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Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities

Learn how humanities are "STEM-different" during Baker-Nord Center event
The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will host “Exceptional Measures: The Human Sciences in STEM Worlds” Thursday, Jan. 28, from 5 to 6 p.m. in the Tinkham Veale University Center, ballroom A. In this lecture, Jerome McGann, the John Stewart Bryan Professor at the University of Virginia, will d...
Learn about resources available to students in the humanities
The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will hold a panel discussion on resources specifically available to undergraduate students studying the humanities at ϳԹ. “Humanities@Case” will be held Friday, Jan. 22, from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. in Clark Hall, Room 206. The panel...
Baker-Nord Center to host poetry reading Nov. 20
The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will host a poetry reading with author Dan Beachy-Quick Friday, Nov. 20, at 3 p.m. in Clark Hall, Room 206. Beachy-Quick, a Monfort Professor teaching in the MFA Creative Writing Program at Colorado State University, is the author of many books of poetry, in...
Learn about “ecocinema” in Chinese cinema at next Faculty-Work-in-Progress event
What does “ecocinema”—films that are about environmental justice—mean for Chinese cinema? Haomin Gong, assistant professor of Chinese, will address that question at the next Baker-Nord Center for Humanities Faculty-Work-in-Progress event. Gong will present “Trash, Place, and Chinese Ecocinema: On W...
Learn more about Cleveland’s vineyard at East 66th and Hough at next Baker-Nord Center event
The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will host a talk with Mansfield Frazier Wednesday, Nov. 18, at 4:30 p.m. in Clark Hall, Room 206. Frazier, community activist and entrepreneur, leads The Vineyards and BioCellar of Château Hough, an urban vineyard located in Cleveland at the intersection of ...
Learn more about the early history of cartoon music at next Baker-Nord Center event
The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will host a Faculty-Work-in-Progress lecture with Daniel Goldmark, associate professor in the Department of Music, Tuesday, Oct. 27, at 4:30 p.m. in Clark Hall, Room 206. Goldmark will present “UPA and Modernist Cartoon Music.” The United Productions of Am...
Graduate student to present Oct. 8 on construction of black male identity through picture books
There is a long legacy of picture books that teach young African-American boys to become “little men,” leaving behind childish ways to demonstrate rigid maturity and asexual masculinity. The next Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities event will feature a look at how black male identity is constructed...
Learn the intricacies of scholarly book publishing at next Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities event
The publishing process for scholars in the humanities is often confusing, especially for first-time authors. Today’s shifting landscape of scholarly publishing, with new formats and media for disseminating and promoting scholarship, confronts a would-be author with numerous choices. The next Baker-...
Next Baker-Nord Center event to feature talk on early street music in Paris
As a Fulbright Scholar in Paris during the 2014-2015 academic year, John Romey, a graduate student in the Department of Music, undertook an enormous archival project that catalogued and analyzed manuscript chansonniers and print sources, documenting song texts that circulated in street culture. Det...
What makes Cleveland tick? Find out at next Baker-Nord Center event
Hear about the street named for a poet, an Idea Garage and Cleveland’s forgotten entrepreneurs passionate about the city’s waterways at the next Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities event, featuring “The Soul of Cleveland” project. From January to June, a book store owner, naturalist, award-winning...