Sacred and Profane Love Concert

King Solomon’s Singers, a new addition to Chicago’s thriving early music community, present a concert of Renaissance polyphony and chant on Song of Songs texts. The ensemble, composed of early music veterans from ensembles such as Schola Antiqua of Chicago, Chicago Chorale, the Oriana Singers, the Chicago Early Music Consort, and Chicago a cappella, will [...]

Nussbaum finds the drama in philosophy | The University of Chicago

Life in all its messiness has always been a source of scholarly inspiration for philosopher Martha Nussbaum. She once was so taken with the vibrancy of drama and literature that she temporarily left college to pursue acting full-time. But she soon concluded that the world of professional theater was “too full of narcissism,” and that [...]

Lecture: Egyptomania! James Henry Breasted and the Birth of American Egyptology

Emily Teeter lectured on the father of American Egyptology, James Henry Breasted, on Sunday, May 16, 1 pm at the Chicago Cultural Center (Claudia Cassidy Theater). Ms. Teeter, who holds a PhD in Egyptology from the University of Chicago, is  research associate and special exhibits coordinator at the Oriental Institute. She is the author of [...]

University of Chicago Professor Frank Lewis on Rumi’s Masnavi

Moment to moment, new in form that ravishing idol appears steals the heart and disappears … He spent a term on earth, came down as Jesus from the sky, spread joy returned again, reciting glory Once he came as Noah, drowned the world in prayer, embarked the Ark Once he came as Abraham, the Friend [...]

WTF IS POLONIUS DOING BEHIND THE CURTAIN???

From Twitterature, this is the tweet version of Hamlet. Students’ book transforms classics into ‘tweets.’ One day in spring 2009, Alex Aciman and Emmett Rensin were hanging out in their Max Palvesky West dorm room, bantering about the increasingly popular social networking tool known as Twitter. The first years’ chat turned into a verbal game, [...]

Football Comes to the U of C – 1961, The Second City

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Football Comes to the U of C

Smart Comedy Built Second City Success Bernie Sahlins knows talent when he sees it. During his 26 years as producer with The Second City, Sahlins, AB’43, helped discover some of world’s best-known comedians, including John Belushi, Dan Akroyd, and Bill Murray. But there’s a surprising secret to Sahlins’ success—funny isn’t enough. “First I look for [...]

U of C-owned Gospel of St. Mark a fake

Far from being devastated that the U. of C. was duped when it bought the fake from a Greek family in the late 1930s, the scholars who uncovered the truth are relieved. “It’s actually tremendously satisfying to have a definite result,” said Margaret M. Mitchell, a professor at U. of C.’s Divinity School. “Scholarship depends [...]