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EXPO Chicago South Side Night

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

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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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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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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.

Neubauer Collegium

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

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Opera’s Joyous Anarchy

Lecture

Opera’s Joyous Anarchy

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.

Logan Center for the Arts

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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