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The theme for Humanities Week relates to the Fall Baker-Nord Seminar on Cityscapes.
A separate Humanities Week publication, including a complete schedule of speakers, seminars, films, performances, competitions, and other events, will be distributed in late winter. The week will conclude with a conference on Cityscapes, March 27-29, 2008, which will include keynote speakers, an art exhibition opening, and a range of sessions and papers.
Curated by Rob Spadoni, CWRU
All films will be shown at the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque
1141 East Boulevard in University Circle @ 7 PM
Tickets: $8 General Admission, $6 for CWRU and Art Institute Students, Faculty and Staff with ID
THE FORTUNE COOKIE, USA, 1966, Billy Wilder
Introduced by Raymond Watkins, CWRU. A Cleveland Browns Football game, filmed at the old Municipal Stadium, kicks off this screwball comedy starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau, who won the Oscar.
UP TIGHT, USA, 1968, Jules Dassin
Introduced by Robert Spadoni, CWRU. Never released to video or DVD, this fascinating but forgotten artifact of the 1960s 'Black Power' era was shot on Cleveland's East Side shortly after the Hough riots. This movie is essentially a remake of John Ford's 1935 classic, “The Informer”.
STRANGER THAN PARADISE, USA, 1984, Jim Jarmusch
Introduced by Lou Giannetti, CWRU. A NYC slacker shuffles off to Cleveland and Florida with his 16-year-old Hungarian cousin and his dim buddy. Jarmusch's minimalist road movie remains one of the freshest, funniest, most acclaimed, and most influential independent films of the 1980s.
All presentations will take place in Clark Hall 206, 11130 Bellflower Road
Beginning at 11:30 AM; free and open to the public, seating is limited.
Monday: “Second Hand Cities: Urban Inheritance and the Racial Origins of the American Antique Trade, 1860s-1960s”
Tuesday: “Urbanism Unclothed: the Mermaid Sculpture Controversy, San Francisco, and the 1960s”
Wednesday: ”'Urban Renewal in Paint':Supergraphics, Signs, and the Cityscape”
Alison Isenberg, and associate professor of History at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, is the prize-winning author of Downtown America: A History of the Place and People who made it. (University of Chicago, 2005.) She received her BA from Yale University and her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. Her research and teaching interests lie in nineteenth-and twentieth-century America, focusing on the intersections of culture, economy, and place. She is president-elect of the Society for City and Regional Planning History.
Friday, March 28, 2008
Please note corrected date
4:30 PM Amasa Stone Chapel, 10940 Euclid Avenue
Urban planner Norman Krumholz is currently a professor in the Levin College of Urban Affairs, Cleveland State University. From 1969 to 1979 he led the Cleveland city planning staff and advocated equity oriented planning. Author of numerous articles and bookd, including award-winning Making Equity Planning Work(1990). He is a fellow and past president of the American Institute of Certified Planners, past president of the American Planning Association, and has been recognized by an APA Distinguished Leadership Award and Rome Prize in Urban Planning, of the American Academy of Rome.
Cityscapes in Print,an exhibition featuring books and prints from the Special Collections of the Kelvin Smith Library anf the Cleveland Institute of Art, curated by students from ARTH490. Opening, Noon, March 28th in the Special Collections of the Kelvin Smith Library, also online.
Thursday, March 27th
5 PM
Keynote Lecture, The Cleveland Institute of Art
Saturday Presentation, March 29th
SPACE, 4:30 pm
Public artist presents his mural for Lincoln West High School, Cleveland, with thanks to Progressive Arts Alliance.
Humanities Week programming has been made possible by a major grant from the Presidential Initiative Fund through the generosity of the Cleveland Foundation and a grant from the Ohio HUmanities Council.
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