The 9th and 10th grade students will investigate issues related to immigration and present their findings to panels of experts. This year’s symposium aligns with 2017 Cleveland Humanities Festival: Immigration. …Read more.

Paul Muldoon was born in 1951 in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, and educated in Armagh and at the Queen’s University of Belfast. From 1973 to 1986, he worked in Belfast as a radio and television producer for the British Broadcasting Corporation. …Read more.

Eldred Theater presents Aliens with Extraordinary Skills by Savanna Stanescu. The play is directed by Erik Andrews.
A clown from the “unhappiest country in the world” has emigrated to America to find a place that will appreciate her skills. …Read more.

Eldred Theater presents Aliens with Extraordinary Skills by Savanna Stanescu. The play is directed by Erik Andrews.
A clown from the “unhappiest country in the world” has emigrated to America to find a place that will appreciate her skills. …Read more.

Eldred Theater presents Aliens with Extraordinary Skills by Savanna Stanescu. The play is directed by Erik Andrews.
A clown from the “unhappiest country in the world” has emigrated to America to find a place that will appreciate her skills. …Read more.

Eldred Theater presents Aliens with Extraordinary Skills by Savanna Stanescu. The play is directed by Erik Andrews.
A clown from the “unhappiest country in the world” has emigrated to America to find a place that will appreciate her skills. …Read more.

Eldred Theater presents Aliens with Extraordinary Skills by Savanna Stanescu. The play is directed by Erik Andrews.
A clown from the “unhappiest country in the world” has emigrated to America to find a place that will appreciate her skills. …Read more.

Eldred Theater presents Aliens with Extraordinary Skills by Savanna Stanescu.  The play is directed by Erik Andrews.
A clown from the “unhappiest country in the world” has emigrated to America to find a place that will appreciate her skills. …Read more.

This event will feature the first public poetry reading from children and adult participants of the Wick Poetry Center’s Traveling Stanzas: Writing Across Borders project and a ribbon cutting for two outdoor, interactive poetry kiosks. …Read more.

The pre-eminent classical tabla virtuoso of the time, Zakir Hussain is appreciated both in the field of percussion and in the music world as an international phenomenon. A national treasure in his native India, Hussain is one of the world’s most esteemed and influential musicians, renowned for his genre-defying collaborations. …Read more.

Artist Nidhi Chanani is currently working on her debut graphic novel, Pashmina, to be published by First Second Books in 2017, about Priyanka Das, an Indian-American teenage girl. Born in Calcutta and raised in suburban southern California, Chanani’s own experiences inspired Priyanka’s story. …Read more.

Global Cleveland a nonprofit focused on population growth and regional economic development will share five things about newcomers in northeastern Ohio that are engines to our community’s revitalization and greatness
Registration required. …Read more.

Between 1965 and 2000, the number of American mosques increased from six to 1209. The creation of these institutions reflects not only the manifold population spike of the presence of Muslims, but also of the importance of religious practice in the process of assimilation. …Read more.

SEATING CAPACITY FOR THE VENUE HAS BEEN FILLED. REGISTRATION FOR THIS EVENT IS NOW CLOSED.
Immigration reform has long been a priority for President Vicente Fox, who, during his time in office, worked with then-President George W. …Read more.

This trip offers the opportunity to visit many of the fantastic ethnic shops and markets in Cleveland.  Featured will be visits to the West Side Market, and Asian, German and Italian stores, plus a few more too. …Read more.

Pamela Dorazio Dean, Curator of Italian American History at the Cleveland History Center, and Michael N. and Monica Johns with the Johns Carabelli Co., Ltd. will spotlight Northeast Ohio Italian Americans who helped build Lake View Cemetery. …Read more.

 
The world is in the midst of the worst refugee crisis since World War II. Several organizations in Northeast Ohio are actively engaged in resettling individuals and families who have fled from their homelands. …Read more.

This presentation examines the way in which Americans and others have “chosen” to see two of the most potent symbols of their multicultural past. Today the Statue of Liberty is a totem to immigration and freedom and Ellis Island is the foremost museum of the American immigrant experience. …Read more.

On April 1, 1717, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu wrote her famous “Letter to a Friend” from the Turkish Embassy, describing the process of smallpox inoculation. With that letter, she became one of the earliest vaccination advocates, joined over the next three hundred years by celebrities and scientists, pop culture icons and heads of state, patients and game developers. …Read more.

A panel of scholars will discuss a history of refugees in America to help us understand and frame current debates and issues. Discussion will follow the presentation of a documentary film, Fresh Start, about a Somali-Bantu refugees living in New Hampshire. …Read more.

Oliver P. Rafferty is a Jesuit priest and native of Belfast, N. Ireland. He graduated with a master’s degree and doctorate from Oxford University, where he was also senior tutor at Campion Hall. …Read more.

In America, nearly one student in four is a child of immigration. How America fares in welcoming immigrants will determine our identity for the years to come. This film follows five immigrant teenagers over the course of one year at the International High School at Lafayette, a public high school in Brooklyn, NY dedicated to newly arrived immigrants from all over the world. …Read more.

Norwegian composer, and accordionist Frode Haltli teams up with Swedish nyckelharpa virtuoso Emilia Amper for an evening of Scandinavian folk-inspired music. Haltli’s concert-length work The Border Woods is scored for accordion, two percussion and the nyckelharpa, or “keyed fiddle.” Haltli works across folk, improvisation and contemporary classical genres, and creates a modern identity for his instrument. …Read more.

What does it mean to be home? How do stories of our experiences – separately and collectively – shape what we come to think of as our community? Join us for a panel presentation and discussion with immigrants to the Cleveland community.   …Read more.

The current debate about immigration often neglects or misinterprets past “policies” that have related to immigration and citizenship in the United States. In his talk John Grabowski, CWRU’s Krieger-Mueller Joint Professor in History and Historian and Senior Vice President for Research and Publications at the Western Reserve Historical Society, provides a broad historical perspective on not only the creation (or, indeed, the absence) of policy relating to immigration to the United States but on the manner in which citizens and policymakers chose to see immigrants and immigration in relation to economic, social, and political issues over time. …Read more.

Following the 2014 surge of Central American and Mexican children across the U.S.-Mexican border and the 2016 election of a president committed to ending illegal immigration, Susan Terri, Professor of Anthropology and French Studies at Georgetown University, charts the ongoing legal, political and social challenges they face after apprehension by immigration authorities and release into U.S. …Read more.

Through the showing of several, short documentary-style films, this presentation opens a community conversation about Cleveland’s changing diversity in culture and population, thanks to the arrival of refugees to our community. …Read more.

Unfold the story of a migrant or refugee family’s journey to Northeast Ohio from overseas or from another US region. Investigate a family through primary documents to discover when and from where they came, why they left, and what their hopes are for a future in Cleveland. …Read more.

The infamous 1492 Edict of Expulsion of the Jews forced close to 500,000 people into exile. Many had to leave their home-country where they lived for centuries, but still many, with nowhere to go, were pressured into conversion and into what became their “internal immigration.”
Travel with Irene Shaland to the islands of Sicily and Sardinia that present a fascinating chapter in both, the history of immigration and the history of Jewish Diaspora. …Read more.

In the 1920’s, Cleveland prospered, in part, because of its significant foreign-born population who provided the labor and entrepreneurial skills needed for the city’s changing economy. Today, Ohio’s foreign-born immigrants number 480, 868 – just 4 percent of the population. …Read more.

Pulitzer-Prize winning playwright Ayad Akhtar discusses the Muslim experience in America with Justine Howe, Assistant Professor in the CWRU Department of Religious Studies and Robert Barry Fleming, Associate Artistic Director at the Cleveland Play House. …Read more.

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PELLE THE CONQUEROR
PELLE EROBREREN
Denmark/Sweden, 1987, Bille August
Max von Sydow stars in this epic film that won the 1989 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film as well as the top prize at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival. …Read more.

Anand Giridharadas will be addressing some of society’s challenging issues and pressing concerns – A Tale of Two Americas TED Talk. A short Q&A will follow.
This event is sponsored by the Cleveland Public Library and is free and open to the public. …Read more.

REGISTRATION FOR THIS EVENT IS CLOSED. Please email: bakernord@case.edu to be placed on the waiting list.
In her talk, author and anthropologist Barbara Rylko-Bauer will use her mother’s story to talk about broader issues of immigration, examining the echoes from the past that are appearing today.  …Read more.

Peter Balakian, Pulitzer-prize winning Armenian American poet and writer and the Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor of Humanities at Colgate University, will discuss the impact of the post genocide Armenian diaspora in his poetry and his memoir Black Dog of Fate.  …Read more.

Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s presents the F. Joseph Callahan Distinguished Lecture, which is also the keynote address for the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities’ contributions to the Cleveland Humanities Festival. …Read more.

In this lunchtime talk, explore selected works by photographers Leonard Freed, Céline van Balen, and others who have depicted immigrants and immigration with Barbara Tannenbaum, curator of photography at the Cleveland Museum of Art. …Read more.

An Irish-Appalachian Journey, Highlights from Sugarloaf Mountain
Amanda Powell & Ross Hauck, vocals
Tina Bergmann, hammered dulcimer | Susanna Gilmore, fiddle | Jeannette Sorrell, harpsichord
Kathie Stewart, wooden flutes | Brian Kay, lute, guitar, banjo & long-neck dulcimer | René Schiffer, cello
Tickets are available through Apollo’s Fire, 216.320.0012. …Read more.

This event will be staged reading featuring original work by Cleveland writers on the theme of immigration.
This event is co-sponsored by Literary Cleveland, Cleveland State University’s College of Liberal Arts and Social Science, and the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, CWRU. …Read more.

This event will be staged reading featuring original work by Cleveland writers on the theme of immigration.
This event is co-sponsored by Literary Cleveland, Cleveland State University’s College of Liberal Arts and Social Science, and the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, CWRU. …Read more.

Sinéad Morrissey was born in Portadown in 1972. She grew up in Belfast, and became the youngest ever winner of The Patrick Kavanagh Award in 1990. At the time of this interview in September 2002, she had published two collections with Carcanet Press, There Was Fire in Vancouver (1996) and Between Here and There (2002). …Read more.

April 30, 1975 marks the date of the official end of Vietnam War. Yet, its legacy continues to shape the future of both Vietnam and the United States. What have we learned? …Read more.

 Frank Delaney, the award-winning broadcaster and NYT best-selling author (“Ireland”, “Shannon” etc.) will provide a special lecture: Easter 1916 – the Poets’ Rebellion.
Frank has interviewed survivors, tracked the story all his life, and observed how history has changed it. …Read more.

This Korean War drama from an acclaimed director best known for his psychological Westerns and films noir tells of an American platoon commander (Robert Ryan) whose weary soldiers are cut off behind enemy lines. …Read more.

Brad Prager (University of Missouri, Columbia): “Pinpointing the Evil in Nazi Family Photographs.”
Michael Richardson (Ithaca College): “The Führer’s Face: Images of Hitler in Popular Visual Culture.”
The Holocaust and its perpetrators have left a legacy of evil which has permeated our lives and culture like no other. …Read more.

Philip Metres is the author of Pictures at an Exhibition (2016), Sand Opera (2015), I Burned at the Feast: Selected Poems of Arseny Tarkovsky (2015), A Concordance of Leaves (2013), To See the Earth (2008) and others. …Read more.

Author Viet Thanh Nguyen, whose award-winning novel The Sympathizer examines the legacy of the Vietnam War in literature, film, and the wars we fight today. The book has already garnered considerable critical acclaim as winner of the 2015 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. …Read more.

Warrior Chorus is a major new national humanities program by New York’s Aquila Theatre Company, training 100 veterans in four regional centers to present scholar-led public programming based on classical literature.   …Read more.

The name Wade is familiar to many in northeast Ohio who enjoy Wade Park, the area surrounding Wade Lagoon, or those who attend Wade Oval Wednesdays.  University Circle is a nationally and internationally respected cultural center thanks, in part, to the generosity and influence of the Wade family.  …Read more.

While not Berkeley or Columbia, Case Western Reserve University became a visible part of American campus unrest in May 1970 when students blocked traffic on Euclid Avenue in the wake of the shootings at nearby Kent State University.  …Read more.

Join Stephen Fliegel, Curator of Medieval Art, for an exploration of the techniques and styles used in the decoration of armor and weapons.
The tour will meet in the museum’s Ames Family Atrium at the information desk, before proceeding to the galleries. …Read more.

Heather R. Perry, Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, will share her research on World War 1’s impact on the homefront in Germany. …Read more.

This event is the premiere of the student video production Portraits of Patriotism, which features veterans of WW II.  At the conclusion of the film there will be a book signing, featuring both authors, Brian Albrecht and James Banks, and their book, Cleveland in World War II. …Read more.

Mark Cole, Curator of American Painting and Sculpture, discusses the influence of World War II and the Cold War on artists working in the mid-twentieth century.
The tour will meet in the museum’s Ames Family Atrium at the information desk, before proceeding to the galleries. …Read more.

Reflecting on narrative and visual art produced by women artists during the Holocaust, this discussion-based seminar will explore memory, image, and the sustaining power of hope. The conversation will include work by by Judith Weinshall Liberman, an artist with extensive holdings in the Maltz collections, and will be led by Alexis Baker, a rhetoric scholar from Kent State University. …Read more.

Jahja Ling, conductor
Distinguished Principal Guest Artist
Shih-Hsien (Victor) Yeh, piano, CIM student artist
Michael Harper, trumpet, CIM student artist
PROKOFIEV Lieutenant Kijé Suite, Op. 60
PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No. …Read more.

History professor Gillian Weiss, PhD student Elise Hagesfeld, and undergraduate researchers discuss their Freedman Center Fellowship project on the role of Jewish students, faculty and administrators in campus activism. …Read more.

While James A. Garfield is best known for his tragic assassination and short-lived presidency, his role as a Civil War general and veteran have been largely forgotten. Garfield’s Civil War service was a defining part of his life, as it was for so many veterans. …Read more.

In times of war, why do armies destroy cultural artifacts? And what does it mean when we, far away onlookers, mourn that destruction even as lives are being lost? …Read more.

Between 1868 and 1908, six (including four Ohioans) of the seven men who served as President had military experience.   Certainly, this might be expected given the preceding cataclysm of the Civil War. …Read more.

World War I provided the cover for the ultranationalist “Young Turk” dictatorship of the Ottoman Empire to take brutal measures to eliminate the native Armenian population. Not only did more than half of the Armenian inhabitants, 1.5 million perish, but the Armenian people was dispossessed of its homeland of several thousand years. …Read more.

Screening of the award-winning documentary film May 4th Voices: Kent State, 1970. The film is based on the play May 4th Voices, which comes from the Kent State Shootings Oral History Project, a project that collects and provides access to personal accounts of the May 4, 1970, shootings at Kent State and their aftermath. …Read more.

Join us on a tour of the many war memorials erected in Cleveland and vicinity beginning with the Civil War and continuing up to the Iraq War. Some of the major memorials we will visit include the Soldiers and Sailors monument in Public Square and the Freedom Fountain on Veterans Memorial Plaza; lesser known are smaller monuments such as the humble grave of Major Mortimer Leggett who commanded regiments at Shiloh, Vicksburg and Sherman’s March to the Sea, and the Smoky War Dog Memorial in the Metroparks, which commemorates the “tiniest hero of WW II”. …Read more.

From the 1770s to the new millennium, generations of Lake View Cemetery’s residents have risen to defend their nation in time of war. On this tour, you’ll learn about some of the famous and unsung Clevelanders who served in the American Revolution, War of 1812, Mexican War, Civil War, Spanish-American War, First World War, Second World War, Vietnam Conflict, and the Global War on Terror. …Read more.

What is it about the experience of war that can ruin the lives of the men and women whom we send off to fight? The standard definition of post-traumatic stress disorder is too narrow to account for the psychological wounds inflicted in combat. …Read more.

The project is based on the book by Greg Dawson Hiding in the Spotlight: A Musical Prodigy’s Story of Survival, 1941-1946 (Pegasus, 2009) and is the story of a Russian/Ukrainian Jewish girl named Zhanna Arshanskaya who performed for Nazis during WWII in order to avoid execution. …Read more.