As you all know, All Hallow’s Eve, appearing this Saturday only, will be feted by your MAPH cohorts in high style and with high spirits. Details on that will be out shortly. However, we here at the MAPH office have been asked to alert you to another Halloween party event at the Gamma Alpha Grad Student Coop House. I have appended, below, the invitation, and copied the mini-flyer as well. Now, we know you don’t like playing favorites (though we’re also aware that we’ll always win), so, if you are feeling especially energetic on Saturday evening, we offer not another option – as we feel attendance at one does not preclude attendance at both – but perhaps one more stop.
Be[a]st[ly],
Your MA[ligned]PH[anged] Mentors
Halloween. As the year wanes and we brace ourselves against the gathering winter, Halloween is a day to reflect on the things we once held dear. Socializing. Drinking. Wearing funny clothes. Showing too much skin. This year won’t you join us at GA in our remembrance of these forgotten traditions?
Posted in Entertainment, Events, On Campus.
Tagged with Drink, fun, Hyde Park, Things to do in Chicago, U of C/Hyde Park.
Come to Pub Night tomorrow, 4:30- 6:30 in Ida Noyes Pub!
Posted in Events, Free Stuff!.
ARLENE GOLDBARD
“A New WPA: Why a Sustainable Future Demands Cultural Recovery”
A public lecture sponsored by the Cultural Policy Center at the University of Chicago.
Tuesday, October 27, 4:00 to 5:30 p.m
Lecture Room 142
Harris School of Public Policy, 1155 E. 60th Street
Arlene Goldbard is a writer, lecturer, and arts consultant whose focus
is the intersection of culture, politics, and community. She has
frequently addressed academic, professional, practitioner and community
audiences on topics ranging from the ethics of community arts practice
to the need for a paradigm shift in cultural policy.
In New Creative Community: The Art of Cultural Development (2006), she
describes the theory and practices of community cultural development as
“the work of artist-organizers and other community members collaborating
to express identity, concerns and aspirations through the arts and
communications media.” Her contributions to the field of cultural policy
include books, essays, journal articles, foundation reports, and a
widely-referenced blog accessed through her Web site
<http://arlenegoldbard.com>. On her blog is “An Open Letter to President
Obama: Repairing Democracy” and a discussion of cultural recovery, based
on the “White House Briefing on Art, Community, Social Justice, National
Recovery” that brought a group of artists and activists to Washington,
D.C. last May.
Posted in Uncategorized.
Come hear Edward Tufte speak tonight!
Called the “Leonardo Da Vinci of Data,” Edward Tufte writes, designs, and self-publishes his books on analytical design, which have recieved more than 40 awards for content and design. He is Professor Emeritus at Yale University, where he taught courses in statistical evidence, information design, and interface design. His current work includes landscape sculpture, printmaking, video and a new book.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009 5:30-7:00 pm
Posted in Academics, Free Stuff!, On Campus.
Please join the Creative Writing faculty for a reading of their work, as part of the Humanities Day Festival 2009.
ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE / CREATIVE WRITING
Srikanth Reddy, Megan Stielstra, and Garin Cycholl
The Art of Writing: Three Readings from the Committee on Creative Writing
October 24
3:30 PM
Stuart Hall, Room 105
Posted in Academics, On Campus.
Étienne Balibar
Secularism and Cosmopolitanism
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Social Sciences 122
October 15 at 5:00 p.m.
Professor Balibar is Professeur rite, Universit e Paris X Nanterre Continued…
Posted in Uncategorized.
- Add/Drop ends on Friday. As long as you have gotten your green Add/Drop card into the office by Friday, you’ll be fine.
- Jeff’s Analyzing Argument talk is tomorrow at 1:30 in SS 122. It is incredibly helpful.
- Social Hour tomorrow will have pizza and music! Hooray!
Posted in Administrative Announcements.
FOTA Open Mic
Thursday October 15th
8 PM – 11 PM
Hallowed Grounds
“Bring your instruments, voices, poems, and ears! Bring your Oxford commas!”
To reserve a spot, email mollyfitzmaurice@uchicago.edu.
Posted in Entertainment, On Campus.
For those of you joining MAPH from warmer climes, a few tips on dressing to handle the Chicago weather. As you can see above, it gets COLD. And with the cold comes wind and snow and the need for serious winter clothes. Some of you already know how to deal with this, but for those of you who don’t, here are some pointers:
HATS are awesome. My mom would give some sort of statistic on the percentage of body heat you’ll save just by wearing one, but I’ll just point out that they’re nice and warm and you’re going to want one with earflaps, because that wind can be vicious. Some days you’ll even put on a hat under your hood.
SCARVES are key, too. Not just for hipsters anymore, they’ll do a great job of ensuring that any skin between your coat and your hat stays covered.
COATS are obvious. Even if you’re from Florida, you probably know what to do here. The warmer the better.
MITTENS are warmer than gloves.
BOOTS should be waterproof.
LONG UNDERWEAR is probably overkill, but potentially nice.
But if you show up with this outfit, in an appropriate size, you will be the most popular person in MAPH, guaranteed.
Posted in Practical Matters.
Greetings from the University of Chicago Film Studies Center!
Now in its 17th year, the Film Studies Center (FSC) proudly presents a year-round schedule of visiting filmmakers, rare screenings, workshops and conferences. Coming soon to the FSC:
- a rare screening of the controversial 1965 Japanese “pink film” Secrets Behind the Wall,
- Professor Armando Maggi lectures on Pasolini’s notorious film Saló or The 120 Days of Sodom,
- legendary Russian animator Yuri Norstein shows his work and creates live animation,
- a weekend symposium on influential experimental filmmaker Hollis Frampton,
- a special screening of Chantal Akerman’s extraordinary film D’Est.
Would you like to receive announcements of upcoming Film Studies Center events? Please join our email list by clicking here: http://visitor.constantcontact.com/email.jsp?m=1101962370888
For details on all FSC events, along with complete information on our facility and media services, please visit: http://filmstudiescenter.uchicago.edu.
We look forward to seeing you at the FSC!
Posted in Uncategorized.
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