Events Calendar
Current and Upcoming Events
Benjamin Morgan – “Ennui at the End of Time,” Nicholson Faculty Lecture, 5/13, 5pm
Annual Nicholson Faculty Lecture - Professor Benjamin Morgan Tuesday, May 13 at 5pm, Classics 110 “Ennui at the End of Time: Planetary Fiction, 1895-1930" With introduction by Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, Associate Professor of History and CHSS At the end of the...
Bathsheba Demuth – History from the Dogsled, Shapiro Distinguished Lecture, 4/2, 5pm
Shapiro Distinguished Lecture: Bathsheba Demuth, Brown University April 2, 2025 at 5pm The 2024-25 Shapiro Initiative on Environment and Society Distinguished Lecture will be offered by Bathsheba Demuth on April 2, 2025 at 5:00 pm in the John Hope Franklin Room (SSRB...
Lucy Kaye – “From Where we Stand” screening and Q&A, 4/4, 4pm
Filmmaker Lucy Kaye creates intimate portraits of diverse individuals in three northern English towns struggling with post-industrial deprivation. Amongst the people we meet in Halifax, Middlesbrough and Wakefield are an Eritrean asylum-seeker, a British former...
Laura Williamson – “The English Travel Guide,” 5/16, 3pm
The English Travel Guide: The Missing Link in Early Modern Travel Cartography Laura Williamson, Associate Professor in Humanistic Studies, Saint Mary's College - Notre Dame Premodern Studies Seminar, May 16, 2025, 3:00pm–5:00pm The Newberry – Classroom B-84 This paper...
Kirsten Macfarlane – Lay Learning and the Bible in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World, 4/28, 12pm
Kirsten Macfarlane: Lay Learning and the Bible in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World The Dean’s Forum puts Divinity School faculty members from across disciplines into conversation with each other to discuss their colleagues’ new works. The Divinity School warmly...
Jim Secord – “Signs of the Times” 2024-25 Alison Winter Lecture, 5/6, 4:30pm
'Signs of the Times: Caricaturing the March of Intellect in the Age of the Machine' Professor Jim Secord, University of Cambridge Tuesday, May 6, 2025 at 4:30pm Classics 110 Introduction by James (Jim) Chandler The early nineteenth century witnessed a transformation...
Call for Papers – Global 1776: Imperial Worlds in Upheaval
The American Revolution is often told as a national story. Yet it was also part of a series of world events which culminated in a global age of imperial crisis lasting from the 1760s through the 1820s. That crisis was simultaneously intellectual, cultural, political,...
Past Events
Richard Strier – George Herbert and Renaissance Poetry, 2/4, 12pm
Please join the Early Modern and Mediterranean Worlds Workshop and the Renaissance Workshop TUESDAY, February 4th, when Richard Strier Professor Emeritus in English Language and Literature, University of Chicago will virtually present the paper “George Herbert and...
Jonathan Connolly in Conversation with Kaneesha Parsard – 2/6, 4pm
Seminary Co-Op, Thursday, February 6, 2025 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm Jonathan Connolly will discuss Worthy of Freedom: Indenture and Free Labor in the Era of Emancipation. He will be joined by Nicholson affiliate faculty Kaneesha Cherelle Parsard. A Q&A and signing will...
Ian Harnarine – “Doubles” 2/7, 7pm
“Doubles,” with Director Ian Harnarine Logan Center for the Arts Screening Room (915 E 60th Street) Friday, February 7 at 7pm Free and open to the public, food and drink to follow https://filmstudiescenter.uchicago.edu/event/doubles Ian Harnarine’s debut feature...
Anti-Colonial/De-Colonial Text and Print in the Cold War Era: Lives and Afterlives, 2/7-2/8
Anti-Colonial/De-Colonial Text and Print in the Cold War Era: Lives and Afterlives https://irn-postcolonial-print-cultures.org/index.php/events/international-conferences/ 7-8 February 2025, Calcutta This conference of the International Research Network on Postcolonial...
Jessica Swanston Baker – “Island Time” 3CT New Book Salon, 3/31, 5pm
3CT New Book Salon Monday, March 31, 2025, 5:00–6:30pm Classics 110, 1010 E. 59th St. In Island Time: Speed and the Archipelago from St. Kitts and Nevis (University of Chicago Press, 2024 ), ethnomusicologist Jessica Swanston Baker examines wylers, a musical form from...
James Chandler: Yeats and the Poetry of ‘Romantic Ireland’ – 1/22, 5pm
James Chandler: Yeats and the Poetry of 'Romantic Ireland’ The History and Form of the Lyric Annual Lecture Wednesday, January 22nd, 5:00–6:20pm Rosenwald 405James Chandler, William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor of English and CMS
Kaneesha Parsard and Nikhita Obeegadoo – Afterlives of Indenture in the Caribbean and Indian Ocean, 1/16, 4pm
RDI Diasporas Workshop “Afterlives of Indenture in the Caribbean and Indian Ocean” Thursday, January 16, 2025, 4:-5:30pm Kelly Hall Room 108 https://events.uchicago.edu/event/242214-rdi-diasporas-workshop-kaneesha-parsard-and
Kashaf Qureshi – Pain without Pathos, 1/17, 11:30am
Kashaf Qureshi at the Medieval Studies Workshop “Pain without Pathos: Affective Detachment in the Lyric Dialogue Stond Wel, Moder, Ounder Rode” Kashaf Qureshi PhD Candidate, English, UChicago Friday, January 17th, 11:30-1:00pm CST Rosenwald 405 With a response from...
Boone Ayala – The Cedars and the Shrub, 1/24, 3pm
British Studies Seminar, Jan 24, 2025, 3:00pm–5:00pm At the Newberry – Classroom B-84 https://www.newberry.org/calendar/christopher-montague-northwestern-university The Cedars and the Shrub: The Political Theory of Corporations and the Demise of the Massachusetts Bay...
Anand Venkatkrishnan in Conversation with Kirsten Macfarlane – 2/17, 12pm
February 17, 2025 12:00pm - 1:20pm CST Hyde Park Campus Swift Hall, Common Room The Dean’s Forum puts Divinity School faculty members from across disciplines into conversation with each other to discuss their colleagues’ new works. The Divinity School warmly welcomes...