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EXPO Chicago South Side Night

Photograph of Bamum chieftain's robe in vitrine from Betye Saar exhibition.
Exhibition

EXPO Chicago South Side Night

As a part of EXPO Chicago's South Side Night program, the Neubauer Collegium will extend its gallery hours on April 22.

South Side Night, organized in collaboration with UChicago Arts, promotes special programs and late gallery hours in Hyde Park, Bronzeville, and surrounding areas to kick off the EXPO Chicago annual contemporary art fair.

As a participating venue, the Neubauer Collegium will offer extended gallery hours on April 22, remaining open until 9:00 pm, in addition to our regular hours (9:00 am – 4:00 pm). During these extended hours, visitors are welcome to visit the current exhibition, Let's Get It On: The Wearable Art of Betye Saar. The show offers the first sustained look at a pivotal moment in Betye Saar’s career, when a visit to Chicago’s Field Museum in 1974 transformed the way she conceived of herself as an artist. A display of over 60 objects—including a ceremonial robe from Cameroon, costumes and jewelry designed by Saar, drawings, photos, and more—casts new light on the way Saar’s early career in costume design informed her pioneering work in assemblage and installation. The show is presented as part of a series of exhibitions and events linked to the multi-year Panafrica research project at the Collegium.

No registration required.

Neubauer Collegium

As a part of EXPO Chicago's South Side Night program, the Neubauer Collegium will extend its gallery hours on April 22.

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What Is Public History?

Cube-shaped art installation made of wood and light bulbs.
Discussion

What Is Public History?

The first meeting of the History in Public conversation series interrogates how we define and understand public and academic knowledge.

Public history has canonically been understood to involve historical knowledge produced by or for non-academic publics at places such as museums, libraries, or historical sites. The urgent crises of our contemporary world, however, occasion a more expansive vision of the field that transcends particular institutional environments or constituencies, and is defined above all by a commitment to thinking critically about how historical knowledge is produced and how it goes to work in the world. We invite a conversation that gathers participants’ understandings of the public orientation of their own historical work, and that interrogates rather than assumes the distinction between public vs. academic expertise.

This event has been organized by the Histories of Culture in Disastrous Times research project at the Neubauer Collegium.

About the History in Public conversation series

Fields such as public humanities, public history, and public scholarship have often drawn on a distinction between universities and a “public” that exists outside of them. This distinction can, however, appear arbitrary, especially in times of crisis that compel questions about the insulation of academic knowledge production from the challenges facing society at large. We take our current moment of deep uncertainty about the future of the academy as an opportunity to convene a series of conversations about what it means to practice history in public today. What intellectual and practical commitments define a history that is engaged with the world? Who are its practitioners and whom does it serve? What is its place within the university? What forms of learning are required to sustain it? What do these practices mean at the University of Chicago in particular? We invite participants at all career stages and from all fields or institutions, who would like to think about the public dimensions of their work and to make connections to the wider community of public historical practice at the University and in Chicago.

Other events in the series

MAY 7: What Is a Public Historical Education?

MAY 14: The Future of the Public History Program at UChicago

Neubauer Collegium

The first meeting of the History in Public conversation series interrogates how we define and understand public and academic knowledge.

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City of Refuge: New Immigration in Chicago and Beyond

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City of Refuge: New Immigration in Chicago and Beyond

This symposium will look at municipal responses to migration and the various meanings and applications of "refuge."

Chicago and other cities like it have historically been destinations for migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees. Seeking safety during this contemporary period of mass migration, newcomers encounter a new policy environment. Chicago’s Welcoming City ordinance establishes a policy framework to receive newcomers into the urban social fabric while attempting to avoid municipal discrimination. Welcoming Cities have also become targets, shouldering the broader responsibilities and challenges of offering refuge in the United States as a national concern. In this symposium, scholars will trace the outlines and nuances generating one of the largest historic migrations ever seen in the Western Hemisphere, and follow these journeys in search of safety through transit countries and into the United States. We will address urban experiences in Chicago and elsewhere for newcomers and residents, seeking to better understand how we imagine refuge and how this concept is enacted, debated, and negotiated in daily life.

This event is in-person only. Free and open to the University of Chicago community. Campus ID required for entry.

SCHEDULE

10:00 – 11:00 am
Virtual Keynote by Bill Ong Hing

11:00 am – 12:50 pm
Immigration Through Latin American Contexts
Panelists: Veronica Zubillaga, Matthew David Bird, Nicole Hallett, Matt Wilde

1:00 – 2:00 pm
Lunch

2:00 – 3:50 pm
Refuge in the United States
Panelists: Lindsay Gifford, Ania Aizman, Chiara Galli, Domenic Vitiello

Neubauer Collegium

This symposium will look at municipal responses to migration and the various meanings and applications of "refuge."

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From Eugenics to Genetics: The Role of Ancient DNA in Racist Appropriations of Classical Antiquity

Black and white photograph of a 1930s exhibit on eugenics.
Lecture

From Eugenics to Genetics: The Role of Ancient DNA in Racist Appropriations of Classical Antiquity

Professor Denise Eileen McCoskey will deliver a lecture on the dangers of how research on ancient DNA has been appropriated by the far right.

This talk looks at some of the ways that research on ancient DNA has encouraged the treatment of race as both essential and biological. The danger of this trend is underlined by placing such research – as well as its appropriations by the far right – within the context of a broader resurgence of race science over the past ten years. Organized by the Ancient Greek Philosophy of Race and Ethnicity project at the Neubauer Collegium.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Denise Eileen McCoskey is Professor of Classics and affiliate in Black World Studies at Miami University (Ohio). She is the author of Race: Antiquity and Its Legacy and is currently working on a project examining the influence of eugenics on early 20th-century American classical scholarship.

Reception to follow.

Neubauer Collegium

Professor Denise Eileen McCoskey will deliver a lecture on the dangers of how research on ancient DNA has been appropriated by the far right.

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