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

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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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Data and Democracy at Work

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Data and Democracy at Work

Georgetown University law professor Brishen Rogers will explore how companies have used information technology to limit worker power.

Contemporary work and the conditions for worker organizing are changing dramatically due to the diffusion of new digital and data driven technologies. In his talk, Brishen Rogers will explore how major companies have used advanced information technologies to limit worker power, and how labor law reform could reverse that trend. Rogers will draw on his recent book, Data and Workplace Democracy: Advanced Information Technologies, Labor Law, and the New Working Class (MIT Press 2023), as well as recent ethnographic work on new organizing strategies among baristas to point to emergent possibilities for labor success.

This event has been organized by the Economic Planning and Democracy Politics research project at the Neubauer Collegium.


About the Speaker

Brishen Rogers is a professor of law at Georgetown University. His scholarship focuses on how labor and employment laws shape class formation, especially among low-wage and marginalized workers. Rogers’s law review articles have been published in various journals and have been cited in at least two landmark cases. He has taught at Temple University and Harvard Law School, has held visiting positions at Washington University in St. Louis and at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, and was previously a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute. Rogers worked in the labor movement both before and after law school, including as part of SEIU’s Justice for Janitors campaign.

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Georgetown University law professor Brishen Rogers will explore how companies have used information technology to limit worker power.

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Anarchy at the Opera

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Anarchy at the Opera

Opera director and Collegium Global Solutions Visiting Fellow Yuval Sharon presents his first lecture for the 2025 Berlin Family Lecture series.

Visionary opera director Yuval Sharon presents “Anarchy at the Opera,” the 2025 Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin Family Lectures, which will consist of three lectures and a special performance of John Cage’s Europera 5. All events are free and open to the public.

Visit the Berlin Family Lectures website to learn more and register to attend.

Lecture 1, May 6: "Opera’s Joyous Anarchy"

Lecture 2, May 13: "Anarchic Improvisation"

Lecture 3, May 20: “Blow Up The Opera Houses” and a rare performance of John Cage’s Europera 5


About Yuval Sharon

A 2017 MacArthur fellow and the Gary L. Wasserman Artistic Director at the Detroit Opera, Yuval Sharon is widely celebrated as one of the opera world’s most innovative and influential figures. Sharon is currently serving as the inaugural Global Solutions Visiting Fellow at the Neubauer Collegium.

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Opera director and Collegium Global Solutions Visiting Fellow Yuval Sharon presents his first lecture for the 2025 Berlin Family Lecture series.

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What Is a Public Historical Education?

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What Is a Public Historical Education?

Participants at this discussion will consider how public-oriented historical pedagogy functions now and how it should function in the future.

One marker of the traditional distinctions between public and academic historical work has been the form of expertise each requires. What are these forms of expertise? Where have they converged, and where have they diverged? In thinking about how to reconceive public history for the contemporary moment, what new forms of historical education might be required both inside and outside the university? How do the labor crises in higher education and in the cultural institutional sector more broadly affect these approaches? We invite a conversation in which current and former students and teachers share the ways in which public-oriented historical pedagogy has shaped their approach to their work, and consider how it might do so more effectively in the future.

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

APRIL 23: What Is Public History?

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

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Participants at this discussion will consider how public-oriented historical pedagogy functions now and how it should function in the future.

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