Program Schedule

  • Session I: 9:30 am - 10:30 am
  • Keynote: 11:00 am - noon
  • Session II: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
  • Session III: 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Keynote Address

MUSIC

Martha Feldman
Castrato De Luxe: Blood, Gifts, and Goods in Early Modern Singing Stars
Rockefeller Memorial Chapel

Session Schedule

(Early registration is advised since events will close once filled)

 Session ISession IISession III
Breasted Hall 

Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations

How Islam Began

Art History

Robie House, 100 Years New
Classics 110  

Philosophy

Metaphors and Jokes: Instruments of Freedom
Film Studies 

South Asian Languages and Civilizations

Radical Cinema and the “FIlm Society” Movement in India
 
Foster 103  

South Asian Languages and Civilizations

Satyajit Ray's "Pather Panchali" (Song of the Little Road)
Franke Institute

East Asian Languages & Civilizations

Ancient Chinese Bronzes from the Shouyang Studio: An Introduction to the Upcoming Special Exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago

English Language and Literature

Cinema, History and the Politics of Style: Neil Jordan’s "Michael Collins" and Ken Loach’s "The Wind that Shakes the Barley"

Classics

Ancient Greek Healing Amulets
Fulton Recital Hall

Music

Montezuma: The Conquest of Mexico in Baroque Opera
 

Music

The Biggest Music Spectacle in the World: The Eurovision Song Contest
Harper 103 

Civic Knowledge Project

The Civic Knowledge Project Celebrates the Humanities

Philosophy

You Owe It to Yourself
Harper 140

Classics

How Young People Should Listen to Animals: Stories of Nonhuman Communication from Ancient Greece and the American Plains

Comparative Literature

A Reading of a Poem by Baudelaire

English Language and Literature

Cloning Terror: The War of Images, 9/11 to the Present
Landahl Linguistics Lab 

Linguistics

Linguistics Open House in the Landahl Linguistics Labs
 
Oriental Institute

Oriental Institute

Tour of the New Exhibition "Visible Language: Inventions of Writing in the Ancient Middle East"
  
Smart Museum of Art 

Smart Museum of Art

Tour of the new Exhibition "Echoes of the Past: The Buddhist Cave Temples of Xiangtangshan"
 
Social Sciences 122

Classics

Excavating Traditions in Ancient Rome: Romulus and St. Peter
  
Stuart 101

Romance Languages & Literatures

Dante's Right of Way through Hell

South Asian Languages and Civilizations

War, Trauma, and Humanism in Literature from Sri Lanka

Romance Languages & Literatures

Fact and Fiction in Recent French Literature
Stuart 102

South Asian Languages and Civilizations

Women in Modern South and Southeast Asian Buddhism

Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations

The Jews of Modern Babylon, June 1941

English Language and Literature

The lanterne of lyghtte/non fulget luce serena (The lantern of light does not shine with a steady beam), or John Claydon and his Books.
Stuart 104 

Classics

Old and New in the Letters of Lupus of Ferrières
 
Stuart 105

Linguistics

Nōlō Contendere: American Legal Advocacy and the Verbal Agōn

Germanic Studies

Three Contemporary Poets on the Experience of Time: Richard Wilbur, C.K. Williams, and Adam Zagajewski

Linguistics

Meaning without Form: The Linguistics of Ellipsis