Chicago Humanities Festival 2018 27 Oct—11 Nov

1 We live in graphic times. Fallfest will tackle this rapidly evolving For nearly 30 years the Chicago graphic society, exploring its expres- Mobile devices allow us to instantly sions, potentials, and limits, in the past, Humanities Festival has been bringing produce and publish images, both per- present and future. We’ll examine how sonal and public—from our last restau- ancient forms such as the circle and compelling speakers and thoughtful rant meal to the latest school shooting. tree have been used to render knowl- programming to Chicago. Our hope is “Selfies” are the new memoir, Instagram edge both visible and beautiful. We’ll stories our newsletters, and emojis a explore visual literacy with an eye to that you leave Festival programs friendlier form of shorthand. New tech- understanding who and what is being nologies allow us to augment reality or left out of the picture. On the political transformed, with new insights and binge on it, through a constant stream front, we’ll revisit pre-Civil War fist fights of films and TV series. in Congress and politicking in the perspectives that change how you see The way we work and communicate is 1990s to make sense of the intensely also changing. Infographics and data emotional and divisive nature of Amer- yourself, your community, and our visualizations render complex data ica’s current electorate. We’ll consider world. This year, it’s all about Graphic! simple and make visible what might how the visual order is made acces- otherwise remain unseen, whether sible to those without sight, how one economic trends, migration patterns or photograph became a symbol for social media habits. Design thinking— America’s immigration policy, and with its ubiquitous assembly of post-it how augmented reality is rendering notes—is now the go-to method for Chicago history anew. We’ll immerse solving complex problems in many ourselves in all the joys and horrors fields. of visual culture, from the gruesome spectacle of Victorian surgery to one So, is the visual proving better than of the most purely visual films of all narrative at helping us to make sense time: 2001: A Space Odyssey. And, as of the world? There is a democratizing part of the city-wide Art Design Chi- potential to the visual: Simple picto- cago initiative, we’ll consider Chica- grams allow us to transcend language go’s unique legacy at the crossroads and navigate the world. Maybe it best of creativity and commerce. suits us: humans communicated through images long before we devel- For nearly three decades, the Chicago oped text-based languages. Humanities Festival has presented brilliant thinkers exploring issues that But there are less savory aspects matter. This year is no exception. Join to visual culture. Social media plat- us for Graphic! forms provide easy, often unmediated access to graphic and extreme behav- iors, from beheadings on YouTube to aerial bombings through a drone’s eye view. Politics has become the stuff of reality television. Bombarded by vio- Phillip Bahar lent images is our culture coarsening? Executive Director Where’s our saturation point?

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4 5 CREATIVE AN INTERVIEW SEPTEMBER 29, Join us for a series of programs exploring how CHICAGO MARATHON 2018 our city has shaped art and design around the WITH 1:00-6:00PM world, including a reunion among members of HANS ULRICH NAVY PIER the seminal art collective The Hairy Who and a OBRIST AON GRAND new artistic response to a 1968 ground-break- BALLROOM ing exhibition on the connection between art and violence. Revel in the graphic genius of comic artist Chris Ware, watch the development of our city’s design and industry on film, and wander the history of our vibrant street Creative Chicago: An Interview Marathon is art scene. a free, five-hour series of interviews Graphic! is part of Art Design Chicago, an ini- with artists, authors, architects, and others tiative of the Terra Foundation for American Art exploring Chicago’s art and design leg- representing Chicago’s diverse creative acy, with presenting partner, The Richard H. community, presented by Chicago Humanities Driehaus Foundation. Festival. Lead funding for Graphic! is provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Led by Hans Ulrich Obrist—artistic director of the Serpentine Galleries in London and one of the world’s leading art curators and ART DESIGN CHICAGO TERRA FOUNDATION PROGRAMS: critics, known for his long-form, dynamic CREATIVE CHICAGO: interview marathons—Creative Chicago is AN INTERVIEW MARATHON WITH Obrist’s first U.S. marathon, and takes a multi- HANS ULRICH OBRIST dimensional, multidisciplinary look at creativity JERRY SALTZ: THE ART WORLD PROBLEM in the city, past, present and future, and 101 the forces that have and continue to make ART, CHICAGO-STYLE Chicago a creative powerhouse. 408

CHRIS WARE 500 Featuring: Fatimah Asghar Joseph Grigely Dawoud Bey Art Green THE NEW WORLD: INDUSTRIAL, Louise Bernard Richard Hunt CORPORATE AND SPONSORED FILMS Eula Biss Barbara Kasten 505 Eddie Bocanegra Tim Samuelson Brandon Breaux Cauleen Smith MCA ’68: ART & VIOLENCE, Buritt Bulloch Amanda Williams THEN & NOW Shani Crowe Gerald Williams 604 Eve L. Ewing Jeanne Gang HAIRY WHO Theaster Gates 608 CHICAGO STREET ART HISTORY 800

Media Sponsor DESIGN AND OPPORTUNITY IN MIDCENTURY CHICAGO 806 Additional support provided by Elizabeth A. Liebman 7 and Herman Miller. 602 Paola Aguirre 203 Steve Kornacki FALLFEST 805 Yvan Alagbé 401 Ken Krimstein FALLFEST 306 Kazim Ali 808 Jaron Lanier 2018 505 Lara Allison 411 Kiese Laymon 2018 INDEX 409 Carol Anderson 600 Rob Lindley 102 José Andrés 209 Jill Lepore 407 Kwame Anthony 406 Manuel Lima Appiah 811 Bill MacKay 800 Oscar Arriola 809 Amit Majmudar 511 Daniel Barenboim 404 Adrienne Mayor 807 Michael Benson 806 Jonathan Mekinda 709 Francisco Cantú 408 Christine Mehring 405 Jos Charles 506 Josh Miele 100 Ron Chernow 709 John Moore 803 Jean-Christophe 400 Marion Nestle Cloutier 608 Gladys Nilsson 700 Jasmine Nichole Cobb 507 Martha Nussbaum 603 Jahmal Cole 512 Daniel José Older 408 Robert Cozzolino 705 Mimi Onuoha 502 Donna Cox 105 Trevor Paglen 501 Dessa 302 Camille Paglia 806 Chris Dingwall 600 Doug Peck 308 Michelle Duster 810 Esther Perel 503 Claire Evans 206 Adrian Randolph 204 Eve L. Ewing 300 Phoebe Robinson 308 Eve L. Ewing 608 Suellen Rocca 702 Douglas Farr 108 Alex Ross 208 Lindsey Fitzharris 508 John Russick 708 Franklin Foer 603 Jen Sabella 103 Caroline Fraser 101 Jerry Saltz 308 Patricia Frazier 205 Ozge Samanci 701 Joanne Freeman 800 Max Sansing 106 Anna Felicity Friedman 107 George Saunders 801 Michael Friendly 603 Amanda Seligman 410 Francis Fukuyama 710 Louise Shelley 604 Daniel Giles 800 Stef Skills 607 Philip Glass 606 Kristen J Sollee 301 Doris Kearns Goodwin 706 Molly Wright Steenson 303 David Grann 601 Jacqueline Stewart 608 Art Green 806 Maggie Taft 202 Daniel Greene 607 Third Coast Percussion 309 Tom Hanks 207 Rebecca Traister 308 Nikole Hannah-Jones 704 Natasha Trethewey 806 David Hartt 200 Alice Walker 804 Sara Hendren 500 Chris Ware 509 Jessica Hopper 802 Katie Watson 201 Mimi Ito 510 Sarah Weinman 305 Lawrence Jackson 604 Julie Widholm 304 Abbi Jacobson 408 Amanda Williams 602 Tonika Johnson 307 Darius Williams 504 Titus Kaphar 707 Danielle Wood 403 David Scott Kastan 605 Tim Wu 104 Adam Kern 703 Lance Wyman 108 Chip Kidd 811 Katinka Kleijn 402 Eric Klinenberg 9 PROGRAM Since the earliest days of the Chicago Human- THE CHICAGO ities Festival, CHF and the Chicago Tribune 100 TRIBUNE: Bringing have brought the biggest names in literature and journalism to CHF’s stages. Beginning in Literary Luminaries 2002, the Chicago Tribune and CHF collab- orated on the presentation and production to the Festival of the Chicago Tribune Literary Prize and its Heartland Awards for Fiction and Nonfiction. The inaugural literary prize winner was the acclaimed playwright Arthur Miller. Over the years the honorees of this trio of prestigious prizes have included Jesmyn Ward, Marilynne Robinson, Patti Smith, Tom Wolfe, Chimam- anda Ngozi Adichie, Matthew Desmond, Isa- bel Wilkerson, Margaret Atwood, August Wilson, Elie Wiesel, Jane Smiley, and Studs Terkel.

These honors, given to authors “whose body of work has had a great impact on American society” and “reinforce and perpetuate the values of heartland America” respectively, will be awarded to historian Ron Chernow, short story master and novelist George Saunders, and renowned nonfiction writer Caroline Fraser. 2018 Chicago Tribune One of the most distinguished commentators Together, the Chicago Humanities Festival and on history, politics, and business in America the Chicago Tribune celebrate and highlight Literary Award today, Ron Chernow has won virtually every the literary past, present, and future of Chi- Ron Chernow major prize in American letters. The St. Louis cago, the Midwest, and the world. Post-Dispatch has hailed him as “one of the pre-eminent biographers of his generation.” Saturday, October 27 Chernow’s seven books have illuminated 2018 CHICAGO TRIBUNE PRIZE 11:00a – 12:00p the life and times of some of America’s most WINNERS significant historical figures including Wash- Symphony Center ington: A Life, winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize Ron Chernow Armour Stage for Biography and the widely acclaimed Alex- Literary Award 220 S Michigan Ave ander Hamilton, inspiration for the Pulitzer 100 Prize-winning musical Hamilton. His most M $20 ST $10 G $25 recent book, Grant, is considered the defini- Caroline Fraser tive biography of one of our most compelling Charter Humanists must Heartland Prize for Nonfiction presidents. In 2015, Chernow was awarded 103 reserve tickets in advance by calling the Box Office the National Humanities Medal for “bringing at (312) 605-8444. our Nation’s story to life.” Chicago Tribune George Saunders publisher and editor-in-chief Bruce Dold joins Heartland Prize for Fiction Chernow in conversation. 107 This program is presented in partnership with the Chicago Tribune.

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“José Andrés’s work to build a massive relief organization from the ground up in Puerto Rico was nothing short of miraculous.” —President Bill Clinton

Terra Foundation “The art world is an all-volunteer army, and we José Andrés: Four days after Hurricane Maria tore through Art Design Chicago Program all come here naked.” Puerto Rico leaving countless people without WE FED food, water, and power, Chef and James Beard Jerry Saltz: Or so says Jerry Saltz, who has made a life— Humanitarian of the Year José Andrés arrived, and won a Pulitzer—as an art critic. Saltz, a AN ISLAND ready to leap to aid. Since then, Chef Andrés THE ART WORLD Chicago native known for his irreverent humor and his team have fed hundreds of thousands and sweeping, iconoclastic perspective on of people—more than three million meals— Saturday, October 27 PROBLEM what the art world can and cannot be, do, and offering what his friend Anthony Bourdain 1:00p – 2:00p provide, joins us to offer a public intervention called “a practical blueprint for how humans about key issues in contemporary visual art, can and should best react in the face of disas- Saturday, October 27 The Field Museum and the increasingly visual—though perhaps ter.” Meanwhile, Chef Andrés was tweeting 1:00p – 2:00p James Simpson Theatre not artistic—nature of our world. real-time field reports from the ground, and 1400 S Lake Shore Dr Art Institute of Chicago trying to parlay his celebrity access into real, Fullerton Hall This program is presented in partnership with the Art systemic, future-facing change. Join him for an Institute of Chicago. M $15 ST $10 G $20 111 S Michigan Ave update on post-Maria Puerto Rico today, what the Chef Network of World Central Kitchen has This program is funded by the Terra Foundation for M $15 ST $10 G $20 American Art and The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation. been able to accomplish and what’s still left to be done.

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2018 Chicago Tribune Millions of readers believe they know Laura Richard Gray More than a few contemporary artists—and Ingalls of the epic, autobiographical Little indeed entire schools of artistic thought— Heartland Prize for Nonfiction House on the Prairie series, but the true saga Visual Art Series have found inspiration in the style, subjects, Caroline Fraser of her life has never been fully told until now. UKIYO-E and sheer sensuality of the woodblock prints Winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Biogra- and paintings of Japan’s 17th-19th-century phy, Caroline Fraser’s Prairie Fires is a deeply Edo period. Collectively known as ukiyo-e, or Saturday, October 27 researched and elegantly written portrait Saturday, October 27 “pictures of the floating world,” these works 1:00p – 2:00p of Laura Ingalls Wilder that describes how 3:00p – 4:00p possess their own distinct style, and depict a Wilder transformed her family’s story of pov- sometimes-suggestive world of leisure, plea- First United Methodist Church erty, failure and struggle into an uplifting tale Art Institute of Chicago sure, and beauty. Asian Languages and Cul- at the Chicago Temple of self-reliance, familial love and perseverance. Fullerton Hall tures scholar Adam L. Kern joins us to explore 77 W Washington St Chicago Tribune columnist Mary Schmich sits 111 S Michigan Ave the nature and roots of the art form itself, as down with Fraser to fill in the gaps in Wilder’s well as the influence of these resonant works M $15 ST $10 G $20 biography, revealing the grown-up story M $15 ST $10 G $20 on manga artists of today. behind the most influential childhood epic of pioneer life. This program is presented in partnership with the Art Institute of Chicago on the occasion of the exhibition This program is presented in partnership with the Two Floating Worlds: Japanese Prints and Paintings. Chicago Tribune. The Richard Gray Visual Arts Series recognizes a Preorder your copy of Prairie Fires: The American significant gift from founding CHF board member Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder through the CHF box Richard Gray. office and save 20%

14 15 Artist, geographer and MacArthur Fellow 105 Trevor Paglen has trained his lens on a vast 107 Richard Gray and inscrutable subject, the American sur- Visual Art Series veillance state. In an effort to make visible what he calls the “unseeable and undocu- PHOTOGRAPHY mentable,” Paglen has traveled deep into remote spaces—from the desert to the ocean ON NATIONAL —to capture hidden and often highly classified places, from national security sites, to stealth SECURITY drones and satellite systems. Paglen’s images have achieved their own immortality: 100 were Saturday, October 27 launched into space aboard the EchoStar XVI 3:00p – 4:00p communication satellite. Paglen comes to CHF to survey his work and share some of his The Field Museum latest projects. James Simpson Theatre 1400 S Lake Shore Dr The Richard Gray Visual Arts Series recognizes a significant gift from founding CHF board member M $15 ST $10 G $20 Richard Gray.

106 Interdisciplinary scholar Anna Felicity Friedman 2018 Chicago Tribune Winner of the Man Booker Prize, Lincoln in the has been researching the history of tattooing— Heartland Prize for Fiction Bardo is the long-awaited first novel from TATTOO HISTORY and collecting tattoos on her own for nearly 30 acclaimed writer George Saunders. On the years. The author and editor of The World Atlas George Saunders one hand a tender father-son story; on the of Tattoo, Friedman manages the educational other hand a tragic, hilarious philosophical Saturday, October 27 hub tattoohistorian.com, the popular social ghost story featuring none other than Abraham 3:00p – 4:00p media outlet Tattoo History Daily, as well as Saturday, October 27 Lincoln and his son Willie (and many, many a foundation and The Center for Tattoo His- 3:00p – 4:00p others, alive and dead); Lincoln in the Bardo First United Methodist Church tory and Culture. As someone who writes, lec- has stunned, tickled, and touched the hearts of at the Chicago Temple tures, curates, and consults about tattooing, Symphony Center hundreds of thousands of readers. An astonish- 77 W Washington St Friedman is ideally poised to elucidate the Armour Stage ing feat of imagination and a bold step forward history and meaning behind the graphics we, 220 S Michigan Ave from one of the most important and influential M $15 ST $10 G $20 as humans, have been choosing to imprint on writers of his generation, it is a testament to fic- our bodies for more than 5,000 years. M $20 ST $10 G $25 tion’s ability to speak honestly and powerfully to a timeless, profound question: How do we Charter Humanists must live and love when we know that everything we reserve tickets in advance by calling the Box Office love must end? Chicago Tribune Books editor at (312) 605-8444. Jennifer Day joins Saunders in conversation.

This program is presented in partnership with the Chicago Tribune.

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16 17 Each year, the generous support of Dolores 108 MORRIS & DOLORES Kohl Kaplan is on display with Northwestern KOHL KAPLAN Day in Evanston. Dolores makes this thoughtful gift in memory of her loving husband, Morris, NORTHWESTERN who was a Festival founder, and for their shared desire to expand the impact of the Chi- DAY cago Humanities Festival and Northwestern University.

Thank you to the generous support of the Dolores Kohl Education Fund, Northwestern University, and the multitude of departments and offices that make Northwestern Day in Evanston possible.

MORRIS AND DOLORES KOHL KAPLAN NORTHWESTERN DAY PROGRAMS: Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities Bienen School of Music ALICE WALKER 200 Block Museum of Art Office of the President YOUTH, TECHNOLOGY, AND MEDIA Office of the Provost LITERACY WITH MIMI ITO Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences “Alex Ross is a legend” writes Ta-Nehisi Coates. 201 Alex Ross and “You should check out his work to see what Chip Kidd: the best of the form has to offer.” One of the AMERICANS AND THE HOLOCAUST world’s most preeminent and well-respected 202 MARVELOCITY comic book artists, Ross’ celebrated artistry brings the world of superheroes to dynamic STEVE KORNACKI: life, depicting each of these characters using THE RED AND THE BLUE Saturday, October 27 their powers to inspire humanity as well as 203 5:00p – 6:00p help them. In his eagerly awaited Marvelocity, Ross delivers a retrospective celebration of EVE EWING: GHOSTS IN THE First United Methodist Church the Marvel comics galaxy that is currently rul- SCHOOLYARD at the Chicago Temple ing the world: Spider-Man, Iron Man, Captain 204 77 W Washington St America, Black Panther, the Avengers, the FROM EGO TO ECO X-Men, Doctor Strange, the Guardians of the M $20 ST $10 G $25 205 Galaxy, and the Fantastic Four. Renowned graphic designer, book jacket design pioneer RECONNECTING ART AND SCIENCE and co-author Chip Kidd joins Ross for this not 206 to be missed event.

Preorder your copy of Marvelocity: The Marvel Comics REBECCA TRAISTER: GOOD AND MAD Art of Alex Ross through the CHF box office and save 207 20% LINDSEY FITZHARRIS: THE BUTCHERING ART 208

JILL LEPORE: THESE TRUTHS 209

18 19 19 You may view new media in the hands of 200 201 young people as an essential tool to person- YOUTH, alized, interest-driven engagement—OR as a dangerous distraction from real-life interac- TECHNOLOGY, tion and learning. Mimi Ito is a cultural anthro- pologist who challenges us to look beyond this AND MEDIA either/or debate and consider the digital world from the perspective of diverse youth. Author LITERACY of Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media. Sunday, October 28 She has extensively researched the wide rang- 1:30p – 2:30p ing and often surprising ways young people use technology and new media. In this she Mary & Leigh Block shares essential takeaways from her research, Museum of Art including ways the online world can be used Pick-Laudati Auditorium to support learning, sharing, and social con- 40 Arts Circle Dr nection, and how parents and educators can support those kinds of engagements. M $15 ST $10 G $20

2018 Kohl Education Prize Internationally celebrated activist, self-termed In Americans and the Holocaust, a special womanist, and author of the National Book 202 exhibition he curated at the U.S. Holocaust Alice Walker Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The AMERICANS AND Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., histo- Color Purple, “an American novel of perma- rian Daniel Greene reveals just exactly what Sunday, October 28 nent importance” (San Francisco Chronicle), THE HOLOCAUST Americans knew about the Nazi regime’s per- 11:00a – 12:00p Alice Walker is a canonical figure in American secution and murder of Europe’s Jews, and letters. Her creative vision is rooted in the when. The exhibition dispels some of this histo- Sunday, October 28 economic hardship, racial terror, and folk wis- ry’s myths and misconceptions, including that Northwestern University 1:30p – 2:30p Cahn Auditorium dom of African American life and her writing Americans “knew nothing” about the threat explores multidimensional kinships among of Nazism. Greene will explore Americans’ 600 Emerson St Norris University Center women and the redemptive power of social responses to Nazism, ask why rescue never McCormick Auditorium and political revolution. This conversation will became a priority, and consider contempo- M $20 ST $10 G $25 1999 Campus Dr explore the transformative effect of Walker’s rary parallels to this troubling history. life and body of work and honor the profound M $15 ST $10 G $20 effect both Walker and her work have had This program is presented in partnership with the on foregrounding black female experiences, Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities at North- western University. relationships, and narratives. Walker will also discuss and share from her new bilingual collection of poetry, Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart.

This program is presented in partnership with the Dolores Kohl Education Foundation.

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Robert R. McCormick Electoral map logician, excitable data nerd, The Allstate Insurance In 2013, Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced the and national political correspondent for closure of nearly fifty of Chicago’s schools— Foundation Program NBC News and MSNBC Steve Kornacki has Company Program an unprecedented response to budget short- Steve Kornacki: been called “the breakout star of the 2016 Eve Ewing: ages, declining enrollments, and performance news cycle” and “America’s gift to election challenges. But what were the real-life conse- THE RED years” (Tom Brokaw). In The Red and the GHOSTS IN THE quences of such a sweeping tactic? And why— Blue, Kornacki revisits and re-examines the if those schools were “failing”—did people care AND THE BLUE knock-down, drag-out partisan politics of the SCHOOLYARD so much about keeping them open? University Clinton/Gingrich battles of the 1990s, with their of Chicago sociologist and former CPS teacher Sunday, October 28 scorched-earth tactics and slippery congres- Sunday, October 28 and student Eve Ewing knows intimately what 1:30p – 2:30p sional electioneering—and even the wild ride 1:30p – 2:30p schools mean to the students, parents, teach- of Ross Perot—all with an eye to the political ers and neighborhoods they serve. In Ghosts Northwestern University consequences of the choices made during Ryan Center for the in the Schoolyard, she unpacks the history Pick-Staiger Concert Hall that pivotal era: namely, the birth of political Musical Arts of systemic racism, bad faith, and distrust 50 Arts Circle Dr tribalism and its effects upon the current elec- Mary B. Galvin Recital Hall embedded in the city’s public schools system, toral politics. Politico reporter Natasha Korecki 70 Arts Circle Dr ultimately revealing that this issue is about M $15 ST $10 G $20 joins Steve for this timely conversation. much more than just schools. WTTW/Chicago M $15 ST $10 G $20 Tonight reporter Brandis Friedman joins Ewing This program recognizes the generous support of for this powerful conversation. the Robert R. McCormick Foundation to the Chicago Humanities Festival. This program is gernously underwritten by The Allstate Insurance Company and is presented in partnership Preorder your copy of The Red and the Blue: The with WTTW/ Chicago Tonight. 1990s and the Birth of Political Tribalism through the CHF box office and save 20% Preorder your copy of Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Rac- ism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side through the CHF box office and save 20%

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In recent decades, narratives of environmen- Richard J. Franke Lecture The delineations are commonly understood: FROM EGO TO ECO tal cataclysm and points-of-no-return have Science encourages logic, analysis, and prob- come at us with increasing urgency and speed. RECONNECTING lem-solving. Arts encourage intuition, diver- Sunday, October 28 Meanwhile, their very real messages have, at gence, and practice, practice, practice. On 3:30p – 4:30p times, been reduced to mere trends and cli- ART AND SCIENCE many college campuses, the “engineers” and chés. By now, many people have developed “artists” barely cross paths. But when did this Mary & Leigh Block a resistance—even an immunity—to hear- Sunday, October 28 come to be? Art historian and Dean of Wein- Museum of Art ing about environmental issues. Media artist, 3:30p – 4:30p berg College of Arts and Sciences Adrian Pick-Laudati Auditorium graphic novelist, and Northwestern profes- Randolph points at dual fears of art and engi- 40 Arts Circle Dr sor Özge Samanci investigates: Can we use Norris University Center neering, from the inventions of Leonardo da media arts to break down this mental and McCormick Auditorium Vinci to the Brunelleschi Dome in Florence, M $15 ST $10 G $20 emotional barrier, and get talking—and act- 1999 Campus Dr arguing that the domains of art and science ing to save ourselves and the planet—again? in contemporary American education have M $15 ST $10 G $20 become far too separate—to the detriment This program is presented in partnership with the of both. Join Randolph as he explains why it is Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities at North- essential for universities to dismantle barriers western University. between the arts and sciences if they are to build leaders capable of solving the complex problems ahead.

This program is presented in partnership with the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities at North- western University.

This annual lecture recognizes the significant contributions to the Chicago Humanities Festival made by its founder and chairman emeritus Richard J. Franke.

24 25 After covering the 2008 presidential campaign 207 (Big Girls Don’t Cry) and exploring the impact 209 Doris Conant Lecture of the single woman on the narrative of Amer- on Women and Culture ican history in the best-selling All the Single Ladies, award-winning journalist Rebecca Rebecca Traister: Traister now turns to the power of female anger as a political force in Good and Mad: GOOD AND MAD The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger. With trademark eloquence and fervor, Trais- Sunday, October 28 ter, whom Anne Lamott called “the most bril- 3:30p – 4:30p liant voice on feminism in this country,” tracks the history of female anger as political fuel, Northwestern University offering a glimpse into the galvanizing force Pick-Staiger Concert Hall of women’s collective anger, which, when har- 50 Arts Circle Dr nessed, can change history.

M $15 ST $10 G $20 This annual lecture is supported by the Doris Conant Endowment for Lectures on Women and Culture.

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208 Talk about graphic. Victorian operating the- Karla Scherer The American experiment rests on three atres were known as “gateways of death.” Sur- Endowed Lecture Series ideas—“these truths,” Jefferson called them— Lindsey Fitzharris: geries were performed without anesthetics; political equality, natural rights, and the doctors’ unwashed hands and tools were used Jill Lepore: sovereignty of the people. But according to THE BUTCHERING ART to probe open wounds; squalid, overcrowded renowned historian and best-selling author Jill hospitals were rife with contagion; and fully THESE TRUTHS Lepore, it rests, too, on “a dedication to inquiry, half of those who underwent surgery didn’t fearless and unflinching.” Witty, endlessly curi- Sunday, October 28 live to tell the tale. In her award-winning The ous, and astonishingly lucid, Lepore returns 3:30p – 4:30p Sunday, October 28 Butchering Art, Lindsey Fitzharris introduces to CHF with “the most ambitious one-volume 5:30p – 6:30p a young surgeon, Joseph Lister, to this scene. American history in decades.” American cul- Ryan Center for the He theorized not only that unseen germs were tural historian Eric Slauter joins Lepore for a Musical Arts Northwestern University the source of the persistent infections, but that conversation focused on her groundbreaking Mary B. Galvin Recital Hall Cahn Auditorium they could be treated with antiseptics—thus investigation of an American past that claims 70 Arts Circle Drt 600 Emerson St changing the history of medicine forever. Join to have placed truth itself at the center of the Fitzharris as she conjures first the grisly world nation’s history—and asks whether the actual M $15 ST $10 G $20 M $20 ST $10 G $25 of Victorian surgery, then that all-important course of events has supported this claim or, solving of the mystery, the battle that ensued, in fact, belied it. and its enduring impact. This program is presented as part of the annual Karla This program is presented in partnership with the Scherer Endowed Lecture Series. International Museum of Surgical Science. Preorder your copy of These Truths: A History of the Preorder your copy of The Butchering Art: Joseph United States through the CHF box office and save Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of 20% Victorian Medicine through the CHF box office and save 20%

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“Everything may indeed be trash but writing like this reminds us that we’re gonna make it through all the terrible things with honesty, laughter, and faith.” —Roxanne Gay

Stand-up comedian, writer, and actor Phoebe Baskes Lecture in History Doris Kearns Goodwin’s interest in leadership Phoebe Robinson: Robinson isn’t afraid to be graphic. Best began more than half a century ago as a pro- EVERYTHING’S known as the co-creator and co-star, with Doris Kearns Goodwin: fessor at Harvard. Her experiences working for Jessica Williams, of the hit podcast 2 Dope LBJ in the White House eventually led to her TRASH, BUT IT’S Queens, which was turned into four one-hour, LEADERSHIP IN bestselling Lyndon Johnson and the Ameri- critically-acclaimed HBO specials, her stand can Dream, followed by five widely acclaimed OKAY up sets are smart, intimate, provocative, and TURBULENT TIMES biographies and honors including a Pulitzer “super honest.” Join us as Robinson comes Prize, Lincoln Prize, and a Carnegie Medal. In Monday, October 29 to CHF for an unforgettable one night stand Tuesday, October 30 Leadership in Turbulent Times, Goodwin inter- 7:00p – 8:00p up style exploration of her most recent book 6:00p – 7:00p rogates five decades of her own research as Everything’s Trash, But It’s Okay. a presidential historian, and offers an illumi- Francis W. Parker School nating “digest” of the ways in which leader- Thalia Hall Diane and David B ship seems to develop and be exercised. Join 1807 S Allport St Heller Auditorium Goodwin, in conversation with CHF Marilynn 330 W Webster Ave Thoma Artistic Director Alison Cuddy, as they M $31 ST $31 G $36 attempt to put our current moment into con- M $38 ST $31 G $45 text, and investigate the larger question of Ticket purchase includes a copy of Everything’s Trash, But It’s moral purpose as a common guide among Ticket purchase includes a copy Okay. An option for 1 book + 2 great leaders. of Leadership in Turbulent Times tickets is available through the box office at (312) 605-8444. This annual lecture recognizes a generous multiyear contribution to the Chicago Humanities Festival by Julie and Roger Baskes.

28 29 Much has changed since Camille Paglia burst 302 onto the scene with her best-selling Sexual 304 Ellen Stone Belic Presents: Personae, but her laser-sharp insight, match- In Her Infinite Wisdom less wit, and fearless commentary continue to be ahead of the curve—not only capturing the tone of the moment, but often anticipating it. Camille Paglia: Ever an intellectual firebrand, Paglia will share PROVOCATIONS her always provocative takes on religion, the rise of the right, the state of LGBTQ activism, presidents past and present, and more, in Tuesday, October 30 her newest book, Provocations—a collection 8:00p – 9:00p of essays, articles, columns, and interviews drawn from the full span of her wide-ranging Francis W. Parker School and important career as a public intellectual. Diane and David B Heller Auditorium This program is generously undrerwritten by Ellen 330 W Webster Ave Stone Belic and presented in partnership with the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. M $20 ST $10 G $25 Preorder your copy of Provocations through the CHF box office and save 20%

303 In 2015, 55-year-old Henry Worsley embarked Elaine and Roger Who among us hasn’t been tempted to get on a mission: To walk across Antarctica alone. Haydock Humor Series in the car and just…go? So it was for Abbi Southwest Airlines Program Descended from an associate of Ernest Jacobson, best known as the series co-creator, Shackleton, who attempted to be the first per- Abbi Jacobson: executive producer and co-star of the hit series David Grann: son to reach the South Pole and later to cross Broad City, when she hit the road for three Antarctica on foot, Worsley was, some say, a I MIGHT weeks, fully solo, with the goal of relaxing, get- WHITE DARKNESS man obsessed with completing his ances- ting some space, and hitting the reset button tor’s thwarted missions. In The White Dark- REGRET THIS across the 2800 miles between New York City Thursday, November 1 ness, bestselling author David Grann (Killers and Los Angeles. In her unique and hilarious 6:00p – 7:00p of the Flower Moon, Lost City of Z) once again Thursday, November 1 voice, Jacobson shares lessons learned—and weaves together a sweeping story of explo- 8:00p – 9:00p insights gleaned in the cross-country creation Northwestern ration, scientific discovery, and mystery. Join of I Might Regret This, her new collection of Pritzker School of Law Grann as he shares the details of Worsley’s The Vic Theatre deeply personal essays about “love, loss, work, Thorne Auditorium spellbinding journey of courage, love, and 3145 N Sheffield Ave comedy, and figuring out who you really are 375 E Chicago Ave what happens when a man pushes himself to when you thought you already knew.” the extremes of human capacity. M $32 ST $32 G $37 M $27 ST $24 G $32 This program is generously underwritten by Roger This program is generously underwritten by South- Ticket purchase includes a and Elaine Haydock. Ticket purchase includes a west Airlines. copy of I Might Regret This. copy of The White Darkness. An An option for 1 book + 2 tickets option for 1 book + 2 tickets is available through the box is available through the box office at (312) 605-8444. office at (312) 605-8444.

30 31 Queer, Muslim, American, poet and prose 305 306 writer Kazim Ali has always navigated complex Kazim Ali: intersections and interstices, just to make a life. In his newest collection, Inquisition, he offers a INQUISITION mixture of lyrics, narratives, fragments, prose poems, and spoken word, in which he answers longstanding questions about identity, and Friday, November 2 the role of the artist or poet in times of political 6:00p – 7:00p or social upheaval. He answers these questions under duress: An inquisition is dangerous, Gallery Guichard after all, especially to Muslims whose poetry, 436 E 47th St art, and spiritual life have always depended not on the Western ideal of a known God or a M $15 ST $10 G $20 definitive text, but on the concepts of “abstrac- tion, geometry, vertigo”

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Lawrence Jackson—a writer, historian, and Darius Williams is a regular guy—if you define MAPPING Johns Hopkins professor who specializes in 307 “regular guy” as someone who creates reci- BILLIE HOLIDAY recasting the study of modern African-Amer- pes in his own kitchen for nearly 200k Insta- ican literature and culture—has a beguiling DARIUS COOKS AT gram followers and 100k YouTube subscribers. new project: to build an interactive digital PEACH’S Williams hosts the “Darius Cooks” channel; Friday, November 2 map of the life of Baltimore native, Billie Holl- has a southern-food cookbook called Stories 6:00p – 7:00p iday. Through the use of old-school research from My Grandmother’s Kitchen; and hosts a Friday, November 2 methods, Jackson and a team of his students traveling dinner party series called Dining with 6:00p – 7:00p Blanc Gallery are able to uncover previously undiscovered Darius Cooks. A master of social media and 4445 S Martin Luther King Dr historic and contextual information—to reveal truly “self-made man,” Williams has no formal Peach’s Restaurant a life. The team then pours that found, analog chef training. His success has resulted instead 4652 S Martin Luther King Dr M $15 ST $10 G $20 data into a series of interactive online maps: from a combination of gut instinct, love of richly layered with biographical snippets and good food, and willingness to experiment. Join M $15 ST $10 G $20 historic artifacts. Jackson joins us to share not us at Peach’s Restaurant, where Williams and only a visual tour of Billie Holliday’s Baltimore, renowned local chef Cliff Rome will discuss but also a glimpse at the dazzling potential of how “Darius Cooks” converted a unique ability the digital humanities. to champion authenticity—and the building of relationships and food memories—into a This program is presented in partnership with Blanc loyal and affectionate social media following. Gallery. This program is presented in partnership with Peach’s Restaurant.

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OVERLOOKED: Born in Mississippi within a year of emanci- Bank of America Program Tom Hanks, iconic actor-producer-director- pation, journalist and activist Ida B. Wells lit 2018 Kohl Education Prize screenwriter, has added to his list of accom- IDA B. WELLS up the lynching-laden, injustice-soaked Jim plishments: author. NPR host Peter Sagal Crow-era south with boycotts, legal battles, Tom Hanks: joins the two-time Academy Award-winner and scorching editorials. As a fierce investiga- to discuss his love of writing, the creative pro- Friday, November 2 tive journalist, she unveiled racist violence and UNCOMMON TYPE cess, and his debut collection of short stories 7:30p – 8:30p humanized the stories of the victims. Despite Uncommon Type. Connected by the recurring her remarkable impact, Wells never received motif of a typewriter (Hanks is an avid collec- Friday, November 2 Harold Washington Cultural Center an obituary in The New York Times—until now. tor of vintage typewriters and owns over one 8:00p – 9:00p 4701 S Martin Luther King Dr As part of a project called Overlooked, Wells’ hundred of them), Uncommon Type includes newly penned obituary will join those of other stories about a woman adjusting to life after Harris Theater M $15 ST $10 G $20 remarkable women in history. Nikole Hannah- a divorce, a man immigrating to New York 205 E Randolph St Jones (investigative reporter for The New after escaping civil war, a billionaire and his York Times Magazine), Michelle Duster (Wells’ assistant on an adventure, and a tale perhaps M $60 ST $35 G $75 great granddaughter), and Eve L. Ewing come all too familiar to Hanks: an actor enduring a together in recognition of the enduring legacy Ticket purchase includes a press junket. of Ida B. Wells-Barnett, and the equally endur- copy of Uncommon Type. ing fight for racial justice.Natalie Moore (South This program is supported by Bank of America and Side bureau reporter for WBEZ) will moder- Charter Humanists must is presented in partnership with the Dolores Kohl Education Foundation. ate. National Youth Poet Laureate Patricia reserve tickets in advance Frazier, who grew up in the Ida B. Wells Homes by calling the Box Office at (312) 605-8444. in Bronzeville, will open the program with a reading of the Overlooked obituary.

This program is presented in partnership with The New York Times and the Chicago Urban League, with the support of the Lohengrin Foundation.

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“Marion Nestle is a tireless warrior for public health, and her meticulous research and irrefutable arguments are desperately needed right now.” —Alice Waters, founder, owner, and executive chef of Chez Panisse

Is chocolate heart-healthy? Do pomegran- Before Hannah Arendt taught at the Univer- Marion Nestle: ates help cheat death? News headlines bom- GRAPHIC MEMOIRS sity of Chicago in the mid-1960’s, she endured UNSAVORY TRUTHS bard us with such amazing claims. They are OF HANNAH ARENDT Nazi persecution, survived harrowing escapes reported as science, presented as reliable, across Europe, and crossed paths with the and have dramatic effects on what we choose likes of Walter Benjamin, Marc Chagall, Bertolt Saturday, November 3 to eat. Yet, as nutritionist and nutrition policy Saturday, November 3 Brecht, W. H. Auden, and Marlene Dietrich. Con- 10:30a – 11:30a advisor Marion Nestle explains, these “food 10:30a – 11:30a sidered one of the greatest philosophers of the studies” are more often about sales than sci- twentieth century, she is perhaps best known International House ence, and have frequently been paid for by Reva and David Logan for her landmark book, The Origins of Totali- Assembly Hall companies looking to turn conflicted research Center for the Arts tarianism. New Yorker cartoonist Ken Krimstein 1414 E 59th St into big profit.Chicago Sun Times reporter Ji Penthouse 901 joins us to discuss The Three Escapes of Han- Suk Yi joins Nestle as she reveals ways the food 915 E 60th St nah Arendt, his graphic biography of Arendt: M $15 ST $10 G $20 industry manipulates nutrition science to sup- a complex, controversial, deeply flawed, and port its own profit goals—to the detriment of M $15 ST $10 G $20 irrefutably courageous woman whose expe- public health—and suggests what we can do riences—and potent insights into the human to take back the truth. condition—continue to shine a light on how to live as an individual and a citizen in troubling Preorder your copy of Unsavory Truth: How Food times. Companies Skew the Science of What We Eat through the CHF box office and save 20% Preorder your copy of The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt: A Tyranny of Truth through the CHF box office and save 20%

36 37 Public institutions such as libraries, schools, 402 playgrounds, parks, and swimming pools are 404 PALACES FOR all vital parts of what sociologist Eric Klinen- berg terms social infrastructure. So, he argues, THE PEOPLE are neighborhood markets, places of worship, and even corner diners. In Palaces for the Peo- ple: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Saturday, November 3 Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of 10:30a – 11:30a Civil Life, Klinenberg unpacks urban-planning case studies from around the world, revealing University of Chicago ways in which the physical spaces in which we Laboratory Schools interact (or don’t) can shape not only how we Gordon Parks Arts Hall view one another, but how our democracy 5815 S Kimbark Ave works (or doesn’t). He joins us to discuss the critical urgency of investing in social infrastruc- M $15 ST $10 G $20 ture—that is, mapping and activating our public spaces to foster crucial, sometimes even life-saving connections between us.

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We live in a world of color. We are surrounded Centuries before technology made self-mov- 403 by it constantly, and it marks our psychologi- GODS AND ROBOTS ing devices possible, Greek mythology was LIVING COLOR cal and social existence in ways we can’t fully exploring ideas about formulating artificial fathom. But for all color’s weightedness and Saturday, November 3 life—and grappling with still-unresolved eth- inescapability we don’t actually know that 12:30p – 1:30p ical concerns about biotechne, “life through Saturday, November 3 much about it. In On Color, Yale literature pro- craft.” In her newest book, Gods and Robots, 12:30p – 1:30p fessor David Scott Kastan, in collaboration Reva and David Logan classicist and science historian Adrienne with artist Stephen Farthing, has assembled Center for the Arts Mayor reveals how some of today’s most International House a thoughtful investigation into the ways we Performance Hall advanced innovations in robotics and AI were Assembly Hall see, perceive, understand, and codify color. 915 E 60th St foreshadowed in ancient myth—and how sci- 1414 E 59th St Join Kastan as he divulges how ten individual ence has always been driven by imagination. colors, from the redness of roses to the racial M $15 ST $10 G $20 Join Mayor as she unearths the fascinating M $15 ST $10 G $20 dynamics of yellow, have gathered historical, untold story of the ways the ancients imagined literary, cultural, political, and philosophical robots and other forms of artificial life—and meaning and matter, and in doing so, have even invented real automated machines. shaped our social and moral imaginations. Preorder your copy of Gods and Robots: The Ancient This program is generously underwritten by Sylvia Quest for Artificial Life through the CHF box office and Larry Margolies. and save 20%

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38 39 Winner of the 2017 National Poetry series, trans 405 poet Jos Charles’ revolutionary second collec- 407 Jos Charles: tion of poetry, feeld, features a transliteration of English—“Chaucerian in affect, but revolu- FEELD tionary in effect”—that acts as a lyrical unrav- eling of the circuitry of gender and speech, to make space for bodies that have been histor- Saturday, November 3 ically denied their own vocabulary. Join us to 12:30p – 1:30p experience Charles’ visual exploration of the hows and whys behind feeld’s powerful use of Reva and David Logan transliterated language to speak about trans Center for the Arts experience, and the exquisite ways in which Penthouse 901 the poet quite purposefully pushes boundar- 915 E 60th St ies of language, spelling, space, and syntax in order to express identity. M $15 ST $10 G $20 “Appiah makes the controversial This program is presented in partnership with the and difficult subject of identity lucid, Poetry Foundation. edifying, and even fun... he may be our most penetrating—and Preorder your copy of feeld through the CHF box entertaining—major philosopher.” office and save 20% —Atul Gawande

Why do we organize our families into trees, Gender. Religion. Race. Nationality. Class. 406 our corporations into boxy, top-down report- Kwame Anthony Culture. Such affiliations give contours to our Lisa and Paul Wiggin Program ing structures, and our learning into outlines— Appiah: THE sense of self and shape our polarized world. when we all know that everything is just a bit Yet the collective identities they spawn are Manuel Lima: more complicated than that? Hailed as “the LIES THAT BIND riddled with contradictions and cratered with VISUALIZING man who turns data into art,” Manuel Lima falsehoods. Celebrated philosopher Kwame believes knowledge is not only less modular Anthony Appiah’s The Lies That Bind explores KNOWLEDGE and centralized than we may perceive; it’s Saturday, November 3 these contradictions and challenges our also more beautiful. In his follow-up to the 2:30p – 3:30p assumptions about how identities work. In massively popular The Book of Trees (about advocating for a theory of human identity Saturday, November 3 branches of knowledge), Lima, a data visu- Reva and David Logan that recognizes but transcends our divisions, 12:30p – 1:30p alization specialist and Google Design Lead, Center for the Arts Appiah transforms the way we think about brings us The Book of Circles, in which he Performance Hall who—and what—“we” are. University of Chicago explores spheres of knowledge, and curates 915 E 60th St Laboratory Schools a new taxonomy for the incredible visual diver- Preorder your copy of The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Gordon Parks Arts Hall sity and—to quote Lima himself—“immensely M $15 ST $10 G $20 Identity through the CHF box office and save 20% 5815 S Kimbark Ave gorgeous” representations of what we know. M $15 ST $10 G $20 This program is generously supported by Lisa and Paul Wiggin.

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40 41 In her New York Times bestseller White Rage, 408 409 historian Carol Anderson laid bare a history of policies that have been used to (and which Carol Anderson: were, in fact, often specifically designed to) ONE PERSON, impede black progress in America from the Civil War to today. In One Person, No Vote, NO VOTE Anderson guides us through a history of voter suppression tactics including poll closures, Saturday, November 3 photo ID requirements, and gerrymander- 2:30p – 3:30p ing. Anderson also reveals the identity of the resistance, in the form of everyday organizers, University of Chicago activists, and residents willing to engage in Laboratory Schools court battles to restore the basic right to vote Gordon Parks Arts Hall to all Americans, just in time for this Fall’s mid- 5815 S Kimbark Ave term elections.

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Terra Foundation Amanda Williams is celebrated for work that In 2014, Francis Fukuyama wrote that American responds to changing urban environments 410 institutions were in decay. Two years later, Art Design Chicago Program by blurring the boundaries between architec- Bill and Penny Obenshain his predictions were borne out by the rise to ART, CHICAGO-STYLE ture and art. She is best known for her series, Program on Global Affairs power of political outsiders whose economic “Color(ed) Theory,” in which she painted the nationalism and authoritarian tendencies exterior of soon-to-be-demolished houses Francis Fukuyama: destabilized the entire international order. Cor- Saturday, November 3 on Chicago’s south side using a culturally- respondingly, the quest for identity—and the 2:30p – 3:30p charged color palette to mark the pervasive- IDENTITY identities we claim based on nation, religion, ness of vacancy and blight in black urban race, ethnicity, and gender—have narrowed in Reva and David Logan communities. University of Chicago Professor Saturday, November 3 ways that splinter us unnecessarily and chal- Center for the Arts of Art History Christine Mehring joins her for a 4:30p – 5:30p lenge our democracy. Join Fukuyama as he Penthouse 901 conversation about Williams’ work, the rela- offers a provocative examination of modern 915 E 60th St tionship between architecture and art, and Reva and David identity politics: where they came from, what Chicago’s art history. This event is organized in Logan Center for the Arts they’ve done to us, and what they mean for M $15 ST $10 G $20 conjunction with Art in Chicago: A History from Performance Hall our future. the Fire to Now, an unprecedented, sweeping, 915 E 60th St single-volume history of art and artists in Chi- This program is generously supported by Bill and Penny Obenshain. cago. The book’s co-editor Robert Cozzolino M $20 ST $10 G $25 will introduce and moderate this program. Preorder your copy of Identity through the CHF box office and save 20% This program is presented in partnership with The Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry at the University of Chicago.

This program is funded by the Terra Foundation for American Art and The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation.

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“There’s no writer I love more than Chris Ware.” —Zadie Smith

Kiese Laymon: Kiese Laymon is a fearless writer. In his pow- Terra Foundation Chris Ware is an absolute master of the visual erful and provocative memoir, Heavy, the Art Design Chicago Program arts, hailed for his dense, complex graphic HEAVY genre-bending essayist and novelist explores novels which have redefined the field of car- what the weight of a lifetime of secrets, lies, CHRIS WARE toons. From early works such as the Acme Nov- and deception does to a black body, a black elty Library to his New Yorker covers and the Saturday, November 3 family, and a nation teetering on the brink of elaborate treasure box Building Stories, Ware’s 4:30p – 5:30p moral collapse. Moving from his early expe- Sunday, November 4 compositions unfold in time and space by way riences of sexual violence, to his suspension 10:30a – 11:30p of surprising arrangements, radical shifts in University of Chicago from college, to his trek to New York as a young scale, and characters, locations, and events Laboratory Schools college professor, Laymon charts his complex Venue SIX10 seen from multiple points of view. With Mono- Gordon Parks Arts Hall relationship with his mother, grandmother, Feinberg Theater graph, a minutely detailed and epic-in-scale 5815 S Kimbark Ave anorexia, obesity, sex, writing, and ultimately 610 S Michigan Ave autobiographical tour, the artist has brought gambling. By attempting to name secrets and his uncanny ability to evoke the past to bear M $15 ST $10 G $20 lies he and his mother spent a lifetime avoid- M $15 ST $10 G $20 on his own life and work. Ware will discuss the ing, Laymon confronts the terrifying possibility art of graphic storytelling and what he calls that few in this nation actually know how to the “odd nature of comics and memory” with responsibly love, and even fewer want to live musician and artist Damon Locks. under the weight of actually becoming free. This program is funded by the Terra Foundation for This program is presented in partnership with Center American Art and The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation. for the Study of Race, Politics & Culture at the Univer- sity of Chicago. Preorder your copy of Monograph through the CHF box office and save 20% Preorder your copy of Heavy: An American Memoir through the CHF box office and save 20%

44 45 Multi-talented writer, spoken word artist, rap- 501 per, and singer Dessa defies categorization. 503 Dessa: MY OWN She is an intellectual with an international rap career; a creative writer fascinated by behav- DEVICES ioral science; and a funny, charismatic per- former dogged by blue moods and heartache. While reviewers categorize her as brilliant, Sunday, November 4 sophisticated, and unconventional, Dessa 12:30p – 1:30p describes her own literary debut memoir, My Own Devices, as simply a “collection of true Chicago Athletic Association stories about love and purpose, rap tours and Stagg Court loneliness, science and philosophy.” Sound 12 S Michigan Ave Opinion host Greg Kot joins Dessa as she shares the kind of candid tales and poignant M $15 ST $10 G $20 insights that can be won only by way of many, many hours in a traveling van.

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Hailed as a pioneer in scientific visualization Despite tech’s reputation as a ‘bro-haven,’ 502 and computer art, you’ve probably encoun- BROAD BAND: women have been at the vanguard of tech- VISUALIZING tered the work of Donna Cox more than once. THE WOMEN BEHIND nology and innovation, from the first Victo- Her art direction and visualizations for such rian computer programmer to the cyberpunk WOMEN IMAX films asA Beautiful Planet, Hubble and TECH Web designers of the 1990s. In fact, women Cosmic Voyage won her an Academy Award have turned up at the very beginning of every nomination, she helped create those stunning important wave in technology. Their pervasive Sunday, November 4 Sunday, November 4 views of the cosmos in the movie Tree of Life, influence may be hidden in plain sight, or sys- 12:30p – 1:30p 12:30p – 1:30p and Chicago’s own Museum of Science and tematically erased from the story. No longer. Industry has dubbed her a ‘modern day Leon- Join VICE reporter and author Claire L. Evans, Chicago Cultural Center Columbia College Chicago ardo da Vinci’ for her work turning big data into who will finally fill in the gaps—and give these Claudia Cassidy Theater Stage Two beautiful museum exhibitions. Cox in turn is unsung female heroes their due. 78 E Washington St 618 S Michigan Ave lauding other female visualization pioneers in her latest book New Media Futures, which Preorder your copy of Broad Band: The Untold Story Free Admission M $15 ST $10 G $20 explores the women who turned the Midwest of the Women Who Made the Internet through the CHF box office and save 20% into a hotbed of explorations in the emerging digital arts.

This program is presented in partnership with the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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Titus Kaphar: “Art is a language. There is always a narrative Terra Foundation Chicago has been recognized as a vital center coded in painting and sculpture. When you Art Design Chicago Program for feature-length, documentary and experi- CAN ART look at something, ask yourself, who is repre- mental filmmaking. But it is less well-known as sented and who is invisible?” THE NEW WORLD: a place that produced fantastic innovations AMEND HISTORY? in corporate and industrial films. The Chicago With more urgency than a headline, Titus INDUSTRIAL, Film Archives, which collects, preserves and Kaphar’s artworks capture the spirit of social screens filmmaking in the Midwest, curated Sunday, November 4 justice and change in America today (exem- CORPORATE AND this program of short films produced for 12:30p – 1:30p plified in hisTIME cover portrait of the Fergu- Republic Steel, Life Magazine, Kimberly-Clark son protests). Working from personal history SPONSORED Corporation, and the Container Corporation of Venue SIX10 toward a wider lens—revealing the historically America. Aimed at showcasing the impact of Feinberg Theater FILMS marginalized and erased—he exposes racism, design on everyday life and product manufac- 610 S Michigan Ave inequality, and a criminal justice system that turing, these filmmakers skillfully navigated the is anything but just. In this event, Kaphar will Sunday, November 4 bounds of corporate culture and values while M $15 ST $10 G $20 expose how all depictions, no matter how 2:30p – 4:00p frequently challenging the conventions of the personal or grandiose, are fictional, imperfect, sponsored film through their use of experi- Chicago Cultural Center and thus capable of being remade. mental editing and other aesthetic decisions. Claudia Cassidy Theater This 67-minute screening will be followed by a 78 E Washington St This program is generously underwritten by Carol Q+A led by Lara Allison of the School of the Art Rosofsky with additional support from Kavi Gupta. Institute of Chicago. Free Admission This program is preseted in partnership with the Chi- cago Film Archives.

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Joshua Miele of The Smith-Kettlewell Eye Acclaimed scholar and humanist Martha C. VISUALIZING Research Institute is a blind scientist who has Martha C. Nussbaum turns her attention to the current ACCESSIBILITY spent a quarter of a century developing new Nussbaum: political climate crisis of party polarization, ways for blind people to access their world. His divisive rhetoric, and the increasing inability innovations allow people to navigate public THE MONARCHY of two halves of the country to communicate Sunday, November 4 transit systems and city streets through ele- with one another in her most recent work, The 2:30p – 3:30p gant audio/tactile maps, add rich audio OF FEAR Monarchy of Fear. At the heart of the problem, description to YouTube videos and access Nussbaum sees a simple truth: The political is Columbia College Chicago information about businesses and other Sunday, November 4 always emotional, and the psychological con- Stage Two points of interest through a phone-based app. 2:30p – 3:30p stant of fear of the other will always be at-the- 618 S Michigan Ave His guiding principles include using low-cost ready to fuel the fires of anger, disgust, envy, technology, crowd-sourcing the materials, First United Methodist Church and blame. Drawing on a mix of historical M $15 ST $10 G $20 and preserving user autonomy and partici- at the Chicago Temple and contemporary examples, from classical pation. Join Miele for a review of his life work 77 W Washington St Athens to the musical Hamilton, Nussbaum and ethos. will discuss the emotions behind our political M $15 ST $10 G $20 culture, and suggest a roadmap for where we might go next.

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50 51 In her memoir, Night Moves, music and culture 508 509 critic Jessica Hopper pulls material straight NIGHT MOVES WITH from her personal journals in order to chronicle—with accurate freshness and edge—the JESSICA HOPPER transformative 2004-2009 period in Chicago music history, when she was living in decrepit punk houses, biking to bad loft parties with her Sunday, November 4 friends, DJing and exploring Chicago’s various 4:30p – 5:30p music scenes deep into the night. In conversation with writer and poet José Olivarez, Hopper, Chicago Athletic Association author of The First Collection of Criticism by a Stagg Court Living Female Rock Critic and a former editor 12 S Michigan Ave and contributor at Pitchfork and MTV News, will take you back to a very particular moment M $15 ST $10 G $20 in cultural history, when new technology (any- one remember MySpace?) was about to irre- vocably alter how music makes community.

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In February of 1929, a single violent crime in Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita is one of the most Virtual and a garage on Chicago’s Northside became 510 famous—and perhaps infamous—novels of all Augmented History: global news. It’s widely believed that graphic THE TRUE CRIME time. Yet very few of its readers know that the images from the scene of the St. Valentine’s novel was inspired by a real-life criminal case: THE ST. VALENTINE’S Day Massacre, splashed across newspapers BEHIND NABOKOV’S the 1948 abduction of eleven-year-old Sally around the world, shocked the public, shaped Horner. In The Real Lolita, true-crime writer DAY MASSACRE law enforcement’s response to the meteoric LOLITA Sarah Weinman draws upon extensive inves- rise of the American gangster and ultimately tigations, interviews, legal documents, and Sunday, November 4 led to the incarceration of Al Capone. John Sunday, November 4 public records to tell Sally Horner’s complete 2:30p – 3:30p Russick of the Chicago History Museum will 4:30p – 5:30p story for the very first time. Weinman (author of bring this event to life through augmented Women Crime Writers: Eight Suspense Novels Venue SIX10 and virtual reality technologies and examine First United Methodist Church of the 1940s & 50s) will share what she believes Feinberg Theater the photograph as a tool for sharing informa- at the Chicago Temple Nabokov knew of the Sally Horner case, and 610 S Michigan Ave tion historically and in our current era of “sto- 77 W Washington St what level of effort he took to disguise the dark ry-showing” over story-telling. roots of his novel, as well as the more recent M $15 ST $10 G $20 M $15 ST $10 G $20 appeal of the true-crime genre as a whole, and what she sees as a writer’s responsibility in true-crime truth-telling.

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52 53 Sierra Santiago and her friends live in a magi- 511 512 cal version of Brooklyn, where shadowshapers Daniel José Older: like Sierra have discovered a way to use art to connect with ancestral spirits. In Shadow- SHADOWHOUSE FALL house Fall, the second book in his Shadow- shaper Cypher series, Daniel José Older has created characters who interact with magical Sunday, November 4 forces—including power-hungry supernatural 4:30p – 5:30p villains—while simultaneously battling real-life evils like bigotry and police abuse. Join Older Venue SIX10 as he discusses how he maintains the delicate Feinberg Theater balance between these two equally menacing 610 S Michigan Ave worlds, and why this high-stakes combination seems to be attracting not only Young Adult M $15 ST $10 G $20 audiences, but also a steady stream of awards and starred reviews.

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During his time as Chicago Symphony From the Vietnam War, to the assassinations DANIEL BARENBOIM Orchestra’s Music Director, Daniel Barenboim 600 of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, AND THE co-founded the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. William and Greta Wiley and the violence around the Democratic The Divan brings together Israeli, Palestinian, Flory Concert National Convention in Chicago, 1968 was WEST-EASTERN DIVAN and other Arab musicians to collaborate within one of the most turbulent years in American the structure of the orchestra, where coopera- 1968: SONG BY SONG history. It was also a banner year in American ORCHESTRA tion, interpersonal respect and understanding music, with artists like Nina Simone, Simon are required. Says Barenboim: “It is absolutely & Garfunkel, Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, Monday, November 5 essential for people to understand what the Laura Nyro, James Taylor, Marvin Gaye, Sunday, November 4 7:00p – 8:15p 4:30p – 5:30p other thinks and feels, without necessarily and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young producing agreeing with it.” Intended as a one-time event, some of their most vibrant work. Join CHF Francis W. Parker School the orchestra has been performing for almost favorites Rob Lindley and Doug Peck (Four Harris Theater Diane and David B twenty years and has been designated a U.N. Women, A Night At The Oscars, Assassins, for Music and Dance Heller Auditorium Global Advocate for Cultural Understanding. Follies) along with an incredible line-up of 205 E Randolph St 330 W Webster Ave As part of the Chicago stop on their 2018 US performers,including E. Faye Butler, Mark tour, members of the Divan will share a special J. Hood (of NBC’s The Voice), and Bethany M $25 ST $10 G $30 M $20 ST $12 G $25 performance, followed by a conversation with Thomas. Fifty years on, they’ll explore the Charter Humanists must Maestro Barenboim. incredible music of this transformative year, reserve tickets in advance paired with the ground-breaking “graphics” by calling the Box Office This program is presented in partnership with the Joan of the sixties era Chicago underground news- at (312) 605-8444. W. and Irving B. Harris Theater for Music and Dance paper The Seed (introduced by its long-time and supporterd by the Irving Harris Foundation. editor Abe Peck.)

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 Festival.

54 55 South Shore Night is presented with the sup- SOUTH SHORE port of The Center for the Study of Race, Politics 601 NIGHT & Culture at the University of Chicago; Chicago Park District; Leadership Greater Chicago; Metropolitan Planning Council and The Weinberg/Newton Gallery.

Any ticket purchased for South Shore Night grants access to all other South Shore Night events.

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SIGNS FOR COMMUNITY 603 Got a box of 8mm, Super-8, or 16mm reel-to- SOUTH SIDE reel gathering dust in a basement, garage, or HOME MOVIE Granny’s attic? The South Side Home Movie Project would like a word with you. Founded PROJECT in 2005 by University of Chicago Cinema and Media Studies professor Jacqueline Stewart, the SSHMP spends a good deal of time reach- Wednesday, November 7 ing out to residents, simply to convince them 5:30p – 7:15p of the value of their old family films. Although “home movies” have typically been kept pri- South Shore Cultural Center vate, Stewart’s hope is that bringing these Solarium materials into public light will ensure that the 7059 S South Shore Dr diverse experiences and perspectives of South Siders will be available for study and appreci- M $10 ST $5 G $15 ation by larger audiences and for generations to come. Join Stewart as she shares some of Ticket includes admission to all her most valuable learning experiences lead- South Shore Night events ing the project, and some of her favorite bits of footage.

56 57 Jahmal Cole and Amanda Seligman team 602 603 up to talk about the history and function of SIGNS FOR Chicago’s neighborhood block clubs, and the power of block club signs as their visual COMMUNITY signifiers. Seligman, a historian and author of Chicago’s Block Clubs: How Neighbors Shape the City, has studied the rich history of block Wednesday, November 7 clubs as community organizing forces. Cole, 7:30p – 8:30p an education activist and founder of My Block, My Hood, My City, a youth-focused organiza- South Shore Cultural Center tion, recently led young Chicagoans to design Paul Robeson Theatre new block club signs, in conversation with the 7059 S South Shore Dr current values and ambitions of their communities. A rich media presentation of those M $10 ST $5 G $15 signs, along with their predecessors, will com- Ticket includes admission to all plement their conversation, moderated by Jen South Shore Night events Sabella, Co-founder of hyper local news outlet, Block Club Chicago.

At first, Tonika Johnson’s plan for the Folded In our media-saturated world, images of vio- THE FOLDED Map project was simply to photograph “mir- 604 lence, fictional and otherwise, have become MAP PROJECT ror points”—corresponding addresses in the Terra Foundation more prevalent and realistic. Artists across North and South Side neighborhoods of the Art Design Chicago Program disciplines navigate a world saturated with city—and set them side-by-side to reveal trauma, grief, and conflict. Director of the Wednesday, November 7 the disparities caused by Chicago’s history MCA ’68: DePaul Art Museum and former MCA curator 6:00p – 7:15p of systemic segregation. Then, something Julie Rodrigues Widholm, multi-disciplinary unexpected happened. While Johnson was ART & VIOLENCE, artist Danny Giles, and Marilynn Thoma Artistic South Shore Cultural Center taking photos, residents started coming Director Alison Cuddy reflect on the intersec- Dining Room out of their houses, asking questions, and THEN & NOW tion of violence and art on the 50th anniver- 7059 S South Shore Dr expressing interest in what she was doing. sary of a landmark exhibition from early in the And so, Johnson began bringing “map twins” Thursday, November 8 MCA’s history, Violence! in Recent American M $10 ST $5 G $15 together, encouraging them to visit one 6:00p – 7:00p Art (1968). As one of the museum’s first topi- another’s homes and neighborhoods, and cal exhibitions, the show provides a historical Ticket includes admission to all documented the ensuing exchanges “where MCA Chicago marker in how audiences and artists contend South Shore Night events the map folds and touches.“ Architectural and Edlis Neeson Theater with and process the tenor of their time. Giles urban designer Paola Aguirre joins Johnson for 220 E Chicago Ave will also present recent work as a contempo- an “interactive” conversation. rary response to this seminal exhibition. M $10 ST $8 G $15 This program is presented in partnership with Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.

This program is funded by the Terra Foundation for American Art and The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation.

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We live in an “oligopoly age” in which many The legacy of the witch as icon of feminism Tim Wu: industries are controlled by just a few firms— Kristen Sollee: and female power is enduring and profound— THE CURSE OF big banks, big pharma, big tech. Bigness has WITCHES, SLUTS, as are the graphic ways in which women have concentrated not just economic but also polit- been scapegoated and persecuted for their BIGNESS ical power in too few hands. So says Columbia FEMINISTS perceived connection with witchcraft. In this law professor Tim Wu, who coined the term illustrated talk, New School faculty member “net neutrality” and comes to CHF to discuss and author of Witches, Sluts, Feminists: Con- Thursday, November 8 Thursday, November 8 his most recent book, The Curse of Bigness: juring the Sex Positive Kristen J. Sollee will 6:00p – 7:00p 7:30p – 8:30p Antitrust in the New Gilded Age. Calling for trace the lineage of “witch feminism” through tighter antitrust enforcement and an end to art, film, music, fashion, literature, technology, Northwestern MCA Chicago corporate bigness, Wu explains not only what religion, pop culture, and politics, and reveal Pritzker School of Law Edlis Neeson Theater went wrong, but what its broader implications the ways in which women throughout history Thorne Auditorium 220 E Chicago Ave are for our economy, our society, and capital- and today have turned the complex, weighted, 375 E Chicago Ave ism at large. and often fearsome legacy of the witch into a M $10 ST $8 G $15 tool for fighting back. M $15 ST $10 G $20 Preorder your copy of The Curse of Bigness through the CHF box office and save 20% This program is presented in partnership with Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.

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The Stanek Endowed Music Join us for the world premiere of a new com- Terra Foundation Neither a movement nor a style, Hairy Who position by iconic minimalist composer Philip was simply the name six graduates of the Art Program Glass, his first-ever for a percussion ensemble. Art Design Chicago Program Institute of Chicago chose when they decided PHILIP GLASS Glass himself scarcely requires introduction, HAIRY WHO that the best way to find success as artists was having garnered Kennedy Center Honors, to join forces and exhibit together. From 1966 AND THIRD COAST multiple Academy Award nominations, and to 1969, as Hairy Who, the group mounted a National Medal of Arts, in addition to being Friday, November 9 unconventional displays of bright, graphic PERCUSSION considered one of the most influential com- 7:00p – 8:00p work at the Hyde Park Art Center—embody- posers of the 20th century. Joining Glass ing irreverence, spontaneity, and quietly trans- Art Institute of Chicago Friday, November 9 onstage for both performance and conversa- gressive humor during a moment that was Fullerton Hall 7:00p – 8:00p tion will be the eclectic, Grammy Award-win- witnessing profound national upheaval and ning Third Coast Percussion. Considered 111 S Michigan Ave the distinct rise of counterculture. Fifty years Francis W. Parker School “commandingly elegant” by the New York later, on the occasion of the major retrospec- M $15 ST $10 G $20 Diane and David B Times, the ensemble meld a very tall stack of tive Hairy Who? 1966 – 1969 at the Art Institute, Heller Auditorium classical music degrees (Northwestern, East- original Hairy Who artists Art Green, Gladys 330 W Webster Ave man, Rutgers, New England Conservatory, Nilsson, and Suellen Rocca will join us for a Yale) with a very broad set of influences (art panel discussion that explores the history and M $25 ST $15 G $30 rock, indie, Zimbabwean mbira). impact of their groundbreaking partnership.

This program is generously underwritten as part of This program is presented in partnership with the Art the Stanek Endowed Music series. Institute of Chicago.

This program is funded by the Terra Foundation for American Art and The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation.

62 63 If you think the conflict in today’s U.S. Congress 700 701 is at a historic extreme, Yale historian Joanne Joanne Freeman: Freeman helps set the record straight. In The Field of Blood, Freeman explores the history of THE FIELD graphic, physical conflict on the floor of the U.S. Congress—particularly in the decades leading OF BLOOD up to the Civil War, when legislative sessions were punctuated by mortal threats, canings, Saturday, November 10 flipped desks, and even all-out slugfests. Con- 11:00a – 12:00p gressmen drew pistols and waved Bowie knives and many were beaten, bullied, and coerced First United Methodist Church into compliance on the issue of slavery. But at the Chicago Temple beyond simply exploring the shock value of 77 W Washington St these historic encounters, Freeman suggests that these physical altercations were not coin- M $15 ST $10 G $20 cidental to the war that was to come, but rather an integral part of the road to war itself.

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In the decades leading up to the end of U.S. Author and urbanist Douglas Farr’s bestsell- PICTURE FREEDOM slavery, many free Blacks posed for daguerre- 702 ing first book, Sustainable Urbanism: Urban otypes—a type of very early photograph. Richard H. Driehaus Design with Nature, helped shift the focus of Saturday, November 10 These portraits captured their stories and Foundation urban sustainability from the stand-alone 11:00a – 12:00p recorded history, served to prepare blacks and building to the high-performance neigh- whites both for the coming realities of eman- Lecture on Architecture borhood. Now, Farr returns with Sustainable Columbia College Chicago cipation, and dignified their subjects, partic- SUSTAINABLE Nation: Urban Design Patterns for the Future, Stage Two ularly by representing Blackness outside the in which he seeks to move the conversation 618 S Michigan Ave cultural trappings and assumptions of slavery. NATION even further—and faster—forward. Farr pro- In Picture Freedom, Duke University Professor poses more than 70 specific, aspirational M $15 ST $10 G $20 Jasmine Nichole Cobb explores these images urban design patterns, each of which provides Saturday, November 10 to trace the emergence of black freedom as guidance on a key aspect of a neighborhood, 11:00a – 12:00p an idea and as a visual representation that and all of which can be immediately applied. has always been crucial—if contentious—to Join Farr as he provides a hopeful roadmap for Venue SIX10 establishing selfhood. overcoming our society’s major sustainability Feinberg Theater challenges in just four generations. Preorder your copy of Picture Freedom through the 610 S Michigan Ave CHF box office and save 20% Preorder your copy of Sustainable Nation through M $15 ST $10 G $20 the CHF box office and save 20%

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64 65 Join two-time U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer 703 704 Prize winner Natasha Trethewey as she unveils Natasha Trethewey: Monument, her first retrospective, which features new work as well as poems selected MONUMENT with care from each of her four previous collections. In being drawn forth from an “opus of classics both elegant and necessary,” each Saturday, November 10 poem weaves and interlocks with those that 1:00p – 2:00p came before it, and those that follow. Through- out the collection, too, winds the poet’s own First United Methodist Church family history of trauma and loss, resilience at the Chicago Temple and love—in terms that have, across Trethew- 77 W Washington St ey’s already monumental career, helped us change the very foundation of the vocabulary M $15 ST $10 G $20 we use to speak about race, gender, and our collective future.

This program is presented in partnership with the Poetry Foundation.

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Widely considered one of the parents of mod- We are living in a time of unprecedented lev- Lance Wyman: ern iconography, Lance Wyman specializes 705 els of data collection. Everything around us is URBAN ICONS FOR in wayfinding systems: that is, signs, symbols, In/visible: being tracked, recorded, and documented and other visual cues that help people navi- constantly, and in ways we may not even fully WORKING CITIES gate human-made environments (i.e., com- MISSING DATASETS grasp. But in the giant “data ecosystem” where muter train cities, museums, walkways, zoos, this information goes to live, there exist certain etc.). Wyman’s career took off when at the age spaces that are curiously empty. We’ve gotten Saturday, November 10 Saturday, November 10 of 29, he won a design contest, landing him so accustomed to the ubiquity of data that 1:00p – 2:00p 1:00p – 2:00p the incredible job of designing the graphics for these “missing datasets” leave us scratching the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City. Since our heads. Enter: Mimi Onuoha. There’s always Columbia College Chicago Venue SIX10 then, he has been “penetrating the collective a reason behind it, she says, when certain Stage Two Feinberg Theater consciousness;” spurring visual dialogues information is being collected and saved while 618 S Michigan Ave 610 S Michigan Ave between people and their surroundings; and other information is not. Join Onuoha as she reinforcing the notion that even the most min- reveals common patterns behind these data M $15 ST $10 G $20 M $15 ST $10 G $20 imal visual elements, like the icons on your absences; ways missing datasets have been phone, can be capable of transmitting sur- used systematically to disadvantage certain prisingly effective messages. groups; and ways in which data can be used as a measure for change

66 67 As a high-school intern at the Kennedy 706 707 Space Center, Danielle Wood was inspired by SPACE AND NASA’s inimitable capacity for precision, collaboration, and achievement. She dreamed EQUALITY of a career in the space program, but also aspired to serve communities directly—while advancing opportunities for women of color. Wood recently established Space Enabled, Saturday, November 10 a research group within the MIT Media Lab 3:00p – 4:00p whose mission is to advance justice on Earth using designs enabled by space technologies. First United Methodist Church Space Enabled brings together scholars; part- at the Chicago Temple ners from governments, agencies, and socially- 77 W Washington St minded entrepreneurial groups to prototype space-technology applications in areas such M $15 ST $10 G $20 as managing invasive plants, caring for water resources, and even curbing the spread of disease. Join Wood as she reveals the myriad ways we can use lessons drawn from space for the benefit of all humankind.

Ask an average person to define artificial Within the last 24 hours, it’s statistically likely AI: GETTING intelligence, and chances are they’ll produce 708 that you’ve: used your iPhone to Google some- BEYOND a vague summary or turn to visuals out of a Franklin Foer: thing, scrolled Facebook, and shopped on sci-fi movie. The truth is: it’s hard to talk about Amazon. “This is a nascent stage in the total THE CLICHÉS A.I. because most of us don’t really understand WORLD automation and homogenization of social, A.I. What is intelligence? Can a thing truly be political, and intellectual life” argues Franklin intelligent? At what point does it become intel- WITHOUT MIND Foer—and “At stake is nothing less than who Saturday, November 10 ligent? Often, we act as though there’s some- we are, and what we will become.” In World 3:00p – 4:00p thing magical about A.I., says Molly Wright Saturday, November 10 Without Mind, Foer, a national correspondent Steenson, but maybe that’s just magical 3:00p – 4:00p for The Atlantic and former editor of The New Columbia College Chicago thinking. Meanwhile, most of us are probably Republic, paints a foreboding portrait of the Stage Two interacting with A.I. on a daily basis in ways we Venue SIX10 existential threat posed by big tech. What 618 S Michigan Ave don’t see. So how can we move past the out- Feinberg Theater has been sold to us as convenience, he says, of-date clichés and learn to talk about it—and 610 S Michigan Ave comes at the terrible cost of privacy, auton- M $15 ST $10 G $20 begin to understand what it is and isn’t? omy, individuality, and choice. Join us for this M $15 ST $10 G $20 urgent conversation on the imperative of resis- Preorder your copy of Architectural Intelligence- tance and our power to stem the tide. through the CHF box office and save 20% Preorder your copy of World Without Mind: The Exis- tential Threat of Big Tech through the CHF box office and save 20%

68 69 In a world that runs increasingly on global tech 709 710 connections and short-order online commerce, DARK COMMERCE it has become easier to anonymize trade; make huge profits in a short amount of time; and zero out accountability between buyers, Saturday, November 10 sellers, and their intermediaries. Professor of 5:00p – 6:00p Public Policy and founder of George Mason University’s Terrorism, Transnational Crime Venue SIX10 and Corruption Center, Louise Shelley inves- Feinberg Theater tigates the world of “dark commerce” and 610 S Michigan Ave reveals how globalization, communications, and new technology have fueled the growth M $15 ST $10 G $20 of dangerous forms of illegal trade—including arms, antiquities, narcotics, and endangered species, as well as child pornography, identities, and sex-trafficked humans.

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Odds are, you’ve already seen one of John Whether city-sponsored or erected in the dead ON THE BORDER: Moore’s photographs this year. Before it 800 of night, the art rising from, in, and about a John Moore with became a viral symbol of the humanitarian Terra Foundation city’s streets has long provided one of the crisis unfolding at the U.S.-Mexico border, a Art Design Chicago Program most vibrant portraits of the vast array of art- Francisco Cantú photo with the caption: “A two-year-old Hon- ists, perspectives, images, and stories devel- duran asylum seeker cries as her mother is CHICAGO STREET oping in their midst. Chicago has a deep and searched and detained” was a real-time, real- diverse history of street art, with reams of Saturday, November 10 life scene unfolding in front of Moore, a Getty hyper-local cultural workers expressing their 5:00p – 6:00p ART HISTORY Images special correspondent. “This one was city’s stories across decades, in venues and tough for me,” he said. “As soon as it was over, through media which have often been omitted First United Methodist Church Sunday, November 11 they were put into a van. I had to stop and from mainstream art history. Join muralist Max at the Chicago Temple 11:00a – 12:00p take deep breaths.” Moore, a Pulitzer-Prize Sansing, photographer Oscar Arriola, graffitist 77 W Washington St winner, has focused on the issue of undocu- Chicago Athletic Association Stef Skills and moderator Tempestt Hazel for mented immigration and the militarization of a deep dive into our city’s street art scene. A M $15 ST $10 G $20 Stagg Court the southern border. He has earned access to 12 S Michigan Ave pop-up exhibition of Chicago Street Art will be immigrants on all points of their journey, as on display on the ground floor of the Chicago well as to ICE and Border Patrol agents and M $15 ST $10 G $20 Athletic Association. USCIS officials. Moore will join us to discuss Undocumented. Former United States Border This program is presented in partnership with Johalla Agent and Whiting Award-winning author of Projects and supported by Paula R. Kahn. The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from This program is funded by the Terra Foundation for the Border, Francisco Cantú will join in con- American Art and The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation. versation.

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You may think of data visualization and sta- Abortion is a hot topic in public, and an Michael Friendly: tistical graphics as relatively new subjects THE SCARLET A uncomfortable one in private. While politicians HISTORY OF of study. And it’s true, computer-generated pontificate and citizens express entrenched visualizations are newborns to the field. But Sunday, November 11 opinions in polls and the voting booth, hon- VISUALIZATIONS at the root of data visualization is a long, rich 11:00a – 12:00p est abortion conversations between family, tradition of humans using pictures in artful, friends, colleagues, and neighbors seem sur- creative ways—from early maps and statisti- Venue SIX10 prisingly rare. Bioethicist and lawyer Katie Wat- Sunday, November 11 cal graphics to thematic cartography, med- Feinberg Theater son wants to flip that equation. With Scarlet 11:00a – 12:00p ical and astronomical charts, and more—to 610 S Michigan Ave A: The Ethics, Law, and Politics of Ordinary convey scientific and statistical data to each Abortion, Watson aims to spur more substan- Columbia College Chicago other visually. York University professor and M $15 ST $10 G $20 tive and normalized private conversations Conaway Center data visualization specialist Michael Friendly about our personal histories, policy opinions, 1104 S Wabash Ave joins us to share highlights from The Milestone and feelings of ambivalence or clarity on Project: a visual (of course) compendium of abortion ethics. The Nation columnist and M $15 ST $10 G $20 significant events—digital and otherwise—in author Katha Pollitt joins Watson for a dialog the history of data visualization. creating more honest, respectful, and robust public conversations about this complex and misunderstood subject.

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72 73 Graphic images and icons are part of the 803 804 larger urban landscape of what’s often DESIGN AND called “wayfinding”—how we get from here to there. But how else do graphic images do ADAPTIVE their work in cities and public spaces? In this talk, Sara Hendren will start with the every- TECHNOLOGIES day icons that are all around us, showing the unexpected ways that aesthetic and political Sunday, November 11 work happens in these simple graphics, espe- 1:00p – 2:00p cially when it comes to bodies of all shapes and sizes. And she’ll explore much more: How Columbia College Chicago does design in general—products, architec- Conaway Center ture, city streets and systems—help us make 1104 S Wabash Ave sense of one another? This is a talk about how all our tools and technologies are packed full M $15 ST $10 G $20 of ideas, and it’s an invitation to see the built environment and the human bodies in it with fresh eyes.

Despite their divergent aesthetics and poli- Yvan Alagbé has developed a highly distinc- THE PHOTOGRAPHIC tics, novelists Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison 805 tive approach to the graphic novel, combining COLLABORATIONS found common ground through photography. Yvan Alagbé: free form, black-and-white brushwork with a Viewing the medium as a means of putting a stark visual storytelling style to tackle some OF RICHARD WRIGHT, spotlight on the few institutions dedicated to YELLOW NEGROES of the weightiest issues of our time. He spent reducing systemic inequality for African Amer- more than twenty years assembling the pieces RALPH ELLISON, AND icans, their spirit of collaboration is particularly AND OTHER that make up his new retrospective collec- evident in their work with photographers— tion, Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary GORDON PARKS including a young Gordon Parks—around the IMAGINARY Creatures. Now available in English for the Lafargue Clinic, the first desegregated psy- CREATURES very first time, the book details the relentless Sunday, November 11 chiatric facility in New York City. University of anxieties and tribulations of undocumented 1:00p – 2:00p Pennsylvania English Professor and Hutchins migrant workers in Paris. One of France’s most Fellow Jean-Christophe Cloutier unearths this Sunday, November 11 revered comic book artists, Alagbé joins us to Chicago Athletic Association history told through a photographic archive 1:00p – 2:00p discuss why the graphic form is so well suited Stagg Court of rare and unpublished images preserved in to conveying true stories in all their honesty 12 S Michigan Ave collections held in the Library of Congress and Venue SIX10 and depth. the Gordon Parks Foundation. Feinberg Theater M $15 ST $10 G $20 610 S Michigan Ave This program is presented in partnership with the This program is presented in partnership with the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in Chicago Wolf Humanities Center at the University of Penn- M $15 ST $10 G $20 and the Alliance Française Chicago. sylvania. Preorder your copy of Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures through the CHF box office and save 20%

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Terra Foundation In conjunction with the Chicago Cultural Cen- THE MAKING Regarded today as one of the best - and most Art Design Chicago Program ter’s exhibition African American Designers in purely visual - films ever made, 2001: A Space Chicago: Art, Commerce, and the Politics of OF 2001: A SPACE Odyssey met with mixed reviews on its release MIDCENTURY DESIGN Race, art historian Maggie Taft, artist David in 1968. Director Stanley Kubrick hadn’t yet Hartt, modern architecture and design histo- ODYSSEY made a name for himself, and the script was AND OPPORTUNITY rian Jonathan Mekinda, and the exhibition’s radical, with little dialogue and no strong cen- co-curator Chris Dingwall explore the social, tral character. Still, audiences lined up to see Sunday, November 11 artistic, entrepreneurial and political oppor- it, Kubrick wound up with a hit picture, and the Sunday, November 11 3:00p – 4:00p tunities to be found within midcentury design uber-popular big-budget sci-fi adventure film 3:00p – 4:00p in Chicago, with a particular focus on how Afri- was born. To celebrate the (gasp) 50th anni- Columbia College Chicago can American and white designers differently versary of the film’s release, author Michael Chicago Cultural Center Conaway Center navigated their roles within the field of design, Benson has unearthed previously untold his- Preston Bradley Hall 1104 S Wabash Ave and resolved their radical politics with the tories from behind the scenes of 2001. Join him 3rd Floor commercial dictates of the industry. to celebrate, dissect and view some of the piv- 78 E Washington St M $15 ST $10 G $20 otal scenes from this cinematic masterpiece. This program is presented in partnership with the Free Admission Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Preorder your copy of Space Odyssey: Stanley Events. Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Mas- terpiece through the CHF box office and save 20% This program is funded by the Terra Foundation for American Art and The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation.

76 77 Jaron Lanier has been on the cusp of tech- 808 nological innovation from its infancy to the 810 Jaron Lanier: present. A pioneer in virtual reality (a term he coined), his startup VPL created the first com- DAWN OF THE NEW mercial VR products. A computer scientist, composer, artist, and best-selling author (You EVERYTHING Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto), Lanier comes to CHF to explore his own lifelong relationship Sunday, November 11 with technology as a guide to the possibilities 3:00p – 4:00p of virtual reality. In Dawn of the New Everything, Lanier makes the case that virtual reality can First United Methodist Church actually make our lives richer and fuller. CHF at the Chicago Temple Marilynn Thoma Artistic Director Alison Cuddy 77 W Washington St joins Lanier for a conversation exploring what it means to be human at a moment of unprec- “This is the Perel we love—the M $15 ST $10 G $20 edented technological possibility. Perel who believes in the resilience of the human heart, the Perel Preorder your copy of Dawn of the New Everything: who sees our darkest selves and Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality through accepts us anyway.” the CHF box office and save 20% —Elizabeth Weil, New York Times

Amit Majmudar, nuclear radiologist and for- Why do we cheat? Do happy people cheat? 809 mer Poet Laureate of Ohio, spends some days Esther Perel: When we say “infidelity,” what exactly do we Anita and Prabhakant discerning patterns in diagnostic scans of the THE STATE OF mean? Is an affair always the end of a relation- Sinha Program human body, and other days patterning lan- ship? Why are these questions so difficult to guage into poems to represent the interior of AFFAIRS answer, and why is the extremely common act THE VISUAL the human experience. His most recent literary of adultery so poorly understood? In The State project is Godsong, an ambitious translation of Affairs, psychotherapist, couples’ counselor, Sunday, November 11 POETRY OF THE of the ancient Sanskrit poem and Hindu scrip- and best-selling author Esther Perel guides 5:00p – 6:00p ture, the Bhagavad Gita. Majmudar learned us to genuinely examine our attitudes about BHAGAVAD GITA Sanskrit in order to craft the 700-verse trans- love, lust, commitment, self-hood, growth, First United Methodist Church lation, for which The New York Times called partnership, and betrayal—and in doing so, at the Chicago Temple Sunday, November 11 it “ravishing and faithful, marked by what to rethink our attitudes toward infidelity. Says 77 W Washington St 3:00p – 4:00p Nabokov once called ‘the precision of a Perel, “Love is messy; infidelity more so. But it poet and the imagination of scientist.’” Join is also a window, like no other, into the crevices M $30 ST $22 G $35 Venue SIX10 Majmudar as he zeroes in specifically on the of the human heart.” Feinberg Theater 11th Session of Godsong—an extended vision Ticket purchase includes a 610 S Michigan Ave of the Universal Form of the divine—in order to copy of The State of Affairs. explore the function of “visions,” both in poetry An option for 1 book + 2 tickets M $15 ST $10 G $20 and in religious iconography. is available through the box office at (312) 605-8444. This program is presented with the generous support of Anita and Prabhakant Sinha.

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78 79 CHF programs bring Chicago students into 811 SERVING conversation with ground-breaking authors, CHICAGO YOUTH artists, journalists, educators, and more. This November, we’ll welcome teachers and stu- AND dents to a matinee at Nicholas Senn High School (Edgewater), featuring New York Times EDUCATORS best-selling writer Daniel Jose Older (author of Shadowhouse Fall). Teens can attend select Festival If you’re an educator interested in bringing stu- programs for only $5 through Urban dents to CHF programming, know of a school Gateways’ Teen Art Pass. or youth-serving organization seeking educational opportunities, or wish to support the Festival’s student and educator efforts, please contact [email protected].

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We fondly remember the incredible contribu- The Chicago Humanities Festival strives to A TRIBUTE TO tions of our Founding Vice Chair, Richard Gray. ACCESSIBILITY make our events accessible by providing RICHARD GRAY Richard’s passion for the Chicago Humanities assistive listening devices, sign language Festival, his incredible wealth of ideas and his interpreters, open captions, audio descrip- 1928—2018 programmatic ambitions continue to inspire tion, preferred accessible seating, and more, us and are reflected fully in this year during by request. To request an accessible accom- which we consider the theme Graphic! modation or to inquire about a specific venue, please contact the Box Office at (312) 605-8444 Richard loved Chicago—he was one of our or submit an accessibility request online when city’s great citizens and a true visionary. He purchasing tickets. We will accommodate late worked every day to ensure that our cultural requests to the best of our ability. For events institutions were recognized for their excel- that have pre-scheduled accessible features, lence and given the support they needed not look for these symbols throughout the pro- only to succeed, but to thrive. His influence and gram guide and on our website as services impact cannot be overstated. He will be sorely are added: missed by so many of us in Chicago’s arts and cultural community. Sign Language

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82 83 The Allstate Program Karla Scherer Endowed $5,000-$9,999 ENDOWED Eve Ewing: Ghosts in the Lecture Series CONTRIBUTED INSTITUTIONAL American Academy of Arts & AND Schoolyard (204) Jill Lepore: These Truths (209) GOODS CONTRIBUTORS Sciences Efroymson Family Fund SPONSORED Bank of America Program Anita and Prabhakant Sinha AND SERVICES Fifth Third Bank

PROGRAMS Tom Hanks: Program July 1, 2017 to June 30, 2018 Irving Harris Foundation Uncommon Type (309) Amit Majmudar: The Visual John R. Halligan Charitable Fund Special thanks to: SOUTHWEST ‡ Includes in-kind support Poetry of Bhagavad Gita (809) Latham & Watkins AIRLINES for its partnership as * Includes endowment Baskes Lecture in History Philanthropic support the official airline of the Chicago contributions and draws Leadership Greater Chicago Doris Kearns Goodwin: Southwest Airlines Program ensures that the Chicago Humanities Festival Lohengrin Foundation Humanities Festival Leadership in Dark Times (301) David Grann: White Darkness Northwestern University (303) remains accessible to the $100,000 and above Nuveen Investments broadest audience. We Ellen Stone Belic Presents: Advancement Tech Services, Inc National Endowment for the Poetry Foundation are delighted to recognize In Her Infinite Wisdom The Stanek Endowed Music Humanities * Bang Bang Pie Shop Walter E. Heller Foundation the generosity of the Camille Paglia: Provocations Program Robert R. McCormick Foundation Blanc Gallery Festival’s endowed and (302) Philip Glass and Third Coast Terra Foundation for American Art $1,000 - $4,999 Blue Plate sponsored program Percussion (607) Chicago Urban League donors. Breakthru Beverage Doris Conant Lecture $50,000-$99,999 Nathan Cummings Foundation on Women and Culture Art Design Chicago Terra Catalyst Ranch Abbott Laboratories PJH & Associates We would like to thank Rebecca Traister: Foundation Programs Chicago Cultural Accessibility The Richard H. Driehaus The Rhoades Foundation Heather McWilliams Good and Mad (207) Creative Chicago: An Interview Consortium Foundation Ronald H. Ringer Foundation and Frederick Fischer for Marathon With Hans Ulrich The Dapper Doughnut The Grainger Foundation Ruzicka & Associates, Ltd. their support of Hyde Richard H. Driehaus Obrist Dark Matter Coffee Morris and Dolores Takiff Family Foundation Park Day. Foundation Lecture Kohl Kaplan Foundation Jerry Saltz: The Art World DCASE on Architecture Kirkland & Ellis, LLP * University of Chicago Problem (101) Google, Inc. Sustainable Nation (702) The John D. and Catherine Art, Chicago Style (408) Herman Miller T. MacArthur Foundation The William and Greta Wiley Kirkland & Ellis, LLP The Elizabeth Morse Charitable Chris Ware (500) Trust Flory Concert Kuma’s Corner PERT Foundation 1968: Song by Song (600) The New World: Industrial, Lagunitas Brewing Company Corporate And Sponsored Films Land and Sea Dept. $25,000-$49,999 (505) Richard J. Franke Lecture Lowitz & Sons AbelsonTaylor, Inc Reconnecting Art and Science Violence And Art: 1968 Michael and Mona Heath Fund Allstate Insurance Company (206) (604) Northern Trust The Chicago Community Trust Hairy Who (608) Greenhill & Co Richard Gray Visual Art Series Peach’s Restaurant Illinois Arts Council Ukiyo-e (104) Chicago Street Art History (800) PSM Partners Illinois Humanities Photography on National Revolution Brewing Design and Opportunity ITW Security (105) Shure In Midcentury Chicago Northern Trust Corporation ‡ (806) Sofitel Chicago Elaine and Roger Haydock Southwest Airlines‡ Humor Series The Lisa and Paul Wiggin $15,000-$24,999 Abbi Jacobson: I Might Regret Program Anonymous This (304) Manuel Lima: Visualizing Bank of America Merrill Lynch Information (406) 2018 Kohl Education Prize Baxter International Inc. Alice Walker (200) Friedman Properties Tom Hanks: Uncommon Type Herman Miller (309) National Endowment for the Arts

$10,000-$14,999 Robert R. McCormick Foundation Program Anonymous Steve Kornacki: The Red and Bluestein & Associates LLC The Blue (203) Chicago Tribune Foundation Edelman Bill and Penny Obenshain Karla Scherer Center for the Study Program on Global Affairs of American Culture Francis Fukuyama: Identity (410)

84 85 Helen and Samuel Zell Linda F. Cushman Paul Stephens Anne and Anthony Ruzicka Judith and Lester Munson INDIVIDUAL Dr. Robert and Ms. Therese Robert O. Delaney Dr. Adele and Mr. John Simmons James Schainuck Barbara and Sanford Peck CONTRIBUTORS Zimmer Lawrence Del Pilar Penelope and John Van Horn Mridu Sekhar Laura and Howard Perlow $5,000-$9,999 Steve and Ann Deli Anonymous Don and Isobel Stewart Betty and Tom Philipsborn Anonymous Rohini Dey and Sajal Kohli Laura and Bob Watson Nancy and Geoffrey Stone Susan Piser July 1, 2017 to June 30, 2018 Ben Axelrad and Christy Bloom Sondra B. Epstein Denis Weil James H. Stone Rina Ranalli and John Meyer ‡ Includes in-kind support Keri and Phillip Bahar Dixie Erwin Olga Weiss and George Honig Harvey and Mary Struthers Marilynn and Charles Rivkin * Includes endowment Jean and John Berghoff Sonja and Conrad Fischer Paul Williams and Leslie Berger Carole D. Stone and Edna J. Schade contributions and draws Theodore and Debbie Berghorst Adrian Foster Sally W. and Mark L. Schwartz Arthur Susman Nancy Schulson Mary and Carl Boyer Laura Friedland Michael B. Susman Roberta and Howard A. Siegel $50,000 and above Kay Bucksbaum Anonymous $1,000-$2,499 Genevieve Thiers and Lori and Ted Souder Daniel Ratner Kimberly and R. Scott Falk * John A. and Rita Canning Dawn Gershman Elaine and Floyd Abramson Nikki and Fredric Stein Dr. Jeffery and Barbara Vender Mary L. and Richard Gray John and Jane Chapman Thomas and Sheila Gorey Anonymous Peggy Sullivan John and Marcia Volk Elizabeth A. Liebman Nancie and E. Bruce Dunn Paul Gray Mary and Paul Anderson Kurt Summers, Jr. Lynne and David B. Weinberg Debbie and Jeff Ross * Joan and Robert Feitler Janet Hadley Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer May and Ted Swan Tamra Presley Weiss Karla Scherer * Paul and Mary Finnegan Mary Kathryn Hartigan Lois and Maurice Beznos Charles A. Thurow Patricia and Laurence Booth Anita and Prabhakant Sinha * Ethel and Bill Gofen Lois and Marty Hauselman $500-$999 Virginia C. Vale Jennifer Breuer Liz Stiffel Mary Louise Gorno Elaine and Roger Haydock Naira Ahmad Doug Walter Bill Brown Lisa and Paul Wiggin Karen Gray-Krehbiel and Yvonne and John J. Held Barry Batson David Wellbery John Krehbiel Ann and Richard Carr $25,000 - $49,999 Janet and Richard Horwood Meredith Berlin Janie and Barry Winkler Joan W. Harris Elin and Stanley Christianson Julie and Roger Baskes * Howard Isenberg David Bohan Edward Winslow Mary P. Hines Marian Jacobson Camille De Frank and Rosemarie Winslow Allegra E. Biery and René Cornejo Edward Chez Laurence and Patricia Booth Jane E. Kiernan and Brian Belleu Lorraine and Mickey Jaffe Iris Witkowsky Ilene and Abram Bluestein David and Jean Curtis Sheila and William Bosron Dr. Lawrence and Ms. Sylvia Elizabeth M. Johnson Barbara Wolf Cheryl Harris and Brian Booker Margolies Lynn Donaldson and Kate Bradley Paula R. Kahn Allyson Wynn Harve Ferrill * Anonymous Cameron Avery Adrienne and Arnold Brookstone Barbara and Richard J. Franke * Maridee Quanbeck and Jared Shawn M. Donnelley Lisa Corrin Helen Morrison Kaplan Anne and Bill Fraumann Gary Feinerman Anneliese and Robert Crawford Cathy and Bill Osborn Robert and Margie Kaul Robin M. Steans and Leonard A. Rebecca Ford Judy and Tapas K. Das Gupta David Spadafora Dagmara and Nicholas Kokonas Gail Jack Fortnum Janet Diederichs Katie Spring Veena Kumar Lynn and Douglas H. Jackson Ginger Gassel, Jr. Rhonda Duffaut Jennifer Steans and Lisa Yun Lee Rishi and Anuja Jaitly Jim Kastenholz Suzanne H. Gilbert Ruth and Stephen P. Durchslag Ronna Stamm and Paul Lehman Judy and John McCarter Avy and Marcy Stein Carol and Jerry Ginsburg Amy Eshleman Raymond and Judith McCaskey Miriam Waltz and Steve Rona Talcott and Owen Deutsch MacLellan Lynn and Steven Gryll Joseph Feldman Martha and Scott Smith Karen and Herb Wander Leon Heller Bonnie Forkosh Grace K. Stanek * Miranda and Jed Mandel Cornelia Grumman and Erica Mann Ramis Dave Jacobs Suzanne and Albert Friedman Harrison and Lois Steans James Warren Deborah Manoogian Edgar Jannotta, Sr. Joel M. Friedman Marilynn and Carl Thoma * Elizabeth Peterson and Tim Lynn J. Jerath Denise and Gary Gardner Annette W. Turow Yocum Susan and Fred Mardell Cynthia Mathews and John Kenny Ivan and Kathy Kane Graham C. Grady $10,000 - $24,999 $2,500-$4,999 Sara and Richard Mesirow Carol and Arnold Kanter Melvin Gray John and Ann Amboian Anonymous Lucy Minor Julie and Ken Kennedy Don and Marcia Grenesko Ellen Stone Belic Janet and Steven Anixter Christine and Thomas Moldauer Kate T. Kestnbaum Kathy Harper Cassandra Book David and Suzanne Arch Anonymous Robert and Mary Khoury Joyce E. Hodel Catherine and Bryan B. Daniels Stephanie Arnett Ganesh Natarajan Martin and Patricia Koldyke Robert Horton Janet and Craig Duchossois Susan and Stephen Baird Jean and Jordan Nerenberg Lakshman and Janaki R. Thomas and Karen Howell Michael and Sally Feder Frederick Bates and Krishnamurthi Charles Huebner Ellen Benjamin Jerry Newton and David Weinberg Heather McWilliams and Rebecca J. McDade Jacqueline Jackson Laurie and James Bay Alexandra and John Nichols Frederick Fischer Edith C. McDonald Barbara and Garrett Johnson Greta Wiley Flory Maria Bechily and Scott Hodes Deborah Oestreicher and Victor Magar Francoise Meltzer Virginia Jones Ellen and Paul Gignilliat Judith Block Lorna and Ellard Pfaelzer, Jr. Janis Mendelsohn Lamont Jones Ira E. Graham Patricia Bobb Joan and Avner Porat Helen and Ralph J. Mills Erik King Clark and Carolyn Hulse Joyce Bixler Bottum Cynthia Stone Raskin Leslie and Arthur Muir Rita and James Knox Emily and Christopher N. Knight * Susan Bowey Anne Robertson Scott and Luvie Myers Stacey Larsen Elizabeth Nolan Leslie Buchbinder Nancy Rodin Katherine and Oliver Nicklin Joan Lefkow Bill and Penny Obenshain Henry and Gilda Buchbinder Leora and Morton Rosen Cathy Passen Shirley and Walter Massey Lynn Hauser and Neil Ross Elvira and Theodore Butz Jody Perl Chicago Humanities Festival Babette H. Rosenthal Susan and Donald Mazzoni also appreciates the support of Ryan S. Ruskin and Michael C. Dianne and Thomas Campbell Barbara Reeder Judy and Warner Rosenthal Sheila and Harvey Medvin the individuals who contribute Andrews Ann S. Cole Thomas Rudd Corrine and Larry Richman Barbara and Richard Melcher up to $500. For any corrections Deborah and Nigel Telman Elizabeth Conlisk Susan and Charles P. 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*Deceased 91 SCHEDULE Art Institute of Chicago Field Museum First United Methodist Symphony Center SAT Fullerton Hall James Simpson Theater Church at the Chicago Armour Stage OCT 111 S Michigan Ave 1400 S Lake Shore Dr Temple 220 S Michigan Ave 27 77 W Washington St

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6 6 — F R I D AY N O V2 Lawrence Jackson: Kazim Ali: Darius Williams: MAPPING INQUISITION DARIUS COOKS AT BILLIE HOLLIDAY PEACH’S

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