Neubauer Collegium Selects New Interdisciplinary Projects
The Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society at the University of Chicago has selected 10 new faculty research projects to join the 32 interdisciplinary projects that are already under way.
Faculty
Ptaszynska to Serve as Artistic Director of Contempo
Award-winning composer succeeds retiring director Shulamit Ran
Exploring the Life and Legacy of Susan Sontag at UChicago and Beyond
“She was kind of the last rock star intellectual,” said Deborah Nelson, associate professor of English and deputy provost for Graduate Education, and an interviewee in the film.
American Culture From Every Angle
Asking Eric Posner about President Obama's use of executive discretion. A conversation with Rosanna Warren on poetry as history. Hearing Alison Winter explain the unusual source materials she discovered while studying memory. Any one of these conversations could be the highlight of a graduate-level course. For students to have multiple opportunities—one every week for a quarter—is an extraordinary circumstance, but it happens in the graduate seminar that is a signature project for the Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture.