2024 Fall Semester Schedule

Since 1989, CWRU faculty, emeriti, students, staff and friends have gathered on Fridays for a brown-bag lunch and to discuss topics in public affairs. During the 2020—2021 academic year, we moved our discussions on line via Zoom. During this semester we will attempt “Dual Delivery.” Those who wish can attend in the Dampeer Room of the Kelvin Smith Library, but others may choose to participate by Zoom link.

Weekly e-mail newsletters will confirm plans and provide instructions for signing in to Zoom. To be added to the e-mail list, please let us know by e-mailing to padg@case.edu. The discussions will begin at 12:30 p.m., though both the Dampeer Room and the Zoom site will be open from Noon on. Please click here for more details about this week’s program.

August 30: Supreme Court Review and Preview.  With Jonathan H. Adler, J.D., Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law, and Jonathan L. Entin, J.D., David L. Brennan Professor Emeritus of Law.

September 6: Artificial Intelligence, Natural Intelligence, Co-Intelligence.  With Mark Turner, Ph.D., Institute Professor and Professor of Cognitive Science

September 13: The “Loper Bright” Ruling: A Revolution in Federal Administration?  With Victor B. Flatt, J.D., Coleman P. Burke Chair in Environmental Law

September 20: Science, Public Policy, and the Future of Prion Disease.  With Brian S. Appleby, MD, Director, National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center and Professor in Departments of Neurology, Psychiatry, and Pathology

September 27:  TBA

October 4: How Religious Cooperation Shaped Health and Welfare in Cleveland – Until the American Welfare State Changed Everything in the 1970s.  With David C. Hammack, Ph.D., Hiram C. Haydn Professor of History Emeritus

October 11:  Russia’s War on Ukraine: How Does This End? With Stephen Crowley, Ph.D., Professor of Politics and Chair of Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, Oberlin College.

October 18: Teaching About Global Health, Globalization, and the Spread of Infectious Diseases After the COVID-19 Pandemic.  With Daniel J. Tisch Ph.D., MPH, Professor of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences and Director, CWRU Master of Public Health Program.

October 25: TBA Alternate Room, Mather House 100 

November 1: Election Forecast Discussion. Featuring Thomas Sutton, Ph.D., Interim Provost and Acting President, Baldwin-Wallace University.   

November 8:  TBA Alternate Room, Mather House 100

November 15: How Businesses Are Using – or Trying to Use – Generative AI.  With Kalle Lyytinen, Ph.D., Iris S. Wolstein Professor of Management Design and Distinguished University Professor.

November 22:  TBA

December 6:  The Housing Affordability Crisis: Causes and Consequences.  With Daniel Shoag, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Economics