Locating Figure and Ground in Contemporary Photography from China
Sunday, November 9, 2:00p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Gartner Auditorium
Chinese artists used photography to create a bold new visual language at the turn of the 21st century. This avant-garde photography is not easy to characterize, hovering between performance art and documentation of the dizzying social and political changes underway in the country. This lecture considers the relationship between figure and ground as a means to orient our understanding of this work. What conditions made this daring photography, in which individual actions and desires became the focus of attention, possible?  


From Nazi Germany to Shanghai: An Evening with Harry Abraham, Survivor and Refugee
Monday, November 10, 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Clark 309
On the 87th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Program in Jewish Studies hosts an evening with Harry Abraham, survivor and refugee from Nazi Germany, and his daughter, Marcy Rosenthal, who are both alumni of CWRU.
Harry Abraham was born in Frickhofen, Germany. His family home was attacked on Kristallnacht, and his father was sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp. In the months before the outbreak of the Second World War, Abraham's family was able to flee around the world to Shanghai, China, virtually the only destination in the world open to Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi persecution. Abraham and his daughter will share their family's story in this special event for CWRU students, faculty, and staff.


The Last Ships from Hamburg: Business, Rivalry, and the Race to Save Russia's Jews on the Eve of World War I
Thursday, November 13, 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.  Landmark Centre Building
Join Siegal Lifelong Learning for this upcoming lecture with Steven Ujifusa, Visiting Scholar, Historian and President of Tradewinds History, LLC
Over thirty years, from 1890 to 1921, 2.5 million Jews, fleeing discrimination and violence in their homelands of Eastern Europe, arrived in the United States. Moving from the shtetls of Russia and the ports of Hamburg to the mansions of New York’s Upper East Side and the picket lines outside of the notorious Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, Ujifusa’s critically acclaimed book is a history on an intimate and epic scale, and offers original insight into the American experience, connecting banking, shipping, politics, immigration, nativism, and war—and delivers crucial insight into the Jewish experience and American national identity in our time.

Boston Career Forum 2025
Friday - Sunday, November 21, 22, 23  Thomas M. Menino Convention & Exhibition Center (MCEC) (Boston, MA)
Students with Japanese and English language abilities are invited to come explore career and internship opportunities uniquely available to them and even land a job at the Boston Career Forum. More information

*No fee to register or attend
*In-person event and meet directly with employers
*On-site interviews and possibility of job offers

Some of the participating companies include Amazon Japan, Apple, Bain & Company, Bloomberg L.P., Citigroup, Deloitte Tohmatsu Consulting LLC, L'Oréal Japan, McKinsey & Company, Morgan Stanley, Nintendo Group, SANOFI JAPAN, Sony Music Group, TOEI ANIMATION, Yamaha Corporation and more

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at cfn@careerforum.net .