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BAKER-NORD CENTER
FOR THE HUMANITIES

 

Work-in-Progress Colloquium Series Archive

2001  2002  2003  2004  2005  2006

September 26, 2001
4:30 p.m.
Baker-Nord Center, Clark Hall Room 206
Kasumi Minkin - Cleveland Institute of Art
"Data Dada: An Experiment in Digital/Analog Film"

October 11, 2001
4:30 p.m.
Baker-Nord Center, Clark Hall Room 206
John Ciofalo - Art History
"On the Twenty-Fourth Hour of My Day: An Anthology of Last Works"

November 7, 2001
4:30 p.m.
Cleveland Museum of Art Lecture Hall
Linda Ehrlich - Modern Languages and Literatures
"Beyond Swords and Samurai: Another Look at the Films of Kurosawa"

December 6, 2001
4:30 p.m.
Baker-Nord Center, Clark Hall Room 206
Laura Hengehold - Philosophy
"Equality: A Problematic Object of the Imagination"

January 24, 2002
4:30 p.m.
Baker-Nord Center, Clark 206
Thomas Csordas - Armington Professor of Anthropology and Religion
"Healing and the Human Condition: Scenes from the Present Moment in Navajoland"

February 21, 2002
4:30 p.m.
Baker-Nord Center, Clark 206
Alice Bach - Archbishop Hallinan Associate Professor of Religion
"Private Spaces, Public Places: Women's Altars as a Sign of Lived Religion"

March 21, 2002
4:30 p.m.
Baker-Nord Center, Clark 206
Jonathan Sadowsky - Associate Professor, History
"The BodyElectric: Stories of Shock Therapy"

April 25, 2002
4:30 p.m.
Baker-Nord Center, Clark 206
Christine Cano - Assistant Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Modern Languages and Literatures
"The Beginning of Tourism in the U.S.: Lafayette Goes to Marietta"

September 26, 2002
4:30 p.m.
Baker-Nord Center, Clark Hall 206
Rhonda Williams - Department of History
Dopefiends and Drug Dealers: Narcotics in Postwar Urban America

October 31, 2002
4:30 p.m.
Baker-Nord Center, Clark Hall 206
Takao Hagiwara (Department of Modern Languages and Literatures)
"Anime East and West: Hayao Miyazaki's Princess Mononoke"

November 14, 2002
4:30 p.m.
Baker-Nord Center, Clark Hall 206
Ron Wilson (Department of Theater Arts)
Developing a New Play ... Aristotle's Cup

December 5, 2002
4:30 p.m.
Baker-Nord Center, Clark Hall 206
Kathleen Horvath (Department of Music)
Muscle-ship: The Overlooked Foundational Element of Musical Performance Technique

January 23, 2003
4:30 p.m.
Baker-Nord Center, Clark Hall 206
Costa Petridis (Department of Art History and Art)
Uniting Text and Context: On Exhibiting African Art

February 13, 2003
4:30 p.m.
Baker-Nord Center, Clark Hall 206
Ken Ledford (Department of History & School of Law)
Prussian Judges and the Rule of Law in Germany, 1848-1914

March 6, 2003
4:30 p.m.
Baker-Nord Center, Clark Hall 206
Ted Steinberg (Department of History)
Lawn-O-Rama: The Tragicomedy of the All-American Landscape

April 3, 2003
4:30 p.m.
Baker-Nord Center, Clark Hall 206
Patricia Princehouse (Department of Philosophy)
Of Dogs, Darwin, and Disney

September 18, 2003
4:30 p.m.
Baker-Nord Center, Clark Hall Room 206
Barbara Hugenberg (Communication Sciences)
Communicatively Constructed Stakeholder Identities: A Critical Ethnography of Cleveland Browns Fan Culture

October 2, 2003
4:30 p.m.
Baker-Nord Center, Clark Hall Room 206
Mary Grimm (English)
Researching a Novel: Communicating with the Dead

November 6, 2003
4:30 p.m.
Baker-Nord Center, Clark Hall Room 206
Brian Gran (Sociology)
Trying to Get Comfortable: A Visual Analysis of Public and Private Places

December 4, 2003
4:30 p.m.
Baker-Nord Center, Clark Hall Room 206
Margaretmary Daley - (German)
Johann-Jakob Rousseau: German Women Writers and Their French Connection

January 22, 2004
4:30 p.m.; refreshments available at 4:00
Baker-Nord Center, Clark Hall Room 206
Florin Berindeanu - Visiting Professor of Comparative Literature
"The Invention of a Language: Mysticism as Poetry"

February 12, 2004
4:30 p.m.; refreshments available at 4:00
Baker-Nord Center, Clark Hall Room 206
Renée Sentilles - Assistant Professor of History and Director, American Studies Program
"The American Tomboy"

March 4, 2004
4:30 p.m.; refreshments available at 4:00
Baker-Nord Center, Clark Hall Room 206
Kimberly K. Emmons - Assistant Professor of English
"Not Myself: Women's Depression and Discourses of Symptoms, Chemistry, and Identity"

April 8, 2004
4:30 p.m.; refreshments available at 4:00
Baker-Nord Center, Clark Hall Room 206
Peter Haas - Abba Hillel Silver Professor of Judaic Studies and Chair, Department of Religion
"Moral Visions in Conflict: Israel and Palestinian Ethics"

September 9, 2004
Talk at 4:30 p.m.
Baker-Nord Center, Clark Hall Room 206
William Marling (English)
"How American is Globalization?"

October 7, 2004
Talk at 4:30 p.m.
Baker-Nord Center, Clark Hall Room 206
Caroline Whitbeck (Philosophy, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering)
"Truth, Trust and Change"

November 11, 2004
Talk at 4:30 p.m.
Baker-Nord Center, Clark Hall Room 206
Martin Helzle (Classics)
"History or Rhetoric? The Case of Ovid's Exile Poetry"

December 2, 2004
Talk at 4:30 p.m.
Baker-Nord Center, Clark Hall Room 206
Anne Helmreich (Art History)
"Nature in Art, Art in Nature, Great Britain, c. 1870-1920"

Thursday, January 20, 2005
Talk at 4:30 p.m.
Baker-Nord Center, Clark Hall Room 206
Lisa Gayle Hazirjian, Visiting Assistant Professor of History
"Notes on the Concept of Economic Hegemony:  Material Insecurity and Working-Class Political Expression in the New South"

Thursday, February 24, 2005
Talk at 4:30 p.m.
Baker-Nord Center, Clark Hall Room 206
Robert Spadoni, Assistant Professor of Film, Department of English
"Uncanny Bodies:  The Coming of Sound Film and the Origins of the Horror Genre."

Thursday, March 24, 2005
Talk at 4:30 p.m.
Baker-Nord Center, Clark Hall Room 206
Antonio Candau, Associate Professor, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
"From Cover to Cover:  Words and Music on Barcelona's Streets"

Thursday, April 21, 2005
Talk at 4:30 p.m.
Baker-Nord Center, Clark Hall Room 206
Jenifer Neils, Ruth Coulter Heede Professor of Art History and Classics
"War and Remembrance in Classical Athens"

September 22, 2005
Refreshments at 4:00 p.m. • Talk at 4:30 p.m.
Baker-Nord Center, Clark Hall 206
11130 Bellflower Road, Cleveland
Kelly McMann
Assistant Professor of Political Science

“The Demise of the Welfare State in Post-Soviet Central Asia:  Rewriting the Contract Between Citizens and Government”

 

October 13, 2005
Refreshments at 4:00 p.m. • Talk at 4:30 p.m.
Baker-Nord Center, Clark Hall 206
11130 Bellflower Road, Cleveland
Dana Gooley
Assistant Professor of Music History

“Between Jazz and the ‘Great American Songbook’”

 

November 10, 2005
Refreshments at 4:00 p.m.  • Talk at 4:30 p.m.
Baker-Nord Center, Clark Hall 206
11130 Bellflower Road, Cleveland, Ohio
Thrity Umrigar
Assistant Professor of English

“Conversations about Writing”

 

December 8, 2005
Refreshments at 4:00 p.m.  • Talk at 4:30 p.m.
Baker-Nord Center, Clark Hall 206
11130 Bellflower Road, Cleveland, Ohio
Sara Waller
Associate Professor of Philosophy

“Exquisite Images: Eyeing Beauty as Beheld by the Human Brain”

January 26, 2006
Refreshments at 4:00 p.m. • Talk at 4:30 p.m.
Baker-Nord Center, Clark Hall 206
11130 Bellflower Road, Cleveland
Marixa Lasso
Assistant Professor of History

The Harmony of War: Race and Republicanism in the Age of Revolution--Cartagena, Colombia, 1795-1831

February 23, 2006, 2006
Refreshments at 4:00 p.m. • Talk at 4:30 p.m.
Baker-Nord Center, Clark Hall 206
11130 Bellflower Road, Cleveland
Deepak Sarma
Assistant Professor of South Asian Religions

The Final Sacrifice: A Dead "Hindu", A Missing Body, and a $7 Million Dollar Life-Insurance Policy

March 9 , 2006
Refreshments at 4:00 p.m. • Talk at 4:30 p.m.
Baker-Nord Center, Clark Hall 206
11130 Bellflower Road, Cleveland
Rachel Sternberg
Assistant Professor of Classics

Enlightened Athens in the Age of Jefferson

April 6 , 2006, 2006
Refreshments at 4:00 p.m. • Talk at 4:30 p.m.
Baker-Nord Center, Clark Hall 206
11130 Bellflower Road, Cleveland
Daniel Goldmark
Assistant Professor of Music

The Triplets of Belleville and the Sounds of Nostalgia