Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities
November 15, 2013
As a part of International Education week, the ϳԹ community is invited to consider the upcoming Winter Olympics through the lens of LGBT rights at "From Russia to Cleveland: Politics, Sports and the LGBT Experience."
At the event, a panel of speakers will speak about th...
November 13, 2013
The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities’ Interpreting Capitalism series will continue this week with a lecture by Jonathan Sperber, the Curators’ Professor of History at the University of Missouri, titled “The Falling Rate of Profit: Karl Marx’s Struggle to Prove the Demise of Capitalism.”
Althoug...
October 31, 2013
The architectural style of the 1950s, made popular by fashion magazines and such fictional television families as the Nelsons and Cleavers, is the focus of the 2013 Richard N. Campen Lecture in Architecture and Sculpture.
The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities invites the campus community to hear...
October 21, 2013
The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities at ϳԹ invites the campus community to hear poet Nikki Giovanni read from her new book, Chasing Utopia.
The afternoon of poetry and discussion will be Monday, Oct. 28, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in Allen Memorial Medical Library's For...
October 18, 2013
The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will host a talk by Lisa Nielson, “Improvisation and Transgression: Musicians of the Harem,” on Thursday, Oct. 24 from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in Clark Hall, Room 206.
Nielson, the Anisfield-Wolf SAGES Fellow, will discuss the Western perception of the harem, or w...
September 19, 2013
Noelle Giuffrida, assistant professor of East Asian art, will present a Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities Work in Progress talk, titled "An Inner History of Collecting Chinese Painting for Cleveland: Sherman E. Lee and Walter Hochstadter."
She will discuss how Sherman E. Lee (1918-2008), Clevela...
September 12, 2013
The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will host a presentation by Mary C. Francis, executive editor of music and cinema studies for the University of California Press, on Tuesday, Sept. 24. Her talk, titled “Scholarly Publishing Today,” will take place from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m., in Clark Hall 206.
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