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The Department of Physics and the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will co-sponsor "Conversations with the Starry Messenger: Kepler, Galileo, and the New Science," featuring speaker Aviva Rothman, assistant professor of history at ���ϳԹ���. The lecture will be held via Zoo...

Someone close to you is likely taking an antidepressant. In 2017, the World Health Organization named depressive disorders as the leading cause of illness and disability in the world. And yet, the definition of depression as illness, distinct from normal sadness, is still debated. How did we get her...

In light of Ohio's confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Cuyahoga County and state actions to mitigate further spread, the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities at ���ϳԹ��� has canceled the 2020 Cleveland Humanities Festival: TRUTH. “The health and safety of our students, attendees,...

Members of the campus community are invited to join in a discussion of Kevin Young's award-winning Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News. The discussion will take place on Thursday, March 19, from 4 to 5:15 p.m. in the Dampeer Room at the Kelvin Smith Libr...

This spring, the fifth 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 2020 Cleveland Humanities Festival will probe one of the most objective and subjective subjects i...

The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will host Elisabeth Ladenson, professor of French and romance philology at Columbia University, for three events as part of the 2019 Walter A. Strauss Lecture Series. The series will be composed of the following events, all around the topic “The Author in th...

In recent years, Europe and Asia have seen a surge in acid attacks that have increased public awareness of the highly gendered, racial and political elements of this particularly gruesome crime. Acid attacks, or acid throwing, however, has a long history—though it is one that isn’t well documented. ...

The Baker Nord-Center for the Humanities will host a Faculty Work-In-Progress lecture by Vicki Daniel, an instructor in the Department of History, titled “Bodies of the Nation: U.S. Disaster Identification in the Early Cold War.” The lecture will be held Tuesday, Oct. 29, from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m....

Brian Clites, associate director of the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities and instructor of religious studies, will give a talk titled “The Politics of the Catholic Abuse Crisis” Friday, Oct. 18, from noon to 1:30 p.m. at the Normandy Senior Living Breakwater: Independent Living Apartments in Roc...

The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will host a Graduate Work-in-Progress lecture titled “Birthing Nature: Why One Childbirth Drug Was Natural and Another Was Not” Oct. 15 from noon to 1 p.m. in Clark Hall, Room 206. Naomi Rendina, a PhD candidate in the Department of History, will present. T...