Baker-Nord Center Related Events

Related Events

Friday, February 9

4:30 p.m. (refreshments beginning at 4:00 p.m.) Clark Hall, Room 206: "Blind Men and Elephants: Representing the Global after the Age of Empire"
Kurt Koenigsberger: Department of English, CWRU

Sponsored by the Society for Critical Exchange as part of the "Cultural Aspects of Globalization" series. Co-sponsored by the Department of English

Monday, February 12

4:30 p.m. Clark Hall, Room 206: "Halakhah and Aggadah - Law and Myth in Jewish History "
Rachel Elior, Rosenthal Visiting Fellow: Professor and Head, Department of Jewish Studies
The Hebrew University, Jerusalem

Sponsored by the Rosenthal Center for Judaic Studies. Information: 216-368-2414.

Thursday, February 15

4:00 p.m. Strosacker Auditorium: "Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong"
James Loewen, Professor Emeritus, University of Vermont

Sponsored by the College Scholars Program. Information: 216-368-0528.

Thursday, February 15

4:30 p.m. (refreshments beginning at 4:00 p.m.) Clark Hall, Room 206: "DisneyWorlding, or, It's a Small, Small (Corporate) World: Global Interests and Protocols of Relationality in Disney's Animated Features"
Lawrence Needham: Oberlin College & Lakeland Community College

Sponsored by the Society for Critical Exchange as part of the "Cultural Aspects of Globalization" series. Co-sponsored by the Department of English

Monday, February 26

4:30 p.m. Thwing Center, 1914 Lounge: Luxenberg Lecture on the Role of Government in a Free Society
"Moving the Fences: The Changing Boundaries Between Public and Private Authority"

Andrew Stark, Faculty of Management, University of Toronto

Sponsored by the Center for Policy Studies. Information: 216-368-2414.

Thursday, March 1

4:30 p.m. (refreshments beginning at 4:00 p.m.) Clark Hall, Room 206: "The Global Child"
Gillian Brown: University of Utah

*Note: A follow-up seminar will be held Friday, March 2, from 10 a.m. to noon in Clark Hall, Room 206

Sponsored by the Society for Critical Exchange as part of the "Cultural Aspects of Globalization" series. Co-sponsored by the Schubert Center for Child Development and the Department of English

Tuesday, March 27

1:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Clark Hall

"Museums in a Developing World"
A symposium on the relationship between museums and development in the context of international, national, and regional economic, cultural and political change. Sponsored by the Department of History. For registration information, phone 216-368-2624.

Visit the symposium web site at: www.cwru.edu/artsci/hsty/hsty305

Friday, April 6

5:30 p.m. Cleveland Museum of Art: Buchanan Lecture in Art History

"The 'Secret Museum' from Pompeii to Brooklyn: Pornography, Patriarchy, and the Obscene"

John Clarke, Annie Laurie Howard Regents Professor of Art History, University of Texas at Austin

Sponsored by the Department of Art History and Art. Information: 216-368-4118.

Monday, April 16

4:30 p.m. (reception following) Moot Court A59, School of Law, Gund Hall: "Intellectual Property in 'Traditional' Culture and Bioknowledge"
Graham Dutfield: Oxford University

*Note: A follow-up seminar will be held Tuesday, April 17, from 9:00-11:00 a.m., Gund Hall Faculty Lounge

Sponsored by the Society for Critical Exchange as part of the "Cultural Aspects of Globalization" series. Co-sponsored by the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center, Program on Society and Health, and the Department of English