EVERY WEDNESDAY LUNCHEON SERIES
The Every Wednesday Luncheon series connects faculty to the work of their colleagues in the humanities and the humanistic social sciences. On Wednesdays at noon during the academic year, a faculty member gives an informal talk on current research over a catered lunch, followed by group discussion. Faculty of any rank are encouraged to present, but there is a particular emphasis on work by new humanities faculty and visiting professors associated with collaborative projects. The spirit of the Every Wednesday series is transdisciplinary, as scholars from across the Division and the University gather to share ideas and learn from one another.
2021-22
Romance Languages & Literatures
on Pasolini in Yemen
English / Creative Writing
on When I Was a Monster
South Asian Languages & Civilizations
on Known Unknowns
Linguistics
on Linguistic Prejudice
East Asian Languages & Civilizations
on Theatrical Prosthetics in Meiji Japan
Divinity School & Art History
on Narrative and Comparativism
Slavic
on Special Effects and Soviet Wonder
History, South Asian Languages & Civilizations
on Planetarity
English Language & Literature
on Commonplaces
Linguistics
on language and AI
Philosophy
on nature and theory in Plato
LA: History, AB: English Language & Literature
on More than Diversity at the University of Chicago
Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations
on the Evolving Heritage Crisis in Afghanistan: Culture, Conflict and Preservation
English Language & Literature
on the Novel and Social Criticism: The Case of William Gardner Smith
Cinema & Media Studies
on Early Black Filmmaking in Chicago: Lost and Found
2020-21
BH: Music, AS: Music
on music and racial trust in TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
AC: Philosophy, MH: Philosophy
on academic busyness
MD: Cinema & Media Studies, DM: Cinema & Media Studies
on (not) drawing humans
LA: History, SA: English, AB: English, AG: History
on the More than Diversity campaign
JI: Social Thought, JL: History
on the political foundations of economics
TL: Cinema & Media Studies, MB: East Asian Languages & Civilizations
on sciences and literature in a time of contagion
NBM: Romance Languages & Literatures, LP: History
on the art of knowing everything there is to know
JI: English, RD: English
on literary memorials
CM: Germanic Studies, OS: Comparative Literature
on queer romantic collage
FM: Comparative Literature, RN: Art History
on Claude Lanzmann’s autobiography and disparate cultures
MB: Cinema & Media Studies, EG: History
on Stalin and cinema
SN: Anthropology, RN: Art History
on species without history
JF: Civic Leadership, NL: Strategic Initiatives
on community engagement in context
TG: Art History, JS: Romance Languages & Literatures
on artifice and evidence
2019-20
History of Science, University of Edinburgh
Putting the ‘Media’ in Remediation
Divinity School
Winged Stallions and Wicked Mares: Horses in Indian Myth and History
2018-19
Divinity School
Academic Writing as Autobiography: Writing The Donigers of Great Neck: A Mythologized Memoir
Dean of the Divinity School; Social Thought, History, Divinity School, Romance Languages & Literatures, Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Math and Monotheism
Cinema & Media Studies, Romance Languages & Literatures
The Image and Historical Matter