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The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities’ Humanities@Work program connects ���ϳԹ��� humanities students with corporate, government, nonprofit and other partners through community discussions, networking events and paid career opportunities (internship, practicum, etc.). As part of the program, the cent...

The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will host the 2017 Baker-Nord Distinguished Faculty Lecture Wednesday, Feb. 1, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in Tinkham Veale University Center, ballroom A. Jenifer Neils, the Elsie B. Smith Professor in the Liberal Arts in the Department of Classics, will present ...

The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities continues its Humanities@Work series with a focus on media Monday, Jan. 30, from 6 to 7 p.m. in Clark Hall, Room 206. The event will feature a panel discussion with professionals in media, who will talk about how studying the humanities influenced their care...

Away from the university, our family and friends often talk about issues differently than what we experience in our on-campus discussions. After this election, some people headed off campus for the Thanksgiving holiday may have concerns about what to say to people who have fundamentally different v...

Join the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, the Cleveland Museum of Natural History and the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage for an evening with renowned chef and culinary historian Michael Twitty. Twitty will visit the Cleveland Museum of Natural History Thursday, Dec. 1, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. In...

Have you ever wondered where the rocking chair came from, or why cheap plastic chairs are everywhere? The way we choose to sit and what we choose to sit on speak volumes about our values, our tastes and the things we hold dear. Architect and writer Witold Rybczynski will chronicle the history of th...

American humorist Irene Kampen chronicled her eight-week sojourn to the Soviet Union in the summer of 1969 in her travelogue, Are You Carrying Any Gold or Living Relatives?, published by Doubleday in 1970. In a talk for the Baker-Nord Center for the humanities, Michael Metsner, a PhD candidate in th...

A humanities scholar embarking on a digital project often has little guidance in choices he or she must make at a very early stage. What object formats can be supported now and in the future? Does my home institution have a view, and how would I know? What if I employ proprietary software and...

Authorized by Congress 17 years ago, the Eisenhower Memorial is still on the drawing board. Its design by “starchitect” Frank Gehry for the National Mall remains unfunded by Congress and the target of a storm of criticism. As a presidentially appointed member of the Eisenhower Memorial Commission, ...

Does your dog really love you, or does she just want a treat? Carl Safina, marine ecologist and author of Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel, will discuss how animal thought and emotion can be considered by looking at the brain, evolution, and the context of behaviors—something long thought t...