2013-2014

The Yellow Birds: A Reading and Discussion with Kevin Powers

A Baker-Nord Center Cosponsored Event

Author Kevin Powers will read from and discuss The Yellow Birds, winner of the 2013 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for fiction. The Yellow Birds focuses on the last weeks of friendship between 18-year-old Private Daniel Murphy and 21-year-old Private John Bartle, who makes a rash promise to Mrs. Murphy to bring her son home safely from Iraq. Powers enlisted at the age of 17 and served as a machine gunner in Iraq in 2004 and 2005.

Scholarly Publishing Today

Scholars at every stage, from graduate school to retirement, face an overwhelming array of choices concerning publication of their scholarship. The landscape of research, teaching, and publishing continues to change, and part of a successful career as a scholar involves understanding the most rational choices for publishing and disseminating ones work. Mary Francis, Executive Editor, Music and Cinema Studies for University of California Press, will discuss the publishing process, from start to finish, and take questions about changes in academic publishing today.

An Inner History of Collecting Chinese Painting for Cleveland: Sherman E. Lee and Walter Hochstadter

A Baker-Nord Center Faculty Work-in-Progress

Sherman E. Lee (1918-2008), Cleveland Museum of Art director and curator of “Oriental” art, emerged as one of the most successful institutional collectors of Chinese painting in the 1950s and 1960s. During those postwar decades, Lee acquired over seventy-five paintings through a small network of private collectors and dealers, including the German expatriate Walter Hochstadter (1914-2007), from whom a majority of his early acquisitions flowed.

Regional Poets on Poetry: A general discussion of selected poems

Award-winning regional poets Frank Giampietro, David Young, and Joy Katz will discuss trends in contemporary poetry by examining representative texts in this panel presentation that kicks off this Fall’s Baker-Nord Poetics Working Group programming. Poet and Assistant Professor of English Sarah Gridley will serve as moderator.

Rarely Seen Gems of the Japanese Cinema (with English subtitles): Miss Oyu (Oyusama, 1951)

A Baker-Nord Cosponsored Event

This film was directed by Kenji Mizoguchi and is part of a series curated by Linda C. Ehrlich and John Ewing in celebration of the reopening of the Japanese and Korean Art Galleries at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Cosponsored with:

The Japan Foundation, New York, CWRU College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Office, CWRU Department of Modern Languages and Literatures

UNIVERSITY CIRCLE: CREATING A SENSE OF PLACE: Film Premier and Panel Discussion

The Baker-Nord Center is proud to present the public premier of a new documentary film on the history, public art, and architecture of University Circle. The screening will be followed by a panel discussing “Hidden Stories: National Models” with representation from the Free Clinic, Hessler Street and Magnolia House. The panel discussion will be moderated by Dan Moulthrop, CEO of The City Club of Cleveland.

High Tech, Low Life

This award-winning documentary follows two of China’s first citizen reporters as they travel through the country, chronicling underreported news and social issues stories. Using laptops, cell phones, and digital cameras to micro-blog the stories and issues shaping contemporary Chinese life, they challenge conventional definitions of journalism and provoke discussion about what freedom of press means in the face of China’s evolving censorship.

Rarely Seen Gems of the Japanese Cinema (with English subtitles): Record of a Tenement Gentleman (Nagaya shinshiroku, 1947)

This film was directed by Yasujiro Ozu and is part of a series curated by Linda C. Ehrlich and John Ewing in celebration of the reopening of the Japanese and Korean Art Galleries at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Cosponsored with:

The Japan Foundation, New York, CWRU College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Office, CWRU Department of Modern Languages and Literatures

Rarely Seen Gems of the Japanese Cinema (with English subtitles): Humanity and Paper Balloons (Ninjo kami fusen, 1937)

This film was directed by Sadao Yamanaka and is part of a series curated by Linda C. Ehrlich and John Ewing in celebration of the reopening of the Japanese and Korean Art Galleries at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Cosponsored with:

The Japan Foundation, New York, CWRU College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Office, CWRU Department of Modern Languages and Literatures

Rarely Seen Gems of the Japanese Cinema (with English subtitles): Growing Up (Takekurabe, 1955)

This film was directed by Heinosuke Gosho and is part of a series curated by Linda C. Ehrlich and John Ewing in celebration of the reopening of the Japanese and Korean Art Galleries at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Cosponsored with:

The Japan Foundation, New York, CWRU College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Office, CWRU Department of Modern Languages and Literatures