Myth and Miracle From the King Years
Taylor Branch
Sep 7 2007
Mr. Branch will present the third annual Anisfield-Wolf Lecture, co-sponsored by the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities and SAGES (Seminar Approach to General Education and Scholarship), in conjunction with the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, which are administered by The Cleveland Foundation. The awards recognize works that have made important contributions to our understanding of racism or our appreciation of the rich diversity of human cultures. Visit the Anisfield-Wolf website for more information on the awards.
Revisiting Fractal Analysis of Pollock’s Drip Paintings
Harsh Mathur, Katherine Jones-Smith
Sep 20 2007
A discussion with Harsh Mathur and Katherine Jones-Smith.
Cleveland and Sprawl: A Global Perspective
Robert Bruegmann
Sep 27 2007
A discussion with Robert Bruegmann.
Jim Crow’s Last Stand: The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Suburban North
Thomas J. Sugrue
Oct 18 2007
A discussion with Thomas J. Sugrue.
Richard N. Campen Lecture in Architecture and Sculpture
Jane Weinzapfel, FAIA
Nov 1 2007
A discussion with Jane Weinzapfel.
Between Existential Angst and Literary Espirit: Ovid’s Last Poems from Exile
Martin Helzle
Nov 15 2007
A discussion with Martin Helzle.
National Cityscapes Conference: The Mind of Cleveland and Other Recent Projects
Carl Pope
Nov 29 2007
The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities at Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA) jointly commissioned conceptual artist Carl Pope to create a public art work project “The Mind of Cleveland”. This exhibit will premier in conjunction with the National Cityscapes Conference from March 27-30, 2008. The conference explores the intersections between the urban environment, humanities and the community.
“The Mind of Cleveland” is a public conversation in billboard/poster form, a conceptual town meeting where everyone has the opportunity to be heard publicly. The project employs modes of communication common in urban spaces, such as billboards, letterpress posters and the internet. With the use of public signage, the thoughts, feelings and wishes of Cleveland residents are displayed.
Carl Pope will discuss his recent public art projects and this and other works at this lecture. Pope is joint visiting fellow at the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities at Case Western Reserve University and The Cleveland Institute of Art.
With support from:
Cleveland Institute of Art, Clear Channel, Cuyahoga County Public Library, Councilman Joe Cimperman, Progressive Arts Alliance
Imagine it, See it, Be it: A Journey to Discover Michael Chekhov
Catherine Albers
Dec 6 2007
A discussion with Catherine Albers.
Should the Law be Sex-Blind?
Rosalind Simson
Jan 24 2008
A discussion with Rosalind Simson
The District (Nyocker): Independent Film Screening
Aniko Imre
Jan 24 2008
This wild and tasteless animated film — a geopolitical satire with nudity, profanity, and rap songs — has been called Hungary’s answer to South Park. Two star-crossed young lovers travel back to prehistoric times to bury some woolly mammoths and thus create an oil field in the middle of what later becomes 21st-century Budapest that will make them rich. But Bush, Blair, bin Laden, and others complicate the plan when they get wind of this new petroleum.
“The most original-looking animated feature since Walking Life.” — Philadelphia City Paper
Introduction and discussion following the film by Aniko Imre, University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts.
Funding Resources: Where to Look and How to Apply
Eric Cottington, Ted Gup, Daniel Goldmark
Feb 1 2008
Special Series for Faculty and Graduate Students
Differentiating Fellowships and Grants
Martha B. Gibbons, Anne Helmreich, Mary E. Davis
Feb 8 2008
Special Series for Faculty and Graduate Students
Creating Desire on Tin Pan Alley
Daniel Goldmark
Feb 14 2008
A discussion with Daniel Goldmark.
Preparing a Budget
Denise Donahey, Achala Wali
Feb 15 2008
Special Series for Faculty and Graduate Students
Cleveland Writers’ Showcase
Mary Grimm, Sarah Willis, Steven Hayward
Feb 21 2008
A discussion with Mary Grimm, Sarah Willis, and Steven Hayward.
Proposal Writing
Susan L. Golden
Feb 22 2008
Special Series for Faculty and Graduate Students
Black Church Culture as a Strategy of Action
Sandra Barnes
Feb 27 2008
A discussion with Sandra Barnes
Tips and Strategies from a Foundation Representative
Kathleen Cerveny, William Marling, Marie Lathers
Feb 29 2008
Special Series for Faculty and Graduate Students
Migrating Identities: Ethnicity, race, and well-being among African-descended Belizean adolescent immigrants and their parents in Los Angeles
Eileen Anderson-Fye
Mar 20 2008
A discussion with Eileen Anderson-Fye.
The Fortune Cookie
Raymond Watkins
Mar 24 2008
Billy Wilder, 1966
A Cleveland Browns Football game, filmed at the old Municipal Stadium, kicks off this screwball comedy starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau, who won the Oscar.
Second Hand Cities: Urban Inheritance and the Racial Origins of the American Antique Trade, 1860s-1960s
Alison Isenberg
Mar 24 2008
A discussion with Alison Isenberg.
Up Tight
Robert Spadoni
Mar 25 2008
Jules Dassin, 1968
Never released to video or DVD, this fascinating but forgotten artifact of the 1960s ‘Black Power’ era was shot on Cleveland’s East Side shortly after the Hough riots. This movie is essentially a remake of John Ford’s 1935 classic, “The Informer.”
Urbanism Unclothed: the Mermaid Sculpture Controversy, San Francisco, and the 1960s
Alison Isenberg
Mar 25 2008
A discussion with Alison Isenberg.
Stranger than Paradise
Lou Giannetti
Mar 26 2008
Jim Jarmusch, 1984
A NYC slacker shuffles off to Cleveland and Florida with his 16-year-old Hungarian cousin and his dim buddy. Jarmusch’s minimalist road movie remains one of the freshest, funniest, most acclaimed, and most influential independent films of the 1980s.
Urban Renewal in Paint: Supergraphics, Signs, and the Cityscape
Alison Isenberg
Mar 26 2008
A discussion with Alison Isenberg.
National Cityscapes Conference: Days of Race – Democracy and Black Reconstruction in the Work of Carl Pope
Nicholas Mirzoeff
Mar 27 2008
“…as those of you who are from the city know only too well, that a local white man was mugged by African American young people in Ludlow Cleveland on New Year’s Eve. It was a nasty unprovoked attack, no question. So were the responses. Dick Feagler editorialized to his fellow white people in the Cleveland Plain Dealer: ‘So move. But do it like we all have–like the whole three-county area has–don’t call it racism. Call it reality.’ There were suggestions on the Plain Dealer’s website that a fence should be built around the East side. Numerous issues intermingle here. The first is the divide in Cleveland that in a sense structures the Mind of Cleveland, a divide between East and West that creates the lived experience of ‘race’ as the real, the status quo.” Nicholas Mirzoeff, Professor of Art and Art Professions at New York University delivers the keynote address for the National Cityscapes conference, titled “Days of Race: Democracy and Black Reconstruction in the Work of Carl Pope.”
With support from:
Cleveland Institute of Art, Clear Channel, Cuyahoga County Public Library, Councilman Joe Cimperman, Progressive Arts Alliance
National Cityscapes Conference: Creating and Performing Community
Lisa Bernd, Marina Peterson, Christina Lanzl
Mar 28 2008
Join leading local, national, and international artists and scholars as they explore the intersections between the urban environment, the humanities, and social change. Conference papers will investigate the city as a physical, socio-economic and political entity, as well as a real, imagined, and remembered place. Historic and contemporary topics will range from the “managerial sublime” in nineteenth-century photographs of San Francisco to the reinvention of public space in Berlin today.
With support from:
Cleveland Institute of Art, Clear Channel, Cuyahoga County Public Library, Councilman Joe Cimperman, Progressive Arts Alliance
National Cityscapes Conference: Contested Spaces and Social Division
Nannette Esseck Brewer, Mehnaaz Momen, R. Drew Smith, John Goins
Mar 28 2008
Join leading local, national, and international artists and scholars as they explore the intersections between the urban environment, the humanities, and social change. Conference papers will investigate the city as a physical, socio-economic and political entity, as well as a real, imagined, and remembered place. Historic and contemporary topics will range from the “managerial sublime” in nineteenth-century photographs of San Francisco to the reinvention of public space in Berlin today.
With support from:
Cleveland Institute of Art, Clear Channel, Cuyahoga County Public Library, Councilman Joe Cimperman, Progressive Arts Alliance
National Cityscapes Conference: Organizing the City
Christopher Ferguson, Elizabeth Carlson, Robert Kargon, Miriam R. Levin,
Mar 28 2008
Join leading local, national, and international artists and scholars as they explore the intersections between the urban environment, the humanities, and social change. Conference papers will investigate the city as a physical, socio-economic and political entity, as well as a real, imagined, and remembered place. Historic and contemporary topics will range from the “managerial sublime” in nineteenth-century photographs of San Francisco to the reinvention of public space in Berlin today.
With support from:
Cleveland Institute of Art, Clear Channel, Cuyahoga County Public Library, Councilman Joe Cimperman, Progressive Arts Alliance
Norman Krumholz: 2008 Humanities Week Keynote
Norman Krumholz
Mar 28 2008
A discussion with Norman Krumholz.
National Cityscapes Conference: Knowing, Remembering, and Imagining the City
Germaine Halegoua, Nicole Dietrich, Joseph D. Lewandowski
Mar 29 2008
Join leading local, national, and international artists and scholars as they explore the intersections between the urban environment, the humanities, and social change. Conference papers will investigate the city as a physical, socio-economic and political entity, as well as a real, imagined, and remembered place. Historic and contemporary topics will range from the “managerial sublime” in nineteenth-century photographs of San Francisco to the reinvention of public space in Berlin today.
With support from:
Cleveland Institute of Art, Clear Channel, Cuyahoga County Public Library, Councilman Joe Cimperman, Progressive Arts Alliance
National Cityscapes Conference: Representation and Urban Spaces
John Ott, Elana Gomel, Dennis Maher
Mar 29 2008
Join leading local, national, and international artists and scholars as they explore the intersections between the urban environment, the humanities, and social change. Conference papers will investigate the city as a physical, socio-economic and political entity, as well as a real, imagined, and remembered place. Historic and contemporary topics will range from the “managerial sublime” in nineteenth-century photographs of San Francisco to the reinvention of public space in Berlin today.
With support from:
Cleveland Institute of Art, Clear Channel, Cuyahoga County Public Library, Councilman Joe Cimperman, Progressive Arts Alliance
National Cityscapes Conference: Marketing the City
Dr. Alexander Vari, Elizabeth A. Watson, Blaise Dupuis, Tan Zhang,
Mar 29 2008
Join leading local, national, and international artists and scholars as they explore the intersections between the urban environment, the humanities, and social change. Conference papers will investigate the city as a physical, socio-economic and political entity, as well as a real, imagined, and remembered place. Historic and contemporary topics will range from the “managerial sublime” in nineteenth-century photographs of San Francisco to the reinvention of public space in Berlin today.
With support from:
Cleveland Institute of Art, Clear Channel, Cuyahoga County Public Library, Councilman Joe Cimperman, Progressive Arts Alliance
Marjane Satrapi: Author of Persepolis and Academy Award Nominee for Best Animated Feature Film
Marjane Satrapi
Apr 4 2008
Best-selling author of the critically acclaimed book, Persepolis, graphic novelist Marjane Satrapi will speak of her youth in Iran in the 1970s and 1980s, and of living through the Islamic Revolution and the war with Iraq. The film adaptation of of her book is nominated for a 2007 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film, and it won the 2007 “Prix du Jury” at the Cannes Film Festival.
With support from:
Cleveland Institute of Art
Persepolis
Apr 4 2008
PERSEPOLIS France/USA, 2007, Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud
A free-spirited Persian girl’s coming-of-age in pre- and post-war Iran, and her studies abroad, are chronicled in this celebrated animated film version of the autobiographical graphic novels of co-director Marjane Satrapi. Features the voices of Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, and Danielle Darrieux.
French, English, Persian, and German with subtitles. 35mm. 95 min.
With support from:
Cleveland Institute of Art
Water and the Making of Modern London
John Brioch
Apr 17 2008
A discussion with John Brioch.