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The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will host a discussion with panelists working in the nonprofit sector. At this Humanities@Work event, panelists will talk about how studying the humanities influenced their careers and answer questions from the audience. The discussion will be held Monday, ...

The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will host a faculty-work-in-progress lecture with Brian Clites, instructor in the Department of Religious Studies. Clites will present “Sacred Protests: Politics and Faith after Sexual Abuse” Thursday, Feb. 1, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in Clark Hall, Room 206. ...

The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will host the final installment of the 2017 Walter A. Strauss Lecture Series Friday, Dec. 1, from 5 to 6 p.m. in the Iris S. and Bert L. Wolstein Research Building auditorium. Philosopher Philip Kitcher, a professor at Columbia University, will present “The ...

The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities presents the 2017 Walter A. Strauss Lecture Series, composed of three lectures on “Education and Democracy” given by celebrated philosopher Philip Kitcher. Kitcher, a professor at Columbia University, is known for his studies on the role of scientific inquir...

Yeshiva University professor Steven Fine will discuss the Arch of Titus and Jewish history in the Roman period, exploring the image and symbolism of the arch from the vantage points of various people—emperors, popes, Jews and Christians—who re-interpreted the meaning of the Arch in modern times. Th...

Richard F. Thomas—a Harvard University classics professor, teacher since 2004 of the first-year seminar “Bob Dylan,” and a celebrated “Dylanologist”—makes a compelling case for why the music and lyrics of Bob Dylan endure and inspire. At a Baker-Nord Center for Humanities event, Thomas will discuss...

Maggie Popkin, the Robson Assistant Professor of Art History, will give the Baker-Nord Center for Humanities’ next Faculty Work-in-Progress talk. Her lecture, titled “Object Memory: Souvenirs and Memorabilia in the Roman Empire,” will be held Thursday, Nov. 2, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in Clark Hall, ...

The university community is invited to hear from Peter Lu, a physicist at Harvard University, about the mathematics underlying the patterns of medieval Islamic art. His lecture is titled “Girih Tiles: Decagonal Geometry in Medieval Islamic Architectural Tilings and Beyond.” Photo by Peter Lu Co-...

The photography of Peter Lu will be celebrated at an opening reception for "Girih Tiles: Decagonal Geometry in Medieval Islamic Architectural Tilings & Beyond" Wednesday, Oct. 25, at 3 p.m. in the Kelvin Smith Library. Refreshments will be served. Lu’s Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities talk will...

On Friday, Oct. 13, more than 100 Cleveland-area high school students studying the Classics will come to University Circle to learn firsthand from scholars of the ancient world. The inaugural Classics Day—a collaboration between ���ϳԹ��� (���ϳԹ���) and the Cleveland Museum of Art...