Two art history students present at Medieval Animals Heritage Conference September 15, 2023Over the summer, two representatives from the Department of Art History and Art traveled to a conference in...Publications & Presentations·
5 questions with … Michele Tracy Berger, the new director of the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities April 27, 2023It isn’t easy to find cheerful assessments of the state of the humanities these days. From the decreasing...FeaturedPeople·
“Navigating Family Secrets and Healing Intergenerational Trauma,” a reading and conversation with Cassandra Lane March 27, 2023The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities and Cleveland Public Library will host “Navigating Family Secrets and Healing Intergenerational...Events·
“Against Optimization” March 20, 2023The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will host a talk with Jia Tolentino, a staff writer at The...Events·
2023 Cleveland Humanities Festival: WELLNESS March 13, 2023This spring, the eighth Cleveland Humanities Festival continues its annual exploration of some of society’s most pressing issues...FeaturedHumanities, Art & Social Sciences·
Walter A. Strauss Lecture Series—“The City as Stage: Theatricality and Illusion in the Postclassical Greek Polis” November 1, 2022The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will host the 2022 Walter A. Strauss Lecture Series featuring Angelos Chaniotis,...Events·
“The Power of Intimate Voices: A Talk on Memoir, Journalism, and Queer Latinidad” October 26, 2022How do authors find the courage to write about their lives? How do they write stories about the...Events·
“Battle of the Bands: Instruments, Mechanical Cultures, and Sonic Metaphors of Nineteenth-Century French Empire” October 20, 2022The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will host a Graduate Work-in-Progress lecture with Samuel Nemeth, PhD candidate in...Events·
“Translating Socialism International Symposium” October 14, 2022Members of the Case Western Reserve University community have planned the first major international symposium to focus solely...Events·
“Birth, Breastfeeding, and Ballots: Expanding The History and Concept of Reproductive Rights” October 4, 2022Three U.S. Supreme Court decisions—Griswold v. CT in 1965 ensuring married people the right to use contraception, Eisenstadt...Events·
