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UChicago Division of the Humanities
Registrace 18. 12. 2013
We support engaging scholarship in languages, literature, and the arts.
Comprised of twenty-one departments and committees from Classics to Visual Arts, the Division of the Humanities is home to more than 1,200 faculty and graduate students at the University of Chicago dedicated to innovative humanistic inquiry in their teaching and research.
Comprised of twenty-one departments and committees from Classics to Visual Arts, the Division of the Humanities is home to more than 1,200 faculty and graduate students at the University of Chicago dedicated to innovative humanistic inquiry in their teaching and research.
Paleography and the Book Lecture 2024 with Japanese Manuscript Expert Peter Kornicki
"Why Did Matsudaira Sadanobu Copy the Tale of Genji Seven Times? Manuscript Culture in Edo Period Japan (1600‒1868)"
Despite Japan’s Edo period's boom in commercial printing, Matsudaira Sadanobu, Japan's ruler from 1787-1793, hand-copied the Tale of Genji seven times. This highlights a fascinating contradiction: printed books were available, but many, including Sadanobu, clung to the art of manuscript writing. During his lecture, Peter Kornicki, one of the foremost experts in the history of the book in Japan, exposed the underworld of manuscript books, dealing with secret knowledge, shocking scandals, and obscure rituals.
Despite Japan’s Edo period's boom in commercial printing, Matsudaira Sadanobu, Japan's ruler from 1787-1793, hand-copied the Tale of Genji seven times. This highlights a fascinating contradiction: printed books were available, but many, including Sadanobu, clung to the art of manuscript writing. During his lecture, Peter Kornicki, one of the foremost experts in the history of the book in Japan, exposed the underworld of manuscript books, dealing with secret knowledge, shocking scandals, and obscure rituals.
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First Day of Issue Ceremony for Postage Stamp Honoring Saul Bellow
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Author, University of Chicago professor, and Nobel laureate Saul Bellow was remembered at the unveiling of the new U.S. postage stamp held on February 6, 2024, at the Social Science Research Building Tea Room at the University of Chicago. Speakers included: - Regina Aikens, ’98 (MBA), US Postal Service Manager Customer Relations IL 1 - Torsten Reimer, University Librarian and Dean of the Univer...
Adriana Cavarero, “‘Speaking from the maternal womb’ with Elena Ferrante,” Lecture 3 of 3
zhlédnutí 446Před 6 měsíci
In the final Virgilio Lecture, titled “‘Speaking from the maternal womb’ with Elena Ferrante”, Adriana Cavarero examines the theme of maternity in the writings of the contemporary Italian novelist, Elena Ferrante, who places the theme of motherhood at the center of her works. Cavarero explores the connection in Ferrante’s texts between the task of rendering in words the literary truth of the da...
Adriana Cavarero, "Women breastfeeding wolf cubs in Euripides' Bacchae," Lecture 2 of 3
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In this second lecture of the Virgilio Lecture Series, titled “Women breastfeeding wolf cubs in Euripides’ Bacchae,” Adriana Cavarero examines the imagery around the theme of motherhood in Euripides’ Bacchae. In the Bacchae, there is a distinctive world that exalts the fertility of a female body embedded in a nature which consists of the proliferation and sustenance of the living. How can we un...
Adriana Cavarero, "Singing with the sirens: voices of the Mediterranean myth," Lecture 1 of 3
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In this first lecture of the Virgilio Lecture Series, titled “Singing with the sirens: voices of the Mediterranean myth,” Adriana Cavarero explores the collective expression of the singing voice in the myth of the sirens. Through her reinterpretation of the myth, Cavarero investigates the central organizational meaning - the sirens’ singing - through the experience of the sirens themselves. As ...
W. J. T. Mitchell, From Robots to iBots: The Iconology of Artificial Intelligence
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"From Robots to iBots: An Iconology of Artificial Intelligence" explored the current wave of utopian and dystopian speculation about the impact of General Artificial Intelligence on human affairs. Focusing on ChatGPT and the Large Language Models that make it possible to have conversations with a machine in ordinary language, the presentation explored the implications of this new technology for...
Daisy Delogu, The Afterlives of Joan of Arc
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There is no doubt that Joan of Arc-15th-century heroine or heretic, depending on your point of view-led an extraordinary life. No less compelling are her seemingly countless, often contradictory, cultural afterlives. How can one person mean so much? This session examined some of the ways in which the figure of Joan has been invoked and deployed over the centuries since her execution to serve a ...
Sarah Nooter, Queering the Classics: When Poetry Looks Back
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The ancient Greeks thought that the future was to be found in the space behind (opisthe). To see what is in store for us, we must crane our necks and take a backwards glance. This session examined the work of both modern authors Frank Bidart, Thom Gunn, and Joe Brainard and ancient ones, including Catullus, Plato, and Homer, to suggest that the stance of classical study itself, in looking back ...
2024-25 English Admissions: Media Aesthetics
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For the 2024-2025 admissions cycle, the University of Chicago English Department is accepting only applicants planning to focus their graduate work on “media aesthetics.” We are looking for students who are asking and answering questions of how distinct mediums (print, performance, film, digital media, etc.) shape aesthetic experience, as well as those studying historical and cultural approache...
Paleography and the Book Lecture “Where Did Newspaper Typeface Come From?”
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UChicago visiting scholar David Ganz discussed how influential scripts such as Caroline minuscule and Italian Humanistic served as models for typefaces like Times New Roman. In the later Middle Ages, Italian humanists rejected the gothic script used to copy manuscripts. They adopted littera antiqua, a script used in twelfth-century Italy, transforming the appearance of letters on the page. In 1...
Mary Beard "Fear and Loathing" Lecture 3 of 3
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The 2023 Berlin Family Lectures with Acclaimed Classicist Mary Beard "What Can We Learn from the Classics?" Lecture three: "Fear and Loathing" April 26, 2023 The Berlin Family Lectures 2023 will challenge some assumptions we may have about Classics. What do we mean by Classics, and what do we hope to get out of it? These lectures puncture some of the myths of the subject, both ancient and moder...
Mary Beard "The Shock of the Old" Lecture 2 of 3
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The 2023 Berlin Family Lectures with Acclaimed Classicist Mary Beard "What Can We Learn from the Classics?" Lecture two: "The Shock of the Old" April 25, 2023 The Berlin Family Lectures 2023 will challenge some assumptions we may have about Classics. What do we mean by Classics, and what do we hope to get out of it? These lectures puncture some of the myths of the subject, both ancient and mode...
Mary Beard "A Piece of Cake" Lecture 1 of 3
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The 2023 Berlin Family Lectures with Acclaimed Classicist Mary Beard "What Can We Learn from the Classics?" Lecture one: "A Piece of Cake" April 20, 2023 The Berlin Family Lectures 2023 will challenge some assumptions we may have about Classics. What do we mean by Classics, and what do we hope to get out of it? These lectures puncture some of the myths of the subject, both ancient and modern. I...
Kaneesha Parsard, The Friending Plot
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"The Friending Plot" University of Chicago October 15, 2022 Kaneesha Parsard, Assistant Professor of English Was the marriage plot of 18th- and 19th-century English literature, which saw women characters stake their futures to domesticity, universal? What were the colonies' plotlines? In Trinidad during the 1920s and 1930s, a group of writers penned short stories about working-class women who-a...
Cacchione, Mehring, Stockholder, Monochrome Multitudes: Art Historic, Curator, & Artist Perspectives
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"Monochrome Multitudes: Art Historic, Curator, & Artist Perspectives" University of Chicago October 15, 2022 Orianna Cacchione, Curator of Global Contemporary Art, Smart Museum Christine Mehring, Mary L. Block Professor of Art History and the College Jessica Stockholder, Raymond W. & Martha Hilpert Gruner Distinguished Service Professor of Visual Arts Monochrome Multitudes, an exhibition at the...
Kenneth W. Warren, Wealth, Inequality, and the Novel
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Kenneth W. Warren, Wealth, Inequality, and the Novel
Ahmed El Shamsy, How Muslims Disposed of Books
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Ahmed El Shamsy, How Muslims Disposed of Books
James K. Chandler, The Greatest Lyric in English? Reading Wordsworth's Immortality Ode
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James K. Chandler, The Greatest Lyric in English? Reading Wordsworth's Immortality Ode
Claudia Rankine, "Meanwhile in the Work of Artist and Filmmaker Titus Kaphar," Lecture 2 of 3
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Claudia Rankine, "Meanwhile in the Work of Artist and Filmmaker Titus Kaphar," Lecture 2 of 3
Claudia Rankine, "Meanwhile: A Work in Process" Lecture 3 of 3
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Claudia Rankine, "Meanwhile: A Work in Process" Lecture 3 of 3
Claudia Rankine, "Meanwhile in the Work of Artist Jennifer Packer," Lecture 1 of 3
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Claudia Rankine, "Meanwhile in the Work of Artist Jennifer Packer," Lecture 1 of 3
Book as Museum in Eighteenth-Century Museum, the Inaugural Paleography and the Book Lecture
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Book as Museum in Eighteenth-Century Museum, the Inaugural Paleography and the Book Lecture
Danziger Lecture 2021 with Judith Butler at the University of Chicago
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Danziger Lecture 2021 with Judith Butler at the University of Chicago
Wu Hung, In the Name of Art-Destruction and Reconstruction
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Wu Hung, In the Name of Art-Destruction and Reconstruction
Haun Saussy, Tangled Genealogies of a Cultural Identity, Or, What Was Madame Bovary Doing In Haiti?
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Haun Saussy, Tangled Genealogies of a Cultural Identity, Or, What Was Madame Bovary Doing In Haiti?
C. Riley Snorton, The Wild Man in the Green Swamp and Other Stories about Race in America
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C. Riley Snorton, The Wild Man in the Green Swamp and Other Stories about Race in America
David Rodowick, Hannah Arendt and the Humanities
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David Rodowick, Hannah Arendt and the Humanities
Ian Bostridge, "Mediations on Death," Lecture 3 of 3
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Ian Bostridge, "Mediations on Death," Lecture 3 of 3
Ian Bostridge, "Hidden Histories", Lecture 2 of 3
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Ian Bostridge, "Hidden Histories", Lecture 2 of 3