Two Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence
Logan Center for the Arts to Celebrate Grand Opening with Three-Day Festival
The Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts is celebrating its grand opening this month with the three-day Logan Launch Festival, October 12-14. “The Logan Launch Festival will highlight the breadth of arts study and performance opportunities currently taking place across the University, from theater to visual arts to music to the written word. The festival represents the unique mix of professional, student, and community programming that we anticipate at the Logan Center for years to come,” said Bill Michel, Executive Director of the Logan Center.
Chicago Demotic Dictionary Featured in the 'New York Times'
The New York Times recently featured the completion of a dictionary of ancient Demotic Egyptian, a language named by the Greeks to denote its use by the demos, or common people. Janet Johnson, the Morton D. Hull Distinguished Service Professor at the Oriental Institute and editor of their Demotic dictionary, explains that the language "was used for business and legal documents, private letters and administrative inscriptions, and literary texts, such as narratives and pieces of wisdom literature" and that the 2,000-page dictionary is "an indispensable tool for reconstructing the social, political and cultural life of ancient Egypt during a fascinating period of its history."
Augusta Read Thomas to Premier Four New Compositions During 2012-13 Season
The world premiere of Resounding Earth by Augusta Read Thomas, University Professor in the Department of Music, will be performed on September 30, 2012 by Third Coast Percussion at the University of Notre Dame’s Debartolo Performing Arts Center. This is the first of four major worldpremieres this season. Earth Echoes will premier on October 11, 2012, at Carnegie Hall featuring the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke, and baritone Nathan Gunn. Harvest Drum will be performed on December 20, 2012, featuring the National Centre for the Performing Arts Symphony Orchestra, Beijing, China. Lastly, Cello Concerto No. 3, will debut on March 14-16, 2013, featuring the Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Christoph Eschenbach, featuring cellist Lynn Harrell.
For more information, please visit the webpage of the Department of Music.
Four Faculty Members Win ACLS Fellowships for 2012-13
The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) awarded fellowships to four faculty members in the Division of the Humanities for 2012-13. ACLS fellowships and grants are awarded to individual scholars for "excellence in research in the humanities and related social sciences."
