Cultures of Green: Nature and the Environment

Baker-Nord Theme for 2009-2010

"Cultures of Green" engages with key enduring questions: What is the relationship between humans and the natural world? How does culture reveal how people view nature? How do attitudes then shape actions such as cultivation of the soil or preservation of natural resources? Deeper understanding of how societies have conceptualized the relationship of society to nature will lead to better informed, more thoughtful responses to these pressing questions. Nature, in short, cannot be understood separately from how humans describe, envision, or imagine it. During the 2001-2010 academic year, the Baker-Nord Center will create opportunities through public programming and research to consider these pressing issues.
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Flip Camera Film Festival

Showing of the top contenders from the 2009 Flip Camera Film Contest for the prize of best film and award ceremony. Deadline for film submission is October 16, 2009.

We provide the camera, you shoot the video.

NEH Grant Awarded!

The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities at Case Western Reserve University has received a major award from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The $650,000 NEH Challenge Grant was awarded to support research and programs that advance the humanities across the Case Western Reserve campus and in the Cleveland community.
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Read more about the new campaign and the story behind it all in the Spring 2009 edition of Art/Sci Magazine!