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Grammy Winning Pacifica Quartet Returns to University of Chicago
The University of Chicago Presents is excited to welcome back 2009 Grammy Award winning Pacifica Quartet for a three concert series at Mandel Hall during the 2009-2010 academic year. Pacifica Quartet...
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Persis Berlekamp Discusses Significance of Digitized Islamic Art
After receiving a $300,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland is digitizing its entire collection of Qurans and other pieces of Islamic...
View ArticleMark Slouka Debates Value of Humanities
A recent essay by Mark Slouka, professor of English language & literature, has provoked a stirring online debate. In his Harper’s Weekly essay ”Dehumanized: When Math and Science Rule the School,”...
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Quinn Dombrowski, AM’06, Publishes Celebration of UChicago Graffiti
Quinn Dombrowski, AM’06, recently published a book detailing the graffiti that adorn the desks, walls, and whiteboards of the Regenstein Library and other spaces on campus. Crescat Graffiti, Vita...
View ArticleFaculty members in the news….
Five faculty members in the Division of the Humanities received named professorships while two had distinguished service added to their names. Bill Brown has been named the Karla Scherer Distinguished...
View ArticleScrappers Currently Screening at Siskel Film Center, Receives “Two Thumbs Up”
Directors Ben Kolak, Brian Ashby, and Courtney Prokopas’s documentary film Scrappers has received rave reviews across Chicago, including “two thumbs up” from film critic Roger Ebert as well as awards...
View ArticleGrad students Make a Mark on Chicago Poetry Scene
Is Chicago’s literary community in the midst of a “golden age” of poetry? Last year, a popular poetry blog suggested that the city was becoming “the most interesting and vital…‘poetic cluster’ in the...
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DOVA Second Annual Juried Exhibition Opens
Howard Sandroff, Director of the Computer Music Studio and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Music, is pictured on the front page of the Hyde Park Herald for his participation in the Department of...
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Digital Tools Broaden Study of Humanities
As more texts are being digitized and become available online, scholars are finding exciting new ways to navigate the plethora of information now stored in databases. In the humanities, an...
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Library Launches News Website
One of the lead silhouette printers’ marks on the pathway to Mansueto Library UChicago Libraries has launched a news website, where you can learn about the largest digital collection of medieval Latin...
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