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Interested in advocacy? Want to learn more about how to make change on issues of concern to you? Join a virtual panel of ���ϳԹ��� alumni for a discussion spotlighting advocacy as a form of civic engagement that contributes to social change. Attendees will hear alumni perspec...

The Kelvin Smith Library 25th anniversary event series concludes with "Kepler at 450: An Interdisciplinary Celebration," a two-day event that includes music, lectures and a roundtable discussion about Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), one of the first to argue for the sun’s centrality in the solar system...

In 1951, the young Richard Olney dropped out of the University of Iowa and moved to Paris to pursue a career as a painter. But his bohemian encounters with novelist James Baldwin and the sensuality of French cuisine transformed his life forever. Over the course of the next 40 years, Olney’s way with...

Evelyn Adkins, assistant professor in the Department of Classics, will give a talk on “The Power of Silence in the Roman Empire: A Novel Approach” Thursday, Oct. 28, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in Clark Hall, Room 206. In this talk drawn from her forthcoming book Discourse, Knowledge, and Power in Apul...

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...

The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will host a “Faculty Work-in-Progress” lecture featuring Chris Haufe, associate professor in the Department of Philosophy. In his talk “Of Interest,” Haufe will examine the role that “interestingness” plays in research in the sciences and humanities. He argue...

The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will host a “Graduate Work-in-Progress” presentation about French romance music in the 19th century, given by Nathan Dougherty, PhD candidate in the Department of Music. In his presentation "Closing the Wound: Memory and Clinical Nostalgia in the 19th-Centu...

All ���ϳԹ��� community members are invited to attend the lecture “Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction” featuring Kate Masur, author and professor of history at Northwestern University. This lecture, drawn from M...

Free streaming vouchers for the 45th Cleveland International Film Festival are available for undergraduate students through the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities. CIFF45 is being presented entirely online and will run through April 20. Films are individually streamed using a virtual voucher. A ...

The 2021 Edward S. and Melinda Sadar Lecture in Writing in the Disciplines will host Vershawn Ashanti Young, past chair of Conference on College Communication and Composition (2018 to 2021) for a talk titled "Say They Name in Black English: George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Atatiana Jefferson, Aura Ross...