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 The Chicago Humanities Forum Presents Wendy Doniger, “Faking It: Narratives of Circular Jewelry and Resourceful Women”
Wednesday, February 3, 2009
5:15–6:00 p.m.
Gleacher Center
450 North Cityfront Plaza Drive, Room 621, Chicago, IL
Wendy Doniger is Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions in the Divinity School, South Asian Languages & Civilizations, the Committee on the Ancient Mediterranean World, the Committee on Social Thought and the College. Click here to read an interview with Wendy Doniger.
To reserve a seat, please call the Franke Institute at
773-702-8274,
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 May 6, 2009
Jonathan Hall, “The Tyranny of the Athenian Democracy”
The introduction is given by James Redfield.
Click here to listen to this talk.
March 4, 2009
Candace Vogler, “Ethical Challenges”
Click here to listen to this talk.
February 4, 2009
Thomas Christensen, “Bach: Musician, Mathematician, Metaphysician”
Click here to listen to this talk.
November 12, 2008
Lisa Wedeen, “Peripheral Visions: Publics, Power,
and Performance in Yemen”
The introduction is given by Michael Dawson.
Click here to listen to this talk.
Click here for an archive of past recordings.
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| We are very pleased to announce the Faculty and Doctoral Fellowship awards at the Franke Institute for the Humanities for 2009-2010. Click here for more >> |
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 Announcing
the following new courses for the 2009-2010 roster:
Autumn 2009
Race, Media,
and Visual Culture offered by
W.J.T. Mitchell (English & Art History) and Darby English (Art
History)
Perception and
Understanding of Multimedia offered
by Berthold Hoeckner (Music) and Howard Nusbaum (Psychology)
Winter 2010
Growth and
institutions in the Economy of the ancient World offered by
Alain Bresson (Classics) and François Velde (Federal Reserve
Bank of Chicago)
Arabesque
Narrative: A Hybrid Form of the Imaginary offered by David Wellbery (Germanic
Studies) and Ralph Ubl (Visual Arts & Social Thought)
Perception and Understanding of Multimedia offered by
Berthold Hoeckner (Music) and Howard Nusbaum (Psychology)
Spring 2010
Cultural
Consequences of Colonization offered by
Salikoko Mufwene (Linguistics) and Dain Borges (History)
Seeing /
Writing the Everyday in 20th-Century France offered by Alison James (Romance Languages
& Literatures) and Jennifer Wild (Cinema & Media Studies)
Perception and
Understanding of Multimedia offered by
Berthold Hoeckner (Music) and Howard Nusbaum (Psychology)
Proposals for team-taught, graduate level CDI seminars should be submitted by Friday, November 13.
Click here for more information about the Center for Disciplinary Innovation. |
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| Project
Bamboo is a multi-institutional, interdisciplinary, and
inter-organizational effort that brings together researchers in arts
and humanities, computer scientists, information scientists,
librarians, and campus information technologists to tackle the
question: How can we advance arts and humanities research through
the development of shared technology services? |
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