Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities

In spring 1941, the Iraqis and the Vichy French in Syria made agreements with the Axis powers that might have had disastrous consequences for the Allied war effort if the Allies hadn’t improvised a jerrybuilt force to respond. In a Baker-Nord Center for Humanities Faculty-Work-in-Progress talk, Joh...

For a complex set of reasons, the story of Spanish immigration to the United States is practically unknown. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, tens of thousands of Spaniards settled in compact enclaves all over the country, including large numbers in the Cleveland and Canton areas. James D...

The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will host musicology PhD candidate Paul Abdullah for a Graduate Student Work-in-Progress lecture. Abdullah will present “Opera, Shakespeare, and the Creation of Romanticism” Thursday, Oct. 5, at 4:30 p.m. in Clark Hall, Room 206. Shakespeare’s current posit...

The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will host the 2017 Rose Wohlegemuth Weisman Women’s Voices Lecture Tuesday, Oct. 3, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in Tinkham Veale University Center, ballroom C. Katherine Boo, staff writer at The New Yorker and a former reporter and editor for The Washington Post,...

The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will host Susanne Vees-Gulani, associate professor of German, for a Faculty Work-in-Progress presentation Tuesday, Sept. 26, at 4:30 p.m. in Clark Hall, Room 206. Vees-Gulani will give a talk titled “The Air War in the Museum: The Bombing of Dresden as Histo...

The Baker-Nord Center for Humanities will host an event titled “A Conversation with Peter Ho Davies” Wednesday, Sept. 6, at 4:30 p.m. in Tinkham Veale University Center, ballroom A. The event will feature Davies, recipient of the 2017 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction, in conversation with CWRU...

Vicente Fox, former president of Mexico, will give a talk as part of the Cleveland Humanities Festival Monday, April 3, from 5 to 6 p.m. in the Tinkham Veale University Center ballroom. Vicente Fox, former president of Mexico Immigration reform has long been a priority for Fox, who, during his ti...

On April 1, 1717, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu wrote her famous “Letter to a Friend” from the Turkish Embassy, describing the process of smallpox inoculation. With that letter, she became one of the earliest vaccination advocates, joined over the next 300 years by celebrities and scientists, pop cultur...

The Toni Morrison Read-In, held in celebration of Black History Month and Morrison's 86th birthday, will be held today (Feb. 17) from 11 a.m. to noon in the Guilford House parlor. During the event, members of the Department of English and other university community members will have an opportunity ...

The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will host a film screening and discussion on Paul Laurence Dunbar: Beyond the Mask Thursday, Feb. 9, from 5 to 8 p.m. in Tinkham Veale University Center ballroom A. This documentary looks at the life and legacy of Paul Laurence Dunbar, who was among the firs...