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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 →

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 →

Please join us this Thursday, April 30 from 4:30–6pm in Cobb 112 for a workshop with Stefanie Harris (Associate Professor of German and Film Studies, Texas A&M): “Obstinate Series: Repetition and Recurrence with Alexander Kluge” The paper is available here–please … Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

This week, on Thursday 11/13 at 4:30 in Harper 145, Professor Seth Brodsky will present work from his book manuscript. Please see below for his note and materials, and go here to access his paper (email Marcy, Rachel, or Aleks … Continue reading →