Session I

9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

Music

Philip Gossett bio

Fulton Hall

Operacat and Un ballo in maschera

Cinema & Media Studies

Judy Hoffman bio

Film Studies Center, Cobb Hall, room 307

Chicago Film History

Linguistics

Anastasia Giannakidou bio

Stuart Hall, room 101

Myths and Realities About Bilingualism

English Language & Literature

Christina von Nolcken bio

Harper Hall, room 140 REGISTRATION CLOSED

The Vikings and a Turbulent Ango-Scandinavian World

Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations

Theo van den Hout bio

Stuart Hall, room 104

Starting to Write: the Case of Hittite Anatolia

Slavic Languages & Literatures

Malynne Sternstein bio

Stuart Hall, room 105

The Czechs of Chicago

Visual Arts

Matthew Jesse Jackson bio

Franke Institute, Regenstein Library, room S-118

Old Media, Contemporary Art

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Richard Neer bio

11 a.m. - 12:00 noon

Painting as a way of Life: The Blind Orion of Nicolas Poussin

Session II

1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Visual Arts

David Schutter bio

Film Studies Center, Cobb Hall, room 307

After Paintings: Recollected Works From The Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

Humanities

David Thompson bio

Stuart Hall, room 102

Poetry, Law, & the End of Nature

History / Ceeres / Slavic Languages & Literatures

Richard Hellie bio

Stuart Hall, room 104

Backwardness in Russian Civilization 1470-2007

Humanities

Civic Knowledge Project Panel

Stuart Hall, 105

Civic Knowledge / Civic Engagement

English / Franke Institute

James Chandler bio

Franke Institute for the Humanities

Sentimental Monstrosity

Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations

Rebecca Hasselbach bio

Harper, room 130

Early Semitic Writing Systems

Philosophy

William C. Wimsatt bio

Harper, room 140

Re-Engineering Philosophy for Limited Beings

History / East Asian Languages & Civilizations

James Ketelaar bio

Smart Museum of Art, Bernstein Gallery

Guided tour of Objects of Inquiry: The Buckley Collection of Japanese Art

Performance

Modern Minstrelsy Ensemble, Pullman Morris and Sword

Rockefeller Memorial Chapel

Noyes Fludde

Session III

3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Cinema & Media Studies

Tom Gunning bio

Film Studies Center, Cobb Hall, room 307

Screening of Rififi

Linguistics

Michael Silverstein bio

Stuart Hall, room 101

Presidential Ethno-blooperology: Performance misfires in the business of message-ing

English / Center for Cultural Policy

Lawrence Rothfield bio

Stuart Hall, room 102

Making the Scene: Wicker Park, Hyde Park, and the Future of Cities

Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations

Seth Richardson bio

Stuart Hall, room 104

How to Build a God: Mesopotamian Icons and Biblical Parodies

Philosophy

Ted Cohen bio

Stuart Hall, room 105

Telling Stories

Art History

Franke Institute, Regenstein Library, Special Collections

Guided Tour of The Virtual Tourist in Renaissance Rome project and exhibition

Humanities

Herman Sinaiko bio

Harper, room 130

Socrates and the Sophists

Law School / Philosophy / Divinity School

Martha Nussbaum bio

Harper, room 140

Tragedy and Social Compassion

Performance

Fulton Hall

New Budapest Orpheum Society