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April 15-21, 2007
The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences is pleased to present Humanities Week 2007. Through lectures, films, special exhibitions, and online digital projects, we will explore the many dimensions of our emerging “Information Society.”
Photo by Will O'Leary
Be Careful What You Wish For: What To Do when the Information Revolution Is a Way of Life, Not a Dream
From Ground Zero in New York to ground zero in Kabul, to police stations, subway platforms, and darkened theaters, National Public Radio’s Peabody Award-winning correspondent Scott Simon brings a well-traveled perspective to his role as host of Weekend Edition Saturday. Simon joined NPR in 1977 as chief of its Chicago bureau. Since then, he has reported from all 50 states, covered presidential campaigns and eight wars, and reported from Central America, Africa, India, the Middle East, and the Caribbean.
In addition to hosting Weekend Edition Saturday, Simon has frequently appeared on CBS’s Nightwatch, CNBC’s TalkBack Live, NBC’s Weekend Today, and NOW with Bill Moyers. He has hosted many public television programs and specials on privacy in America and democracy in the Middle East. He narrated the documentary film “Lincoln of Illinois” for PBS, participated in the Grammy Award-nominated 50th anniversary remake of The War of the Worlds, hosted public television’s coverage of the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, and hosted the BBC series Eyewitness. Simon’s book Home and Away: Memoir of a Fan, topped the Los Angeles Times nonfiction bestseller list for several weeks, and was cited as one of the best books of the year in the Washington Post, Boston Globe, and several other publications. His second book, Jackie Robinson and the Integration of Baseball, kicked off the prestigious Wiley Turning Points series in September of 2002. Simon’s first novel, Pretty Birds, about female teenaged snipers in Sarajevo, was released in May 2005 to very strong, positive reviews. Simon has published essays in The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, and Gourmet Magazine.
The son of actress Patricia Lyons and comedian Ernie Simon (whose many distinctions include announcing the 1958 season of the Cleveland Indians), Simon grew up in Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Montreal, and Washington, DC, and, last but not least, Cleveland.
Monday, April 16, 2007, 11:30 a.m. (Clark Hall 206)
Tuesday, April 17, 11:30 (Clark Hall 206)
Thursday, April 28, 11:30 (Clark Hall 206)
Elaine Richardson is a graduate of the Cleveland Public Schools and East Technical High School. She received her BA and MA in English from Cleveland State University, and her Ph.D. in English Composition and Applied Linguistics from Michigan State University. She taught at the University of Minnesota’s General College for two years before joining the English Department faculty at Penn State University, where she is currently an Associate Professor in English and Applied Linguistics.
Dr. Richardson has published several books. Her first, African American Literacies, focuses on teaching writing from the point of view of African American language and literacy traditions. Her most recent book, Hiphop Literacies, is a study of Hiphop language use as an extension of Black folk traditions. She is currently writing a book about her experiences growing up as a girl from the hood of Cleveland, and how she climbed out of the underworld to further her education and become who she is today. Its working title is PhD to PhD-from Po Ho on Dope to PhD: The Literacy Narrative of Dr. Elaine Richardson.
Narrative, Temporality, and Embodied Cognition
Yanna Popova is assistant professor in the Department of Cognitive Science. Before coming to Case, she taught at the Universities of Oxford and Birmingham. Her education has been in linguistics, literature, and philosophy and her main areas of research are cognitive linguistics and cognitive poetics. Cognitive poetics arises from the insights of cognitive linguistics and holds that linguistic knowledge is figurative and embodied, and it is this situated, embodied aspect of cognition that Popova finds most interesting and worth pursuing. “I strongly believe that cognitive science provides a new way of thinking about the verbal, visual, and musical arts and I’m interested in the multiple ways cognitive science can be used to throw light on questions about the origins, significance, and effect of our cultural heritage.”
Can the Book Survive the Information Revolution?
Robert H. Jackson, a senior partner at the Cleveland law firm, Kohrman Jackson & Krantz P.L.L, is a noted collector of rare books and tribal art. He has lectured about literature, rare books, libraries, and travel throughout the U.S. and Europe, including at The Library of Congress, many research universities, and The Grolier, Caxton, and Rowfant Clubs. Later this year he is featured speaker at a conference on libraries and collectors at Chawton House (Jane Austen's home) in Hampshire, England.
He has published numerous articles on literature, the future of “the Book,” and book collecting. He is editor of Book Talk: Essays on Books and Collecting, Booksellers, and Special Collections (2006). He is currently finishing a book on Victorian serials. His rare book collecting interests range widely and include Victorian literature and English and American nineteenth- and twentieth-century authors and illustrators, including William S. Burroughs and Rockwell Kent.
The History of the Book- Always in Transition
The exhibition will feature books from the Special Collections of the Kelvin Smith Library, the Allen Memorial Medical Library, and the Cleveland Institute of Art. The exhibition is curated by students from Baker-Nord associate director Anne Helmreich's ARTH 490 Visual Arts and Museums seminar, with special thanks to Susie Hanson and Timothy Robson of Kelvin Smith Library; Jim Edmonson of the Dittrick Medical History Center and Museum; Martha Woodmansee, professor of English; and Cristine Rom of the Cleveland Institute of Art. The exhibition will include a book display in the Kelvin Smith Library as well as a digital online version. Information: library.case.edu.
Informing Films
Co-sponsored by the Baker-Nord Center, Cinematheque presents a series of films on the theme of information. General admission is $8, but $5 for students, faculty, and staff of Case and the CIA students and for Cinematheque members. All films in this special series shown at the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque, 11141 East Boulevard, Cleveland (216) 421-7450, www.cia.edu/cinematheque. Curated by Christopher Flint, associate professor of English.
How to Survive in the 1940s: Post-War Public Information Films (BFI National Archive)
Introduction by Kenneth Ledford, associate professor of history and law.
Sunday, April 15, 4:00 pm
All the President’s Men(1976)
Introduction by Ted Gup, Shirley Wormser Professor of Journalism.
Monday, April 16, 7:00 pm
Pi: Faith in Chaos(1998)
Introduction by Steven H. Izen, professor of Mathematics.
Thursday, April 19, 7:00 pm
The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities gratefully acknowledges the enthusiastic cooperation of the Kelvin Smith Library and the graduate students in associate director Anne Helmreich’s Visual Arts and Museums course. Planning for Humanities Week was done in close collaboration with members of the Fall 2006 Baker-Nord Seminar on “Information”, supported by a Presidential Initiative Fund Grant and made possible by the generosity of The Cleveland Foundation. The seminar members are:
Michel Avital
Brian Ballentine
Kristen Baumlier
Timothy Beal
Christopher Flint
Anne Helmreich
Laura Hengehold
Eva Kahana
Elisabeth Koll
Ramond Ku
Alexander Lamis
Miriam Levin
William Marling
W.J.T. Mitchell
S. Brent Rodriquez-Plate
Timothhy Robson
Avital Ronnel
Gary Lee Stonum
Christian Wolffen
Martha Woodmansee
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