News Archives
Cecilia Vicuña Receives Achievement Award from Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation
December 7, 2018
The celebrated Chilean artist, who showed her Palabrarmas drawings at the Neubauer Collegium's spring 2019 exhibition, has been recognized for her significant contributions to contemporary Latin American art.
Multi-Pronged Project Explores Censorship, Information Revolutions
December 6, 2018
Ada Palmer, a member of the research team on the Censorship, Information Control, and Information Revolutions from Printing Press to Internet project, explains the goals for her research and why she believes centuries-old copyright laws are still relevant today.
Chicago’s Field Museum Announces Plans to Revamp Native American Hall
October 30, 2018
“The challenge is to bring out our spectacular collections, but contextualize them in a way that connects the past to the present and the continuity of the Native American experience,” said Neubauer Collegium Visiting Fellow Alaka Wali, curator of North American anthropology at the Field Museum and a collaborator on the Open Fields project.
J. M. Coetzee on Growing Up, Reading, and the Importance of Doubt
October 15, 2018
The Chicago Maroon reports on the October 9 Director's Lecture and discusses the main themes of his talk.
What’s Next for Europe’s Internet Censorship Plan?
October 7, 2018
Cory Doctorow, a member of the research team on the Censorship, Information Control, and Information Revolutions from Printing Press to Internet project, considers the impact of an important European Union vote on copyright issues.
Nobel-winning Author J. M. Coetzee to Give Talk at UChicago
October 5, 2018
This UChicago News article previews the former faculty member’s first return to campus since receiving the Nobel Prize in 2003.
The Things They Carried
September 26, 2018
This critical essay in the Los Angeles Review of Books considers Objects of War, a new volume on migration and material culture that began as a series of papers presented at workshops for the Neubauer Collegium's People and Things on the Move project.
Mark Kingwell Named Fellow of Royal Society of Canada
September 12, 2018
The professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto, a 2015–16 Neubauer Collegium Visiting Fellow, was recognized for significant contributions to social and political theory.
Jessica Stockholder and Robert Davidson Collaborate in Austin
September 7, 2018
The two renowned artists, who collaborated on the Neubauer Collegium Open Fields project, are extending their partnership this fall with interrelated exhibitions in Austin, Texas.
Is Facebook a “Surveillance System”?
August 16, 2018
Cory Doctorow, a collaborator on our Censorship, Information Control, and Information Revolutions research project, joins the Yahoo News podcast "Bots and Ballots" to discuss Facebook's approach to politics.