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Created in the middle of the 13th century, the Ambrosian Tanakh is the earliest extant Hebrew manuscript to feature zoocephalic, or animal-headed, figures. The book includes an extraordinary pair of scenes on its last pages: Ezekiel’s Vision of the Chariot painted across the gutter from the Feast of...

The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will host a conversation with Kevin Young, the director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture and poetry editor of The New Yorker, Wednesday, April 7, from 6 to 7 p.m. Young will discuss his work with Ben Vinson, the Hiram C. Haydn P...

The study of folksong in Czechoslovakia became increasingly enmeshed with research on race and ethnicity through the 20th century. Folk melodies appear alongside studies of phrenology and blood type as early as 1905. By the 1920s, the “purity” of folksong was understood to evidence the “purity” of a...

Award-winning architect Robert Madison was the first African American to graduate from ���ϳԹ���'s School of Architecture, as well as the first to gain a degree in architecture in Ohio. His firm, Robert P. Madison International, has been both the lead and associate architects for the desi...

Critically acclaimed indigenous poet Joy Harjo will discuss her work in a conversation with David Lucas, poet laureate of the State of Ohio and lecturer in the Department of English, Monday, March 29, from 6 to 7 p.m. Harjo, a member of the Mvskoke/Creek Nation, is the author of several books of poe...

In the late 19th century, the invention of new devices for seeing inside the human body coincided with a sudden enthusiasm for medical specialization. At the same time, the Parisian government put physicians directly in charge of opera singers and other vocal performers. The new profession of laryng...

The Schubert Center for Child Studies will hold a three-part speaker series titled “Celebrating Identity Beyond Diagnosis: Recognition + Representation of Children on Rare Medical Journeys.” Inspired by the motto of Positive Exposure—“change how you see, see how you change”—the series uplifts the ...

“I Come from a People Who…” is a series of events with Native author, playwright and poet Marcie Rendon that weaves together the themes of the 2021 Humanities Festival and the 40th anniversary of community organization InterReligious Task Force on Central America and Colombia: identity, memory and r...

The OpEd Project’s mission is to change who writes history by partnering with universities, foundations, companies, nonprofits and communities to diversify knowledge and accelerate solutions to society’s greatest challenges. The OpEd Project at ���ϳԹ���, sponsored by the Flor...

The Baker-Nord Center for Humanities will host a Faculty Work-in-Progress lecture exploring human understanding and development of love Tuesday, Dec. 1, at 4:30 p.m. Jeremy Bendik-Keymer, the Elmer G. Beamer-Hubert H. Scheider Professor in Ethics, will discuss Martha Nussbaum’s developmental work an...