Humanities Division

The Brutal Line

16 Sep 2008 06:00:00 GMT

Smart Museum of Art
5550 S. Greenwood Ave
Chicago, IL
Ongoing through Sunday, January 4, 2009

Event type: Exhibitions
Building/Room: Smart Museum
Primary Sponsor: Smart Museum
Exhibition Title: The Brutal Line: Drawing Death, Being, and Becoming
Open to the Public: Yes
Cost: Free
Contact Name: Smart Museum of Art
Contact E-mail: smart-museum@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-702-0200
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Event Description: Through focused comparisons between Italian masters and their modern and contemporary counterparts, The Brutal Line examines how artists have used drawn marks to express extreme physical or existential states. This focused selection combines exceptional drawings from the collections of Richard and Mary L. Gray and the Smart Museum of Art and ranges from the fifteenth century to the present. It provides a unique opportunity for close examination of classic drawings from the past and present., Curated by David Schutter, Assistant Professor, Department of Visual Arts, University of Chicago, in consultation with Stephanie Smith, Smart Museum Curator of Contemporary Art.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: smartmuseum.uchicago.edu…

Francis Alÿs Exhibition

28 Sep 2008 06:00:00 GMT

The Renaissance Society
5811 S Ellis Ave
Chicago, IL 60637
Ongoing through Sunday, December 14, 2008

Event type: Exhibitions
Building/Room: Cobb Hall 4th Floor
Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s)
Other Sponsor(s): The Renaissance Society
Presenter(s): Opening Reception, Sunday, September 28th, 4PM -7PM, Artist Talk 5-6 PM, (in room 307, directly below gallery)
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Event Description: Mexico City-based artist Francis Alÿs will present his animation Bolero, along with the 511 graphite drawings from which the animation is made, and Politics of Rehearsal, a 30-minute video that combines footage of a speech by President Truman, narration by critic Cuauhtémoc Medina, and a rehearsal for a striptease. Rehearsal parallels sociopolitical promises from Latin America with the tactics of a stripper — always leaving something to be desired.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: www.renaissancesociety.org

Displacement

02 Oct 2008 06:00:00 GMT

Smart Museum of Art
5550 S. Greenwood Ave
Chicago, IL
Ongoing through Sunday, January 25, 2009

Event type: Exhibitions
Building/Room: Smart Museum
Primary Sponsor: Smart Museum
Exhibition Title: Displacement: The Three Gorges Dam and Contemporary Chinese Art
Open to the Public: Yes
Cost: Free
Contact Name: Smart Museum of Art
Contact E-mail: smart-museum@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-702-0200
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu…
Event Description: This exhibition presents the work that four leading contemporary Chinese artists -- Chen Qiulin, Yun-Fei Ji, Liu Xiaodong, and Zhuang Hui -- have created in response to the massive Three Gorges Dam. Despite differences in backgrounds and artistic practices, these artists have responded to the movement of people, the demolition of old towns and construction of new cities, and the astonishing changes the dam is bringing to the local landscape.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: smartmuseum.uchicago.edu…

Displacement: The Three Gorges Dam and Contemporary Chinese Art

02 Oct 2008 06:00:00 GMT

Smart Museum
5550 S. Greenwood Ave.
Chicago, IL 60637
Ongoing through Sunday, January 25, 2009

Event type: Exhibitions
Building/Room: Smart Museum Main Gallery
Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s)
Other Sponsor(s): Smart Museum
Exhibition Title: Displacement: The Three Gorges Dam and Contemporary Chinese Art
Presenter(s): Opening Reception and Lecture by curator Wu Hung: Thursday, October 2, 5:30–7:30 pm
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Event Description: Opening Reception and Lecture by curator Wu Hung: Thursday, October 2, 5:30–7:30 pm, The Three Gorges Dam on the Yangzi River in China is a massive project entwined in controversy. When finally completed, the hydro-electric dam will generate electricity equivalent to the power used by four cities the size of Los Angeles. However, the Dam’s 375-mile reservoir has already displaced over one million people and submerged over one thousand towns and villages. This exhibition presents work that four leading contemporary Chinese artists—Liu Xiaodong, Yun-fei Ji, Zhuang Hui, and Chen Qiulin—have created in response to the Dam. Despite differences in backgrounds and artistic practices, these artists have engaged with the theme of displacement, responding to the movement of people, the demolition of old towns and construction of new cities, and the astonishing changes the project is bringing to the local landscape.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: smartmuseum.uchicago.edu

FSC Food Drive

17 Nov 2008 07:00:00 GMT

Cobb Hall 306
5811 S. Ellis Ave.
Ongoing through Monday, December 15, 2008

Event type: Screenings
Building/Room: Cobb Hall 306
Primary Sponsor: Film Studies Center
Contact Name: Film Studies Center
Contact Phone: 773-702-8596
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Please contribute to the Film Studies Center Food Drive! Your donations of canned and non-perishable items will be taken to the Greater Chicago Food Depository for distribution to Chicago's needy. Bring your donations to the screenings, or drop by any time during FSC open hours. Thank you!
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Lunch talk by Deniz Ertan

17 Nov 2008 18:00:00 GMT

1010 East 59th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
Monday, November 17, 2008, 12 – 1:20pm

Event type: Lectures
Building/Room: Classics 114
Primary Sponsor: Scherer Center
Presenter: Deniz Ertan
Lecture Title: The Making of Musical Ultramodernism in the U.S.
Contact Name: Kristin Lueke
Contact E-mail: klueke@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-834-3403
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: americancultures.uchicago.edu

Lecture by Marcel Lepper

17 Nov 2008 22:30:00 GMT

Wieboldt Hall
1050 E 59th St
Chicago, IL 60637-1559
Monday, November 17, 2008, 4:30 – 6:30pm

Event type: Lectures
Building/Room: Wieboldt 206
Primary Sponsor: Germanic Studies
Other Sponsor(s): Center for Interdisciplinary Research
Presenter: Marcel Lepper
Lecture Title: Quellenpoetik, Quellenphilologie? Hölderlins Donauhymnen
Contact Name: Michelle Zimet
Contact E-mail: mzimet@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-702-8494
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

The "Writing" of Modern Life

18 Nov 2008 07:00:00 GMT

Smart Museum of Art
5550 S. Greenwood Ave
Chicago, IL
Ongoing through Sunday, April 19, 2009

Event type: Exhibitions
Building/Room: Smart Museum
Primary Sponsor: Smart Museum
Exhibition Title: The "Writing" of Modern Life: The Etching Revival in France, Britain, and the U.S., 1850-1940
Open to the Public: Yes
Cost: Free
Contact Name: Smart Museum of Art
Contact E-mail: smart-museum@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-702-0200
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu…
Event Description: This exhibition examines the intertwined arts of etching and writing, from the polemical beginnings of the Etching Revival in the 1850s to its twentieth-century afterlife. During this period, etching was reinvented as an original art form that -- like writing -- was uniquely fitted to expressions of an artist's individual personality and the experience of modernity.
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More info: smartmuseum.uchicago.edu…

Discussion with Marcel Lepper

18 Nov 2008 16:00:00 GMT

Wieboldt Hall
1050 E 59th St
Chicago, IL 60637-1559
Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 10am – 12pm

Event type: Workshops
Building/Room: Wieboldt 206
Primary Sponsor: Germanic Studies
Other Sponsor(s): Center for Interdisciplinary Research
Presenter(s): Marcel Lepper, Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach/ University of Wisconsin
Title: Research at the Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach
Open to the Public: Yes
Contact Name: Michelle Zimet
Contact E-mail: mzimet@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-702-8494
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

LECTURE: Curator Clementine Deliss

18 Nov 2008 21:00:00 GMT

Franke Institute
JRL S-118, Regenstein Library
1100 E. 57th street
Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 3 – 5pm

Event type: Lectures
Building/Room: Franke Institute
Primary Sponsor: DOVA
Presenter: Clementine Deliss
Contact Name: Alison LaTendresse
Contact E-mail: dova@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-753-4821
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Curator Clementine Deliss will speak about her work.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

History and Forms of Lyric Series: Liesl Olson

19 Nov 2008 22:30:00 GMT

University of Chicago, Classics 110
1010 E. 59th St.
Chicago, IL 60637
Wednesday, November 19, 2008, 4:30 – 5:30pm

Harper Schmidt Fellow, and Assistant Professor in the College, Humanities Division
Liesl Olson received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2004. Her research interests include twentieth-century British and American literature, modern and contemporary poetry, Irish studies, and the visual arts. Her book, Modernism and the Ordinary (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2008), addresses literary modernism's preoccupation with the habitual and unselfconscious actions of everyday life. Looking primarily at the work of James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, Wallace Stevens and Marcel Proust, Modernism and the Ordinary argues that a commitment to representing and valorizing ordinariness undercuts and threatens the very nature of modernism, as each of these writers is attracted to the ordinary in a way that tempers the very artfulness of their literary works. Liesl has also published essays on the work of Henry James, W.H. Auden, and the contemporary poet Robert Hass.

Event type: Lectures
Building/Room: Classics 110
Primary Sponsor: Poetry & Poetics
Presenter: Liesl Olson
Lecture Title: Gertrude Stein's Habits
Contact Name: Kate Soto
Contact E-mail: katesoto@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-834-8524
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Gertrude Stein locates habit—rather than innovation—as the most animating force in the English literary tradition. Stein inherits her mentor William James’s belief in the benefits of habit, and she values especially the pleasure of repetition. This value stands apart from a dominating ethos against habit, best articulated by one of literary modernism’s key precursors, Walter Pater. Stein’s emphasis on habit throughout her ouevre—both stylistic and ideological—, becomes central to what she wrote while living in German-occupied France. Habits both mask the disruption that war creates, dissolving the consequences of the world into the space of the home, and paradoxically work as a way in which war itself can be best represented. Stein’s World War II writings foreground habit’s crucial utility, but ultimately they also call attention to habit’s political inadequacy.
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More info: poetics.uchicago.edu

Ted Foss Lecture and Reception

19 Nov 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Classics 21 (the room behind Classics Cafe)
1010 East 59th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
Wednesday, November 19, 2008, 5 – 9pm

There will will be wine and refreshments, as well as a chance to follow up with discussion.

Event type: Lectures
Building/Room: Classics 21
Primary Sponsor: EALC
Presenter: Ted Foss, Associate Director of the Center for East Asian Studies
Lecture Title: "Chicago Looks at East Asia: An Historiographical Glimpse at Midwestern Academic Study of the 'Far East'."
Contact Name: Dawn Brennan
Contact E-mail: dbrennan@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Linguistics Colloquium: Luis Lopez Carretero

20 Nov 2008 21:30:00 GMT

Cobb 201
5811 S Ellis
Chicago, IL 60637
Thursday, November 20, 2008, 3:30 – 5pm

Event type: Lectures
Building/Room: Cobb 201
Primary Sponsor: Linguistics
Presenter: Luis Lopez Carretero, University of Illinois at Chicago
Contact Name: Vanessa Wright
Contact Phone: (773) 702-8522
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: linguistics.uchicago.edu…

Poem Present: August Kleinzahler

20 Nov 2008 22:30:00 GMT

University of Chicago, Rosenwald 405
1101 E. 58th St.
Chicago, IL 60637
Thursday, November 20, 2008, 4:30 – 6:30pm

Event type: Readings
Building/Room: Rosenwald 405
Primary Sponsor: Poem Present
Contact Name: Kate Soto
Contact E-mail: katesoto@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-834-8524
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Kleinzahler is the author of ten books of poetry, including: The Strange Hours Travelers Keep (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004), winner of the International Griffin Poetry Prize; Live from the Hong Kong Nile Club : Poems: 1975-1990 (2000); Green Sees Things in Waves (1999); and Red Sauce, Whiskey and Snow (1995). He is also the author of one prose book, the meditative memoir Cutty, One Rock: Low Characters and Strange Places, Gently Explained (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004).
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: poempresent.uchicago.edu

"Distance/s" Lecture Series: Kajri Jain

20 Nov 2008 22:30:00 GMT

Classics 110
1010 E 59th Street
Thursday, November 20, 2008, 4:30 – 6pm

Event type: Lectures
Building/Room: Classics 110
Primary Sponsor: Nicholson Center
Presenter: Kajri Jain
Contact Name: Kristin Lueke
Contact E-mail: klueke@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-834-3403
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Kajri Jain (Visual and Media Culture, University of Toronto), Lecture with reception to follow
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Lecture by Martha Tedeschi

20 Nov 2008 23:30:00 GMT

Cochrane-Woods Art Center, Room 157
5540 S. Greenwood Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637
Thursday, November 20, 2008, 5:30pm

Event type: Lectures
Building/Room: CWAC 157
Primary Sponsor: Smart Museum
Presenter: Martha Tedeschi, Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago
Lecture Title: Impressions of Reform: Why the Nineteenth Century "Revived" Etching
Contact Name: Smart Museum of Art
Contact E-mail: smart-museum@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-702-0200
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu…
Event Description: Discover why the medium of etching was “revived” by a small but dedicated movement of painters, dealers, and critics during this lecture by Martha Tedeschi, Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago., In the late nineteenth century, people lived with constant and profound technological change that has significant parallels to the digital revolution that is currently transforming our lives. Industrialization and mechanization in general, and the invention of photography in particular, changed both the profile of the art-buying public and the relationship of this expanded public to artistic imagery. A large and hungry new audience for art demanded printed images and yet had difficulty coming to grips with an art market offering an ever-greater variety of image-making technologies. In Europe and America, original printmaking was championed and etching was positioned as an intellectual and intimate art at a time when popularity and mass production threatened to debase the value of art., In conjunction with the exhibition The "Writing" of Modern Life: The Etching Revival in France, Britain, and the U.S., 1850–1940, on view at the Smart Museum of Art November 18, 2008 - April 19, 2009.
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More info: smartmuseum.uchicago.edu…

Jazz X-Tet Performance

21 Nov 2008 02:00:00 GMT

Fulton Recital Hall
Goodspeed Hall, 4th Floor
1010 E. 59th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
Thursday, November 20, 2008, 8 – 9pm

Event type: Performances
Building/Room: Goodspeed Hall- 4th Floor
Primary Sponsor: Music
Performer(s): Jazz X-Tet
Cost: Free
Contact Name: Katy Coy
Contact E-mail: kcoy@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-702-3427
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: music.uchicago.edu…

David Schutter at Tony Wight Gallery: Repertory

21 Nov 2008 07:00:00 GMT

Tony Wight Gallery
119 North Peoria Street
Chicago, IL 60607
Friday, November 21, 2008 – Saturday, January 3, 2009

Event type: Exhibitions
Building/Room: Tony Wight Gallery
Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s)
Other Sponsor(s): Tony Wight Gallery
Exhibition Title: Repertory
Presenter(s): David Schutter
Open to the Public: Yes
Cost: free
Contact Name: Tony Wight
Contact E-mail: info@tonywightgallery.com
Contact Phone: 312-492-7261
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Tony Wight Gallery is pleased to announce Repertory, an exhibition of new paintings and drawings by David Schutter. This will be Schutter’s third solo presentation with Tony Wight Gallery. www.tonywightgallery.com
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: www.tonywightgallery.com

Workshop in Semantics and Philosophy of Language: Delia Graff

21 Nov 2008 17:00:00 GMT

Landahl Center Seminar Room (Social Sciences 004)
1126 E. 59th St.
Chicago, IL 60637
Friday, November 21, 2008, 11am – 1pm

Event type: Lectures
Building/Room: SS 004
Primary Sponsor: Linguistics
Presenter: Delia Graff, Department of Philosophy, Princeton University
Lecture Title: De-re Modality: Identity Theory vs. Counterpart Theory
Contact Name: Vanessa Wright
Contact Phone: (773) 702-8522
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

And the Spring Comes(立春/Lichun)

21 Nov 2008 18:40:00 GMT

Center for East Asian Studies
Judd Hall, Room 302
5835 S. Kimbark,
Chicago, IL. 60637
Friday, November 21, 2008, 12:40 – 2:40pm

Feel free to bring a lunch to enjoy while watching the film.

Event type: Screenings
Building/Room: Judd Hall, Room 302
Primary Sponsor: CEAS
Contact Name: Sarah Arehart
Contact E-mail: sarehart@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-702-2715
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: And the Spring Comes(立春/Lichun), directed by Gu Changwei (顾长卫), 2007., And the Spring Comes is Gu Changwei’s second feature film following his acclaimed feature debut Peacock. Set in a small town near Baotou, Inner Mongolia, Wang Cailing is a plain-Jane vocal teacher who has a magnificent voice and a big dream—to be an Italian opera singer at the National Opera House. She is not dreaming alone: she meets a young man who wants to be a China’s Vincent van Gogh, a gay ballet dancer who is past his prime, and other artist misfits. All of them struggle not only to realize their dreams in the harsh reality, but more pressingly, resist the quotidian with their idealism. (105 min, in Chinese with English subtitles).
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Poem Present: A Discussion on Poetics with August Kleinzahler

21 Nov 2008 19:00:00 GMT

University of Chicago
Friday, November 21, 2008, 1 – 2pm

Event type: Discussions
Building/Room: TBD
Primary Sponsor: Poem Present
Contact Name: Kate Soto
Contact E-mail: katesoto@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-834-8524
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Kleinzahler is the author of ten books of poetry, including: The Strange Hours Travelers Keep (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004), winner of the International Griffin Poetry Prize; Live from the Hong Kong Nile Club : Poems: 1975-1990 (2000); Green Sees Things in Waves (1999); and Red Sauce, Whiskey and Snow (1995). He is also the author of one prose book, the meditative memoir Cutty, One Rock: Low Characters and Strange Places, Gently Explained (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004).
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: poempresent.uchicago.edu

LECTURE: Visiting Artist Joseph Grigely

21 Nov 2008 21:00:00 GMT

Franke Institute
JRL S-118, Regenstein Library
1100 E. 57th street
Friday, November 21, 2008, 3 – 5pm

Event type: Lectures
Building/Room: Franke Institute
Primary Sponsor: DOVA
Presenter: Joseph Grigely
Contact Name: Alison LaTendresse
Contact E-mail: dova@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-753-4821
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Visiting Artist Joseph Grigely will speak about his work
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

New Directions Lecture

21 Nov 2008 22:30:00 GMT

Rosenwald 405
Friday, November 21, 2008, 4:30 – 6pm

Event type: Lectures
Building/Room: Rosenwald 405
Primary Sponsor: Scherer Center
Presenter: Jennifer Roberts
Lecture Title: "Audobon's Burden: Materiality and Transmission in 'The Birds of America'"
Contact Name: Kristin Lueke
Contact E-mail: klueke@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-834-3403
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Jennifer L. Roberts is the Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University, where she specializes in American art, contemporary art, and material culture theory., She is author of "Mirror Travels: Robert Smithson and History" (2004), which examines the ways in which Smithson's celebrated earthworks and traveling projects of the 1960s and 70s confront the social and material histories of the sites they occupy, and a co-author of "American Encounters: Art and Cultural Identity from the Beginning to the Present" (2007)., Her current project, "Transporting Visions: The movement of Images in Early America," traces the transit of images through and around the Anglo-American landscape between 1760 and 1860. Treating pictures that register, in various ways, the complications of their own transmission, her new work explores art in its engagement with period developments in the moment of commodities and information, as well as more general issues about transmission in visual representation., This lecture is the first in the Scherer Center's series on "New Directions in the Study of American Culture."
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An Evening with Cheryl Dunye

22 Nov 2008 01:00:00 GMT

5811 S.Ellis
Cobb Hall 307
Friday, November 21, 2008, 7pm

Event type: Screenings
Building/Room: Cobb Hall 307
Primary Sponsor: Film Studies Center
Other Sponsor(s): Center for Gender Studies
Contact Name: Film Studies Center
Contact Phone: 773-702-8596
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Villified by conservatives in Congress and labeled “the lesbian Spike Lee,” Cheryl Dunye has created a provocative, humorous and insightful body of independent film. Dunye wrote, directed and starred in the first African American lesbian feature film, THE WATERMELON WOMAN. It was awarded the Teddy Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival and best feature in L.A.'s OutFest, Italy's Torino, and France's Creteil Film Festivals. Dunye's other works have been included in the Whitney Biennial and featured at major international festivals, including Sundance, Berlin, Toronto, and Hong Kong. In addition Dunye has received grants from the National Endowment of the Arts and is a fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation. She currently teaches filmmaking at UCLA and the University of California/Riverside., Tonight she will screen and discuss: THE STRANGER INSIDE RESIDENCY DOCUMENTARY (2001, DVD, 20 min), This engaging video documents Dunye's 1999 Artist Residency at the Walker Art Center where she led a screen writing workshop at Minnesota Correctional Facility for Women in Shakopee. Highlights include script readings with inmates and local actors, as well as her collaboration with renowned photographer Cathy Opie to recreate "mugshots of female inmates" Dunye found while researching at the Minnesota History Center., THE EARLY WORKS OF CHERYL DUNYE (2008, DVD, 80 min), The filmmaker will select some of her early work from this not-yet-released compilation, possibly including JANINE, VANILLA SEX and AN UNTITLED PORTRAIT., Program will be followed by a reception in Cobb Hall 310.
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More info: filmstudiescenter.uchicago.edu

Johannes Moser

22 Nov 2008 01:30:00 GMT

Mandel Hall (1131 E. 57th Street, Chicago)
Friday, November 21, 2008, 7:30 – 9:30pm

Event type: Performances
Building/Room: Mandel Hall
Primary Sponsor: Chicago Presents
Performer(s): Johannes Moser (cello), Paul Rivinius (piano)
Cost: $32/$5 students
Ticket Phone: 773.702.8068
Contact Name: Ian Martinez
Contact E-mail: imartinez@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773.834.7965
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu…
Event Description: Beethoven: Cello Sonata in C major, op. 102, no. 1, Britten: Cello Sonata in C major, Takemitsu: Orion, Beethoven: Cello Sonata in D major, op. 102, no. 2, Since winning the 2002 Tchaikovsky Competition, German-born cellist Johannes Moser has become a regular fixture on the stages of Europe's most prestigious festivals. With two solo recordings already under his belt, the 28-year-old artist performs a diverse program book-ended by works from Beethoven's final collection of cello sonatas.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: chicagopresents.uchicago.edu

Films of Peter Tscherkassky

23 Nov 2008 01:00:00 GMT

5811 S. Ellis
Saturday, November 22, 2008, 7pm

Event type: Screenings
Building/Room: Cobb Hall 307
Primary Sponsor: Film Studies Center
Other Sponsor(s): Experimental Film Club, The Committee on Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago Student Activity Fee
Contact Name: Film Studies Center
Contact Phone: 773.702.8596
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: The Experimental Film Club presents, FILMS OF PETER TSCHERKASSKY, Beautiful and haunting, acclaimed Austrian filmmaker Peter Tscherkassky’s films employ re-photographed found footage in the tradition of structural filmmaking to hugely kinetic effect. This selection of films from throughout Tscherkassky’s career provides a valuable introduction to an essential filmmaker. Tonight’s screening will include: FREEZE FRAME (1983, 16mm, 9 minutes), SHOT-COUNTERSHOT (1987, 16mm, 1 minute), TABULA RASA (1987/1989, 16mm, 18 minutes), PARALLEL SPACE: INTER-VIEW (1992, 16mm, 18 minutes), HAPPY-END (1996, 16mm, 12 minutes), L'ARRIVEE (1997/1998, 35mm, 2 minutes), OUTER SPACE (1999, 35mm CinemaScope, 10 minutes)
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More info: filmstudiescenter.uchicago.edu

University Chamber Orchestra Performance

23 Nov 2008 02:00:00 GMT

Fulton Recital Hall
Goodspeed Hall, 4th Floor
1010 E. 59th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
Saturday, November 22, 2008, 8 – 9pm

Event type: Performances
Building/Room: Goodspeed Hall- 4th Floor
Primary Sponsor: Music
Performer(s): University Chamber Orchestra
Cost: Free
Contact Name: Katy Coy
Contact E-mail: kcoy@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-702-3427
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: music.uchicago.edu…

The River in Chinese Landscape

23 Nov 2008 20:00:00 GMT

Smart Museum of Art
5550 S. Greenwood Ave
Chicago, IL
Sunday, November 23, 2008, 2pm

Event type: Lectures
Building/Room: Smart Museum
Primary Sponsor: Smart Museum
Presenter: Christina Yu, PhD candidate in Art History
Lecture Title: Smart Focus: The River in Chinese Landscape
Contact Name: Smart Museum of Art
Contact E-mail: smart-museum@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-702-0200
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu…
Event Description: Explore the role of the river in traditional Chinese landscape paintings during this tour of works from the Smart Museum’s permanent collection and "Displacement: The Three Gorges Dam and Contemporary Chinese Art."
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: smartmuseum.uchicago.edu…

University Wind Ensemble Performance

23 Nov 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Mandel Hall
1131 E 57th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
Sunday, November 23, 2008, 4 – 5pm

Event type: Performances
Building/Room: Mandel Hall
Primary Sponsor: Music
Performer(s): University Wind Ensemble
Cost: Free
Contact Name: Katy Coy
Contact E-mail: kcoy@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-702-3427
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: music.uchicago.edu…

Poetics Workshop: Jon Geltner

24 Nov 2008 22:30:00 GMT

University of Chicago, Rosenwald 405
1101 E. 58th St.
Chicago, IL 60637
Monday, November 24, 2008, 4:30 – 6pm

Event type: Workshops
Building/Room: Rosenwald 405
Primary Sponsor: Poetry & Poetics
Presenter(s): Jon Geltner
Open to the Public: Yes
Contact Name: Kate Soto
Contact E-mail: katesoto@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-834-8524
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: poetics.uchicago.edu

Thanksgiving Break

27 Nov 2008 07:00:00 GMT

Thursday, November 27 – Friday, November 28, 2008

Event type: Holiday
Primary Sponsor: University of Chicago

Lecture by Nikolaus Wegmann

01 Dec 2008 22:30:00 GMT

Wieboldt Hall
1050 E 59th St
Chicago, IL 60637-1559
Monday, December 1, 2008, 4:30 – 6:30pm

Event type: Lectures
Building/Room: Wieboldt 206
Primary Sponsor: Germanic Studies
Other Sponsor(s): Center for Interdisciplinary Research
Presenter: Nikolaus Wegmann, Princeton University
Lecture Title: How do we write a literary history of the DDR?
Contact Name: Michelle Zimet
Contact E-mail: mzimet@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-702-8494
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.