Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities

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April 01, 2024
Members of the ϳԹ community are invited to join the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, Cleveland Public Library and Literary Cleveland for a free staged reading of creative works related to the total solar eclipse by local Cleveland writers.
Held on Saturday, April ...

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March 27, 2024
The Baker-Nord Center for Humanities will host a faculty work-in-progress talk by Cristian Gomez Olivares, associate professor of Spanish, Wednesday, April 3, from noon to 1 p.m. in Clark Hall, Room 206. Gomez Olivares will present a talk titled “Uses and Abuses of Mexican Poetry: Why Ángel Ortuño i...

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March 06, 2024
This spring, the ninth Cleveland Humanities Festival continues its annual exploration of some of society’s most pressing issues and concerns—through the lens of a single topic

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February 22, 2024
Members of the ϳԹ community are invited to join the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities for a faculty work-in-progress lecture Tuesday, Feb. 27, from noon to 1 p.m. in Clark Hall, Room 206.
Georgia Cowart, professor in the Department of Music, will present “The Radical...

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February 21, 2024
The African American Read-In, an annual nationwide event held during Black History Month, celebrates great writing by African Americans.
ϳԹ will hold an African American Read-In Wednesday, Feb. 28, from 5 to 8 p.m. in Clark Hall, Room 206.
Students, staff and faculty w...

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February 09, 2024
The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities invites members of the ϳԹ community to a film screening of and discussion on Shutdown, a documentary film about a profound political coming of age that happened in Columbus in turbulent 1971.
This event, titled “The Hidden Histor...

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December 18, 2023
To recognize the contributions postdoctoral researchers make to ϳԹ—and their respective fields—The Daily has partnered with the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs on a new monthly series. Know an outstanding postdoc making an impact at ϳԹ or in their field? Nominate them t...

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September 25, 2023
The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will host a talk with Thrity Umrigar, Distinguished University Professor in the Department of English at ϳԹ, Wednesday, Oct. 4, from 7 to 8 p.m. at Cuyahoga County Public Library, Parma-Snow Branch (2121 Snow Road, Parma).
Thrity...

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September 20, 2023
The Baker-Nord Center for Humanities will host a writing workshop with Marjorie Hudson, a fiction writer, memoirist and community activist, Wednesday, Sept. 27, from 10:30 a.m. to noon in Clark Hall, Room 206.
In this workshop, she will share her experiences with editing, writing and building liter...

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September 18, 2023
The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will host a conversation with authors Marjorie Hudson and Jocelyn Johnson for the 2023 Rose Wohlgemuth Weisman Women's Voices Lecture Tuesday, Sept. 26, from 6 to 7:15 p.m. in Tinkham Veale University Center, Ballroom A.
Johnson is the author of My Monticell...