The Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture

As a complement to the Scherer Center’s Autumn quarter Multidisciplinary Seminar, the Center is pleased to offer a lecture series featuring authors and scholars at the University of Chicago, as well as visiting guest speakers, currently engaged in the interdisciplinary study of American Culture.

 

Wednesday, October 12

Ralph Lerner

Benjamin Franklin Professor Emeritus in the College and of Social Thought

Lecture:  The Gospel According to the Apostle Ben

5:30pm

Classics 110

1010 East 59th Street

 

Thursday, October 13

Robert W. Fogel

Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of American Institutions at the Booth School of Business, Nobel Laureate in Economics

Lecture:  An Overview of the Changing Body: Health, Nutrition, and Human Development in the Western World Since 1700

5:30pm

Classics 110

1010 East 59th Street

 

Tuesday, October 18

Maya Benton

Director of the Roman Vishniac Archive and Adjunct Curator

International Center of Photography

Lecture:  Picturing Vishniac: A Closer Reading, New Work, and Constructions of Jewish Identity
5:30pm

Cochrane-Woods Art Center

5540 South Greenwood Avenue

 

Wednesday, October 26

Kenneth Warren

Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor of English

Lecture:  Making a Literature: Black Writing and Jim Crow

5:30pm

Classics 110

1010 East 59th Street

 

Wednesday, November 9

Bernard Harcourt

Julius Kreeger Professor of Law and Political Science

Lecture:  On Political Economies and Punishment

5:30pm

Classics 110

1010 East 59th Street

 

Wednesday, November 16

Thomas C. Holt

James Westfall Thompson Professor of American and African American History

Lecture:  The Problem of Culture in African American History

5:30pm

Classics 110

1010 East 59th Street

 

Wednesday, November 30

Cathy Cohen

David and Mary Winton Green Professor of Political Science

Lecture:  Democracy Remixed: Race, New Media and the 2012 Elections

5:30pm

Classics 110

1010 East 59th Street

 

Wednesday, March 14

Andrew Ross

Professor of Social & Cultural Analysis

New York University

Lecture: Urban Sustainabilty in the Age of Climate Justice

Time: TBA

4:30pm

Classics 110

1010 East 59th Street

 

Tuesday, April 24

Cassandra Pybus

Department of History

University of Sydney

Lecture:  TBA

4:30pm

Classics 110

1010 East 59th Street

 

Tuesday, May 1

Joshua L. Miller

Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies

Department of English Language and Literature

University of Michigan

Lecture:  TBA

4:30pm

Classics 110

1010 East 59th Street

 

Wednesday, May 16

Andrew Zimmerman

Professor of History and International Affairs

Department of History

George Washington University

Lecture:  The American Civil War and the Red and Black Atlantic

4:30pm

Classics 110

1010 East 59th Street

 

 

These events are free and open to the public. Persons who require assistance to participate fully in this event should contact Jeanne Fitzsimmons at fitzsimmons@uchicago.edu in advance.

 

Professor of History and International Affairs

Department of History