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Over the summer, two representatives from the Department of Art History and Art traveled to a conference in Canterbury, England. Graduate students Laura Rybicki and Cecily Hughes Laura Rybicki, an MA student, and Cecily Hughes, a PhD student, presented at the Medieval Animals Heritage Conference, ...

It isn’t easy to find cheerful assessments of the state of the humanities these days. From the decreasing volume of undergraduate humanities majors to the drop in relevant tenure-track jobs, the trends aren’t encouraging. But Michele Tracy Berger is unfazed by these challenges. “I believe there is...

The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities and Cleveland Public Library will host “Navigating Family Secrets and Healing Intergenerational Trauma,” a reading and conversation with Cassandra Lane Tuesday, April 18, from 6 to 7 p.m. This event, which is part of the 2023 Cleveland Humanities Festival: We...

The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will host a talk with Jia Tolentino, a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of the essay collection Trick Mirror. Tolentino will present “Against Optimization” Monday, March 27, from 5 to 6 p.m. in the Tinkham Veale University Center, Ballroom A. Her...

This spring, the eighth Cleveland Humanities Festival continues its annual exploration of some of society’s most pressing issues and concerns—through the lens of a single topic This March through May, the 2023 Cleveland Humanities Festival (CHF) will probe one of the most objective and subjective t...

The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will host the 2022 Walter A. Strauss Lecture Series featuring Angelos Chaniotis, professor of ancient history and classics at the Institute for Advanced Study, Nov. 14–17. Theatrical behavior has been recorded in Greek public life since the Archaic period. F...

How do authors find the courage to write about their lives? How do they write stories about the lives of strangers in an ethical way? Author Daisy Hernández has been writing across literary genres about the intersections of race, immigration, class and sexuality for almost two decades. The Baker-N...

The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will host a Graduate Work-in-Progress lecture with Samuel Nemeth, PhD candidate in the Department of Music, Tuesday, Nov. 1, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in Clark Hall, Room 206. Nemeth will present “Battle of the Bands: Instruments, Mechanical Cultures, and Sonic ...

Members of the ���ϳԹ��� community have planned the first major international symposium to focus solely on the literary translations made in socialist countries (both in Eastern Europe and Latin America) from 1959 to 1990. Many studies have been devoted to translation studies i...

Three U.S. Supreme Court decisions—Griswold v. CT in 1965 ensuring married people the right to use contraception, Eisenstadt v. Baird in 1972 ensuring single people the right to use contraception, and Roe v. Wade in 1973 ensuring women the right to terminate a pregnancy before viability—were boons t...