More
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Thursdays, July 8 - 29 | 10 - 11:30 a.m. ET
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30 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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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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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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While the status of Judaism as a minority religion leads many to think that conversion is mostly a one-way street out of the faith, there are numerous cases of communities choosing to become Jewish. Perhaps ironically, some of these communities find Judaism through Christianity. Many created a unique brand of practices along the way. This course will explore the paths of four such communities: the Subbotniks of Russia, the Italians of San Nicandro, the B'nei Moshe of Peru and the Lemba of Southern Africa.
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Wednesdays, June 9 - June 30 | 1:30 - 3 p.m. ET
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In this course, we will read and discuss the range of Welty’s fiction, from her modernist family romances to her myth- infused photorealism. Readings of her short fiction will be supplemented by Welty’s own photographs and her commentary on the craft of writing.
Read: The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
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Fridays, August 6 - 27 | 10 - 11:30 a.m. ET
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This course will explore the concept of existentialism as it formed into being in the early to mid-20th century in Europe right before and during WWII. We will discuss philosophers’ reactions to the growing threat of Nazi Germany and how these thinkers at the time (Sartre, Beauvoir, Camus, Merleau-Ponty, Heidegger) responded to the annexation of Europe and multiple countries’ actions against fascism. We will explore the concept of responsibility and personal investment in the common good, especially when more horrific situations affect us—whether that is war, fascism, political turmoil, or
a literal plague. How do we respond (individually and collectively) to tumultuous moments, such as a pandemic, social injustice, and other future issues?
Read: Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café; Albert Camus, The Plague
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Mondays, July 12 - August 16 | 4 - 5:30 p.m. ET
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A survey of the outstanding classical singers who flourished from the dawn of the recording era to the birth of the LP. Prior to the era of the Three Tenors, which made big money from few artists, there was a proliferation of great singing in every voice category. Explore echoes of 19th century fame, such as Francesco Tamagno, Verdi’s first Otello, and his successor Enrico Caruso, who changed tenor singing for a century.
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Wednesdays, June 9 - 30 | 1 - 3 p.m. ET
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Conversational Hebrew allows students to reach their goal of communicating in Israel's native language to be able to read Israeli newspaper, view Israeli television, and enjoy Hebrew literature, songs, drama and film.
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Mondays, May 24 - July 12 1 - 3 p.m. ET (no class 5/31 7/5)
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Conversational Hebrew classes focus on learning to speak and read modern Hebrew.
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Mondays, October 4 - December 20 | 1 - 3 p.m. ET
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Conversational Hebrew allows students to reach their goal of communicating in Israel's native language to be able to read Israeli newspaper, view Israeli television, and enjoy Hebrew literature, songs, drama and film.
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Tuesdays, May 25 - June 29 | 10 a.m. - noon ET
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Conversational Hebrew allows students to reach their goal of communicating in Israel's native language to be able to read Israeli newspaper, view Israeli television, and enjoy Hebrew literature, songs, drama and film.
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Thursdays, May 27 - July 1 | 10 a.m. - noon ET
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Conversational Hebrew classes focus on learning to speak and read modern Hebrew.
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Tuesdays, October 5 - December 21 | 10 a.m. - noon ET
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Conversational Hebrew classes focus on learning to speak and read modern Hebrew.
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Thursdays, October 7 - December 23 | 10 a.m. - noon ET
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Conversational Hebrew classes focus on learning to speak and read modern Hebrew.
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Thursdays, October 7 - December 23 | 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. ET
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