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The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will present several free, public events in February, including lectures on chemistry as an art, ethics shared by humans and animals and Latin America in the past 40 years. On Thursday, Feb. 12, at 4:30 p.m. in the Tinkham Veale University Center, the Baker-...

The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will present an event titled “Animating the War: The First World War and the History of Animation,” led by Donna Kornhaber, assistant professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin and author of Charlie Chaplin, Director. This lecture will take pl...

The campus community is invited to attend the 2014 Richard N. Campen Lecture in Architecture and Sculpture on Thursday, Nov. 13, at 6 p.m. in Ford Auditorium. Using examples from her own creative practice, Monica Ponce de Leon, the Dean and Eliel Saarinen Collegiate Professor of Architecture and Ur...

At the next Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities event, University of California–Santa Cruz Distinguished Professor of Classics Mary-Kay Gamel will explore how Medea has been depicted in drama, poetry, visual art, music and film. Ever since Euripides staged his drama Medea in 431 BCE—a play about m...

Shakespeare has played a significant role in American literary and political culture since the time of the Revolution. Drawing upon his recent anthology for the Library of America—Shakespeare in America—James Shapiro, the Larry Miller Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia Univ...

Learn more about the direction of digital humanities at “Visibility, Exclusion and Futures of Digital Humanities: Time for a Thaw” on Thursday, Oct. 23, at 6 p.m. in Clark Hall room 309. Using examples of the digital archives of Emily Dickinson’s poems, Martha Nell Smith, professor of English at th...

Richard Blanco was just the fifth person to hold the title of inaugural poet when he read at President Barack Obama's second inauguration in 2013. Yet he was a first in many ways: He was the first Latino, immigrant or gay person to serve in such a role—as well as the youngest, at age 44. Blanco fol...

The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will present a screening of The Square, an Oscar nominee for “Best Documentary.” Pete Moore, associate professor of political science and a specialist in the politics of the Middle East, will introduce showing of the film at 6 p.m. Monday, Sept. 22, in the W...

To continue the Vergil Week festivities, celebrating the ancient Roman poet Vergil, Craig Kallendorf, professor of classics and English at Texas A&M University, will give the week’s keynote address. His talk, “The Protean Virgil: Book History and the Reception of Aeneid 1 in the Renaissance,” will t...

Jeff Rice, the Martha B. Reynolds Professor in Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies at the University of Kentucky, will present “Unworkable Hermeneutics” at the next Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities event. The talk will take place Thursday, April 24, at 4:30 p.m. in Clark Hall, room 206. Duri...