News Archives
How the Brain Links Gestures, Perception and Meaning
March 26, 2019
Quanta magazine explores the pioneering research of Susan Goldin-Meadow, a member of the Neubauer Collegium Faculty Advisory Board and former member of the research team on the Body's Role project.
Affect Theory and the New Age of Anxiety
March 19, 2019
The New Yorker profiles UChicago English Professor Lauren Berlant, a member of the Neubauer Collegium Faculty Advisory Board and former member of the Infrastructures for the Comedic research team.
Highlights from the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale Come to Chicago
March 12, 2019
The Chicago Tribune's architecture critic considers the new Dimensions of Citizenship exhibition at Wrightwood 659, co-curated by Neubauer Collegium Faculty Fellow Niall Atkinson.
Announcing the 2019-20 Faculty Research Projects
February 20, 2019
The Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society will support seven new faculty-led collaborative research projects in the 2019-20 academic year.
Rick Lowe on Social Sculpture
February 15, 2019
Neubauer Collegium Visiting Fellow Rick Lowe talks to KPRC (NBC's Houston affiliate) about the concept behind Project Row Houses and his current efforts to bridge art and community activism.
David Wellbery to Receive the Golden Goethe Medal
February 5, 2019
The Germanic Studies Department chair will receive the Goethe Society's top honor in recognition of his groundbreaking research. A member of the Neubauer Collegium's Faculty Advisory Board, Wellbery advanced understanding of Goethe's aesthetics and late style as a research collaborator on the Idealism Project.
It’s a Small World After All
January 23, 2019
The Chicago Maroon reviews the Neubauer Collegium's Kleine Welt exhibition, which "implores its visitors to ask themselves what it is about Klee’s particular style that attracts so many authors and publishers."
Little World: The Art of Judging a Book by Its Cover
January 17, 2019
In an essay for Mousse magazine, Neubauer Collegium Curator Dieter Roelstraete reflects on the power a handful of artists exert over the visual imagination of the academic publishing world.
An Artist Addresses the Field Museum’s Problematic Native American Hall
January 8, 2019
Chicago Magazine talks to Neubauer Collegium Visiting Fellow and Open Fields research team member Alaka Wali about the renovation of the Field Museum’s Native North American Hall.
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.