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Negotiating Identities, Constructing Territories: Pre-Roman Iberia, 900-200 BCE

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Negotiating Identities, Constructing Territories: Pre-Roman Iberia, 900-200 BCE

This conference will present novel data and perspectives on the social and economic networks in the ancient Mediterranean region.

Beginning in the ninth century BCE the coasts and fertile valleys of Iberia were tapped by Phoenician and Greek merchants and settlers coming from the eastern Mediterranean. An extended international network was created, which attracted the participation of Etruscans, Sardinians, Cypriots, and others. This conference interrogates how these diverse groups first knitted an interconnected space, which led to the making of new economic, cultural, and environmental horizons before the Mediterranean was politically connected under Rome. The conference presents novel data and perspectives with a focus on the negotiation and construction of identities and territories, as well as new explorations of past environmental challenges.

Organized by Michael Dietler (University of Chicago, Anthropology) and Carolina López-Ruiz (University of Chicago, Divinity School and Department of Classics) as part of the Negotiating Identities, Constructing Territories research project at the Neubauer Collegium.

Co-sponsored by the Franke Institute for the Humanities, the Center for International Social Science Research (CISSR), the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (ISAC), the Divinity School, and the Departments of Anthropology and Classics at the University of Chicago.

PROGRAM SCHEDULE

Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society

This conference will present novel data and perspectives on the social and economic networks in the ancient Mediterranean region.

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The Thinking and Making of Experimental Art

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Discussion

The Thinking and Making of Experimental Art

This Humanities Day discussion will explore the aims and activities of the Arts Labs research project at the Neubauer Collegium.

With the flourishing of new arts programs in theater, creative writing, and media arts and design at the University, the Humanities is now reimagining itself as a place not only for thinking about art but also for making art. In this session, presented as part of Humanities Day 2024, four UChicago faculty members will discuss how their “Arts Labs” research project at the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society seeks to shape a culture of experimentation and critical analysis around arts research. Their work on the project includes conceptual and practical workshops in opera; a Movement Theory Lab; a dance-theater adaptation of a classic dramatic text; workshops for a new musical with Court Theatre; diversity initiatives in contemporary literary publishing; and renewed operations of the Black Cinema House. This Arts Lab brings UChicago faculty and visiting artists into conversation at the intersection of scholarly inquiry and artistic making on our campus.

Presenters:

Srikanth “Chicu” Reddy
David J. Levin
Leslie Buxbaum
Julia Rhoads

Neubauer Collegium

This Humanities Day discussion will explore the aims and activities of the Arts Labs research project at the Neubauer Collegium.

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Betye Saar: Opening Reception

Exhibition Opening

Betye Saar: Opening Reception

This exhibition will hinge on Saar's experiments with “wearable” art, bringing into focus her gradual shift from costume design to collage.

The Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society will present an exhibition by Betye Saar, a key figure in the Black Arts Movement of the 1970s. Inspired by the transformative memory of Saar’s visit to the African collections of Chicago’s Field Museum in the mid-1970s, this exhibition will hinge on the artist’s experiments with “wearable” art, bringing into focus her gradual shift from working in costume design toward the instantly recognizable collage aesthetic she is justly feted for to this day.

Neubauer Collegium

This exhibition will hinge on Saar's experiments with “wearable” art, bringing into focus her gradual shift from costume design to collage.

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Director’s Lecture with Drew Gilpin Faust

Director's Lecture

Director’s Lecture with Drew Gilpin Faust

Drew Gilpin Faust, President Emerita of Harvard University, is a renowned scholar of American history.

About the Speaker

Drew Gilpin Faust is the Arthur Kingsley Porter University Research Professor at Harvard, where she served as president from 2007 to 2018.

Faust previously served as founding dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (2001-2007). Before coming to Radcliffe, she was the Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania.

She is the author of seven books, including, most recently, Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury, published in August 2023. Her earlier book, This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (2008), was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize and was awarded the Bancroft Prize, the New-York Historical Society’s American History Book Prize, and recognized by The New York Times as one of the “Ten Best Books of 2008.” This Republic of Suffering is the basis for a 2012 Emmy-nominated episode of the PBS American Experience documentaries titled Death and the Civil War, directed by Ric Burns.

Faust’s honors include awards in 1982 and 1996 for distinguished teaching at the University of Pennsylvania. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1994, the Society of American Historians in 1993, and the American Philosophical Society in 2004. In September 2018 she was awarded the John W. Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity by the Library of Congress. She received her bachelor’s degree from Bryn Mawr in 1968, magna cum laude with honors in history, and master’s (1971) and doctoral (1975) degrees in American civilization from the University of Pennsylvania. 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. More >

Drew Gilpin Faust, President Emerita of Harvard University, is a renowned scholar of American history.

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