Scherer Lunch Series:
Students, faculty, and visitors share work in progress (either as a talk or in pre-circulated form) on select Fridays in Classics 110. Lunch is provided.
2011-2012 Lunch Series Schedule
New Directions Lecture Series:
The Scherer Center is pleased to host an
inaugural series of lectures by emerging and established scholars and to share these talks with the public as downloadable audio files. To listen, please click on the talk titles below.
*Fall 2008 (November 21, Rosenwald 405, 4:30): Jennifer L. Roberts, Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University, “Audobon’s Burden: Materiality and Transmission in the Birds of America”
*Winter 2009 (March 10, Rosenwald 405, 4:30): Gregory S. Jackson, Assistant Professor of English and American Studies, Rutgers University, “Hell’s Plot: Protestant Personalization and the Hermeneutic of Fear”
Newberry Seminars:
The Scherer Center co-sponsors the Newberry Library’s Seminar in American Art and Visual Culture, Seminar in Early American History and Culture, Seminar in Labor History, the Urban History Dissertation Group, and the Seminar on Women and Gender.
Workshops:
The Scherer Center aims to help coordinate interactions between the various
Graduate Workshops on American topics currently sponsored by the Council on Advanced Studies.
Please check our Event Calendar for further details on lunch talks, book program events, and lectures organized in collaboration with the American Cultures Workshop, and the Social History Workshop.
Graduate student coordinators interested in collaborating with the Scherer Center to host a workshop speaker should contact Kristin Lueke at klueke@uchicago.edu.
Conferences:
The Scherer Center was pleased to host the following multi-disciplinary symposia and conferences:
Winter 2011
The Chicago Conference on the American Revolution
February 10 – 12, The Newberry Library
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