Heshmat Moayyad, influential Persian scholar, translator, and writer, 1927–2018
Heshmat Moayyad, who established the Persian program at UChicago, passed away on June 25 at the age of 90.
Emeritus Faculty
Paolo Cherchi Elected to Accademia dei Lincei, Highest Academic Honor in Italy
Paolo Cherchi, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, has been elected “Socio Straniero” of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. It is the highest academic recognition bestowed in Italy.
Humanists on Humanities Day: Suggestions From Bevington, Grenoble, Levin, and Rokem
Faculty members at Humanities Day are not only presenters but also audience members. We asked four presenters what Humanities Day sessions most interest them this year.
Library Digitizes Jazz Age Magazine
The University of Chicago Library launched a website last month allowing visitors free access to The Chicagoan, an arts and culture magazine fashioned after The New Yorker. Neil Harris, Preston & Sterling Morton Professor Emeritus of History and Art History, discovered the nearly complete run of the magazine in the Regenstein Library in the late 1980s. He later edited a book, The Chicagoan: A Lost Magazine of the Jazz Age, exploring the magazine’s ambitions and situating it in the historical context of 1920s Chicago.
The magazine was digitized using the Joe and Rika Mansueto Library’s Digitization Laboratory’s new Zeutschel overhead scanner, which allowed the library to scan bound volumes in house, in a face-up position. “As an online, searchable resource, the Chicagoan facilitates new avenues of study and the ability to zoom in and out on images, while preserving the original print volumes from excessive handling,” said Alice Schreyer, Assistant University Librarian for Humanities, Social Sciences & Special Collections and Curator of Rare Books.
Digital copies of The Chicagoan, which lasted from 1926 to 1935, can be found here.