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Meeting 5: George Adams

Please join us for the last meeting of the year on Thursday, May 28th at 4.30pm, to discuss the current work of George Adams (music) From George: This is material from my growing dissertation proposal on John Cage’s conceptual music. … Continue reading

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Meeting 4: Yuan-Chen Li

Please join us this Thursday, May 14 from 4:30–6pm in Cobb 112 for a workshop with Yuan-Chen Li (music): Difficult Voice: Post-Holocaust Vocal Music The paper is available here–please email the workshop coordinators for the password. Musical examples follow (supplemental): Chaya … Continue reading

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Meeting 2: Ryan Dohoney

Thursday, 4/16 @4.30pm in Cobb 112 Prof. Ryan Dohoney (music, Northwestern) will present “Shaken into Seeing: Morton Feldman’s Modernism on the Periphery” In this excerpt from the author’s in-progress manuscript, Dohoney follows the path of Morton Feldman’s modernism to the … Continue reading

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Meeting 4: Semyon Khokhlov

Thursday, 3/12 @4.30pm in Cobb 219 Semyon Khokhlov (English, Notre Dame) will present “Reappraising Modernist Autonomy in the Early Career of Marcel Duchamp” From Semyon: “This is a draft of an article I’m working on. It combines content from the … Continue reading

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Meeting 3: Aleks Prigozhin

Thursday, 2/26 @4.30pm in Cobb 219 Aleksandr Prigozhin (English, UChicago) “Intuition, History, and Anxiety: Anticipating the End in British Novels of the 1930s” From Aleks: “This is a draft of the concluding chapter of my dissertation, “The Arrival of the … Continue reading

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Meeting 2: Max Silva

2/12, 4.30pm Cobb 219     Max Silva, Music, UChicago “Heard Utopia vs. Utopian Hearing: G. F. Haas’s in vain and Political Ambivalence in New Music” This paper is a case study bookended by some material that I think will eventually expand … Continue reading

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Joseph Grim Feinberg Book Release Feb. 11

Dear All, We are pleased to announce an event we are co-sponsoring with the CEERES, Central Europe Workshop, and the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures: Joseph Grim Feinberg, “The Windmills of Humanity: Presenting a New Translation of Czech Philosopher … Continue reading

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Meeting 2: Amanda Davis

This Thursday, we welcome Amanda Davis, PhD candidate in English. Amanda will share with us a chapter from her dissertation, entitled “Embodying Animation: Genres of Literary Architecture in American Fiction.” Amanda writes: “The overall project might be described as a … Continue reading

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