| In the fall of 2007,
the Baker-Nord Center will host the fourth of four annual integrated
seminar programs involving Senior Faculty Fellowships, Visiting
Scholar Fellowships, and Seminar Scholarships. These seminars
are made possible by a grant from the Presidential Initiative
Fund and through the generosity of The Cleveland Foundation.
Theme
for Fall 2007: "Cityscapes"
The
theme of the Baker-Nord Seminar for fall of 2007 will be "Cityscapes." With this theme we intend to examine the city and its broader environs both historically and today as well as locally and globally. The theme allows for consideration of the city as a physical, political, and social entity – as a real and imaginary place that has provoked some of the most important work in the humanities and continues to do so today. The seminar aims to explore the city as a crucible of creative change, investigating its roles in human cultures in the past and envisioning possible futures. The latter is especially significant for our historic moment when many cities, particularly older cities like Cleveland, face profound shifts in population, infrastructure, politics, and self-identity, among other issues.
The Baker-Nord Center invites applicants for Senior Faculty
Fellowships and Seminar Scholarships to consider how their own
scholarly work in progress would tie into and expand on this
theme in ways that open up new avenues for research and creative
work in the humanities.
The
shape and goals of the seminar will be determined by the seminar
participants themselves. Our hope is that the seminar will take
on a life of its own, invigorating the intellectual lives of
its participants by providing an interdisciplinary and genuinely
collegial context in which to discover new avenues of critical
inquiry.
In
addition to full participation in the seminar itself, fellows
and scholars will commit to working with the Baker-Nord Center
on its plans for Humanities Week in the spring. The theme for
Humanities Week will be related to the seminar theme.
The "Cityscapes" theme will provide seminar participants with the opportunity to think critically about urban environments past and present, and to envision transforming our own city of Cleveland into a crucible of learning.
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Senior
Faculty Fellowships (application
deadline February 23, 2007)
- Seminar
Scholarships (application
deadline February 23, 2007)
Visiting
Fellowships
Nominations accepted on a rolling basis.
One
or two Visiting Fellows from other institutions will be invited
to participate in the fall Baker-Nord Seminar on "Cityscapes." Visiting Fellows will be selected based on their appropriateness
to the theme of the seminar. The Baker-Nord Center welcomes
nominations from faculty members.
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