Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities
November 08, 2018
Humanities majors are among the most successful applicants to law schools and many of Cleveland’s top lawyers spent their undergraduate years studying history, art, English and philosophy. The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will host a panel titled Humanities@Work Law Wednesday, Nov. 14, from…
November 01, 2018
The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will host the next Faculty Work-in-Progress, titled “Tears of Compassion in Classical Athens,” Tuesday, Nov. 13, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in Clark Hall, Room 206. Those who plan to attend can register on the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities website.
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October 22, 2018
The 2018 Richard N. Campen Lecture in Architecture and Sculpture will feature Rashida Ng, department chair and associate professor at the Tyler School of Art at Temple University. The event, titled “Material Performance and Ecological Priorities,” will take place Monday, Nov. 5, from 4:30 to 5:30…
October 17, 2018
Is the cat in Dr. Seuss’ The Cat in the Hat black? Is presenting images of enslaved people smiling ever appropriate in children’s literature? What is the impact of personifying a bad mood in blackface in a picture book? Cara Byrne, a lecturer in the Department of English and the research advisor…
October 11, 2018
The Judaic Studies Program will host “A Conversation with Yossi Klein Halevi, Author of Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor” Thursday, Oct. 25, from 5 to 7 p.m. in Clark Hall, Room 206.
Empathizing with Palestinians and unraveling his complex, wide-ranging feelings as a Jew living in Israel,…
October 02, 2018
The university community is invited to the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities’ 2018 Issa Lecture, which will feature a discussion titled “The Quest for Environmental and Climate Justice: Why Race and Place Still Matter.” Robert D. Bullard, a Distinguished University Professor at Texas Southern…
September 19, 2018
The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will host a Faculty Work-in-Progress lecture with Elina Gertsman, professor in the Department of Art History and Art. Gertsman will present “Ex nihilo/In nihilum: Contending with Medieval Void” Wednesday, Oct. 3, from noon to 1 p.m. in Clark Hall, Room…
September 13, 2018
The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will host poet and previous Anisfield-Wolf Book Award-winner A. Van Jordan for a conversation with Dave Lucas, Ohio’s poet laureate and an instructor in the ӰƵ Department of English. Their conversation will be held Wednesday,…
September 12, 2018
Priya Satia, professor of modern English history at Stanford University, will give three lectures as part of the Baker-Nord Center for Humanities’ 2018 Walter A. Strauss Lecture Series. In each of her three lectures, Satia will explore how people with conscience have committed unconscionable acts…
September 05, 2018
Priya Satia, professor of modern English history at Stanford University, will give three lectures at ӰƵ for the 2018 Walter A. Strauss Lecture Series, hosted by the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities. In each of her three lectures, Satia will explore how people with…