Upcoming Events
Literature and Philosophy Workshop
Upcoming Events | 2024-2025 | University of Chicago

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.
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”