2007-2008

Myth and Miracle From the King Years

Taylor Branch

Sep 7 2007

Mr. Branch will present the third annual Anisfield-Wolf Lecture, co-sponsored by the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities and SAGES (Seminar Approach to General Education and Scholarship), in conjunction with the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, which are administered by The Cleveland Foundation. The awards recognize works that have made important contributions to our understanding of racism or our appreciation of the rich diversity of human cultures. Visit the Anisfield-Wolf website for more information on the awards.


Revisiting Fractal Analysis of Pollock’s Drip Paintings

Harsh Mathur, Katherine Jones-Smith

Sep 20 2007

A discussion with Harsh Mathur and Katherine Jones-Smith.


Cleveland and Sprawl: A Global Perspective

Robert Bruegmann

Sep 27 2007

A discussion with Robert Bruegmann.

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Jim Crow’s Last Stand: The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Suburban North

Thomas J. Sugrue

Oct 18 2007

A discussion with Thomas J. Sugrue.

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Richard N. Campen Lecture in Architecture and Sculpture

Jane Weinzapfel, FAIA

Nov 1 2007

A discussion with Jane Weinzapfel.

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Between Existential Angst and Literary Espirit: Ovid’s Last Poems from Exile

Martin Helzle

Nov 15 2007

A discussion with Martin Helzle.


National Cityscapes Conference: The Mind of Cleveland and Other Recent Projects

Carl Pope

Nov 29 2007

The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities at Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA) jointly commissioned conceptual artist Carl Pope to create a public art work project “The Mind of Cleveland”. This exhibit will premier in conjunction with the National Cityscapes Conference from March 27-30, 2008. The conference explores the intersections between the urban environment, humanities and the community.

“The Mind of Cleveland” is a public conversation in billboard/poster form, a conceptual town meeting where everyone has the opportunity to be heard publicly. The project employs modes of communication common in urban spaces, such as billboards, letterpress posters and the internet. With the use of public signage, the thoughts, feelings and wishes of Cleveland residents are displayed.

Carl Pope will discuss his recent public art projects and this and other works at this lecture. Pope is joint visiting fellow at the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities at Case Western Reserve University and The Cleveland Institute of Art.

With support from:

Cleveland Institute of Art, Clear Channel, Cuyahoga County Public Library, Councilman Joe Cimperman, Progressive Arts Alliance


Imagine it, See it, Be it: A Journey to Discover Michael Chekhov

Catherine Albers

Dec 6 2007

A discussion with Catherine Albers.


Should the Law be Sex-Blind?

Rosalind Simson

Jan 24 2008

A discussion with Rosalind Simson


The District (Nyocker): Independent Film Screening

Aniko Imre

Jan 24 2008

This wild and tasteless animated film — a geopolitical satire with nudity, profanity, and rap songs — has been called Hungary’s answer to South Park. Two star-crossed young lovers travel back to prehistoric times to bury some woolly mammoths and thus create an oil field in the middle of what later becomes 21st-century Budapest that will make them rich. But Bush, Blair, bin Laden, and others complicate the plan when they get wind of this new petroleum.

“The most original-looking animated feature since Walking Life.” — Philadelphia City Paper

Introduction and discussion following the film by Aniko Imre, University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts.


Funding Resources: Where to Look and How to Apply

Eric Cottington, Ted Gup, Daniel Goldmark

Feb 1 2008

Special Series for Faculty and Graduate Students


Differentiating Fellowships and Grants

Martha B. Gibbons, Anne Helmreich, Mary E. Davis

Feb 8 2008

Special Series for Faculty and Graduate Students


Creating Desire on Tin Pan Alley

Daniel Goldmark

Feb 14 2008

A discussion with Daniel Goldmark.


Preparing a Budget

Denise Donahey, Achala Wali

Feb 15 2008

Special Series for Faculty and Graduate Students


Cleveland Writers’ Showcase

Mary Grimm, Sarah Willis, Steven Hayward

Feb 21 2008

A discussion with Mary Grimm, Sarah Willis, and Steven Hayward.


Proposal Writing

Susan L. Golden

Feb 22 2008

Special Series for Faculty and Graduate Students


Black Church Culture as a Strategy of Action

Sandra Barnes

Feb 27 2008

A discussion with Sandra Barnes


Tips and Strategies from a Foundation Representative

Kathleen Cerveny, William Marling, Marie Lathers

Feb 29 2008

Special Series for Faculty and Graduate Students


Migrating Identities: Ethnicity, race, and well-being among African-descended Belizean adolescent immigrants and their parents in Los Angeles

Eileen Anderson-Fye

Mar 20 2008

A discussion with Eileen Anderson-Fye.


The Fortune Cookie

Raymond Watkins

Mar 24 2008

Billy Wilder, 1966
A Cleveland Browns Football game, filmed at the old Municipal Stadium, kicks off this screwball comedy starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau, who won the Oscar.


Second Hand Cities: Urban Inheritance and the Racial Origins of the American Antique Trade, 1860s-1960s

Alison Isenberg

Mar 24 2008

A discussion with Alison Isenberg.


Up Tight

Robert Spadoni

Mar 25 2008

Jules Dassin, 1968

Never released to video or DVD, this fascinating but forgotten artifact of the 1960s ‘Black Power’ era was shot on Cleveland’s East Side shortly after the Hough riots. This movie is essentially a remake of John Ford’s 1935 classic, “The Informer.”


Urbanism Unclothed: the Mermaid Sculpture Controversy, San Francisco, and the 1960s

Alison Isenberg

Mar 25 2008

A discussion with Alison Isenberg.


Stranger than Paradise

Lou Giannetti

Mar 26 2008

Jim Jarmusch, 1984

A NYC slacker shuffles off to Cleveland and Florida with his 16-year-old Hungarian cousin and his dim buddy. Jarmusch’s minimalist road movie remains one of the freshest, funniest, most acclaimed, and most influential independent films of the 1980s.


Urban Renewal in Paint: Supergraphics, Signs, and the Cityscape

Alison Isenberg

Mar 26 2008

A discussion with Alison Isenberg.


National Cityscapes Conference: Days of Race – Democracy and Black Reconstruction in the Work of Carl Pope

Nicholas Mirzoeff

Mar 27 2008

“…as those of you who are from the city know only too well, that a local white man was mugged by African American young people in Ludlow Cleveland on New Year’s Eve. It was a nasty unprovoked attack, no question. So were the responses. Dick Feagler editorialized to his fellow white people in the Cleveland Plain Dealer: ‘So move. But do it like we all have–like the whole three-county area has–don’t call it racism. Call it reality.’ There were suggestions on the Plain Dealer’s website that a fence should be built around the East side. Numerous issues intermingle here. The first is the divide in Cleveland that in a sense structures the Mind of Cleveland, a divide between East and West that creates the lived experience of ‘race’ as the real, the status quo.” Nicholas Mirzoeff, Professor of Art and Art Professions at New York University delivers the keynote address for the National Cityscapes conference, titled “Days of Race: Democracy and Black Reconstruction in the Work of Carl Pope.”

With support from:

Cleveland Institute of Art, Clear Channel, Cuyahoga County Public Library, Councilman Joe Cimperman, Progressive Arts Alliance


National Cityscapes Conference: Creating and Performing Community

Lisa Bernd, Marina Peterson, Christina Lanzl

Mar 28 2008

Join leading local, national, and international artists and scholars as they explore the intersections between the urban environment, the humanities, and social change. Conference papers will investigate the city as a physical, socio-economic and political entity, as well as a real, imagined, and remembered place. Historic and contemporary topics will range from the “managerial sublime” in nineteenth-century photographs of San Francisco to the reinvention of public space in Berlin today.

With support from:

Cleveland Institute of Art, Clear Channel, Cuyahoga County Public Library, Councilman Joe Cimperman, Progressive Arts Alliance


National Cityscapes Conference: Contested Spaces and Social Division

Nannette Esseck Brewer, Mehnaaz Momen, R. Drew Smith, John Goins

Mar 28 2008

Join leading local, national, and international artists and scholars as they explore the intersections between the urban environment, the humanities, and social change. Conference papers will investigate the city as a physical, socio-economic and political entity, as well as a real, imagined, and remembered place. Historic and contemporary topics will range from the “managerial sublime” in nineteenth-century photographs of San Francisco to the reinvention of public space in Berlin today.

With support from:

Cleveland Institute of Art, Clear Channel, Cuyahoga County Public Library, Councilman Joe Cimperman, Progressive Arts Alliance


National Cityscapes Conference: Organizing the City

Christopher Ferguson, Elizabeth Carlson, Robert Kargon, Miriam R. Levin,

Mar 28 2008

Join leading local, national, and international artists and scholars as they explore the intersections between the urban environment, the humanities, and social change. Conference papers will investigate the city as a physical, socio-economic and political entity, as well as a real, imagined, and remembered place. Historic and contemporary topics will range from the “managerial sublime” in nineteenth-century photographs of San Francisco to the reinvention of public space in Berlin today.

With support from:

Cleveland Institute of Art, Clear Channel, Cuyahoga County Public Library, Councilman Joe Cimperman, Progressive Arts Alliance


Norman Krumholz: 2008 Humanities Week Keynote

Norman Krumholz

Mar 28 2008

A discussion with Norman Krumholz.


National Cityscapes Conference: Knowing, Remembering, and Imagining the City

Germaine Halegoua, Nicole Dietrich, Joseph D. Lewandowski

Mar 29 2008

Join leading local, national, and international artists and scholars as they explore the intersections between the urban environment, the humanities, and social change. Conference papers will investigate the city as a physical, socio-economic and political entity, as well as a real, imagined, and remembered place. Historic and contemporary topics will range from the “managerial sublime” in nineteenth-century photographs of San Francisco to the reinvention of public space in Berlin today.

With support from:

Cleveland Institute of Art, Clear Channel, Cuyahoga County Public Library, Councilman Joe Cimperman, Progressive Arts Alliance


National Cityscapes Conference: Representation and Urban Spaces

John Ott, Elana Gomel, Dennis Maher

Mar 29 2008

Join leading local, national, and international artists and scholars as they explore the intersections between the urban environment, the humanities, and social change. Conference papers will investigate the city as a physical, socio-economic and political entity, as well as a real, imagined, and remembered place. Historic and contemporary topics will range from the “managerial sublime” in nineteenth-century photographs of San Francisco to the reinvention of public space in Berlin today.

With support from:

Cleveland Institute of Art, Clear Channel, Cuyahoga County Public Library, Councilman Joe Cimperman, Progressive Arts Alliance


National Cityscapes Conference: Marketing the City

Dr. Alexander Vari, Elizabeth A. Watson, Blaise Dupuis, Tan Zhang,

Mar 29 2008

Join leading local, national, and international artists and scholars as they explore the intersections between the urban environment, the humanities, and social change. Conference papers will investigate the city as a physical, socio-economic and political entity, as well as a real, imagined, and remembered place. Historic and contemporary topics will range from the “managerial sublime” in nineteenth-century photographs of San Francisco to the reinvention of public space in Berlin today.

With support from:

Cleveland Institute of Art, Clear Channel, Cuyahoga County Public Library, Councilman Joe Cimperman, Progressive Arts Alliance


Marjane Satrapi: Author of Persepolis and Academy Award Nominee for Best Animated Feature Film

Marjane Satrapi

Apr 4 2008

Best-selling author of the critically acclaimed book, Persepolis, graphic novelist Marjane Satrapi will speak of her youth in Iran in the 1970s and 1980s, and of living through the Islamic Revolution and the war with Iraq. The film adaptation of of her book is nominated for a 2007 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film, and it won the 2007 “Prix du Jury” at the Cannes Film Festival.

With support from:

Cleveland Institute of Art


Persepolis

Apr 4 2008

PERSEPOLIS France/USA, 2007, Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud

A free-spirited Persian girl’s coming-of-age in pre- and post-war Iran, and her studies abroad, are chronicled in this celebrated animated film version of the autobiographical graphic novels of co-director Marjane Satrapi. Features the voices of Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, and Danielle Darrieux.

French, English, Persian, and German with subtitles. 35mm. 95 min.

With support from:

Cleveland Institute of Art


Water and the Making of Modern London

John Brioch

Apr 17 2008

A discussion with John Brioch.