On the Politics of Architecture and Space

Arts and Public Life and the Civic Knowledge Project present Amplifying Voices Conversation with Theaster Gates and Bart Schultz on the Politics of Architecture and Space Free Tues., May 1, 7 p.m. Location: Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, 915 E. 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60637

Basic Program instructors Katia Mitova and Cindy Rutz will be speaking at the Off Campus Writers Workshop

The Off Campus Writers’ Workshop meets weekly from September to May to hear a variety of speakers discuss the techniques and skills of writing. This month, two Basic Program of Liberal Education for Adults  instructors will be speaking. March 15 — Katia Mitova Nobody, the Writer “I’m Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody [...]

Geoffrey Canada, founder of Harlem Children’s Zone, to speak at MLK celebration | UChicago News

Geoffrey Canada, President and CEO of the Harlem Children’s Zone and a leader in school reform, will deliver the keynote speech at the University of Chicago’s Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012, at Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, 5850 S. Woodlawn Ave. The event comes 55 years after Dr. Martin [...]

Illuminating the Shadows: Film Criticism in Focus conference

Through panel discussions and conversations with leading film critics from across the US (including Graham School film instructors Michael Phillips, Jonathan Rosenbaum, and Andrea Gronvall), and guest-curated screenings, Illuminating the Shadows: Film Criticism in Focus conference explores the state of film criticism at a potentially transformative moment. Technology, journalism, criticism, and cinephilia are always in [...]

Shahnameh of Ferdowsi: Celebrating 1000 Years of the Persian Book of Kings

For a thousand years people from Turkey to India, from Iran to Central Asia have continued to read and listen to recitations of the Shahnameh, the beautiful masterpiece of Persian writing. Completed in 1010-11, the Shahnameh was one of the key works which after three centuries of domination by Arabic was central to the revival [...]

Elizabeth Bishop’s Letters to The New Yorker

Joelle Biele, editor of Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker, will be doing a reading of her book at International House. American poet Elizabeth Bishop possessed an extensive relationship with The New Yorker over the duration of her writing career, publishing the vast majority of her poems in the magazine’s pages. During forty-years of correspondence, [...]

The Chicago Conference on the American Revolution

The Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture at the University of Chicago and The Dr. William M. Scholl Center for American History and Culture at the Newberry Library are pleased to announce a major international and interdisciplinary conference on the American Revolution to be held in Chicago at the Newberry Library on [...]

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 [...]