Creative Misuse
University Establishes Stevanovich Institute on the Formation of Knowledge
Seldom do we question what we know—what we accept as facts, and how such facts came into being. A new research institute at the University of Chicago is designed to address just such questions.
Objects and Voices Exhibition Foregrounds Smart Museum's Collection and the Craft of Curation
For the second time in four months, the Smart Museum of Art is featuring artworks from its permanent collection throughout its entire space. Following the success of the fall show Carved Cast and Crumpled: Sculpture All Ways, the Smart galleries have again been transformed into a wide-ranging exhibition in honor of the museum’s 40th anniversary, along with this year’s campus-wide celebration of shared anniversaries, UChicago Artennial.
Exhibition Documents History of LGBTQ Life at UChicago
A new exhibition at the Special Collections Research Center, “Closeted/Out in the Quadrangles,” draws on archival material from the University of Chicago Library to raise greater awareness of the University’s LGBTQ past. The exhibition is part of a long-term research project into LGBTQ history at the University sponsored by the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality. In addition to the exhibition, the project includes undergraduate courses, a speaker series and extensive archival research as well as the collection of new materials.
Visiting Fellows Bring Expertise, Energy to Neubauer Collegium
An expert in classics and a scholar of comparative literature. A statistician and a historian of film. A deaf storyteller and experts in linguistics. The Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society supports ambitious faculty research projects that cut across disciplinary boundaries.
