Humanities Division

EXHIBITION: CATHY WILKES - I GIVE YOU ALL MY MONEY

The Renaissance Society, 5811 South Ellis Avenue, Cobb Hall 4th floor
Ongoing through Sunday, March 4, 2012, 5pm

Image: Cathy Wilkes I Give You All My Money (detail), 2008 mixed media installation Courtesy of The Modern Institute.

Building/Room: Cobb Hall 4th floor
Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s)
Other Sponsor(s): The Renaissance Society
Exhibition Title: I Give You All My Money
Presenter(s): Cathy Wilkes
Open to the Public: Yes
Cost: Free
Contact E-mail: info@renaissancesociety.org
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Over the past five years, Irish artist Cathy Wilkes (b. 1966) has garnered international attention for her installations whose signature elements are set amongst, and outfitted with, accoutrements of an abject, quotidian nature. Wilkes’ highly subjective work consists of objects (strollers, soiled dishes, dolls, dried flower petals) that recur as symbolic leitmotifs. Her process of selection and arrangement of materials is measured and refined, drawing equally on a precise formal language and the most intimate of personal experiences to create a compelling autobiographical thread. The Renaissance Society will present "I Give You All My Money" whose title, like that of several other works, has a biblical reference regarding sacrifice., **Featuring a talk with the artist in Kent Hall, Room 107, from 5:00 to 6:00 pm. St. (on the Main Quadrangle of the University, northeast of Cobb Hall)**
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: www.renaissancesociety.org…

Katie Crawford

TBD
Thursday, February 9, 2012

Building/Room: TBD
Primary Sponsor: Poem Present
Presenter: Katie Crawford
Lecture Title: Love Talk and Dirty Jokes: French Erotic Poetry and Masculinity in the Renaissance
Contact Name: Gina Olson
Contact E-mail: golson@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: (773) 702-9936
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: CSGS alumni/ae lecture. Sexually explicit vulgar verse emerged in Renaissance France just as a transcendent, romantic rhetoric of love developed in poetry as well. These poetic forms, apparently at odds, nonetheless rely on a common vocabulary base and set of syntactical assumptions. French poets came to believe that Petrarch lied about the chaste quality of his love for Laura, and concerns over Petrarch’s veracity spawned a range of highly sexualized responses. French poets insisted instead that consummation was a marker of emotional and physical authenticity. Articulating sexual fulfillment was a form of masculine honesty. But within the context of the agonistic competition for patronage and to assert poetic subjectivity, anxieties about masculinity emerged. Negotiating between claims of corporeal truth and knowledge of personal inadequacy created a highly charged sexual politics around the development of subjectivity and masculinity as a function of distinctly French poetic practices.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

From the Adriatic to the Sulu Sea: Islam and Identity in Southeast Europe and Southeast Asia

Thursday @ International House, 1414 E. 59th Street
Friday & Saturday @ Franke Institute
Thursday, February 9, 2012, 9am – 5:30pm

Building/Room: International House
Primary Sponsor: CEERES
Other Sponsor(s): CSEAS (Center for Southeast Asian Studies) at Northern Illinois University; Center for International Studies; Franke Institute (application pending)
Conference Title: “From the Adriatic to the Sulu Sea: Islam and Identity in Southeast Europe and Southeast Asia”
Presenter(s): Keynote speaker: Distinguished Professor Datuk Shamsul Amri Baharuddin (Malaysian National University)
Open to the Public: Yes
Cost: None
Contact Name: Meredith Clason
Contact E-mail: mclason@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-702-0866
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: franke.uchicago.edu…

Noontime Concert Series: Janet Packer, violin and Anthony Padilla, piano

Fulton Recital Hall, 1010 E. 59th Street
Thursday, February 9, 2012, 12:15 – 1:15pm

These free lunchtime concerts begin at 12:15 PM each Thursday in Fulton Recital Hall.

Building/Room: Goodspeed Hall, 4th floor
Primary Sponsor: Music
Performance Title: Noontime Concert Series: Janet Packer, violin and Anthony Padilla, piano
Performer(s): Janet Packer, violin and Anthony Padilla, piano
Cost: Free admission
Contact E-mail: musicdept@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773.702.8484
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Janet Packer, violin and Anthony Padilla, piano
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

“Event or Totality? Transit Passes and Questions of Governance in Treaty Port China”

1126 E. 59th St.
Chicago, IL 60637
Thursday, February 9, 2012, 4 – 6pm

East Asia: Trans-Regional Histories
This workshop invites University of Chicago graduate students and faculty, as well as scholars from other academic communities, to present creative and original work that speaks across the national lines of East Asia as well as the disciplinary lines of the academic community. Joint presentations among participants that incorporate multidisciplinary and/or trans-regional historical perspectives are especially encouraged.

Building/Room: SS 224
Primary Sponsor: CAS Workshops
Other Sponsor(s): CEAS
Presenter(s): Stacie Hanneman (PhD Candidate, History, U Chicago)
Title: “Event or Totality? Transit Passes and Questions of Governance in Treaty Port China”
Contact Name: Jun Hyung Chae
Contact E-mail: jhchae@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.

EthNoise! The Ethnomusicology Workshop: Kelly Askew

Regenstein Library, 1100 East 57th Street
Thursday, February 9, 2012, 4:30 – 6:30pm

Building/Room: JRL 264
Primary Sponsor: Music
Presenter(s): Kelly Askew
Title: ‘Poetry in Motion’: Ethnography vs. Cinematography in a Swahili Music Documentary
Open to the Public: Yes
Contact Name: Will Faber
Contact E-mail: wfaber@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773.702.8484
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Poetry in Motion: 100 Years of Zanzibar’s Nadi Ikhwan Safaa is a (2011) documentary film about the oldest taarab orchestra in the world: Zanzibar's Nadi Ikhwan Safaa (“The True Brotherhood Club”). Taarab is a genre of sung Swahili poetry popular along the coasts and off lying islands of Kenya and Tanzania. The music of coastal East Africa is an aesthetic manifestation of the confluence of Indian Ocean dhow trade networks with caravan trade networks from central and southern Africa for it was at the East African coast and through Swahili middlemen that these two trading systems would meet. In taarab performance, therefore, one hears the rhythms of local ngoma dances, South Asian vocal timbre, and Arabian instrumentation. Swahili, a Bantu language with significant Arabic vocabulary, ties these together into an urban genre that varies in musical inflection up and down the coast as do the dialects that mark Mombasa Swahili as distinct from Zanzibari Swahili. In this presentation, I wish to share and invite discussion about the challenges we faced in trying to escape from the formulaic genre that "African music documentary" has become., The "African music documentary" genre was created around West and South African musical forms. Among other things, it entails cutting the visual to a driving beat. But what does one do when the musical form, though "African," does not have a beat as driving as expected? How does one maintain visual interest? How does one accommodate Western expectations about African music when the selected musical form (a variety of orchestral music) is not easily identifiable as "African"? How do you elicit audience interest in a genre for which conventional performance practice is the affectation of studied disinterest? And how do you deal with the problem we faced of centering the film on a single event—the 100th anniversary concert—and having that event go catastrophically badly? Do you stick true to "documentary value" whatever the damage to the film's original objectives? I welcome this opportunity to share these dilemmas from the filming and post-production processes of Poetry in Motion, showing a few selected clips from the film and interspersing them with discussion about the challenges they entailed. I expect this to lead us into a more general discussion about generic constraints in film production and the use of editorial—not to mention artistic—license in reconciling documentary value with cinematic value.
Disability Clause: Persons with a disability who believe they may need assistance, please email Will Faber in advance at wfaber@uchicago.edu.
More info: cas.uchicago.edu…

David S. Katz: The Jewish Book, Lecture 2 of 2

Special Collections Research Center, Regenstein Library
1100 E. 57th St.
Thursday, February 9, 2012, 5:30 – 7:30pm

The lecture is free and open to the public.

Building/Room: Special Collections
Primary Sponsor: Chicago Center for Jewish Studies
Other Sponsor(s): The Nicholson Center for British Studies, Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library
Presenter: David S. Katz (Tel Aviv University)
Lecture Title: Matthew Arnold, Spinoza, the Zulus and Biblical Arithmetic in Victorian England
Contact Name: Miller Prosser
Contact E-mail: m-prosser@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-702-7108
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Professor David S. Katz is the Abraham Horodisch Chair for the History of Books at the Department of History, Tel Aviv University. Professor Katz has been the Director of the Fred W. Lessing Institute for European History and Civilization (2006-present) and the Director, Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center (2005-2006). In 1997, he was elected permanent Fellow at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Zentrum zur Erforschung der Frühen Neuzeit, Renaissance Institut, Frankfurt, Germany. In 1993 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, England (1993). Professor Katz has appeared on Israel Television Channel Two, BBC Radio 4, BBC Television, CBS’ Sixty Minutes, CBS News, and NBC’s Dateline. He is the general editor of Brill’s Series in Jewish Studies (1988-present) where he has overseen the publication of 41 books. His own publications include: God’s Last Words: Reading the English Bible from the Reformation to Fundamentalism (London & New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004) and The Jews in the History of England, 1485-1850 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994).
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Room for Another View: China’s Art in Disciplinary Perspective

Ehrlicher Room, 3100 North Quad
105 S. State Street
Ann Arbor, MI
Friday, February 10 – Saturday, February 11, 2012

Friday, Feb. 10th

8:00-8:30am: Continental Breakfast

8:30-9:00: Welcome: Derek Collins, associate dean for humanities; Opening Remarks: Matt Biro, chair of Department of History of Art; Opening Address: Martin Powers, Sally Michelson Davidson Professor of Chinese Arts and Cultures

9:00-10:45 am:  Production [Panel One]
Chair: David Doris (U-M)
Respondents: David Doris, John Onians (University of East Anglia), Erik Meuggler (U-M)
Speakers:
Patricia Ebrey (University of Washington). “Art Academies.”
Cary Liu (Princeton University). “Architectural Space”
J. P. Park (University of Colorado, Boulder). “Printing.”
Martin Powers (U-M). “Art Production and Social Agency”

10:45-11:00: Coffee break

11:00-12:45:  Reality [Panel Two]
Chair: Alex Potts (UM)
Respondents: Alex Potts, David Summers (University of Virginia), Kevin Carr (UM)
Speakers:
Dora Ching (Princeton University). “Portraiture.”
Shane McCausland (SOAS). “Figure Painting.”
Katherine Tsiang (University of Chicago). “Religious Art.”
Peter Sturman (University of California, Santa Barbara). “Landscape.”

12:45-2:30: Lunch

2:30-4:15:  Persons [Panel Three]
Chair: David Porter (UM)
Respondents: David Porter, James Elkins (Art Institute of Chicago), Diane Owen Hughs (UM)
Speakers:
Jessica Rawson (Oxford University). “Ornament.”
Wu Hung (University of Chicago). “Ritual Objects.”
Xin Wu (College of William and Mary). “Gardens.”
Tani Barlow (Rice University). “Fashion.”

4:15-5:00: General Discussion
5:30-7:30: Dinner (by invitation)

Saturday, February 11th

8:30-9am: Continental Breakfast

9:00am-Noon:  Reflexivity [Panel Four]
Chair: Celeste Brusati (UM)
Respondents: Celeste Brusati, Nicholas Mirzoeff (NYU), Christian Depee (UM)
Speakers:
Eugene Wang (Harvard University). “Space.”
Alfreda Murck (National Palace Museum, Beijing). “Word and Image”
Chen Jianhua (HKUST). “Visuality.”
Jerome Silbergeld (Princeton University). “Literati Painting”

10:15-10:30 Coffee break

10:30-12:00:  Respondents and General Discussion

12:00-2:00: Lunch

2:00-2:30 Showing of Selected Paintings from the Collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Art

2:30-5:00:  Language [Panel Five]
Chair: Xiaobing Tang (UM)
Respondents: Xiaobing Tang (UM), W.J.T. Mitchell (University of Chicago), Basil Dufallo (UM)
Speakers:
Ronald Egan (University of California, Santa Barbara). “The Language of Quality”
Susan Bush (Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard). “Imitation and Expression.”
Ginger Hsu (Yang Ming University, Taiwan). “Imitation and Originality”
Richard Vinograd (Stanford University). “Classification.”
Cao Yiqiang (China Academy of Arts). “English Terms and Chinese Art.”

5:00-5:30: Closing Remarks: Haun Saussy (University of Chicago)
For all conference inquiries, please contact Stephanie Harrell (sharrell@umich.edu)

5:30-6:00: Reception

6:30-8:30: Dinner (by invitation)

Building/Room: Ehrlicher Room
Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s)
Other Sponsor(s): History of Art University of Michigan
Conference Title: Room for Another View: China’s Art in Disciplinary Perspective
Presenter(s): Various, see Notes.
Contact Name: History of Art
Contact E-mail: histartadmiss@umich.edu
Contact Phone: 734.764.5400
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: This conference seeks to explore meta-disciplinary perspectives around such topics as academies, print, landscape, gardens, fashion, canons, and the language of art itself., Following decades of multicultural scholarship, History of Art seems poised to move beyond nation-centered narratives. For this purpose the rich record of artistic practice in China offers fertile ground for speculation. If we know, for instance, that landscape painting, art collecting, and critical writing emerged independently at two ends of the Eurasian Continent, will it now be possible to develop meta-theories of “landscape” or “pictorial realism”? Or is the language of art inextricably linked to culturally distinct cognitive and visual practices? This conference seeks to explore meta-disciplinary perspectives around such topics as academies, print, landscape, gardens, fashion, canons, and the language of art itself.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: www.lsa.umich.edu…

Residential Faculty Fellowships for 2012-2013

The Franke Institute for the Humanities
The University of Chicago
1100 East 57th Street, JRL S-102
Chicago, Illinois 60637
Friday, February 10, 2012

Click here to download the application cover. (Word doc)

Primary Sponsor: Franke Institute
Contact Name: James Chandler
Contact E-mail: docj@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-702-8247
Event Description: TO: All Faculty, Division of Humanities, All Faculty, History and Anthropology Departments, FROM: James Chandler, Director, RE: Residential Faculty Fellowships for 2012-2013, Each year the Franke Institute for the Humanities awards a limited number of Faculty Residential Fellowships to members of the University of Chicago faculty who are engaged in interdisciplinary projects. We will make up to seven awards for 2012-2013; the deadline for receipt of applications is Friday, February 10., All tenure-track or tenured members of both the Humanities faculty and the Social Sciences faculty are eligible to apply. Normally, we expect to appoint five or six faculty fellows from the Humanities Division and one from the Social Sciences. In the Humanities, we make an effort to balance awards among tenured and junior faculty, with some priority for junior faculty; in the Social Sciences, strong priority is given to junior faculty. The fellowship is understood to be especially useful for junior faculty midway to their tenure decision. With regard to the new Faculty Research Leave program, and in conjunction with a regularly scheduled, two-quarter leave granted by your division, the Franke Fellowship provides an additional third quarter of leave time. (In the Humanities Division, it also fulfills the criterion of a ‘prestigious’ fellowship.) Faculty Fellows are relieved of all teaching responsibilities for all three quarters of the award year, and are in residence at the Franke Institute for the full year. Department chairs are encouraged to free Fellows insofar as possible from regular committee and advisory responsibilities for the full year. The Institute provides quiet and isolated office space and administrative support for all Fellows., Applications should specify, in no more than 1500 words, the intellectual project from which the proposal emerges and the specific goals which are expected to be accomplished during the period of fellowship. The applications should also include a current curriculum vitae, the cover and signature sheet attached to this memo, and two letters of reference: one from an appropriate colleague in the applicant's field (from elsewhere) who is qualified to judge the merits of the project, the second from a Chicago faculty member (normally from the applicant's department) describing both the merits of the project and the applicant's potential and stature in the field. Applicants should confer with their Department Chair before deciding on referees; please note that the names of referees must appear on the cover sheet, and that the Department Chair must sign this sheet as validation of your eligibility for a three-quarter divisional leave during the prospective year of a Franke Fellowship. (Note: All leaves are subject to approval by the Dean and the Provost.), The Fellows chosen will be encouraged to propose activities (symposia, visiting lectures, etc.) relevant to their research topics for possible funding by the Franke Institute during the year, and will be expected to participate in biweekly seminars to discuss their ongoing work., Complete applications, including the letters from referees, should reach me at the Franke Institute by Friday, February 10th at 5:00 p.m. Awards will be announced by the beginning of Spring Quarter., Please contact either of us - James Chandler (docj@uchicago.edu) or Margot Browning (m-browning@uchicago.edu) - if you have questions about the preparation of proposal.
More info: franke.uchicago.edu

College Break

Friday, February 10, 2012

Primary Sponsor: University of Chicago

From the Adriatic to the Sulu Sea: Islam and Identity in Southeast Europe and Southeast Asia

Thursday @ International House, 1414 E. 59th Street
Friday & Saturday @ Franke Institute
Friday, February 10, 2012, 9am – 5:30pm

Building/Room: JRL S-118
Primary Sponsor: CEERES
Other Sponsor(s): CSEAS (Center for Southeast Asian Studies) at Northern Illinois University; Center for International Studies; Franke Institute (application pending)
Conference Title: “From the Adriatic to the Sulu Sea: Islam and Identity in Southeast Europe and Southeast Asia”
Presenter(s): Keynote speaker: Distinguished Professor Datuk Shamsul Amri Baharuddin (Malaysian National University)
Open to the Public: Yes
Cost: None
Contact Name: Meredith Clason
Contact E-mail: mclason@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-702-0866
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: franke.uchicago.edu…

SGSC Literature Pedagogy Workshop

Stuart Hall 101
Friday, February 10, 2012, 11:30am – 1:30pm

Building/Room: Stuart Hall/101
Primary Sponsor: Romance
Contact Name: Victoria Grefer
Contact E-mail: grefer@uchicago.edu

SAC petitions due

arenberg@uchicago.edu
Friday, February 10, 2012, 12 – 1pm

Graduate Student Workshop with Kelli Gardner

Social Science Tea Room
5730 South Ellis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637
Friday, February 10, 2012, 12 – 1pm

Refreshments will be served. Find more information at ccjsgraduateworkinggroup.wordpress.com or email workshop coordinators Katharine Pflaum and Joela Zeller at cjs.grad.ws@gmail.com.

Building/Room: Social Science Tea Room
Primary Sponsor: Chicago Center for Jewish Studies
Presenter(s): Kelli Gardner (Ph.D student in Hebrew Bible)
Title: My Mother’s House: Validations of Female Sexuality in the Song of Songs
Open to the Public: No
Contact Name: Miller Prosser
Contact E-mail: m-prosser@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Graduate Student only workshop. Much of the same language and imagery used to discuss the strange woman of Proverbs 1-9 are also used throughout the Song of Songs to describe the love-stricken female protagonist. Despite being described in analogous (and at times identical) terms and presented as engaging in similar actions, these two women are evaluated in divergent ways, seemingly on the basis of the opposed viewpoints and agendas of their respective texts. However, it seems likely that there is a common understanding of what is appropriate female behavior running through both texts. My presentation will focus specifically on Song of Songs 3:1-5 and Proverbs 7:6-27 and will examine the connection presented in Song 3 — highlighted by the comparison with Proverbs 7 — between the maiden, her mother, productive female sexuality, and societal validation.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Workshop with David S. Katz

Classics 110
1010 E. 59th St.
Friday, February 10, 2012, 12 – 1:30pm

Building/Room: Classics 110
Primary Sponsor: Chicago Center for Jewish Studies
Other Sponsor(s): The Nicholson Center for British Studies
Presenter(s): David S. Katz (Tel Aviv University)
Title: The Nationless Nationalism of Early Modern Anglo-Jewry
Contact Name: Miller Prosser
Contact E-mail: m-prosser@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-702-7108
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Visiting Committee Colloquium Series: Judith Lochhead (Stony Brook University)

Fulton Recital Hall, 1010 E. 59th Street
Friday, February 10, 2012, 3:30 – 5:30pm

All colloquium lectures are free and open to the public.

Building/Room: Goodspeed Hall, 4th floor
Primary Sponsor: Music
Other Sponsor(s): University of Chicago Department of Music Visiting Committee
Presenter: Judith Lochhead, Professor of Music History and Theory (Stony Brook University)
Lecture Title: “Difference Inhabits Repetition”: Gubaidulina’s Second String Quartet
Contact E-mail: musicdept@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773.702.8484
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: “Difference Inhabits Repetition”: Gubaidulina’s Second String Quartet, * In conjunction with the February 15 Contempo concert
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

LECTURE: AA BRONSON

Classics Building, 1010 E. 59th Street, room 110
Friday, February 10, 2012, 4:30 – 5:30pm

Building/Room: Classics 110
Primary Sponsor: DOVA
Presenter: AA Bronson
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: AA Bronson is an artist living and working in New York City. In the sixties, he left University with a group of friends to found a free school, a commune, and an underground newspaper. This led him into an adventure with gestalt therapy, radical education, and independent publishing. In 1969 he formed the artists’ group General Idea with Felix Partz and Jorge Zontal; for the next 25 years they lived and worked together to produce the living artwork of their being together, undertaking over 100 solo exhibitions, and countless group shows and temporary public art projects. They were known for their magazine FILE (1972-1989), their unrelenting production of low-cost multiples, and their early involvement in punk, queer theory, AIDS activism, and other manifestations of the other. In 1974 they founded Art Metropole, Toronto, a distribution center and archive for artists’ books, audio, video, and multiples, which they conceived as the shop and archive for their Gesamtkunstwerk: The 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion, a kind of meta-museum. From 1987 through 1994, they focused their work on the subject of AIDS. Since his partners died in 1994, AA has produced work focused on the subject of death, grieving, and healing, most recently his performance series Invocation of the Queer Spirits. From 2004 to 2010 he was the Director of Printed Matter, Inc. in New York City, founding the annual NY Art Book Fair in 2006, of which he is now Director. He also founded and co-directs the Institute for Art, Religion, and Social Justice at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. In 2008 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada, and in 2011 he was named a Chevalier de l’ordre des arts et des lettres (a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters) by the French government.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: aabronson.com

Moya Babushka/My Grandmother

Film Studies Center
5811 S. Ellis Ave.
Friday, February 10, 2012, 7pm

Building/Room: Cobb 307
Primary Sponsor: Film Studies Center
Other Sponsor(s): Department of Cinema & Media Studies
Contact Name: Film Studies Center
Contact Phone: 773-702-8596
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Live piano accompaniment by David Drazin., Introduction by Yuri Tsivian, Department of Cinema and Media Studies., Franz Kafka meets slapstick in this riotous, scathingly anti-bureaucratic satire — a genuine piece of grotesquerie descended from Gogol and the Soviet Eccentric cinema. Noted for its anarchic styles—which include stop-motion, puppetry, exaggerated camera angles and constructivist sets—the film unspools the foibles and follies that abound when a Georgian paper pusher, modeled after American silent comic Harold Lloyd, loses his job. (Kote Mikaberidze, 1929, 65 min, English intertitles, 35mm, Film Studies Center Archive)
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: filmstudiescenter.uchicago.edu…

From the Adriatic to the Sulu Sea: Islam and Identity in Southeast Europe and Southeast Asia

Thursday @ International House, 1414 E. 59th Street
Friday & Saturday @ Franke Institute
Saturday, February 11, 2012, 9am – 5:30pm

Building/Room: JRL S-118
Primary Sponsor: CEERES
Other Sponsor(s): CSEAS (Center for Southeast Asian Studies) at Northern Illinois University; Center for International Studies; Franke Institute (application pending)
Conference Title: “From the Adriatic to the Sulu Sea: Islam and Identity in Southeast Europe and Southeast Asia”
Presenter(s): Keynote speaker: Distinguished Professor Datuk Shamsul Amri Baharuddin (Malaysian National University)
Open to the Public: Yes
Cost: None
Contact Name: Meredith Clason
Contact E-mail: mclason@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-702-0866
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: franke.uchicago.edu…

"Narrating European Art, 1945/89" Symposium and Workshop

Cochrane-Woods Art Center 157
Saturday, February 11, 2012, 9am – 5pm

Building/Room: CWAC 157
Primary Sponsor: Art History
Conference Title: Narrating European Art, 1945/89
Presenter(s): Christine Mehring and Ralph Ubl
Contact Name: Alex Kostiw
Contact E-mail: karenina@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-702-0278
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: 9:00 a.m. - Coffee, 9:30-10:45 - Sebastian Egenhofer (Universitat Wien), "Kippenberger and Qehlen", Respondent Victoria Salinger (U of C), 10:45-11:00 - Break, 11:00-12:15 - Stefan Neuner (eikones/Universitat Basel), "Venice Archipelago: Spatial Structures in Luigi Nono's Prometeo", Respondent Adrian Anagnost (U of C), 12:15-1:30 - Break, 1:30-2:45 - Ralph Ubl (eikones/Universitat Basel), "Dieter Roth's Promiscuous Topology", Respondent Caroline Schopp (U of C), 2:45-3:45 - Roundtable with Speakers, Respondents, Jen Cohen (U of C), Matthew Jesse Jackson (U of C), Rachel Jans (U of C), Hannah Klemm (U of C), Christine Mehring (U of C)
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Piano Program: Concerto Workshop

Fulton Recital Hall, 1010 E. 59th Street
Saturday, February 11, 2012, 2 – 4pm

Building/Room: Goodspeed Hall, 4th floor
Primary Sponsor: Music
Presenter(s): Svetlana Belsky, piano
Title: Piano Program: Concerto Workshop
Open to the Public: Yes
Contact E-mail: musicdept@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773.702.8484
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Piano Program students will receive critique on their performances in anticipation of the biennial University Concerto Competition.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

University Chamber Orchestra

Fulton Recital Hall, 1010 E. 59th Street
Saturday, February 11, 2012, 8 – 9:30pm

Building/Room: Goodspeed Hall, 4th floor
Primary Sponsor: Music
Performer(s): University Chamber Orchestra
Cost: Free admission
Contact E-mail: musicdept@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773.702.8484
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Mozart 31 and highlights from the upcoming production of Gilbert & Sullivan's "The Gondoliers" (March 9-11, 2012. Mandel Hall. 773.702.9075). Tim Semanik, conductor.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Borders in Jewish Thought

Franke Institute Seminar Room, East Wing of Regenstein Library
1100 E. 57th St.
Monday, February 13, 2012, 9am – 6pm

The conference is made possible by the Chicago Center for Jewish Studies, The Franke Institute for the Humanities, the Committee on Social Thought, the Department of History, the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, the Divinity School at the University of Chicago.

Building/Room: Franke Institute
Primary Sponsor: Chicago Center for Jewish Studies
Other Sponsor(s): The Franke Institute for the Humanities, Committee on Social Thought, Divinity School, History, and NELC
Conference Title: Borders in Jewish Thought
Presenter(s): Rachel Havrelock, University of Illinois, Chicago, Ofri Ilani, Sam Shonkoff, Meredith Aska McBride, Hillel Ben Sasson, Adam Stern, Rachel Seeling, Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Toronto, Israel Yuval, Hebrew University Jerusalem
Open to the Public: Yes
Contact Name: Miller Prosser
Contact E-mail: m-prosser@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-702-7108
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: The conference will explore the ways in which Jews have invoked the borders of the Land of Israel as a malleable metaphor for considering a variety of issues that extend beyond geography. The Hebrew Bible presents several border schemes of the Land of Israel: some extend from the Nile to the Euphrates, while others are limited to the land of Canaan hemmed in by the Jordan; some emphasize natural boundaries while others delineate the borders according to ritual logic. Each scheme represents a different conception of the sanctity of space and the way divine favor is mapped onto the physical landscape. Thus, in biblical references to natural and political borders the landscape becomes a powerful metaphor for defining and upholding cultural and hermeneutical boundaries., Subsequently, Jews from antiquity to the present day have continued to use the borders of Israel as a broad interpretive category for thinking about a variety of religious, social, and political concerns. Even in their earliest formulations, the borders were not merely geographic markers, but a means of providing spatial representations for discourses of power, legitimization and communal identity with respect to real or imagined neighbors., The goal of this conference is to look at ways in which thinkers – such as Jewish pilgrims, sectarians, settlers, soldiers, poets, artists, politicians, philosophers, and exegetes – have invoked geographical language to articulate a wide spectrum of concerns.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: lucian.uchicago.edu…

Borders in Jewish Thought

The Franke Institute for the Humanities
1100 East 57th Street, JRL S-118
Chicago, IL 60637
Monday, February 13, 2012, 10am – 5pm

Building/Room: JRL S-118
Primary Sponsor: Chicago Center for Jewish Studies
Other Sponsor(s): The Franke Institute for the Humanities, Committee on Social Thought, Divinity School, History, and NELC
Conference Title: Borders in Jewish Thought
Presenter(s): Rachel Havrelock, University of Illinois, Chicago Ofri Ilani Sam Shonkoff Rhona Seidelman, Schusterman Visiting Israeli Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Hillel Ben Sasson Adam Stern Rachel Seeling, Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Toronto Israel Yuval, Hebrew University Jerusalem
Open to the Public: Yes
Cost: None
Contact Name: Miller Prosser
Contact E-mail: m-prosser@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-702-7108
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: The conference will explore the ways in which Jews have invoked the borders of the Land of Israel as a malleable metaphor for considering a variety of issues that extend beyond geography. The Hebrew Bible presents several border schemes of the Land of Israel: some extend from the Nile to the Euphrates, while others are limited to the land of Canaan hemmed in by the Jordan; some emphasize natural boundaries while others delineate the borders according to ritual logic. Each scheme represents a different conception of the sanctity of space and the way divine favor is mapped onto the physical landscape. Thus, in biblical references to natural and political borders the landscape becomes a powerful metaphor for defining and upholding cultural and hermeneutical boundaries. Subsequently, Jews from antiquity to the present day have continued to use the borders of Israel as a broad interpretive category for thinking about a variety of religious, social, and political concerns. Even in their earliest formulations, the borders were not merely geographic markers, but a means of providing spatial representations for discourses of power, legitimization and communal identity with respect to real or imagined neighbors. The goal of this conference is to look at ways in which thinkers – such as Jewish pilgrims, sectarians, settlers, soldiers, poets, artists, politicians, philosophers, and exegetes – have invoked geographical language to articulate a wide spectrum of concerns.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Geneviève-Artigas Menant Lunchtime Talk

Wb 207
Monday, February 13, 2012, 12 – 1:30pm

Building/Room: Wb 207
Primary Sponsor: Romance

South Asian Sound Interventions Presents: South Indian Film Song Workshop with Jassie Gift and Vijay Jacob

Fulton Recital Hall, 1010 E. 59th Street
Monday, February 13, 2012, 4:30 – 6pm

Part I provides a general overview of the creative process from a song's inception to its picturization on screen. In addition to gaining a deeper appreciation of the significance of song and dance scenes for South Asian film publics, participants learn about the many artistic roles and synergies engaged in setting dramatic situations musically.

Guided by film music director and playback singer Jassie Gift, and keyboardist Vijay Jacob, this pair of workshops introduces the art of composing, arranging, recording, and performing songs for commercial cinema in South India. Due to the collaborative nature of the workshops, only a limited number of participants can be accommodated. Students and other members of the University community who are interested in pre-registering should contact Rehanna Kheshgi (rehanna@uchicago.edu).

Building/Room: Goodspeed Hall, 4th floor
Primary Sponsor: Music
Presenter(s): Jassie Gift and Vijay Jacob
Title: South Asian Sound Interventions Presents: Cinematic Song Crafting (Part I)
Open to the Public: Yes
Contact Name: Rehanna Kheshgi
Contact E-mail: rehanna@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773.702.8484
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: South Asian Sound Interventions, A balanced regional representation of classical, popular, and vernacular musical repertories, this performing arts series provides opportunities for sustained engagement with South Asian artists and art worlds in our community. Guided by professional performers renowned for their originality, these events explore intersections of pedagogy and creative innovation in musical practices situated outside the canonic traditions of the Indian subcontinent.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: lucian.uchicago.edu…

LECTURE: BARRY SCHWABSKY

Cochrane-Woods Art Center, 5540 South Greenwood Ave, room 157
Monday, February 13, 2012, 5 – 6pm

Building/Room: TBD
Primary Sponsor: DOVA
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Barry Schwabsky is the art critic of The Nation and co-editor of international reviews for Artforum. His books include the two Vitamin P surveys of contemporary painting, published by Phaidon Press, as well as a collection of essays, The Widening Circle: Consequences of Modernism in Contemporary Art (Cambridge University Press) and several collectons of poetry, among them Opera: Poems 1981-2002 (Meritage Press) and Book Left Open in the Rain (Black Square Editions/The Brooklyn Rail_.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

"When a Woman Ascends the Stairs"

Doc Films
1212 E 59th St
Chicago, IL 60637
Monday, February 13, 2012, 7 – 9pm

Monday Film Series
Naruse & Takamine: Of an Auteur and Actress

General Admission: $5
Quarterly Membership: $30 ($28 if you present proof of membership from the previous quarter)
Summer Membership: $20

Building/Room: Doc Films
Primary Sponsor: CEAS
Contact Name: Doc Films
Contact Phone: 773-702-8575
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Mikio Naruse, 1960 • Exhibiting a formal elegance and economy that’s striking even for Naruse, When a Woman Ascends the Stairs is justly acclaimed as a classic of World Cinema. Playing Keiko, a widowed bar hostess in Tokyo, Hideko Takamine gives potent and commanding performances. As we watch Kieko struggling to climb through a rigid social order, minute details are "excavated”, acquiring profound psychological importance. When Naruse expands the scope of the film, the landscape that engulfs Keiko is revealed to be even more cold and desolate than it initially appeared. 35mm
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: docfilms.uchicago.edu…

South Asian Sound Interventions Presents: South Indian Film Song Workshop with Jassie Gift and Vijay Jacob

Fulton Recital Hall, 1010 E. 59th Street
Tuesday, February 14, 2012, 1:30 – 3pm

Cinematic Song Crafting: Part II

Part II invites participants to collaborate with Jassie Gift and Vijay Jacob on crafting a film song in response to a dramatic situation that Jassie himself was given in one of his earlier film projects. Drawing on the group's collective body of musical skill sets and knowledge, workshop participants will develop a working outline for a song that serves a specific purpose on screen, whether it be advancing the narrative, amplifying characters or relationships, evoking wider historical and cultural frames of reference, or creating space for fantasy and transgression. The group will have an opportunity to perform their working song idea as the prelude to Jassie Gift's concert at Fulton Recital Hall on Friday evening, February 17.

Building/Room: Goodspeed Hall, 4th floor
Primary Sponsor: Music
Presenter(s): Jassie Gift and Vijay Jacob
Title: South Asian Sound Interventions Presents: Cinematic Song Crafting (Part II)
Open to the Public: Yes
Contact Name: Rehanna Kheshgi
Contact E-mail: rehanna@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773.702.8484
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: South Asian Sound Interventions, A balanced regional representation of classical, popular, and vernacular musical repertories, this performing arts series provides opportunities for sustained engagement with South Asian artists and art worlds in our community. Guided by professional performers renowned for their originality, these events explore intersections of pedagogy and creative innovation in musical practices situated outside the canonic traditions of the Indian subcontinent., Guided by film music director and playback singer Jassie Gift, and keyboardist Vijay Jacob, this pair of workshops introduces the art of composing, arranging, recording, and performing songs for commercial cinema in South India. Due to the collaborative nature of the workshops, only a limited number of participants can be accommodated.Students and other members of the University community who are interested in pre-registering should contact Rehanna Kheshgi (rehanna@uchicago.edu).
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: lucian.uchicago.edu…

Music History/Theory Workshop: Andrew Westerhaus

Joseph Regenstein Library, 1100 E . 57th Street
Tuesday, February 14, 2012, 3:30 – 5:30pm

Building/Room: Seminar Room 264
Primary Sponsor: Music
Presenter(s): Andrew Westerhaus
Title: TBA
Open to the Public: Yes
Contact Name: Mary Caldwell
Contact E-mail: marycaldwell@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Those needing additional assistance to attend this event should contact one of the graduate coordinators, Mary Caldwell (marycaldwell@uchicago.edu) or August Sheehy (aasheehy@uchicago.edu)
More info: cas.uchicago.edu…

Divinity School Lectures on Chinese Religions: “Searching For a Better Return: Pre-mortem Rituals and the Economy of Salvation in Chinese Religions"

Swift Hall
1025 E. 58th St.
Chicago, IL
Tuesday, February 14, 2012, 4:30 – 5:30pm

Building/Room: 3rd Floor Lecture Hall
Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s)
Other Sponsor(s): Divinity School
Presenter: James Robson, Associate Professor of Chinese Buddhism, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
Lecture Title: “Searching For a Better Return: Pre-mortem Rituals and the Economy of Salvation in Chinese Religions"
Contact Name: Margaret Mitchell
Contact E-mail: mmmitche@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.

Chamber Music Master Class with Artist-In-Residence Pacifica Quartet

Fulton Recital Hall, 1010 E. 59th Street
Tuesday, February 14, 2012, 7 – 9pm

Building/Room: Goodspeed Hall, 4th floor
Primary Sponsor: Music
Presenter(s): Artist-In-Residence Pacifica Quartet
Title: Chamber Music Master Class with Artist-In-Residence Pacifica Quartet
Open to the Public: Yes
Contact E-mail: musicdept@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773.702.8484
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

History and Forms of Lyric: Roundtable on Seeing Double: Baudelaire's Modernity

Social Sciences Tea Room
Wednesday, February 15, 2012, 4 – 6pm

Building/Room: Social Sciences 201
Primary Sponsor: Poetry & Poetics
Presenter: Mark Payne, Alison James, and others
Lecture Title: Roundtable on Seeing Double: Baudelaire's Modernity, by Francoise Meltzer
Contact Name: Kate Soto
Contact E-mail: katesoto@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773.834.8524
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: The poet Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) has been labeled the very icon of modernity, the scribe of the modern city, and an observer of an emerging capitalist culture. Seeing Double reconsiders this iconic literary figure and his fraught relationship with the nineteenth-century world by examining the way in which he viewed the increasing dominance of modern life. In doing so, it revises some of our most common assumptions about the unresolved tensions that emerged in Baudelaire’s writing during a time of political and social upheaval.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Annan Award Reading

Rosenwald 405
Wednesday, February 15, 2012, 4 – 7pm

Building/Room: Rosenwald 405
Primary Sponsor: Creative Writing
Contact Name: Kate Soto
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: creativewriting.uchicago.edu

Screening of Malayalam film Pokkiri Raja (The Rogue King), directed by Vyshakh (2010)

Franke Institute for the Humanities, 1100 E. 57th Street
Wednesday, February 15, 2012, 7 – 9pm

Film screening events are often attended by directors, but rare are occasions when audiences have a chance to ask sound specialists about the roles they perform behind the screen. As part of the week-long series of events organized for the campus visit of South Indian film music director Jassie Gift, the Franke Center for the Humanities will host a screening of his film, Pokkiri Raja (2010), followed by a Q and A session that will also include Vijay Jacob, a studio musician and arranger who worked for Jassie on the project.

Building/Room: First floor
Primary Sponsor: Music
Other Sponsor(s): Franke Institute for the Humanities
Presenter(s): Film Music Director, Jassie Gift
Title: Screening of Malayalam film Pokkiri Raja (The Rogue King), directed by Vyshakh (2010)
Open to the Public: Yes
Contact Name: Rehanna Kheshgi
Contact E-mail: rehanna@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773.702.8484
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: South Asian Sound Interventions, A balanced regional representation of classical, popular, and vernacular musical repertories, this performing arts series provides opportunities for sustained engagement with South Asian artists and art worlds in our community. Guided by professional performers renowned for their originality, these events explore intersections of pedagogy and creative innovation in musical practices situated outside the canonic traditions of the Indian subcontinent.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
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Contempo: Celebrating Sofia Gubaidulina

Harris Theater for Music and Dance, 205 E. Randolph Drive
Wednesday, February 15, 2012, 7:30 – 9:30pm

Building/Room: Harris Theater
Primary Sponsor: Chicago Presents
Performance Title: Contempo: Celebrating Sofia Gubaidulina
Performer(s): eighth blackbird, Pacifica Quartet
Cost: $25 / $5 students
Ticket Phone: 312.334.7777
Ticket Web Link: harristheaterchicago.org
Contact Name: Chicago Presents
Contact E-mail: chicagopresents@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773.702.8068
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Shulamit Ran, artistic director, eighth blackbird, Pacifica Quartet, Tony Arnold, soprano, Ricardo Rivera, baritone, Collins Trier, double bass, Stas Venglevski, bayan (Russian accordion), Sofia Gubaidulina:, A Pilgrimage of Four (world premiere), Perception, In croce This all-Sofia Gubaidulina program includes the world premiere of A Pilgrimage of Four, commissioned for Contempo by The Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation in the Library of Congress and The Koussevitzky Music Foundation, Inc. This event is a part of the Soviet Arts Experience.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: contempo.uchicago.edu

EXHIBITION: FEAST- Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art

Smart Museum of Art, 5550 South Greenwood Avenue
Wednesday, February 15, 7:30pm – Sunday, June 10, 2012, 5pm

Image: Detail of Michael Rakowitz's working sketch for the Enemy Kitchen food truck.

Building/Room: Smart Museum
Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s)
Other Sponsor(s): Smart Museum of Art
Exhibition Title: Feast: Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art
Open to the Public: Yes
Cost: free
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: The act of sharing food and drink with others is a basic human pleasure and an enduring source of aesthetic inspiration. Today, the shared meal has become a compelling artistic medium: a surprising number of artists are using meals to advance aesthetic goals and foster critical engagement with our current culture. These artist-orchestrated meals can offer a radical form of hospitality that punctures everyday experience, using food as a means to spark encounters and perceptions that aren't otherwise possible within our fast-moving and overly segmented society. Feast surveys these practices for the first time. Through a series of new art commissions in public spaces and a presentation within the Smart Museum, the exhibition will introduce new artists and contextualize their work in relation to some of the most influential artists of the last century, from the Italian Futurists to Gordon Matta-Clark and Rirkrit Tiravanija. Feast addresses the radical hospitality embodied by these artists and the social, commercial, and political structures that surround the experience of the shared meal., Artists, Feast includes art, documentary materials, and new public projects by Marina Abramović and Ulay, Sonja Alhäuser, Mary Ellen Carroll / Itinerant Gastronomy, Fallen Fruit, Theaster Gates, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, InCUBATE, The Italian Futurists, Mella Jaarsma, Alison Knowles, Suzanne Lacy, Lee Mingwei, Laura Letinsky, Tom Marioni, Gordon Matta-Clark, Mildred's Lane, Julio César Morales, motiroti, National Bitter Melon Council, Ana Prvacki, Sudsiri Pui-Ock, Michael Rakowitz, Ayman Ramadan, Red 76, David Robbins, Allen Ruppersberg, Bonnie Sherk, Barbara T. Smith, Daniel Spoerri, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and others., Curator, Stephanie Smith, Smart Museum Deputy Director and Chief Curator., Support, Feast is made possible by an Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award. Generous major support has also been provided by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The Chicago Community Trust, Helen Zell, the Chauncey and Marion Deering McCormick Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support is provided by the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, the Richard and Mary L. Gray Foundation, the University of Chicago's Arts Council, and Janis Kanter and Tom McCormick.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Audible Intimacies: A Symposium on Song in South Indian Cinema

Classics Building, 1010 E. 59th Street
Thursday, February 16, 2012, 9am – 2:30pm

Song and dance scenes perform several functions in South Indian film. They advance narratives, amplify characters and relationships, evoke wider cultural frames of reference, and create moments and spaces of intimacy on and beyond the screen. Despite the tremendous historical and contemporary relevance of film music in the daily lives of listeners, work on South Asian expressive cultures has only recently begun to explore the public and private intimacies film songs engender. With the intention of facilitating new research synergies in South Asian film studies, this symposium brings together a diverse group of scholars who share a common interest in considering the agents and affects of intimacies in songs that span the devotional, the nostalgic, the ordinary, the utopian, and the transgressive in South Indian cinema.

Building/Room: Room 110
Primary Sponsor: Music
Conference Title: Audible Intimacies: A Symposium on Song in South Indian Cinema
Presenter(s): Keynote Address by Rolf Groesbeck
Open to the Public: Yes
Cost: Free admission
Contact Name: Rehanna Kheshgi
Contact E-mail: rehanna@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: South Asian Sound Interventions, A balanced regional representation of classical, popular, and vernacular musical repertories, this performing arts series provides opportunities for sustained engagement with South Asian artists and art worlds in our community. Guided by professional performers renowned for their originality, these events explore intersections of pedagogy and creative innovation in musical practices situated outside the canonic traditions of the Indian subcontinent., Students and other members of the University community who are interested in pre-registering should contact Rehanna Kheshgi (rehanna@uchicago.edu).
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: lucian.uchicago.edu…

Noontime Concert Series: Ana Fau, piano

Fulton Recital Hall, 1010 E. 59th Street
Thursday, February 16, 2012, 12:15 – 1:15pm

These free lunchtime concerts begin at 12:15 PM each Thursday in Fulton Recital Hall.

Building/Room: Goodspeed Hall, 4th floor
Primary Sponsor: Music
Performance Title: Noontime Concert Series: Ana Fau, piano
Performer(s): Ana Fau, piano
Cost: Free admission
Contact E-mail: musicdept@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773.702.8484
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Ana Fau, piano
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

United States 2010 Census Asian Population Surge: Effects and Opportunities

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
230 S. LaSalle Street
Chicago, IL 60604
Thursday, February 16, 2012, 4 – 6pm

Reservations: www.jaschicago.org… or call (312-263-3049)
Pre-Registration required no later than February 13, 2012

Due to building security restrictions, no walk-ins will be permitted. Please leave ample time to go through security checks.

Building/Room: Federal Reserve Bank
Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s)
Other Sponsor(s): Japan America Society of Chicago
Conference Title: United States 2010 Census Asian Population Surge: Effects and Opportunities
Presenter(s): Stephen Laue, Information Specialist, US Census Bureau Presentation on size and distribution of the Asian population in the Chicago area: trends and characteristics of the Asian population in the U.S., Hiroaki Sato, Senior Research Fellow, JETRO New York, Discuss social and cultural phenomena rising from East Asian immigrants in the last decade., Tony Shu, President of the Chicago Chinatown Chamber of Commerce, Provide insights on the Chinatown redistricting and political implications and discuss changes in Chinese purchasing power and demographics., Bob Kumaki, President of the Ronin Group and Author of Many Cultures - One Market, Discuss implications and strategic insight for marketing professionals., Moderated by Ken G. Kabira, Lions Club International Experienced global marketing expert
Open to the Public: Yes
Cost: $25 JASC Members; $40 Non - Members
Contact Name: Japan America Society of Chicago
Contact Phone: (312) 263-3049
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: This census is one of the most data-rich environments we have at our disposal, yet few companies go beyond the nominal level of analysis to discover what the numbers really mean. We are gathering a panel of professionals to present an overview of the most recent 2010 Census, which identifies the Asian Population in the US and Chicagoland area and to provide attendees with its social and commercial implications., 3:30 - 4:00 p.m. Registration, 4:00 - 5:40 p.m. Presentations, 5:40 - 6:00 p.m. Questions and Answers
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: www.jaschicago.org…

Meltzer Roundtable

Social Sciences Tea Room
Thursday, February 16, 2012, 4:30 – 6:30pm

Building/Room: SS 201
Primary Sponsor: Poetry & Poetics
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.

Workshop by Jonathan Glade

Judd 313
5835 S Kimbark Ave
Chicago, IL
Friday, February 17, 2012, 3 – 5pm

Building/Room: Judd Hall 313
Primary Sponsor: CAS Workshops
Other Sponsor(s): CEAS
Presenter(s): Jonathan Glade
Title: TBA
Contact Name: Daniel Johnson
Contact E-mail: djohn@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Art and Politics in East Asia, This workshop provides a common intellectual forum for students and scholars of diverse fields investigating the interaction of aesthetics with political economics as reflected in textual and visual media in East Asia.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: cas.uchicago.edu…

Visiting Committee Colloquium Series: Rolf Groesbeck (University of Arkansas at Little Rock)

Fulton Recital Hall, 1010 E. 59th Street
Friday, February 17, 2012, 3:30 – 5:30pm

All colloquium lectures are free and open to the public.

Building/Room: Goodspeed Hall, 4th floor
Primary Sponsor: Music
Other Sponsor(s): University of Chicago Department of Music Visiting Committee
Presenter: Rolf Groesbeck, Associate Professor of Music History, Ethnomusicology and Director of the Indian Percussion Ensemble (University of Arkansas at Little Rock)
Lecture Title: “Improvisation and Pedagogy (and their occasional absences) in Kerala, India"
Contact E-mail: musicdept@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773.702.8484
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Presentation by Chelsea Foxwell (University of Chicago)

Chochrane-Woods Arts Center, Room 156
5540 South Greenwood Ave
Chicago, IL
Friday, February 17, 2012, 4 – 6pm

Visual and Material Perspectives on East Asia
This workshop serves as a critical forum for the presentation of work addressing problems in the visual and material studies of East Asia, a region defined broadly to include China, Central, Asia, Japan, Korea, and Tibet. This workshop explores if and how theories of visuality current in western contexts may be applied to East Asia, and how approaches from both Eastern and Western scholarship may be fruitfully combined in visual and material studies.

Building/Room: CWAC 156
Primary Sponsor: CAS Workshops
Other Sponsor(s): CEAS
Presenter(s): Chelsea Foxwell (University of Chicago)
Title: TBD
Contact Name: Jin Xu
Contact E-mail: xu.gene@hotmail.com
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Visual and Material Perspectives on East Asia, This workshop serves as a critical forum for the presentation of work addressing problems in the visual and material studies of East Asia, a region defined broadly to include China, Central, Asia, Japan, Korea, and Tibet. This workshop explores if and how theories of visuality current in western contexts may be applied to East Asia, and how approaches from both Eastern and Western scholarship may be fruitfully combined in visual and material studies.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: cas.uchicago.edu…

South Asian Sound Interventions Series: A Garland of South Indian Film Songs with Jassie Gift and Vijay Jacob

Fulton Recital Hall, 1010 E. 59th Street
Friday, February 17, 2012, 7 – 8:30pm

Film music director and playback singer Jassie Gift took Malayalam commercial cinema by storm in 2004 with the songs he composed and sang for the blockbuster film, 4 the People, which was later dubbed in three other South Indian languages. In contrast with dominant classical film song aesthetics favoring raga-inspired songs with light textures that emphasize the voice, he developed a rhythmically driven sound that combined South Indian vernacular and Black Atlantic stylistic features. Drawing from sources as varied as Christian hymns, folk traditions, and more recent encounters with reggae, hip-hop, and rock idioms, he has evolved a highly eclectic musical style along the same vein as world renowned innovator A. R. Rahman, the Oscar-winning composer for the 2008 film, Slumdog Millionaire. Gift has since expanded his musical reach by composing and performing on soundtracks in the Telegu, Kannada, and Tamil film industries.

Keyboardist Vijay Jacob also started his career as a Church musician before becoming a regular freelance performer at stage shows, a recording artist, and a professional arranger for television and cinema. Whereas Jassie focuses on composing songs and soundtrack themes, Vijay specializes in arranging the composer’s ideas for electronic and acoustic recordings. Vijay also works across the four South Indian industries based in Thiruvananthapuram, Bangalore, Chennai, and Hyderabad.

Building/Room: Goodspeed Hall, 4th floor
Primary Sponsor: Music
Performance Title: South Asian Sound Interventions Series: A Garland of South Indian Film Songs
Cost: Free admission
Contact Name: Rehanna Kheshgi
Contact E-mail: rehanna@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: South Asian Sound Interventions, A balanced regional representation of classical, popular, and vernacular musical repertories, this performing arts series provides opportunities for sustained engagement with South Asian artists and art worlds in our community. Guided by professional performers renowned for their originality, these events explore intersections of pedagogy and creative innovation in musical practices situated outside the canonic traditions of the Indian subcontinent., Students and other members of the University community who are interested in pre-registering should contact Rehanna Kheshgi (rehanna@uchicago.edu).
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: lucian.uchicago.edu…

Fauré Quartett

Mandel Hall, 1131 E. 57th Street
Friday, February 17, 2012, 7:30 – 9:30pm

Building/Room: Mandel Hall
Primary Sponsor: Chicago Presents
Performance Title: Fauré Quartett
Performer(s): Erika Geldsetzer, Dirk Mommertz, Sascha Frömbling, Konstantin Heidrich
Cost: $35 / $5 students
Ticket Phone: 773.702.8068
Contact Name: Chicago Presents
Contact E-mail: chicagopresents@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773.702.8068
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Mahler: Piano Quartet in A minor, Fauré: Piano Quartet No. 2 in G minor, op. 45, Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, op. 25, The award winning, up and coming piano quartet continues to receive rave review from across the globe, described as having “flawless precision and breathtaking musicality” (Deustchland Radio) and “chamber music making of the highest order” (Radio Bremen). Hear them perform signature piano quartets, including the Fauré, in their Chicago debut., "The Faure Quartett began their life together by scooping numerous European chamber music prizes: now they attract superlatives wherever they go." (The Strad)
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: chicagopresents.uchicago.edu

New Music Ensemble

Fulton Recital Hall, 1010 E. 59th Street
Saturday, February 18, 2012, 8 – 9:30pm

Reception to follow.

Building/Room: Goodspeed Hall, 4th floor
Primary Sponsor: Music
Performer(s): New Music Ensemble, Spektral Quartet, and Patrice Michaels, soprano
Cost: Free admission
Contact E-mail: musicdept@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773.702.8484
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: New Music Ensemble, Spektral Quartet with Patrice Michaels, soprano featuring Univ. of Chicago composers Tomas Gueglio, Kate Pukinskis,, Dylan Schneider, and Alex Stephenson.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

University Wind Ensemble: The Best of Bernstein

Mandel Hall, 1131 E. 57th Street
Sunday, February 19, 2012, 4 – 5pm

Building/Room: Reynolds Club
Primary Sponsor: Music
Performance Title: University Wind Ensemble: The Best of Bernstein
Performer(s): University Wind Ensemble
Cost: Free admission
Contact E-mail: musicdept@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773.702.8484
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Spring Quarter Registration

Monday, February 20 – Friday, February 24, 2012

Please contact your department for registration instructions.

Building/Room: Walker Museum, Room 111
Primary Sponsor: Dean of Students
Contact Name: Miranda Swanson, Associate Dean of Students
Contact E-mail: miranda@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-702-8498
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu…

Sylvain Menant Lunchtime Talk

Wb 207
Monday, February 20, 2012, 12 – 1:30pm

Building/Room: Wb 207
Primary Sponsor: Romance

Music History/Theory Workshop: Trent Leipert

Joseph Regenstein Library, 1100 E . 57th Street
Monday, February 20, 2012, 4:30 – 6:30pm

Building/Room: Seminar Room 264
Primary Sponsor: Music
Presenter(s): Trent Leipert
Title: TBA
Open to the Public: Yes
Contact Name: Mary Caldwell
Contact E-mail: marycaldwell@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Those needing additional assistance to attend this event should contact one of the graduate coordinators, Mary Caldwell (marycaldwell@uchicago.edu) or August Sheehy (aasheehy@uchicago.edu)
More info: cas.uchicago.edu…

Divinity School Lectures on Chinese Religions: "The Other as My Future's Past: Strong Misreadings of Kumarajiva's Lotus Sutra Translation in Tiantai Buddhism and their Interaxiological Implications"

Swift Hall
1025 E. 58th St.
Chicago, IL
Monday, February 20, 2012, 4:30 – 5:30pm

Building/Room: 3rd Floor Lecture Hall
Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s)
Other Sponsor(s): Divinity School
Presenter: Brook A. Ziporyn, Associate Professor Department of Religious Studies Department of Philosophy Northwestern University
Lecture Title: "The Other as My Future's Past: Strong Misreadings of Kumarajiva's Lotus Sutra Translation in Tiantai Buddhism and their Interaxiological Implications"
Contact Name: Margaret Mitchell
Contact E-mail: mmmitche@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.

Alvin Rosenfeld: The 2012 Gossett Lecture

Swift Hall, Common Room
1025 E. 58th St.
Monday, February 20, 2012, 5:30 – 7:30pm

Alvin H. Rosenfeld, Professor of English and Jewish Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington, received his Ph.D. from Brown University in 1967 and has taught at Indiana University since 1968. He holds the Irving M. Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies and is Director of the university’s Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism. He founded Indiana University's well-regarded Borns Jewish Studies Program and served as its director for 30 years.

The editor of William Blake: Essays (1969) and the Collected Poetry of John Wheelwright (1972), he is also the author of numerous scholarly and critical articles on American poetry, Jewish writers, and the literature of the Holocaust. Indiana University Press published his Confronting the Holocaust: The Impact of Elie Wiesel (co-edited with Irving Greenberg) in 1979 and, in 1980, published his A Double Dying: Reflections on Holocaust Literature (the book has since appeared in German, Polish, and Hungarian translations). With his wife, Erna Rosenfeld, he translated Gunther Schwarberg's The Murders at Bullenhuser Damm, a book on Nazi medical atrocities published by the Indiana University Press in 1984. His Imagining Hitler was published by Indiana University Press in 1985 (available also in a Japanese translation). He edited Thinking About the Holocaust: After Half a Century (Indiana University Press, 1997), a collection of articles by 13 scholars, which includes his essay, “The Americanization of the Holocaust.” His The Writer Uprooted: Contemporary Jewish Exile Literature appeared with Indiana University Press in 2009. His most recent study, The End of the Holocaust, was published in April, 2011. In recent years, he has also been writing about contemporary antisemitism, and some of his articles on this subject have evoked intense debate. Resurgent Antisemitism: Global Perspectives, an edited volume, will appear in 2012. He is also editor of a series of books on Jewish Literature and Culture published by Indiana University Press.

Professor Rosenfeld has served as an editorial board member of various scholarly journals, including Holocaust and Genocide Studies, as well as a board member and scholarly consultant to various Jewish institutions and organizations, including the Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee, the Lilly Endowment, the Wexner Heritage Foundation, and the Koret Foundation. He held a 5-year Presidential appointment on the United States Holocaust Memorial Council (2002-2007) and presently serves on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Executive Committee. He is Chair of the Academic Committee of the Museum’s Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies.

Building/Room: Swift Hall, Common Room
Primary Sponsor: Chicago Center for Jewish Studies
Presenter: Alvin Rosenfeld (Indiana University)
Lecture Title: Primo Levi and the Germans: Is Forgiveness Possible after Auschwitz?
Contact Name: Miller Prosser
Contact E-mail: m-prosser@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-702-7108
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: In four decades of thinking and writing about the Holocaust following his liberation from Auschwitz, Primo Levi carried on an intense moral and intellectual engagement with Germany and the Germans. His greatest wish was to understand the people who had been his persecutors, to judge them, and, if possible, to forgive them. But despite many years of probing reflection on the Nazi crimes and those who had perpetrated them, Levi came to the conclusion that he was a failure. This lecture will examine Levi’s sustained confrontation with Germany in the post-Holocaust period and offer some insights into why an impassioned need to come to clarity about the Germans was both so critical and so frustrating to this important author.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

"Daughters, Wives and a Mother"

Doc Films
1212 E 59th St
Chicago, IL 60637
Monday, February 20, 2012, 7 – 9pm

Monday Film Series
Naruse & Takamine: Of an Auteur and Actress

General Admission: $5
Quarterly Membership: $30 ($28 if you present proof of membership from the previous quarter)
Summer Membership: $20

Building/Room: Doc Films
Primary Sponsor: CEAS
Contact Name: Doc Films
Contact Phone: 773-702-8575
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Mikio Naruse, 1960 • Displaying a crowning mastery of 'Scope and color, Daughters, Wives and a Mother, raises the familial tensions recurrent in Naruse's oeuvre to a sublime plane. A melodrama of considerable vastness, with a psychological depth worthy of Henry James, and a strong ensemble of Japanese stars of the era (including Setsuko Hara at the center), it also has one of the great transcendental endings in all of cinema. Hara plays Sanae Sakanishi, whose recently-deceased husband left her a sizable insurance payoff, an act that prompts much discord, quarreling, and backbiting with the husband's family. 35mm
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: docfilms.uchicago.edu…

Talk with Santiago Fernandez Mosquera

TBA
Tuesday, February 21, 2012, 1:30 – 3pm

Building/Room: TBA
Primary Sponsor: Romance
Event Description: “Las razones de la reescritura en Quevedo: el crisol de Providencia de Dios”

“Local Governance, Informal Institutions and Authoritarian Survival: The Politics of Protestant House Churches in China”

Pick Lounge
5828 S University Ave
Chicago, IL
Tuesday, February 21, 2012, 4 – 5:30pm

Building/Room: Pick Lounge
Primary Sponsor: CAS Workshops
Other Sponsor(s): CEAS
Presenter(s): Marie-Eve Reny, Postdoctoral Fellow of Political Science, University of Chicago
Title: “Local Governance, Informal Institutions and Authoritarian Survival: The Politics of Protestant House Churches in China”
Contact Name: Yang Zhang
Contact E-mail: yangzhang@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: East Asia: Politics, Economy, Society, Culture, This workshop focuses on current social science research on East Asian societies, particularly Mainland China, Taiwan, Korea and Japan. The scope of the workshop is truly interdisciplinary, attracting students and faculty from economics, political science, sociology, international studies, and various other areas.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: cas.uchicago.edu…

Dissertation Proposal: Samuel Boyd

LaSalle Banks (OI)
Wednesday, February 22, 2012, 10:30 – 11:30am

Primary Sponsor: NELC

Perception and Understanding of Music Workshop: Lawrence Zbikowski (University of Chicago)

Goodspeed Hall, 1010 E. 59th Street
Wednesday, February 22, 2012, 4:30 – 6:30pm

Building/Room: Classroom 205
Primary Sponsor: Music
Presenter(s): Lawrence Zbikowski, Associate Professor, Department of Music (University of Chicago)
Title: TBA
Open to the Public: Yes
Contact Name: Stephen Hedger
Contact E-mail: shedger@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773.702.8484
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: cas.uchicago.edu…

TO BE RESCHEDULED: Emerging Writers, Nonfiction: Joshuah Bearman

RESCHEDULED
Wednesday, February 22, 2012, 4:30 – 5:30pm

A writer and editor at LA Weekly, Joshuah Bearman has contributed to The New York Times, The Huffington Post, Rolling Stone, Harper’s, Wired, The Believer, McSweeney’s, as well as This American Life.

Building/Room: Homeroom, I-House
Primary Sponsor: Creative Writing
Contact Name: Kate Soto
Contact E-mail: katesoto@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: RESCHEDULED.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: creativewriting.uchicago.edu

Noontime Concert Series: Jazz Combo

Fulton Recital Hall, 1010 E. 59th Street
Thursday, February 23, 2012, 12:15 – 1:15pm

These free lunchtime concerts begin at 12:15 PM each Thursday in Fulton Recital Hall.

Building/Room: Goodspeed Hall, 4th floor
Primary Sponsor: Music
Performance Title: Noontime Concert Series: Jazz Combo
Performer(s): Jazz Combo
Cost: Free admission
Contact E-mail: musicdept@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773.702.8484
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Jazz Combo
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Workshop by Helen Findley

1126 E. 59th St.
Chicago, IL 60637
Thursday, February 23, 2012, 4 – 6pm

East Asia: Trans-Regional Histories
This workshop invites University of Chicago graduate students and faculty, as well as scholars from other academic communities, to present creative and original work that speaks across the national lines of East Asia as well as the disciplinary lines of the academic community. Joint presentations among participants that incorporate multidisciplinary and/or trans-regional historical perspectives are especially encouraged.

Building/Room: SS 224
Primary Sponsor: CAS Workshops
Other Sponsor(s): CEAS
Presenter(s): Helen Findley (PhD Candidate, EALC, U Chicago)
Title: TBA
Contact Name: Jun Hyung Chae
Contact E-mail: jhchae@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.

EthNoise! The Ethnomusicology Workshop: Suzi Wint

Goodspeed Hall, 1010 E. 59th Street
Thursday, February 23, 2012, 4:30 – 6:30pm

Building/Room: Classroom 205
Primary Sponsor: Music
Presenter(s): Suzi Wint
Title: TBA
Open to the Public: Yes
Contact Name: Will Faber
Contact E-mail: wfaber@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773.702.8484
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Persons with a disability who believe they may need assistance, please email Will Faber in advance at wfaber@uchicago.edu.
More info: cas.uchicago.edu…

Michael Segal, The Writing On the Wall: Dreams and Riddles in the Book of Daniel

TBA
Thursday, February 23, 2012, 5:30 – 6:30pm

Dr. Michael Segal is the Chair of the Department of Bible at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (on sabbatical during the 2011-12 academic year), and also serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Hebrew University Bible Project. His research interests center upon Jewish literature of the Second Temple Period, including the late Biblical books, Dead Sea Scrolls, Apocrypha, and Pseudepigrapha; the textual history of the Hebrew Bible; and ancient Jewish Biblical interpretation. His first book, entitled The Book of Jubilees: Rewritten Bible, Redaction, Ideology and Theology (English: Brill; Hebrew: Magnes; 2007), was awarded the Polonsky Prize for Creativity and Originality in the Humanistic Disciplines (2008). He is currently writing two books on the Book of Daniel. The first will consist of a collection of interpretive studies of central passages in the book. The second will be a complete, critical commentary of Daniel and the Additions to Daniel for the Anchor Yale Bible Series.

Building/Room: TBA
Primary Sponsor: Chicago Center for Jewish Studies
Other Sponsor(s): American Friends of the Hebrew University (Midwest Region)
Presenter: Michael Segal
Lecture Title: The Writing On the Wall: Dreams and Riddles in the Book of Daniel
Contact Name: Miller Prosser
Contact E-mail: m-prosser@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-702-7108
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Graduate Student Workshop with Sam Brody

Social Science Tea Room
5730 South Ellis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637
Friday, February 24, 2012, 12 – 1pm

Refreshments will be served. Find more information at ccjsgraduateworkinggroup.wordpress.com or email workshop coordinators Katharine Pflaum and Joela Zeller at cjs.grad.ws@gmail.com.

Building/Room: Social Science Tea Room
Primary Sponsor: Chicago Center for Jewish Studies
Presenter(s): Sam Brody (Ph.D student in History of Judaism)
Title: A Jewish Solution to the Zionist Problem, or, Why Martin Buber Considered Isaiah 30:15 More Realistic than Rifle Practice
Open to the Public: No
Contact Name: Miller Prosser
Contact E-mail: m-prosser@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Graduate Student only workshop. This paper argues that Buber’s career as a public intellectual raises and sharpens the question of the opposition between “realism” and “utopianism” in politics. This can be seen on two levels: the level of the reception of Buber as a political thinker, and the level of his actual engagement with and impact on the public through speeches, editorials, and activism., On the first level, the paper argues that Buber’s reputation as a political thinker has suffered from a tendency to perceive his politics as a simple application of his dialogical philosophy. On the second level, this paper will attempt to explain why Buber counter-intuitively saw success in policy proposals that other Zionists rejected as failures: why he saw faith in God as more realistic than faith in guns, and why he saw anarchism as a more realistic path for Zionism than the nation-state.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Alexander Technique Workshop with MaryJean Allen

Fulton Recital Hall, 1010 E. 59th Street
Friday, February 24, 2012, 12:30 – 2:30pm

Building/Room: Goodspeed Hall, 4th floor
Primary Sponsor: Music
Presenter(s): MaryJean Allen
Title: Alexander Technique Workshop with MaryJean Allen
Open to the Public: Yes
Contact E-mail: musicdept@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773.702.8484
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Seminar sponsored by Center for the Study of Ancient Religions

Classics Building
1010 East 59th St.
Friday, February 24, 2012, 2:30 – 6pm

Building/Room: Classics 21
Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s)
Other Sponsor(s): Center for the Study of Ancient Religions
Presenter: Matthew Canepa, Richard Payne, and Touraj Daraee
Lecture Title: Religion, cosmology and empire in Sasanian Iran
Contact Name: Clifford Ando
Contact E-mail: cando@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: (773) 834-6708
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Workshop by Ji Young Kim

Judd 313
5835 S Kimbark Ave
Chicago, IL
Friday, February 24, 2012, 3 – 5pm

Building/Room: Judd Hall 313
Primary Sponsor: CAS Workshops
Other Sponsor(s): CEAS
Presenter(s): Ji Young Kim
Title: TBA
Contact Name: Daniel Johnson
Contact E-mail: djohn@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Art and Politics in East Asia, This workshop provides a common intellectual forum for students and scholars of diverse fields investigating the interaction of aesthetics with political economics as reflected in textual and visual media in East Asia.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: cas.uchicago.edu…

Visiting Committee Colloquium Series: Jan Philipp Sprick

Fulton Recital Hall, 1010 E. 59th Street
Friday, February 24, 2012, 3:30 – 5:30pm

All colloquium lectures are free and open to the public.

Building/Room: Goodspeed Hall, 4th floor
Primary Sponsor: Music
Other Sponsor(s): University of Chicago Department of Music Visiting Committee
Presenter: Jan Philipp Sprick, Hochschule für Musik und Theater, Rostock, and the Universität der Künste, Berlin, and Visiting Professor (University of Chicago)
Lecture Title: “Can Music Theory Be Historical?"
Contact E-mail: musicdept@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773.702.8484
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

“From Spirit Tablets to Portraits: Ancestor Worship and Portraiture in Korea”

Chochrane-Woods Arts Center, Room 156
5540 South Greenwood Ave
Chicago, IL
Friday, February 24, 2012, 4 – 6pm

Visual and Material Perspectives on East Asia
This workshop serves as a critical forum for the presentation of work addressing problems in the visual and material studies of East Asia, a region defined broadly to include China, Central, Asia, Japan, Korea, and Tibet. This workshop explores if and how theories of visuality current in western contexts may be applied to East Asia, and how approaches from both Eastern and Western scholarship may be fruitfully combined in visual and material studies.

Building/Room: CWAC 156
Primary Sponsor: CAS Workshops
Other Sponsor(s): CEAS
Presenter(s): Cho Inso (Korea National University of Arts)
Title: “From Spirit Tablets to Portraits: Ancestor Worship and Portraiture in Korea”
Contact Name: Jin Xu
Contact E-mail: xu.gene@hotmail.com
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Visual and Material Perspectives on East Asia, This workshop serves as a critical forum for the presentation of work addressing problems in the visual and material studies of East Asia, a region defined broadly to include China, Central, Asia, Japan, Korea, and Tibet. This workshop explores if and how theories of visuality current in western contexts may be applied to East Asia, and how approaches from both Eastern and Western scholarship may be fruitfully combined in visual and material studies.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: cas.uchicago.edu…

Poetics Workshop: Michael Hansen

Rosenwald 405
Friday, February 24, 2012, 4:30 – 6:30pm

Building/Room: Rosenwald 405
Primary Sponsor: Poetry & Poetics
Other Sponsor(s): Creative Writing
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.

PHENOMENOLOGIES OF PROJECTION, AESTHETICS OF TRANSITION: ANTHONY MCCALL 1970-79, 2001—

Experimental Station
6100 S. Blackstone Ave.
Friday, February 24, 6pm – Saturday, February 25, 2012, 10pm

The exhibition at Experimental Station is open to the public from 6-10pm on Friday, 2/24 and Saturday, 2/25 - no reservations necessary.

Building/Room: Experimental Station
Primary Sponsor: Film Studies Center
Other Sponsor(s): The University of Chicago Arts Council, The Nicholson Center for British Studies, The Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry, Tom Gunning Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award, The Franke Institute for the Humanities, The Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture, The Department of Cinema and Media Studies, The Department of Visual Arts, The Department of English Language and Literature, The New Media Workshop, The Mass Culture Workshop, The Theatre and Performance Studies Workshop, The Contemporary Art and Its Histories Workshop.
Exhibition Title: PHENOMENOLOGIES OF PROJECTION, AESTHETICS OF TRANSITION: ANTHONY MCCALL 1970-79, 2001—
Presenter(s): Anthony McCall
Open to the Public: Yes
Cost: none
Contact Name: Film Studies Center
Contact Phone: 773-702-8596
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Using atmospheric haze and film projectors, artist Anthony McCall creates beautiful, visually captivating light sculptures that explore ideas of architecture, duration and embodiment. Invoking comparisons to natural formations like waterfalls and moonlight, McCall’s slowly moving luminous projections invite visitors to step into the light, using their bodies to alter the shimmering forms. Experience the subtle poetics of McCall’s rarely exhibited 'Solid Light’ films at a special two-day event at the University of Chicago, featuring works on both celluloid film and digital media. This exhibition and its related symposium turn a critical spotlight onto key moments in an artistic career that has moved with singular coherence between the aesthetics of an analog and a digital media paradigm., The installation You and I, Horizontal (2005, dv) will open the event at The Experimental Station, a community arts incubator in Hyde Park, Chicago on February 24 & 25, 6-10 p.m. A special screening of Line Describing a Cone (1973, 16mm) will take place on Friday at 8pm, and its digital remake Line Describing a Cone 2.0 (2011, dv) will be presented at 6:30pm on Saturday. This exhibit is free and open to the public.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: filmstudiescenter.uchicago.edu…

CONFERENCE: Phenomenologies of Projection, Aesthetics of Transition Anthony McCall 1970-79, 2001—

Film Studies Center, 5811 South Ellis Avenue, room 307 & Experimental Station, 6100 S. Blackstone Ave
Friday, February 24, 6pm – Saturday, February 25, 2012, 10pm

Image: (detail) Anthony McCall, Sprueth Magers / Ambika P3 exhibition (London 2011)

Building/Room: Cobb Hall
Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s)
Conference Title: Phenomenologies of Projection, Aesthetics of Transition Anthony McCall 1970-79, 2001—
Open to the Public: Yes
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Using atmospheric haze and film projectors, artist Anthony McCall creates beautiful, visually captivating light sculptures that explore ideas of architecture, duration and embodiment. Invoking comparisons to natural formations like waterfalls and moonlight, McCall’s slowly moving luminous projections invite visitors to step into the light, using their bodies to alter the shimmering forms., Experience the subtle poetics of McCall’s rarely exhibited 'Solid Light’ films at a special two-day event at the University of Chicago, featuring works on both celluloid film and digital media. This exhibition and its related symposium turn a critical spotlight onto key moments in an artistic career that has moved with singular coherence between the aesthetics of an analog and a digital media paradigm., The installation You and I, Horizontal (2006, dv) will open the event at The Experimental Station, a community arts incubator in Hyde Park, Chicago, on February 24 & 25, 6-10 p.m. A special screening of Line Describing a Cone (1973, 16mm) and its digital remake Line Describing a Cone 2.0 (2010, dv) will take place at the installation site on alternate evenings. This exhibit is free and open to the public., On Saturday, February 25, Anthony McCall will present an artist talk at an afternoon symposium dediated to his work, then participate in a roundtable with a panel of distinguished curators and scholars. The Symposium will take place at the Film Studies Center, 5811 S. Ellis Ave, University of Chicago. Reservations for the Symposium are recommended (see below). Schedule of Events, Exhibition, Venue: Experimental Station, 6100 S. Blackstone Ave., Chicago, Dates: Friday, Feb 24 & Saturday, Feb 25, open 6–10pm, You and I (Horizontal) (2006, DV), Friday and Saturday, 6-10pm, Line Describing a Cone (1973, 16mm), Friday, 8pm, 30 min performance-screening, Line Describing a Cone 2.0 (2010, DV), Saturday, 6:30pm, 30 min performance-screening following the Symposium, Symposium, Venue: Film Studies Center, 5811 S. Ellis Ave., University of Chicago, Date: Saturday, Feb 25, 1–5:30pm, Reservations may be made by filling out the form below., 1:00pm: Anthony McCall, Artist Talk, 2:15pm: Coffee break, 2:45pm: Roundtable with Anthony McCall and panelists:, Chrissie Iles, Whitney Museum of America Art, Tom Gunning, Depts of Cinema and Media Studies and Art History, University of Chicago, Hamza Walker, The Renaissance Society at University of Chicago, Daniel Morgan, Departments of English, Film and Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh, Matthew Jessie Jackson, Departments of Art History and Visual Arts, University of Chicago, 5:30pm Adjourn Symposium, short walk to Experimental Station for final screening, Artist biography, Cinema creates a virtual world, a place that you enter with your eyes and your imagination but not with your physical body. My pieces require that your actual body be there in the flesh, in the present. And active. - Anthony McCall, Spanning the worlds of film, art, performance, theatre, and media, Anthony McCall (b. 1946) is a seminal artist of American avant-garde cinema. His canonical Structuralist works from the 1970s dispensed with the film screen and filled rooms with smoke and haze to turn the movie projector’s beam of light into a physical form, thus rendering cinema into sculpture. These works arose in a New York experimental film culture intimately intertwined with the emerging scenes of Minimalist, Performance, Feminist and Conceptual art, and at the very moment in which Installation art was inventing terms for an expanded field of aesthetic practices., After a two-decade hiatus from contemporary art McCall returned to a creative practice in 2001, when Line Describing a Cone became the visual headliner for a landmark survey of expanded cinema at the Whitney Museum of American Art—Into the Light: The Projected Image in American Art 1964-1977, curated by Chrissie Iles. McCall’s practice since the early 2000s has been entirely remediated by the use of digital cinema, even as it retains a conceptual continuity with works from the seventies. Visually arresting new installations such as You and I (Horizontal) (2006) and Throes (2011) deploy algorithmic animation techniques to create multiple, slightly mobile light projections that invoke ethereal images from the natural world. Anthony McCall's works form a part of major public art collections worldwide, including the Tate Gallery, London; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. Current public commissions include the cloud vapor installation Column in Liverpool, which will open during the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad. Anthony McCall’s installations are rarely seen in America, despite his long basis in New York. In contrast with a concentration of ambitious exhibitions in Europe over the last decade this event at the University of Chicago will represent only the third extended display of his installations in the United States since 2003. Phenomenologies of Projection, Aesthetics of Transition: Anthony McCall 1970-79, 2001—attempts to address this absence by foregrounding the artist’s own formal and conceptual vocabularies, and by situating this profoundly phenomenal art in formats that will allow an audience to compare intuitively between analog and digital projection., Curated by Michelle Menzies, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of English Language and Literature, as a project of the Film Studies Center Graduate Student Curatorial Program., This event is dedicated to the memory and legacy of Miriam Bratu Hansen (1949-2011)., Sponsored by The University of Chicago Arts Council, The Nicholson Center for British Studies, The Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry, Tom Gunning Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award, The Department of Cinema and Media Studies, The Department of Visual Arts, The Department of English Language and Literature, The New Media Workshop, The Mass Culture Workshop, The Theatre and Performance Studies Workshop, The Contemporary Art and Its Histories Workshop.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: filmstudiescenter.uchicago.edu…

What does the J in J-Pop Stand For?: A workshop for K-12 educators

Levan Center
2322 N. Kenmore
Chicago, IL
Saturday, February 25, 2012, 9am – 12pm

Building/Room: Room 302
Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s)
Other Sponsor(s): Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Chicago (JCCC) Foundation’s Japanese Language Education Grant
Title: What does the J in J-Pop Stand For?: A workshop for K-12 educators
Open to the Public: Yes
Contact Name: Miho Matsugu
Contact E-mail: mmatsugu@depaul.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: DePaul University’s Department of Modern Languages and Japanese Studies Program, in collaboration with the Office of Language and Cultural Education, Chicago Public Schools, presents the Teaching Japan for K-12 series: Explore the Pedagogical Possibilities. We invite you to attend our Saturday, February 25, 2012 workshop entitled “What Does the J in J-Pop Stand For?” with Michael K. Bourdaghs (The University of Chicago)., This workshop will look at Japanese popular music from the 1930s through the present day. We will take up a variety of musical styles and see how questions of authenticity, tradition, exoticism, race and gender can be explored through them. We will read selections from recent studies of Japanese popular music, listen to some important examples, and think about innovative ways to use song in teaching about Japan in ways that don’t simply reproduce cultural stereotypes. Many of the issues we will discuss are also relevant to teaching other forms of popular culture, as well. Participation in the workshop requires no special background in music., Michael K. Bourdaghs is associate professor of modern Japanese literature at the University of Chicago. He is the author of The Dawn That Never Comes: Shimazaki Toson and Japanese Nationalism (Columbia University Press, 2003) and Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon: A Geopolitical Prehistory of J-Pop (Columbia University Press, 2012). He has also edited and translated Kamei Hideo's Transformations of Sensibility: The Phenomenology of Meiji Literature (University of Michigan, Center for Japanese Studies, 2002) and Natsume Soseki's Theory of Literature and Other Critical Writings (Columbia University Press, 2010)., Date: Saturday, February 25, 2012 Place: DePaul University, Levan Center (2322 N. Kenmore) room 302, Schedule:, 9:00-9:30 Registration, 9:30-11:30 What does the J in J-Pop Stand For? (Michael K. Bourdaghs), 11:30-12:00 Evaluations & CPDUs, Requirements include pre-registration (no fee) and participation in the session as well as the evaluation session. For preregistration, please contact Miho Matsugu at mmatsugu@depaul.edu. The event will be conducted as a workshop, and is limited to 15 participants. Limited parking is available., The Teaching Japan for K-12 series provides an opportunity to explore the pedagogical possibilities of Japan as a subject for K-12 students in Chicago and Illinois. Japan and its culture, both traditional and hyper-modern — manga, animation, videogames, film, literature, theater, architecture, food, music, fashion — are woven into the everyday lives of our children and young students here in the Midwest. How can we teach about Japan in our classrooms? How can we approach Japan not just as a showcase of fascinating products but as a vehicle for our K-12 curriculum? The workshop is open to teachers of any subject including Japanese language, literacy, social studies, art and music. We welcome non-CPS teachers and non-teachers who are interested in the topic., This series is made possible by Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Chicago (JCCC) Foundation’s Japanese Language Education Grant.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

PHENOMENOLOGIES OF PROJECTION, AESTHETICS OF TRANSITION: ANTHONY MCCALL 1970-79, 2001—

Kersten Physics Teaching Center
5720 S. Ellis
Saturday, February 25, 2012, 1 – 5:30pm

Reservations are required for the Symposium, and may be made at filmstudiescenter.uchicago.edu.

Building/Room: Cobb 307
Primary Sponsor: Film Studies Center
Other Sponsor(s): The University of Chicago Arts Council, The Nicholson Center for British Studies, The Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry, Tom Gunning Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award, Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Open Practice Committee, The Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture, The Franke Institute for the Humanities, The Department of Cinema and Media Studies, The Department of Visual Arts, The Department of English Language and Literature, The New Media Workshop, The Mass Culture Workshop, The Theatre and Performance Studies Workshop, The Contemporary Art and Its Histories Workshop.
Conference Title: PHENOMENOLOGIES OF PROJECTION, AESTHETICS OF TRANSITION: ANTHONY MCCALL 1970-79, 2001—
Open to the Public: Yes
Contact Name: Film Studies Center
Contact Phone: 773-702-8596
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Using atmospheric haze and film projectors, artist Anthony McCall creates beautiful, visually captivating light sculptures that explore ideas of architecture, duration and embodiment. Invoking comparisons to natural formations like waterfalls and moonlight, McCall’s slowly moving luminous projections invite visitors to step into the light, using their bodies to alter the shimmering forms. Experience the subtle poetics of McCall’s rarely exhibited 'Solid Light’ films at a special two-day event at the University of Chicago, featuring works on both celluloid film and digital media. This exhibition and its related symposium turn a critical spotlight onto key moments in an artistic career that has moved with singular coherence between the aesthetics of an analog and a digital media paradigm., On Saturday, February 25, Anthony McCall will present an artist talk at an afternoon symposium dedicated to his work, then participate in a roundtable with a panel of distinguished curators and scholars:, - Chrissie Iles, Whitney Museum of America Art, - Tom Gunning, Departments of Cinema and Media Studies and Art History, University of Chicago, - Hamza Walker, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago , - Daniel Morgan, Departments of English, Film and Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh, Curated by Michelle Menzies, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of English Language and Literature, as a project of the Film Studies Center Graduate Student Curatorial Program., This event is dedicated to the memory and legacy of Miriam Bratu Hansen (1949-2011).
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: filmstudiescenter.uchicago.edu…

Concert: A Feast of Songs

Smart Museum of Art, 5550 S. Greenwood Avenue
Sunday, February 26, 2012, 2 – 3pm

Building/Room: Smart Museum of Arts
Primary Sponsor: Music
Other Sponsor(s): Smart Museum of Art
Performance Title: Concert: A Feast of Songs
Cost: Free admission
Contact Name: Smart Museum of Art
Contact Phone: 773.702.0200
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Listen to songs about food, drink, and feasting by classical composers from J.S. Bach to George Gershwin and Lee Hoiby., The program is curated and directed by soprano Patrice Michaels, Director of Vocal Studies, and pianist Amy Briggs, Director of Chamber Music for the University of Chicago’s Department of Music, and features singers and pianists from the Department of Music’s Performance Program., Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Feast: Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art, on view at the Smart from February 16 to June 10, 2012.
Disability Clause: Persons with disabilities who need an accommodation in order to participate in this event should contact the event sponsor for assistance. For events on event.uchicago.edu… please contact ORCSA at (773) 702-8787.
More info: smartmuseum.uchicago.edu…

Frolic Architecture: David Grubbs and Susan Howe

The Renaissance Society
Sunday, February 26, 2012, 7 – 8pm

Building/Room: The Renaissance Society
Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s)
Other Sponsor(s): Poem Present, Committee on Creative Writing
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Grubbs and Howe return for a performance of their third and most recent release Frolic Architecture. Frolic drops the listener into a soundworld that germinates wildly from this most multiple and heterogeneous of Howe's celebrated collage poems. For long stretches, it is impossible to separate Howe's real-time performance of her fragment-strewn text from Grubbs's further deformations, scatterings, and layerings. These aberrant vocalizations are placed in a landscape in which individual pitches pulse autonomously within thick chords: gravel and cicadas duet. This concert is co-sponsored with Poem Present and the University of Chicago Department of English, Committee on Creative Writing. This concert will take place in Bond Chapel.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

As the Incense: A midwinter meditation

Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, 5850 S. Woodlawn Avenue
Sunday, February 26, 2012, 7:30 – 9pm

Part of the Quire and Place choral concert series.

Building/Room: Sanctuary
Primary Sponsor: Music
Performance Title: As the Incense: A midwinter meditation
Performer(s): The Decani
Cost: Individual tickets are $25 general, $5 student or a series pass for two performances at $40. A limited number of free student tickets will be available at the Rockefeller Chapel front desk in advance of each concert.
Ticket Web Link: www.brownpapertickets.com…
Contact Phone: 773.702.2100
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Featuring the music of Thomas Tallis, including the Lamentations performed by the Decani, the professional chamber group of the Rockefeller Chapel Choir, and the iconic Spem in alium for forty voices.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: rockefeller.uchicago.edu…

"A Wanderer's Notebook"

Doc Films
1212 E 59th St
Chicago, IL 60637
Monday, February 27, 2012, 7 – 9pm

Monday Film Series
Naruse & Takamine: Of an Auteur and Actress

General Admission: $5
Quarterly Membership: $30 ($28 if you present proof of membership from the previous quarter)
Summer Membership: $20

Building/Room: Doc Films
Primary Sponsor: CEAS
Contact Name: Doc Films
Contact Phone: 773-702-8575
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Mikio Naruse, 1962 • According to actress Hideko Takamine, this was among Naruse’s favorite of their many collaborations as actress and director. Based on Fumiko Hayashi’s autobiographical first novel, A Wanderer's Notebook follows Hayashi’s difficult early life in poverty through to her adulthood, where she is an acclaimed writer. Sticking with ‘scope but eturning to black and white, Naruse imbues every image with significance, with a marmoreal stateliness. He crafts lyrical compositions that use a sensitive play of lightness and darkness to make one savor the sweeping details in every frame. 35mm
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: docfilms.uchicago.edu…

Dissertation-Year Fellowship applications due

arenberg@uchicago.edu
Tuesday, February 28, 2012, 4 – 5pm

Primary Sponsor: NELC
More info: nelc.uchicago.edu…

History and Forms of Lyric: Mutlu Blasing

TBD
Wednesday, February 29, 2012, 2 – 4pm

Building/Room: TBS
Primary Sponsor: Creative Writing
Other Sponsor(s): History and Forms of Lyric
Presenter: Mutlu Blasing
Contact Name: Kate Soto
Contact E-mail: katesoto@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773.834.8524
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: This lecture is free and open to the public. Reception to follow.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Dissertation Proposal: Jacqueline Vayntrub

Rosenwald 405
Wednesday, February 29, 2012, 3 – 4pm

Building/Room: Rosenwald 405
Primary Sponsor: NELC

Noontime Concert Series: Piano Showcase

Fulton Recital Hall, 1010 E. 59th Street
Thursday, March 1, 2012, 12:15 – 1:15pm

These free lunchtime concerts begin at 12:15 PM each Thursday in Fulton Recital Hall.

Building/Room: Goodspeed Hall, 4th floor
Primary Sponsor: Music
Performance Title: Noontime Concert Series: Piano Showcase
Cost: Free admission
Contact E-mail: musicdept@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773.702.8484
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Piano Showcase
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Smart Lecture: David Morgan

Thursday, March 1, 2012, 4:30 – 6pm

Building/Room: CWAC 157
Primary Sponsor: Art History
Presenter: David Morgan
Contact Name: Alex Kostiw
Contact E-mail: karenina@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 702-0278
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Keynote lecture for "Understanding Sexual Violence in Conflict: Gendered Dynamics of Victimization," Elisabeth Wood

The Franke Institute for the Humanities
1100 East 57th Street, JRL S-118
Chicago, IL 60637
Thursday, March 1, 2012, 4:30 – 6:30pm

Building/Room: JRL S-118
Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s)
Other Sponsor(s): Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, Human Rights Program
Presenter: Elisabeth Wood, Professor of Political Science, Yale University
Lecture Title: "Understanding Sexual Violence in Conflict: Gendered Dynamics of Victimization"
Contact Name: Sarah Tuohey
Contact E-mail: stuohey@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-702-2365
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Keynote lecture for “Understanding Sexual Violence in Conflict: Gendered Dynamics of Victimization,” symposium in connection with the CSGS Sawyer Seminar “International Women’s Human Rights: Paradigms, Paradoxes, and Possibilities”.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Nili Sacher Fox: The Matter of Israelite Religion, Lecture 4 of 4

Classics 110
1010 E. 59th St.
Thursday, March 1, 2012, 4:30 – 6:30pm

Building/Room: Classics 110
Primary Sponsor: Chicago Center for Jewish Studies
Other Sponsor(s): Divinity School
Presenter: Nili Sacher Fox (Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion)
Lecture Title: Fashion vs. Ideology: Biblical Laws Pertaining to Israelite Dress
Contact Name: Miller Prosser
Contact E-mail: m-prosser@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-702-7108
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Nili Sacher Fox is Professor of Bible and Director of the School of Graduate Studies at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, Ohio. She holds a Ph.D. in Biblical Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Fox teaches Bible, Archaeology, Ancient History and Languages, and is co-director of the Graduate Summer-in-Israel Program. She has written on various topics relating to the history and culture of ancient Israel, including: In the Service of the King: Officialdom in Ancient Israel and Judah and Mishneh Todah: Studies in Deuteronomy and Its Cultural Environment in Honor of Jeffrey Tigay. Currently she is working on a monograph entitled: On the Ancient Catwalk: Dress and Identity in the Biblical World. This lecture is the fourth of four lectures in a series on "The Matter of Israelite Religion."
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

"Understanding Sexual Violence in Conflict: Gendered Dynamics of Victimization"

Classics 110
1010 East 59th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
Friday, March 2, 2012, 8:30am – 6pm

Building/Room: Classics 110
Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s)
Other Sponsor(s): Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, Human Rights Program
Conference Title: "Understanding Sexual Violence in Conflict: Gendered Dynamics of Victimization"
Presenter(s): Faculty Presenters:, Dara Cohen, Professor of Political Science, Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota, Jocelyn Kelly, Director of the Women in War Program for Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Harvard University Graduate Student Presenters:, Amanda Blair, Political Science, Mackenzie Israel-Trummel, Political Science, Stanford, Jonathan Shaw, History, University of Michigan
Open to the Public: Yes
Cost: None
Contact Name: Sarah Tuohey
Contact E-mail: stuohey@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-702-2365
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: A symposium in connection with the CSGS Sawyer Seminar “International Women’s Human Rights: Paradigms, Paradoxes, and Possibilities”.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Medical Pluralism in Soviet and Post-Soviet Eurasia

The Franke Institute for the Humanities
1100 East 57th Street, JRL S-118
Chicago, IL 60637
Friday, March 2, 2012, 9am – 5pm

Building/Room: JRL S-118
Primary Sponsor: CEERES
Other Sponsor(s): Norman Wait Harris Fund of the Center for International Studies
Presenter(s): Sarah Phillips (Indiana University); Alaina Lemon (U. Michigan); Danuta Penkala-Gawecka (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland); Michele Rivkin-Fish (UNC-Chapel Hill); Justine Buck Quijada (Wesleyan University; Eugene Raikhel (U. Chicago); Sheila Fitzpatrick (U. Chicago); Michael David (U. Chicago); Robert Bird (U. Chicago); Larisa Jasarevic (U. Chicago); Tatiana Chudakova (U. Chicago); Nelly Samoukova Leavitt (U. Chicago)
Title: "Medical Pluralism in Soviet and Post-Soviet Eurasia"
Open to the Public: Yes
Contact Name: Meredith Clason
Contact E-mail: mclason@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-702-0866
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Many observers have noted the multiplicity of approaches to healing that have emerged in post-Soviet Eurasia over the past 20 years. Aside from transformations in the domain of biomedicine, these range from healing practices linked to religions traditionally associated with the region (such as Russian Orthodoxy and Buddhism) to those derived from new religions, “occult practices” or New Age spirituality to self- and mutual-help movements such as Alcoholics Anonymous. While these developments have often been depicted straightforwardly as a response (and in resistance) to seventy years of officially-promoted scientism and materialism, close inspection of the evidence suggests a more complex account. For example, many healing practices currently associated with the “occult” arose out of investigations in the mainstream of Soviet biomedicine and biosciences. How can we explain the emergence of these practices? Moreover, how do the histories of medical pluralism in post-Soviet Eurasia potentially destabilize distinctions such as that between biomedicine and complementary and alternative medicine (CAM)? Additional issues are raised by the institutional and economic setting within which these practices and treatment technologies have developed and proliferated. How have these treatments and their experience by patients been shaped by an economic and institutional mileu marked by profound commercialization and deeply uneven state regulation? Finally, what does the state of medical pluralism in contemporary Eurasia tell us about patients’ ideas about biomedicine as well as about emerging norms guiding the clinical relationship?, To date, these issues have not been systematically discussed or theorized in a scholarly setting. In order to begin addressing these questions, this one-day workshop will bring together a number of medical anthropologists, medical sociologists, historians and Slavists whose own research either concerns medical pluralism in Eurasia directly who bring an important perspective to the discussion. Selected participants in the workshop (some from the University of Chicago as well as invitees) will pre-circulate papers which will be commented on by designated discussants, and will then be discussed by the entire group. The day will end with a more open-ended discussion/roundtable about medical pluralism in Soviet and post-Soviet Eurasia.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: ceeres.uchicago.edu

Stanley Cavell’s Aesthetic Criticism in Modernity

Friday, March 2nd: 9:30am-12:30pm - Stuart 101; 2pm-6pm - Harper 140
Saturday & Sunday, March 3-4th: Franke Institute
Friday, March 2, 2012, 9:30am – 6:30pm

Building/Room: Various
Primary Sponsor: Franke Institute
Other Sponsor(s): Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, Center for Interdisciplinary Research on German Literature and Culture, Department of Philosophy, Prof. Arnold Davidson
Conference Title: Stanley Cavell’s Aesthetic Criticism in Modernity
Presenter(s): Sarah Beckwith (English, Duke), Michael Fried (Humanities Center/Art History, Johns Hopkins University) Arata Hamawaki (Philosophy, Auburn) Andrew Klevan (Film Studies, Oxford) Toril Moi (Literature and Romance Studies, Duke University) Richard Moran (Philosophy, Harvard University) Yi-Ping Ong (The Humanities Center, Johns Hopkins University) Robert Pippin (Philosophy, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago
Open to the Public: Yes
Contact Name: Gilad Nir
Contact E-mail: giladnir@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-702-8513
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Workshop on Stanley Cavell’s Aesthetics, Criticism and Conception of Modernity
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: cavell.sites.uchicago.edu

Around1948 Symposium: Post-World War II Trials and the Reconstruction of European States

John Hope Franklin Room (224) and Social Sciences Tea Room (201), Social Sciences Research Building, 1126 E. 59th St.
Friday, March 2, 2012, 2 – 5:15pm

Building/Room: Multiple
Primary Sponsor: Franke Institute
Conference Title: The Post-World War II Trials and the Reconstruction of European States
Presenter(s): Devin Pendas (Boston College), Ben Frommer (Northwestern University), Francine Hirsch (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Open to the Public: Yes
Cost: None
Contact Name: Susan Gooding
Contact E-mail: ssg4@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 715-790-2389
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: An afternoon symposium devoted to discussion of Central and European cases in which courts served as key sites in the post-WWII purging of Nazi collaborators and war criminals in Central and Eastern Europe, and to the role played by this “juridification of war” in the reconstruction of modern Europe and contemporary European legal culture.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: around1948.uchicago.edu

Workshop by Reginald Jackson

Judd 313
5835 S Kimbark Ave
Chicago, IL
Friday, March 2, 2012, 3 – 5pm

Building/Room: Judd Hall 313
Primary Sponsor: CAS Workshops
Other Sponsor(s): CEAS
Presenter(s): Reginald Jackson
Title: TBA
Contact Name: Daniel Johnson
Contact E-mail: djohn@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Art and Politics in East Asia, This workshop provides a common intellectual forum for students and scholars of diverse fields investigating the interaction of aesthetics with political economics as reflected in textual and visual media in East Asia.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: cas.uchicago.edu…

Visiting Committee Colloquium Series: Jairo Moreno

Fulton Recital Hall, 1010 E. 59th Street
Friday, March 2, 2012, 3:30 – 5:30pm

Building/Room: Goodspeed Hall, 4th floor
Primary Sponsor: Music
Presenter: Jairo Moreno, Associate Professor of Music, Yale University
Contact E-mail: musicdept@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773.702.8484
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Jairo Moreno’s work addresses the production of knowledge of music and the sonic in modernity. He has written a major study of the history of listening in early modern and modern music theory and analysis, Musical Representations, Subjects, and Objects: The Construction of Musical Thought in Zarlino, Descartes, Rameau, and Weber (Indiana University Press, 2004). He has also published on jazz performance poetics, the politics of aesthesis, and Latin-American popular music in the U.S during the long 20 th century. His current project is entitled Syncopated Modernities: Musical Latin Americanisms in the U.S., 1978-2008 , an archival, critical, and ethnographic study of music’s precarious share in political practices during late capitalism. Moreno received the Society for American Music 2005 Irving Lowens Article Award for Best Article (“Bauzá-Gillespie-Latin Jazz: Difference, Modernity, and the Black Caribbean,” The South Atlantic Quarterly, 2004). Other scholarly awards include a Whiting Fellow in the Humanities at Yale, and an ACLS Fellowship (2009-2010). He received the David and Janet Brooks Distinguished Teaching Award (Duke) and the Golden Dozen Teaching Award (NYU). A former professional bassist, he received five Grammy Award nominations for recordings with the late Latin and Jazz percussionist Ray Barretto (Blue Note, EMI-France, Concord, Fania labels – 1989-1997), appeared in numerous other recordings, and performed chamber music with guitarist David Starobin and the Ciompi String Quartet.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

“The Rhetoric of the Trace: Photography, Place, and History in Republican Nanjing”

Chochrane-Woods Arts Center, Room 156
5540 South Greenwood Ave
Chicago, IL
Friday, March 2, 2012, 4 – 6pm

Visual and Material Perspectives on East Asia
This workshop serves as a critical forum for the presentation of work addressing problems in the visual and material studies of East Asia, a region defined broadly to include China, Central, Asia, Japan, Korea, and Tibet. This workshop explores if and how theories of visuality current in western contexts may be applied to East Asia, and how approaches from both Eastern and Western scholarship may be fruitfully combined in visual and material studies.

Building/Room: CWAC 156
Primary Sponsor: CAS Workshops
Other Sponsor(s): CEAS
Presenter(s): Catherine Stuer (PhD candidate, University of Chicago)
Title: “The Rhetoric of the Trace: Photography, Place, and History in Republican Nanjing”
Contact Name: Jin Xu
Contact E-mail: xu.gene@hotmail.com
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Visual and Material Perspectives on East Asia, This workshop serves as a critical forum for the presentation of work addressing problems in the visual and material studies of East Asia, a region defined broadly to include China, Central, Asia, Japan, Korea, and Tibet. This workshop explores if and how theories of visuality current in western contexts may be applied to East Asia, and how approaches from both Eastern and Western scholarship may be fruitfully combined in visual and material studies.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: cas.uchicago.edu…

Prior Quarter Grades Due for Graduating Students

Friday, March 2, 2012, 4pm

Primary Sponsor: University Registrar
Contact Phone: 773-702-7891
Event Description: Grades for any incomplete courses, MA papers/theses, exams, language requirements from previous quarters are due to the Registrar's Office.
More info: registrar.uchicago.edu

Isabel Bayrakdarian & Serouj Kradjian

Mandel Hall, 1131 E. 57th Street
Friday, March 2, 2012, 7:30 – 9:30pm

Building/Room: Mandel Hall
Primary Sponsor: Chicago Presents
Performance Title: Isabel Bayrakdarian & Serouj Kradjian
Performer(s): Isabel Bayrakdarian, Serouj Kradjian
Cost: $35 / $5 students
Ticket Phone: 773.702.8068
Contact Name: Chicago Presents
Contact E-mail: chicagopresents@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773.702.8068
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Works by Liszt, Ravel, Obradors, Gomidas, Heggie, and Berlioz, Isabel Bayrakdarian burst onto the international opera scene after winning first prize in the 2000 Operalia competition founded by Plácido Domingo. Since then she has performed in many of the world’s major opera houses and concert halls, including the Lyric Opera of Chicago, and has been critically acclaimed for her memorable song recitals., “…make sure you get a ticket to hear soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian the next time she comes to town, no matter what's on the program.” (The Boston Globe)
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: chicagopresents.uchicago.edu

Stanley Cavell’s Aesthetic Criticism in Modernity

Friday, March 2nd: 9:30am-12:30pm - Stuart 101; 2pm-6pm - Harper 140
Saturday & Sunday, March 3-4th: Franke Institute
Saturday, March 3, 2012, 9:30am – 6:30pm

Building/Room: Various
Primary Sponsor: Franke Institute
Other Sponsor(s): Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, Center for Interdisciplinary Research on German Literature and Culture, Department of Philosophy, Prof. Arnold Davidson
Conference Title: Stanley Cavell’s Aesthetic Criticism in Modernity
Presenter(s): Sarah Beckwith (English, Duke), Michael Fried (Humanities Center/Art History, Johns Hopkins University) Arata Hamawaki (Philosophy, Auburn) Andrew Klevan (Film Studies, Oxford) Toril Moi (Literature and Romance Studies, Duke University) Richard Moran (Philosophy, Harvard University) Yi-Ping Ong (The Humanities Center, Johns Hopkins University) Robert Pippin (Philosophy, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago
Open to the Public: Yes
Contact Name: Gilad Nir
Contact E-mail: giladnir@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-702-8513
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Workshop on Stanley Cavell’s Aesthetics, Criticism and Conception of Modernity
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: cavell.sites.uchicago.edu

University Symphony Orchestra

Mandel Hall, 1131 E. 57th Street
Saturday, March 3, 2012, 8 – 9:30pm

Reception to follow.

Building/Room: Reynolds Club
Primary Sponsor: Music
Performer(s): University Symphony Orchestra
Cost: Donations: $10/$5 Students
Contact E-mail: musicdept@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773.702.8484
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Works by Beethoven and Piston, plus Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 7.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Pictures and Sounds

Film Studies Center
5811 S. Ellis
Saturday, March 3, 2012, 8pm

Building/Room: Cobb 307
Primary Sponsor: Film Studies Center
Other Sponsor(s): WHPK
Contact Name: Film Studies Center
Contact Phone: 773-702-8596
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Pictures and Sounds, the annual multimedia showcase hosted by WHPK and the Film Studies Center, presents re-imagined and improvised soundtracks to new video work and classics of silent, experimental, and outsider film. Live performances from a selection of artists spanning the spectrum of avant noise and free playing. Performers TBA.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: filmstudiescenter.uchicago.edu…

Stanley Cavell’s Aesthetic Criticism in Modernity

Friday, March 2nd: 9:30am-12:30pm - Stuart 101; 2pm-6pm - Harper 140
Saturday & Sunday, March 3-4th: Franke Institute
Sunday, March 4, 2012, 9:30am – 6:30pm

Building/Room: Various
Primary Sponsor: Franke Institute
Other Sponsor(s): Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, Center for Interdisciplinary Research on German Literature and Culture, Department of Philosophy, Prof. Arnold Davidson
Conference Title: Stanley Cavell’s Aesthetic Criticism in Modernity
Presenter(s): Sarah Beckwith (English, Duke), Michael Fried (Humanities Center/Art History, Johns Hopkins University) Arata Hamawaki (Philosophy, Auburn) Andrew Klevan (Film Studies, Oxford) Toril Moi (Literature and Romance Studies, Duke University) Richard Moran (Philosophy, Harvard University) Yi-Ping Ong (The Humanities Center, Johns Hopkins University) Robert Pippin (Philosophy, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago
Open to the Public: Yes
Contact Name: Gilad Nir
Contact E-mail: giladnir@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-702-8513
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Workshop on Stanley Cavell’s Aesthetics, Criticism and Conception of Modernity
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: cavell.sites.uchicago.edu

The State of American Jewish Belief Revisited: At the Edge of a Crisis or at a New Threshold?

Spertus Institute
610 South Michigan Ave.
Chicago, IL 60605-1901
Sunday, March 4, 2012, 12 – 6pm

Building/Room: Spertus Institute
Primary Sponsor: Chicago Center for Jewish Studies
Other Sponsor(s): The Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion at the University of Chicago, The Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture
Conference Title: The State of American Jewish Belief Revisited: At the Edge of a Crisis or at a New Threshhold?
Presenter(s): Speakers include:, Rachel Adler (Professor of Modern Jewish Thought and Judaism and Gender, Hebrew Union College-Los Angeles), Saul Berman (Yeshiva University, Founder of Edah), Arnold Eisen (Chancellor, Jewish Theological Seminary), David Ellenson (President, Hebrew-Union College), Arthur Green (former President, Reconstructionist Rabbinical Seminary; Dean, Non-denominational Rabbinical School of Boston Hebrew College), Riv-Ellen Prell (Professor and Chair of American Studies, University of Minnesota)
Open to the Public: Yes
Cost: free, but registration is required at uofcconference@spertus.edu
Contact Name: Miller Prosser
Contact E-mail: m-prosser@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-702-7108
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Recent studies point to declining synagogue membership and denominational identification as signs of crisis in American Judaism. This symposium focuses attention on theological dimensions of the perceived crisis. Six leading thinkers come together to share their unique vantage points on a series of questions: Is American Judaism theologically bankrupt or is it at the cusp of a radically new beginning? How should we diagnose this perceived crisis and what proposals might counter it? How can American Judaism build on traditional Jewish thought to address today’s challenges?
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: spertus.edu…

University Chorus: Harmonies

Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, 5850 S. Woodlawn Avenue
Sunday, March 4, 2012, 3 – 4:30pm

Building/Room: Sanctuary
Primary Sponsor: Music
Performance Title: University Chorus: Harmonies
Performer(s): University Chorus
Cost: $10 donation requested, students free.
Contact E-mail: musicdept@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773.702.8484
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Under the direction of Mollie Stone, the University Chorus offers repertoire representing diverse settings of sacred texts, with music from South Africa, Corsica, the Republic of Georgia, and Bulgaria, as well as from American traditions including shape-note songs, Gospel quartet music from the 1930s and 1940s, and traditional spirituals. $10 donation requested, students free.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: rockefeller.uchicago.edu…

"Yearning"

Doc Films
1212 E 59th St
Chicago, IL 60637
Monday, March 5, 2012, 7 – 9pm

Monday Film Series
Naruse & Takamine: Of an Auteur and Actress

General Admission: $5
Quarterly Membership: $30 ($28 if you present proof of membership from the previous quarter)
Summer Membership: $20

Building/Room: Doc Films
Primary Sponsor: CEAS
Contact Name: Doc Films
Contact Phone: 773-702-8575
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Mikio Naruse, 1964 • Perhaps the most devastating of Naruse’s late melodramas, this neglected treasure sees Hideoko Takamine once again playing a widow. Rieko (Takamine) runs a small grocery store owned by the mother of her late husband. When a supermarket opens just down the street, the store falls into dire financial trouble. After Koji, her delinquent brother-in-law, confesses his love to her, Rieko decides to flee to her hometown. However, Koji follows Reiko. Over the course of train ride, the two find themselves growing closer and an unlikely romance results. It’s a masterpiece not to be missed. 35mm
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: docfilms.uchicago.edu…

Music History/Theory Workshop: Pete Smucker

Joseph Regenstein Library, 1100 E . 57th Street
Tuesday, March 6, 2012, 3:30 – 5:30pm

Building/Room: Seminar Room 264
Primary Sponsor: Music
Presenter(s): Pete Smucker
Title: TBA
Open to the Public: Yes
Contact Name: Mary Caldwell
Contact E-mail: marycaldwell@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Those needing additional assistance to attend this event should contact one of the graduate coordinators, Mary Caldwell (marycaldwell@uchicago.edu) or August Sheehy (aasheehy@uchicago.edu)
More info: cas.uchicago.edu…

“Extra-Budget Funds in China: Source of Corruption or Good Governance?”

Pick Lounge
5828 S University Ave
Chicago, IL
Tuesday, March 6, 2012, 4 – 5:30pm

Building/Room: Pick Lounge
Primary Sponsor: CAS Workshops
Other Sponsor(s): CEAS
Presenter(s): Yeonju Lee, Doctoral Student of Political Science, University of Chicago
Title: “Extra-Budget Funds in China: Source of Corruption or Good Governance?”
Contact Name: Yang Zhang
Contact E-mail: yangzhang@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: East Asia: Politics, Economy, Society, Culture, This workshop focuses on current social science research on East Asian societies, particularly Mainland China, Taiwan, Korea and Japan. The scope of the workshop is truly interdisciplinary, attracting students and faculty from economics, political science, sociology, international studies, and various other areas.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: cas.uchicago.edu…

Imagination and Expertise in Composition -- SIX WORLD PREMIERE PERFORMANCES

Fulton Recital Hall, 1010 E. 59th Street
Wednesday, March 7, 2012, 1:30 – 4:30pm

Building/Room: Goodspeed Hall, 4th floor
Primary Sponsor: Music
Presenter(s): Performers: Alison Attar, Julia Bentley, Gregory Beyer, Amy Briggs, Constance Volk, and Austin Wulliman
Title: Imagination and Expertise in Composition -- SIX WORLD PREMIERE PERFORMANCES
Open to the Public: Yes
Contact Name: Professor Augusta Read Thomas
Contact E-mail: arthomas@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773.834.9935
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: This workshop/recital will showcase NEW works by the students in Professor Augusta Read Thomas' Course 36700, IMAGINATION AND EXPERTISE IN COMPOSITION. World premieres by Andrés Carrizo, Andrew McManus, Alex Stephenson, David Shonberg, Francisco Castillo Trigueros, and Phil Taylor. Admission is free. Reception to follow.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Perception and Understanding of Music Workshop: Sarah Iker

Goodspeed Hall, 1010 E. 59th Street
Wednesday, March 7, 2012, 4:30 – 6:30pm

Building/Room: Classroom 205
Primary Sponsor: Music
Presenter(s): Sarah Iker, PhD Student in Music History/Theory
Title: TBA
Open to the Public: Yes
Contact Name: Stephen Hedger
Contact E-mail: shedger@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773.702.8484
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: cas.uchicago.edu…

LECTURE: MARK GODFREY

Cochrane-Woods Art Center, 5540 South Greenwood Avenue, room 157
Wednesday, March 7, 2012, 5 – 6pm

Building/Room: CWAC 157
Primary Sponsor: DOVA
Presenter: Mark Godfrey
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Mark Godfrey is Curator of Contemporary Art at the Tate Modern. He formerly, held the post of lecturer in History and Theory of Art at The Slade School of Fine, Art, University College London. He has written exhibition catalogue essays on the, work of Tacita Dean, Matthew Buckingham, Sharon Lockhart, Fiona Tan, and Eva, Hesse, and a survey essay for the Phaidon monograph on Anri Sala. He has curated exhibitions for Catherine Yass, Douglas Huebler,Matthew Buckingham and recently co-curated the exhibition, " Gerhard Richter: Panorama" with Nicolas Serota and Amy Dickson. He is the author of Abstraction and the Holocaust, 2007 and is currently researching a monograph on Alighiero E. Boetti.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Winter Reading Period

Thursday, March 8 – Friday, March 9, 2012

Primary Sponsor: University of Chicago

Noontime Concert Series: Svetlana Krasnova, piano

Fulton Recital Hall, 1010 E. 59th Street
Thursday, March 8, 2012, 12:15 – 1:15pm

These free lunchtime concerts begin at 12:15 PM each Thursday in Fulton Recital Hall.

Building/Room: Goodspeed Hall, 4th floor
Primary Sponsor: Music
Performance Title: Noontime Concert Series: Svetlana Krasnova, piano
Performer(s): Svetlana Krasnova, piano
Cost: Free admission
Contact E-mail: musicdept@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773.702.8484
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Svetlana Krasnova, piano, performs the works of Haydn, Schumann, and Liszt.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Exemplarity/Singularity

The Franke Institute for the Humanities
1100 East 57th Street, JRL S-118
Chicago, IL 60637
Thursday, March 8, 2012, 1 – 6pm

March 8: 1 pm to 6 pm
March 9: 10 am to 6 pm
March 10: 9 am to 12.30 pm

Building/Room: JRL S-118
Primary Sponsor: Franke Institute
Other Sponsor(s): The Center for Interdisciplinary Research on German Literature and Culture, The Department of Classics and the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Chicago, Memoria Romana, the Rhetoric and Poetics Workshop
Conference Title: Exemplarity/Singularity
Presenter(s): Organizers: Michèle Lowrie (Classics, Chicago), Susanne Lüdemann (German, Chicago) Participants: Clifford Ando (Classics, Chicago), Jim Chandler (English, Chicago), Alex Dressler (Classics, Wisconsin), Paul Fleming (German, Cornell), Christiane Frey (German, Princeton), Jan Goldstein (History, Chicago), Barbara Hahn (German, Vanderbilt), Rebecca Langlands (Classics, Exeter), Simon Malloch (Classics, Nottingham), David Martyn (German, McCalister), Michael Peachin (Classics, NYU), Matthew Roller (Classics, Johns Hopkins)
Open to the Public: Yes
Cost: None
Contact Name: Susanne Luedemann
Contact E-mail: sluedemann@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: This interdisciplinary conference considers antique and modern forms of exemplarity and their role in constructing subjectivity. It deals with the transformation of textual genres such as casus and exemplum, anecdote, and novella from antiquity to modernity and with the ways in which these genres shape the relationship between exemplarity and singularity. At issue are knowledge formation and transmission, memory and its media, the pragmatics of telling stories, the structure of the disciplines, and the interaction of the normative with the exceptional.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: german.uchicago.edu…

Workshop by Noriko Yamaguchi

1126 E. 59th St.
Chicago, IL 60637
Thursday, March 8, 2012, 4 – 6pm

East Asia: Trans-Regional Histories
This workshop invites University of Chicago graduate students and faculty, as well as scholars from other academic communities, to present creative and original work that speaks across the national lines of East Asia as well as the disciplinary lines of the academic community. Joint presentations among participants that incorporate multidisciplinary and/or trans-regional historical perspectives are especially encouraged.

Building/Room: SS 224
Primary Sponsor: CAS Workshops
Other Sponsor(s): CEAS
Presenter(s): Noriko Yamaguchi (PhD Candidate, History, U Chicago)
Title: TBA
Contact Name: Noriko Yamaguchi
Contact E-mail: jhchae@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.

Jazz X-tet

Fulton Recital Hall, 1010 E. 59th Street
Thursday, March 8, 2012, 8 – 9:30pm

Reception to follow.

Building/Room: Goodspeed Hall, 4th floor
Primary Sponsor: Music
Performer(s): University Jazz X-tet
Cost: Free admission
Contact E-mail: musicdept@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773.702.8484
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Dan Laor

Classics 110
1010 E. 59th St.
Thursday, March 8, 2012, 11:30pm – 1am

Building/Room: Classics 110
Primary Sponsor: Chicago Center for Jewish Studies
Presenter: Dan Laor, Tel-Aviv University
Contact Name: Miller Prosser
Contact E-mail: m-prosser@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-702-7108
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Current Quarter Grades Due for Graduating Students

Friday, March 9, 2012

Primary Sponsor: University Registrar

Workshop on Greek Linguistics

Classics Building, Room 314
1010 E. 59th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
Friday, March 9, 2012, 9am – 5pm

Building/Room: Classics 314
Primary Sponsor: Linguistics
Other Sponsor(s): Franke Institute
Title: Workshop on Greek Linguistics
Open to the Public: Yes
Contact Name: Anastasia Giannakidou
Contact E-mail: giannaki@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-834-9819
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: This workshop provides a platform for the presentation of papers by researchers working on the Greek language in all its stages and from all perspectives; it is inclusive and ecumenical, ranging from traditional philological research to formal semantic analysis, with the explicit goal of crossing traditional boundaries and encouraging researchers to learn from each other.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Workshop on the Structure & Constituency in the Languages of the Americas

Ida Noyes Hall
West Room
1212 East 59th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
Friday, March 9, 2012, 9am – 6pm

Building/Room: Ida Noyes West Room
Primary Sponsor: Franke Institute
Other Sponsor(s): Dean of the Humanities Division, Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture, Scherer Center for the American culture, Department of Linguistics, Department of Anthropology
Conference Title: Workshop on the Structure & Constituency in the Languages of the Americas
Open to the Public: Yes
Cost: None
Contact Name: Alan Yu
Contact E-mail: wscla17@gmail.com
Contact Phone: 773-702-8528
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: The Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas (WSCLA) is an annual linguistics conference, which started in 1995. The central objective of WSCLA is to bring together linguists who are engaged in research on the formal study of aboriginal languages of the Americas in order to exchange ideas across theories, language families, generations of scholars, and across the academic and non-academic communities who are involved in language maintenance and revitalization.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: sites.google.com…

Exemplarity/Singularity

The Franke Institute for the Humanities
1100 East 57th Street, JRL S-118
Chicago, IL 60637
Friday, March 9, 2012, 10am – 6pm

March 8: 1 pm to 6 pm
March 9: 10 am to 6 pm
March 10: 9 am to 12.30 pm

Building/Room: JRL S-118
Primary Sponsor: Franke Institute
Other Sponsor(s): The Center for Interdisciplinary Research on German Literature and Culture, The Department of Classics and the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Chicago, Memoria Romana, the Rhetoric and Poetics Workshop
Conference Title: Exemplarity/Singularity
Presenter(s): Organizers: Michèle Lowrie (Classics, Chicago), Susanne Lüdemann (German, Chicago) Participants: Clifford Ando (Classics, Chicago), Jim Chandler (English, Chicago), Alex Dressler (Classics, Wisconsin), Paul Fleming (German, Cornell), Christiane Frey (German, Princeton), Jan Goldstein (History, Chicago), Barbara Hahn (German, Vanderbilt), Rebecca Langlands (Classics, Exeter), Simon Malloch (Classics, Nottingham), David Martyn (German, McCalister), Michael Peachin (Classics, NYU), Matthew Roller (Classics, Johns Hopkins)
Open to the Public: Yes
Cost: None
Contact Name: Susanne Luedemann
Contact E-mail: sluedemann@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: This interdisciplinary conference considers antique and modern forms of exemplarity and their role in constructing subjectivity. It deals with the transformation of textual genres such as casus and exemplum, anecdote, and novella from antiquity to modernity and with the ways in which these genres shape the relationship between exemplarity and singularity. At issue are knowledge formation and transmission, memory and its media, the pragmatics of telling stories, the structure of the disciplines, and the interaction of the normative with the exceptional.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: german.uchicago.edu…

Graduate Student Workshop with Elayne Oliphant

Social Science Tea Room
5730 South Ellis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637
Friday, March 9, 2012, 12 – 1pm

Refreshments will be served. Find more information at ccjsgraduateworkinggroup.wordpress.com or email workshop coordinators Katharine Pflaum and Joela Zeller at cjs.grad.ws@gmail.com.

Building/Room: Social Science Tea Room
Primary Sponsor: Chicago Center for Jewish Studies
Presenter(s): Elayne Oliphant (Ph.D student in Anthropology)
Title: The Risks of Historical Memory: Inter-Religious Dialogues in Present-Day Paris
Open to the Public: No
Contact Name: Miller Prosser
Contact E-mail: m-prosser@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Graduate student only workshop. This paper explores examine a series of unsuccessful Catholic-Jewish dialogues between “cultural” Jewish and Catholic organizations in Paris that attempted to find unity in the common text of the “Old” Testament, without leaving space to account for the effects of a very fraught history in this conversation. This chapter also examines the paradoxical role played by Paris’ recently deceased and very popular archbishop–Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger–who was born to Jewish parents and converted to Catholicism while living in hiding during the Second World War. He went on to become on of France’s most influential, powerful, and significant Catholic figures of the post-War period. Both accepting Lustiger’s biography and engaging in inter-religious dialogues require a certain refusal to confront a history that France has yet to fully acknowledge. This paper attempts to explore implications of this historical forgetting for various citizens in an increasingly nationlistic and xenophobic France today.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

MA Degree Approval Forms Due

Walker Museum
Friday, March 9, 2012, 4:30pm

The MA Degree Approval Form is available electronically from the Dean of Students Office.

Primary Sponsor: Dean of Students
Contact Name: Miranda Swanson
Contact E-mail: miranda@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 772-702-8498
Event Description: Degree-granting departments and committees must report approval for the MA degree no later than Friday of ninth week of the quarter in which a student has applied to receive an MA. The completed form should be signed by the Chair.

A Bitter Taste of Freedom: An Evening with Marina Goldovskaya

Film Studies Center
5811 S. Ellis
Friday, March 9, 2012, 7pm

Building/Room: Cobb 307
Primary Sponsor: Film Studies Center
Contact Name: Film Studies Center
Contact Phone: 773-702-8596
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Russian documentary filmmaker Marina Goldovskaya presents this soulful homage to her close friend Anna Politkovskaya, the fearless investigative reporter, who was murdered on her doorstep by an unknown assailant in 2006, presumably for her outspoken criticism of the government-sanctioned war in Chechnya. Recipient of an Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism, A Bitter Taste of Freedom evades the conventions of reportage, instead weaving contextual archive and in-the-field photos with diaristic footage the filmmaker shot in Politkovskaya’s home during their many years of intimate conversations, beginning with Goldovskaya’s first portrait of Politkovskaya, A Taste of Freedom (1991)., Marina Goldovskaya’s work, which includes the award-winning films Solovky Power (1987), The House on Arbat Street (1993) and The Prince is Back (1999), has garnered international acclaim since the late 1980s. As an eyewitness to a half-century of Russia’s turbulent history, which she has spent the past 40 years meticulously archiving on celluloid and digital video, Goldovskaya was the first Russian filmmaker to introduce a personal diary style in the documentary genre. She used this style in The Shattered Mirror (1992), which chronicled the emotions of Russians living through the turmoil of perestroika culminating in the putsch of October 1993. Currently head of the documentary program at UCLA’s School of Theater, Film, and Television, Goldovskaya received a Ph.D. in Fine Arts in the Moscow State Film Institute in 1987, taught documentary in Moscow State University from 1966 to 1995, and wrote numerous articles and six books on documentary filmmaking. Her memoir, Woman with a Movie Camera, was published by U Texas Press in 2006., (Marina Goldovskaya, Sweden/US, 2011, DigiBeta, Russian with English subtitles, 88 min)
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: filmstudiescenter.uchicago.edu…

Gilbert & Sullivan's The Gondoliers

Mandel Hall, 1131 E. 57th Street
Friday, March 9, 2012, 8 – 10:30pm

Thrisa Hodits, Director
Tim Semanik, Conductor

All proceeds benefit the University of Chicago Department of Music Performance Program.

Building/Room: Reynolds Club
Primary Sponsor: Music
Performance Title: Gilbert & Sullivan's The Gondoliers
Performer(s): Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company and the University of Chicago Chamber Orchestra
Cost: $20 / $5 students
Ticket Phone: 773.702.9075
Contact E-mail: musicdept@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773.702.8484
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

What March 11 Means to Me: A Symposium in Honor of Norma Field

Swift Hall 3rd Floor Lecture room
1025 East 58th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
Saturday, March 10 – Sunday, March 11, 2012

Building/Room: Swift 3rd Fl.
Primary Sponsor: CEAS
Other Sponsor(s): EALC
Conference Title: What March 11 Means to Me: A Symposium in Honor of Norma Field
Presenter(s): (Speaking in Japanese): Ryusawa Takeshi, Yokoyu Sonoko, Takahashi Tetsuya, Komori Yoichi, and Amamiya Karin (Translating into English): Sarah Frederick, Justin Jesty, Mika Endo, Adrienne Hurley, Yuko Miyamoto, Tomomi Yamaguchi, Sam Perry, Miho Matsugu, Heather Bowen-Stuyk and Jim Fujii.
Open to the Public: Yes
Cost: Free
Contact Name: Sarah Arehart
Contact E-mail: sarehart@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-702-2715
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: This symposium has been organized to honor the legacy of Norma Field, the Robert S. Ingersoll Distinguished Service Professor in Japanese Studies in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, who is retiring at the end of this academic year. Scholars from Japan and the U.S. will present papers reflecting on the March 11 disaster in Japan and the impact it has had on their lives and scholarship.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Exemplarity/Singularity

The Franke Institute for the Humanities
1100 East 57th Street, JRL S-118
Chicago, IL 60637
Saturday, March 10, 2012, 9am – 12:30pm

March 8: 1 pm to 6 pm
March 9: 10 am to 6 pm
March 10: 9 am to 12.30 pm

Building/Room: JRL S-118
Primary Sponsor: Franke Institute
Other Sponsor(s): The Center for Interdisciplinary Research on German Literature and Culture, The Department of Classics and the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Chicago, Memoria Romana, the Rhetoric and Poetics Workshop
Conference Title: Exemplarity/Singularity
Presenter(s): Organizers: Michèle Lowrie (Classics, Chicago), Susanne Lüdemann (German, Chicago) Participants: Clifford Ando (Classics, Chicago), Jim Chandler (English, Chicago), Alex Dressler (Classics, Wisconsin), Paul Fleming (German, Cornell), Christiane Frey (German, Princeton), Jan Goldstein (History, Chicago), Barbara Hahn (German, Vanderbilt), Rebecca Langlands (Classics, Exeter), Simon Malloch (Classics, Nottingham), David Martyn (German, McCalister), Michael Peachin (Classics, NYU), Matthew Roller (Classics, Johns Hopkins)
Open to the Public: Yes
Cost: None
Contact Name: Susanne Luedemann
Contact E-mail: sluedemann@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: This interdisciplinary conference considers antique and modern forms of exemplarity and their role in constructing subjectivity. It deals with the transformation of textual genres such as casus and exemplum, anecdote, and novella from antiquity to modernity and with the ways in which these genres shape the relationship between exemplarity and singularity. At issue are knowledge formation and transmission, memory and its media, the pragmatics of telling stories, the structure of the disciplines, and the interaction of the normative with the exceptional.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: german.uchicago.edu…

Workshop on the Structure & Constituency in the Languages of the Americas

Ida Noyes Hall
West Room
1212 East 59th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
Saturday, March 10, 2012, 9am – 6pm

Building/Room: Ida Noyes West Room
Primary Sponsor: Franke Institute
Other Sponsor(s): Dean of the Humanities Division, Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture, Scherer Center for the American culture, Department of Linguistics, Department of Anthropology
Conference Title: Workshop on the Structure & Constituency in the Languages of the Americas
Open to the Public: Yes
Cost: None
Contact Name: Alan Yu
Contact E-mail: wscla17@gmail.com
Contact Phone: 773-702-8528
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: The Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas (WSCLA) is an annual linguistics conference, which started in 1995. The central objective of WSCLA is to bring together linguists who are engaged in research on the formal study of aboriginal languages of the Americas in order to exchange ideas across theories, language families, generations of scholars, and across the academic and non-academic communities who are involved in language maintenance and revitalization.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: sites.google.com…

Baroque Performance Master Class with Jory Vinikour, harpsichord

Fulton Recital Hall, 1010 E. 59th Street
Saturday, March 10, 2012, 2 – 4pm

Building/Room: Goodspeed Hall, 4th floor
Primary Sponsor: Music
Presenter(s): Jory Vinikour, harpsichord
Title: Baroque Performance Master Class with Jory Vinikour, harpsichord
Open to the Public: Yes
Contact E-mail: musicdept@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773.702.8484
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Gilbert & Sullivan's The Gondoliers

Mandel Hall, 1131 E. 57th Street
Saturday, March 10, 2012, 8 – 10:30pm

Thrisa Hodits, Director
Tim Semanik, Conductor

All proceeds benefit the University of Chicago Department of Music Performance Program.

Building/Room: Reynolds Club
Primary Sponsor: Music
Performance Title: Gilbert & Sullivan's The Gondoliers
Performer(s): Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company and the University of Chicago Chamber Orchestra
Cost: $20 / $5 students
Ticket Phone: 773.702.9075
Contact E-mail: musicdept@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773.702.8484
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Gilbert & Sullivan's The Gondoliers

Mandel Hall, 1131 E. 57th Street
Sunday, March 11, 2012, 2 – 4:30pm

Thrisa Hodits, Director
Tim Semanik, Conductor

All proceeds benefit the University of Chicago Department of Music Performance Program.

Building/Room: Reynolds Club
Primary Sponsor: Music
Performance Title: Gilbert & Sullivan's The Gondoliers
Performer(s): Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company and the University of Chicago Chamber Orchestra
Cost: $20 / $5 students
Ticket Phone: 773.702.9075
Contact E-mail: musicdept@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773.702.8484
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Middle East Music Ensemble: Music of Turkey

International House, 1414 E. 59th Street
Sunday, March 11, 2012, 6:30 – 8:30pm

The Middle East Music Ensemble explores a variety of classical, neo-classical, and popular forms from throughout the Middle East, encompassing compositional and improvisational techniques unique to non-Western musical culture. Members perform on traditional instruments, often in company with noted guest artists, in multiple concerts both on and off campus.

Building/Room: Assembly Hall
Primary Sponsor: Music
Performance Title: Music of Turkey
Performer(s): Middle East Music Ensemble
Cost: Free admission
Contact E-mail: musicdept@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773.702.8484
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Wanees Zarour, director, meme.uchicago.edu…@_University_of_Chicago/Home.html
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Dissertation Defense -- Volkan Stodolsky

Pick Lounge
Tuesday, March 13, 2012, 9 – 10am

Primary Sponsor: NELC
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Martin Marty Center Visiting Scholars Symposium

Divinity School, The University of Chicago
1025 E. 58th St.
Chicago, IL 60637
Thursday, March 15, 2012, 5 – 6pm

Thomas Meyer focuses on modern German philosophy and the history of ideas. He has published broadly on Ernst Cassirer as well as on Jewish philosophy and theology of the 20th Century. Currently he is working on an intellectual biography of Leo Strauss.

He received his Doctorate in 2003 and hisHabilitation in 2009, both from Ludwig Maximilians-University. Since then, he has held visiting professorships at ETH Zurich and Karl-Franzens University of Graz.

Building/Room: Swift Common Room
Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s)
Other Sponsor(s): Divinity School
Presenter: Dr. Thomas Meyer
Lecture Title: From Kirchhain to Annapolis: Leo Strauss’s intellectual biography
Contact Name: Miller Prosser
Contact E-mail: m-prosser@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-702-7108
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Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Winter Convocation

Friday, March 16, 2012, 3pm

Building/Room: Rockefeller Chapel
Primary Sponsor: University of Chicago
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Winter Quarter Ends

Saturday, March 17, 2012

Primary Sponsor: University of Chicago

The Newberry Consort and The King's Noyse/Piffaro

Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, 5850 S. Woodlawn Avenue
Sunday, March 18, 2012, 3 – 4:30pm

Pre-concert lectures begin one hour before each performance.

Building/Room: Sanctuary
Primary Sponsor: Music
Performer(s): The Newberry Consort, The King's Noyse/Piffaro
Cost: At the door: $35 general/$5 students (cash only)
Ticket Phone: 312.890.2553
Ticket Web Link: www.newberryconsort.org…
Contact Phone: 312.890.2553
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Event Description: This special event for our 25th season is truly special. Come hear the world’s foremost early string and wind ensembles, The King’s Noyse (directed by David Douglass) and Piffaro (directed by Joan Kimball and Robert Weimken) together with soprano Ellen Hargis join forces in a gorgeous program of music that entertained the late Renaissance nobles of Ferrara. Works by composers Cipriano de Rore, Carlo Gesualdo, Luzzasco Luzzaschi, and their compatriots will showcase the adventurous music which ushered in the early Baroque style of the 17th century. You won’t want to miss the chance to hear the glorious sounds of these two virtuosic ensembles.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: www.newberryconsort.org…

Spring Break

Monday, March 19 – Friday, March 23, 2012

Primary Sponsor: University of Chicago

Spring Quarter Begins

Monday, March 26, 2012

Primary Sponsor: University of Chicago

Steven Zipperstein: Mythology, Historicity, and the 1903 Kishinev Pogrom: How a Riot Changed 20th Century Jewish History

Rosenwald 405
1101 E. 58th St.
Chicago, IL 60637
Thursday, March 29, 2012, 4:30 – 6:30pm

Steven J. Zipperstein, Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History at Stanford University, has published widely in European Jewish history and literary biography.

Among his books are: Elusive Prophet: Ahad Ha'am and the Origins of Zionism (1993); Imagining Russian Jewry: Memory, History, Identity (1999); and Rosenfeld’s Lives: Fame, Oblivion, and the Furies of Writing (2008)

His books have garnered the National Jewish Book Award, the Smilen Prize, and the Leviant Prize of the Modern Language Association. He is an editor of the journal Jewish Social Studies, a series editor of Jewish Lives project at Yale University Press, and Chair of the Academic Advisory Council of the Center for Jewish History, in New York. For sixteen years, he was Director of the Taube Center for Jewish Studies at Stanford. Zipperstein writes often for general as well as specialized publications, and has published in The New York Times Sunday Book Review, The New Republic, Dissent, Chronicle of Higher Education, and The Jewish Review of Books. Currently he is at work on a cultural history of Russian Jewry at the turn of the twentieth century.

Building/Room: Rosenwald, room 405
Primary Sponsor: Chicago Center for Jewish Studies
Other Sponsor(s): The Committee on Social Thought, History of Judaism Club
Presenter: Steven Zipperstein
Lecture Title: Mythology, Historicity, and the 1903 Kishinev Pogrom: How a Riot Changed 20th Century Jewish History
Contact Name: Miller Prosser
Contact E-mail: m-prosser@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-702-7108
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David Stern: The Haggadah, Lecture 1 of 4

Special Collections Research Center, Regenstein Library
1100 E. 57th St.
Sunday, April 1, 2012, 5:30 – 7:30pm

Building/Room: Special Collections
Primary Sponsor: Chicago Center for Jewish Studies
Other Sponsor(s): Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library; Divinity School
Presenter: David Stern (University of Pennsylvania)
Lecture Title: The Haggadah and the Jewish Imagination
Contact Name: Miller Prosser
Contact E-mail: m-prosser@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-702-7108
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Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Around1948 Public Lecture and Workshop: Title TBA

Classics 110
1010 E. 59th St.
Chicago, IL 60637
Thursday, April 5, 2012, 9am – 6pm

Building/Room: Classics 110
Primary Sponsor: Franke Institute
Presenter: Lydia Liu (Chinese and Comparative Literature, Columbia University)
Contact Name: Susan Gooding
Contact E-mail: ssg4@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 715-790-2389
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Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: around1948.uchicago.edu

Mercury 13 Workshop Production

TAPS/UT
Tuesday, April 10, 11am – Tuesday, April 17, 2012, 12pm

Building/Room: Reynold's Club
Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s)
Other Sponsor(s): TAPS/UT
Contact Name: Heidi Coleman
Contact E-mail: coleman@uchicago.edu
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Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

TBA Residency Workshop

The Chicago Humanities Forum Presents James Sparrow

Gleacher Center
450 North Cityfront Plaza Drive, Room 621
Chicago, IL
Wednesday, April 11, 2012, 5:15 – 6pm

This event is open to the public. Please RSVP by Friday, April 6, 2012. You may call (773)702-8274 or email franke-humanities@uchicago.edu. You may also register online through this calendar application.

Building/Room: Gleacher Center, Room 621
Primary Sponsor: Franke Institute
Presenter: James Sparrow is Associate Professor, Department of History and the College
Lecture Title: “Warfare State: World War II Americans and the Age of Big Government ”
Contact E-mail: franke-humanities@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-702-8274
Campus Map: www.chicagobooth.edu…
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

The Medieval Globe: Communication, Connectivity, and Exchange

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Levis Faculty Center
Thursday, April 12 – Saturday, April 14, 2012

See www.medieval.illinois.edu… for more information.

Building/Room: Levis Faculty Center
Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s)
Other Sponsor(s): University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Conference Title: The Medieval Globe: Communication, Connectivity, and Exchange
Presenter(s): Jonathan Conant (Brown Univ.): "The Carolingians and the Ends of Empire", Kathleen Davis (Univ. of Rhode Island) "Imagining the Past Globally:, Questions and Possibilities for the Now and the Future", Margot Fassler (Notre Dame), Geraldine Heng (Univ. of Texas at Austin) "Early Globalities: Projects,, Questions, Methods", Linda Komaroff (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) "Genghis Khan Faces, West: Transmission and Dissemination of a New Visual Language", Sharon Kinoshita (Univ. of California Santa Cruz) "Worlding Marco Polo", Elizabeth Lambourn (De Montfort Univ.), Carla Nappi (Univ. of British Columbia) "Translating the Medieval World", Michael Puett (Harvard Univ.) "Understanding Early Medieval China in a, Eurasian Context", Christian Raffensperger (Wittenberg Univ.) "Who's Afraid of Macrohistory?, The Joys and Pains of Crossing Traditional Boundaries in History Research, and Writing.", Nicolás Wey-Gómez (California Institute of Technology) "Martin Behaim's, Globe: Cosmography, Economics, and the quest for globalization in the, latter middle ages (1492)"
Open to the Public: Yes
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Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: www.medieval.illinois.edu…

Rebel Ensemble

Mandel Hall, 1131 E. 57th Street
Friday, April 13, 2012, 7:30 – 9:30pm

Building/Room: Mandel Hall
Primary Sponsor: Chicago Presents
Performance Title: Irregular Pearls: Baroque Music from European Courts & Chambers
Performer(s): Matthias Maute, Jorg-Michael Schwarz, Karen Marie Marmer, John Moran, Dongsok Shin
Cost: $35 / $5 students
Ticket Phone: 773.702.8068
Contact Name: Chicago Presents
Contact E-mail: chicagopresents@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773.702.8068
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Works by Vivaldi, Rossi, Bertali, Mealli, Corelli, Telemann, Mancini and Leclair., Hailed by the New York Times as “sophisticated and beguiling” the New York-based Baroque ensemble Rebel has earned an impressive international reputation for their provocative approach to Baroque and Classical repertoire. Tonight also marks Mattias Maute's return to Mandel Hall after a triumphant debut with Ensemble Caprice during the 07/08 season.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: chicagopresents.uchicago.edu

The Newberry Consort: Les Caractères de la Danse

International House, 1414 E. 59th Street
Saturday, April 14, 2012, 8 – 9:30pm

Pre-concert lectures begin one hour before each performance.

Building/Room: Assembly Hall
Primary Sponsor: Music
Other Sponsor(s): Co-sponsored by International House Global Voices Program
Performance Title: The Newberry Consort: Les Caractères de la Danse
Performer(s): The Newberry Consort
Cost: At the door: $35 general/$5 students (cash only)
Ticket Phone: 312.890.2553
Ticket Web Link: www.newberryconsort.org…
Contact Phone: 312.890.2553
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Event Description: Baroque dancers Paige Whitley-Bauguess and Thomas Baird return with a delightful program featuring diverse characters that graced the 18th-century stage: shepherds, harlequins, nymphs, and sailors. The Virgina Gazette calls their movements, "stylish, exacting, deliberate and elegant...effortlessly executed." With accompaniment by The Newberry Consort on violin, harpsichord, and cello-along with a few vocal gems-Les Caractères de la Danse promises to be a tantalizing performance. Prepare to be entertained like a king or queen!
Disability Clause: Persons with disabilities that may need assistance should contact the Office of Programs & External Relations in advance of the program at 773-753-2274.
More info: www.newberryconsort.org…

Global Ancient Art Conference

Sunday, April 15, 2012

Primary Sponsor: Art History
Contact Name: Alex Kostiw
Contact E-mail: karenina@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 702-0278
Event Description: Details to be announced.

Gretchen Parlato Quartet

Mandel Hall, 1131 E. 57th Street
Sunday, April 15, 2012, 6 – 8pm

Building/Room: Mandel Hall
Primary Sponsor: Chicago Presents
Performance Title: Gretchen Parlato Quartet
Performer(s): Gretchen Parlato, Taylor Eigsti, Alan Hampton, Kendrick Scott
Cost: $20 / $5 students
Ticket Phone: 773.702.8068
Contact Name: Chicago Presents
Contact E-mail: chicagopresents@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773.702.8068
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Event Description: Jazz program to be announced from stage, First place winner of the Thelonious Monk Int'l Jazz Vocals Competition (2004), Gretchen Parlato has been a rising jazz star described as having a "deep, almost magical connection to the music," by jazz pianist Herbie Hancock. Saxophonist/composer Wayne Shorter said that, "in an inconspicuous way, Gretchen plays the same instrument as Frank Sinatra. There’s no one out there like Gretchen.”, This event is sponsored by The Julie and Parker Hall Endowment For Jazz And American Popular Music
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More info: chicagopresents.uchicago.edu

History and Forms of Lyric: Sharon Cameron

Social Sciences Tea Room, University of Chicago
Monday, April 16, 2012, 1 – 3pm

Building/Room: Social Sciences 201
Primary Sponsor: Creative Writing
Presenter(s): Sharon Cameron
Contact Name: Kate Soto
Contact E-mail: katesoto@uchicgo.edu
Contact Phone: 773.834.8524
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Sharon's bio via her faculty website at Johns Hopkins: english.jhu.edu…
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Deadline for 2012-13 East Asia Fellowship Applications

Center for East Asian Studies
Judd Hall 302
5935 S. Kimbark Ave.
Monday, April 16, 2012, 3pm

Primary Sponsor: CEAS
Contact Name: Theresa Couch
Contact E-mail: tcouch@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-702-8647
More info: ceas.uchicago.edu…

History and Forms of Lyric: Sharon Cameron

Social Sciences Tea Room, University of Chicago
Tuesday, April 17, 2012, 4:30 – 6:30pm

Building/Room: Social Sciences 201
Primary Sponsor: Creative Writing
Presenter: Sharon Cameron
Contact Name: Kate Soto
Contact E-mail: katesoto@uchicgo.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.

New Work Week

TAPS/UT
Friday, April 20, 11am – Friday, April 27, 2012, 12pm

Building/Room: Reynold's Club
Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s)
Other Sponsor(s): TAPS/UT
Contact Name: Heidi Coleman
Contact E-mail: coleman@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: TAPS/UT showcases original work of students.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Pacifica Quartet

Mandel Hall, 1131 E. 57th Street
Sunday, April 22, 2012, 3 – 5pm

Building/Room: Mandel Hall
Primary Sponsor: Chicago Presents
Performance Title: Pacifica Quartet
Performer(s): Simin Ganatra, Sibbi Bernhardsson, Masumi Per Rostad, Brandon Vamos
Cost: $25 / $5 students
Ticket Phone: 773.702.8068
Contact Name: Chicago Presents
Contact E-mail: chicagopresents@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773.702.8068
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Haydn: Quartet in B-flat major, op. 76, no. 4 “Sunrise”, Weinberg: String Quartet No. 6, op. 35, Beethoven: String Quartet in C major, op. 59, no. 3, Surrounded by string quartet masters Haydn and Beethoven, the Pacifica Quartet performs the rarely heard Sixth String Quartet by Moishe Weinberg, a prolific Soviet composer and contemporary of Shostakovich and Prokofiev.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: chicagopresents.uchicago.edu

Marc Michael Epstein: The Haggadah, Lecture 2 of 4

Special Collections Research Center, Regenstein Library
1100 E. 57th St.
Sunday, April 22, 2012, 5:30 – 7:30pm

Building/Room: Special Collections
Primary Sponsor: Chicago Center for Jewish Studies
Other Sponsor(s): Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library; Divinity School
Presenter: Marc Michael Epstein (Vassar College)
Lecture Title: Birds Head Revisited: Identity, Politics and Polemics the Birds' Head Haggadah
Contact Name: Miller Prosser
Contact E-mail: m-prosser@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-702-7108
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Marc Michael Epstein has been teaching at Vassar since 1992, and was the first Director of Jewish Studies. He is a graduate of Oberlin College, received the PhD at Yale University, and did much of his graduate research at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He has written on various topics in visual and material culture produced by, for, and about Jews. His most recent book, The Medieval Haggadah: Art, Narrative, and Religious Imagination (Yale, 2011) was selected by the London Times Literary Supplement as one of the best books of 2011. During the 80s, Epstein was Director of the Hebrew Books and Manuscripts division of Sotheby's Judaica department, and continues to serve as consultant to various libraries, auction houses, museums and private collectors throughout the world, among them the Herbert C. and Eileen Bernard Museum at Temple Emanu-El in New York City, for which he curated the inaugural exhibition, and the Fowler Museum at UCLA, where he currently serves as consultant for a major exhibition on aspects of Kabbalah and its relationship to visual culture.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Around1948 Conference: The Legacies of 1948

The Franke Institute for the Humanities
1100 East 57th Street, JRL S-118
Chicago, IL 60637
Thursday, April 26, 2012, 9am – 6pm

Building/Room: JRL S-118
Primary Sponsor: Franke Institute
Conference Title: The Legacies of 1948
Presenter(s): * Keynote: Timothy Mitchell (Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University), * Fred Cooper (History, NYU),, * Manu Goswami (History, NYU),, * Laura Gotkowitz (History, University of Pittsburgh),, * Nancy Kates (award-winning documentary filmmaker),, * John Kelly (Anthropology, University of Chicago),, * Efren Rivera-Ramos (University of Puerto Rico Law School)
Open to the Public: Yes
Cost: None
Contact Name: Susan Gooding
Contact E-mail: ssg4@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 715-790-2389
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: around1948.uchicago.edu

Poem Present: Brenda Hillman

Social Sciences Tea Room (201), University of Chicago
Thursday, April 26, 2012, 4:30 – 6:30pm

Building/Room: Social Sciences 201
Primary Sponsor: Poem Present
Author: Brenda Hillman
Reading From: her work
Contact Name: Kate Soto
Contact E-mail: katesoto@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773.834.8524
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: As part of the popular Poem Present series, this event is free and open to the public. A reception will follow.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

A Conversation and Reading: Etgar Keret

Chicago Sinai Congregation
15 W. Delaware
Chicago, IL 60610
Thursday, April 26, 2012, 6 – 7pm

www.chicagohumanities.org…

Born in Tel Aviv in 1967, Etgar Keret is the author of six bestselling story collections, most recently Suddenly, a Knock on the Door. His writing has been published in Harper’s Magazine, The New York Times, The Paris Review, and Zoetrope. Jellyfish, his first movie as a director along with his wife, Shira Geffen, won the Camera d’Or prize for best first feature at Cannes in 2007. In 2010 he was named a Chevalier of France’s Order of Arts and Letters.

Nathan Englander is the author of the forthcoming collection What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank (advance praise here), as well as the internationally bestselling story collection For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, and the novel The Ministry of Special Cases (all published by Knopf/Vintage). Translated into more than a dozen languages, Englander was selected as one of “20 Writers for the 21st Century” by The New Yorker, received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a PEN/Malamud Award, and the Bard Fiction Prize.

Building/Room: Chicago Sinai Congr.
Primary Sponsor: Chicago Center for Jewish Studies
Other Sponsor(s): The Writing Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Jewish Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago,The Crown Family Center for Jewish Studies, Northwestern University, and the Spertus Institute.
Author: Etgar Keret
Reading From: Suddenly, a Knock on the Door
Contact Name: Miller Prosser (contact Chicago Humanities Festival for tickets)
Contact E-mail: m-prosser@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-702-7108
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Tickets for this program are sold by the Chicago Humanities Festival and will be available to members in the member bundle beginning January 9, 2012. Single tickets will be available to members and the general public on March 5, 2012., CHF Member: $5.00, General Admission: $10.00, Equal parts Franz Kafka and Kurt Vonnegut, and suffused with inimitable and absurdist hilarity, Israeli writer Etgar Keret is a singular voice in contemporary literature. His masterful short stories, at once dark and delightfully comedic, capture human experience in all of its inspiring beauty and perplexing shortcomings. As readers, we are bewitched by the strange and surreal worlds he creates. Keret visits Chicago to celebrate the English translation of his sixth bestselling collection, Suddenly, a Knock on the Door., For more information, see: www.chicagohumanities.org…
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

“East Asia in Performance” Graduate Student Conference in East Asian Studies at the University of Chicago

International House
1414 East 59th Street
Chicago, IL
Friday, April 27 – Saturday, April 28, 2012

Limited travel subsidies are available for selected participants. Lodging and most meals will be provided.

Please send abstracts (approx. 250 wds.) to eastasiachicago@gmail.com. Deadline for submission of abstracts is January 15, 2012. Any additional questions may be addressed to the conference organizers: John Person (jperson@uchicago.edu) and Helen Findley (hfindley@uchicago.edu).

Building/Room: I-House
Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s)
Presenter(s): Keynote Speaker: Mark Driscoll, Associate Professor, Japanese Media and Cultural Studies, University of North Caroline-Chapel Hill
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Whether viewed as a discrete sociopolitical sphere of influence or a distinct field of academic inquiry, the putative unity suggested by the term “East Asia” belies much of the historical and social fluidity that has marked its construction and transformation in time throughout the modern period. Performance, here broadly understood as a process of communication, provides an important lens through which to examine the multiplicity and heterogeneity which mark the emergence of “East Asia” as both object and subject of discourse. How have disparate semiotic modalities (e.g., ritual, oratory, poetics) aided in the discursive creation of East Asia? What are the mechanisms through which these embodied practices and events are framed? In attempting to address these and other related questions, this conference seeks to provide a forum for discussion of the many ways in which performative practices – from Meiji Buddhist homiletics, colonial magazine culture, to writing practices in Maoist China – have contributed to the creation, negotiation and competition of various figurations of modern East Asia. We thus welcome submissions from graduate students working in all fields related to East Asian studies, including, but not limited to, history, literature, film, art history, religion, anthropology, economics and sociology. We especially encourage papers which are transregional and interdisciplinary in focus.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Around1948 Conference: The Legacies of 1948

The Franke Institute for the Humanities
1100 East 57th Street, JRL S-118
Chicago, IL 60637
Friday, April 27, 2012, 9am – 6pm

Building/Room: JRL S-118
Primary Sponsor: Franke Institute
Conference Title: The Legacies of 1948
Presenter(s): * Keynote: Timothy Mitchell (Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University), * Fred Cooper (History, NYU),, * Manu Goswami (History, NYU),, * Laura Gotkowitz (History, University of Pittsburgh),, * Nancy Kates (award-winning documentary filmmaker),, * John Kelly (Anthropology, University of Chicago),, * Efren Rivera-Ramos (University of Puerto Rico Law School)
Open to the Public: Yes
Cost: None
Contact Name: Susan Gooding
Contact E-mail: ssg4@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 715-790-2389
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: around1948.uchicago.edu

Workshop on Writing/Graphic Films with Etgar Keret

TBA
Friday, April 27, 2012, 10am – 12pm

Building/Room: TBA
Primary Sponsor: Chicago Center for Jewish Studies
Other Sponsor(s): The Chicago Humanities Festival
Presenter(s): Etgar Keret
Title: TBA
Contact Name: Miller Prosser
Contact E-mail: m-prosser@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-702-7108
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Poem Present: Brenda Hillman

Rosenwald 405, University of Chicago
Friday, April 27, 2012, 1 – 3pm

Building/Room: RO 405
Primary Sponsor: Poem Present
Presenter: Brenda Hilman
Contact Name: Kate Soto
Contact E-mail: katesoto@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773.834.8524
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Brenda Hillman will deliver a lecture on the craft as part of the Poem Present series. This event is free and open to the public. A reception will follow.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Visiting Committee Colloquium Series: Arnie Cox

Fulton Recital Hall, 1010 E. 59th Street
Friday, April 27, 2012, 3:30 – 5:30pm

Rescheduled from January 13.

Building/Room: Goodspeed Hall, 4th floor
Primary Sponsor: Music
Presenter: Jairo Moreno, Associate Professor of Music, Yale University
Lecture Title: Theorizing Musical Affect
Contact E-mail: musicdept@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773.702.8484
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Abstract: The bases of emotional responses to music remain largely mysterious despite the wealth of psychological and philosophical writings on the subject. One of the challenges in theorizing musical affect is, arguably, that we do not even have a clear picture of the overall scope of the problem. In this talk I describe eight sources, or avenues, whereby music shapes our affective state and produces both “garden variety” emotions as well as the more ineffable feelings that shape musical experience. This 8-part view offers a more holistic approach to one of the most compelling forms of aesthetic experience. Bio: Arnie Cox is Associate Professor at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where he teaches music theory, ear training, and the course Music & Embodied Cognition. His recent publications include “Hearing, Feeling, Grasping Gestures,” in the volume Music and Gesture (Ashgate 2006), “‘What Rhymes with Lungs?’ When Music Speaks Louder than Words,” in the volume Sounds of the Slayer: Music and Silence in Buffy and Angel (Ashgate, 2010), and “Embodying Music: Principles of the Mimetic Hypothesis” (Music Theory Online 17.2, Summer 2011). He is currently writing a book on the roles of mimetic motor imagery and metaphoric reasoning in the construction of musical meaning.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

June and Harold Patinkin Lecture

Swift Hall, Common Room
1025 E. 58th St.
Tuesday, May 1, 2012, 5:30 – 7:30pm

Building/Room: Swift Hall, Common Room
Primary Sponsor: Chicago Center for Jewish Studies
Presenter: Raymond Cohen, June and Harold Patinkin Visiting Professor
Lecture Title: TBA
Contact Name: Miller Prosser
Contact E-mail: m-prosser@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-702-7108
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Around1948 Public Workshop: Title TBA

The Franke Institute for the Humanities
1100 East 57th Street, JRL S-118
Chicago, IL 60637
Wednesday, May 2, 2012, 2 – 5:15pm

Building/Room: JRL S-118
Primary Sponsor: Franke Institute
Other Sponsor(s): Cosponsored with the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality’s Sawyer Seminar Conference “Engendering Rights in India: The Colonial Encounter and Beyond” (May 3-4).
Presenter(s): Rajeswari Sunder Rajan (English, New York University)
Open to the Public: Yes
Contact Name: Susan Gooding
Contact E-mail: ssg4@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 715-790-2389
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Held in conjunction with the Franke Center for Disciplinary Innovation course “Postcolonial Intersections: The Middle East and South Asia” taught by Sawyer Seminar faculty Leela Gandhi & Lisa Wedeen.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: around1948.uchicago.edu

Poem Present: Fred Moten

Rosenwald 405, University of Chicago
Thursday, May 3, 2012, 4:30 – 6:30pm

Building/Room: Rosenwald 405
Primary Sponsor: Poem Present
Other Sponsor(s): CSPRC
Reading From: his work
Contact Name: Kate Soto
Contact E-mail: katesoto@uchicgo.edu
Contact Phone: 773.834.8524
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Read Fred's bio from the Poetry Society of America: www.poetrysociety.org…
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Poem Present: Fred Moten

Rosenwald 405, University of Chicago
Friday, May 4, 2012, 1 – 3pm

Building/Room: Rosenwald 405
Primary Sponsor: Poem Present
Other Sponsor(s): CSPRC
Contact Name: Kate Soto
Contact E-mail: katesoto@uchicgo.edu
Contact Phone: 773.834.8524
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Read Fred's bio from the Poetry Society of America: www.poetrysociety.org…

The Atomic Age II: Fukushima

TBD
Saturday, May 5, 2012, 8:30am – 6:30pm

Building/Room: TBD
Primary Sponsor: CEAS
Contact Name: Sarah Arehart
Contact E-mail: sarehart@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-702-2715
Event Description: Save the date! Atomic Age II will be held at the University of Chicago on Saturday, May 5. Principal speakers will include Professor Hiroaki Koide of the Kyoto University Reactor Research Institute, Ms. Ruiko Muto, an anti-nuclear activist based in Fukushima and a member of a citizens’ group, Hairo Action Fukushima, along with Professor Robert Rosner, Astronomy & Astrophysics & Physics, University of Chicago (former Director of the Argonne National Laboratory), and Dr. Jeffrey Patterson of Physicians for Social Responsibility, as respondents. Further details will be announced soon.
More info: lucian.uchicago.edu…

New Music Ensemble with Group Motion Dance Company

Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, 5850 S. Woodlawn Avenue
Saturday, May 5, 2012, 8 – 10pm

Building/Room: Sanctuary
Primary Sponsor: Music
Performer(s): New Music Ensemble with Group Motion Dance Company
Cost: Donations: $10 / $5 students
Contact E-mail: musicdept@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773.702.8484
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Graduate student composers showcase new works. Program also includes Andrea Clearfield's "Lung-Ta" (The Windhorse) with Group Motion Dance Company. The title, Lung-Ta (The Windhorse), refer to the Tibetan Buddhist Prayer flag, as well as a quality of inner vibratory power. Incorporating text written for this work by a senior lama of Lo Monthang, the multidisciplinary piece is a prayer for the planet, performed with visual art and dance.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Vanessa Ochs: The Haggadah, Lecture 3 of 4

Special Collections Research Center, Regenstein Library
1100 E. 57th St.
Sunday, May 6, 2012, 5:30 – 7:30pm

Building/Room: Special Collections
Primary Sponsor: Chicago Center for Jewish Studies
Other Sponsor(s): Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library; Divinity School
Presenter: Vanessa Ochs (University of Virginia)
Lecture Title: The coconut on the seder plate: A biography of the contemporary Haggadah
Contact Name: Miller Prosser
Contact E-mail: m-prosser@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-702-7108
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

German-Jewish Echoes in the Contemporary Middle East

Franke Institute
1100 E. 57th St.
Chicago, IL 60637
Monday, May 7 – Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Building/Room: Franke Institute
Primary Sponsor: Chicago Center for Jewish Studies
Conference Title: German-Jewish Echoes in the Contemporary Middle East
Contact Name: Miller Prosser
Contact E-mail: m-prosser@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-702-7108
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Under what guises do the German-Jewish past and German-Jewish thought and literature appear in the Middle East today? How might they operate as a productive reference point in understanding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the broader cultural and political context that surrounds the conflict in the Middle East? And how does the context of the Middle East allow us to better understand German-Jewish literature and thought and to rethink the enduring legacy of the German-Jewish encounter, in both its productive and its catastrophic moments? The second in a series of conferences, this conference builds on the interest generated by a previous conference, on “German and Hebrew: Histories of a Conversation,” which took place at the University of Chicago in April 2010. That event focused on different forms of literary and cultural interactions between the two languages, especially after the Second World War. The German-Hebrew contact zone continues to emerge as an exciting scholarly subfield and the intention of this follow-up event is to explore more systematically the place of this subfield within existing scholarly contexts and specifically to illuminate the stakes of bringing into conversation the fields of German-Jewish Studies and Middle Eastern Studies.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Kestnbaum Writers in Residence: Michael Ondaatje

Performance Penthouse, Logan Center
Monday, May 7, 2012, 5 – 8pm

Building/Room: Performance Penthouse
Primary Sponsor: Creative Writing
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.

Around1948 Panel and Discussion: "Cybernetics and the Disciplines: The Case of Anthropology

The Franke Institute for the Humanities
1100 East 57th Street, JRL S-118
Chicago, IL 60637
Wednesday, May 9, 2012, 4 – 6pm

Reception to follow.

Building/Room: JRL S-118
Primary Sponsor: Franke Institute
Other Sponsor(s): Cosponsored by the Disciplines and Technologies Project of the Franke Institute for the Humanities.
Presenter(s): Poornima Paidipaty (Social Sciences, U of Chicago), Bernard Geoghegan (Screen Cultures, Northwestern University and Bauhaus-Universitat Weimar)
Open to the Public: Yes
Contact Name: Susan Gooding
Contact E-mail: ssg4@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 715-790-2389
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Cosponsored by the Disciplines and Technologies Project of the Franke Institute for the Humanities.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: around1948.uchicago.edu

Harriet Murav: Poetry After Kerch: Representing Jewish Mass Death in the Soviet Union

TBA
Thursday, May 10, 2012, 4:30 – 6:30pm

This event is made possible by the Aronberg Fund and the Meyer Fund of the Chicago Center for Jewish Studies, in collaboration with the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures.

Building/Room: TBA
Primary Sponsor: Chicago Center for Jewish Studies
Presenter: Harriet Murav, Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Lecture Title: Poetry After Kerch: Representing Jewish Mass Death in the Soviet Union
Contact Name: Miller Prosser
Contact E-mail: m-prosser@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-702-7108
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

The Tenth Japan at Chicago Conference

John Hope Franklin Room, SSR 224
1126 E. 59th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Friday, May 11 – Saturday, May 12, 2012

Building/Room: JHF: SSR 224
Primary Sponsor: CEAS
Conference Title: Medicine, Politics, and Culture in the Japanese Empire
Presenter(s): Iijima Wataru (Aoyama Gakuen), Chang-geon Shin (Tokyo University of Science), Suzuki Akihito (Keio University), Waka Hirokawa (Osaka University), Soyoung Suh (Dartmouth College), William Johnston (Wesleyan University), Miriam Kingsberg (University of Colorado)
Open to the Public: Yes
Cost: FREE
Contact Name: Sarah Arehart
Contact E-mail: sarehart@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-702-2715
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Coming soon
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Contempo: Tomorrow's Music Today I

Fulton Recital Hall, 5845 S. Ellis Avenue
Friday, May 11, 2012, 7:30 – 9:30pm

Building/Room: Goodspeed Hall, 4th Fl.
Primary Sponsor: Chicago Presents
Performance Title: Tomorrow's Music Today I
Performer(s): eighth blackbird, Pacifica Quartet
Cost: Free
Ticket Phone: 773.702.8068
Contact Name: Chicago Presents
Contact E-mail: chicagopresents@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773.702.8068
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Hear music by University of Chicago’s doctoral candidates in composition in this annual pair of concerts. Some of today’s finest young composers realize their vision through creative interactions with Contempo’s Grammy-winning artists-in-residence., Program to include works by Jae-Goo Lee, Tomas Ignacio Gueglio, and Andrew McManus.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: contempo.uchicago.edu

Katrin Kogman-Appel: The Haggadah, Lecture 4 of 4

Special Collections Research Center, Regenstein Library
1100 E. 57th St.
Sunday, May 13, 2012, 5:30 – 7:30pm

Building/Room: Special Collections
Primary Sponsor: Chicago Center for Jewish Studies
Other Sponsor(s): Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library; Divinity School
Presenter: Katrin Kogman-Appel (Ben-Gurion University)
Lecture Title: Popularizing Books in a Manuscript Culture: The Visual Language of the Late Medieval Haggadah.
Contact Name: Miller Prosser
Contact E-mail: m-prosser@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-702-7108
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Contempo: Tomorrow's Music Today II

Ganz Hall at Roosevelt University, 430 S. Michigan Avenue, 7th Floor
Friday, May 18, 2012, 7:30 – 9:30pm

Building/Room: Ganz Hall
Primary Sponsor: Chicago Presents
Performance Title: Tomorrow's Music Today II
Performer(s): eighth blackbird, Pacifica Quartet
Cost: Free
Ticket Phone: 773.702.8068
Contact Name: Chicago Presents
Contact E-mail: chicagopresents@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773.702.8068
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Hear music by University of Chicago’s doctoral candidates in composition in this annual pair of concerts. Some of today’s finest young composers realize their vision through creative interactions with Contempo’s Grammy-winning artists-in-residence., Program to include works by Uchicago composition students Shawn Allison, Iddo Aharony, Takuma Tanikawa, and Francisco Castillo Trigueros.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: contempo.uchicago.edu

Debussy's 150th Birthday Celebration

Fulton Recital Hall, 1010 E. 59th Street
Saturday, May 19, 2012, 1 – 3pm

Building/Room: Goodspeed Hall, 4th floor
Primary Sponsor: Music
Performance Title: Debussy's 150th Birthday Celebration
Performer(s): Varied
Cost: FREE
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Performances by faculty, students, and staff to commemorate Claude Debussy on his 150th birthday.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Around1948 Public Lecture and Workshop: Title TBA

The Franke Institute for the Humanities
1100 East 57th Street, JRL S-118
Chicago, IL 60637
Monday, May 21, 2012, 9am – 6pm

Building/Room: JRL S-118
Primary Sponsor: Franke Institute
Presenter(s): Amanda Anderson (English, Johns Hopkins University)
Open to the Public: Yes
Contact Name: Susan Gooding
Contact E-mail: ssg4@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 715-790-2389
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: around1948.uchicago.edu

U of Chicagoland Reading

Social Sciences Tea Room (201), University of Chicago
Thursday, May 24, 2012, 4:30 – 6:30pm

Building/Room: Social Sciences 201
Primary Sponsor: Creative Writing
Contact Name: Kate Soto
Contact E-mail: katesoto@uchicgo.edu
Contact Phone: 773.834.8524
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Please join us for a reading comprised of students and others from the University of Chicago community.

Smart Lecture: Pamela Lee

Thursday, May 24, 2012, 4:30 – 6pm

Building/Room: Cochrane-Woods 157
Primary Sponsor: Art History
Presenter: Pamela Lee
Lecture Title: Pattern Recognition, Circa 1947
Contact Name: Alex Kostiw
Contact E-mail: karenina@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 702-0278
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

The Eleventh Japan at Chicago Conference

John Hope Franklin room, SSR 224
1126 E. 59th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Friday, May 25, 3pm – Sunday, May 27, 2012, 11am

Building/Room: JHF: SSR 224
Primary Sponsor: CEAS
Conference Title: Japan Re:Mediations
Presenter(s): Joseph Hankins, University of California San Diego, Akiko Takeyama, University of Kansas, Yukiko Koga, Hunter College, David Novak, University of California, Santa Barbra, Andrea Arai, University of Washington, Gabriella Lukacs, University of Pittsburgh, Lorraine Plourde, Purchase College, New York, Takehiro Watanabe, Sophia University, Tokyo, Michael Fisch, University of Chicago, Jun Mizukawa, Columbia University
Open to the Public: No
Cost: None
Contact Name: Theresa Couch
Contact E-mail: tcouch@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-702-8647
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: The workshop title “Re-Mediation” takes its inspiration from the, understanding that Japan is always a product of some form of mediation. Mediation, in this context, is epistemological and material. It involves structures of knowledge, technologies, rituals, economies and institutions. In proposing a “Re-Mediation,” we posit the necessity for a re-engagement with contemporary discursive constructions of nation, identity, and subjectivity in Japan alongside analyses of the proliferating and protean figurations of Japan emerging within a thickening network of technological mediation.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Music of the Scottish Enlightenment

Fulton Recital Hall, 1010 E. 59th Street
Tuesday, May 29, 2012, 7:30 – 9pm

Pre-concert talk begins at 6.30pm
Dessert reception to follow

Building/Room: Goodspeed Hall, 4th floor
Primary Sponsor: Nicholson Center
Other Sponsor(s): Music
Performance Title: Music of the Scottish Enlightenment
Performer(s): Free and open to the public
Contact Name: Andy Greenwood
Contact E-mail: andyg@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: In conjunction with the Nicholson Center for British Studies Graduate Initiative project.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Spring Reading Period

Thursday, May 31 – Friday, June 1, 2012

Primary Sponsor: University of Chicago

Spring Convocation

Saturday, June 9, 2012

Participants: All schools and divisions

Building/Room: Main Quadrangle
Primary Sponsor: University of Chicago
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
More info: convocation.uchicago.edu

Summer Quarter Begins

Monday, June 18, 2012

Primary Sponsor: University of Chicago

Independence Day

Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Primary Sponsor: University of Chicago

Miss Julie by August Strindberg

TAPS/UT
Wednesday, October 10, 11am – Wednesday, October 17, 2012, 12pm

Building/Room: Reynold's Club
Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s)
Other Sponsor(s): TAPS/UT
Contact Name: Heidi Coleman
Contact E-mail: coleman@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: TAPS/UT Presents August Strindberg's Miss Julie
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

The Orestia by Sophocles

TAPS/UT
Thursday, January 10, 11am – Thursday, January 17, 2013, 12pm

Building/Room: Logan Arts Center
Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s)
Other Sponsor(s): TAPS/UT
Contact Name: Heidi Coleman
Contact E-mail: coleman@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: TAPS/UT presents Sophocles' The Orestia. Three Plays. Three Directors. Three Aesthetics
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Course with New Residency

TAPS/UT
Thursday, January 17, 11am – Thursday, January 24, 2013, 12pm

Building/Room: Logan Arts Center
Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s)
Other Sponsor(s): TAPS/UT
Contact Name: Heidi Coleman
Contact E-mail: coleman@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.