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46th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society

Conferences Please view the conference site for more information, schedules, and location updates. Building/Room: Ida Noyes Hall. Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s). Other Sponsor(s): The University of Chicago Student Government Graduate Council, The Franke Institute for the Humanities. Conference Title: 46th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. Presenter(s): John Goldsmith, Chris Barker, Beth Levin, Jason Eisner, Jason Riggle, Anna Escobar, TBA. Open to the Public: Yes. Cost: UChicago students: free; Students: $25; Non-student: $50. Contact Name: Timothy Grinsell. Contact E-mail: chicagolinguisticsociety@gmail.com. Contact Phone: 773-702-8529. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: The 46th annual meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society is the oldest student-run linguistics conference in the nation. It will feature nearly 50 presentations (including 7 invited speakers), over 3 days, covering all areas of linguistics. The conference will be held April 8-10, 2010 at the University of Chicago. It will include a general session and three parasessions dedicated to Reevaluating the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface, Multilingualism, and Probabilistic Theories of Grammar. Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Thursday, April 8, 2010 – Saturday, April 10, 2010. Ida Noyes Hall East Hall, West Hall, and Cloister Club 1212 E. 59th Street Chicago, IL 60637. For more info visit humanities.uchicago.edu.

Celebration of Bill Wimsatt’s Scholarship

Conferences Building/Room: Social Sciences 224. Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s). Other Sponsor(s): Fishbein Center for the History of Science and Medicine, Philosophy Department, the College, the Division of the HumanitiesPhilosophy Department, the College, the Division of the Humanities. Conference Title: Celebration of Bill Wimsatt’s Scholarship. Presenter(s): Robert Batterman, Robert Richards, Sahotra Sarkar, William Bechtel, Paul Humphreys, Stuart Glennan, Michael Weisberg, Thomas Nickles, Jeffrey Schank, Sergio Martinez, Salli Mufwene, Carl Craver, Robert Richardson, James Griesemer, William Wimsatt. Open to the Public: Yes. Cost: 0. Contact Name: Robert J. Richards. Contact E-mail: mkbm@uchicago.edu. Contact Phone: 773-702-8348. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: Papers will be presented by Bill Wimsatt’s former students and colleagues that indicate the relationship of their own work to that of Bill. The papers will be approximately 20 minutes, with 20 minutes of discussion. Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Friday, April 9, 2010, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM. Social Sciences Building, Room 224 1126 E. 59th St. Chicago, IL 60637.

Everyday Matters: Embodied Life and Experience

Conferences The conference is imagined as a conversation, with two panels on Friday, one from 1:30pm to 3pm, and the other from 3:30pm to 5pm. There will be a coffee break between the two panels (from 3pm-3:30pm). The panels on Friday will be followed with a reception and a slide projection of the artwork of one of the invited speakers (5:30pm-6:30pm). On Saturday, there will be three panels (9am – 10:15am; 10:30am – 11:45am; and 1pm-2:15pm) a lunch break (12pm-1pm) and a roundtable discussion (2:30pm-4pm). Building/Room: JRL S-118. Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s). Other Sponsor(s): University of Chicago Department of Anthropology, Interdisciplinary Archaeology Workshop, The Franke Institute for the Humanities. Conference Title: Everyday Matters: Embodied Life and Experience. Presenter(s): Outside Speakers: Margaret Lock (Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University) Sarah Tarlow (Archaeology, University of Leicester) Vesna Jovanovic (Artist, Chicago) Elizabeth Povinelli (Anthropology, Columbia University) Jonathan Rée (Philosopher) University of Chicago Participants: Aleks Prigozhin (English) Maureen Marshall (Archaeology) Sean Hutchison (English) George Mieu (Anthropology) Fred Ketchum (Anthropology and School of Medicine) Amy Cooper (Comparative Human Development Laris… Open to the Public: Yes. Contact Name: Larisa Jasarevic. Contact E-mail: larisa@uchicago.edu. Contact Phone: (773) 956-4258. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: While a signifying body has long been presumed in anthropology, new inquiries are shifting attention to material bodies and lived experience. Attending to the clinical, carnal, pharmaceutical, spiritual, technological, biomedical, folk and biopolitical techniques and spaces of everyday lived experience, we call for a reimagination of materiality and the reality of “the human” and “life.” What forms of embodiment can we conceive, in practice, historically or in the contemporary moment? If human essence is no… Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Friday, April 9, 2010, 1:30 PM – 6:30 PM. The Franke Institute for the Humanities 1100 East 57th Street, JRL S-118 Chicago, IL 60637. For more info visit anthropology.uchicago.edu.

Celebration of Bill Wimsatt’s Scholarship

Conferences Building/Room: Social Sciences 224. Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s). Other Sponsor(s): Fishbein Center for the History of Science and Medicine, Philosophy Department, the College, the Division of the HumanitiesPhilosophy Department, the College, the Division of the Humanities. Conference Title: Celebration of Bill Wimsatt’s Scholarship. Presenter(s): Robert Batterman, Robert Richards, Sahotra Sarkar, William Bechtel, Paul Humphreys, Stuart Glennan, Michael Weisberg, Thomas Nickles, Jeffrey Schank, Sergio Martinez, Salli Mufwene, Carl Craver, Robert Richardson, James Griesemer, William Wimsatt. Open to the Public: Yes. Cost: 0. Contact Name: Robert J. Richards. Contact E-mail: mkbm@uchicago.edu. Contact Phone: 773-702-8348. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: Papers will be presented by Bill Wimsatt’s former students and colleagues that indicate the relationship of their own work to that of Bill. The papers will be approximately 20 minutes, with 20 minutes of discussion. Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Saturday, April 10, 2010, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM. Social Sciences Building, Room 224 1126 E. 59th St. Chicago, IL 60637.

Everyday Matters: Embodied Life and Experience

Conferences The conference is imagined as a conversation, with two panels on Friday, one from 1:30pm to 3pm, and the other from 3:30pm to 5pm. There will be a coffee break between the two panels (from 3pm-3:30pm). The panels on Friday will be followed with a reception and a slide projection of the artwork of one of the invited speakers (5:30pm-6:30pm). On Saturday, there will be three panels (9am – 10:15am; 10:30am – 11:45am; and 1pm-2:15pm) a lunch break (12pm-1pm) and a roundtable discussion (2:30pm-4pm). Building/Room: JRL S-118. Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s). Other Sponsor(s): University of Chicago Department of Anthropology, Interdisciplinary Archaeology Workshop, The Franke Institute for the Humanities. Conference Title: Everyday Matters: Embodied Life and Experience. Presenter(s): Outside Speakers: Margaret Lock (Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University) Sarah Tarlow (Archaeology, University of Leicester) Vesna Jovanovic (Artist, Chicago) Elizabeth Povinelli (Anthropology, Columbia University) Jonathan Rée (Philosopher) University of Chicago Participants: Aleks Prigozhin (English) Maureen Marshall (Archaeology) Sean Hutchison (English) George Mieu (Anthropology) Fred Ketchum (Anthropology and School of Medicine) Amy Cooper (Comparative Human Development Laris… Open to the Public: Yes. Contact Name: Larisa Jasarevic. Contact E-mail: larisa@uchicago.edu. Contact Phone: (773) 956-4258. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: While a signifying body has long been presumed in anthropology, new inquiries are shifting attention to material bodies and lived experience. Attending to the clinical, carnal, pharmaceutical, spiritual, technological, biomedical, folk and biopolitical techniques and spaces of everyday lived experience, we call for a reimagination of materiality and the reality of “the human” and “life.” What forms of embodiment can we conceive, in practice, historically or in the contemporary moment? If human essence is no… Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Saturday, April 10, 2010, 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM. The Franke Institute for the Humanities 1100 East 57th Street, JRL S-118 Chicago, IL 60637. For more info visit anthropology.uchicago.edu.

Sociolinguistic implications of writing one language with two scripts

Lecture or Other Event Building/Room: JRL S-118. Primary Sponsor: CEERES. Other Sponsor(s): Slavic Languages & Literatures, Linguistics. Presenter: Daniel Buncic (University of Tubingen). Lecture Title: Sociolinguistic implications of writing one language with two scripts. Contact Name: Meredith Clason. Contact E-mail: mclason@uchicago.edu. Contact Phone: 773-702-0866. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: • So far linguists have only sporadically reported about a phenomenon variously called digraphia, bigraphism, multiscriptality, multialphabetism etc. where one language is written with two (or more) scripts (or orthographies). Among the most frequently mentioned examples of this are Serbian (which is written in both Cyrillic and Latin letters), Hindi-Urdu (Devanagari and Arabic), Chinese (Hanzi and Pinyin), Japanese (Kanji, Hiragana, Katakana and sometimes Latin letters), older German (blackletter and roma… Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Monday, April 12, 2010, 4:30 PM – 6:30 PM. The Franke Institute for the Humanities 1100 East 57th Street, JRL S-118 Chicago, IL 60637.

AE Stallings

This event is free and open to the public. Building/Room: Classics 110. Primary Sponsor: Creative Writing. Contact Name: Kate Soto. Contact E-mail: katesoto@uchicago.edu. Contact Phone: 773-834-8524. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: A. E. (Alicia) Stallings studied classics in Athens, Georgia and has lived since 1999 in Athens, Greece. She has published two books of poetry, Archaic Smile (1999), which won the Richard Wilbur Award, and Hapax (2000). Her new verse translation of Lucretius (in rhyming fourteeners!), The Nature of Things, is being published by Penguin Classics. She lives with her husband, John Psaropoulos, editor of the Athens News, and their small argonaut, Jason. She has a web site at www.geocities.com/aestallings. Disability Clause: If you need assistance in order to participate in this event, please contact 773-834-8524. Wednesday, April 14, 2010, 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM. University of Chicago, Classics 110. For more info visit creativewriting.uchicago.edu.

German and Hebrew: Histories of a Conversation

Conferences The conference sessions during the day on Thursday will be at Rosenwald 405. The keynote and concert that evening (starting at 4:30) will be at Fulton Hall. All of the sessions on Friday will be in Classics 110. The program is forthcoming. Building/Room: Various. Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s). Other Sponsor(s): Dean of the Division of Humanities, Franke Institute, Center for International Studies, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Center for Jewish Studies, Department of Germanic Studies. Conference Title: German and Hebrew: Histories of a Conversation. Presenter(s): Sebastian Wogenstein (U. Conn), Abigail Gilman (Boston U), Michal Ben-Horin (U of Florida), Amir Eshel (Stanford), Vivian Liska (Antwerp), Michael Brenner (Munich), Michal Govrin (author, Israel). Open to the Public: Yes. Contact Name: Na’ama Rokem. Contact E-mail: nrokem@uchicago.edu. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: A conference that aims to challenge our understanding of the dynamics at the intersection of German and Jewish culture by emphasizing the extensive cultural production on the German-Jewish and increasingly German-Israeli fault lines and by putting the dialogue between the two languages and literatures – German and Hebrew – at the center. ___ In 1966 the renowned Kabbalah scholar and German-born Jewish thinker Gerschom Scholem stated that the German-Jewish conversation had been a one-sided monologue carr… Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Thursday, April 15, 2010, 5:00 PM – Friday, April 16, 2010, 5:30 PM. Thursday sessions: Rosenwald 405 Thursday keynote and concert (starting 4:30 p.m.): Fulton Hall Friday sessions: Classics 110.

Midwest Graduate Music Consortium, 14th Annual Conference

Conferences This conference is essentially in three parts: 1) The bulk of the conference will be two days of student papers - Friday from 12pm-3pm and Saturday from 9-5pm. 2) The second part is the keynote lecture on Friday from 3:30-5pm. 3) A new music concert Saturday evening from 8-9pm. Building/Room: Fulton Recital Hall. Primary Sponsor: Franke Institute. Other Sponsor(s): University of Chicago Department of Music. Conference Title: Midwest Graduate Music Consortium, 14th Annual Conference. Presenter(s): Keynote lecture by Professor Martin Scherzinger (NYU) titled “Boulez, Prophet (or How Deleuze Misunderstands Music)”; other presenters will be determined by the MGMC selection committee during January -- all will be students in music from universities across North America. Open to the Public: Yes. Cost: 0. Contact Name: Martha Sprigge. Contact E-mail: mgmc2010@gmail.com. Contact Phone: 773-574-2124. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: The Midwest Graduate Music Consortium is a collaborative venture between music students at three schools--University of Chicago, University of Wisconsin at Madison and Northwestern University--and held at each school on a rotating basis. The conference this year features two days of student papers by graduate students in music from across North America, a new music concert of selected student compositions, and a keynote lecture by Prof. Martin Scherzinger of New York University. Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Friday, April 16, 2010, 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM. Fulton Recital Hall, Department of Music Goodspeed Hall 5845 South Ellis Avenue, 4th Floor Chicago, IL 60637. For more info visit humanities.uchicago.edu.

Midwest Graduate Music Consortium, 14th Annual Conference

Conferences This conference is essentially in three parts: 1) The bulk of the conference will be two days of student papers - Friday from 12pm-3pm and Saturday from 9-5pm. 2) The second part is the keynote lecture on Friday from 3:30-5pm. 3) A new music concert Saturday evening from 8-9pm. Building/Room: Fulton Recital Hall. Primary Sponsor: Franke Institute. Other Sponsor(s): University of Chicago Department of Music. Conference Title: Midwest Graduate Music Consortium, 14th Annual Conference. Presenter(s): Keynote lecture by Professor Martin Scherzinger (NYU) titled “Boulez, Prophet (or How Deleuze Misunderstands Music)”; other presenters will be determined by the MGMC selection committee during January -- all will be students in music from universities across North America. Open to the Public: Yes. Cost: 0. Contact Name: Martha Sprigge. Contact E-mail: mgmc2010@gmail.com. Contact Phone: 773-574-2124. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: The Midwest Graduate Music Consortium is a collaborative venture between music students at three schools--University of Chicago, University of Wisconsin at Madison and Northwestern University--and held at each school on a rotating basis. The conference this year features two days of student papers by graduate students in music from across North America, a new music concert of selected student compositions, and a keynote lecture by Prof. Martin Scherzinger of New York University. Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Saturday, April 17, 2010, 9:00 AM – 9:00 PM. Fulton Recital Hall, Department of Music Goodspeed Hall 5845 South Ellis Avenue, 4th Floor Chicago, IL 60637. For more info visit humanities.uchicago.edu.

Slavic Forum

Conferences Building/Room: JRL S-118. Primary Sponsor: Slavic. Other Sponsor(s): CEERES, Student Government. Conference Title: Slavic Forum. Presenter(s): TBA. Open to the Public: Yes. Cost: 0. Contact Name: Meredith Clason, CEERES. Contact E-mail: mclason@uchicago.edu. Contact Phone: 773-702-0866. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: The Slavic Forum has been an annual event on The University of Chicago campus since 1979 and welcomes paper submissions dealing with any aspect of Slavic studies, including linguistics, literature, art, history, anthropology, and interdisciplinary. Panel themes will be determined by the Slavic Forum committee following acceptance of papers to the conference. Past panels have included topics such as Slavic Linguistics, Text and Image, Space and Time, and Slavs Abroad. Past papers have included: "Andrei Dro… Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Friday, April 23, 2010, 12:00 PM – 8:00 PM. The Franke Institute for the Humanities The University of Chicago 1100 East 57th Street, JRL S-118 Chicago, Illinois 60637. For more info visit ceeres.uchicago.edu.

Slavic Forum

Conferences Building/Room: JRL S-118. Primary Sponsor: Slavic. Other Sponsor(s): CEERES, Student Government. Conference Title: Slavic Forum. Presenter(s): TBA. Open to the Public: Yes. Cost: 0. Contact Name: Meredith Clason, CEERES. Contact E-mail: mclason@uchicago.edu. Contact Phone: 773-702-0866. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: The Slavic Forum has been an annual event on The University of Chicago campus since 1979 and welcomes paper submissions dealing with any aspect of Slavic studies, including linguistics, literature, art, history, anthropology, and interdisciplinary. Panel themes will be determined by the Slavic Forum committee following acceptance of papers to the conference. Past panels have included topics such as Slavic Linguistics, Text and Image, Space and Time, and Slavs Abroad. Past papers have included: "Andrei Dro… Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Saturday, April 24, 2010, 9:30 AM – 5:30 PM. The Franke Institute for the Humanities The University of Chicago 1100 East 57th Street, JRL S-118 Chicago, Illinois 60637. For more info visit ceeres.uchicago.edu.

The Politics of Democratic Performativity: Poland Before and After 1989

Lecture or Other Event Building/Room: JRL S-118. Primary Sponsor: CEERES. Presenter: Elzbieta Matynia (The New School for Social Research). Lecture Title: The Politics of Democratic Performativity: Poland Before and After 1989. Contact Name: Meredith Clason. Contact E-mail: mclason@uchicago.edu. Contact Phone: 773-702-0866. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: Elzbieta Matynia is a professor of Sociology and Liberal Studies and director of the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies at the New School for Social Research in New York. Her research in political and cultural sociology focuses on democratic transitions in Eastern Europe and beyond, and more recently on the concept of borderlands in the emerging “shared Europe”. Her recent book ( 2009), Performative Democracy, was published in the Yale Cultural Sociology Series by Paradigm Publishers. It explores a… Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Tuesday, April 27, 2010, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM. The Franke Institute for the Humanities 1100 East 57th Street, JRL S-118 Chicago, IL 60637.

Greek gifts: Archaeophilia, Ochlocracy and Monochromatism in Contemporary Macedonia

Lecture or Other Event Building/Room: JRL S-118. Primary Sponsor: CEERES. Other Sponsor(s): Anthropology of Europe Workshop. Presenter: Irena Stefoska (Fulbright Fellow, Brown University). Lecture Title: Greek gifts: Archaeophilia, Ochlocracy and Monochromatism in Contemporary Macedonia. Contact Name: Meredith Clason. Contact E-mail: mclason@uchicago.edu. Contact Phone: 773-702-0866. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: This lecture represents the opening presentation for a workshop on April 30 entitled: Hopeful Spaces of Critique: Post-Yugoslav Anthropology in the Coming Decade. This workshop, building on last year’s highly successful ACLS & CEERES-sponsored conference “Critical Spaces of Hope: Locating Postsocialism and the Future in post-Yugoslav Anthropology,” will examine current and future trajectories of research as a follow-up to its predecessor. Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Thursday, April 29, 2010, 4:30 PM – 6:30 PM. The Franke Institute for the Humanities 1100 East 57th Street, JRL S-118 Chicago, IL 60637.

Hopeful Spaces of Critique: Post-Yugoslav Anthropology in the Coming Decade

Lecture or Other Event Building/Room: JRL S-118. Primary Sponsor: CEERES. Other Sponsor(s): ACLS, Anthropology of Europe Workshop. Presenter(s): Andrew Gilbert (U. Toronto); Jessica Greenberg (Northwestern U.); Andrew Graan (Anthro, U. Chicago); Larisa Jasarevic (U. Chicago). Title: Hopeful Spaces of Critique: Post-Yugoslav Anthropology in the Coming Decade. Open to the Public: Yes. Contact Name: Meredith Clason. Contact E-mail: mclason@uchicago.edu. Contact Phone: 773-702-0866. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: This workshop, building on last year’s highly successful ACLS & CEERES-sponsored conference “Critical Spaces of Hope: Locating Postsocialism and the Future in post-Yugoslav Anthropology,” will examine current and future trajectories of research as a follow-up to its predecessor. Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Friday, April 30, 2010, 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM. The Franke Institute for the Humanities 1100 East 57th Street, JRL S-118 Chicago, IL 60637.

The Chicago Humanities Forum Presents Josef Stern

Chicago Humanities Forum This event is open to the public. Please RSVP by calling (773)702-8274 or emailing franke-humanities@uchicago.edu. You may also register online through this calendar application. Building/Room: Gleacher Center, Room 621. Primary Sponsor: Franke Institute. Presenter: Josef Stern. Lecture Title: "The Unbinding of Isaac: Maimonides on Genesis 22 (The Aqedah)". Contact E-mail: franke-humanities@uchicago.edu. Contact Phone: 773-702-8274. Campus Map: http://www.chicagobooth.edu/visit/gleacher/. Event Description: Josef Stern is an identical twin, teaches in Chicago and resides in Jerusalem, and works in two main areas: contemporary philosophy of language and medieval philosophy, especially Jewish and Arabic philosophy. His interests in the philosophy of language focus on the theory of reference, the role of context in semantic interpretation, the distinction between literal and non-literal meaning, and between linguistic and non-linguistic modes of representation and communication. He is also working on the histor… Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Wednesday, May 5, 2010, 5:15 PM – 6:00 PM. Gleacher Center 450 North Cityfront Plaza Drive, Room 621 Chicago, IL.

Big Problems Lecture: Lynn Margulis

Lecture or Other Event A reception will follow. Building/Room: BSLC 109. Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s). Other Sponsor(s): Big Problems program in the College, Ecology & Evolution Department. Presenter: Lynn Margulis, Distinguished University Professor Geosciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Lecture Title: Trail through "Deep Time" - The web (not the tree) of life in Earth. Contact Name: Margot Browning, Executive Director. Contact E-mail: mb31@uchicago.edu. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: The Big Problems curriculum addresses matters of global or universal concern that intersect with several disciplines and affect a variety of interest groups. Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Friday, May 7, 2010, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM. Biological Sciences Learning Center 924 East 57th St, Room 109 Chicago, Illinois 60637.

Emerging Approaches to Race and Research: Discussing Transdisciplinary Studies of Race in Academia

Conferences Building/Room: 5710 S Woodlawn. Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s). Other Sponsor(s): The Office of Multicultural Student Affairs; The Division of Social Sciences; The Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture. Conference Title: Emerging Approaches to Race and Research: Discussing Transdisciplinary Studies of Race in Academia. Open to the Public: Yes. Contact Name: Jaira J. Harrington. Contact E-mail: jharrington@uchicago.edu. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: This conference is designed for graduate students to present current work that draws on race within an analytical framework and/or understands race as a primary organizing factor in the social world. As a whole the conference will provide a platform for research that examines the ways in we should be thinking about race in literature, film, art, recorded histories, public policy, legal and medical knowledge, immigration, interracial interactions, and other day to day experiences. As race is not a category… Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Friday, May 7, 2010, 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM. The Office of Multicultural Student Affairs 5710 S Woodlawn Ave Chicago, IL 60637.

Emerging Approaches to Race and Research: Discussing Transdisciplinary Studies of Race in Academia

Conferences Building/Room: 5710 S Woodlawn. Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s). Other Sponsor(s): The Office of Multicultural Student Affairs; The Division of Social Sciences; The Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture. Conference Title: Emerging Approaches to Race and Research: Discussing Transdisciplinary Studies of Race in Academia. Open to the Public: Yes. Contact Name: Jaira J. Harrington. Contact E-mail: jharrington@uchicago.edu. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: This conference is designed for graduate students to present current work that draws on race within an analytical framework and/or understands race as a primary organizing factor in the social world. As a whole the conference will provide a platform for research that examines the ways in we should be thinking about race in literature, film, art, recorded histories, public policy, legal and medical knowledge, immigration, interracial interactions, and other day to day experiences. As race is not a category… Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Saturday, May 8, 2010, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM. The Office of Multicultural Student Affairs 5710 S Woodlawn Ave Chicago, IL 60637.

The Films of Marcel Broodthaers: Between Art History and Film Studies, A One-Day Symposium

Conferences Building/Room: Cobb 307. Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s). Other Sponsor(s): Arts Council, Franke Institute for the Humanities, Department of Cinema and Media Studies, France Chicago Center, Department of Art History. Conference Title: The Films of Marcel Broodthaers: Between Art History and Film Studies, A One-Day Symposium. Presenter(s): Key-note address: Benjamin Buchloh, Franklin D. and Florence Rosenblatt Professor of Modern Art, Harvard University , Bruce Jenkins, Professor, Film, Video, New Media, The Art Institute of Chicago - “Postscript: The Impossible Cinema of Marcel Broodthaers,” in The Unsilvered Screen: Surrealism on Film (Wallflower, 2007). - “Un Peu Tard: Citation in the Cinema of Marcel Broodthaers,” in Marcel Broodthaers: Cinéma (Fundció Antoni Tapes, 1997). - "CB: Cineam Broodthaers,” in Marcel Broodthaers (Walker… Open to the Public: Yes. Cost: Free. Contact Name: Sabrina Craig. Contact E-mail: scraig1@uchicago.edu. Contact Phone: 773-213-8464. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: The Films of Marcel Broodthaers: Between Art History and Film Studies is not only a rare opportunity to study the artists’ 35mm films; it is also a chance to discuss the centrality of film within his visual, literary, and conceptual oeuvre. By placing films at the center of a diverse public discussion, this event series promotes object-based inquiry across the disciplines. It fosters community building by bringing together faculty, and graduate and undergraduate students from diverse departments of the… Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Saturday, May 15, 2010, 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM. Film Studies Center 5811 South Ellis Ave, Cobb Hall 306 Chicago, Illinois 60637. For more info visit filmstudiescenter.uchicago.edu.