Events

Speaker:

Featuring Dr. Kevin Cokley, University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan

Description:

Join the Chicago Center for Teaching and Learning for discussion, learning, and community-building at the first annual Spring Pedagogy Symposium. This inaugural event will feature Dr. Kevin Cokley, the University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan.

Dr. Cokley is an award-winning psychologist and professor whose research dismantles the myth of intellectual indifference and inferiority among Black and minoritized students. His keynote address and guided lunch discussion will focus on student self-concept, motivation, and the imposter phenomenon. Faculty, instructors, and staff are invited to join us for either or both sessions. Lunch will be provided for the guided lunch discussion.

Kuhn Revisited: Generative Entrenchment and Scientific Change

These workshops will feature our CISSR AFIDEP Scholars who will present their in progress research.

These workshops will feature our CISSR AFIDEP Scholars who will present their in progress research.

THIS IS AN IN-PERSON EVENT AND WILL NOT BE LIVE STREAMING.

ABOUT THE PROGRAM

This two-day conference brings together scholars with an interdisciplinary focus on sound and writing in East Asia from across the academic fields of literature, history, music, media, sound, and performance. The purpose of the event is to facilitate innovative approaches to understanding and articulating intersections of aural and print cultures. While these explorations of sound and text may be situated specifically within the contexts of China, Japan, and Korea, the conference aims to foster scholarly contributions beyond the field of East Asian area studies.

PROGRAM SCHEDULE

April 26 (Friday)

1:15-1:30 pm Opening remarks

1:30-3:30 pm Panel 1: Poetics

Discussant: Hoyt Long (EALC, University of Chicago)

• Andrew Campana (Cornell University), “A Lost Tape Recorder of Postwar Japan”
• Siting Jiang (University of Chicago), “Line Breaks and Tian Jian’s Poetry for Recitation”
• Si Nae Park (Harvard University), “Scriptspace, Soundscape, and Poetic Prowess in Yorowŏn yahwagi (1678)”

3:30-4:00 pm Tea Break

4:00-6:30 pm Panel 2: Music

Discussant: Michael Bourdaghs (EALC, University of Chicago)

• YoungEun Kim (University of California, Santa Cruz), “A Study on the Origins of ‘Ear Training’ in the Modernization Period of Korea: Japanese Music Education and Military Training”
• Jacob Reed (University of Chicago), “Chenzi as supplement: Tune-type and Meaning in Kunqu Theory”
• Susanna Sun (University of Chicago), “The Butterfly Lovers: From Yue Opera’s Stage Play to PRC’s first Violin Concerto”
• Ethan Waddell (University of Chicago), “Psychedelic Codes and Close Listening to South Korean Fiction”

SPONSORS

This event is co-sponsored by the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Chicago, with support from a Title VI National Resource Center Grant from the U.S. Department of Education, the Franke Institute for the Humanities, the University of Chicago Library, and the Arts & Politics in East Asia Workshop.

PHOTOGRAPHY/VIDEOGRAPHY

Please note that there may be photography taken during this educational event by the University of Chicago Center for East Asian Studies for archival and publicity purposes. By attending this event, participants are confirming their permission to be photographed and the University of Chicago’s right to use, distribute, copy, and edit the recordings in any form of media for non-commercial, educational purposes, and to grant rights to third parties to do any of the foregoing.

Description:

Join Dr. Kevin Cokley and fellow students for a discussion about his experiences and research on imposter phenomenon and learn about ideas that you can use to navigate and challenge this difficulty. Dr. Cokley is an award-winning psychologist and professor whose research dismantles the myth of intellectual indifference and inferiority among Black and minoritized students. His current research focuses on imposter phenomenon and its relationship to mental health and academic outcomes among minoritized students.

Speaker:

Featuring Dr. Kevin Cokley, University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan

THIS IS AN IN-PERSON EVENT AND WILL NOT BE LIVE STREAMING.

ABOUT THE PROGRAM

This two-day conference brings together scholars with an interdisciplinary focus on sound and writing in East Asia from across the academic fields of literature, history, music, media, sound, and performance. The purpose of the event is to facilitate innovative approaches to understanding and articulating intersections of aural and print cultures. While these explorations of sound and text may be situated specifically within the contexts of China, Japan, and Korea, the conference aims to foster scholarly contributions beyond the field of East Asian area studies.

PROGRAM SCHEDULE

April 27 (Saturday)

9:30-10:00 am Light breakfast on conference site (available to participants and registrants)

10:00-12:00 pm Panel 3: Language

Discussant: Sarah Nooter (Classics, University of Chicago)

• Janet Chen (Princeton University), “Medium or Message? The Politics of Language in Broadcasting in Taiwan, 1955-1975”
• Elvin Meng (University of Chicago), “Rituals of the Wild: The Concept of Orality in the History of Manchu Thought”
• Alex Murphy (Clark University), “Sound-Writing and Acoustics in Kanetsune Kiyosuke’s Structure of Japanese Language and Song”

12:00-1:00 pm Lunch on site (available to participants and registrants)

1:00-3:30 pm Panel 4: Media

Discussant: Thomas Lamarre (CMS & EALC, University of Chicago)

• Linshan Jiang (Duke University), “Voicing Queer Sexuality in Chinese BL Novel and Audio Drama”
• I Jonathan Kief (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), “Listening across Borders in the Cold War Koreas”
• Jiarui Sun (University of Chicago), “In My Words You Feel: Amateur Script Writing and Platformed Care”
• Hang Wu (University of Chicago), “Broadcasting Infrastructures and Electromagnetic Fatality: Listening to Enemy Radio in Socialist China.”

3:30-4:00 pm Tea Break

4:00-5:00 pm Keynote Speech

Jina E. Kim (University of Oregon), “Sonic Contact Zones”

1227 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637

SPONSORS

This event is co-sponsored by the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Chicago, with support from a Title VI National Resource Center Grant from the U.S. Department of Education, the Franke Institute for the Humanities, the University of Chicago Library, and the Arts & Politics in East Asia Workshop.

PHOTOGRAPHY/VIDEOGRAPHY

Please note that there may be photography taken during this educational event by the University of Chicago Center for East Asian Studies for archival and publicity purposes. By attending this event, participants are confirming their permission to be photographed and the University of Chicago’s right to use, distribute, copy, and edit the recordings in any form of media for non-commercial, educational purposes, and to grant rights to third parties to do any of the foregoing.

Quirky, at times impossible, yet always fun, Scavenger Hunt—or Scav—has set UChicago students dashing on multiday searches for eclectic lists of miscellany since 1987. Simultaneously a break from coursework and a thinly veiled learning exercise, Scav has become an enjoyable rite of spring for undergraduates, as well as some graduates and alumni.

Beyond the dorms, Scav unifies the student body in a way that sports teams build school-specific spirit at some colleges. Students recognize Scav as uniquely UChicago and players back the game with fierce intensity and school pride.

For nearly four decades, Scavenger Hunt has evolved, adapted with technology, and garnered local, national, and international press, yet throughout time, it has retained its characteristic spirit of humor, playful rigor, and inclusion that reflects core UChicago values and has become an endearing student tradition.

This exhibition features materials donated to the University of Chicago Archive and items on loan from the Scavenger Hunt’s founding members, former judges, past players, and current teams. Notable items include the first Scavenger Hunt list and items used in the 1999 creation of a breeder reactor, along with an array of t-shirts, photographs, and judges’ notes that document the lengths Scavvies will go to in search of fun and to be part of a beloved UChicago tradition.

Luigi Pistaferri, Stanford University Topic: TBA

April 29, 2024 3:00 PM 315 Haskell Hall What the hell is biocultural? A productive friction for Anthropology Dr. Agustín Fuentes Princeton University

ABSTRACT: Seeing bodies and evolutionary histories as quantifiable features that can be measured separate from the human cultural experience is an erroneous approach. Seeing cultural perceptions and the human experience as disentangled from biological form and function, and evolutionary history, is equally misguided. Anthropology is the academic field that, arguably, has as its raison d’être the correction and avoidance of these errors. But disagreements and lack of integration and communication within and across anthropologies continue to hinder the quest to achieve such lofty goals. Here I offer a view of the biocultural, with examples from human development and multispecies relations, as productive friction for anthropology. (Re)Engaging the concepts/dynamics of culture and biology, rejecting a bio/cultural binary, and placing them in dialogue as co-constructors of the human I hope to drive home what a biocultural approach is and how it is generative for a 21st century anthropology. Not every anthropological question must touch on the biocultural nor should all anthropologists be doing biocultural work. However, everyone who seriously wants to do an anthropology should know what a biocultural frame is, what the possibilities such a context offers, and why and how it can be integral to serious engagement with the human.

BIOGRAPHY: Agustín Fuentes, a Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University, focuses on the biosocial, delving into the entanglement of biological systems with the social and cultural lives of humans, our ancestors, and a few of the other animals with whom humanity shares close relations. Earning his BA/BS in Anthropology and Zoology and his MA and PhD in Anthropology from UC Berkeley, he has conducted research across four continents, multiple species, and two-million years of human history. His current projects include exploring cooperation, creativity, and belief in human evolution, multispecies anthropologies, evolutionary theory and processes, gender/sex, and engaging race and racism. Fuentes’ books include Race, Monogamy, and other lies they told you: busting myths about human nature (U of California), The Creative Spark: how imagination made humans exceptional (Dutton), and Why We Believe: evolution and the human way of being (Yale). 

Please join us for a reception on Haskell’s mezzanine immediately following Dr. Fuentes’s talk.