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SEPT–OCT 2011, v OlumE 104, numb Er 1 m E xi CO C i T y … grav E CO n CE rn S … hubbl E SP a CESC a PES … indian ar T … g E r T rud E himm E lfarb mar–a in theatres march 22nd P r 2013 r mar–aPr 2013, v OlumE 105, numb Er 4 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ALUMNI MAGAZINE STREET DATE: FEB/MARCH DUE DATE: 1/22 non-bleed: 6.4375” x 8.825”, 4-Color JANUARY 22, 2013 1:30 PM EST UCH_MAR_APRIL_covers and spine_v4.indd 1 2/25/13 10:40 AM 130315_FocusFeatures_Chicago.indd 1 1/23/13 8:40 AM alumniweekend June –, CELEBRATE EXCEPTIONAL UCHICAGO Register today for Alumni Weekend 2013. • HONOR outstanding achievement at the 72nd Annual Alumni Awards Ceremony. • SHOW YOUR PRIDE in UChicago at the Alumni Parade. • CELEBRATE the academic rigor and challenges that formed your UChicago experience. • REDISCOVER the intellectual destination that is UChicago. Visit alumniweekend.uchicago.edu to register today. uestions? Call 800.955.0065, e-mail [email protected], or visit alumniweekend.uchicago.edu. AlumniIFC_AlumniWeekendAd_4c.indd Weekend Mar-Apr ad_12.11.indd 4 1 2/27/13 11:1811:19 AM Features 32 adrift in the city On walks across Mexico City, historian Mauricio Tenorio Trillo finds a path to the past. By Elizabeth Station 38 decomposure An alumna mortician, medievalist, and video sage tries to change the way Americans think about death. By Michael Washburn, AM’02 46 raised voices The Sahmat collective galvanizes artists across India to create work that Mar–aPr 2013 vOLuME 105, N uMBEr 4 resists divisive politics. A Smart Museum exhibition tells its story. By Katherine Muhlenkamp 54 glimpses Social critic and Victorian historian Gertrude Himmelfarb, AM’44, PhD’50, looks back on her Chicago education. By Kelly Jane Torrance 56 the astronomical sublime Part of a visual tradition that reaches back to Romanticism, images from the Hubble Space Telescope awe as they inform. By Elizabeth Kessler, PhD’06 Plus: “Scope of Inquiry.” By Claire Zulkey Departments 3 editor’s notes The long and short of it: Some books should never end. 4 letters Readers write in about driving to India, interactions with historical figures, academic partnerships past, pocketbook politics, and more. 13 on the agenda Career Advancement executive director Meredith Daw discusses the growth in services that assist students in preparing for the future. 15 uchicago Journal A high-tech hospital opens; a different kind of online Singles scene emerges; rising waters encroach on the coasts; Neil Shubin traces connections between humanity and the cosmos; shadow puppetry becomes cinematic; a card game rewards irreverence; law students fight for their First Amendment rights; and legal philosopher Brian Leiter asks, “Why tolerate religion?” 28 marKetplace of ideas Background checks and balances: How to legislate gun safety. 30 course WorK Love scene: Film scholar Tom Gunning explains how editing conventions create the splice of life. Edwin Hubble, SB 1910, PhD 1917, observes through the 65 peer revieW 100-inch Hooker telescope The enviable Jessica Burstein, AM’90, PhD’98, fashions an essay out at Mt. Wilson Observatory of academic envy, and Michael C. Kotzin, AB’62, remembers Richard Stern. in a 1937 Margaret Bourke- Plus: Alumni News, Deaths, and Classifieds. White photo for Life 96 lite of the mind magazine. See “Scope of Autoresponders: Out of office e-mail messages can be an art form all their Inquiry,” page 63. Time & own. We’ve collected some of the best from the Magazine’s in-box. Life Pictures/Getty Images. See the full print issue of the University of Chicago Magazine, web-exclusive content, and links to our Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, SFI-01042 and Tumblr accounts at mag.uchicago.edu. the university of chicago magazine | mar–apr 2013 1 UCH_Contents_v3.indd 1 2/27/13 10:10 AM Dubbed “Mystic Mountain” by the Hubble Heritage Project, this pillar of gas and dust is three light-years tall. For more on Hubble Space Telescope images and their visual forebears, see “The Astronomical Sublime,” page 56. NASA, ESA, and M. Livio and the Hubble 20th Anniversary Team (STScI). Dubbed “Mystic Mountain” by the Hubble Heritage Project, this pillar editorˆs notes of gas and dust is three light-years tall. For more on Hubble Space Telescope images and their visual Volume 105, Number 4, Mar–Apr 2013 forebears, see “The Astronomical Sublime,” page 56. NASA, ESA, executive editor Mary Ruth Yoe and M. Livio and the Hubble 20th editor Laura Demanski, AM’94 associate editors Lydialyle Gibson, The long and short of it Anniversary Team (STScI). Jason Kelly art director Guido Mendez by laura demanski, am’94 alumni news editor Katherine Muhlenkamp proofreader Rhonda L. Smith student interns Colin Bradley, ’14; avid Blum, AB’77, is the exhaustible. But I read more and more Emily Wang, ’14 editor of Amazon’s elec- blissfully, and in content assurance graphic designers Nicole Jo Melton, tronic publishing arm, that indefinite pages lay ahead. The Aaron Opie lite of the mind & interactive Kindle Singles. In “Craft third volume marks a shift, breaking content editor Joy Olivia Miller Singles” (UChicago Jour- the rhythm of parties and love af- web developer Chris Wilczak nal, page 16), he notes that fairs as World War II envelops all of contributing editors John Easton, the e-books let stories grow England. It was near the end of this AM’77; Carrie Golus, AB’91, AM’93; Brooke E. O’Neill, AM’04; Amy Braverman to their natural length, un- volume—1945 in Dance time, 2011 in Puma; Elizabeth Station constrained by magazine mine—that it hit home: I would actu- staff bios mag.uchicago.edu/masthead publishers’ maximum ally finish all twelve novels. And then word counts and book pub- there would be none left. 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I have been teach- LETTERS ing an introductory graduate course in research methods at the University of Washington in Seattle for many years, and I always recommend the book to Interesting to see the map of this voyage (“A Passage to India,” Jan–Feb/13).
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