THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
Upcoming Events
Spring 2026 Tinker Visiting Professor Lecture: Europe’s Futures: Opportunities for Global Talent in Research and Innovation
Manuel Heitor, Tinker Visiting Professor
April 2, 12:30-1:50pm
April 2, 12:30-1:50pm
https://events.uchicago.edu/event/262879-europes-futures-opportunities-for-global-talent-in
Vaslav Nijinsky’s Velvet Siege: Androgynous Invasions in Cosmopolitan Buenos Aires (1913)
Carlos Halaburda, Romance Languages and Literatures
April 9, 12:30-1:50pm
April 9, 12:30-1:50pm
https://events.uchicago.edu/event/260030-vaslav-nijinskys-velvet-siege-androgynous
Embracing the Nonidentical: Mark Morrisroe and Reynaldo Rivera’s Queer Photography
Joshua Guzmán, UCLA
April 16, 12:30-1:50pm
April 16, 12:30-1:50pm
https://events.uchicago.edu/event/263277-embracing160the-nonidentical-mark-morrisroe-and
Venezuela 2026: A Conversation with Verónica Zubillaga and Alejandro Velasco
April 20, 5:00pm
https://events.uchicago.edu/event/261594-venezuela-2026-a-conversation-with-veronica
The Selling and Inheritance of Public Office in the Mexican Public Sector
Elizabeth Pérez-Chiqués, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica
April 23, 12:30-1:50pm
April 23, 12:30-1:50pm
https://events.uchicago.edu/event/260027-the-selling-and-inheritance-of-public-office-in
Spring 2026 Tinker Visiting Professor Lecture: Lawmaking Under Authoritarianism
Alejandro Bonvecchi, Tinker Visiting Professor
April 30, 12:30-1:50pm
April 30, 12:30-1:50pm
https://events.uchicago.edu/event/261029-lawmaking-under-authoritarianism
Borges Unbound: New Directions in Manuscript Studies, Book History, and the Future of Critical Editions
Daniel Balderston, University of Pittsburgh
May 7, 12:30-1:50pm
May 7, 12:30-1:50pm
https://events.uchicago.edu/event/261376-borges-unbound-new-directions-in-manuscript
2026 Graduate Student Symposium
May 13, 4:30-6:30pm
https://events.uchicago.edu/event/263314-2026-clacs-graduate-student-symposium
Inhabiting Transit: Migrant Struggles from Global South America to the U.S. and Back Again
Soledad Álvarez Velasco, University of Illinois - Chicago
May 14, 12:30-1:50pm
May 14, 12:30-1:50pm
https://events.uchicago.edu/event/262376-inhabiting-transit-migrant-struggles-from-global
Cruel Inventories, Forensic Excavations: Material Poetics of the Salvadorian Civil War
Maryam Parhizkar, University of Notre Dame
May 21, 12:30-1:50pm
May 21, 12:30-1:50pm
https://events.uchicago.edu/event/263280-cruel-inventories-forensic-excavations-material