News Archives
Court Theatre Announces Premiere of Augie March Adaptation
February 21, 2018
Visiting Fellow David Auburn's stage adaptation of Saul Bellow's The Adventures of Augie March will close out the 2018-19 season at Court Theatre.
Renaissance Woman
February 20, 2018
In this University of Chicago Magazine profile, Faculty Fellow Ada Palmer (Censorship, Information Control, & Information Revolutions from Printing Press to Internet) discusses the history of personal and political censorship.
Portrait of the Worker as a Black Woman
February 19, 2018
Political Science Professor Adom Getachew, a member of the research team for the Contours of Black Citizenship in a Global Context project, considers "The Sweat of Their Face," a new exhibition at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery.
Life Among the Bundists
February 16, 2018
Visiting Fellow Sheila Fitzpatrick reviews Mark Mazower's new memoir-history of his family's 20th-century dislocations, What You Did Not Tell, for The Nation.
Organizations for All
February 15, 2018
History Professor Jonathan Levy, a member of the research team on the Economy and its Boundaries project, considers the nineteenth-century expansion of access to formal organization.
Neubauer Collegium Announces 2018-19 Research Projects
February 12, 2018
The Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society will support thirteen new faculty-led collaborative research projects in the 2018-19 academic year.
Teens Want Mobile Health Units to Address Sexual Health
February 6, 2018
Vice Provost Melissa Gilliam, a researcher on the Neubauer Collegium's Game Changer Chicago Design Lab project, talks to Chicago Tonight about a new strategy to improve teens' access to sexual and reproductive health care.
Michèle Lowrie Receives NEH Fellowship
January 10, 2018
Michèle Lowrie (Classics) has received a prestigious fellowship to support research she pursued with Visiting Fellow Barbara Vinken on the Neubauer Collegium's Thinking Through Tropes project.
The Parasite: An Alternate Reality Game for Orientation
January 8, 2018
In this feature on the theater site HowlRound, Patrick Jagoda and Heidi Coleman describe their work with the Gaming Orientation research project.
An Inside Look at the Game Changer Chicago Design Lab
January 4, 2018
Ashlyn Sparrow, a designer at the Game Changer Chicago Design Lab, tells the Chicago Reader about her work creating and researching games that help teens make healthy decisions.