Episodes
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. This Chicago Humanities Forum talk is given by Haun Saussy, University Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature. Professor Saussy’s interests include Classical Chinese poetry and commentary, literary theory, comparative study of oral traditions, problems with translation, and pre-20th-century media history. This...
Published 03/03/14
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. This free lecture is part of the Chicago Humanities Forum, which allows a larger audience exposure to the research of a few of the University’s leading scholars.
Published 10/24/13
Published 10/24/13
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. The Chicago Humanities Forum presented a public event at the Gleacher Center on Wednesday, May 1, 2013, from 5:15 to 6:00 PM by Elaine Hadley entitled “A Matter of Opinion: Why Victorian Liberalism Lingers.” Hadley is Chair and Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature and the College. Her current projects...
Published 05/22/13
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. The Chicago Humanities Forum presented a public event at the Gleacher Center on Wednesday, May 1, 2013, from 5:15 to 6:00 PM by Elaine Hadley entitled “A Matter of Opinion: Why Victorian Liberalism Lingers.” Hadley is Chair and Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature and the College. Her current projects...
Published 05/22/13
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. “Earth Echoes,” a Franke Institute for the Humanities talk by Augusta Read Thomas, took place at the University of Chicago’s Gleacher Center on February 13, 2013. Thomas, a renowned Grammy-winning composer, is the sixteenth person to hold a University Professorship at the University of Chicago. Widely considered to be among the...
Published 03/06/13
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. “Earth Echoes,” a Franke Institute for the Humanities talk by Augusta Read Thomas, took place at the University of Chicago’s Gleacher Center on February 13, 2013. Thomas, a renowned Grammy-winning composer, is the sixteenth person to hold a University Professorship at the University of Chicago. Widely considered to be among the...
Published 03/06/13
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. On October 10, 2012, Adrian Johns gave the lecture “The Politics of Media Piracy.” Johns is the Allan Grant Maclear Professor in History and Chair of the Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science at the University of Chicago. He received the 2012 Gordon J. Laing Prize for his book, Piracy: The Intellectual...
Published 11/15/12
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. James Sparrow, associate professor of History at the University of Chicago, discusses the history of the United States during World War II.
Published 05/08/12