Description: 2006-2007

In support of the new Middle Eastern Studies Program Documentary: "What is Said about Arabs and Terrorism? " Dr. Bassam Haddad, Director

Description: 2005-2006

Windows on the World: A Dialogue Across Borders Symposium: “Crossing Over: Learning to Navigate the Borderlands of Intercultural Encounters” Keynote Address by Arun Gandh

Description: 2004-2005

Identities and Performance: A Public Dialogue Speaker Series

Description: 2003-2004

Identities and Performance: A Public Dialogue

Description: 2002-2003

The Humanities in the City: A Public Dialogue
Forum: A free one-day professional development forum exploring creative models and resources for 9-12 educators. Recommended for teachers of History, Social Studies, English, Foreign languages, Art and Language Arts.

The forum includes:

• Keynote talk on "Learning by Creating" presented by internationally-acclaimed artist Lily Yeh,
• Roundtable discussion on "Models of Creative Teaching: Community Resources and Practices"
• Hands-on workshops exploring creative models for teaching the humanities using drama, visual arts, popular music and gardening

Description: 2001-2002

The Humanities in the City: A Public Dialogue
As part of its commitment to promote and support the teaching of the humanities in area schools, the Humanities Consortium at Cleveland State University (a group of faculty from the disciplines of literature, history, art history, religious studies, and philosophy) plans two one-day conferences (March 2002 and March 2003) for high school teachers. The first conference will ground participants in innovative collaborative and interdisciplinary teaching models that allow for multiple perspectives. At the second conference teachers will share the classroom materials they have developed based on those models. The target audience is secondary school teachers from the Cleveland Municipal School District and other area schools.

Description: 2000-2001

Defining the Humanities for the 21st Century
The 2000-2001 Cultural Crossings lecture series, subtitled Defining the Humanities for the 21st Century, took place on the Cleveland State campus. Focusing on the future of the humanities and their meaning for contemporary urban America, the series featured six internationally renowned scholars who visited Cleveland between October 2000 and April 2001. The speakers addressed how current ideas within academia speak to crucial questions of democracy, freedom, and justice in our multicultural and postmodern world.

Many of those who attended the lectures were not from the Cleveland State campus community but from the larger urban community and northeastern Ohio, and came from as far away as Youngstown, Toledo, Cincinnati, and Columbus. The series attracted wide media attention through a series of Op/Ed pieces and feature articles in the Cleveland Plain Dealer and Free Times newspapers. This exposure has helped fulfill our goal of having humanities issues discussed actively within the community; we have brought the humanities into public debates and discussion.

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