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OUR SOCIETY
SEEMS
TO HAVE
ONE SETTING —
FASTER.
Start-ups rise and fall, information is available instantaneously,
and replying to texts can’t happen fast enough. We witness social
movements that erupt seemingly overnight and prepare for the
fallout from the rapid acceleration of climate change. All the while
keeping our eye on what’s “trending.”
THIS FALL WE INVITE YOU TO TAKE A PAUSE (IF YOU CAN).
WELCOME TO FALLFEST/16: SPEED.
We used to think that our technologies saved us time. And they do
— sometimes. But there’s a growing pushback to the regime of
acceleration: an appreciation of slow food, a flowering of long-form
arts, an embrace of mindfulness (there’s an app for that!), and
cocktails that take forever to make.
At Fallfest/16, we’ll look back in history and even into cosmic time,
and we’ll look forward to what’s coming down the pike next week
and in a hundred years. We’ll examine the speed of daily life, today
and in decades past, and our spaces of meditation and reflection.
We’ll discuss the politicians that urge us to hurry up and the artists
that force us to slow down, what ties us to timeless cycles as well
as what changes the world in the blink of an eye.
As always, we’ll celebrate and question ideas within the context of
civic life, connecting artists, authors, journalists, scholars, policy
makers, and other great thinkers — both established and emerging
— with passionate and adventurous audiences. This year’s
programs and performances will leave you with deep insights
and compelling questions, not simplistic answers.
Explore new and unexpected perspectives.
Celebrate the social life of ideas.
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$25,000-$49,999
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MORRIS AND DOLORES KOHL K APL AN NORTHWESTERN DAY — EVANSTON
OCTOBER 29
This annual day in Evanston recognizes the generous support of Morris and Dolores Kohl
Kaplan, ardent supporters of the arts. Dolores makes this thoughtful gift in memory of
her loving husband, Morris, who was one of CHF’s founders, and for their shared desire to
expand the impact of the Chicago Humanities Festival.
HYDE PARK DAY
OCTOBER 30
Chicago Humanities Festival's day in Hyde Park is generously underwritten in part by
Heather McWilliams and Fred Fischer.
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Please consider including the Chicago Humanities Festival in your will and trust.
For more information, visit chicagohumanities.org or call (312) 494-9563.
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PROGRAM
204 YA Lit in Kicks, Hoops, and Verse
JOANNE H. ALTER WOMEN IN
GOVERNMENT LECTURE
214 Senator Barbara Boxer
LYNN HAUSER AND NEIL ROSS PROGRAM
806 Marshall Brown: Architecture and Time
ELAINE AND ROGER HAYDOCK SERIES
306 James Rebanks: Twitter's
Favorite Shepherd
400 Mary Roach: Humans at War
BASKES LECTURE IN HISTORY
814 Trevor Noah: Born a Crime
607 Sean Wilentz: The Gift of
Partisan Politics
ILLINOIS HUMANITIES PROGRAM
LAURIE AND JAMES BAY PROGRAM
705 Melissa Harris-Perry: Nerdland Forever
ELIZABETH A. LIEBMAN PROGRAM
ELLEN STONE BELIC PRESENTS: IN HER
INFINITE WISDOM
411 511 Electronic Tap with
Dorrance Dance
515 609
102 Gloria Steinem
RICHARD H. DRIEHAUS FOUNDATION
LECTURE ON ARCHITECTURE
601 Pullman: Past and Future
SALLY AND MICHAEL FEDER PROGRAM
813 Jack Viertel: From Hairspray to Hamilton
THE WILLIAM AND GRETA WILEY FLORY
CONCERT
700 Prince/Bowie: We Can Be Heroes
701
RICHARD J. FRANKE LECTURE
103 Thomas Friedman: Thank You for
Being Late
THE HELEN B. AND IRA E. GRAHAM
FAMILY CONCERT
310 The Victor Goines Quartet with
Guest Artist Mary Stallings
RICHARD GRAY VISUAL ART SERIES
209 Art from Surveillance
ROBERT R. MCCORMICK FOUNDATION
LECTURE
301 What It Will Take to Improve
American Schools
THE STANEK ENDOWED MUSIC PROGRAM
612 Rhythm of the Stars: Third Coast
Percussion
TERRA FOUNDATION LECTURES ON
AMERICAN ART
803 Slow Art: Looking Long and Hard in the
Age of Instant Everything
807 Art and the Land
TYSON FOODS SERIES ON HOME COOKING
406 The Adventures of Fat Rice
707 Robbie Montgomery: Sweetie Pie's
Cookbook
FALLFEST/16 SPEED
100 Lin-Manuel Miranda
SPENCER FOUNDATION LECTURE ON
EDUCATION AND LEARNING
405 Chicago's Culture of Policing
BILL AND PENNY OBENSHAIN PROGRAM
ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS
403 Senator Richard Lugar
JOHN W. AND JEANNE M. ROWE PROGRAM
302 Mark Lilla and John Banville:
Reassessing Reactionaries
KARLA SCHERER ENDOWED LECTURE
SERIES FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
512 Geoffrey Stone: The Future of SCOTUS
603 Dana Weiner: Making Policy in the
Age of Immediacy
804 The Many Lives of the Ghetto
809 Elizabeth Alexander: The Light of
the World
ANITA AND PRABHA SINHA PROGRAM
207 The Constitution Under Pressure
307 Mile-High Art Studio
SOUTHWEST AIRLINES PROGRAM
408 Art Spiegelman on Si Lewen's Parade
708 Isabel Wilkerson and the Great Migration
600 Andy Warhol’s Photographic Velocity
812 Intensive Rhythm: Soviet Kinetic Art
of the 1960s
POLITICS + SOCIETY
ARTS + CULTURE
TECHNOLOGY, ECONOMY + SCIENCE
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MAKE YOUR WAY TO
SEE SOME OF OUR
FEATURED
SPEAKERS!
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MAUREEN
DOWD
SATURDAY OCTOBER 29
10:30-11:30AM
Cahn Auditorium
Northwestern University
600 Emerson St
407
PHILIP
GLASS
2016 CHICAGO TRIBUNE LITERARY
AWARD
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 2
6-7PM
Symphony Center | Armour Stage
220 S Michigan Ave
705
MELISSA
HARRISPERRY
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 10
6-7:30PM
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Thorne Auditorium
375 E Chicago Ave
814
TREVOR
NOAH
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 12
4-5PM
Music Box Theatre | Main Theatre
3733 N Southport Ave
(312) 494-9509 M-F, 10AM-5PM
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"FRIEDMAN DOESN'T
JUST REPORT ON
EVENTS; HE HELPS
SHAPE THEM."
-FOREIGN POLICY
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LIMITED TICKETS AVAILABLE
100
LAURIE AND JAMES BAY PROGRAM
LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA
SOLD OUT!
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FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 23 6-7PM M$32 G$40 ST$10
Lyric Opera of Chicago
YOU
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ALSO
ENJOY
Charter Humanists must RSVP for complimentary entry to this
program by calling (312) 494-9509.
If any artist went supernova in the past year, it’s Lin-Manuel
Miranda. His game-changing musical Hamilton garnered 11
Tony Awards, a Grammy, and Pulitzer Prize and is already one
of the historic blockbusters of Broadway theater. Hamilton has
also created new excitement and conversations about American
history, the changing voice of the American musical, and the
significance of race throughout it all. Prior to the Chicago
premiere of Hamilton, the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago
Humanities Festival are thrilled to host Miranda, in conversation
with theater critic Chris Jones.
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700
813
MONDAY OCTOBER 17 5:30-6:30PM M$50 G$50 ST$50
Fourth Presbyterian Church of Chicago | Sanctuary
In his forthcoming book Thank You for Being Late, New York
Times columnist and three-time Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas
Friedman examines the dizzying acceleration of the modern
world. Driven by technological transformations and economic interdependency, the 21st century requires nations and individuals
to be fast, innovative, and quick to adapt. At the same time, he
argues, we need to be fair and learn how to be slow—shutting
out the noise and accessing our deepest values.
YOU
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808
This annual lecture recognizes the significant contributions
to the Chicago Humanities Festival made by its founder and
chairman emeritus Richard J. Franke.
This program is generously underwritten by Laurie and James
Bay and is presented in partnership with the Chicago Tribune.
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RICHARD J. FRANKE LECTURE
THOMAS FRIEDMAN:
THANK YOU FOR BEING LATE
SHORTLIST KICKOFF
FALLFEST/16 SPEED
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 5 5:30-7:30PM $15
Haymarket Pub & Brewery | Drinking & Writing Theater
Live programming, trivia, snacks, and a Haymarket brew with admission.
Attend the Shortlist Kickoff party at Haymarket Pub & Brewery for a live
preview of our package and $15 off the Shortlist Ticket Package when
purchased on-site. See page 4 for more information.
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SOLD OUT!
SATURDAY OCTOBER 29
MORRIS + DOLORES KOHL KAPLAN
NORTHWESTERN DAY - EVANSTON
SPOTLIGHT EVENT
200
MAUREEN DOWD: THE YEAR OF
VOTING DANGEROUSLY
SATURDAY OCTOBER 29 10:30-11:30AM M$20 G$25 ST$10
Cahn Auditorium
102
ELLEN STONE BELIC PRESENTS:
IN HER INFINITE WISDOM
GLORIA STEINEM
THURSDAY OCTOBER 13 6-7PM M$20 G$25 ST$10
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law | Thorne Auditorium
One of the most significant public figures of the past 50 years,
writer, activist, and feminist pioneer Gloria Steinem has distilled
her experiences into My Life on the Road, an account of her
encounters with individuals and audiences all over the world.
She tells a moving, funny, and profound story that includes
activism in India, the founding of Ms. Magazine, visits to college
campuses and prisons, the whirlwind of political campaigns—
and a lifetime of travel and leadership. In this momentous year
for women in politics, you will not want to miss what Gloria
Steinem has to say.
This program is generously underwritten by Ellen Stone Belic
and features an artist, writer, or other creative authority
reflecting on her extraordinary career. Talkback hosted by
co-founders of Ballotready.com.
YOU
MAY
ALSO
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214
705
810
In this perilous and shocking campaign season, The Year of
Voting Dangerously: The Derangement of American Politics
features Maureen Dowd's trademark cocktail of wry humor and
acerbic analysis. If America is on the escalator to hell, then The
Year of Voting Dangerously is the perfect guide for this surreal
ride. Join the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist,
in conversation with David Axelrod, former senior advisor to
President Obama and director of the University of Chicago's
Institute of Politics, for their takes and takedowns from one of
the most disruptive and divisive Presidential races in modern
history.
YOU
MAY
ALSO
ENJOY
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214
705
This program is presented in partnership with the Institute of
Politics.
MODERATED CONVERSATION FOLLOWING THE
PROGRAM (OPEN TO ALL ATTENDEES)
POLITICS + SOCIETY
PREORDER BOOK THROUGH CHF BOX OFFICE
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ARTS + CULTURE
9
201
SATURDAY OCTOBER 29 12:30-1:30PM M$10 G$12 ST$5
Cahn Auditorium
In February 2016, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave
Observatory project (LIGO) recorded something astonishing:
evidence of a gravitational wave produced in the final fraction
of a second of the merger of two black holes. Albert Einstein
predicted the existence of such waves in 1915. When the U.S.
National Science Foundation first funded LIGO in 1992, it was
the most expensive project the NSF had ever backed. Like
Einstein, the NSF’s foresight was confirmed. Come listen to
a conversation between LIGO physicist Nergis Mavalvala and
Walter Massey, former NSF director and chancellor of the
School of the Art Institute Chicago, about cosmic speed and
human patience.
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Born in Ghana and raised in Huntsville, Alabama, Yaa Gyasi has
written a debut work that embraces her extended world in all its
complexity. Tracing the descendants of two sisters torn apart in
eighteenth-century Africa, Homegoing is a riveting, kaleidoscopic
novel about race, history, ancestry, love, and time. Stretching
from the wars of Ghana to the coal mines of the American South
to twentieth-century Harlem, Gyasi’s tale captures the troubled
spirit of our nation.
YOU
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-TA-NEHISI COATES
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HOMEGOING: ACROSS CENTURIES IN
AFRICA AND AMERICA
Ryan Center for the Musical Arts | Galvin Recital Hall
203
"HOMEGOING
IS AN
INSPIRATION."
COSMIC SPEED AND THE TIME OF SCIENCE
YOU
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708
800
815
SLOW READING AND THE RUSSIAN NOVEL
Harris Hall | Room 107
Gary Saul Morson has been reading long books for a long
time. A leading expert in narrative form and Russian literature,
Morson is especially interested in the monster-sized novels of
the 19th century. War and Peace is more than 1,400 pages not
just because Tolstoy had a lot to say, but because he believed
taking a long time to read it made you see the world differently.
Come hear from one of Northwestern University's most beloved
lecturers on why slow reading is as important as ever.
YOU
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410
803
This program is presented in partnership with the Alice Kaplan
Institute for the Humanities at Northwestern University.
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JONATHAN LETHEM
Cahn Auditorium
204
THE ALLSTATE INSURANCE
COMPANY PROGRAM
YA LIT IN KICKS, HOOPS, AND VERSE
Josephine Louis Theater
Kwame Alexander, winner of the Newbery Medal, is inventing
new ways to reach young readers and address their complex
lives through verse and sports. Alexander’s The Crossover and
his latest, Booked, are tales of growing up in and around youth
basketball and soccer, told in a style from acrostics to hip-hop
poetry. He will discuss the inspiration and challenges of juggling
stardom in the fast-changing field of young adult literature.
Alexander will be in conversation with narrative and story
master, Shepsu Aakhu, screenwriter, playwright, and director.
This program and student matinee are generously underwritten
by Allstate Insurance Company with additional support from
Lorraine and Jay Jaffe.
POLITICS + SOCIETY
AND SAVE 20%
ARTS + CULTURE
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706
Jonathan Lethem is one of the most colorful novelists writing
today. Like Dickens, he writes stories filled with memorable
figures, offering pathos and absurdity in equal measure.
MacArthur Award-winning Lethem is author of Motherless
Brooklyn (which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for
Fiction), The Fortress of Solitude, and Chronic City. Now he comes
to CHF with a new novel, A Gambler’s Anatomy. Featuring a wild
cast of characters and set in Berlin and Berkeley, the story
follows backgammon wizard Bruno Alexander as he confronts
dilemmas simultaneously strange and universal. CHF associate
artistic director Alison Cuddy joins Lethem in conversation.
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YOU
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202
505
800
THE EPIC SCRAMBLE TO GET INSIDE
OUR HEADS
Before there was click bait there were the ruthless attention
merchants of Madison Avenue, and the remote control mute
button predates blocking pop-up ads. In The Attention Merchants:
The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads, one of our most
astute and influential observers of digital culture, Tim Wu,
puts the technological present in a broader historical context,
emphasizing the cognitive and social impacts of all our clicking
and linking and posting.
YOU
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210
303
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BECOME A
MEMBER
TODAY!
SUPPORTCHF.ORG
207
ANITA AND PRABHA SINHA PROGRAM
THE CONSTITUTION UNDER PRESSURE
Gun control and gay marriage, affirmative action and
criminal procedure, presidential dynasties and congressional
dysfunction. Preeminent constitutional scholar Akhil Reed
Amar examines the biggest and most bitterly contested debates
of the last two decades in his latest book, The Constitution
Today: Timeless Lessons for the Issues of Our Era. Come hear his
diagnosis of a political epoch marked by polarization, inertia,
and occasionally rapid change.
YOU
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This program is generously underwritten by Anita and Prabha
Sinha.
208
HOW TO MAKE A SPACESHIP
Josephine Louis Theater
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FALLFEST/16 SPEED
In 2004, a bullet-shaped rocket called SpaceShipOne was
launched from the Mojave Desert, winning the $10 million XPrize
for the first private, reusable manned spaceship and effectively
creating a new industry that today includes SpaceX, Virgin
Galactic, and Blue Origin. In How to Make a Spaceship, Julian
Guthrie tells the story of the ingenuity and outsized dreams
of the competing teams of aviators, test pilots, billionaires,
engineering school dropouts, and NASA retirees. Anousheh
Ansari, the first female private space explorer and the first
astronaut of Iranian descent, joins Guthrie in conversation.
201
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SPOTLIGHT EVENT
209
ART FROM SURVEILLANCE
Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art | Pick-Laudati Auditorium
How do our lives translate to data? After 9/11, Bangladeshi-born
American interdisciplinary artist Hasan Elahi was the subject
of an intensive, erroneous FBI investigation. He responded by
putting his entire life online, from his financial data to transportation logs. The resulting project, “Tracking Transcience,”
explores the relationship between location, repetition,
technology, and surveillance in the media age.
The annual Richard Gray Visual Art Series recognizes a
significant gift from founding CHF board member and distinguished art dealer Richard Gray. This program is presented in
partnership with the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art.
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807
Time travel is not a new concept. It’s in works by H.G. Wells and
Proust, Dr. Who and Jorge Luis Borges. Acclaimed journalist
and biographer James Gleick explores the subversive origins
of time travel, its evolution in literature and science, and
its influence on our understanding of time itself. A leading
chronicler of science and technology—his best-selling Chaos:
Making a New Science popularized the term “the butterfly
effect”—Gleick helps us see our instantaneous, wired world with
new clarity.
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THE SECRET LIVES OF TEENAGERS
Cahn Auditorium
In Nancy Jo Sales' 2015 article on Tinder in Vanity Fair, she
spoke of a “Dating Apocalypse” and launched a series of testy
exchanges with the dating app's CEO, Sean Rad. Undaunted,
Sales, known for her stories on celebrity, youth culture, and
crime, has continued to explore the ways social media has
fundamentally changed how, and how fast, girls grow up today.
American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers
casts a sympathetic—but critical—eye on this new selfmediating world. WBEZ host Greta Johnsen joins Sales for an
examination of what it means to be a girl today.
JAMES GLEICK: TIME TRAVEL BEYOND
PHYSICS AND FICTION
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ENVIRONMENTAL CATASTROPHE
AND GLOBAL CONSCIOUSNESS
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We think—we hope—that extreme climate crises have raised our
consciousness of a responsibility for a shared planet. Our era is
not the first to try to connect these dots. Historian Lydia Barnett
explains how a wide range of thinkers in the Enlightenment
sought to use environmental catastrophe—the Biblical Flood
was the template—to describe the earth and its history on a
global scale. During its brief heyday, the genre built fragile
bridges across Europe's religious and national divides and
called for a new, far-flung network of scholars.
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SLOW, ARTISTIC, INDIE TV
Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art | Pick-Laudati Auditorium
Northwestern University scholar Aymar Jean Christian likens
the ballooning number of commercial TV shows to fast food.
That makes the short-form web series on his platform Open
TV beta—created by artists who are queer, trans, and people of
color largely left out of commercial television production—slow
food. Through clips, conversation, and live performances by
featured artists Ricardo Gamboa, Shea Couleé, and NIC Kay,
Christian takes present and future queer TV fans on a behindthe-scenes journey through a production process that can take
up to a year.
SUNDAY OCTOBER 30
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605
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HYDE PARK DAY
SUPPORTED IN PART BY HEATHER
MCWILLIAMS AND FRED FISCHER
300
GARY YOUNGE: ANOTHER DAY
IN THE DEATH OF AMERICA
SUNDAY OCTOBER 30 12-1PM M$12 G$15 ST$10
Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts | Performance Hall
On an average day seven Americans aged 19 or younger are
shot dead. In Another Day in the Death of America, award-winning
Guardian journalist Gary Younge tells the stories of ten of these
lives lost on one random day—November 23, 2013. Younge’s
narrative crisscrosses the country from suburban Ohio to
Chicago’s South Side to rural Michigan to put a human face—a
child’s face—on the “collateral damage” of gun violence. This
is not a book about gun control, but about what happens in a
country where it does not exist.
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This program is presented in partnership with Leadership
Greater Chicago, who will host a post-program talkback.
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SPOTLIGHT EVENT
214
JOANNE H. ALTER WOMEN IN
GOVERNMENT LECTURE
SENATOR BARBARA BOXER
SATURDAY OCTOBER 29 7-8PM M$12 G$15 ST$10
Cahn Auditorium
Senator Barbara Boxer has represented California in both
Congress and the Senate over the past 33 years. As a ranking
member of the Environment and Public Works, Ethics, and
Senate Foreign Relations Committees, she has championed
environmental protection and women’s issues on the global
stage. In her memoir, The Art of the Tough, she takes us from
her childhood in Brooklyn to the often vexing political playing
field in Washington, all the while underscoring her longstanding
personal mantra: never compromise about doing the right
thing. Boxer visits CHF to share her story on the eve of her
retirement from a lifetime in public service. Senator Boxer will
be in conversation with Elizabeth Brackett, correspondent for
WTTW's Chicago Tonight.
This annual lecture honors the late Joanne H. Alter’s pioneering
work on behalf of women interested in social action and
public service.
"YOU WILL NEVER
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SPENCER FOUNDATION LECTURE ON
EDUCATION AND LEARNING
WHAT IT WILL TAKE TO IMPROVE
AMERICAN SCHOOLS
SUNDAY OCTOBER 30 12:30-1:30PM M$10 G$12 ST$5
Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
Film Screening Room 201
Jal Mehta has become a national voice in debates about
improving American education. In his most recent book, The
Allure of Order: High Hopes, Dashed Expectations and the Troubled
Quest to Remake American Schooling, he explains why reformers
repeatedly turn to the promise of scientific management and
rational administration from above—and why it hasn't worked.
Mehta's solution: attract strong candidates into teaching,
develop relevant and usable knowledge, train teachers
extensively, and support it all with a robust welfare state.
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This annual lecture recognizes a generous multiyear grant
from the Spencer Foundation, which seeks both to support
and disseminate exemplary research about education, broadly
conceived.
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JOHN W. AND JEANNE M. ROWE
PROGRAM | MARK LILLA AND JOHN
BANVILLE: REASSESSING REACTIONARIES
Performance Penthouse 901
We live in a time of originalisms and fundamentalisms, when
people all over the world look back longingly—and angrily—at
what they think were better days. Mark Lilla, one of the most
cogent observers of society's intellectual currents, argues in
The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction that far from being
conservative, the reactionary is as radical as the revolutionary. From condemning the French Revolution to pursuing the
vanished glory of the Muslim caliphate, the reactionary mind
is a formidable historical force. Join Lilla, in conversation with
Man Booker prize-winning author John Banville, for a timely
appraisal of the modern reactionary mind.
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This program is generously underwritten by John W. and Jeanne
M. Rowe and is presented in partnership with the New York
Review of Books.
-NAOMI KLEIN
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"MARK LILLA IS THE MODEL OF AN ENGAGED INTELLECTUAL."
-GEORGE PACKER
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DOING TIME, LOST TIME:
EXONEREES COME HOME
THE INTERNET: HIGH SPEED
EVERYTHING
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This program is presented in partnership with the Poetry
Foundation. Talkback hosted by WBEZ.
Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts | Performance Hall
Harper Reed understands the power and possibility of the
Internet as few others do. Formerly chief technology officer for
the innovative clothing company Threadless and then for Obama
for America, Reed has been at the forefront of the information
and communication revolution as it overturned established
models and industries. Today he is helping to define the future of
commerce at PayPal. Neal Sales-Griffin joins this extraordinary
engineer for a conversation about where we are and where we’re
headed on the Internet.
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The United States locks up more people, per capita, than any
other country in the world, but the experience of doing time—and
making up for lost time upon release from prison—is widely
misunderstood. In her book Exoneree Diaries: The Fight for
Innocence, Independence, and Identity, which focuses on Cook
County, the wrongful conviction capital of the country, investigative journalist Alison Flowers follows four wrongly convicted
men and women as they are released back into the world.
She'll be in conversation with Reginald Dwayne Betts, whose
memoir A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Survival, Learning and
Coming of Age in Prison chronicled his eight-year stint as an adult
offender after committing a carjacking at the age of sixteen.
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Talkback hosted by WBEZ.
"A PROVOCATIVE BOOK OF
JUSTICE GONE WRONG."
-KIRKUS REVIEWS
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MYCHAL DENZEL SMITH:
INVISIBLE MAN
BECOME A
MEMBER
TODAY!
SUPPORTCHF.ORG
Mychal Denzel Smith is one of the country’s most prominent
young writers on race and gender. In Invisible Man, Got the Whole
World Watching, Smith shares his unapologetic coming-of-age
story. The questions at the heart of his message —How does
one learn to be a black man in America? How will the millennial
generation change the script for black manhood? What would
America look like if all black boys live to see adulthood?—
are urgent and the generation he represents is impatient for
answers.
This program is presented in partnership with the Center for the
Study of Race, Politics & Culture, University of Chicago.
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JAMES REBANKS:
TWITTER'S FAVORITE SHEPHERD
Performance Hall
A sensation in the United Kingdom and in the U.S., shepherd
James Rebanks has given us an eye-opening glimpse into
a world that has not changed in hundreds of years with his
acclaimed memoir, The Shepherd’s Life and with the stunning
photos in his second book, The Shepherd's View. The son of a
long line of shepherds in Yorkshire’s Lake District, Rebanks
took a detour to Oxford only to return to tend the flock. Rebanks
lives a modern life—he is active on Twitter—but one shaped
by the ancient rhythms of land and climate, man, and animal.
CHF associate artistic director Alison Cuddy joins Rebanks in
conversation.
PHOTO: JAMES REBANKS
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This program is generously underwritten by Elaine and Roger
Haydock.
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Six years ago interdisciplinary artist Nina Katchadourian made
the unusual decision to turn the “nothing” time of plane travel
into a creative space for making art, using only a camera phone
and improvising with materials close at hand. This ongoing
project, entitled "Seat Assignment," has varied from selfportraits in the style of Flemish master painters taken in the
airplane lavatory, to small installations made with airplane
snacks on her tray table. Join Katchadourian for a presentation
and conversation about her work.
significant gift from founding CHF board member and distinguished art dealer Richard Gray.
FOOTWORK CULTURE WITH THE ERA
Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts | Theater East
One of Chicago's many contributions to club culture is footwork,
a frenetic yet graceful style of music and dance combining
fast beats and moves, soulful samples, and triplet bass lines.
The Era, a dance collective co-founded in 2014 by South Side
native Jamal "Litebulb" Oliver, boasts some of the city’s finest
battle dancers. Oliver will be joined on stage by The Era’s
resident filmmaker Willis Glasspiegel for a conversation and
performance from The Era, unveiling the history and future of
footwork.
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SPEED-READING SHAKESPEARE
If there is one writer we have been taught to savor and to revisit,
it is Shakespeare. But much of what the Bard wrote was crafted
on the fly and meant to be sped along in performance. New
digital scholarly resources add another temporal dimension—
the possibility of “machine-reading” Shakespeare to delve even
deeper into patterns and insights of his plays and sonnets.
Come join Michael Witmore, director of the Folger Shakespeare
Library in Washington, D.C., and renowned authority on “digital
humanities,” as he unveils new discoveries in Shakespeare
studies.
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This program is presented in partnership with Chicago
Shakespeare Theater as part of Shakespeare 400 Chicago.
Talkback hosted by Classical Pursuits.
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This program is presented in partnership with the Center for the
Study of Race, Politics & Culture, University of Chicago.
MILE-HIGH ART STUDIO
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BRING
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THE HELEN B. AND IRA E. GRAHAM FAMILY
CONCERT | THE VICTOR GOINES QUARTET
WITH GUEST ARTIST MARY STALLINGS
Performance Hall
Clarinetist, saxophonist, and composer Victor Goines is one
of the most respected and multi-faceted musicians in the
jazz world today and director of jazz studies at Northwestern
University. In addition to his recordings as a bandleader, Goines
has been a member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra
and the Wynton Marsalis Septet since 1993. He will play with
his quartet and welcome to the stage legendary vocalist Mary
Stallings, who has been performing with the greats of the jazz
world for more than 50 years.
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This program is generously underwritten by the Helen B. and Ira
E. Graham Family.
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ELAINE AND ROGER HAYDOCK
SERIES | MARY ROACH:
HUMANS AT WAR
MONDAY OCTOBER 31 6-7PM M$12 G$15 ST$10
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Thorne Auditorium
One of the most intrepid—and funniest—science writers working
today, Mary Roach has explored sex (Bonk), corpses (Stiff),
and digestion (Gulp). For her latest, Grunt: The Curious Science
of Humans at War, Roach's field research has taken her from
Djibouti to a nuclear submarine to answer puzzles about war.
Why is DARPA interested in ducks? How is a wedding gown like
a bomb suit? Why are shrimp more dangerous to sailors than
sharks? WGN radio host Justin Kaufmann joins the perennial
bestseller for an exploration of these mysteries, and more.
Haydock. Talkback hosted by WBEZ.
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DAN SAVAGE: SAVAGE LOVE
MONDAY OCTOBER 31 8-9PM M$20 G$25 ST$10
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MONDAY OCTOBER 31
This program is included in the Shortlist package for young professionals. See page 4 for more information.
Author, sex-advice columnist, podcaster, and pundit, Dan
Savage’s graphic, pragmatic, and humorous advice has
changed the cultural conversation about monogamy, gay rights,
religiosity, and politics. In 2010 Savage and his husband Terry
Miller founded the Emmy-winning “It Gets Better” Project,
gathering tens of thousands of videos from people all over
the world offering messages of hope to LGBT kids. Join CHF
associate artistic director Alison Cuddy in welcoming Savage
back to our stage for a frank conversation on gay rights, gay
marriage, and the speed of social change.
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This program is presented in partnership with Time Out Chicago.
"ROACH GOES
WHERE OTHER
WRITERS
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THE HYPOCRITES: THE STRONGER,
FASTER
MONDAY OCTOBER 31 DOORS 6:30PM SHOW 8-9PM M$15 G$20 ST$10
Untitled Supper Club
Audience attending this program must be 21 and up. This program
will have a mixture of seating and standing room. Seating is
first-come, first-served.
In a performance created for Fallfest/16: Speed, Sean Graney,
artistic director of premier off-Loop theater company The
Hypocrites, has taken a boundary-pushing one-act play by
Strindberg, The Stronger, and pushed it even further. Come wine,
dine, and experience the unique musical and theatrical style
of The Hypocrites and their debut show. You will not have seen
anything like it—we promise.
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TUESDAY NOVEMBER 1
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BILL AND PENNY OBENSHAIN PROGRAM
ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS
SENATOR RICHARD LUGAR
TUESDAY NOVEMBER 1 6-7PM M$10 G$12 ST$5
Representing Indiana from 1977 to 2013, Senator Richard Lugar
was one of our country's most admired specialists in international affairs and a great believer in bipartisan governance, a
commitment seemingly in short supply today. Lee Feinstein,
U.S. ambassador to Poland from 2009 to 2012, is the founding
dean of Indiana University’s School of Global and International
Studies, where Lugar is a professor of practice. Come hear
these experienced and sophisticated observers discuss the
world today and the role of the United States in it.
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This progam is generously underwritten by longstanding
supporters Bill and Penny Obenshain.
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National Hellenic Museum | Calamos Hall
The birth of the slow food movement can be traced back 30
years, to a pivotal rally against a proposed McDonald’s at the
foot of Rome’s Spanish Steps. Alongside their chants, protesters
served bowls of homemade pasta, and since then, foodies
around the world have been dishing up meals that reflect local
crops and culinary traditions. Jason Hammel of Chicago’s
famous Lula Café, a local pioneer for localvore and slow food,
and Marika Josephson of Scratch Brewing Company will discuss
the evolution of this movement in Chicago and beyond.
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Talkback hosted by certified health coach and CHF member,
Liz Traines.
ROBERT R. MCCORMICK
FOUNDATION LECTURE
CHICAGO'S CULTURE OF POLICING
The gruesome shooting of Laquan McDonald by Chicago
police officer Jason Van Dyke brought national attention to the
long dysfunctional relationship between the Chicago Police
Department and the city’s African-American communities.
Jamie Kalven and his colleagues at the Invisible Institute have
worked to increase CPD accountability and transparency, from
suing for the public disclosure of police misconduct reports
to helping South Side teens document their interactions with
police. Kalven will be in conversation with former prosecutor
and current Chicago Police Board president Lori Lightfoot.
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This program recognizes the generous support of the Robert R.
McCormick Foundation to the Chicago Humanities Festival.
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DON'T MISS OUT!
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TYSON FOODS SERIES ON HOME
COOKING | THE ADVENTURES OF
FAT RICE
National Hellenic Museum | Calamos Hall
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At the happening Chicago restaurant Fat Rice, chefs/owners
Abraham Conlon and Adrienne Lo present their take on the
fascinating food culture of Macau, the former Portuguese
outpost on the Pearl River in China, where travelers from
Europe, Southeast Asia, and beyond traded resources, culture,
and food. In their new cookbook, The Adventures of Fat Rice, the
James Beard Award finalists share their story and recipes, from
Po Kok Gai (a chicken curry with chouriço and olives) to Arroz
Gordo (if paella and fried rice had a baby).
This program is generously underwritten by Tyson Foods with
additional support provided by Carol Rosofsky.
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THURSDAY NOVEMBER 3
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ART SPIEGELMAN ON SI LEWEN'S
PARADE
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 3 6-7PM M$10 G$12 ST$5
Francis W. Parker School
Diane and David B Heller Auditorium
PHOTO: STEVE PYKE
While working on a project, famed graphic novelist Art
Spiegelman (Maus) came across the little known work of Si
Lewen. First made after the end of WWII but not published
until 1957, Parade is a haunting “story in drawings” about the
endless cycle of war, based on Lewen’s experiences as a young
immigrant from Poland who witnessed the Nazis coming to
power, and then, as a member of an American special ops
force, entered Buchenwald shortly after it was liberated. Join
Spiegelman and CHF emeritus artistic director Lawrence
Weschler in conversation about his new edition of Lewen’s
ground-breaking work.
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partnership with the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.
THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON DRUGS:
HAMILTON MORRIS
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 3 8-9PM M$10 G$12 ST$5
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago | Edlis Neeson Theater
Hamilton Morris is on a one-man crusade to understand the
world of drugs. The host of Hamilton’s Pharmacopeia on
Vice.com has traveled from Iceland to Brazil to China and beyond
to explore–and sometimes sample–the effects of mushrooms,
frog secretions, synthetic marijuana, and much more. Marrying
scientific rigor with journalistic research, Morris (son of famed
documentary filmmaker Errol Morris) considers his quest an
ongoing experiment in what he calls “ethno-chemistry.”
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This program is presented in partnership with the Museum of
Contemporary Art Chicago.
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2016 CHICAGO TRIBUNE LITERARY
AWARD | PHILIP GLASS: AN EVENING
OF CONVERSATION AND MUSIC
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 2 6-7PM M$20 G$25 ST$10
Symphony Center | Armour Stage
One of the most influential artists of his era, Philip Glass is a
colossus of modern music. His early works shaped musical
minimalism, and his expansive oeuvre includes operas,
symphonies, chamber works, and even film scores. Marked
by a political and literary sensitivity, his compositions explore
the impact of scientists (Einstein on the Beach), writers such as
Samuel Beckett, and political giants like Rabindranath Tagore
and Mahatma Gandhi. Chicago Tribune's arts critic Howard Reich
joins Glass to discuss his remarkable career and new book,
Words Without Music: A Memoir. Glass will play a short
solo selection.
This program is presented in partnership with the
Chicago Tribune.
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"MR. MORRIS HAS A
GRINNING, LAIDBACK PERSONA, WITH
AN APPROACH NOT
DISSIMILAR TO HUNTER
S. THOMPSON'S GONZO
JOURNALISM."
-THE NEW YORK TIMES
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HOW TO WRITE FAST—AND WHY
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 4 6-7PM M$10 G$12 ST$5
NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) wants you to
write... and write fast. Each November, thousands of names
and nobodies churn out 50,000 words over 30 days. Notable
results include Sara Gruen’s Water For Elephants and Marissa
Meyer’s Cinder. Started in 1999, NaNoWriMo has become a
worldwide phenomenon and a fable of the Internet age—creative
empowerment without gatekeepers. Writer and NaNoWriMo
executive director Grant Faulkner will lead a hands-on
exploration of the method behind the madness of fast—and
uninhibited—writing.
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"BEAUTIFULLY CRAFTED,
DEEPLY RESONANT, AND
UNCOMFORTABLY RELATABLE."
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ELECTRONIC TAP WITH DORRANCE DANCE
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 4 7:30-9PM M$24 G$30 ST$10
Charter Humanists must purchase member-price admission tickets
for this program. Student and teacher price tickets are limited in
availability.
Leave your preconceived ideas about tap dancing at the door.
MacArthur Fellow Michelle Dorrance has brought an innovative
approach to the form, merging complicated footwork with the
expressive potential of contemporary dance. She goes even
further in her new work, ETM: Double Down. For this “electronic
tap music,” eight ace tap dancers, including Dorrance, three
musicians, and one B-girl–the incomparable Ephrat "Bounce"
Asherie–deliver an absorbing performance on an electronic
tap floor, transforming the entire stage into an instrument of
syncopated pleasure.
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Running time: 90 minutes, with one intermission
PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE
FRI NOV 4
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3-4:30PM
This program is generously underwritten by Elizabeth A.
Liebman and presented in partnership with the Museum of
Contemporary Art Chicago.
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PRESTO! AN EVENING WITH PENN
JILLETTE
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Outspoken, frank, and bitingly clever, Penn Jillette is a cultural
phenomenon as a solo personality and as half of the worldfamous, Emmy Award-winning magic duo Penn & Teller. In his
new book, Presto! he describes his determination to transform
himself—body and mind—and gives his views on sex, religion,
and pop culture. CHF associate artistic director Alison Cuddy
joins this master provocateur for a rollicking evening of
mayhem and magic against the backdrop of the 2016
presidential campaign.
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SCARY OLD SEX
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 5 11AM-12PM M$10 G$12 ST$5
Fourth Presbyterian Church of Chicago
Buchanan Chapel at the Gratz Center
The passage of time may put an end to some youthful pursuits.
But 74-year-old practicing psychiatrist Arlene Heyman makes
clear that well into old age the sex drive remains alive, well,
and often extremely perverse. Scary Old Sex is Heyman's debut
collection of short stories, which she worked on for decades.
Delving into deeply personal memories (including her youthful
affair with writer Bernard Malamud) and contemporary wrinkles
like the advent of Viagra, Heyman’s work is guaranteed to make
you squirm and sizzle.
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HOW TAMING SLEEP CREATED OUR
RESTLESS WORLD
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 5 10-11AM M$10 G$12 ST$5
The Newberry Library | Ruggles Hall
What makes us work so hard to train ourselves, and our
children, to sleep straight through the night in separate
chambers? Why does sleep require micromanagement,
medical attention, and pervasive worry? There were no such
expectations before the 19th century. Cultural historian
Benjamin Reiss uncovers the history of sleep, arguing that what
may look like a natural act is actually one of society's most
rule-bound and tightly regimented activities. Reiss received a
Guggenheim award to complete Wild Nights: How Taming Sleep
Created Our Restless World, which will be released January 2017.
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At the dawn of the Space Age, talented African-American women
used pencils, slide rules, and adding machines to help calculate
the equations and flight paths for what would become some of
our greatest space missions—even as they were segregated
from their white counterparts by Jim Crow laws. In Hidden
Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black
Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race, to be
released in January as a major motion picture, author Margot
Lee Shetterly tells a tale of technological innovation and
inspiring life stories.
This program and student matinee are generously underwritten
by Baxter International Inc. and the Lohengrin Foundation.
"THE RANGE OF
GAITSKILL'S HUMANITY
IS ASTONISHING AND
MATCHED ONLY, IT
SEEMS, BY A DESIRE TO
CONFRONT READERS
WITH THE TREMBLING
REALITY OF OUR
SHARED UGLINESS."
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WALKING THE EARTH WITH SPIRIT
Poetry Foundation
In spite of centuries of marginalization and prejudice, Australia's
Indigenous peoples' music, theater, visual arts, dance, and
poetry persevere by safeguarding ancestral traditions while
adapting and re-inventing their culture. "Artists of the First
Sunrise" aims to highlight this rich legacy and help preserve
the culture of several Aboriginal communities. Join the multifaceted project's executive producer Marla Gamze, Aboriginal
cross-art form practitioner and activist Sam Cook, and the Field
Museum's Alaka Wali in conversation about the beginnings of
human creativity and the treasures of those who walk on Earth
with Spirit.
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THE BLACK WOMEN WHO HELPED
WIN THE SPACE RACE
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Talkback hosted by Chicago Reader.
This program is presented in partnership with the Karla Scherer
Center for the Study of American Culture at the University of
Chicago and The Newberry Library.
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ACCELERATING SPEECH: HOW WE
LEARNED TO TALK FASTER AND FASTER
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 5 12-1PM M$10 G$12 ST$5
Speech in broadcasting and education gained momentum in the
1970s, thanks to the commercialization of "time compressors"
that allowed tape recordings to be accelerated without changing
pitch. To maximize information transmission, speeded speech
began to be employed in radio commercials and television
shows, talking books for blind readers, and foreign language
cassette courses. Media historian Mara Mills talks about what
happens when the pace of speech is no longer controlled by the
speaker and when words per minute surge across mass media.
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Chicago, The Newberry Library, and New York University Center
for the Humanities.
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MARY GAITSKILL: THE MARE
Here is Mary Gaitskill’s most poignant and powerful work yet—
the story of a Dominican girl, the Anglo woman who introduces
her to riding, and the horse who changes everything for her.
Raw, heart-stirring, and original, The Mare is a timeless story
of a girl and a horse joined with a timely story of people from
different races and classes trying to meet one another honestly.
Join CHF associate artistic director Alison Cuddy in welcoming
the author of the National Book Award-nominated Veronica, and
Because They Wanted To, to discuss her latest tale of love and
mutual delusion.
Talkback hosted by Chicago Reader.
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"A RAZOR-SHARP DISSECTION OF THE POST-SADDAM
UNRAVELING THROUGH THE EYES OF A FICTIONAL SHIITE
MILITIAMAN...HIGHBROW, BRILLIANT."
-NEW YORK MAGAZINE
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CHRISTOPHER WHEELDON/ASHLEY
WHEATER: BALLET IN CONVERSATION
Tony Award-winning choreographer Christopher Wheeldon is
one of the most prolific and sought after talents in contemporary
ballet. He has created some of the most celebrated dance of
the past decade, including works for leading international ballet
companies, the closing ceremonies for the London Olympics,
and the Broadway sensation An American in Paris. Join CHF as
we welcome Wheeldon in conversation with Ashley Wheater,
the artistic director of Chicago's Joffrey Ballet, to discuss the
creative process, ballet today, and Wheeldon's much anticipated
world premiere of The Nutcracker commissioned by the Joffrey
Ballet.
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IRAQ: BEFORE AND SINCE
Poetry Foundation
In 1989, Iraqi intellectual and author Kanan Makiya published
Republic of Fear: The Politics of Modern Iraq, describing the rise
of Saddam Hussein and informing public opinion about life
under his regime. U.S. Defense department officials were aware
of this book before the 1991 war and the 2003 invasion, both
which Makiya welcomed at the time. His latest, the gritty
novel The Rope, is told from the perspective of a Shi’ite
militiaman who participates in Hussein's execution, and takes a
different tack. Makiya talks with CHF emeritus artistic director
Lawrence Weschler about his new work and the changes in his
perspective.
"JEFFERSON
IS ENDLESSLY
FASCINATING,
AND THIS BOOK
SHOWS WHY."
JEFFERSON'S IMAGINATION:
ANNETTE GORDON-REED
Annette Gordon-Reed won both the Pulitzer Prize and the
National Book Award for The Hemingses of Monticello: An
American Family, a chronicle of the family of Sally Hemings,
the enslaved teenager in Thomas Jefferson’s household who
bore his child. Her latest book is Most Blessed of the Patriarchs:
Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination. Written with
Peter S. Onuf, the book is an absorbing and revealing character
study of a man neither hypocrite nor saint, atheist nor fundamentalist.
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Chicago and The Newberry Library.
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THE RISE OF ISIS
When the government of Jordan granted amnesty to a group
of political prisoners in 1999, it little realized that among them
was Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a terrorist mastermind and future
architect of an Islamist movement bent on dominating the
Middle East. Pulitzer-Prize winning Washington Post reporter
Joby Warrick recounts in Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS how the
strategic mistakes of Presidents Bush and Obama and the
zeal of al-Zarqawi led to ISIS's control of huge swaths of
Syria and Iraq. WBEZ host Jerome McDonnell joins Warrick
in conversation.
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HELMUT JAHN AND THE
THOMPSON CENTER
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508
510
-WALTER ISAACSON
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SUPPORTCHF.ORG
When Helmut Jahn’s James R. Thompson Center was erected
in 1985, architectural critics waxed and waned over the
massive size and cost of the structure. Jahn considered his
17-story open-atrium design "a symbol for the openness and
transparency of the state government.” Thirty years later the
building has become a symbol of Illinois’ state crisis, as the
current governor has proposed auctioning it off. The legendary
architect revisits his iconic and controversial design with Aaron
Betsky, dean of the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture.
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"THE PROGRAMS
AND EVENTS ARE
OUTSTANDING
AND I'M IN AWE OF
THE NUMBER AND
VARIETY!
I'VE NEVER BEEN
DISAPPOINTED."
-LOIS GR A LLER, MEMBER
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FRIDAY
SEPTEMBER 23
Lyric Opera of
Chicago
20 N Upper
Wacker Dr
100
6PM
CALENDAR OF
BAY PROGRAM
LIN-MANUEL
MIRANDA
EVENTS
WEDNESDAY
OCTOBER 5
Haymarket Pub &
Brewery
Drinking & Writing
Theater
737 W Randolph St
SATURDAY OCTOBER 29
MORRIS AND DOLORES KOHL K APL AN NORTHWESTERN DAY - EVANSTON
5PM
101
6PM
7PM
Cahn Auditorium
600 Emerson St
Ryan Center for the
Musical Arts
Galvin Recital Hall
70 Arts Circle Dr
Harris Hall
Room 107
1881 Sheridan Rd
Josephine Louis
Theater
20 Arts Circle Dr
Mary & Leigh Block
Museum of Art
Pick-Laudati
Auditorium
40 Arts Circle Dr
SHORTLIST KICKOFF
10AM
200
11AM
THURSDAY
OCTOBER 13
Northwestern
Pritzker School
of Law
Thorne Auditorium
375 E Chicago Ave
MAUREEN DOWD:
THE YEAR OF VOTING
DANGEROUSLY
12PM
201
1PM
COSMIC
SPEED AND THE TIME
OF SCIENCE
HOMEGOING: 202
ACROSS CENTURIES
IN AFRICA AND
AMERICA
203
204
SLOW READING AND
THE RUSSIAN NOVEL
ALLSTATE PROGRAM
YA LIT IN KICKS,
HOOPS, AND VERSE
102
6PM
BELIC PROGRAM
GLORIA STEINEM
2PM
205
MONDAY
OCTOBER 17
5PM
6PM
22
3PM
Fourth
Presbyterian
Church of Chicago
Sanctuary
N Michigan Ave & E
Delaware Pl
4PM
FRANKE
103
LECTURE
THOMAS FRIEDMAN:
THANK YOU FOR
BEING LATE
6PM
JONATHAN
LETHEM
210
5PM
7PM
NANCY JO SALES:
THE SECRET LIVES
OF TEENAGERS
214
ALTER
LECTURE
SENATOR BARBARA
BOXER
THE EPIC
SCRAMBLE TO GET
INSIDE OUR HEADS
206
207
SINHA
PROGRAM
THE CONSTITUTION
UNDER PRESSURE
JAMES
211
GLEICK:
TIME TRAVEL
BEYOND PHYSICS
AND FICTION
ENVIRONMEN- 212
TAL CATASTROPHE
AND GLOBAL
CONSCIOUSNESS
208
HOW TO MAKE A
SPACESHIP
209
GRAY SERIES
ART FROM
SURVEILLANCE
213
SLOW, ARTISTIC,
INDIE TV
SUNDAY OCTOBER 30
RE VA AND DAVID LOGAN CENTER FOR THE ARTS HYDE PARK DAY
WITH SUPPORT FROM HE ATHER MCWILLIAMS AND FRED FISCHER
Film Screening
Room 201
915 E 60th St
Performance Hall
915 E 60th St
Performance
Penthouse 901
915 E 60th St
Theater East
915 E 60th St
300
12PM
GARY YOUNGE:
ANOTHER DAY IN THE
DEATH OF AMERICA
1PM
SPENCER
301
LECTURE
WHAT IT WILL
TAKE TO IMPROVE
AMERICAN SCHOOLS
302
ROWE
PROGRAM
MARK LILLA AND
JOHN BANVILLE
POLITICS + SOCIETY
ARTS + CULTURE
303
2PM
THE INTERNET: HIGH
SPEED EVERYTHING
3PM
DOING TIME,
LOST TIME:
EXONEREES
COME HOME
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305
MONDAY OCTOBER 31
MYCHAL DENZEL
SMITH: INVISIBLE
MAN
Northwestern
Pritzker School
of Law
Thorne Auditorium
375 E Chicago Ave
306
4PM
HAYDOCK SERIES
JAMES REBANKS
307
GRAY SERIES
MILE-HIGH ART
STUDIO
5PM
308
FOOTWORK CULTURE
WITH THE ERA
400
309
6PM
SPEED-READING
SHAKESPEARE
HAYDOCK SERIES
MARY ROACH:
HUMANS AT WAR
7PM
GRAHAM
310
CONCERT
THE VICTOR GOINES
QUARTET WITH
MARY STALLINGS
401
8PM
TUESDAY NOVEMBER 1
Northwestern
Pritzker School
of Law
Thorne Auditorium
375 E Chicago Ave
6PM
DOORS OPEN 6:30PM
WEDNESDAY
NOVEMBER 2
National Hellenic
Museum
Calamos Hall
333 S Halsted St
403
OBENSHAIN
PROGRAM
SENATOR RICHARD
LUGAR
SLOW FOOD
MCCORMICK 405
LECTURE
CHICAGO'S CULTURE
OF POLICING
TYSON FOOD 406
SERIES
THE ADVENTURES
OF FAT RICE
BECOME A
MEMBER
TODAY!
Symphony Center
Armour Stage
220 S Michigan Ave
404
DAN SAVAGE:
SAVAGE LOVE
402
THE HYPOCRITES:
THE STRONGER,
FASTER
FALLFEST/16 SPEED
6PM
Untitled Supper
Club
111 W Kinzie St
SUPPORTCHF.ORG
407
6PM
CHICAGO
TRIBUNE AWARD
PHILIP GLASS
7PM
8PM
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 3
Francis W. Parker
School
Diane and David B
Heller Auditorium
2233 N Clark St
Museum of
Contemporary Art
Chicago
Edlis Neeson
Theater
220 E Chicago Ave
Francis W. Parker
School
Diane and David B
Heller Auditorium
2233 N Clark St
408
6PM
(312) 494-9509 M-F, 10AM-5PM
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 4
Museum of
Contemporary Art
Chicago
Edlis Neeson
Theater
220 E Chicago Ave
6PM
SEPTEMBER 20-26
SEPTEMBER 27
410
GRAY SERIES
ART SPIEGELMAN ON
SI LEWEN'S PARADE
HOW TO WRITE
FAST—AND WHY
7PM
7PM
409
8PM
THIS IS YOUR
BRAIN ON DRUGS:
HAMILTON MORRIS
411
412
8PM
PENN JILLETTE
LIEBMAN PROGRAM
ELECTRONIC TAP
WITH DORRANCE
DANCE
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SATURDAY NOVEMBER 5
Northwestern
Pritzker School
of Law
Thorne Auditorium
375 E Chicago Ave
Fourth
Presbyterian
Church of Chicago
Buchanan Chapel at
the Gratz Center
126 E Chestnut St
The Newberry
Library
Ruggles Hall
60 W Walton St
Poetry Foundation
61 W Superior St
Museum of
Contemporary Art
Chicago
Edlis Neeson
Theater
220 E Chicago Ave
500
10AM
11AM
HOW TAMING
SLEEP CREATED OUR
RESTLESS WORLD
501
THE BLACK
WOMEN WHO
HELPED WIN THE
SPACE RACE
502
503
WALKING THE
EARTH WITH SPIRIT
SCARY OLD SEX
504
12PM
ACCELERATING
SPEECH
505
1PM
MARY GAITSKILL:
THE MARE
CHRISTOPHER
WHEELDON / 506
ASHLEY WHEATER:
BALLET IN
CONVERSATION
IRAQ: BEFORE AND
SINCE
JEFFERSON'S 508
IMAGINATION:
ANNETTE GORDONREED
2PM
3PM
507
509
510
JOBY WARRICK: THE
RISE OF ISIS
HELMUT JAHN
AND THE THOMPSON
CENTER
SCHERER
512
SERIES
GEOFFREY STONE:
THE FUTURE OF
SCOTUS
IN PRAISE OF
SLOWNESS: CARL
HONORÉ
511
LIEBMAN PROGRAM
ELECTRONIC TAP
WITH DORRANCE
DANCE
4PM
5PM
513
6PM
POLITICS + SOCIETY
514
ARTS + CULTURE
7PM
THE DESTINY
AND POWER OF
GEORGE H.W. BUSH
515
LIEBMAN PROGRAM
ELECTRONIC TAP
WITH DORRANCE
DANCE
8PM
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 6
Chicago Cultural
Center
Claudia Cassidy
Theater
77 E Randolph St
11AM
GRAY SERIES 600
ANDY WARHOL'S
PHOTOGRAPHIC
VELOCITY
12PM
1PM
Venue SIX10
Feinberg Theater
610 S Michigan Ave
School of the Art
Institute
Ballroom
112 S Michigan Ave
Art Institute of
Chicago
Rubloff Auditorium
230 S Columbus Dr
601
First United
Methodist Church
at the Chicago
Temple
77 W Washington St
602
DRIEHAUS LECTURE
PULLMAN: PAST AND
FUTURE
Francis W. Parker
School
Diane and David B
Heller Auditorium
2233 N Clark St
DRONES R US
604
605
FLORY CONCERT
PRINCE/BOWIE:
WE CAN BE HEROES
LENA WAITHE:
CHICAGO'S RISING
STAR
606
IAN BOGOST: PLAY
ANYTHING
6PM
FROM HEIST TO THE
LONG CON
EINSTEIN AND
BERGSON ON TIME
609
610
THE GREAT MISTAKE:
MARKETS AND
HIGHER EDUCATION
611
T.J. STILES:
CUSTER IN THE
AMERICAN WEST
5PM
6PM
24
7PM
607
BASKES
LECTURE
THE GIFT OF
PARTISAN POLITICS
608
4PM
MONDAY
NOVEMBER 7
700
SCHERER
603
SERIES
MAKING POLICY
IN THE AGE OF
IMMEDIACY
2PM
3PM
Museum of
Contemporary Art
Chicago
Edlis Neeson
Theater
220 E Chicago Ave
STANEK
612
PROGRAM
RHYTHM OF
THE STARS: THIRD
COAST PERCUSSION
613
2016 KOHL
EDUCATION PRIZE
SHERRY TURKLE
LIEBMAN PROGRAM
ELECTRONIC TAP
WITH DORRANCE
DANCE
8PM
701
9PM
FLORY CONCERT
PRINCE/BOWIE:
WE CAN BE HEROES
Francis W. Parker
School
Diane and David B
Heller Auditorium
2233 N Clark St
Francis W. Parker
School
Library
2233 N Clark St
Old Town School of
Folk Music
Gary and Laura
Maurer Concert
Hall
4544 N Lincoln Ave
THURSDAY
NOVEMBER 10
Northwestern
Pritzker School
of Law
Thorne Auditorium
375 E Chicago Ave
702
6PM
FIGHTING FOR
THE PLANET:
BILL MCKIBBEN
7PM
705
703E
6PM
SHORTLIST PARTY
IN THE LIBRARY: THE
POLITICS OF POT
7PM
703
(312) 494-9509 M-F, 10AM-5PM
SEPTEMBER 20-26
SEPTEMBER 27
ILLINOIS
HUMANITIES
PROGRAM
MELISSA HARRISPERRY: NERDLAND
FOREVER
704
8PM
KANNAPOLIS: A
MOVING PORTRAIT
THE POLITICS OF POT
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 11
Blanc Gallery
4445 S Martin
Luther King Dr
BECOME A
MEMBER
TODAY!
Gallery Guichard
436 E 47th St
Harold Washington
Cultural Center
4701 S Martin
Luther King Dr
706
6PM
SUPPORTCHF.ORG
Peach's Restaurant
4652 S Martin
Luther King Dr
TYSON FOODS
SERIES
SWEETIE PIE'S
COOKBOOK
CATALOG OF
UNABASHED
GRATITUDE
7PM
707
SOUTHWEST
708
PROGRAM
ISABEL WILKERSON
AND THE GREAT
MIGRATION
8PM
709
CHICAGO HOUSE
MUSIC
First United
Methodist Church
at the Chicago
Temple
77 W Washington St
800
10AM
CHICAGO
TRIBUNE AWARD
JANE SMILEY
Venue SIX10
Feinberg Theater
610 S Michigan Ave
Art Institute of
Chicago
Rubloff Auditorium
230 S Columbus Dr
Art Institute of
Chicago
Fullerton Hall
111 S Michigan Ave
802
803
Harold Washington
Library Center
Cindy Pritzker
Auditorium
400 S State St
FALLFEST/16 SPEED
9PM
Music Box Theatre
Main Theatre
3733 N Southport Ave
801
BONNIE HONIG:
RECLAIMING THE
SABBATH
11AM
12PM
1PM
805
CHICAGO
TRIBUNE AWARD
MARGO JEFFERSON:
NEGROLAND
804
SCHERER
SERIES
THE MANY LIVES OF
THE GHETTO
808
2PM
3PM
THE RISE
AND FALL OF
AMERICAN GROWTH
LOUD WOMEN 810
SPEAK: JESSICA
VALENTI AND LINDY
WEST
TERRA SERIES
SLOW ART
806
HAUSER &
ROSS PROGRAM
ARCHITECTURE AND
TIME
811
813
4PM
THE FUTURE OF
MOBILITY
FEDER PROGRAM
FROM HAIRSPRAY TO
HAMILTON
LATINO POWER IN
POLITICS
807
TERRA SERIES
ART AND THE LAND
GRAY SERIES 812
INTENSIVE RHYTHM:
SOVIET KINETIC ART
OF THE 1960S
SCHERER
SERIES
ELIZABETH
ALEXANDER
809
814
HAYDOCK
SERIES
TREVOR NOAH: BORN
A CRIME
815
5PM
JOHN EDGAR
WIDEMAN: THE TILL
TRAGEDIES
25
CHF
CHF
CHF
CELEBR ATE
THE SOCIAL LIFE
OF IDEAS.
CHF
CHF
CHF
CHF
CHF
26
513
IN PRAISE OF SLOWNESS:
CARL HONORÉ
More than a decade ago, London-based writer Carl Honoré
published a literary sensation, In Praise of Slowness, a clarion
call against the “cult of speed.” Its genesis was a moment
of truth as Honoré found himself on the verge of buying
"one-minute bedtime stories" to read to his child. Speed, he
realized, was a cultural addiction. Far from enhancing his life,
it was eroding his pleasure in it. Hear what Honoré has learned
from writing and speaking around the globe about the benefits of
slowing down.
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This program is generously underwritten by Paula R. Kahn.
Talkback hosted by Jennifer Breckner and Stefanie Garcia for
Slow Food.
PHOTO: GASPER TRIANGLE
511
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 5 3-4:30PM
See program 411 for more information.
FALLFEST/16 SPEED
512
SERIES FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
THE FUTURE OF SCOTUS
Supreme Court watchers have been on a wild ride in recent
years, as the sharply divided justices have decided hot-button
issues ranging from campaign finance to same-sex marriage.
Now, the death of Justice Antonin Scalia and the 2016 election
could bring a profound shift to the bench: the first liberal
majority in almost half a century. Festival favorite and constitutional expert Geoffrey Stone will talk about how these events
may change both the Court and the future of constitutional law.
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THE DESTINY AND POWER OF
GEORGE H.W. BUSH
Drawing on unprecedented access to the 41st President, Pulitzer
Prize-winning author Jon Meacham considers the life of George
H.W. Bush in his latest best-seller, Destiny and Power, which
ranges from Bush’s candid assessments of former protégés and
global figures to Meacham’s view of the president—a leader who
prized steadiness over sizzle and substance over style. Come
hear Meacham speak about a man whose virtues, he argues,
have grown clearer as the years have passed. Meacham will be
in conversation with Steve Edwards of the Institute of Politics.
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This program is presented in partnership with the Institute of
Politics.
This program is presented as part of the annual Karla Scherer
Endowed Lecture Series for the University of Chicago.
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POLITICS + SOCIETY
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ARTS + CULTURE
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 5 7:30-9PM
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SUNDAY NOVEMBER 6
600
603
ANDY WARHOL'S PHOTOGRAPHIC
VELOCITY
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 6 11AM-12PM M$10 G$12 ST$5
Chicago Cultural Center | Claudia Cassidy Theater
More than any other artist of his time, Andy Warhol documented
the changing tempos of our culture: Remember everyone’s 15
minutes of fame? Stanford University has recently acquired the
Warhol estate's photographic contact sheets and negatives,
a treasure trove documenting his day-to-day life and artistic
practice between 1976-1987. In Warhol’s rapid-fire technique,
Stanford scholars Peggy Phelan and Richard Meyer find a
commitment to photography as a medium of the future rather
than a record of the past.
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 6 1-2PM M$10 G$12 ST$5
YOU
MAY
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408
704
812
604
As the National Parks Service celebrates its centennial,
Chicagoans find there is a new future for Pullman. Last year
the former model company town was declared a national
monument, making it one of only three such designated urban
places in America. Now community members, architects, and
urban planners are figuring out how to preserve the neighborhood’s architectural treasures and showcase its significant
role in the history of labor, including the formation of the
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and the infamous Pullman
Strike. Join Richard Wilson, the project lead for the design
workshop Positioning Pullman, and historian Mark Bouman of
the Field Museum for a conversation about Pullman's past and
future.
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FROM HEIST TO THE LONG CON
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 6 1-2:30PM M$12 G$15 ST$10
School of the Art Institute Ballroom
RICHARD H. DRIEHAUS FOUNDATION
LECTURE ON ARCHITECTURE
PULLMAN: PAST AND FUTURE
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 6 11AM-12:30PM M$10 G$12 ST$5
Venue SIX10 | Feinberg Theater
Unprecedented access to data and powerful analytics have led to
what Dana Weiner calls an “epidemic of impatience.” Weiner has
spent years observing and advising on public policy issues like
mental health services, foster care, and the impact of trauma.
Currently at the Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University
of Chicago, she will offer her diagnosis of the pressures our new,
powerful tools place on the equally important need to reflect on
lessons from the past, to opt sometimes for long-term strategy
over more immediate tactics.
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partnership with the Stanford Humanities Center.
601
SERIES FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF
CHICAGO | MAKING POLICY IN THE
AGE OF IMMEDIACY
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404
708
Crime may not pay in real life but it certainly has proven
a bonanza at the movies and on television. Experimental
arts collective The Dilettantes comes to CHF to explore the
continuing cultural allure of bank robbers and con artists
through a look at both fictional and real-life capers. Come for
their talk then stay for a “crime fair,” where you can test your
criminal mettle by trying your hand at famous cons, including
“The Pig in a Poke,” “The Round-The-Corner,” and “The Melon
Drop.”
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602
612
PHOTO: RICK PROCTOR
This program is generously underwritten by the Richard H.
Driehaus Foundation.
602
DRONES R US
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 6 11AM-12PM M$10 G$12 ST$5
Art Institute of Chicago | Rubloff Auditorium
Made up of technologies ranging from simple batteries to
high tech software, the drone is a complicated machine that
has captured our imagination in the 21st century. Both enemy
and friend, it conjures up the lethal accuracy of military
grade Predators and the quick-silver, toy-like cameras that
capture breathtaking aerial shots. Multi-media artist Davis
Schneiderman, art historian Maggie Taft, and others will talk
about—and play with—the many sides of drone technology.
This program is in partnership with the Art Institute of Chicago
in association with the exhibition Moholy-Nagy: Future Present.
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SPOTLIGHT EVENT
605
LENA WAITHE: CHICAGO'S RISING STAR
This program is included in the Shortlist package for young
professionals. See page 4 for more information.
POLITICS + SOCIETY
AND SAVE 20%
ARTS + CULTURE
Chicago native Lena Waithe may be best known for her role
as the sly, snapback-rocking lesbian Denise on the Netflix
series Master of None. Before sharing the screen with Aziz
Ansari, she was a writer for the Fox television series Bones and
Nickelodeon's How to Rock and a producer of the 2014 satirical
film Dear White People. Next up: Showtime has commissioned
a series pilot written by Waithe and produced by Common, an
ensemble coming-of-age story set on the South Side. Come
hear the story of this up-and-coming star and how she remains
steadfast in speaking and living her truth.
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This program is presented in partnership with Shinola Detroit.
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814
"SPARKS—BOTH INCENDIARY AND ILLUMINATING
—FLY FROM THE COLLISION OF TWO GIANTS!"
-BOOKLIST, STARRED REVIEW
608
606
PLAY ANYTHING
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 6 1:30-2:30PM M$10 G$12 ST$5
Everyday life is filled with meetings and traffic, errands and
emails. Nothing we'd ever call fun. But what if we've gotten
fun wrong? In Play Anything, visionary game designer and
philosopher Ian Bogost shows how the boring, ordinary world
around us is filled with endless, playful possibilities. Drawing
from Internet culture, moral philosophy, ancient poetry, and
modern consumerism, Bogost shows us how today's chaotic
world is tamed—and enjoyed—when we first impose boundaries
on ourselves.
BECOME A
MEMBER
TODAY!
410
604
814
SUPPORTCHF.ORG
BASKES LECTURE IN HISTORY
THE GIFT OF PARTISAN POLITICS
First United Methodist Church at the Chicago Temple
The polarized political atmosphere that has defined the Obama
era and this year’s tumultuous presidential election is viewed
by many as ultimate proof of the destructiveness of partisan
politics. But Sean Wilentz sees a very different story. In The
Politicians and the Egalitarians: The Hidden History of American
Politics, the famed Princeton historian argues that our partisan
politics have always been a critical part of a functioning political
system and a crucial tool against the extremes of wealth and
want.
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609
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 6 3-4:30PM
610
This annual lecture recognizes a generous multiyear
contribution to the Chicago Humanities Festival by Julie and
Roger Baskes.
THE GREAT MISTAKE: MARKETS AND
HIGHER EDUCATION
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 6 3:30-4:30PM M$10 G$12 ST$5
"SERIOUS, SHARP ARGUMENTATION FROM
ONE OF THE LEADING HISTORIANS OF THE
UNITED STATES."
In the past 40 years, higher education has been completely
remade. Once viewed as a public good, our public state
universities have seen massive funding reductions and
increasingly corporate management of curriculum and hiring
practices. Chris Newfield argues in his third and most ambitious
book on higher education, The Great Mistake: How We Wrecked
Public Universities and How We Can Fix Them, that market models
have made public universities more expensive for students while
lowering their educational value.
-PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY
607
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FALLFEST/16 SPEED
607
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EINSTEIN AND BERGSON ON TIME
In 1922, Albert Einstein and the great French philosopher Henri
Bergson publicly debated the nature of time. In The Physicist and
the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed
Our Understanding of Time, historian of science Jimena Canales
tells the remarkable story of how this clash impacted fields
from logical positivism to quantum mechanics and drove a rift
between science and the humanities that persists today. Further,
she explains how then-new technologies—such as wristwatches,
radio, and film—helped shape people’s conceptions of time.
This program is presented in partnership with the Illinois
Program for Research in the Humanities, University of Illinois.
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CUSTER IN THE AMERICAN WEST
T.J. Stiles, winner of a National Book Award and the Pulitzer
Prize (twice), demolishes the historical caricature of Gen.
George Armstrong Custer in Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier
of a New America, revealing a volatile, intense man—capable yet
insecure, intelligent yet bigoted, passionate yet self-destructive, a romantic individualist at odds with the military (he was
court-martialed twice in six years). Stiles will bring his unique
perspective on the near-mythic American figure of Custer,
widely known and little understood.
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508
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808
29
612
THE STANEK ENDOWED MUSIC PROGRAM
RHYTHM OF THE STARS: THIRD COAST
PERCUSSION
School of the Art Institute Ballroom
Already obsessed with different kinds of time—human time,
the “spectral” time of sleep, the compressed cycles of insect
noise—French composer Gérard Grisey was bowled over when
he heard the percussive and regular emissions of pulsars, the
super-dense remnants of stars that have gone super-nova.
Come hear Chicago's extraordinary ensemble Third Coast
Percussion perform the striking result, Le Noir de l’Etoile, an
unforgettable composition for six percussionists and tape with
the musicians surrounding the audience.
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This program is generously underwritten as part of the Stanek
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RECLAIMING CONVERSATION:
SHERRY TURKLE
For the past two decades, psychologist and sociologist Sherry
Turkle has been a leading observer of how technology shapes
our modern relationships with others and with ourselves. Her
latest book, Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a
Digital Age, investigates how social media has led to a flight from
conversation, transforming and damaging our capacity to talk
to one another. Turkle says that the timeless virtues of personto-person conversation are our most basic and humanizing
technology.
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This program is presented in partnership with the Dolores Kohl
Education Foundation.
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FIGHTING FOR THE PLANET:
BILL MCKIBBEN
SPOTLIGHT EVENT
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THE WILLIAM AND GRETA WILEY FLORY
CONCERT | PRINCE/BOWIE:
WE CAN BE HEROES
MONDAY NOVEMBER 7 M$20 G$25 ST$12 700 6-7:15 PM | 701 8:30-9:45pm
Constantly reinventing themselves, Prince and David Bowie
pushed the boundaries of performance, gender, songwriting, and
fashion like no other artists of their time. Join Chicago theater
veterans Rob Lindley and Doug Peck as they explore the lives,
careers, similarities, and differences of these two stars and
hear some of their iconic songs—Life on Mars, Young Americans,
Purple Rain, Nothing Compares 2 U, and more—re-imagined by
Chicago’s finest actors and musicians, including Jayson Brooks,
Mark Hood, Bethany Thomas, Malic White, and more.
This program is generously underwritten by a gift from Greta
Wiley Flory, in memory of her late husband Bill, a longtime
friend and supporter of the Chicago Humanities Festival.
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One of the most impassioned figures on the frontlines of environmental change today is Bill McKibben, author of what is
regarded as the first book for a general audience about climate
change, The End of Nature. In the decades since, he's written
extensively, including Oil and Honey, a new book on small-scale
local answers and how he became an "unlikely activist" who
went to jail for protesting the Keystone Pipeline. McKibben
comes to CHF to talk about the accelerating pace of climate
change—and hastened efforts to slow it down.
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This program is generously underwritten by Angela Lustig and
Dale Taylor.
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THE POLITICS OF POT
Cannabis appears to be America’s next great frontier, with
farmers, entrepreneurs, and venture capitalists feverishly
jumping on the bandwagon to legally grow, produce, and sell
the plant. But will "The Green Rush" end up only enriching
the privileged? Wanda James, the first African-American
dispensary owner in Colorado and the U.S., and Chicago
Sun-Times investigative reporter Mick Dumke compare notes on
the national debate on race, the criminal justice system, and the
politics of pot.
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SHORTLIST PARTY IN THE LIBRARY:
THE POLITICS OF POT
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 9 6:30-8PM $15
Francis W. Parker School | Library
Visit chicagohumanities.org/shortlist to purchase these
events at the special Shortlist price or ask the box office for the
Shortlist Ticket Package at (312) 494-9509.
Dig deeper at Fallfest/16 and explore the issues you care about
with the Shortlist, our culturally curious community of young
professionals in their 20s and 30s. Join Shortlist ticket buyers
and committee members for drinks, snacks, and a bit of entertainment before the 8PM program, The Politics of Pot, with
Wanda James and Mick Dumke.
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KANNAPOLIS: A MOVING PORTRAIT
Old Town School of Folk Music
Gary and Laura Maurer Concert Hall
Charter Humanists must RSVP for complimentary entry to this
program by calling (312) 494-9509. Students and teachers must
purchase general admission price tickets for this program.
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Depression-era itinerant filmmaker H. Lee Waters documented
more than a hundred small towns in the Carolinas, Virginia, and
Tennessee in his series Movies of Local People. From 1936-1942,
Waters recorded people going about their lives, then worked
with movie theaters to screen his silent shorts, inviting his
subjects to view themselves on the silver screen alongside
Hollywood stars of the day. Musician Jenny Scheinman
performs her live original score to Waters’ footage, reworked
into a new film by Finn Taylor, with musicians Robbie Fulks and
Robbie Gjersoe.
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This program is presented in partnership with Lake Forest
College and the Old Town School of Folk Music.
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CATALOG OF UNABASHED GRATITUDE
Blanc Gallery
Finalist for the 2015 National Book Award, Ross Gay’s luminous
collection of poems Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude brims with
love of the world. Whether he’s mixing his father’s ashes with
a tree he’s planting, buttoning his shirt, or remembering the
casualness of childhood violence, Gay infuses every moment
with ardor and beauty. Reading his poetry with unique energy,
Gay’s headlong, loose-limbed lines propel the listener yet lets
her slow down enough to actually see the world.
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This program is presented in partnership with Blanc Gallery,
the Poetry Foundation, and the College Arts and Humanities
Institute at Indiana University.
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 10
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SPOTLIGHT EVENT
MELISSA HARRIS-PERRY:
NERDLAND FOREVER
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 10 6-7:30PM M$12 G$15 ST$10
On MSNBC, Melissa Harris-Perry developed a unique mix of
scholarly expertise and political commentary to tackle the topics
of the day, an approach that made her a wildly popular TV host
with a devoted fan base known as “Nerdland.” Now Harris-Perry
has taken her show’s format live and on the road! Nerdland
Forever comes to CHF with a mix of topics and guests designed
to dig deeply into guns and gun violence.
This program is presented in partnership with Illinois
Humanities as part of the Pulitzer Prizes Centennial Campfires
Initiative in celebration of the 2016 centennial of the Prizes.
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"ROSS GAY REACHES AGAIN
AND AGAIN TOWARD STATING
WHAT'S BEAUTIFUL, WHAT'S
SWEET, WHAT'S MOST
EMOTIONALLY MOVING
TO HIM: HE IS GENUINELY
'UNABASHED'."
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TYSON FOODS SERIES ON HOME
COOKING | SWEETIE PIE'S COOKBOOK
Peach's Restaurant
From stage to kitchen, legendary backup singer in the Ike &
Tina Turner Revue and soul food queen Robbie Montgomery
has soul in her bones. In her new book, Sweetie Pie's Cookbook:
Soulful Southern Recipes, from My Family to Yours, she brings
it all together: family stories about growing up in Mississippi
and St. Louis, the hectic years as an Ikette, and her life as a
restaurateur and star of popular reality show Welcome to Sweetie
Pie's.
SPOTLIGHT EVENT
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This program is generously underwritten by Tyson Foods and is
presented in partnership with Peach's Restaurant.
SPOTLIGHT EVENT
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FRIDAY NOVEMBER 11 8:30-10PM M$10 G$12 ST$5
Gallery Guichard
If the city of Chicago has a signature beat, it’s the steady, fouron-the-floor groove of house music. Starting in the early 1980s,
DJs like Frankie Knuckles, Steve “Silk” Hurley, and radio jocks
The Hot Mix 5 developed a dance sound that spread around
the world. CHF convenes some of the folks behind the music
past and present including Robert Williams (owner of The
Warehouse), Czarina Mirani of 5 Magazine, and DJ Green Velvet
(aka Cajmere) for a conversation, listening session, and dance
party!
The mass movement of nearly seven million African-Americans
from the South during the Great Migration unleashed a
revolution that redefined American politics, culture, and urban
life. In The Warmth of Other Suns, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
Isabel Wilkerson captures the intimate details and personal
stories behind the historic, half-century long exodus. Wilkerson
will be joined by WBEZ reporter, Natalie Moore in Bronzeville,
a subject of her book and the historic epicenter of the Great
Migration in Chicago.
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This program is generously underwritten by Southwest Airlines
and is presented in partnership with Harold Washington Cultural
Center.
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SPOTLIGHT EVENT
2016 CHICAGO TRIBUNE
HEARTLAND AWARD FOR
FICTION | JANE SMILEY
Pulitzer-Prize winning author Jane Smiley has now completed
her remarkable American trilogy, a sweeping treatment of one
Iowa family, the Langdons, over a century, with each chapter
encapsulating one year. Golden Age picks up the story in 1987
and runs forward all the way to 2020, following generations of
Langdons in the worlds of finance and government and on the
battlefields of Iraq, even as the land itself—the Langdon farm,
but the planet, too—comes back into focus in new and urgent
ways.
Chicago Tribune.
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SOUTHWEST AIRLINES PROGRAM
ISABEL WILKERSON AND THE
GREAT MIGRATION
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 11 7:30-8:30PM M$10 G$12 ST$5
Harold Washington Cultural Center
CHICAGO HOUSE MUSIC
"JANE SMILEY HAS SUCH A CLEAR, STRONG
AMERICAN VOICE, THERE IS NO MISTAKING
HER FOR ANY OTHER... YOU FEEL RICHER AND
KEENER FOR READING HER BOOKS"
-MIAMI HERALD
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"JEFFERSON IS
A NATIONAL TREASURE
AND HER MEMOIR
SHOULD BE REQUIRED
READING ACROSS THE
COUNTRY."
RECLAIMING THE SABBATH
Calls for a renewed commitment to Sabbath—a day of rest—are
proliferating, and not just because our 24/7 world takes aim at
the concept of leisure. The seventh day of the week is linked in
the Hebrew Bible to land and debt sabbaticals, as well as with
slave emancipation. The aim of Sabbath, it seems, includes
alleviating inequalities that amass over time. Join political
philosopher and CHF favorite Bonnie Honig on an exploration of
sacred time and justice within this ancient and urgent idea.
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This program is generously underwritten by Cassandra L. Book
and is presented in partnership with the Cogut Center for the
Humanities at Brown University.
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THE FUTURE OF MOBILITY
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 12 11:30AM-12:30PM M$10 G$12 ST$5
Yearning for a slower pace of life doesn’t mean being stuck in
rush hour traffic. We're at a moment when rethinking getting
around town ranges from driverless cars to more room for
bikes to reworking that old standby: the freeway. Travis Lee is a
managing director at the design firm IDEO, which is brainstorming with Ford about the opportunities of a multimodal transportation future. Laura Forlano, designer at the Illinois Institute of
Technology, is investigating the possibility of a "driverless city."
Join them for a wide-ranging discussion of our shifting cultural
values and the logistical demands of mobility.
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TERRA FOUNDATION LECTURE SERIES
ON AMERICAN ART | SLOW ART: LOOKING
LONG AND HARD IN THE AGE OF INSTANT
EVERYTHING
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 12 11:30AM-12:30PM M$10 G$12 ST$5
Art Institute of Chicago | Fullerton Hall
On average, Americans spend 6-10 seconds looking at individual
artworks—not enough to derive much pleasure or meaning.
Drawing on his new book Slow Art, Arden Reed explores artistic
practices that both create contemplative social spaces and
extend the act of observing. He traces these strategies from
19th-century stereographs to early silent films to James Turrell
and Andy Warhol.
This annual lecture recognizes a generous multiyear grant from
the Terra Foundation for American Art. The Terra Foundation
is dedicated to fostering the exploration, understanding, and
enjoyment of the visual arts in the United States for national and
international audiences.
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In Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea, Princeton
sociologist Mitchell Duneier starts with the first ghetto, a place
for Jews in sixteenth-century Italy, through the Nazi era to today.
He explores how Horace Cayton and St. Clair Drake explicitly
linked European Jews and African Americans in their 1945
study of segregated Chicago, Black Metropolis, and how social
observers have consistently misunderstood the entanglements
of race, poverty, and place in America today.
Margo Jefferson took a bold and unusual approach in her book
Negroland: A Memoir. A moving recounting of what it was like
to grow up among Chicago’s black elite in the 1950s and 60s,
Jefferson brings to bear her own memories as well as her
capacities as a Pulitzer Prize-winning cultural critic. The winner
of this year's Chicago Tribune Heartland Award for Non-Fiction,
Jefferson returns to CHF to discuss the art of literary
non-fiction.
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Chicago Tribune.
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LYNN HAUSER AND NEIL ROSS PROGRAM
ARCHITECTURE AND TIME
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 12 1:30-2:30PM M$10 G$12 ST$5
With the world urbanizing faster than ever, architecture seems
like a discipline currently in overdrive. But the situation is much
less simple than that, according to Chicago architect, Marshall
Brown, who is representing the United States at this year’s
Venice Architecture Biennale. Brown, whose practice marries a
focus on architecture, urbanism, and artistic processes, argues
that despite the current speed of our world, architecture still has
special relationships to slowness and time that should shape the
way we think about the design, construction, and experience of
the built environment.
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This program is generously underwritten by Lynn Hauser and
Neil Ross.
CHICAGO | THE MANY LIVES OF
THE GHETTO
FALLFEST/16 SPEED
This program is presented in partnership with the Art Institute
of Chicago in association with the exhibition Moholy-Nagy: Future
Present.
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2016 CHICAGO TRIBUNE HEARTLAND
AWARD FOR NONFICTION
MARGO JEFFERSON: NEGROLAND
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TERRA FOUNDATION LECTURE SERIES ON
AMERICAN ART | ART AND THE LAND
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When the environmental movement of the 1960s got underway,
art also underwent an ecological turn, one that continues to the
present day. Art historian James Nisbet will survey some of the
results, including a number of pivotal outdoor artworks left to
weather and change over time, and consider what they show us
about contemporary climate change.
This program recognizes a generous multiyear grant from
the Terra Foundation for American Art. The Terra Foundation
is dedicated to fostering the exploration, understanding, and
enjoyment of the visual arts in the United States for national and
international audiences.
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THE RISE AND FALL OF
AMERICAN GROWTH
Many hail this digital age as one of accelerated innovation.
Northwestern University economist Robert J. Gordon is not
one of them, contending that our era can't match the times that
brought us electric lighting, home appliances, motor vehicles,
air travel, and television. In The Rise and Fall of American Growth:
The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War, Gordon says we
must confront the reality that economic growth cannot and will
not continue unabated.
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"THIS BOOK WILL
CHALLENGE OUR VIEW
ABOUT THE FUTURE. IT WILL
DEFINITELY TRANSFORM
HOW YOU SEE THE PAST."
-PAUL KRUGMAN, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
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CHICAGO | ELIZABETH ALEXANDER:
THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD
Harold Washington Library Center | Cindy Pritzker Auditorium
Pulitzer finalist Elizabeth Alexander’s latest book, The Light of
the World, is a memoir about loss, a reflection on her existential
crossroads after the sudden death of her beloved husband
four days after his 50th birthday party. Alexander, a poet and
professor at Columbia University who read her “Praise Song for
the Day” at President Obama’s 2009 inauguration, writes about
the beauty of her married life, the trauma of her husband's
death, and the solace found in caring for her two teenage sons.
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Endowed Lecture Series for the University of Chicago and is
presented in partnership with the Poetry Foundation.
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LOUD WOMEN SPEAK: JESSICA
VALENTI AND LINDY WEST
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Jessica Valenti has been leading the national conversation
on gender and politics for more than a decade. In Sex Object,
a darkly funny and bracing memoir, she explores the toll that
sexism takes, from the everyday to the existential. Coming of age
in a culture that demands women be small, quiet, and compliant,
Lindy West quickly discovered that she was anything but, and
her memoir Shrill is an uproarious feminist rallying cry. Essayist
and blogger Samantha Irby joins the conversation for a raucous
examination of feminism today.
This program is generously underwritten by Angela Lustig and
Dale Taylor. Talkback hosted by WBEZ.
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"JACK VIERTEL
REVEALS HIS OWN
MASTERY ON EVERY
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-PATTI LUPONE
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INTENSIVE RHYTHM: SOVIET KINETIC
ART OF THE 1960S
In Russian and Soviet art, Dvizhenie—or the“Movement Art”
Group (1964-1972)—were unique, neither fully espousing
the government line nor openly challenging it. Embracing
“cybernetics,” which transformed ideas of control and dynamic
change after WWII, Dvizhenie married art and science in kinetic
sculptures and participatory installations. Art historian Jane
Sharp explores this fascinating and little-known movement,
which aimed to reflect the rapid pace of change and intensive
daily rhythm of the runaway 1960s.
SPOTLIGHT EVENT
Music Box Theatre | Main Theatre
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Ticket purchase includes a copy of Born a Crime. An option for 1
book + 2 tickets is available through the box office at (312) 494-9509.
As host of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, Trevor Noah
gleefully provides America with its nightly dose of serrated
satire, a light-footed but cutting observer of the relentless
absurdities of politics, nationalism, and race. In his new memoir,
Noah writes about being born illegal in South Africa—the son
of a white, Dutch father and a black, Xhosa mother. Join him at
CHF to hear his wild coming-of-age story during the twilight of
apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed.
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SALLY AND MICHAEL FEDER PROGRAM
FROM HAIRSPRAY TO HAMILTON
Having helped create shows like Hairspray, Angels in America,
and Into the Woods, few people have been as close to the beating
heart of Broadway as Jack Viertel has. The artistic director of
New York City Center’s Encores! series and now the author of
The Secret Life of the American Musical, Viertel brings to life the
story of how a musical is made—from casting and choreography
to opening night and curtain call.
This program is generously underwritten by Sally and Michael
Feder.
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Haydock.
partnership with the Rutgers Center for Cultural Analysis.
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TREVOR NOAH: BORN A CRIME
FALLFEST/16 SPEED
As the fastest-growing ethnic group in the United States,
Latinos' power at the ballot box and shaping public discourse
has been rising for the last several election cycles. Certainly the
2016 presidential race proves that. Cristina Beltrán argues in
The Trouble With Unity: Latino Politics and the Creation of Identity,
however, that Latinos do not act as a simple or unified bloc. A
New York University professor and regular contributor on media
outlets such as MSNBC, Beltrán will discuss the crucial role of
Latino voters in local and national politics.
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JOHN EDGAR WIDEMAN:
THE TILL TRAGEDIES
An essential voice of African-American literature, John
Edgar Wideman is back with another powerful, imaginative
exploration of historical trauma. When 14-year-old Emmett Till
was murdered in 1955, Wideman was also 14. Years later, he
learned that Till’s father, Louis Till, had been executed by the
Army for rape and murder. In Writing to Save a Life: The Louis
Till File, Wideman sees in the conjoined tragedies of father
and son a reflection of the complexity of racial injustice in the
twentieth century. He will be joined onstage by Mitchell Jackson,
Whiting Award recipient and author of The Residue Years and the
upcoming Survival Math.
This program is generously underwritten by Esther Saks.
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to continue the conversation. Hosted by prominent Chicago journalists
and other cultural leaders, our talkbacks allow audiences to offer their
own original insights, reflect on new ideas, and uncover their own
unlikely, ingenious connections.
There is no additional cost to participate.
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Officer
Clark Hulse
Chair
Harve Ferrill
Vice Chair and Secretary
John W. McCarter, Jr.
Vice Chair
STAFF
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Thoma Artistic Director
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Emily Blum
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Director
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Founding Chair
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RSVP fwparker.org/speakers
Robert A. Pritzker Visiting
Scientist•Inventor•Engineer in Residence
Wendy Freedman, Ph.D.
Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics,
University of Chicago
Monday, January 30 | 7:30 pm
Francine C. Rosenberg Memorial Lecture
Julie Lythcott-Haims, Ph.D.
Author of How to Raise an Adult:
Break Free of the Overparenting Trap
and Prepare Your Kid for Success
Monday, April 24 | 7:30 pm
Jeanne Harris Hansell Visiting Poet
Joy Harjo
2015 Recipient of the
Academy of American Poets
Wallace Stevens Award
Monday, May 1 | 7:30 pm
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