Spring 2026 Upcoming Events

Cold Reading Toni Morrison: A Group Discussion

3:15 pm
Guilford Parlor, 1112 Bellflower Road

Facilitated by Michele Tracy Berger, Director of the Baker-Nord Institute for the Humanities, this event is in advance of the official, year-long celebration of Toni Morrison’s work, which starts on February 18, 2026: https://ohiocelebratestonimorrison.org
 

Faculty Work-in-Progress: Elucidating Famous Place-Names (Utamakura) and Allusions in Premodern Japanese Poetry

12 pm
Clark Hall Room 206

An informal lunch will be served.  Registration requested.  Register HERE.

Practices of Freedom in a Time of Unfreedom

4:30 pm
Clark Hall Room 206

A Conversation with Namwali Serpell

11:30 am
The City Club of Cleveland, 1317 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH. 4115

This event is part of the 2026 Cleveland Humanities Festival: Freedom and is co-sponsored by The City Club of Cleveland.  It is a ticketed event.  Purchase tickets HERE.
 

Graduate Work-in-Progress - Take It Like a Man: Men's Experiences with Contested Illness

12:00 pm
Clark Hall Room 206

Film Screening and Discussion: We Were Here - The Untold History of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe

5 pm
Tinkham Veale University Center, Ballroom B, 11038 Bellflower Road

This event is part of the 2026 Cleveland Humanities Festival: Freedom and is co-sponsored  by the Departments of Art History and Art, English, and History, and the Program in Africana Studies.

Registration is requested.  Register HERE.
 

Faculty Work-in-Progress - Priests on the Prowl: Why "Monsters" Haunt the Discourse of Clergy Sexual Abuse

12 pm
Clark Hall Room 206, 11130 Bellflower Road

An informal lunch will be provided.  Registration requested.  Register HERE.
 

Freedom to Play

4 pm
Midtown Collaboration Center, 1974 E 66TH Street, Cleveland, OH. 44103

This event is part of the 2026 Cleveland Humanities Festival: Freedom and is co-sponsored with the Schubert Center for Child Studies.
 

Pepón Osorio: The Imperfect Practice of Freedom

4:30 pm
Linsalata Alumni Center, 11310 Juniper Road, Cleveland, OH 44106

This event is part of the 2026 Cleveland Humanities Festival: Freedom.

Registration is requested.  Register HERE.
 

The Richard N. Campen Lecture in Architecture and Sculpture - An Architect for Impact: How the Cleveland Foundation is Reimagining Community Philanthropy

4:30 pm
Tinkham Veale University Center, Ballroom B, 11038 Bellflower Road, Cleveland, OH 44106

This event is part of the 2026 Cleveland Humanities Festival: Freedom.

Registration is requested.  Register HERE.