College of Arts and Sciences

Dr. Mary Weems, winner of the 2015 Cleveland Arts Prize Emerging Artist Award for Literature, presents this one-woman performance and workshop

This documentary details the unprecedented humanitarian efforts of thousands of Americans who saved a generation of orphans and refugees during

The Cleveland Medical Library Association’s 2018 Annual Lecture explores how Medical Humanities (under a variety of names) and Bioethics are

As a practical complement to Marion Nestle’s keynote address on food politics and the humanities, in this three-part workshop you

The Cleveland Humanities Festival has partnered with the Cleveland International Film Festival Screening to sponsor this informative, loveable documentary about

Brandy Schillace, PhD, Public Engagement Fellow from the Dittrick Medical History Center, will address some of the infamous diseases of

Brandy Schillace, PhD, Public Engagement Fellow from the Dittrick Medical History Center, will address some of the infamous diseases of

The Cleveland Humanities Festival has partnered with the Cleveland International Film Festival Screening to sponsor this informative, loveable documentary about

As a practical complement to Marion Nestle’s keynote address on food politics and the humanities, in this three-part workshop you

The Cleveland Humanities Festival has partnered with the Cleveland International Film Festival Screening to sponsor this informative, loveable documentary about

Meghan O’Rourke’s essays, criticism, and poems have appeared in Slate, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The New

Join Patty Edmonson, Museum Advisory Council Curator of Costume and Textiles, to explore the impact of pregnancy and breastfeeding on

In his talk, Craig Irvine, Ph.D., Director of the Master’s Program in Narrative Medicine and founder and Academic Director of

Brandy Schillace, PhD, Senior research associate at the Dittrick Museum, will give a short TED-style talk on the rapid industrialization

In this talk, Maggie Vinter, Assistant Professor in the English Department of Case Western Reserve University, discusses the “arts of

This program will be a panel discussion that begins with the issue of lead poisoning and infant mortality in Cleveland

Between 1890 and 1910, Cleveland’s population grew from 261,353 to 560,353, a 115 percent increase. While some growth came from

The Greeks laid the foundation for Western medicine, but much of what we know about their medical practices seems rather

The child may not remember, but their body does. Adverse experiences such as violence, neglect, abuse, or the loss of

Tisquantum embodies nearly all aspects of life and death in the British North American mainland colonies before 1776. As an

Life’s problems are often best approached in companionship with a story that offers guidance, and what guidance that is can

What happens after putrefaction?—our bones take their place in a great geological layering process whose strata can be analyzed and

This day-long symposium will feature presentations on the vibrant field of medical humanities, addressing a variety of unsettled questions, such

Film Classic in 35mm! Right before he wrote Network, Paddy Chayefsky penned this savagely funny black comedy about modern health

In this lecture Marion Nestle, Paulette Goddard Professor, of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, Emerita, at New York University,

In the mid-20th century, Brazilian activist, politician, and theatre artist Augusto Boal created The Theatre of the Oppressed (TO) as

In her talk, Iris Harvey, President and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio and Board Member of Planned Parenthood

They came to have their babies. They went home sterilized. So begins the incredibly moving tales of the women chronicled

This event explores how the idea of health extends to the well-being (or lack thereof) of the environment, and extends

Created in 2006, the Cleveland Clinic Art Program has been actively collecting and installing contemporary fine art throughout the growing

Join Lit Cleveland for a free staged reading!  Professional actors will perform original work by Cleveland writers and residents on

Join Lit Cleveland for a free staged reading!  Professional actors will perform original work by Cleveland writers and residents on

In her lecture, clinical nurse and bestselling author Theresa Brown proposed that to heal our health care system we must

David Giffels, the acclaimed author of The Hard Way on Purpose, will be reading from his new book, Furnishing Eternity,

As a practical complement to Marion Nestle’s keynote address on food politics and the humanities, in this three-part workshop you

Studies show that men and women who haven’t attend college live shorter and less healthy lives. With that in mind,