Events

Speaker: Jonathan Payne, Princeton University Topic: TBA

Abhishek Annanth, Emory University Topic: TBA

The Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) is pleased to present the annual Graduate Student Symposium which will be held on Wednesday April 24, 4-6pm. This is an excellent opportunity for graduate students to present their research and receive constructive feedback from their peers.

Please join us next Wednesday, April 24, at *5:30-7:30pm CT*, at CWAC 152 for a workshop co-sponsored by VMPEA and RAVE (Research in Art and Visual Evidence). This workshop features:

Jenny Harris

PhD Candidate, Art History, UChicago

Who will be presenting the paper titled:

“Ray Johnson, Sybil Shearer, and the Taoist Collages”

Discussant: Lucien Sun

PhD Candidate, Art History, UChicago

Abstract:

In 1955, Ray Johnson, an artist based in New York who would go on to become a pioneer of mail art, sent a group of 30 “Taoist Collages” to choreographer Sybil Shearer, then living in Northbrook, Illinois. Previously unknown to scholars of Johnson’s work, the collages were discovered in Shearer’s attic and subsequently purchased by the Art Institute of Chicago in 2022. In this talk, I’ll discuss the various ways the Taoist collages tell a new story about Johnson’s ties to the world of dance. By presenting this work jointly at the RAVE and VMPEA workshops, I hope to solicit feedback and suggestions about how I might develop a more thorough account of Johnson’s engagement with East Asian culture and ideas.

Bios:

Jenny Harris is a Ph.D. candidate specializing in twentieth-century art at the University of Chicago. Her research explores global modernism with interests in the relationships between abstraction and ornament, dance and visual art, and craft and design. Her writing has appeared in several exhibition catalogues, Artforum, the Journal of Surrealism and the Americas, and the New York Times. Between 2013 and 2019, she worked in The Museum of Modern Art’s Department of Painting and Sculpture where she assisted with the Robert Rauschenberg retrospective and the reinstallation of the collection. 

Lucien Sun is a PhD candidate in the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago. He received his Bachelor’s degree from Fudan University, Shanghai. In 2017–18, he was a Sumitomo Corporation visiting student at the University of Tokyo studying Japanese collections of Chinese and East Asian art. His dissertation explores the dynamic relationship between regional space and the visual culture of southern Shanxi in north China between the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries. He is also interested in the art of book and how picture in its broad sense moved across space, borders, and visual media in medieval Eurasia.

Join Student Wellness on the first floor of Regenstein Library to learn more about imposter syndrome.

Join us for a presentation by 

Lindsey J. Leininger, PhD Clinical Professor of Business Administration, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth

Standing Up for Science: A Communication Playbook for the Next Health Emergency

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Core Conversations is a series of rigorous discussions that engages the full arc of the Core, as it traces through the Biological Sciences, Humanities, Physical Sciences, and Social Sciences. For this gathering, we welcome Dean Melina Hale and Professor Gabriel Lear, who will take part in a discussion on the Core and its importance to the liberal arts education of our undergraduates. The event will include a Q&A with members of the audience, and a reception will follow. Open to all faculty and instructors who teach in the Core or who are interested in learning and talking about the Core.

“North Korea’s Mundane Revolution, 1953-1965”

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

Thursday, April 25, 2024 - 6:30 pm

Joseph Regenstein Library, Room 122 1100 E. 57th St. Chicago, IL 60637

Part of the CEAS Lecture Series, this lecture is co-sponsored with the University of Chicago Library and features University of Toronto’s Andre Schmid. Professor Schmid presents findings from his recently published monograph of the same title which examines how North Korean Party-state emphasis on ideological and cultural change in pursuit of socialist goals ironically led to the depoliticization of two of is key revolutionary categories – class and gender.

Stuart Russell, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, is one of the world’s leading experts on artificial intelligence. He is co-chair of the World Economic Forum Council on AI and the OECD Expert Group on AI Futures, and he is a US representative to the Global Partnership on AI. His research covers a wide range of topics in artificial intelligence including machine learning, probabilistic reasoning, knowledge representation, planning, real-time decision making, multitarget tracking, computer vision, computational physiology, global seismic monitoring, and philosophical foundations. His textbook Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (with Peter Norvig) is used in over 1,500 universities in 135 countries. His current concerns include the threat of autonomous weapons and the long-term future of artificial intelligence and its relation to humanity. The latter topic is the subject of his book Human Compatible: AI and the Problem of Control.

A livestream of this event will be available via Zoom.