Program Overview
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Bill Brown
Benjamin Callard
Steven Collins
Teri Edelstein
Art History
Tour of En Guerre: French Illustrators and World War I at the Special Collections Exhibition Gallery – 9:30 a.m.
Teri EdelsteinChristopher Faraone
Classics
Ancient Greek Gems as Vehicles for Healing, Protection, Cursing, and Erotic Magic
Christopher FaraonePhilip Gossett
Reginald Jackson
East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Slavery, Performance, and the Question of Personhood in Medieval Japanese Drama
Reginald JacksonRobert Kendrick
Alison LaCroix, Jason Merchant
Law, Linguistics
The Use and Abuse of Linguistics at the US Supreme Court
Alison LaCroix, Jason MerchantLaura Letinsky
Christine Mehring, Alice Kain
DN Rodowick
Lawrence Rothfield
Cultural Policy Center, English Language and Literature
Antiquities Under Siege, Again
Lawrence RothfieldYuri Tsivian
Cinema and Media Studies
What Makes Them Run, What Slows Them Down: Cinemetrics Looks at Film History and Culture
Yuri TsivianLawrence Zbikowski, Iddo Aharony, Anya Bershad, Bill Hutchison, Ivo Peters, Qin Xu
Philip V. Bohlman
Diane Brentari, Peter Cook
John Eaton
Neil Harris
Art History, History
Challenging Gotham: J. Carter Brown’s Transformation of the National Gallery of Art
Neil HarrisMichael Kremer
David Levin, Saar Magal
Cinema and Media Studies, Germanic Studies, Theater and Performance Studies
Collaboration 2.0: Preparing “Jephta’s Daughter” for the Stage
David Levin, Saar MagalMichèle Lowrie
Armando Maggi
Romance Languages and Literatures
Contemporary American Memoirs and Classical Fairy Tales
Armando MaggiPatrice Michaels
WJT Mitchell
Daniel Morgan
Cinema and Media Studies
The Camera Eye? Movement, Perspective, and Identification in the Cinema
Daniel MorganJohn Muse
Sarah Nooter, Rosanna Warren, John Wilkinson, David Wray
Classics, Creative Writing, Social Thought
Poetics Across the Disciplines: Elegies by Ben Jonson and Dylan Thomas
Sarah Nooter, Rosanna Warren, John Wilkinson, David WrayDavid Wellbery
Orit Bashkin
Catherine Baumann
Chicago Language Center, Germanic Studies
Arabic + Psychology = ? The New Math of Language Study Across the Disciplines
Catherine BaumannDavid Bevington
Will Boast, Amaia Gabantxo, Dan Raeburn, John Wilkinson
Creative Writing
Creative Writing and the Sister Arts
Will Boast, Amaia Gabantxo, Dan Raeburn, John WilkinsonPatrick Crowley
Theaster Gates, Jacqueline Stewart
Cinema and Media Studies, Visual Arts
Rethinking Minstrelsy: Spencer Williams, Ed Williams, Bert Williams
Theaster Gates, Jacqueline StewartAnastasia Giannakidou, Sayed Kashua, Na’ama Rokem
Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry, Linguistics, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Bilingual Knowledge, Bilingual Stories
Anastasia Giannakidou, Sayed Kashua, Na’ama RokemDorothea Hoffmann
Alice Kain
Smart Museum
Art in Public Spaces: A Walking Tour of Sculptures on the University of Chicago Campus
Alice KainMiguel Martínez
Romance Languages and Literatures
Winter Soldiers: Veterans and the State in the Spanish Empire
Miguel MartínezWilliam Nickell
Slavic Languages and Literatures
From Sochi to the Crimea: Episodes in the Rise of a New Cold War
William NickellBart Schultz
Civic Knowledge Project, Philosophy
