For immediate release: October 4, 2002
For more information, contact Susan Griffith, 216-368-1004 or sbg4@po.cwru.edu

CLEVELAND—In days to come, the Case Western Reserve University campus will have opportunities to continue exploring "America's Role in the World" as Disney in the World 2002 gets underway and the University Library hosts "Napster Died for Your Sins: America's Role as World Information Producer, Protector and Policymaker."

The University will commemorate the centenary of Walt Disney's birth by hosting a week of free activities that highlight Disney's legacy to the world of culture and entertainment October 24-31.

"America's Role in the World of Information" will include a panel discussion that starts at 2 p.m. October 23 in the 1914 Lounge of Thwing Center.

In addition, Robert Lawry from the School of Law and Center for Professional Ethics will organize a lecture series around the topic, "Moral Perspectives on America's Role After 9-11." His first speaker is Philip Bobbitt, author of Shield of Achilles. Bobbitt will provide the keynote address at 4:30 p.m. November 18 for the conference, "Ends and Means in the War Against Terrorism."

"America's Role in the World" is the University's adopted annual theme under a new initiative from the Office of the Provost.

Exploring this theme through a variety of events and activities will engage the campus in conversation and foster the growth of CWRU's intellectual community, according to Jonathan Sadowsky, professor of history who is chairing the annual theme initiative.

Six projects received initial funding from the annual theme initiative.

The initiative also includes a "Pictograph Globe" project by undergraduate Doug McClean, an engineering student, who will coordinate a College Scholars Program project to design and build a globe. Through an illustration of lights on the globe's surface, the globe will demonstrate the distribution globally of such factors as population, energy use, religious affiliations, health problems or World Bank loans.

Looking to the future, "America's Role in the World of Information" will feature panelists CDR Brenda Boorda, instructor at the Naval War College and a specialist in handling information; Wat Cluverius, executive director of the Cleveland Council on World Affairs and former U.S. ambassador; Ted Gup, CWRU's Shirley Wormser Professor of Journalism; and Tim White, NBC-affiliate WKYC's evening news anchor and a Brigadier General in the Air Force Reserves.

According to Joanne Eustis, director of the University Library, the panel will explore:

• America's information policies as they relate to other countries
• America's information handling laws and how they may or may not dovetail with other countries
• America's research and development and its policies of technology transfer
• America's role in helping other countries develop information resources

Eustis also noted that the library will purchase new materials for the library that relate to this year's theme.

Disney Week events are co-sponsored by CWRU's French and Asian Studies programs and the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities.

They are:

• October 24: Karal Ann Marling, professor of art history and American studies at the University of Minnesota, will speak about "Disney Worlds: Walt Disney Goes to Japan, Paris, etc., etc." The talk begins at 4:30 p.m. in 309 Clark Hall.
• October 28:-"Re-Made in Japan: Tokyo Disneyland and Cultural Domestication" is a talk by Aviad Raz. He is the author of Riding the Black Ship: Japan and Tokyo Disneyland and also a senior lecturer of behavioral sciences at Ben-Gurion University in Israel. While researching Japanese organizations, Raz attempted to work at Tokyo's Disneyland and was refused work. He will talk about the experience at 4:30 p.m. in 309 Clark Hall.
• October 29: Andrew Lainsbury spent a year working at Euro Disney (now Disneyland Paris) and his experience resulted in the book, Once Upon a Dream: The Story of Euro Disney. He will give the talk, "Animating Europe: The Meaning and Impact of Euro Disney" at 4:30 p.m. in 309 Clark Hall.
• October 30: The CWRU Film Society will show the Disney movies "Mulan" at 7 p.m. and "Princess Mononoke" at 9 p.m. in Strosacker Auditorium.
• October 31: "Anime East and West: Hayao Miyazaki's Princess Mononoke" will explore animation styles of the east and west. Takao Hagiwara from CWRU's department of modern languages and literatures will present this program at 4:30 p.m. in 206 Clark Hall.

The campus began this "America's Role in the World" conversation during freshman orientation when the students read Hunger of Memory by Richard Rodriguez, an award-winning Mexican-American author and journalist. Rodriguez later visited campus during Humanities Week, sponsored and organized by the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, in September.

The conversation continued when Jes Sellers from counseling services brought Mark Kingwell, the author of The World We Want and Better Living: In Pursuit of Happiness from Plato to Prozac, to campus for the annual "Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll" conference, also in September.

Joseph White, director of the Center for Public Policy, held an open discussion during "Is America at War with the Muslim World?" program.

For information about the library program, call Sally Fell at 368-6600 and for Disney Week events, the Baker-Nord Center at 368-0528.

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