SESSION I

 9:30am-10:30am

MUSIC

The New Critical Edition of Il barbiere di Siviglia by Rossini and Ornamenting an Early Nineteenth-Century Opera

Fulton Recital Hall, Goodspeed Hall

LINGUISTICS

Colonization and the Expansion of European Languages: Winners and Losers

Social Science Research Building, Room 122

SOUTH ASIAN LANGUAGES & CIVILIZATIONS

“Pandering to the Vicious Tendencies” – Print, Censorship, and Forbidden Pleasure in Colonial India

Stuart Hall, Room 101

LINGUISTICS

Adventure in the Caucasus: Capturing and Creating Video Materials for Teaching about Georgia

Stuart Hall, Room 104

ROMANCE LANGUAGES & LITERATURES / CINEMA & MEDIA STUDIES

From Italian Small-Town Boy to International Star: Valentino’s Vicissitudes of Identity

Stuart Hall, Room 105

ART HISTORY

Colorful News: Japanese Woodblock "Newspaper Prints" in the Late 19th Century

Harper Memorial Library, Room 130

EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES & CIVILIZATIONS

Stuart Hall, Room 102

ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

(REGISTRATION CLOSED)

Special Collections Research Center

NEAR EASTERN LANGUAGES & CIVILIZATIONS

The Caliph’s Favorite: New Light on Hasdai iben Shaprut of Cordova

Breasted Hall, Oriental Institute

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

 11am-Noon

GERMANIC STUDIES / COMPARATIVE LITERATURE / SOCIAL THOUGHT

Who is Faust?

Mandel Hall, 1135 East 57th Street

SESSION II

 2pm-3pm

HUMANITIES

The Humanities, Civic Knowledge, and Chicago’s South Side

Stuart Hall, Room 105

MUSIC

Taking Stock of Film Music 

Film Studies Center, Cobb Hall, Room 307

EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES & CIVILIZATIONS

Bamboo Annals: The Earliest Histories of China

Stuart Hall, Room 104

NEAR EASTERN LANGUAGES & CIVILIZATIONS

Others and Brothers: Iraqi Jews, Arab Nationalism, Islam, and Gender, 1921-1951

Stuart Hall, Room 101

ART HISTORY

Olympian Art: (Inter)national Proposals for Munich ’72

Stuart Hall, Room 102

ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE / ART HISTORY

Teachable Moments: Race, Media, and Visual Culture

Harper Memorial Library, Room 130

CLASSICS

The Stoic Path to Happiness (or, An Ancient Philosophy on How to Live)

Social Science Research Building, Room 122

ORIENTAL INSTITUTE

A Mummy Comes to Life: Science and Art Resurrect an Ancient Egyptian Priestess

Breasted Hall, Oriental Institute

SMART MUSEUM OF ART

Guided tour of Heartland Exhibition

Gray Gallery, Smart Museum

SESSION III

 3:30pm-4:30pm

MUSIC

Music Drama of the Holocaust – Performance and Lecture

Fulton Recital Hall, Goodspeed Hall

CINEMA & MEDIA STUDIES

Screening of Jour de FĂȘte

Film Studies Center, Cobb Hall, Room 307

LINGUISTICS / PSYCHOLOGY / ANTHROPOLOGY

What Goes Around…: Some Shtick from “Tricky Dick” and the Circulation of U.S. Presidential Image

Stuart Hall, Room 101

ROMANCE LANGUAGES & LITERATURES

The “New Jerusalem” in the Literature of the Counter-Reformation

Stuart Hall, Room 102

ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

How to Read a Hard Poem

Social Science Research Building, Room 122

ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE / CREATIVE WRITING

The Art of Writing: Three Readings from the Committee on Creative Writing

Stuart Hall, Room 105

SLAVIC LANGUAGES & LITERATURES

The Fall of Communism (Twenty Years On)

Harper Memorial Library, Room 130

MUSIC

Mixing Musical Worlds for India’s Silver Screen

Stuart Hall, Room 104

NEAR EASTERN LANGUAGES & CIVILIZATIONS / ORIENTAL INSTITUTE

Recording Persian Antiquities in Crisis: The Persepolis Fortification Archive Project

Breasted Hall, Oriental Institute