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As part of the 2022 Cleveland Humanities Festival: DISCOURSE, the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will host a virtual discussion, “Addressing Historical Truth in a Divided 21st Century Society,” Thursday, March 31, at 5:30 p.m. Kelly Falcone-Hall, president and CEO of the Western Reserve Histo...

As part of the 2022 Cleveland Humanities Festival: DISCOURSE, the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will host the 2022 Issa Lecture, "Art as Transformation: Using Photography for Social and Environmental Change.” The event will be held Wednesday, March 30, at 5 p.m., in Tinkham Veale University ...

As part of 2022 Cleveland Humanities Festival: DISCOURSE, the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will host a lecture titled “Island Hopping” Monday, March 28, at 5 p.m., in the Tinkham Veale University Center, Ballroom A. How do you craft an emotional story while translating very technical and ab...

The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities at ���ϳԹ��� invites all members of the campus community to a panel discussion, titled “Designing Museums of the Future,” Wednesday, March 23, from 6 to 7:30 p.m., in Clark Hall, Room 206. A panel of leading curators and executives will...

Michael Clune, the Samuel B. and Virginia C. Knight professor of humanities in the Department of English, will present a lecture titled “What are Dreams For?” Monday, April 4, at 5 p.m. in Tinkham Veale University Center Ballroom A. Clune investigates the new field of dream engineering to explore t...

As part of 2022 Cleveland Humanities Festival: Discourse, Woori Sori (Our Voice), a Chicago-based, all-women’s Korean percussion group, will perform Saturday, March 19, at 1 p.m. in the Gund Commons of the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (moCa). Woori Sori uses four of the traditional Korean p...

This spring, the seventh 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 and April, the 2022 Cleveland Humanities Festival (CHF) will probe the idea of “discourse” through art, litera...

Philip Kitcher, a professor at Columbia University, is known for his studies on the role of scientific inquiry in democratic societies. The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will host a lecture with Kitcher Thursday, March 3, at 5 p.m. in the Wolstein Research Building auditorium. His lecture, ...

Since the start of the pandemic, more than 400 children’s picture books about COVID-19 have been published. In her research, Cara Byrne, lecturer in the Department of English and faculty associate of the Schubert Center for Child Studies, has analyzed these books and found that while many aim to add...

Illness narratives demand that an author constructs both a version of themselves and a version of their ill body as they present their story to the reader. Constructing the self in a text is work enough, but to distance oneself from one’s physical body in order to create a version of it for a narrat...