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The 2022 festival, the seventh since the event's founding, has a simple theme: 'discourse.' The festival 'will probe the idea of discourse through art, literature, music and more at 40-plus public events throughout Northeast Ohio,' according to a news release from the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities at Case Western Reserve University, which organizes the event. Among the speakers and performers are Jad Abumrad, a composer, journalist and founder of Radiolab, and LaToya Ruby Frazier, a MacArthur Foundation 'Genius Grant'-winning activist and photographer.

Housing and Development Newsletter Tickets to Frazier's talk are $10 for the general public, and free for UCSB students (registration required). For tickets and more information, call UCSB Arts & Lectures, 805-893-3535 or visit www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu. Treating art as activism, Frazier’s body of work includes "The Last Cruze," which documents the devastating effects of a GM plant closure in Lordstown, Ohio; a chronicle of the ongoing water crisis in Flint, Michigan, for Elle Magazine; and an aerial photography series depicting Memphis, Baltimore and Chicago in The Atlantic’s Martin...

Housing and Development Newsletter Dr. Jemison broke more than the sound barrier in 1992 when she climbed aboard the space shuttle Endeavour and became the first woman of color to travel into space. She was also NASA’s first Science Mission specialist performing experiments in material science, life science and human adaptation to weightlessness. Currently at the helm of the 100 Year Starship, a Pentagon-funded effort, Jemison is pioneering and transforming breakthrough science and technology to enhance the quality of life on Earth. She has been inducted into the National Women’s Hall of ...