As a complement to the Scherer Center’s Spring 2013 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.
Spring Quarter 2013
Wednesday, April 10
Viveck Bald
Assistant Professor of Writing and Digital Media, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America
4:30pm
Classics 110
1010 East 59th Street
***This lecture has been postponed.
Wednesday, April 17
Travis Jackson
Associate Professor of Music and Humanities, University of Chicago
4:30pm
Logan Arts Center, Terrace Seminar Room 801
915 East 60th Street
Lecture is part of Scherer Center Seminar Series
Tuesday, April 30
Lisa Gitelman
Associate Professor of English and Media Culture & Communication, New York University
4:30pm
Special Collections Research Center
1100 East 57th Street
Wednesday, May 1
Augusta Read Thomas
University Professor of Composition in the Department of Music and the College University of Chicago
4:30pm
Classics 110
1010 East 59th Street
Lecture is part of Scherer Center Seminar Series
Tuesday, May 7
David Henkin
Professor of History, University of California, Berkley
4:00pm
Social Science Research Building, Room 122
1126 East 59th Street
Wednesday, May 8
Michael Silverstein
Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology, Linguistics, and Psychology, University of Chicago
4:30pm
Classics 110
1010 East 59th Street
Lecture is part of Scherer Center Seminar Series
Wednesday, May 15
Catherine Brekus
Associate Professor in Religions in America and the History of Christianity; Associate Faculty in the Department of History, University of Chicago
4:30pm
Classics 110
1010 East 59th Street
Lecture is part of Scherer Center Seminar Series
Monday, May 20
Brent Edwards
Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
with
Jean-Christophe Cloutier
Doctoral Student , Columbia University
4:30pm
Special Collections
1100 East 57th Street
Wednesday, May 22
Jim Chandler
Barbara E. & Richard J. Franke Distinguished Service Professor Department of English, Chair, Department of Media & Cinema Studies, University of Chicago
4:30pm
Classics 110
1010 East 59th Street
Lecture is part of Scherer Center Seminar Series
Wednesday, May 29
Michael Dawson
John D. MacArthur Professor of Political Science and the College, University of Chicago
4:30pm
Classics 110
1010 East 59th Street
Lecture is part of Scherer Center Seminar Series
Thursday, May 30
Joyce Chaplin
James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History, Harvard University
Noon
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 Heather Welborn at hwelborn@uchicago.edu in advance.
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