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  • MAPH Writers!

    Curious where MAPH writers are now? Wondering what new publications have come out? Check out the recently updated MAPH Writers page on our website. There you’ll find a list of alumni, links to novels, essays, poems, and blogs, and what writers are working on now. Don’t see your published work there? Please let us know! We…

  • Alumni Bump! Wikipedia Webseries

    If you have a few minutes today, check out MAPH ’08 alum Kristin Fitzsimmons’ webseries What Did You Look Up on Wikipedia?  Kristin writes: After graduating from the University of Minnesota’s MFA in Creative Writing Program, my friend Sally and I started a web series called What Did You Look Up on Wikipedia?, an homage to…

  • Colloquium Buzz

    Issue 2 of Colloquium was featured on Bookforum’s Omnivore blog yesterday! Also! “The Serpent, Subtle and Brazen: Idolatory, Imagemaking, and the Hebrew Bible,” an essay from Issue 2 by Carina Del Valle Schorske (MAPH ’13) was one of today’s Editor’s Picks over at Mosaic Magazine. She’s in great company with writers from The Times Literary Supplement, Commentary, Middle East Quarterly, and Moment. Exciting stuff!  

  • Call for Applications – Graham Foundation Grants to Individuals

    Those of you who have spent some time exploring Chicago may have come across the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in Fine Arts.  Based in the beautiful Madlener House in Gold Coast, the Foundation puts on exhibitions, screenings, and other public events that promote discussion about architecture and its role in the arts, culture and society.…

  • Out of Bounds: In the Shadow of His Airness — Hosted by MAPH Alum Harrison Sherrod

    MAPHers in Chicago– This weekend, Harrison Sherrod (MAPH ’13) is hosting an event with South Side Projections and Media Burn Archive.  If you like basketball and/or Chicago, you should go check it out!

  • Video: Colloquium Panel at Alumni Weekend

    If you didn’t get a chance to attend Alumni Weekend 2013, you’re in luck! Here is a video of the panel in its entirety. Time stamps after the jump:

  • A Message from the Editors of Colloquium

    Dear MAPHers, past and present – Today is your last chance to register for Alumni Weekend and see what’s going on inside MAPH’s new journal, Colloquium. Colloquium is an online journal run entirely and independently by MAPH alumni and current students. We’ll be launching our second issue at MAPH’s Alumni Weekend event, and it’s going to be…

  • Alumni Weekend 2013

    Alumni Weekend 2013 is approaching! June 6-9, 2013, the University of Chicago will be holding a series of panels, lectures, and social events geared toward alumni. There are a plethora of events being put on by each division so there will be PLENTY to see and do, but we wanted to draw your attention specifically…

  • From Spanish Celtic to Heavy Metal: Documentaries by MAPH Alum Biliana Grozdanova

    From MAPH ’11 alum Biliana Grozdanova, co-founder of El Jinete Films: After living all over the world, from Australia’s east coast to America’s west coast and pretty much everywhere in between, the Grozdanova sisters found themselves on the premises of the University of Chicago campus about to embark on their most creative venture to date.…

  • MAPHers featured in latest issue of Tableau—twice!

    The people and projects of MAPH are profiled in two articles in the latest issue of Tableau, the Humanities Division of UChicago’s biyearly magazine. “Come Together” profiles Colloquium, MAPH’s new online journal that features exemplary, wide-ranging work by MAPH students, alumni and staff. This is not the first mention of Colloquium in other publications—if you’re itching for more…

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