Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities

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October 03, 2022
In the last several decades, work across cognitive neurosciences has drawn increasingly frequently on the metaphor of the “neural orchestra,” which maps the activities of localized cortical areas onto sections of a musical ensemble. Although the model was embraced as a novelty in the mid-1990s (a su...

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October 03, 2022
As part of the “The Essentials of Reproductive Justice: Access, Autonomy, Action” series, there will be a talk titled “Killing the Black Body: The Urgency of Reproductive Justice” Tuesday, Oct. 11, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in Tinkham Veale University Center, Ballroom A.
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September 30, 2022
Members of the university community are invited to attend a talk titled “What is Reproductive Justice?” Tuesday, Oct. 11, as part of the “The Essentials of Reproductive Justice: Access, Autonomy, Action” series.
This talk will begin at 9 a.m. in the Tinkham Veale University Center, Ballroom A.
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September 29, 2022
Members of the ϳԹ community are invited to “The Essentials of Reproductive Justice: Access, Autonomy, Action,” a series of conversations held Tuesday, Oct. 11, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Tinkham Veale University Center ballroom.
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September 06, 2022
Two video exhibits evoking a range of emotions and, in one case, calling on audience participation are on display at Sheila and Eric Samson Pavilion at the Health Education Campus of ϳԹ and Cleveland Clinic as part of FRONT International, a citywide triennial celebration...

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April 05, 2022
Simone de Beauvoir is best known for The Second Sex, but also published a four-part memoir that stands as a chronicle of post-war French intellectual culture. The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will host a talk with Laura Hengehold, professor in the Department of Philosophy, examining Beauvoir...

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April 01, 2022
The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities at ϳԹ invites all members of the campus community to attend a lecture titled "'Be Our Guest' on Broadway: Beauty and the Beast and Disney’s New York Expansion" Tuesday, April 12, at 4:30 p.m., in Clark Hall, Room 206.
The “Disney...

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March 31, 2022
As part of the 2022 Cleveland Humanities Festival: DISCOURSE, Literary Cleveland is organizing a free staged reading titled “How Do We Talk to Each Other?” Saturday, April 9, at 3 p.m.
Accepted submissions will be adapted, in collaboration with the authors, for the staged reading. The readings will...

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March 30, 2022
Join the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities on Saturday, April 9, at 2 p.m. in the Cleveland Museum of Art’s (CMA) Gartner Auditorium for "In Conversation: Derrick Adams and Ellen Rudolph."
In his vibrant paintings, collages, sculptures and installations, Adams probes the dynamic ways in which id...

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March 29, 2022
All members of the campus community are invited to an event—Artifact Spotlight: “It’s Been Said All Along”— held at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Thursday, March 31, from 6 to 8 p.m., and coordinated by the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities of ϳԹ.
The event is part of...