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The MAPHia: Resources for Alumni
MAPH will have almost 1500 alumni by the end of this year. Many of you are in Chicago, but we have alums in London, Singapore, China, India, Australia, and other faraway sounding places. You are professors, non-profit fundraisers, curators, art gallery directors, program coordinators for corporate giving, heads of communications, attorneys, investment bankers, teachers, and…
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Alumni Weekend MAPH Reunion—Early Registration!
Hey MAPHers! Alumni Weekend is quickly approaching which means that the MAPH Reunion is coming up! This year we’ll be meeting on Friday, June 5 for cocktails and appetizers at Bin 36, located at 339 N. Dearborn in downtown Chicago. Tickets are only $10 each, but if you register by Friday, April 24 you will…
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No Halfsteppin’: Broadcast Premiere of a Documentary Film by MAPH alums
MAPH alums Tom Bailey and Brendan Kredell’s documentary film, No Halfsteppin’, will air on WTTW-11 for its first broadcast on Thursday, January 31 (10:30pm CST), and on Sunday, February 3 (12midnight, CST [note that this is technically Monday, February 4]).
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My MAPH Internship Experience – Torch Fellowship with Universidad Popular, by Rachel Kamins
Each year, MAPH Partners with several Chicago cultural, literary, and non-profit organizations to provide paid summer internships designed specifically for MAPH students. One of these opportunities, the Torch Fellowship, gives students the opportunity to reach out to an organization of their choice to propose a summer internship project. This fellowship, named in honor of Rafael Torch, writer, teacher…
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Moments that Make a Museum: Mike O’Malley (’14) on his Internship with the Smart Museum
“That’s my claim to fame,” he said. “I took Frida Kahlo to the movies.” It was 1937. Leon Despres, Chicago alderman and activist, was visiting Mexico, sitting on a couch chatting in French with Diego Rivera while the artist painted a portrait of Despres’s wife, Marian. “I sat there in the morning while he painted…
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Bart Pushaw (’13) on Fulbright in Estonia
Below is an update from recent MAPH Alum Bart Pushaw (’13) on his Fulbright in Estonia. For graduate students interested in applying for Fulbright, the deadline for the 2014-15 year is September 30th, 2013. You can find more information on the University of Chicago’s Graduate Affairs website. In his book Estonia: A Ramble Through the Periphery, Alexander Theroux…
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The Odyssey Project: Anna Burch and Marybeth Southard (MAPH ’12) reflect on their internships
I first heard about the Odyssey Project during a “What am I going to do with my life?” conversation with Hilary Strang, who teaches Critical Thinking and Writing to Odyssey students. To be honest, I wasn’t really sure what I was getting into, other than what I knew from the description on the Illinois Humanities…
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MAPH Featured in the New Issue of Tableau
Most of you will be getting Tableau (the Humanities Division Magazine) in the mail in the near future. However, it is worth noting now the thoughtful article on the history of MAPH and the first 15 years of the program, by A-J Aronstein (MAPH ’10) featured prominently in this issue. If you don’t want to…
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Reunion Registration Begins March 1!
To celebrate the graduation of MAPH’s Fifteenth Class, we are holding a full day of activities and events on campus and downtown on June 3. The Early Registration period (which allows you to reserve $10 tickets) opens on March 1. We will be sure to send you the link to register. In the past, your…
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TYPEFACE screening this Friday
MAPH and the 64th Street Print Shop are very pleased to announce that we’ll be holding a screening of the documentary film TYPEFACE this coming Friday (10/22) at 6:30 in Social Sciences 122. Several 2004 MAPH alums collaborated in the making of TYPEFACE including producer and director Justine Nagan. It was recently nominated for a…