Franke Institute for the Humanities

Rolling the Dice: The Art of Chance

04 Feb 2012 07:00:00 GMT

The Franke Institute for the Humanities
1100 East 57th Street, JRL S-118
Chicago, IL 60637
Saturday, February 4 – Sunday, February 5, 2012

Building/Room: JRL S-118
Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s)
Other Sponsor(s): Worlding, Writing Project at 3CT and Franke Institute
Conference Title: Rolling the Dice: The Art of Chance
Presenter(s): Bernard Harcourt, Debbora Battaglia, Lauren Berlant, Yvette Christianse, Susan Lepselter, Renata Salecl and Micah Philbrook
Open to the Public: Yes
Cost: free
Contact Name: Aleksandr Markovich Prigozhin
Contact E-mail: ampri@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 7737020230
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Rolling the Dice continues 3CT’s Arts of Non-Sovereignty Series discussion of being out of control. Conceived as an experimental event, it approaches the experience of out-of-controledness via the concepts of randomization and chance in both their positive and negative valences (positive, as in something to embrace, negative, as in the absence of any other decent approach).
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: ccct.uchicago.edu…

The Spaces of Occupation

08 Feb 2012 23:00:00 GMT

The Franke Institute for the Humanities
1100 East 57th Street, JRL S-118
Chicago, IL 60637
Wednesday, February 8, 2012, 5 – 7pm

Please RSVP

Building/Room: JRL S-118
Primary Sponsor: Franke Institute
Presenter(s): Bernard E. Harcourt, Julius Kreeger Professor of Law & Criminology and Chair and Professor of Political Science, The University of Chicago Law School; Michael T. Taussig, Class of 1933 Professor of Anthropology Columbia University; and W.J.T. Mitchell, Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor of English and Art History at the University of Chicago
Open to the Public: Yes
Contact Name: W. Ian Bourland
Contact E-mail: bourland@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 202-549-4188
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: A critical discussion of recent global occupation movements, from Occupy to the Arab Spring
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

The Chicago Humanities Forum Presents Norma Field

08 Feb 2012 23:15:00 GMT

Gleacher Center
450 North Cityfront Plaza Drive, Room 621
Chicago, IL
Wednesday, February 8, 2012, 5:15 – 6pm

This event is open to the public. Please RSVP by Friday, February 3, 2011. You may call (773)702-8274 or email franke-humanities@uchicago.edu. You may also register online through this calendar application.

Building/Room: Gleacher Center, Room 621
Primary Sponsor: Franke Institute
Presenter: Norma Field is the Robert S. Ingersoll Distinguished Service Professor in Japanese Studies, Department of East Asian Languages & Civilizations
Lecture Title: “From Stagg Field to Fukushima”
Contact E-mail: franke-humanities@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-702-8274
Campus Map: www.chicagobooth.edu…
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Haiti Culturally

08 Feb 2012 23:30:00 GMT

International House
1414 East 59th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
Wednesday, February 8, 2012, 5:30 – 8pm

Building/Room: International House
Primary Sponsor: Franke Institute
Other Sponsor(s): Center for Latin American Studies, Center for the Studies of Race, Politics and Culture, France-Chicago Center, International House
Exhibition Title: Haiti Culturally
Presenter(s): Rose-Marie Lamour, Luckner Candido, Riccardi Jules, West Indian Folk Dance Company, Carolyn Armstrong
Open to the Public: Yes
Cost: None
Contact Name: Lauren Eldridge
Contact E-mail: leldridge@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: (708) 207-8687
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: The week of the second anniversary of the earthquake that devastated Port-au-Prince is a time to highlight the promise that is rising out of that destruction. Haiti: Culturally is a two-day event. The first day will begin with an exhibition by three visual artists from Haiti and finish with a performance by West Indian Folk Dance Company, a Chicago-based Haitian folkloric dance troupe. The second day will feature a documentary screening about music education in Haiti and discussion with the filmmaker.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: belsonproductions.com

From the Adriatic to the Sulu Sea: Islam and Identity in Southeast Europe and Southeast Asia

09 Feb 2012 15:00:00 GMT

Thursday @ International House, 1414 E. 59th Street
Friday & Saturday @ Franke Institute
Thursday, February 9, 2012, 9am – 5:30pm

Building/Room: International House
Primary Sponsor: CEERES
Other Sponsor(s): CSEAS (Center for Southeast Asian Studies) at Northern Illinois University; Center for International Studies; Franke Institute (application pending)
Conference Title: “From the Adriatic to the Sulu Sea: Islam and Identity in Southeast Europe and Southeast Asia”
Presenter(s): Keynote speaker: Distinguished Professor Datuk Shamsul Amri Baharuddin (Malaysian National University)
Open to the Public: Yes
Cost: None
Contact Name: Meredith Clason
Contact E-mail: mclason@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-702-0866
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: franke.uchicago.edu…

Residential Faculty Fellowships for 2012-2013

10 Feb 2012 07:00:00 GMT

The Franke Institute for the Humanities
The University of Chicago
1100 East 57th Street, JRL S-102
Chicago, Illinois 60637
Friday, February 10, 2012

Click here to download the application cover. (Word doc)

Primary Sponsor: Franke Institute
Contact Name: James Chandler
Contact E-mail: docj@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-702-8247
Event Description: TO: All Faculty, Division of Humanities, All Faculty, History and Anthropology Departments, FROM: James Chandler, Director, RE: Residential Faculty Fellowships for 2012-2013, Each year the Franke Institute for the Humanities awards a limited number of Faculty Residential Fellowships to members of the University of Chicago faculty who are engaged in interdisciplinary projects. We will make up to seven awards for 2012-2013; the deadline for receipt of applications is Friday, February 10., All tenure-track or tenured members of both the Humanities faculty and the Social Sciences faculty are eligible to apply. Normally, we expect to appoint five or six faculty fellows from the Humanities Division and one from the Social Sciences. In the Humanities, we make an effort to balance awards among tenured and junior faculty, with some priority for junior faculty; in the Social Sciences, strong priority is given to junior faculty. The fellowship is understood to be especially useful for junior faculty midway to their tenure decision. With regard to the new Faculty Research Leave program, and in conjunction with a regularly scheduled, two-quarter leave granted by your division, the Franke Fellowship provides an additional third quarter of leave time. (In the Humanities Division, it also fulfills the criterion of a ‘prestigious’ fellowship.) Faculty Fellows are relieved of all teaching responsibilities for all three quarters of the award year, and are in residence at the Franke Institute for the full year. Department chairs are encouraged to free Fellows insofar as possible from regular committee and advisory responsibilities for the full year. The Institute provides quiet and isolated office space and administrative support for all Fellows., Applications should specify, in no more than 1500 words, the intellectual project from which the proposal emerges and the specific goals which are expected to be accomplished during the period of fellowship. The applications should also include a current curriculum vitae, the cover and signature sheet attached to this memo, and two letters of reference: one from an appropriate colleague in the applicant's field (from elsewhere) who is qualified to judge the merits of the project, the second from a Chicago faculty member (normally from the applicant's department) describing both the merits of the project and the applicant's potential and stature in the field. Applicants should confer with their Department Chair before deciding on referees; please note that the names of referees must appear on the cover sheet, and that the Department Chair must sign this sheet as validation of your eligibility for a three-quarter divisional leave during the prospective year of a Franke Fellowship. (Note: All leaves are subject to approval by the Dean and the Provost.), The Fellows chosen will be encouraged to propose activities (symposia, visiting lectures, etc.) relevant to their research topics for possible funding by the Franke Institute during the year, and will be expected to participate in biweekly seminars to discuss their ongoing work., Complete applications, including the letters from referees, should reach me at the Franke Institute by Friday, February 10th at 5:00 p.m. Awards will be announced by the beginning of Spring Quarter., Please contact either of us - James Chandler (docj@uchicago.edu) or Margot Browning (m-browning@uchicago.edu) - if you have questions about the preparation of proposal.
More info: franke.uchicago.edu

From the Adriatic to the Sulu Sea: Islam and Identity in Southeast Europe and Southeast Asia

10 Feb 2012 15:00:00 GMT

Thursday @ International House, 1414 E. 59th Street
Friday & Saturday @ Franke Institute
Friday, February 10, 2012, 9am – 5:30pm

Building/Room: JRL S-118
Primary Sponsor: CEERES
Other Sponsor(s): CSEAS (Center for Southeast Asian Studies) at Northern Illinois University; Center for International Studies; Franke Institute (application pending)
Conference Title: “From the Adriatic to the Sulu Sea: Islam and Identity in Southeast Europe and Southeast Asia”
Presenter(s): Keynote speaker: Distinguished Professor Datuk Shamsul Amri Baharuddin (Malaysian National University)
Open to the Public: Yes
Cost: None
Contact Name: Meredith Clason
Contact E-mail: mclason@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-702-0866
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: franke.uchicago.edu…

From the Adriatic to the Sulu Sea: Islam and Identity in Southeast Europe and Southeast Asia

11 Feb 2012 15:00:00 GMT

Thursday @ International House, 1414 E. 59th Street
Friday & Saturday @ Franke Institute
Saturday, February 11, 2012, 9am – 5:30pm

Building/Room: JRL S-118
Primary Sponsor: CEERES
Other Sponsor(s): CSEAS (Center for Southeast Asian Studies) at Northern Illinois University; Center for International Studies; Franke Institute (application pending)
Conference Title: “From the Adriatic to the Sulu Sea: Islam and Identity in Southeast Europe and Southeast Asia”
Presenter(s): Keynote speaker: Distinguished Professor Datuk Shamsul Amri Baharuddin (Malaysian National University)
Open to the Public: Yes
Cost: None
Contact Name: Meredith Clason
Contact E-mail: mclason@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-702-0866
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: franke.uchicago.edu…

Borders in Jewish Thought

13 Feb 2012 16:00:00 GMT

The Franke Institute for the Humanities
1100 East 57th Street, JRL S-118
Chicago, IL 60637
Monday, February 13, 2012, 10am – 5pm

Building/Room: JRL S-118
Primary Sponsor: Chicago Center for Jewish Studies
Other Sponsor(s): The Franke Institute for the Humanities, Committee on Social Thought, Divinity School, History, and NELC
Conference Title: Borders in Jewish Thought
Presenter(s): Rachel Havrelock, University of Illinois, Chicago Ofri Ilani Sam Shonkoff Rhona Seidelman, Schusterman Visiting Israeli Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Hillel Ben Sasson Adam Stern Rachel Seeling, Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Toronto Israel Yuval, Hebrew University Jerusalem
Open to the Public: Yes
Cost: None
Contact Name: Miller Prosser
Contact E-mail: m-prosser@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-702-7108
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: The conference will explore the ways in which Jews have invoked the borders of the Land of Israel as a malleable metaphor for considering a variety of issues that extend beyond geography. The Hebrew Bible presents several border schemes of the Land of Israel: some extend from the Nile to the Euphrates, while others are limited to the land of Canaan hemmed in by the Jordan; some emphasize natural boundaries while others delineate the borders according to ritual logic. Each scheme represents a different conception of the sanctity of space and the way divine favor is mapped onto the physical landscape. Thus, in biblical references to natural and political borders the landscape becomes a powerful metaphor for defining and upholding cultural and hermeneutical boundaries. Subsequently, Jews from antiquity to the present day have continued to use the borders of Israel as a broad interpretive category for thinking about a variety of religious, social, and political concerns. Even in their earliest formulations, the borders were not merely geographic markers, but a means of providing spatial representations for discourses of power, legitimization and communal identity with respect to real or imagined neighbors. The goal of this conference is to look at ways in which thinkers – such as Jewish pilgrims, sectarians, settlers, soldiers, poets, artists, politicians, philosophers, and exegetes – have invoked geographical language to articulate a wide spectrum of concerns.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Keynote lecture for "Understanding Sexual Violence in Conflict: Gendered Dynamics of Victimization," Elisabeth Wood

01 Mar 2012 22:30:00 GMT

The Franke Institute for the Humanities
1100 East 57th Street, JRL S-118
Chicago, IL 60637
Thursday, March 1, 2012, 4:30 – 6:30pm

Building/Room: JRL S-118
Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s)
Other Sponsor(s): Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, Human Rights Program
Presenter: Elisabeth Wood, Professor of Political Science, Yale University
Lecture Title: "Understanding Sexual Violence in Conflict: Gendered Dynamics of Victimization"
Contact Name: Sarah Tuohey
Contact E-mail: stuohey@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-702-2365
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Keynote lecture for “Understanding Sexual Violence in Conflict: Gendered Dynamics of Victimization,” symposium in connection with the CSGS Sawyer Seminar “International Women’s Human Rights: Paradigms, Paradoxes, and Possibilities”.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

"Understanding Sexual Violence in Conflict: Gendered Dynamics of Victimization"

02 Mar 2012 14:30:00 GMT

Classics 110
1010 East 59th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
Friday, March 2, 2012, 8:30am – 6pm

Building/Room: Classics 110
Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s)
Other Sponsor(s): Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, Human Rights Program
Conference Title: "Understanding Sexual Violence in Conflict: Gendered Dynamics of Victimization"
Presenter(s): Faculty Presenters:, Dara Cohen, Professor of Political Science, Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota, Jocelyn Kelly, Director of the Women in War Program for Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Harvard University Graduate Student Presenters:, Amanda Blair, Political Science, Mackenzie Israel-Trummel, Political Science, Stanford, Jonathan Shaw, History, University of Michigan
Open to the Public: Yes
Cost: None
Contact Name: Sarah Tuohey
Contact E-mail: stuohey@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-702-2365
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: A symposium in connection with the CSGS Sawyer Seminar “International Women’s Human Rights: Paradigms, Paradoxes, and Possibilities”.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Medical Pluralism in Soviet and Post-Soviet Eurasia

02 Mar 2012 15:00:00 GMT

The Franke Institute for the Humanities
1100 East 57th Street, JRL S-118
Chicago, IL 60637
Friday, March 2, 2012, 9am – 5pm

Building/Room: JRL S-118
Primary Sponsor: CEERES
Other Sponsor(s): Norman Wait Harris Fund of the Center for International Studies
Presenter(s): Sarah Phillips (Indiana University); Alaina Lemon (U. Michigan); Danuta Penkala-Gawecka (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland); Michele Rivkin-Fish (UNC-Chapel Hill); Justine Buck Quijada (Wesleyan University; Eugene Raikhel (U. Chicago); Sheila Fitzpatrick (U. Chicago); Michael David (U. Chicago); Robert Bird (U. Chicago); Larisa Jasarevic (U. Chicago); Tatiana Chudakova (U. Chicago); Nelly Samoukova Leavitt (U. Chicago)
Title: "Medical Pluralism in Soviet and Post-Soviet Eurasia"
Open to the Public: Yes
Contact Name: Meredith Clason
Contact E-mail: mclason@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-702-0866
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Many observers have noted the multiplicity of approaches to healing that have emerged in post-Soviet Eurasia over the past 20 years. Aside from transformations in the domain of biomedicine, these range from healing practices linked to religions traditionally associated with the region (such as Russian Orthodoxy and Buddhism) to those derived from new religions, “occult practices” or New Age spirituality to self- and mutual-help movements such as Alcoholics Anonymous. While these developments have often been depicted straightforwardly as a response (and in resistance) to seventy years of officially-promoted scientism and materialism, close inspection of the evidence suggests a more complex account. For example, many healing practices currently associated with the “occult” arose out of investigations in the mainstream of Soviet biomedicine and biosciences. How can we explain the emergence of these practices? Moreover, how do the histories of medical pluralism in post-Soviet Eurasia potentially destabilize distinctions such as that between biomedicine and complementary and alternative medicine (CAM)? Additional issues are raised by the institutional and economic setting within which these practices and treatment technologies have developed and proliferated. How have these treatments and their experience by patients been shaped by an economic and institutional mileu marked by profound commercialization and deeply uneven state regulation? Finally, what does the state of medical pluralism in contemporary Eurasia tell us about patients’ ideas about biomedicine as well as about emerging norms guiding the clinical relationship?, To date, these issues have not been systematically discussed or theorized in a scholarly setting. In order to begin addressing these questions, this one-day workshop will bring together a number of medical anthropologists, medical sociologists, historians and Slavists whose own research either concerns medical pluralism in Eurasia directly who bring an important perspective to the discussion. Selected participants in the workshop (some from the University of Chicago as well as invitees) will pre-circulate papers which will be commented on by designated discussants, and will then be discussed by the entire group. The day will end with a more open-ended discussion/roundtable about medical pluralism in Soviet and post-Soviet Eurasia.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: ceeres.uchicago.edu

Stanley Cavell’s Aesthetic Criticism in Modernity

02 Mar 2012 15:30:00 GMT

Friday, March 2nd: 9:30am-12:30pm - Stuart 101; 2pm-6pm - Harper 140
Saturday & Sunday, March 3-4th: Franke Institute
Friday, March 2, 2012, 9:30am – 6:30pm

Building/Room: Various
Primary Sponsor: Franke Institute
Other Sponsor(s): Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, Center for Interdisciplinary Research on German Literature and Culture, Department of Philosophy, Prof. Arnold Davidson
Conference Title: Stanley Cavell’s Aesthetic Criticism in Modernity
Presenter(s): Sarah Beckwith (English, Duke), Michael Fried (Humanities Center/Art History, Johns Hopkins University) Arata Hamawaki (Philosophy, Auburn) Andrew Klevan (Film Studies, Oxford) Toril Moi (Literature and Romance Studies, Duke University) Richard Moran (Philosophy, Harvard University) Yi-Ping Ong (The Humanities Center, Johns Hopkins University) Robert Pippin (Philosophy, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago
Open to the Public: Yes
Contact Name: Gilad Nir
Contact E-mail: giladnir@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-702-8513
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Workshop on Stanley Cavell’s Aesthetics, Criticism and Conception of Modernity
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: cavell.sites.uchicago.edu

Around1948 Symposium: Post-World War II Trials and the Reconstruction of European States

02 Mar 2012 20:00:00 GMT

John Hope Franklin Room (224) and Social Sciences Tea Room (201), Social Sciences Research Building, 1126 E. 59th St.
Friday, March 2, 2012, 2 – 5:15pm

Building/Room: Multiple
Primary Sponsor: Franke Institute
Conference Title: The Post-World War II Trials and the Reconstruction of European States
Presenter(s): Devin Pendas (Boston College), Ben Frommer (Northwestern University), Francine Hirsch (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Open to the Public: Yes
Cost: None
Contact Name: Susan Gooding
Contact E-mail: ssg4@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 715-790-2389
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: An afternoon symposium devoted to discussion of Central and European cases in which courts served as key sites in the post-WWII purging of Nazi collaborators and war criminals in Central and Eastern Europe, and to the role played by this “juridification of war” in the reconstruction of modern Europe and contemporary European legal culture.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: around1948.uchicago.edu

Stanley Cavell’s Aesthetic Criticism in Modernity

03 Mar 2012 15:30:00 GMT

Friday, March 2nd: 9:30am-12:30pm - Stuart 101; 2pm-6pm - Harper 140
Saturday & Sunday, March 3-4th: Franke Institute
Saturday, March 3, 2012, 9:30am – 6:30pm

Building/Room: Various
Primary Sponsor: Franke Institute
Other Sponsor(s): Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, Center for Interdisciplinary Research on German Literature and Culture, Department of Philosophy, Prof. Arnold Davidson
Conference Title: Stanley Cavell’s Aesthetic Criticism in Modernity
Presenter(s): Sarah Beckwith (English, Duke), Michael Fried (Humanities Center/Art History, Johns Hopkins University) Arata Hamawaki (Philosophy, Auburn) Andrew Klevan (Film Studies, Oxford) Toril Moi (Literature and Romance Studies, Duke University) Richard Moran (Philosophy, Harvard University) Yi-Ping Ong (The Humanities Center, Johns Hopkins University) Robert Pippin (Philosophy, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago
Open to the Public: Yes
Contact Name: Gilad Nir
Contact E-mail: giladnir@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-702-8513
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Workshop on Stanley Cavell’s Aesthetics, Criticism and Conception of Modernity
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: cavell.sites.uchicago.edu

Stanley Cavell’s Aesthetic Criticism in Modernity

04 Mar 2012 15:30:00 GMT

Friday, March 2nd: 9:30am-12:30pm - Stuart 101; 2pm-6pm - Harper 140
Saturday & Sunday, March 3-4th: Franke Institute
Sunday, March 4, 2012, 9:30am – 6:30pm

Building/Room: Various
Primary Sponsor: Franke Institute
Other Sponsor(s): Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, Center for Interdisciplinary Research on German Literature and Culture, Department of Philosophy, Prof. Arnold Davidson
Conference Title: Stanley Cavell’s Aesthetic Criticism in Modernity
Presenter(s): Sarah Beckwith (English, Duke), Michael Fried (Humanities Center/Art History, Johns Hopkins University) Arata Hamawaki (Philosophy, Auburn) Andrew Klevan (Film Studies, Oxford) Toril Moi (Literature and Romance Studies, Duke University) Richard Moran (Philosophy, Harvard University) Yi-Ping Ong (The Humanities Center, Johns Hopkins University) Robert Pippin (Philosophy, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago
Open to the Public: Yes
Contact Name: Gilad Nir
Contact E-mail: giladnir@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-702-8513
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Workshop on Stanley Cavell’s Aesthetics, Criticism and Conception of Modernity
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: cavell.sites.uchicago.edu

Exemplarity/Singularity

08 Mar 2012 19:00:00 GMT

The Franke Institute for the Humanities
1100 East 57th Street, JRL S-118
Chicago, IL 60637
Thursday, March 8, 2012, 1 – 6pm

March 8: 1 pm to 6 pm
March 9: 10 am to 6 pm
March 10: 9 am to 12.30 pm

Building/Room: JRL S-118
Primary Sponsor: Franke Institute
Other Sponsor(s): The Center for Interdisciplinary Research on German Literature and Culture, The Department of Classics and the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Chicago, Memoria Romana, the Rhetoric and Poetics Workshop
Conference Title: Exemplarity/Singularity
Presenter(s): Organizers: Michèle Lowrie (Classics, Chicago), Susanne Lüdemann (German, Chicago) Participants: Clifford Ando (Classics, Chicago), Jim Chandler (English, Chicago), Alex Dressler (Classics, Wisconsin), Paul Fleming (German, Cornell), Christiane Frey (German, Princeton), Jan Goldstein (History, Chicago), Barbara Hahn (German, Vanderbilt), Rebecca Langlands (Classics, Exeter), Simon Malloch (Classics, Nottingham), David Martyn (German, McCalister), Michael Peachin (Classics, NYU), Matthew Roller (Classics, Johns Hopkins)
Open to the Public: Yes
Cost: None
Contact Name: Susanne Luedemann
Contact E-mail: sluedemann@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: This interdisciplinary conference considers antique and modern forms of exemplarity and their role in constructing subjectivity. It deals with the transformation of textual genres such as casus and exemplum, anecdote, and novella from antiquity to modernity and with the ways in which these genres shape the relationship between exemplarity and singularity. At issue are knowledge formation and transmission, memory and its media, the pragmatics of telling stories, the structure of the disciplines, and the interaction of the normative with the exceptional.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: german.uchicago.edu…

Workshop on Greek Linguistics

09 Mar 2012 15:00:00 GMT

Classics Building, Room 314
1010 E. 59th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
Friday, March 9, 2012, 9am – 5pm

Building/Room: Classics 314
Primary Sponsor: Linguistics
Other Sponsor(s): Franke Institute
Title: Workshop on Greek Linguistics
Open to the Public: Yes
Contact Name: Anastasia Giannakidou
Contact E-mail: giannaki@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-834-9819
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: This workshop provides a platform for the presentation of papers by researchers working on the Greek language in all its stages and from all perspectives; it is inclusive and ecumenical, ranging from traditional philological research to formal semantic analysis, with the explicit goal of crossing traditional boundaries and encouraging researchers to learn from each other.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Workshop on the Structure & Constituency in the Languages of the Americas

09 Mar 2012 15:00:00 GMT

Ida Noyes Hall
West Room
1212 East 59th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
Friday, March 9, 2012, 9am – 6pm

Building/Room: Ida Noyes West Room
Primary Sponsor: Franke Institute
Other Sponsor(s): Dean of the Humanities Division, Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture, Scherer Center for the American culture, Department of Linguistics, Department of Anthropology
Conference Title: Workshop on the Structure & Constituency in the Languages of the Americas
Open to the Public: Yes
Cost: None
Contact Name: Alan Yu
Contact E-mail: wscla17@gmail.com
Contact Phone: 773-702-8528
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: The Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas (WSCLA) is an annual linguistics conference, which started in 1995. The central objective of WSCLA is to bring together linguists who are engaged in research on the formal study of aboriginal languages of the Americas in order to exchange ideas across theories, language families, generations of scholars, and across the academic and non-academic communities who are involved in language maintenance and revitalization.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: sites.google.com…

Exemplarity/Singularity

09 Mar 2012 16:00:00 GMT

The Franke Institute for the Humanities
1100 East 57th Street, JRL S-118
Chicago, IL 60637
Friday, March 9, 2012, 10am – 6pm

March 8: 1 pm to 6 pm
March 9: 10 am to 6 pm
March 10: 9 am to 12.30 pm

Building/Room: JRL S-118
Primary Sponsor: Franke Institute
Other Sponsor(s): The Center for Interdisciplinary Research on German Literature and Culture, The Department of Classics and the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Chicago, Memoria Romana, the Rhetoric and Poetics Workshop
Conference Title: Exemplarity/Singularity
Presenter(s): Organizers: Michèle Lowrie (Classics, Chicago), Susanne Lüdemann (German, Chicago) Participants: Clifford Ando (Classics, Chicago), Jim Chandler (English, Chicago), Alex Dressler (Classics, Wisconsin), Paul Fleming (German, Cornell), Christiane Frey (German, Princeton), Jan Goldstein (History, Chicago), Barbara Hahn (German, Vanderbilt), Rebecca Langlands (Classics, Exeter), Simon Malloch (Classics, Nottingham), David Martyn (German, McCalister), Michael Peachin (Classics, NYU), Matthew Roller (Classics, Johns Hopkins)
Open to the Public: Yes
Cost: None
Contact Name: Susanne Luedemann
Contact E-mail: sluedemann@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: This interdisciplinary conference considers antique and modern forms of exemplarity and their role in constructing subjectivity. It deals with the transformation of textual genres such as casus and exemplum, anecdote, and novella from antiquity to modernity and with the ways in which these genres shape the relationship between exemplarity and singularity. At issue are knowledge formation and transmission, memory and its media, the pragmatics of telling stories, the structure of the disciplines, and the interaction of the normative with the exceptional.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: german.uchicago.edu…

Exemplarity/Singularity

10 Mar 2012 15:00:00 GMT

The Franke Institute for the Humanities
1100 East 57th Street, JRL S-118
Chicago, IL 60637
Saturday, March 10, 2012, 9am – 12:30pm

March 8: 1 pm to 6 pm
March 9: 10 am to 6 pm
March 10: 9 am to 12.30 pm

Building/Room: JRL S-118
Primary Sponsor: Franke Institute
Other Sponsor(s): The Center for Interdisciplinary Research on German Literature and Culture, The Department of Classics and the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Chicago, Memoria Romana, the Rhetoric and Poetics Workshop
Conference Title: Exemplarity/Singularity
Presenter(s): Organizers: Michèle Lowrie (Classics, Chicago), Susanne Lüdemann (German, Chicago) Participants: Clifford Ando (Classics, Chicago), Jim Chandler (English, Chicago), Alex Dressler (Classics, Wisconsin), Paul Fleming (German, Cornell), Christiane Frey (German, Princeton), Jan Goldstein (History, Chicago), Barbara Hahn (German, Vanderbilt), Rebecca Langlands (Classics, Exeter), Simon Malloch (Classics, Nottingham), David Martyn (German, McCalister), Michael Peachin (Classics, NYU), Matthew Roller (Classics, Johns Hopkins)
Open to the Public: Yes
Cost: None
Contact Name: Susanne Luedemann
Contact E-mail: sluedemann@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: This interdisciplinary conference considers antique and modern forms of exemplarity and their role in constructing subjectivity. It deals with the transformation of textual genres such as casus and exemplum, anecdote, and novella from antiquity to modernity and with the ways in which these genres shape the relationship between exemplarity and singularity. At issue are knowledge formation and transmission, memory and its media, the pragmatics of telling stories, the structure of the disciplines, and the interaction of the normative with the exceptional.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
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Workshop on the Structure & Constituency in the Languages of the Americas

10 Mar 2012 15:00:00 GMT

Ida Noyes Hall
West Room
1212 East 59th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
Saturday, March 10, 2012, 9am – 6pm

Building/Room: Ida Noyes West Room
Primary Sponsor: Franke Institute
Other Sponsor(s): Dean of the Humanities Division, Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture, Scherer Center for the American culture, Department of Linguistics, Department of Anthropology
Conference Title: Workshop on the Structure & Constituency in the Languages of the Americas
Open to the Public: Yes
Cost: None
Contact Name: Alan Yu
Contact E-mail: wscla17@gmail.com
Contact Phone: 773-702-8528
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: The Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas (WSCLA) is an annual linguistics conference, which started in 1995. The central objective of WSCLA is to bring together linguists who are engaged in research on the formal study of aboriginal languages of the Americas in order to exchange ideas across theories, language families, generations of scholars, and across the academic and non-academic communities who are involved in language maintenance and revitalization.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
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