CWRU Abroad Stories
Friday, January 23 12:30p.m. -  2:00p.m. Tomlinson Hall 135
Recently returned study abroad students are invited to reconnect and share your experiences abroad with one another, and for students interested in studying abroad to learn about others' impactful global experiences.


Faculty Work-in-Progress: Elucidating Famous Place-Names (Utamakura) and Allusions in Premodern Japanese Poetry
Monday, February 9 Clark 206
To enhance student comprehension of the Tale of Genji (c. 1008), Beth M. Carter, Assistant Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, is creating digital content specific to the study of utamakura (famous place names) and their related engo (allusions) in the tale’s 795 poems. Although utamakura are useful conventions to convey emotion within the strict confines of waka poetry’s 31-syllable format, most modern readers do not register the emotive associations intertwined with these (once) famous places. In her work-in-progress database, utamakura and engo present in a poem are uniquely linked by URL to a describing video or annotated picture – creating a searchable modern dictionary of premodern allusive terms. This talk will explain the importance of utamakura in the study of Japanese literature, demonstrate the nascent database, reveal the impact this project has had on student learning activities, and map out the planned next steps to enhance this educational tool.


Study Abroad Scholarships Info Session
Friday, February 13th 3:00p.m. - 4:00p.m. Wickenden 321
Learn about available CWRU, nationally competitive, and other external scholarships and how to craft a winning application!


Pahari Paintings: Art and Stories
Sunday, January 18 – Sunday, September 13  The Cleveland Museum of Art
In the far north of India, the Himalayan mountain ranges rise abruptly from the Punjab plains to form the alpine region known as Pahari, defined by a shared language (Pahari) and script (Takri). From the 1600s to 1900s, the Hindu nobility of the Pahari kingdoms commissioned paintings for their royal collections. Known as “Pahari paintings,” they were made by painters who were born into hereditary artist communities located in villages throughout the region. By the end of the 1900s, many descendants of royal families dispersed them, and they became some of the most popular and widely collected genres of Indian painting in the world.