The Couple
The Erotikon symposium brought together a stellar group of intellectuals to discuss, debate, and celebrate the nature, history, and power of eros through its manifold embodiments in the cultural arts. The symposium inspired the book Erotikon: Essays o...
People as Fictions: Proust and the Ladder of Love
The Erotikon symposium brought together a stellar group of intellectuals to discuss, debate, and celebrate the nature, history, and power of eros through its manifold embodiments in the cultural arts. The symposium inspired the book Erotikon: Essays o...
Opening Remarks and Update on the Regenstein Addition Project
On November 17, 2005, The Provost's Task Force on the Library and The University of Chicago Library hosted a one-day conference remembering the past and planning for the future of the Library. Speakers presented historical and current library perspecti...
Architectural Trends in Academic Research Libraries
On November 17, 2005, The Provost's Task Force on the Library and The University of Chicago Library hosted a one-day conference remembering the past and planning for the future of the Library. Speakers presented historical and current library perspecti...
Clones, Genes and Faustian Technology
What is morally inappropriate, Robert Richards asks, about human cloning? Richards, a professor of history, philosophy and psychology at the University of Chicago, sorts through many of the objections raised to reproductive cloning and finds them uncon...
On Communicative Difficulty in General and 'Difficult' Poetry in Particular: The example of Hart Crane's "The Broken Tower"
A lecture by Allen Grossman as part of the Poem Present series at The University of Chicago. Copyright 2005 The University of Chicago.
Poetry reading by Tom Pickard
A poetry reading by Tom Pickard, Chicago Review Reader, as part of the Poem Present series at The University of Chicago. Copyright 2005 The University of Chicago.
Poetry reading by Robert Hass
A poetry reading by Robert Hass as part of the Poem Present series and the Around Zukofsky Conference at The University of Chicago. Copyright 2004 The University of Chicago.
Should We Continue to Study Race?
Kenneth Warren, professor of English and the humanities at the University of Chicago, poses the question of what role the study of race should play in the coming years. Warren places the study of race in its historical context, looking back to central...
A conversation with Studs Terkel and Andrew Patner
In June 2004, WFMTs Andrew Patner X81 interviewed legendary Chicagoan Studs Terkel (Ph.B32, J.D.34) at an event held at the University of Chicagos annual alumni weekend.Patner, host of WFMTsCritical Thinking with Andrew Patner, probed the noted stortyt...