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SPONSORED: Do you own a Les Paul? If you do, or if you're at all interested in contemporary music then don't miss the Nov. 10-15th American Music Masters© series , The Wizard of Waukesha: The Life and Legacy of Les Paul, a program honoring the 93-year old legendary performer, musical innovator, and inventor of the solid body electric guitar. A co-production of the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities at CWRU and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, festivities will include performances, panel discussions, films, and a daylong program entitled, Rock and Roll Retrospective: The Les Paul Phenomenon, featuring scholars, guitarists, friends, and fans of this extraordinary musical innovator, which takes place on Sat 11/15 from 9AM to 5PM at CWRU’s Wolstein Auditorium, 2103 Cornell Road ($30, includes lunch), an all-star tribute concert will follow at Playhhouse Square that evening. Conference info: BakerNord.org, 216.368.8961. Concert Tickets: Playhouse Square box office 216.241.6000.

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Adam Gopnik
Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities
Case Western Reserve University

Adam Gopnik is obsessed with museums. So we took him to the loudest museum in the world, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame + Museum, where Cool Cleveland's Thomas Mulready peppered him with a barrrage of questions about The Museum, which is the subject of the Baker-Nord Center's 2008 Humanities Week.

What is right and wrong with Museums today? What does he think of some interesting Museums throughout the world? What does the Internet mean for Museums? If he had an unlimited budget, what Museum would he build? His answers may surprise and fascinate you. Humanities Week 2008

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SPONSORED: Can a painting be musical? The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities at Case Western Reserve University presents the heralded philosopher Lydia Goehr in a lecture on Musical Instruments and the Instrumentality of Painting, on Thu 10/16 at 6PM in Severance Hall's Reinberger Auditorium. If you ever wondered about the relationship between music, politics, philosophy, and history, this lecture is for you. Meet Professor Goehr at the post-lecture reception in Severance Hall's Smith Lobby. Lecture and reception are no charge and open to the public. BakerNord.org, or call 216.368.8961.

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SPONSORED: What do world-premiere Pocket Films, lectures, and a film series focusing on museums have in common? The October 2 – 9 Humanities Week program at the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, Case Western Reserve University, is packed with public lectures, unique film screenings and discussions, including world premiere Pocket Films, and a keynote presentation by acclaimed journalist and New Yorker commentator Adam Gopnik on Thu 10/2. The program kicks off Baker-Nord’s year-long series exploring the past, present, and future of "museums." Open to the public. Most events no charge unless otherwise noted. http://www.BakerNord.org or call 216.368.8961.

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SPONSORED: What is a museum for? Cultural commentator and New Yorker essayist Adam Gopnik will provide a unique perspective into the past, present, and future of museums. Author of the award-winning Paris to the Moon and Through the Children’s Gate, Gopnik will kick off CWRU's Humanities Week with a lecture sponsored by the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities at 6PM Thu 10/2 at Amasa Stone Chapel, 10940 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland- no charge and open to the public. http://www.BakerNord.org or 216.368-8961.

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SPONSORED: Cool flicks are featured in the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities October 2 – 9 Humanities Week celebration, including Boris Karloff’s The Mummy (10/5), Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (10/6), and special double-feature— Louvre City and La Jetee (10/7)—all films at 7PM at the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque and introduced by CWRU film experts Robert Spadoni, Daniel Goldmark, and Raymond Watkins. Catch the Pocket Film Festival at the House of Blues at 5PM on Fri 10/3 where the party promises to be an exciting showcase of innovative new art created entirely on cell phones. $1,000 grand prize for Best Film thanks to Sprint. Complete details and admission information at BakerNord.org and 216.368.8961.

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Carl Pope
The Mind of Cleveland
Joint Fellow Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities & Cleveland Institute of Art

"Carl Pope is doing the hard work of imagining a future for the United States at one of the bleakest times in its history," says professor Nicholas Mirzoeff, who is the keynote speaker for the upcoming National Cityscapes Conference hosted by the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities at Case Western Reserve University, 3/27-29, a confab of international artists & scholars exploring the intersections of the urban environment, the humanities, and social change. Carl Pope himself has been in Northeast Ohio on and off since last October, hosting over a dozen public meetings with citizens young and old, black and white, and asking them the simple question, "What do you think about Cleveland?" Their answers have been collected on the site, TheMindOfCleveland.com and displayed on over 70 huge billboards and kiosks around the region thru 4/18, and printed on traditional letterpress posters, which will be on exhibit at the Cleveland Institute of Art's Reinberger Galleries, 3/27-5/3. Cool Cleveland's Thomas Mulready caught Pope in the Gallery installing his work, and they discussed how he evolved from photography and graphics into the public art realm, and how art can affect society. http://www.TheMindOfCleveland.com

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SPONSORED: The Mind of Cleveland is the title of Carl Pope’s art exhibition, and Days of Race: Democracy and Black Reconstruction in the Work of Carl Pope, is the title of the lecture by Nicholas Mirzoeff, both of which open the Cityscapes Conference at 5PM on Thu 3/27 at the Reinberger Galleries in The Cleveland Institute of Art, in collaboration with the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities at CWRU. Complimentary admission. www.BakerNord.org.

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SPONSORED: Looking at Cleveland’s Future is Norman Krumholz’s keynote address for Cityscapes, Humanities Week 2008, Fri 3/28 at 4:30PM at Amasa Stone Chapel on Case Western Reserve University campus. An urban planner and recipient of the 2007 Cleveland Arts Prize, Krumholz’ public presentation coincides with The Mind of Cleveland exhibition. Complimentary admission. www.BakerNord.org.

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SPONSORED: A woman in Iran Novelist and filmmaker Marjane Satrapi is in Cleveland to discuss her personal experience of living through the Islamic revolution in Iran. The Academy Award nominated author of Persepolis speaks Fri 4/04 at CWRU’s Amasa Stone Chapel; a no-charge, public event co-sponsored by the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities and The Cleveland Institute of Art. Visit www.BakerNord.org.

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SPONSORED: It's all about film Catch the Cityscapes Film Series featuring Cleveland locations during Humanities Week 2008 at CWRU, sponsored by the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities. Screening classic films including Billy Wilder’s hilarious Oscar-winning The Fortune Cookie (1966), Jules Dassin’s "intense and furious" (NY Times) Up Tight (1968), and homeboy Jim Jarmusch's masterwork Stranger than Paradise (1984). Screened at the Cinematheque, 3/24-26 at 7PM. Visit www.BakerNord.org.

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SPONSORED: The city as a crucible of change in art, literature, politics, and society—is the focus of the Baker-Nord Center's Cityscapes Conference, at CWRU 3/27-29, with sessions on Creating and Performing Community, Contested Spaces and Social Divisions, Organizing the City, Knowing, Remembering, and Imagining the City, Representation and Urban Spaces, and Marketing the City. Complimentary admission; visit www.BakerNord.org.