Session 2

Join Cinema and Media Studies lecturer and exhibit curator Dominique Bluher on a tour of Agnès Varda: Photographs Get Moving (potatoes and shells, too). The exhibition proposes a dialogue between still photography and moving pictures and focuses on the work of Agnès Varda, renonwned French film director and visual artist. Visit the Logan Center Gallery for more information on the exhibition.

The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC has over eighty copies of the so-called First Folio of Shakespeare, more formally titled Mr William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, published according to their true original copies. London 1623. A large number of these copies will be circulating on tour soon, in anticipation of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death in 1616. This seems like a good time to ponder the history of this book. How was it assembled after Shakespeare's death by two of his theater colleagues, John Heminges and Henry Condell?

Join us in the University of Chicago Language Center to trace the history of language learning on UChicago’s campus. From the very first languages to the over 50 currently taught each academic year, language pedagogy has changed dramatically while also staying very much the same. From Akkadian to Yiddish, between tablets and scrolls, to the teaching of languages within and beyond our walls, join us for a talk that will both inform you and provoke new questions.