The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will present several free, public events in February, including lectures on chemistry as an art, ethics shared by humans and animals and Latin America in the past 40 years.
On Thursday, Feb. 12, at 4:30 p.m. in the Tinkham Veale University Center, the Baker-Nord Center’s Science and Humanities thematic seminar group will host Roald Hoffmann, the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry recipient. In his talk, “Chemistry in Art, Art in Chemistry, and the Spiritual Ground They Share,” Hoffmann will share his thoughts about how art and chemistry raise the question: Is there an analogue in science to abstract art?
Hoffmann is the Frank H. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters Emeritus at Cornell University and an accomplished writer, poet and playwright.
Registration is recommended, and available by visiting humanities.case.edu. For more information, contact Maggie Kaminski at the Baker-Nord Center at 216.368.2242 or at bakernord@case.edu.