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September 06, 2016
Entering her 37th (and final) year at ϳԹ, Jenifer Neils—an internationally renowned scholar of ancient Greek and Roman art—has won the 2017 Baker-Nord Center Award for Distinguished Scholarship in the Humanities.
After the academic year, Neils, the Elsie B. Smith Profes...
April 14, 2016
The Holocaust and its perpetrators have left a legacy of evil that has permeated our lives and culture like no other. The Baker-Nord Center for Humanities will host a mini-symposium featuring two experts in Holocaust and visual studies who will explore visual images of perpetrators in art, literatur...
April 12, 2016
Drawing from their Books@Work seminars in community and company settings, three local professors will share how participants use their own life experience to reflect on narrative texts—with compelling results.
Students have a wide array of personal experiences that shape the way they engage with co...
April 11, 2016
At the next Humanities@Work event, local entrepreneurs will explain how a background in the humanities ultimately helped their careers.
The panel discussion, hosted by the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, will be held Monday, April 18, from 6 to 6:45 p.m. in Clark Hall, Room 206.
The followin...
April 07, 2016
On the afternoon of May 4, 1970, a large number of ϳԹ students were in the campus quad protesting the Vietnam War’s expansion into Cambodia, when word spread of Ohio National Guard soldiers shooting—and killing four—unarmed students at Kent State University, just 34 mile...
April 07, 2016
The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will host political economist and agriculturist Eric Holt-Gimenez Thursday, April 14, at 4:30 p.m. in the Iris S. and Bert L. Wolstein Research Building auditorium.
In his lecture, Holt-Giménez, executive director of Food First/Institute for Food and Develop...
March 17, 2016
Cleveland Humanities Festival: Remembering War brings together 20 of Northeast Ohio’s cultural institutions for artistic, educational and performance events
While war exposes our capacity for brutality, the humanities offer the possibility of understanding—and transcending—it through art, thought ...
February 25, 2016
The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will hold the next Faculty Work-in-Progress lecture Thursday, March 3, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in Clark Hall, Room 206.
Damaris Punales-Alpizar, assistant professor of Spanish, will give a talk titled “From Translation and its Aftermath: The Soviet Legacy in ...
February 16, 2016
The Baker-Nord Center for Humanities will hold a panel discussion for undergraduate students Monday, Feb. 22, from 6 to 7 p.m. in Clark Hall, Room 206.
The Humanities@Work event will feature panelists explaining how their background in humanities impacted their eventual careers in law.
The panel w...
January 28, 2016
Gabon, a small country along the Atlantic coast of Africa, has a history of prominent women writers whose work has created the national literature. Despite its many milestones in this area, however, this tiny nation has not received the critical attention that other African neighbors have enjoyed.
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