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.

In the Autumn 2020, each lunchtime event will feature an online conversation between a speaker and a colleague followed by discussion with the audience.

October 7

Berthold Hoeckner in conversation with Anna Schultz

on music and racial trust in TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

October 14

Agnes Callard in conversation with Matthias Haase

on academic busyness

October 21

Marc Downie in conversation with Dan Morgan

on (not) drawing humans

Past presentations are recorded and are archived here (requires UChicago ID).

2019-2020 Recordings

2018-2019 Recordings

2019-20 LUNCHEON RECORDINGS

Lectureship in History of Science, University of Edinburgh

Putting the ‘Media’ in Remediation

William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor of English Language & Literature, Cinema & Media Studies, and the College
Vertigo in The Conversation

Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor Emerita of the History of Religions; Professor in the Department of South Asian Languages & Civilizations, the Committee on Social Thought, and the College

Winged Stallions and Wicked Mares: Horses in Indian Myth and History

Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy and the College
Good and Evil

Assistant Professor, Department of Germanic Studies and the College

Gendered Language

2018-19 LUNCHEON RECORDINGS

Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor Emerita of the History of Religions; Professor in the Department of South Asian Languages & Civilizations, the Committee on Social Thought, and the College

Academic Writing as Autobiography: Writing The Donigers of Great Neck: A Mythologized Memoir

LAURA LENTINSKY

Professor of Visual Arts and the College

A Proposition, or on the Allure of Photography

DAVID NIRENBERG

Dean of the Divinity School and the Deborah R. and Edgar D. Jannotta Distinguished Service Professor, Committee on Social Thought, Department of History, The Divinity School, Department of Romance Languages & Literatures, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and the College

Math and Monotheism

HOWARD C. NUSBAUM

Stella M. Rowley Professor of Psychology and the College

Understanding Wisdom Through Psychological Science

Chester D. Tripp Professor of Classics, Comparative Literature, Committee on Social Thought, and the College

Postapocalyptic Fiction

Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of English Language & Literature

Minimalism and the Aesthetics of Black Threat

BENJAMIN A. SALTZMAN

Assistant Professor, Department of English Language & Literature and the College

Riddles, Cryptographic Errors, and Intellectual Humility

ANNA ELENA TORRES

Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature and the College

Yiddish Avant-Gardes

William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Service Professor Emerita of Italian Literature, the Department of Cinema & Media Studies, and the College

What is Screenwriting?

Associate Professor, Departments of Cinema & Media Studies, Romance Languages & Literatures, and the College

The Image and Historical Matter

Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Linguistics

The Fundamental Operations of Syntax