Session II
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
HUMANITIES
Civic Knowledge Project Panel
WHAT IS CIVIC KNOWLEDGE?
Stuart 105
The aim of Civic Knowledge Project is to strengthen community connections and help overcome the social, economic, and racial divisions among the various knowledge communities on the South Side of Chicago. With a philosophical orientation that helps connect social intelligence and civic friendship, the CKP is, in the words of National Humanities Medalist Earl Shorris, "redefining the role of the university in its surroundings." Please join us for a lively discussion of CKP's best practices, featuring CKP coordinators Joanie Friedman and Erika Dudley in dialogue with CKP director Bart Schultz and various representatives from our partnering community organizations.
HUMANITIES COMPUTING
Mark Olsen and Lec Maj
EXPLORING INNOVATIVE RESEARCH TECHNOLOGIES IN THE HUMANITIES DIVISION
Stuart 101
This session will offer an overview of emerging technologies and innovative tools used by faculty and researchers within the Humanities Division. We will explore the use of digital imaging and 3D capture technology to examine the details of carvings and sculptures, peer beneath the surface of clay tablets, and analyze literary texts with the help of computers. Highlighted in this presentation will be work from the following digital projects: Chinese Scroll Paintings (http://scrollingpaintings.uchicago.edu
), Xiangtangshan 6th Century Buddhist Temples (http://xts.uchicago.edu
), Persepolis Fortification Archive (http://oi.uchicago.edu/research/projects/pfa/
) and The ARTFL Project (http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/ARTFL/
).
EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES & CIVILIZATIONS
Michael Raine
RE-ENVISIONING THE CINEMA: COMPUTER-BASED TOOLS FOR FILM ANALYSIS
Film Studies Center
This session will present some of my recent work on using computer-based tools to support film studies pedagogy and research. The presentation with begin with the demonstration of a web site to teach the basic concepts of audio-visual analysis, with examples from feature films. I will then present a more complex project that aims to re-present the formal and material attributes of films in order to recognize more easily the patterns by which they are structured. The work is in some ways similar to the "distant reading" strategy of Franco Moretti, but taking films, not books, as its object of study.
ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE
David Bevington
SHAKESPEARE ON RELIGION (REGISTRATION CLOSED)
Harper 140
Shakespeare lived in a time of religious controversy. Recent attempts have been made to suggest that he was a Catholic, or at least Catholic sympathizer, and that Catholicism ran in his family. We have no essays from him. What do the plays and poems suggest? What about other hot topics, such as anti-Semitism and debate about Puritanism? How does he address his London audience on these important issues? How does he speak to us?
ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE
Bill Brown
OBJECTS, OTHER, AND US
Harper 130
"How do works of art teach us about our object culture--about the ways that
human subjects and inanimate objects define one another? Bill Brown will begin
to answer this question by looking at the sculpture and installations of Brian
Jungen, a contemporary First Nation artist who has become an international
sensation. Based on the talk he gave for the opening of the first comprehensive
Jungen show at the Vancouver Gallery, this presentation will concentrate on the
artist's re-fabrications--his use of baseball bats and sneakers, leather sofas and
plastic chairs, the bits and pieces of consumer culture that become, in his
hands, ""authentic"" native artifacts."
MUSIC
Shulamit Ran
TAKING ON THE CREDO: A CHANTICLEER MASS THROUGH A JEWISH PRISM
Fulton Hall, Goodspeed
Shulamit Ran, the Andrew MacLeish Distinguished Service Professor of Music and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, will discuss the unique challenges she faced in composing the Credo portion for a multi-movement Mass at the invitation of Chanticleer, the acclaimed 12-men vocal ensemble. Ran was one of several composers commissioned to write a movement for the Mass AND ON EARTH, PEACE: A CHANTICLEER MASS. The resulting composition titled "Credo/Ani Ma'amin", which will be heard, received its premiere performances in April 2007 and was subsequently recorded on Warner Classics, along with the full Mass.
NEAR EASTERN LANGUAGES & CIVILIZATIONS
Norman Golb
THE CLASH OF IDEAS REGARDING THE ORIGIN OF THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS - RECENT DEVELOPMENTS
Breasted Hall, Oriental Institute
Since their discovery in the mid-to-late 20th-century, the Dead Sea Scrolls have been a source of academic debate. Scholars are divided between competing theories on the origins of these rare writings, which date from before 100 AD, and are the only-known surviving copies of Biblical documents. Norman Golb, Ludwig Rosenberger Professor of Jewish History and Civilization in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, will provide insight to the ongoing research and the potential historical, political, and religious implications.