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The campus community is invited to attend a Faculty Work-in-Progress presentation given by Allison Schifani, the Baker-Nord Center Postdoctoral Scholar in the Digital Humanities. Schifani's work explores ways of creating and participating in contemporary urban space, with a particular focus on the ...

Nicholas Brown, the 2014 Baker-Nord Scholar-in-Residence and English professor from the University of Illinois-Chicago, will give a talk titled, “What’s on TV?” on Monday, April 7, at 4:30 p.m. in Clark Hall 309. In his talk, he will discuss topics such as the kind of technology people use to watch...

The next film in the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities’ “Interpreting Capitalism Film Series,” is Inside Job, the 2010 Oscar winner for Best Documentary. Inside Job provides a comprehensive analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008, which at a cost of more than $20 trillion, caused million...

Jane Smiley, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres and other award-winning novels, will present the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities’ 2014 Rose Wohlgemuth Weisman Women’s Voices Lecture at ���ϳԹ���. The free and public event will be held on Monday, March 31, a...

Sari Feldman, director of the Cuyahoga County Public Library, will discuss libraries in the digital age on Thursday, March 27, at 4:30 p.m. in Clark Hall 206. As director of the 28-branch county library system for the past decade, Feldman has seen libraries evolve with new technologies to better op...

The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities and the Social Justice Institute will welcome Erik S. McDuffie, associate professor of African-American studies at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, to campus this week. During his talk, titled “An End to the Neglect of the Problems of the Negro Wo...

The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will host Frank Thompson as a Scholar-in-Residence from Feb. 23 to March 7. Thompson, a lecturer and research investigator at the University of Michigan, is a social scientist with a broad background in the humanities, and his articles have been published in ...

Continuing the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities' "Interpreting Capitalism Film Series," the award-winning film Last Train Home will be screened Thursday, Feb. 13 at 6 p.m. in the Wolstein Research Building auditorium. Wendy Fu, assistant professor of history, will introduce and discuss the film...

Alice Kaplan, the John M. Musser Professor of French and chair of the Department of French at Yale University, will discuss the massive literary and political significance of Albert Camus' The Stranger on Monday, Feb. 10, at 4:30 p.m. in the Wolstein Research Building auditorium. Kaplan’s lecture, ...

The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities’ Interpreting Capitalism series will continue this week with a lecture by historian Ellen Schrecker titled "Hired Education: Capitalism and the Academic Community." Schrecker, professor of history at Yeshiva University, will present a perspective on how and ...