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3The Franke Institute for the Humanities has worked with the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes to draft a statement of solidarity with Black Lives Matter and related movements around the world. We post it here on behalf of CHCI and as a declaration of the Institute’s own values and commitments. Black lives matter. The recent murders, in the United States, of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, Ahmaud Arbery, and so many others expose exploitations and inequities rooted in more than four centuries of colonialism, enslavement, and the violation of civil and human rights. The international advisory board of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI) stands in solidarity with those protesting racist forms of injustice and police violence. We commit to creating and promoting anti-racist environments for scholars, students, and sta in the humanities, in the United States, and around the world. We also recognize that we are witness to a phenomenon that is not unique to the United States: forms of institutional racism and repressive violence are present on every continent. While the United States’ foundational armation of equality highlights the violence and demands our attention, we nevertheless rearm our international approach to the elimination of institutional racism and to the dicult work of building more equitable institutions, curricula, concepts, and archives. Scholars in the humanities have deep commitments to concepts such as freedom, humanity, personhood, dignity, and democracy, and yet we recognize that these same concepts often reproduce paradoxes, exclusions, and systems of injustice. By analyzing these concepts, excavating their histories and examining our own habits and institutions, we commit ourselves to imagining a better future and inventing the world in which we want to live.For more on the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes and this statement, please see: chcinetwork.org/ideas/chci-solidarity-statementSOLIDARITY STATEMENT

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This year the Franke Institute welcomed its new director Richard Neer, the Barbara E. and Richard J. Franke Distinguished Service Professor in Art History, Cinema & Media Studies, and the College. Richard’s astonishing intellectual breadth, spanning from antiquity to modernity, along with his focus on image as well as texts has already left a stamp on the Institute. His own research into material objects, visual expression, and aesthetic theory allows him to guide discussions from the most technical to the most theoretical with insight, irrespective of era or cultural origin. And his experience with so many areas of the university that touch on the humanities— his contribution to the founding of the Gray Center, his recent editorship of Critical Inquiry, his participation on the Curricular Balance Committee, his deep commitment to language learning, and more—has equipped him in extraordinary ways. Small wonder that Richard has hit the ground running at the Franke.Richard’s intimate knowledge of the university’s outreach programs on the South Side of Chicago, moreover, will stand him in good stead as he steers Franke programming in the wake of the nationwide focus on racism and injustice that took centerstage following the atrocious killing of George Floyd in May. There is decidedly a role for the Franke in this important dialogue, and we look forward to the ways in which the Institute will articulate it in the coming months and years. If the advent of a new director marked a promising beginning to the academic year, the Spring Quarter came to a sudden halt before it even began, when the Franke, along with the rest of the university, had to cease public operations in the face of COVID-19. Despite this unexpected detour, Richard and his sta have managed to carry on admirably. Witness, for instance, the Institute’s marvelous new website (franke.uchicago.edu)—and don’t miss the creative logo! Through thick and thin, the Franke Institute remains the indispensable crucible for so many of our aims and ambitions in the Humanities Division. As we look forward to better days, I know the Franke will continue to stand at the forefront of our eorts.Anne Walters RobertsonDean, Division of the HumanitiesLETTER FROM THE DEAN

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2LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR2019-20 was always going to be a year of transitions at the Franke. In his three terms as director, Jim Chandler shaped the Franke and brought it to the center to the intellectual life of the University of Chicago; it has been an immense honor to succeed him and I am so grateful to be at an institution where I can count such an inspired and inspiring intellect as a colleague and friend. My goal on accepting the directorship was to maintain Jim’s vision— and that of our founders, Barbara and Richard Franke—while adapting to changes at the University of Chicago and in higher education generally. That goal still stands—but the arrival of COVID imposed a hiatus a little more than halfway through our academic year. In the shorter term, we used the time to address long-running infrastructural issues: building and launching an entirely new website with a new graphic identity, redesigning our annual bulletin, and undertaking urgent repairs and upgrades to our facilities (a process that will extend into 2021).At the same time, we have completed and/or extended four Mellon-funded research projects and sponsored and hosted our usual range of events, conferences, seminars, and fellowships. From pure research in the Franke Residential Fellows program and our Mellon-funded initiatives, to teaching in the Center for Disciplinary Innovation and the Big Problems curriculum, to partnerships with the new Media Arts, Data, and Design Center, to our signature Every Wednesday lecture series, to public events like the Franke Forum series, the Institute has pursued its mission across the university and the city of Chicago. We have maintained our long engagement with the Midwest Humanities Without Walls consortium, the Chicago Humanities Festival and the international Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI), whose board I joined midway through the academic year and whose statement on solidarity we proudly display in this bulletin.Looking to the future, there are at least three important constituencies that the Franke can engage more directly than it has done in the past: UChicago undergraduates; College lecturers and assistant professors; and the communities that comprise the South Side of Chicago. In each case, we are pursuing new initiatives, ranging from collaborations with the College to provide students with research opportunities and mentoring, to providing a platform for the full range of university faculty and sta, to facilitating civic engagement in our allocations of funds. Animating all these initiatives is the conviction that we do not need to choose between research, teaching and civic engagement: humanistic inquiry is of its nature worldly—and so, therefore, is the Franke Institute. I know no better way to honor Barbara and Rich Franke, or Jim Chandler, than by expanding our horizons in this way. Richard NeerDirector, The Franke Institute for the Humanities

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The Center for Disciplinary Innovation (CDI) fosters long-term transformation of the infrastructures of research and teaching. It does so by bringing together faculty from dierent departments to co-teach exploratory seminars at the graduate level as a ﬁrst step toward the development of new programs, centers, and committees. Each faculty member receives full credit for teaching the course and each team receives a $1,000 stipend for course-related purposes.CDI COURSES, 2019-2020:Cinema Without an Archive Allyson Nadia Field, Cinema & Media Studies Ghenwa Hayek, Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations Related Events “Open Classroom” screening of Once Upon a Time, Beirut The Bastard Film Encounter Carolyn Faber, SAIC Skip Elsheimer, A/V Geeks Snowden Becker, Archivist Surviving Material in Degraded Forms Rachel Stoeltje, Director, Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive Fragments of the Known & Appropriation of Films Rafael de Luna Freire, Universidade Federal Fluminese, Brazil Journeys Real and Virtual. Travel in the Pre-modern Mediterranean Niall Atkinson, Art History Karin Krause, Divinity SchoolPolitics of Media: From the Culture Industry to Google Brain Patrick Jagoda, Cinema & Media Studies Kristen Schilt, SociologyPractices of Classicism in the French Seventeenth Century Larry Norman, Romance Languages & Literatures Richard Neer, Art HistoryViolence, Trauma, Repair Sonali Thakkar, English Language & Literature Natacha Nsabimana, AnthropologyCDI: CENTER FOR DISCIPLINARY INNOVATION

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4Conference for the Politics of Media seminarON THE COURSE, CINEMA WITHOUT AN ARCHIVE:“Our course brought together archival history and theory with contemporary moving image archival practice through a series of current case studies presented through conversations with professional archivists, archival activists, and related experts from around the world. Through these encounters, students were able to interrogate historical and theoretical approaches against current practices and situations.”– Ghenwa Hayek, Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations“The class helped me think about cinema studies and archival practices as they relate to political and social questions. Many of our readings and discussions centered around areas of conﬂict or places with little infrastructure for ﬁlm preservation as it is done in the U.S. or Europe. It is useful to remind ourselves of this global, materialist element of ﬁlm studies. The many visitors to class showed the breadth of work being done in ﬁlm preservation.”– Hunter Koch, Cinema & Media StudiesCDI COURSES, 2020-2021:Collapse: The End of the Soviet Empire Leah Feldman, Comparative Literature Faith Hillis, HistoryThe Return of Migration: Mobility and the New Empiricism James Osborne, Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations Catherine Kearns, ClassicsSELECTION OF PAPER TITLES FROM THE POLITICS OF MEDIA SEMINAR:“The Quantiﬁed Cow: Digitally Tracking Livestock with Wearable Devices”“Livestreaming in China: Agency, Sociability and Control” “FUN! with Street View: Spatial Politics and the Pleasures of Browsing Network Maps” “Feeling Like Yourself: Aect, Mental Health, and the Personalization Industry” “Hunnu Rock: Mongolian Heavy Metal and Hebdige’s Subcultures” “Breaking Ground: The Media Spectacle of Economic Events” “Disruption and Appropriation: Trolling and Culture Jamming”

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The Algorithms, Models, and Formalisms Project supports research on the relationship between algorithmic techniques and academic disciplines. Building on the Disciplines & Technologies Project, this project continues the important work of understanding the nature, course, and consequences of the interaction between new technology and disciplinary practices, this time focusing on algorithms, models, and other formalisms.2019 VISITING PROFESSORMichael Barany, University of Edinburgh Michael Barany explores the global transformation of math-ematics since the start of the twentieth century and its links to earlier periods and themes. During Barany’s campus residency, he developed further the idea of “remediation” within the history of formal and algorithmic knowledge. In his ‘Every Wednesday’ talk at the Franke, Barany connected the history of blackboards to cultural and scientiﬁc ideas about rigor, intellect, and discipline. Around 1800, blackboards ﬁrst made their mark in higher education at elite military schools, such as the École Polytechnique in France and West Point in the United States. 2020 POSTDOCTORAL SCHOLAR Haizi Yu Haizi Yu received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a record of accomplishments in the ﬁne arts. His dissertation used algorithms’ creative activity to isolate rules that could be observed, broken, or altered in Bach chorales. As a Postdoctoral Scholar, Yu is generalizing this approach to understanding, diagnosing, teaching, and generating creative cultural production, not only in music but also in a range of other humanistic activities. Visualizations clarify how rules are organized into sub-families and demonstrate the context speciﬁcity of music.(a) User portfolioHOMEALEXAlex’s Portfolioblue nightAug 18, 2017new pieceSep 10, 2017(b) E-classroomHOMEALEX14th chordContentsRuleChordAnalyticsBach BrainContrastsGapsControlProceedRevokeRule: 8/8Feature: mod12 o w2n-gram: 6Comments:Figure 1: The MUS-ROVER application that automatically learns the laws of music theory from raw sheet music in a human-interpretable hierarchy of human-interpretable rules and then teaches it to people through an efficient and engaging curriculum.ALGORITHMS, MODELS, AND FORMALISMS

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6ASSOCIATED FACULTY James Chandler, English Language & LiteratureLorraine Daston, Social ThoughtJames Evans, SociologyFrances Ferguson, English Language & LiteraturePatrick Jagoda, Cinema & Media StudiesAdrian Johns, HistoryKarin Knorr Cetina, SociologyJoseph Masco, AnthropologyJason Salavon, Visual Arts(a) User portfolioHOMEALEXAlex’s Portfolioblue nightAug 18, 2017new pieceSep 10, 2017(b) E-classroomHOMEALEX14th chordContentsRuleChordAnalyticsBach BrainContrastsGapsControlProceedRevokeRule: 8/8Feature: mod12 o w2n-gram: 6Comments:Figure 1: The MUS-ROVER application that automatically learns the laws of music theory from raw sheet music in a human-interpretable hierarchy of human-interpretable rules and then teaches it to people through an efficient and engaging curriculum.Department of Mathematics, 1904. Photographs of West Point – William H. Stockbridge. Courtesy of the United States Military Academy.The MUS-ROVER application that automatically learns the laws of music theory from raw sheet music in a human-interpretable hierarchy of human-interpretable rules andthen teaches it to people through an ecient and engaging curriculum.Image courtesy of Haizi Yu.

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Franke Residential Fellowships support interdisciplinary research for faculty research projects and for graduate students completing their dissertations. Fellows meet throughout the year in weekly or biweekly workshops to discuss their works-in-progress in a spirit of transdisciplinary collaboration. The Franke Fellows group is chaired by Richard Neer, Director of the Franke Institute.FRANKE FACULTY RESIDENTIAL FELLOWSEmily Austin Assistant Professor, Classics and the College Grief and the Hero: The Futility of Longing in the Iliad “I explore how grief aects action in the Iliad, beginning with the way the poem describes Achilles’ grief in terms of insatiable pothê (longing).”Jessica Swanston Baker Assistant Professor, Music and the College The Aesthetics of Speed: Music and the Modern in St. Kitts and Nevis “I investigate the accelerating music practices of post-indepen-dence youth in the Eastern Caribbean islands of St. Kitts and Nevis.” Larissa Brewer-García Assistant Professor, Romance Languages & Literatures and the College Salvation, Reconsidered: Black Freedom in Early Colonial Spanish America “I examine the distinct itineraries of critiques of black slavery in the Spanish Empire.” John Muse Associate Professor, English Language & Literature and the College Theater and the Virtual “I explore theatrical activity that is not present or tangible as well as the virtuality of embodied theater.” Anna Schultz Associate Professor, Music and the College Songs Left Behind: Gender, Migration, and Translation among the Bene Israel “I explore how Bene Israel women from western India have used song to translate and domesticate the practices and theologies of other communities.”James Lindley Wilson Assistant Professor, Political Science and the College The Democratic Grounds of Justice “I argue that democracy manifests a speciﬁc kind of equal freedom among citizens, and explore what such freedom requires of trans-national decision-making institutions.”FELLOWS’ RESEARCH PROJECTS, 2019-20

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8Mareike Winchell Assistant Professor, Anthropology and the College After Servitude: Indigenous Critique and the Undoing of Property in Post-Revolutionary Bolivia “I investigate the unexpected ways that marginalized Bolivians re-conﬁgure colonial ruins into sources of ethical claim-making in the present.”AFFILATED FACULTY FELLOWMichael K. Bourdaghs Robert S. Ingersoll Professor, East Asian Languages & Civilizations and the College From Postwar to Cold War: Revisiting Japanese Culture from the Age of Three Worlds “I look at what has traditionally been studied as postwar Japanese culture and explore what happens when it is reframed as Cold War culture.”FRANKE DISSERTATION COMPLETION RESIDENTIAL FELLOWSDaniel Carranza Doctoral Candidate, Germanic Studies The Gift of Metamorphosis: Goethe’s Poetic Science of Transformation “I track how Goethe’s natural scientiﬁc method of observation known as morphology came to inﬂuence the literary form of his poetic works.” “The feedback I received from Franke fellows has been invaluable not only for the chapter I shared in the meeting, but also for how I am conceptualizing the book’s core themes of translation, gender, and migration.” - Anna Schultz

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Sam Lasman Doctoral Candidate, Comparative Literature Dragons, Fairies, and Time: Imagining the Past in Medieval Welsh, Persian, and French Narratives “I analyze how concepts of speculative ﬁction informed imaginative writing about the past in three key medieval literary ecosystems.” Yiying Pan Doctoral Candidate, East Asian Languages & Civilizations From Crisis to Integration: Environment, Society, and Governance of the Eastern Sichuan Highlands, 1723-1864 “I show how marginalized itinerant people in early modern China inspired the state to re-conceptualize space and governance.”Bradley Spiers Doctoral Candidate, Music Music and the Genesis of Artiﬁcial Life “I study how music has been used to explain, arm, and rebuke the relationship between humans and machines since the Enlightenment.”Pao-chen Tang Doctoral Candidate, Cinema & Media Studies The Animist Imagination of Cinema “I look at how contemporary East Asian cinema has mobilized the logic and language of animism to rethink the notion of person-hood beyond the human.” Brandon Truett Doctoral Candidate, English Language & Literature Art War: The Transnational Imaginary of the Spanish Civil War, 1936 to the Present “I argue that the literary, visual, and material cultures of the Spanish Civil War have profoundly shaped contemporary ideas of civil war as a theater of geopolitical struggle.”“I received invaluable comments on my Chinese cinema dissertation chapter at a Franke Fellows meeting. This chapter formed the basis of my research presentation for my job interview at the University of Manchester. I am happy to report that I will start a full-time, permanent position there in Chinese Cultural Studies in Autumn 2020.” - Pao-chen Tang

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The Aliated Doctoral Fellows hold Dissertation Completion Fellowships from the Humanities Division and are members of the Franke community. Aliated Fellows meet at the Institute throughout the academic year to discuss their works-in-progress, to enrich each other’s projects with new perspectives, and to provide intellectual community at a crucial juncture. The Aliated Fellows group is chaired by Margot Browning, Associate Director of the Franke Institute.AFFILIATED DOCTORAL FELLOWSJoseph Bitney Doctoral Candidate, English Language & Literature Passionate Exchanges: Melodrama and the Commodity Form “I develop a new theory of melodrama as a mode where emotions function like commodities.”Beatrice Bradley Doctoral Candidate, English Language & Literature Sweat and the Embodiment of Waste in Early Modern England “I focus on the relationship between waste, bodies, and identity in the early modern world.”Anna Darden Doctoral Candidate, Classics Visualizing the Divine in Euripidean Tragedy “I study the role that the visual environment plays in the production of Euripides’ tragedies.” AFFILIATED FELLOWS, 2019-20 Left to right: Joseph Bitney; Brendan Hainline, Anna Darden, Margot Browning, Associate Director, Caroline Heller, Beatrice Bradley Tyler Schroeder

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12Brendan Hainline Doctoral Candidate, Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations Linguistic Variation in the Pyramid Texts “I track the linguistic diversity in the royal mortuary corpus of Old Kingdom Egypt.”Caroline Heller Doctoral Candidate, English Language & Literature The Times of the Seasons: Mediations of Climate in Eighteenth- Century British Literature “I show how climate can be connected to forms of lived experience.”Cherry Meyer Doctoral Candidate, Linguistics Noun Categorization in Ojibwe: Gender and Classiﬁers “I examine the function and semantics of grammatical gender and classiﬁers found in Ojibwe.”Chiara Nifosi Doctoral Candidate, Romance Languages & Literatures Expérience de l’espace et pensée de la métaphore chez Marcel Proust “I explore the implications of Proust’s description of space within In Search of Lost Time.”Manuel Olmedo Gobante Doctoral Candidate, Romance Languages & Literatures Fencing and Literature in the Spanish Golden Age “I look at the material culture, social spaces, and literary discourses of swordsmanship.”Tyler Schroeder Doctoral Candidate, Cinema & Media Studies From Body Culture to Informational Hygiene: The Technical Poetics of Health in German Moving-Image Media “I examine German moving-image media related to health (1920-1948) in the context of social-hygienic thought.”Anatole Upart Doctoral Candidate, Art History Slavic Rome: Constructing Foreign Communities in an Early Modern Italian City “I study the art, architecture, and visual culture of the Ruthenian community in Rome.”

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Selected by the Governing Board of the Franke Institute for the Humanities, the fourteen incoming Franke Fellows hail from twelve departments in the Humanities and one department in the Social Sciences:FRANKE FACULTY FELLOWSMichele Friedner Assistant Professor, Comparative Human Development Becoming Normal: Cochlear Implants. (Re)distribution and Rehabilitation in IndiaAnastasia Giannakidou Professor, Linguistics Bilingualism and Communities of Accent: Greek-English Bilinguals in Chicago Matthias Haase Assistant Professor, Philosophy Practical RealityFlorian Klinger Associate Professor, Germanic Studies The Act of LifeW.J.T. Mitchell Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor, English Language & Literature, Art History and Visual Arts Seeing Through MadnessKenneth Warren Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor, English Language & Literature From Representation to Expression: A Brief Episode in the History of the Novel Peter White Herman C. Bernick Family Professor, Classics Narrative in the Confessions of St. AugustineLawrence Zbikowski Professor, Music The Nature of Musical ThoughtAFFILATED FACULTY FELLOWJennifer Iverson Associate Professor, Music Porous Instruments: Circulation and Exchange in Electronic SoundFELLOWS, 2020-21

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14FRANKE DISSERTATION COMPLETION FELLOWSChelsie May Doctoral Candidate, Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations Watching Whiteness Work?: The Racialization of Jewish Women in Iraq and Israel/PalestineSharvari Sastry Doctoral Candidate, South Asian Languages & Civilizations and Theater & Performance Studies Performances of Posterity: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Performance Preservation in Modern IndiaAndrew Malilay White Doctoral Candidate, Music The Improvised Text: Bodily Regimes of Piano Improvisation in the Mid-Nineteenth CenturyMichal Zechariah Doctoral Candidate, English Language & Literature Moral Feeling in Early Modern EnglandYiren Zheng Doctoral Candidate, East Asian Languages & Civilizations Sounding O: Unusual Voices and the Problem of Speech in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Literature

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One afternoon each quarter during the academic year, University alumni and friends gather downtown at the Gleacher Center for a public lecture by a distinguished member of the faculty, with discussion and reception following. These signature events have been supported for over twenty years by the generosity of the Humanities Council of the University of Chicago. To sign-up for the Franke Forum email list, please email franke-humanities@uchicago.edu.Recent Franke Forums can be viewed on the Franke YouTube channel: youtube.com/frankeinstitute2019-2020 FRANKE FORUMSNovember 13Anne Walters Robertson Claire Dux Swift Distinguished Service Professor in Music and the College; Dean, Division of the Humanities Beads, Books, Armor, and Coins: Sacred Music and the Material Culture of the Late Middle Ages Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the winter and spring events were cancelled.2021 FRANKE FORUMSMarch 10To be announced May 5To be announced Please see franke.uchicago.edu for additional information.FRANKE FORUM SERIES

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The Every Wednesday Luncheon series connects faculty to the work of their colleagues in the humanities and the humanistic social sciences. On Wednesdays at noon during the academic year, a faculty member gives an informal talk on current research over a catered lunch, followed by group discussion. Faculty of any rank are encouraged to present, but there is a particular emphasis on work by new humanities faculty and visiting professors associated with collaborative projects. The spirit of the Every Wednesday series is transdisciplinary, as scholars from across the Division and the University gather to share ideas and learn from one another.Listen to past talks at:franke.uchicago.edu/every-wednesday-luncheon-seriesWORKS IN PROGRESSJim Chandler English Language & Literature Vertigo in The ConversationWendy Doniger South Asian Languages & Civilizations Winged Stallions and Wicked Mares: Horses in Indian Myth and History Brodwyn Fischer History Bound Freedoms and Noisy ArchivesVISITING PROFESSORMichael Barany University of Edinburgh Putting the ‘Media’ in RemediationCOLLABORATIVE PROJECTAshlyn Sparrow Weston Game Lab Game Design Thinking and Social ImpactEVERY WEDNESDAY LUNCHEON SERIES

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In its twenty-ﬁrst year, the Big Problems program provides a capstone curriculum for third- and fourth-year students, coordinated by the Franke Institute and the College. These elective courses oer students opportunities to broaden their studies from their departmental major by focusing on a “big problem” – a matter of global or universal concern that intersects with several disciplines and aects a variety of interest groups. By their nature, “big problems” call for interdisciplinary teamwork, yet their solutions may not be obvious or ﬁnally determinable. For more information, please see: collegecatalog.uchicago.edu.bigproblemsCOURSES, 2019-2020:Climate Change in Media and Design Patrick Jagoda, Cinema & Media Studies Benjamin Morgan, English Language & LiteratureDisability and Design Michele Friedner, Comparative Human Development Jennifer Iverson, MusicDrinking Alcohol: Social Problem or Normal Cultural Practice? Michael Dietler, Anthropology William N. Green, NeurobiologyHow Does It Feel To Be an Outlier? Narratives of Medical ‘Otherness’ Peggy Mason, Neurobiology Nora Titone, Court TheatreScience and Christianity Dorian Abbot, Geophysical Sciences Daniel Fabrycky, Astronomy & Astrophysics Lea Schweitz, Ashland UniversityThinking Psychoanalytically: From the Sciences to the Arts Anne Beal, Social SciencesTopics in Medical Ethics Daniel Brudney, PhilosophyUnderstanding Practical Wisdom Anne Henley, Psychology Howard Nusbaum, PsychologyUrban Design with Nature Sabina Shaikh, Environmental Studies Emily Talen, Urban Studies BIG PROBLEMS CURRICULUM IN THE COLLEGE

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20Course on “Urban Design with Nature”On the course, Climate Change in Media and Design: “I learned about many artists’ and thinkers’ ways of approaching climate change, the way that we interact with climate media, and the importance of not only message but desired impact when creating such media. I also learned just how dicult it is to truly classify something as climate media.”On the course, How Does It Feel to Be an Outlier? Narratives of Medical ‘Otherness’: “This class was amazing. It really made me analyze the medical system and how I thought about peoples’ interactions with it. It also made me reevaluate sickness, disease, and disorder, and think really critically about how we categorize people and what that categorization signals.”Course on “Climate Change in Media and Design”COURSES, 2020-2021:From Fossils to Fermi’s Paradox: Origin and Evolution of Intelligent Life Paul Sereno, Organismal Biology and Anatomy Leslie Rogers, Astronomy Sarah London, PsychologyHow Does It Feel To Be an Outlier? Narratives of Medical ‘Otherness’ Peggy Mason, Neurobiology Nora Titone, Court TheatreThinking Psychoanalytically: From the Sciences to the Arts Anne Beal, Social SciencesTopics in Medical Ethics Daniel Brudney, PhilosophyUnderstanding Practical Wisdom Anne Henley, Psychology Howard Nusbaum, PsychologyUrban Design with Nature Sabina Shaikh, Environmental Studies Emily Talen, Urban Studies

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The Institute sponsors conferences on interdisciplinary topics in the humanities, including themes and issues drawn from the social sciences, that are co-sponsored with University of Chicago centers, departments, workshops, and divisions, as well as other institutions. During 2019-20, the Institute co-sponsored thirty-one conferences, lectures, and other events. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, many events were postponed.CONFERENCESAugust-SeptemberRomantic Elements: The Annual North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Conference Vcologies 4: Disciplinary Approaches to Environmental KnowledgeOctoberCurses in ContextNative and Non-Native Indigenous Languages in ChicagoFirst Science, Technology, Studies in Japan Symposium: Animating Ecological FuturesWeissbourd Fall Symposium 2019Religion’s Turn: The Chicago Graduate Conference in the Continental Philosophy of ReligionsThe Attractions of the Moving Image: A Celebration of Tom Gunning“Not in Search of Messages”: A Primo Levi Study DayNovemberPolyhedric Greece: The Many Faces of the Greek WorldJewish Dierence Under EmpireFebruaryArt and Materiality SymposiumConcerted RealismsRegimes of Knowledge in the Early Indic WorldEVENTS, 2019-20

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Art and Materiality SymposiumPresented in conjunction with the opening of the exhibition The Allure of Matter: Material Art from China, this symposium used the lens of materiality to investigate topics central to the development and study of contemporary art in China historically and to contemporary art globally. MarchReception, Tradition, Canonization: Pasts and Presents in South Asia: The Annual South Asia Graduate Student ConferenceThinking “Race” in the Russian and Soviet EmpiresThe Quest for Modern Language Between the Mediterranean and Black SeaLECTURES / WORKSHOPS / DISCUSSIONS October-NovemberTraduttore Traditore: The Instrumentalism of Conventional WisdomLawrence Venuti, Temple UniversityBetween Russia and Japan: How Russian Turkic Immigrants Helped Japan to Make the ‘Islamic Image’Larisa R. Usmanova, Russian State Institute for Humanities, MoscowDress Codes: Cloth, Mobility, and Self-Fashioning in Western Africa During the Age of Revolutions Jody Benjamin, University of California, RiversideTraveling with the TorahCatherine Chalier, Paris Ouest Nanterre UniversityPoetry Reading: Factory GirlsTakako Arai, PoetJerey Angles, Western Michigan University

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24February-MarchThe African Revolution vs. Academic Freedom: Legon, 1964Katie Hickerson, University of ChicagoFragments of the UnknownDavid Boyk, Northwestern UniversityFrom Anti to Alternative: The History of Kino Clubs in Socialist Yugoslavia Greg de Cuir Jr., Independent ResearcherDisappearance and the DigitalSuzi Mirgani, Georgetown University, QatarThe Exhibition Staging of Past Disquiet Hatem Iman, Set DesignerEXHIBITS / FILMS / PERFORMANCES October-NovemberPolish Film Screening: Spoor Performance: Bridge #2.02Film Screening: Understanding the Velvet Revolution Through FilmFilm Screening: Women of the GulagConcerted Realisms Convened in dialogue with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s performances of the realist opera Cavalleria rusticana, this conference used the occasion of the performance as a prompt to investigate what happens when realism’s diegetic terms are denied the conventional trappings of mimesis.

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26CO-SPONSORS FOR THE 2019-20 EVENTS AND PROGRAMSAt the University of Chicago: Center for the Art of East Asia, Center for East Asian Studies, Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies, Center for Hellenic Studies, Center for Interdisciplinary Research on German Literature and Culture, Center for International Social Science Research, Center for Latin American Studies, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture, Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory, Chicago Linguistic Society, Chicago Studies, Critical Inquiry, Divinity School, Divinity Students Association, Film Studies Center, France Chicago Center, Gossett Fund in Memory of Holocaust Victims Martha and Paul Feivel Korngold, Graduate Council, Gray Center for Arts & Inquiry, Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies, Humanities Council, Humanities Dean’s Oce, Jewish Studies Workshop, Logan Center for the Arts, Martin Marty Center, Neubauer Collegium, Nicholson Center for British Studies, Pozen Family Center for Human Rights, Provost’s Oce, Karla Scherer Center for Study of American Culture, Smart Museum of Art, Social Sciences Division, Social Thought, Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts, South Asian Studies, Southern Asia at Chicago, Stevanovich Institute, Theater and Performance Studies, UChicago Arts, UChicago Global, UChicago PressExternal Co-Sponsors: Alphawood Foundation Chicago, American Indian Center Chicago, Americas Media Initiative, British Association for Romantic Studies, China-United States Exchange Foundation, Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation, Keats-Shelley Association of America, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Northwestern University, Pokagon Band Language Program, University of Illinois at Chicago, U.S. Department of EducationFaculty Organizers: Anthropology, Art History, Cinema & Media Studies, Classics, Comparative Literature, Divinity, English Language & Literature, Germanic Studies, History, Linguistics, Music, Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, Philosophy, Romance Languages & Literatures, Slavic Languages & Literatures, South Asian Languages & Civilizations, Theater & Performance StudiesAt the Franke Institute:The Adelyn Russell Bogert Fund supports activities involving the arts. This year, the Bogert Fund co-sponsored the following events: “The Attractions of the Moving Image: A Celebration of Tom Gunning”“Art and Materiality Symposium”

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For 2020-22, the Governing Board of the Franke Institute has awarded thirty-two grants to faculty members and graduate students for events on widely ranging topics, including the ones listed below. Due to the coronavirus, many events will likely be postponed to 2021-22. For information about these events throughout the year, please see: franke.uchicago.edu.Ancient Armenia: Center and PeripheriesArts + Public Life performance/screening and seminarBetween Comparison and Context: Global and Local Movements in South AsiaBut by the love you bear my kinCommunication and CoordinationConnection, Transfer, CirculationCoping with Changing Climates in Early AntiquityDecorum, Honor, and History in CalderónErrant Voices: Performance Beyond MeasuresExodus and ExileThe 56th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic SocietyFour Lectures: The Yellow Vests, French Feminisms, People’s History, and MachiavelliGlobalization and Anti-Globalism in Central EuropeHome/House/Shelter: Historical PerspectivesHonor and PowerKant’s Doctrine of RightKnowledge and PowerMarcel Proust: Contested LegaciesThe Middle Ages in Midcentury ThoughtNew Perspectives on Hittite ArtEVENTS, 2020-22

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GOVERNING BOARDFred Donner Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations Maud Ellmann English Language & LiteratureAnastasia Giannakidou LinguisticsTravis Jackson MusicRochona Majumdar South Asian Languages & CivilizationsLarry Norman Romance Languages & Liter-aturesRosanna Warren Social Thought STAFFRichard Neer DirectorMargot Browning Associate DirectorMai Vukcevich Assistant DirectorRachel Drew Public Aairs SpecialistHarriette Moody Project CoordinatorBertie Kibreah Programming CoordinatorAdam Peri Grants AssistantRenee Wehrle Project AssistantSullivan Fitz Project Assistant GOVERNING BOARD AND STAFF2019-20 BULLETINCo-Editors Richard Neer Margot Browning Mai Vukcevich Bertie KibreahGraphic Designers Rachel Drew Samantha DelacruzContributing Photographer John Zich

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