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The Chicago Humanities Forum
Every Wednesday Lunch Series for Faculty
THE CHICAGO HUMANITIES FORUM
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Josef Stern The Unbinding of Isaac: Maimonides on Genesis 22 Wednesday, May 5, 2010 Introduction by Ted Cohen .Click here to view to this talk, or play below.
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Wendy Doniger Faking It: Narratives of Circular Jewelry and Resourceful Women Wednesday, February 3, 2010Ulrike Stark . Click here to view to this talk, or play below.
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EVERY WEDNESDAY LUNCH SERIES FOR FACULTY
Winter 2012
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Fall 2011
15-year anniversary of Every Wednesday !
Miguel Martínez on epic and autobiography Wednesday, November 30, 2011 Listen >>
Hillary Chute on comics and documentary
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 Listen >>
Hoyt Long on place making and minor literature Introduction by Michael Bourdaghs . Listen >>
Augusta Thomas on delight in sound
Wednesday, November 2, 2011 No recording.
Ben Laurence on tragic conceptions of political life Introduction by Anton Ford . Listen >>
Norman MacLeod on images and science Robert Richards .Wednesday, October 19, 2011 Listen >>
Christopher Frey on the unity of living organisms in Aristotle Michael Kremer .Wednesday, October 12, 2011 Listen >>
Deborah Nelson , Leela Gandhi , and James Sparrow on the year 1948: interdisciplinary approaches to global transformation James Chandler .Wednesday, October 5, 2011 Listen >>
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Spring 2011
Larry Zbikowski on music and gesture Thomas Christensen .Wednesday, May 18, 2011 Listen >>
John Wilkinson on prosody of anxiety in 1950s America Srikanth (Chicu) Reddy .Wednesday, May 11, 2011 Listen >>
Leo Kadanoff on complexity in fluid flow James Chandler .Wednesday, May 4, 2011 Listen >>
Ahmed El Shamsy on orality and writing in Islam Fred Donner .Wednesday, April 27, 2011 Listen >>
Charles Newell on what is a center for classic theater? James Chandler .Wednesday, April 20, 2011 Listen >>
Ming Xiang on the abstraction and implementation of language processes Anastasia Giannakidou .Wednesday, April 13, 2011 Listen >>
Maud Ellmann on Joyce and Shakespeare Elizabeth Helsinger .Wednesday, April 6, 2011 Listen >>
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Winter 2011
Benjamin Morgan on physiology and beauty Elizabeth Helsinger .Wednesday, February 23, 2011 Listen >>
Malte Willer on paradoxes and dynamic reasoning Jim Conant .Wednesday, February 16, 2011 Listen >>
Timothy Knowles on improving early schooling Susan Goldin-Meadow .Wednesday, February 9, 2011 Listen >> Powerpoint Presentation >>
Gregory Kobele on structure in linguistics Introduction by Christopher Kennedy .Listen >>
Niall Atkinson on urban experience in the Italian Renaissance Introduction by Rebecca Zorach .Listen >>
Philip Bohlman on the Eurovision song contest Introduction by Kaley Mason .Listen >>
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Fall 2010
Larry Norman , Richard Neer , David Levin on arts in the research university Introduction by James Chandler .PDF Report on Provost's Working Group >> Listen >>
on brevity in modern drama Introduction by Loren Kruger. Listen >>
on tradition and translation Introduction by Rochona Majumdar. Listen >>
on calligraphy, ecology, and cultural nationalism Introduction by Michael Bourdaghs. Listen >>
Mark Olsen The ARTFL Project: Digital Tools for Research in the Humanities Introduction by James Chandler . Listen >>
on the Kingdom of Kongo Introduction by Martha Ward . Listen >>
on spiritual exercises, improvisation and moral perfectionism -- with special reference to Sonny Rollins Introduction by James Chandler .Wednesday, October 6, 2010 not recorded
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Spring 2010
on Islam and psychoanalysis Introduction by W.J.T. Mitchell . Listen >>
on 'after all', an upcoming publication Introduction by Beth Helsinger. not recorded
on agency, critical agency, and Introduction by Michael Silverstein . Wednesday, May 5, 2010 not recorded
on piano transcriptions Introduction by Larry Zbikowski . Listen >>
on hooliganism as dissent among Introduction by Angelina Ilieva . Listen >>
on the reason to be angry forever Introduction by Shadi Bartsch . Listen >>
on salvage epigraphy Introduction by Christopher Woods . Wednesday, April 7, 2010 Listen >>
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on the civic knowledge project Wednesday, February 24, 2010 not recorded
on Hannah Arendt Jennifer Pitts Wednesday, February 17, 2010 Listen >>
Daniel Desormeaux on Toussaint Louverture and slavery Introduction by Thomas Pavel . Listen >>
William Schweiker on post-humanism and the new humanisms David Hall .Wednesday, February 3, 2010 Listen >>
Hakan Karateke on Ottomans and death Introduction by Cornell Fleischer . not recorded
Boris Maslov on comparative conceptual history Josh Scodel .Wednesday, January 20, 2010 Listen >>
Lawrence Rothfield on the analytics of cultural scenes Betty Farrell .Wednesday, January 13, 2010 Listen >>
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Noa Steimatsky on the face of film Miriam Hansen .Wednesday, November 18, 2009 Listen >>
Michéle Lowrie on security Introduction by Shadi Bartsch .Wednesday, November 11, 2009 Listen >>
Melvin Butler on Haitian Pentecostals and popular music Introduction by Philip Bohlman .Wednesday, November 4, 2009 Listen >>
Ilsa Flanagan on sustainability Introduction by Thomas Christensen. Listen >>
on Renaissance Humanism and Italian Existentialism Introduction by Arnold Davidson .Wednesday, October 21, 2009 Listen >>
on late nineteenth-century Japanese art Introduction by Michael Bourdaghs .Wednesday, October 14, 2009 Listen >>
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Na'ama Rokem on bilingual poetry Introduction by Tahera Qutbuddin .Wednesday, May 13, 2009 Listen >>
Chad Kainz on ProjectBamboo Introduction by James Chandler . Wednesday, April 29, 2009 Slides >>
James Sparrow on Legitimacy and the American Leviathan Introduction by Jane Dailey . Wednesday, April 22, 2009 Listen >>
Lars-Christian Koch on Carl Stumpf and Erich Moritz von Hornbostel Introduction by Phil Bohlman . Wednesday, April 15, 2009 Listen >>
Miriam Hansen on cinema studies after cinema? Introduction by Yuri Tsivian . Wednesday, April 8, 2009 Listen >>
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Susanne Lüdemann on literary case studies Introduction by Eric Santner . Wednesday, March 4, 2009 Listen >>
Alfredo Cesar Melo on hybridities Introduction by Dain Borges . Wednesday, February 25, 2009 Listen >>
Karlos Arregi on the structure of words: Introduction by Jason Merchant . Wednesday, February 18, 2009 Listen >>
Ralph Ubl on Eugène Delacroix Introduction by Martha Ward . Wednesday, February 11, 2009 Listen >>
Michael Geyer , Susan Gzesh on the human rights program Introduction by James Chandler . Wednesday, February 4, 2009 Listen >>
on animals and other people Introduction by Robin Valenza . Wednesday, January 28, 2009 Listen >>
Christopher Wild on conversion and evidence in philosophy and religion David Wellbery .Listen >>
Glenn Most on childhood trauma and adult personality Introduction by Arnold Davidson . Wednesday, January 14, 2009 Listen >>
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Catherine Sullivan on her recent projects
in film and theatre Introduction by Matthew Jackson . Listen >>
Kaley Mason on Marx and musicians
in South India Introduction by Travis Jackson . Listen >>
Sarah Nooter on the powers of
ancient Greek poetry Introduction by Mark Payne . Listen >>
Jennifer Wild on the cinematic impression Introduction by Tom Gunning . Listen >>
Timothy Campbell on fashion and history Introduction by Elaine Hadley . Listen >>
on John Constable's clouds Introduction by Matthew Jesse Jackson . Listen >>
Mark Hansen on the context of presidential elections Introduction by Gerald Rosenberg . Listen >>
on Verdi's correspondence with his librettists about King LearIntroduction by David Bevington . Listen >>
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Jacob Eyferth on artisanal epistemologies in China Wednesday, May 28, 2008 Listen >>
Jason Salavon on recent projects Wednesday, May 21, 2008 Click here to visit Jason Salavon's website. Listen >>
Richard Neer , Bill Brown , Larry Norman and Theaster Gates on the arts and disciplines working group Wednesday, May 14, 2008 Listen >>
on economy of the ancient world, economy of the new world Wednesday, May 7, 2008 Clifford Ando. Listen >>
on tracing the breast cancer susceptibility gene Wednesday, April 30, 2008 James Chandler. Listen >>
Paola Iovene on world literature in socialist China Wednesday, April 23, 2008 Judith Zeitlin . Listen >>
Aden Kumler on the morphology of the medieval eucharist Wednesday, April 16, 2008 Rebecca Zorach . Listen >>
David Nirenberg on the jewish question: from ancient Egypt to the present Wednesday, April 9, 2008 Leora Auslander . Listen >>
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on language endangerment and loss Wednesday, March 5, 2008Victor Friedman . Listen >>
on a science of literature Wednesday, February 27, 2008 Listen >>
on tv art's abstract starts, Wednesday, February 20, 2008Martha Ward Listen >>
Nadine Moeller on recent excavations at Tell Edfu, Egypt Wednesday, February 13, 2008 Peter Dorman Listen >>
Stephen Raudenbush on urban education Wednesday, January 30, 2008 James Chandler Listen >>
Anton Ford on the parts and whole of Plato's republic Wednesday, January 23, 2008 James
Conant Listen >>
Leela Gandhi on non-violence and anticolonial metaphysics Wednesday, January 16, 2008 Dipesh Chakrabarty Listen >>
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Verity Platt on images and epiphanies in Ancient Greece Wednesday, November 28, 2007 Richard Neer Listen >>
Gary Tubb on texts and tactics Wednesday, November 14, 2007 Wendy Doniger Listen >>
Rebecca Hasselbach on semitics and language typology Wednesday, November 7, 2007 Theo van den Hout Listen >>
Paul Copp on incantations and efficacy in Tang China Wednesday, October 31, 2007 Don Harper Listen >>
Randall Landsberg on cosmological outreach Wednesday, October 24, 2007 Michael Turner Listen >> Download the slides >> (.pdf, 5.27 MB)
Tania Bruguera on her recent art projects Wednesday, October 17, 2007 W.J.T. Mitchell Listen >>
James Chandler on our new Center for Disciplinary Innovation Wednesday, October 10, 2007 Listen >>
Françoise Meltzer on putting words to music: a problem of nationalism Wednesday, October 3, 2007 Arnold Davidson Listen >>
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Miguel Tamen in defense of Louis XVI Wednesday, May 16, 2007 Thomas Pavel Listen >>
William Wimsatt on re-engineering philosophy for limited beings Wednesday, May 2, 2007Françoise Meltzer Robert Richards Listen >>
Theodore L. Steck on saving the environment Wednesday, April 25, 2007Françoise Meltzer Dave Aftandilian Listen >>
on what has happened to autism Françoise Meltzer Jonathan Lear Listen >>
Robert von Hallberg on sob-ballads Françoise Meltzer Mark Payne Listen >>
Barbara Maria Stafford on the ecapsulation of thought Françoise Meltzer Wadad Kadi Listen >>
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John Muse
Thibaut d'Hubert
Reginald Jackson
Robert Morrissey 
Cécile Fromont
Arnold Davidson
Joan Copjec
Laura Letinsky
Andreas Glaeser
Thomas Christensen
Malynne Sternstein
Agnes Gellen Callard
Matthew Stolper
Bart Schultz
Patchen Markell
Rocco Rubini
Chelsea Foxwell
Heather Keenleyside
David Schutter
Philip Gossett 
James Chandler
Alain Bresson
Funmi Olopade
Lenore Grenoble
Michael Bourdaghs
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