Upcoming Events

Literature and Philosophy Workshop

Upcoming Events | 2024-2025 | University of Chicago

Paul Klee, “Ruinen mit Styliten” (Ruins with Stylites), watercolor and pen and ink on paper laid down on the artist’s mount, 7 by 9 ¼ in. 18 by 23.5 cm, 1918.

All are welcome to the workshop.

Please email Jessie Alperin (alperinj@uchicago.edu) if you have any questions or require accommodations to participate.

Spring Quarter 2025

All workshops will meet in Campus North 154 at 5:15 PM on the Thursdays listed below. Unless otherwise noted.

The entrance to the building is to the right of Fairgrounds Coffee Shop.

The workshop is a peanut-free event to accommodate a serious allergy. Please do not bring any products containing peanuts to the workshop.


Literature and Philosophy Workshop
Spring Quarter 2025 Schedule 
Thursday, April 10 
3 PM | Cochrane Woods Art Center Lounge
“On Being a Type”

Dora Zhang

Associate Professor, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley

Respondent: Jennifer Fleissner

Professor, Department of English, University of Chicago

Thursday, May 1

5:15 PM | Campus North 154

“The Flying (Wo)man in Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things

Chelsea Christine Hill 

PhD Student, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago

Respondent: Heather Keenleyside

Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Chicago

Thursday, May 8 

5:15 PM | Campus North 154

“Dialogue, Description, and Self-Deception in Diderot’s Vernet Promenade”

Lauren Rooney 

PhD Student, Art History, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University

Thursday, May 15 

5:15 PM | Campus North 154

“Aesthetic Categories in Chinese Literary Criticism” 

Yueling Ji 

Teaching Fellow, East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Respondent: Richard A. Rosengarten

Associate Professor of Religion and Literature, University of Chicago

 

Monday, May 19

5:15 PM | Foster 305 (please note the different time and venue)

“A ‘Country… little experienced in the Art of Governing’

Administration and the American Revolution, 1775–1783”

 

Tingfeng Yan
 
PhD Candidate, Department of History and Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago
Respondent: Boone Ayala
PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Chicago