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Drew Gilpin Faust on "The Past and Its Burdens"

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Director's Lecture

Drew Gilpin Faust on "The Past and Its Burdens"

The renowned U.S. historian will explore the changing presence of the South in American national consciousness.

At this talk, presented as part of the Neubauer Collegium’s Director’s Lecture series, renowned U.S. historian Drew Gilpin Faust will explore the changing presence of the South in U.S. national consciousness over the past half century. Faust will argue that the South and its origins have a grip on Americans that they fail to recognize at their peril.

About the Speaker

Drew Gilpin Faust is the Arthur Kingsley Porter University Research Professor at Harvard University where she served as president from 2007 to 2018. She came to Harvard in 2001 as founding dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study after twenty five years on the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania. Faust is the author of seven books, including Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury, published in August 2023. Her earlier book, This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War, was awarded the Bancroft Prize, was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize and was recognized by the New York Times as one of the ten best books of 2008. She and her husband live in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

About the Director's Lecture Series

The Roman Family Director’s Lecture series at the Neubauer Collegium, made possible through the generous support of University of Chicago Trustee Emmanuel Roman, MBA’87, brings distinguished speakers to the University of Chicago to share their insights with faculty, students, and the broader community. The aim of these events is to deepen public knowledge about the world and humanity’s place in it.

The renowned U.S. historian will explore the changing presence of the South in American national consciousness.

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New Directions in Literary Publishing: A Poetry Reading and Editorial Roundtable

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Discussion

New Directions in Literary Publishing: A Poetry Reading and Editorial Roundtable

This poetry reading and editorial roundtable will feature some of the most exciting new voices in contemporary American poetry.

Please join us for a poetry reading and editorial roundtable with some of the most exciting new voices in contemporary American poetry.

Poetry Reading and Book Launch: April 29, 5–6:30 pm

The inaugural cohort of Advisory Poetry Editors for the “New Directions in Contemporary Literary Publishing” Arts Lab project—Kai Ihns, Imani Elizabeth Jackson, Aditi Machado, and Margaret Ross—will read from their new books of poetry, followed by a Q&A and book-signing reception.

Editorial Roundtable: April 30, 2–3:30 pm

English department faculty member Srikanth Reddy (Series Editor of the Phoenix Poets book series at the University of Chicago Press, and Poetry Editor of The Paris Review) will join the Advisory Poetry Editors for a roundtable conversation on new directions in contemporary literary publishing.

*Cosponsored by the Department of English


About the Poets

Aditi Machado is the author of three books of poetry--Material Witness (2024), Emporium (2020), and Some Beheadings (2017)--and several chapbooks.

Imani Elizabeth Jackson is the author of the chapbooks Context for arboreal exchanges (Belladonna*, 2023) and saltsitting (g l o s s, 2020), and, under the moniker mouthfeel, coauthor of Consider the tongue (Paper Machine, 2019) with S*an D. Henry-Smith. Flag (Futurepoem, 2024) is her first full-length collection.

Kai Ihns is a poet and filmmaker based in Chicago. She edits The Year, a chapbook press, and works as an Advisory Poetry Editor at The Paris Review, among other things. She's the author of several pamphlets, a dissertation called Aspect Choreography, and two books of poems, most recently Of (The Elephants, 2024).

Margaret Ross is the author of two books of poetry, A Timeshare and Saturday.

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This poetry reading and editorial roundtable will feature some of the most exciting new voices in contemporary American poetry.

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Opening Reception for Raqs Media Collective: Cavalcade

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Exhibition Opening

Opening Reception for Raqs Media Collective: Cavalcade

Part of the Reimagining Cosmopolitanism research project, this exhibition will feature multimedia work by the Delhi-based Raqs Media Collective.

In the spring of 2025 the Neubauer Collegium will present Cavalcade, a new multimedia work by the Delhi-based group Raqs Media Collective. The exhibition will mine the productive friction between age-old Hindu mythology and Indian hyper-modernity. Conceived in part within the framework of the multi-year research project Reimagining Cosmopolitanism at the Neubauer Collegium, Cavalcade expands our understanding of what it means to be “cosmopolitan” beyond the traditional reach of the human.

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Part of the Reimagining Cosmopolitanism research project, this exhibition will feature multimedia work by the Delhi-based Raqs Media Collective.

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From the Countryside to the City: Environmental Transformations and the Impact of Urbanization, Land Use Changes, and Migration on Cambodian Life

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Workshop

From the Countryside to the City: Environmental Transformations and the Impact of Urbanization, Land Use Changes, and Migration on Cambodian Life

This invite-only workshop will set a research agenda to study how changes in physical and social landscapes are affecting Cambodian households.

Cambodia is the fastest growing economy in Southeast Asia and continues to experience significant in-country migration to urban centers. At the same time, most of the population continues to reside outside of cities, working in traditional agricultural occupations. Both those in non-city and city spaces are highly vulnerable to climate change, albeit with varying risks and nuanced effects, as Cambodia experiences increasing heat and water-related extreme events. The confluence of interconnected changes in the climate, resource use, urbanization, and economic conditions are transforming the physical and social landscapes across the country. This workshop will convene scholars with expertise in environmental and spatial modeling, urbanization, migration, microfinance, agricultural development, and sustainability to investigate these changing complex dynamics between the countryside and city. The workshop will explore how economic, environmental, and sociopolitical factors are affecting Cambodians’ ways of life, with implications for household security, land use, well-being, migration, and the composition and tenability of rural and urban livelihoods.

This invite-only event is sponsored by the Becoming Urban research project at the Neubauer Collegium, UChicago Global, the Committee on Environment, Geography and Urbanization (CEGU), and the Department of Anthropology, with support from the Yung Hung Ching Cambodia Community Fund.

Francis and Rose Yuen Campus in Hong Kong, The University of Chicago

This invite-only workshop will set a research agenda to study how changes in physical and social landscapes are affecting Cambodian households.

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