Program Schedule | The University of Chicago Humanities Day 2010

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 I	Session II	Session III
Breasted Hall		Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations Fred Donner How Islam Began	Art History Katherine Fischer Taylor Robie House, 100 Years New
Classics 110			Philosophy Ted Cohen Metaphors and Jokes: Instruments of Freedom
Film Studies		South Asian Languages and Civilizations Rochona Majumdar Radical Cinema and the “FIlm Society” Movement in India
Foster 103			South Asian Languages and Civilizations South Asia Language Resource Center Satyajit Ray's "Pather Panchali" (Song of the Little Road)
Franke Institute	East Asian Languages & Civilizations Edward L. Shaughnessy Ancient Chinese Bronzes from the Shouyang Studio: An Introduction to the Upcoming Special Exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago	English Language and Literature James K. Chandler Cinema, History and the Politics of Style: Neil Jordan’s "Michael Collins" and Ken Loach’s "The Wind that Shakes the Barley"	Classics Chris Faraone Ancient Greek Healing Amulets
Fulton Recital Hall	Music Robert L. Kendrick Montezuma: The Conquest of Mexico in Baroque Opera		Music Philip V. Bohlman The Biggest Music Spectacle in the World: The Eurovision Song Contest
Harper 103		Civic Knowledge Project Bart Schultz The Civic Knowledge Project Celebrates the Humanities	Philosophy Candace Vogler You Owe It to Yourself
Harper 140	Classics Mark Payne How Young People Should Listen to Animals: Stories of Nonhuman Communication from Ancient Greece and the American Plains	Comparative Literature Françoise Meltzer A Reading of a Poem by Baudelaire	English Language and Literature W. J. T. Mitchell Cloning Terror: The War of Images, 9/11 to the Present
Landahl Linguistics Lab		Linguistics Alan Yu Chris Kennedy Jason Riggle Ming Xiang Linguistics Open House in the Landahl Linguistics Labs
Oriental Institute	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 Smart Museum of Art Tour of the new Exhibition "Echoes of the Past: The Buddhist Cave Temples of Xiangtangshan"
Social Sciences 122	Classics Jonathan Hall Excavating Traditions in Ancient Rome: Romulus and St. Peter
Stuart 101	Romance Languages & Literatures Justin Steinberg Dante's Right of Way through Hell	South Asian Languages and Civilizations Sascha Ebeling War, Trauma, and Humanism in Literature from Sri Lanka	Romance Languages & Literatures Alison James Fact and Fiction in Recent French Literature
Stuart 102	South Asian Languages and Civilizations Steven Collins Women in Modern South and Southeast Asian Buddhism	Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations Orit Bashkin The Jews of Modern Babylon, June 1941	English Language and Literature Christina von Nolcken 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 Michael I. Allen Old and New in the Letters of Lupus of Ferrières
Stuart 105	Linguistics Michael Silverstein Nōlō Contendere: American Legal Advocacy and the Verbal Agōn	Germanic Studies David Wellbery Three Contemporary Poets on the Experience of Time: Richard Wilbur, C.K. Williams, and Adam Zagajewski	Linguistics Jason Merchant Karlos Arregi Meaning without Form: The Linguistics of Ellipsis