Program Overview
David Levin
Cinema and Media Studies, Germanic Studies, Theater and Performance Studies
Elektra Shock: Opera and Radical Interpretation
David LevinElena Bashir
Claudia Brittenham
Jacob Eyferth, Donald Harper
East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Knowing and Doing: Text and Labor in Asian Handwork
Jacob Eyferth, Donald HarperCécile Fromont
Boris Maslov, Rocco Rubini
Comparative Literature, Romance Languages and Literatures
Intimacy and Liberty: Two Reasons Why We Are (Still) the Ancients
Boris Maslov, Rocco RubiniJason Merchant
Eric Powell
Zachary Samalin
Haun Saussy
Comparative Literature, East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Chinese Ideas About Translating from (Approximately) the Fall of Rome to the Coolidge Administration
Haun SaussyJessica Stockholder
Anna Weiss, Monica Welke
Smart Museum
Behind-the-Scenes of the Campus Art Collection: A Walking Tour of Art on Campus
Anna Weiss, Monica WelkeChristopher Wild
Niall Atkinson, Wei-Cheng Lin , Katherine Fischer Taylor
Art History
Constructing Performativity: Architecture from the Users’ Point of View
Niall Atkinson, Wei-Cheng Lin , Katherine Fischer TaylorCatherine Baumann
Chicago Language Center, Germanic Studies
From Stone Tablets to iPads: 125 Years of Language Study
Catherine BaumannDavid Bevington
Comparative Literature, English Language and Literature
The Assembling and Printing of the Shakespeare First Folio, 1623
David BevingtonDominique Bluher
Cinema and Media Studies
Agnès Varda: Photographs Get Moving (potatoes and shells, too) - 2:00 p.m. guided tour
Dominique BluherDiane Brentari
Anthony Cheung
Rachel Galvin, Srikanth (Chicu) Reddy, John Wilkinson
Creative Writing, English Language and Literature
Poetry Reading by Creative Writing Faculty
Rachel Galvin, Srikanth (Chicu) Reddy, John WilkinsonMatthew Jesse Jackson
Kiersten Neumann
Jacqueline Stewart, James Chandler, Sean Griffin, George Lewis
Cinema and Media Studies, English Language and Literature, Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry
Afterword: The AACM (as) Opera
Jacqueline Stewart, James Chandler, Sean Griffin, George LewisCandace Vogler, Jennifer Frey
Philosophy
Virtue, Happiness, and the Meaning of Life: A Collaboration
Candace Vogler, Jennifer FreyJohn Wee
University Staff
Clifford Ando
Classics
"They Have Eyes But Do Not See": Idolatry and Ritual from Isaiah to Augustine
Clifford AndoGeoffrey Brookshire, Kyler Brown, Shane DuBay, Carl Fuldner, Julie Marie Lemon, Marcelle Pierson
Arts, Science, and Culture Initiative
The Finch and the Phoenix: Birds Across Worlds
Geoffrey Brookshire, Kyler Brown, Shane DuBay, Carl Fuldner, Julie Marie Lemon, Marcelle PiersonBenjamin Callard
Itamar Francez
Timothy Harrison
English Language and Literature
Birth, Infancy, and Other Impossible Experiences in Seventeenth-Century England
Timothy HarrisonDaniel Morgan
Cinema and Media Studies
Cinema’s Perspective, or, Why Should Renaissance Painting Matter for Cinema?
Daniel MorganSalikoko Mufwene
Mario Santana
Romance Languages and Literatures
Translation and the Implosion of National Literatures
Mario SantanaBart Schultz
Civic Knowledge Project
The Civic Knowledge Project on the History of Diversity at UChicago
Bart SchultzOlga Solovieva
Comparative Literature
James J. Tissot and His Prodigal Son Etchings at the Smart Museum
Olga SolovievaMalynne Sternstein
Slavic Languages and Literatures
The Evil Empire Strikes Back, or, Why Russia is Hollywood's Filmic Nemesis...Again
Malynne SternsteinMegan Sullivan
Art History
Muralism vs. Abstraction: Competing Ideas of Political Art in Latin America
Megan SullivanGary Tubb
South Asian Languages and Civilizations