Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities
September 05, 2018
Priya Satia, professor of modern English history at Stanford University, will give three lectures at Case Western Reserve University 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…
April 13, 2018
The 2018 Joseph and Violet Magyar Lecture in Hungarian Studies, “A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism in Hungary and Eastern Europe,” will be presented by Paul Hanebrink, associate professor of history at Rutgers University. The lecture, hosted by the Baker-Nord Center for the…
March 26, 2018
The university community is invited to an evening on The Arts @ CWRU today (March 26) from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Linsalata Alumni Center. The evening will be split into two parts: a presentation on FRONT International's inaugural art triennial and a discussion led by photographer Barney Taxel. Part…
March 20, 2018
The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities and Dittrick Medical History Center will host a talk by James C. McKeown, professor of classics at the University of Wisconsin – Madison and author of A Cabinet of Ancient Medical Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts From the Healing Arts of…
March 19, 2018
As part of the Cleveland Humanities Festival, the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will host a talk with Arthur Frank, professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Calgary in Canada and professor at VID Specialized University in Bergen, Norway. Frank, who also is part of the core…
March 08, 2018
A film screening of No Más Bebés and conversation with producer and researcher Virginia Espino will be held as part of the 2018 Cleveland Humanities Festival: Health. Jessie Hill, the Judge Ben C. Green Professor of Law, will introduce the film and moderate a discussion with Espino following the…
March 07, 2018
The Baker-Nord Center for Humanities will host a lecture titled “Food Politics in 2018: A Humanities Perspective” as part of the 2018 Cleveland Humanities Festival: Health. Marion Nestle, the Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, emerita, at New York University,…
February 28, 2018
The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will administer a grant from the Kulas Foundation to provide free arts and culture tickets for undergraduate students. Free student vouchers are available for the 42nd Cleveland International Film Festival, which takes place April 4–15, mainly at Tower City…
February 26, 2018
Hosted by the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, this Faculty Work-in-Progress lecture will be led by Einav Rabinovitch-Fox, a visiting instructor in the Department of History. The talk, titled “Designing Power: The Women of The Fashion Group and the Promotion of Feminist Style During the 1930s…
February 12, 2018
The Baker-Nord Center for Humanities will host Michael Chiappini, a PhD candidate in the Department of English for a Graduate Student Work-in-Progress talk titled “Thinking Like a Virus: Rhetoric, Aesthetics, and AIDS Literature.” This talk will be held Thursday, Feb. 22, at 4:30 p.m. in Clark…