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THE DIVISION OF THE HUMANITIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

FALL 2005 | WINTER 2005

IN THIS ISSUE | AREA STUDIES | MYTHIC NARRATIVE | CIVIC KNOWLEDGE PROJECT Cover: Island, 8 x 5.5 x 3.5 inches; cardboard, Mylar, aluminum foil, ink by Dianna Frid Harper Fellow in the Humanities, Collegiate Assistant Professor of Visual Arts

Collection of William Mazzarella The images Dianna Frid uses are culled from sources that relate to systems of cartography, astronomy, architecture, botany, and geology. The combination of methods and the variety of the elements in her work point to her interest in poetics and in the fluid and often mutable definitions of the cultural, the personal, the imaginary, and the factual. Frid’s most recent exhibits include P.S.1-MOMA, New York, and the Julia Friedman Gallery, New York; look for her solo project at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, in February 2006. Frid is represented by Julia Friedman Gallery. contents

1 A LETTER FROM THE DEAN 10 MAGIC RINGS IN MYTHIC NARRATIVE 24 A TRIBUTE TO WAYNE BOOTH, PhD 1950 The Humanities as Custodians of Narratives: by David M. Thompson, PhD 1997 2 HERE & NOW The Alibi Ring Projects Currently Animating the Division by Wendy Doniger, Mircea Eliade 25 HAPPENINGS Distinguished Service Professor A Selection of Recent and Upcoming Cultural 5 BEYOND A BOUNDARY Events in Hyde Park The Civic Knowledge Project Explores ON CAMPUS New Ways to Connect with Our Neighbors Tableau, Fall 2005/ Winter 2006, Volume 7, Number 2 14 Curriculum Vitae on the South Side Tableau is produced biannually with Division of the Faculty Honors & Publications Humanities funds for our alumni and friends. by Elizabeth Babcock, MA 2004 16 Onward & Upward Editor: Joanne M. Berens, MFA 1993 18 Honor Roll Copy Editor: Heather Mendelson FEATURES

6 GEOGRAPHY CHANGES EVERYTHING IN MEMORIAM To Contact Tableau: The University of Chicago, Division of the Humanities Toward an Atlas of Area Studies at Chicago 22 Wayne Booth 1115 East 58th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637 by Sophia Carroll, BA 2000, MA 2002, 22 Annette Martin Cronin, MA 1988 [email protected] Editor of Tableau 2004–5 23 Knox Hill, PhD 1954 Image: The central staircase of Walker Museum, new home to the 23 Paul Ricoeur Division of the Humanities; photograph by Peter Kiar. FROM THE DEAN 1

Abandoning threats to force Socrates back to the Peiraeus, Polemarchus uses persuasion to tempt him with news of yet another foreign rite, one that the group plans on attending after their evening meal. Instead of carrying through with their plan, however, Polemarchus, Thrasymachus, Socrates, and the other men get to talking about justice in their own com- munity. Their desire to know more about themselves eclipses their curiosity about strangers. In their desire to discuss their own political situation, Socrates’ dear alumni interlocutors abandon the ambitions of theory, for- getting about Socrates’ original desire to study the and friends religious rites of others. In thus collapsing into them- selves, they show themselves to be democratic citizens of a certain kind. IN MY LAST Dean’s letter, I raised two questions: It is important to recognize the tendency of (1) How do we preserve the treasures of the past democratic citizens to look inward, to limit their own and approach present issues in ways that are not field of vision and the breadth of their knowledge. just efficient, or cost-effective or powerful, but also This allows us to see that we cannot cultivate our humane? (2) Specifically, how might we encourage intelligence merely through study inside the walls of &students to think historically, but also flexibly and the university. We must also venture forth into the comparatively, across national traditions and in a world with ample curiosity about the commitments variety of languages? I believe the answers to these of those who are foreign to us. By studying the rites questions are linked. This year, I have spent a good of others, we enrich our understanding of the com- deal of time with Plato’s arguments about whether plexity of the world of human values and ideals. democratic citizens can know enough to govern In the Humanities Division of the University of themselves well. Let me take us back to the Republic Chicago, we have been working hard to lead our just for a moment. students outside of themselves through the study At the beginning of the dialogue, Socrates has of what is foreign (whether in time or place). In the just completed a day as a theoros. A theoros is some- last four years, for example, our enrollments in one who journeyed abroad to study the religious rites language courses have grown significantly, not only of other people. From the word theoros, we get the in Arabic and Persian, but also in French, Russian, word theory. Socrates had walked to the harbor town Chinese, Japanese, and even ancient Greek. One of the Peiraeus to observe the rites of the foreign reason for this is that we now teach many of our goddess Bendis. Returning to Athens, Socrates is core civilization courses abroad. The Division and the waylaid by his young friend Polemarchus, who insists College have also built a University of Chicago Center that Socrates stay to enjoy the festivities into the in Paris. In addition to civilization classes, the Center evening. In hopes of preventing his departure, hosts courses in international relations, French, and Polemarchus says to Socrates, “Do you see how math, and also graduate seminars and conferences on many of us there are? Well, you must either be topics ranging from Cervantes to Montaigne and the stronger than we are, or you must stay here in concept of the self. Our students’ experiences abroad the Peiraeus.” Socrates responds, “But isn’t there engender a culture of cosmopolitanism at home. another way, namely, that I might persuade you Socrates, ironically enough, did not travel abroad, to let me go?” but he notoriously descended on every stranger in This cordially phrased distinction between decisions Athens for a long conversation. By opening ourselves brought about by force and those brought about by up with curiosity to strangers, we come to clearer rational conversation subtly indicts the procedure of understandings of the range of human aspiration. We voting that another of the dialogue’s interlocutors, need this, too, to make sense of the world around Thrasymachus, will propose just a little bit later to us and to act intelligently within it. The hope is that determine whose account of justice is correct. The cosmopolitanism, acquired both at home and abroad, Platonic corpus is full of running jokes about how a protects humanism. culture of voting corrupts genuine inquiry, or philosophia. Plato is concerned that deciding questions by a vote Sincerely, teaches speakers to consider audience prejudices and likely reactions rather than the matters actually under discussion. The conjunction of competition and inquiry, Plato argues, forces democratic citizens to become very good students of themselves, but not of anyone else. 2 HERE & NOW

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IN THE FIELD The Buddha in the Machine

The Xiangtangshan Caves project is an international effort that focuses on the Northern Qi IN THE COMMUNITY dynasty (550–77 CE) in China. The dynasty produced significant works of art in its brief twenty-eight year history, among which the most important are the Buddhist cave temples of Xiangtangshan, A Joyful Noise located south of Beijing. The St. Paul Chamber Orchestra he caves have suffered serious damage Mino, PhD 1996, Associate Director of the Center. brings music to local schools from the removal of sculptures in the Using new technology in three-dimensional digital early twentieth century and from the acid imaging, the caves are being scanned and their The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra’s new Train and coal dust of today. Scholars missing sculptures reconstructed in virtual reality. three-year residency at the University of from universities and museums in China and the Digital scanning began this summer and will Chicago means more than great concerts United States are working to better understand the continue into 2006. Lec Maj, MA expected and working with instrumentalists and rich archaeological finds from the period as well as 2006, Associate Director of Research student composers in the Department of to study cave artifacts now in Japanese, European, Computing in the Humanities, Music. It also brings a new partnership and U.S. museums. The caves project, with generous is coordinating the technical between the orchestra, the University, and support from the Getty and Carpenter Foundations, applications. three public schools on the South Side: is guided by Wu Hung, Harrie H. Vanderstappen The Xiangtangshan Caves Ray, Carnegie, and North Kenwood/Oakland Distinguished Service Professor and Director of the project promises to make significant (a University-supported charter school). Center for the Art of East Asia, and Katherine Tsiang contributions to museum multimedia The SPCO has been exploring ways to share display and education, archaeological artistic resources with public school preservation, and Chinese art history. To learn students since 1994. Their award-winning more, visit the project’s web site at xiangtangshan program — Chamber Orchestra’s Neighborhood .uchicago.edu. Network of Education, Curriculum, and Teachers — Joanne M. Berens, MFA 1993, Editor of Tableau (CONNECT) — goes far beyond a one-time arts experience. Beginning in first grade and continuing This massive project will also include an throughout their elementary years, each CONNECT international conference at Chicago, a publi- student engages in music-making at many levels, from exploring musical concepts with SPCO cation of scholarly findings, and an exhibit musicians to building instruments with their at the University’s David and Alfred Smart teachers. Around 1,225 students are expected to Museum of Art (planned for 2009). Using participate in CONNECT, and there are hopes of 3-D digital images, the multidimensional including additional schools next year. show will present a virtual reconstruction of For more information about CONNECT, visit the caves together with actual examples of www.thespco.org; for the orchestra’s 2006 perform- ance schedule, visit chicagopresents.uchicago.edu. their art works. For more on the SPCO, see the article that appeared in the University of Chicago Chronicle on Lec Maj scanning artifacts at the Metropolitan Museum, November 17, 2005. — Jennifer Carnig, News Writer New York. Photo: Eduardo Renteria TABLEAU 3

ON CAMPUS To celebrate the generosity of the IRL, the Division and “Teacher of teachers” the College are planning a Catalan Festival for this spring.

The Summer Institute on Culture and Communication in the Premodern Islamic World, created by Professor Fred Donner and funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, brings professors to Chicago from two- and four-year colleges across the country for six weeks of intensive study.

his past summer, twenty-five teachers in a range of disciplines explored the interactions between Islam and politics, Tculture and commercial enterprise in the premodern world so that they, in turn, can “offer their students a more nuanced and historically grounded view of Islam’s role in world history,” explains Fred Donner, Professor in Near Eastern EXPANDING SCHOLARSHIP Languages and Civilizations. One of the participants was F. Rachel Magdalene, a professor of religion at Building Catalonian, Portuguese, and Lusophone studies Augustana College who is also trained as a lawyer. The Division’s efforts to expand scholarship and course offerings in the languages, literatures, For one of her two summer projects, Magdalene elected to design a new course on Islamic law, which and cultures of Latin America and the Iberian peninsula have been rewarded by the generosity benefited from access to resources at the Oriental of the Luso–American Development Foundation (FLAD) and the Institut Ramon Llull (IRL). Institute and the Regenstein Library. She concluded Conversations that began last fall between Humanities and Social Sciences faculty and that “the Institute has given me the opportunity to be the two Iberian organizations bore fruit this past summer. a scholar.” For more information about the Summer Institute visit http://islamic-states.uchicago.edu. irst, the Luso-American Development University of Chicago in the midforties; he was A longer version of this article appeared in the Foundation responded with a most known as a defender of Catalonian literature, University of Chicago Chronicle on July 14, 2005. generous pledge of one million dollars culture, and language and became a celebrity in — Jennifer Carnig, News Writer Fto endow a tenure-track faculty position Spain for his work on Catalonian etymology and in Portuguese and Lusophone studies. The new place names. professor should be on campus by the 2007–8 Mario Santana, Associate Professor of academic year. Further, the foundation is supporting Spanish and Master of the Humanities Collegiate the plans of Thomas Pavel of Romance Languages Division, worked closely and tirelessly with the IRL and Literatures and Dain Borges of History to to establish not only the Coromines professorship expand programming on Portugal and Brazil but also a lectureship in Catalan. As a result, through the Center for Latin America Studies with Carles Bartual-Martin is on campus and already a two-year, renewable grant of $10,000. teaching a three-quarter sequence in elementary Second, the Institut Ramon Llull has established Catalan. To celebrate the generosity of the IRL, the the Coromines Visiting Professor of Catalan Studies. Division and the College are planning a Catalan Noted scholar and writer Carme Riera will teach Festival for this spring. — Sarah Tuohey, MA 1981 "Barcelona, ciutat literària" to graduate students and advanced undergraduates during her spring Sarah Tuohey is the her tutelage helped Humanities’ first three divisional 2006 residency. Riera is a professor of Spanish Director of Grants and students receive Jacob literature at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Fellowships. Since K. Javits graduate and a well-known author of fiction in Catalan. Her August 2004, she has fellowships. Only numerous publications have been translated into been our Virgil, guiding fifty-three Javits many languages, including English. The professor- departments, faculty, fellows were named ship is named for Joan Coromines (1905–97), and students through nationwide this year; Professor Emeritus in Romance Languages and a forest of funding each fellow receives Literatures, and author of the definitive multivolume opportunities. up to $30,000, renew- dictionaries of Castilian Spanish and Catalan. Another of Sarah’s able for a total of Fred Donner teaching a session in the Summer Institute. Exiled in 1939 from Spain, Coromines came to the recent successes: four years. Photo: Steve Kagan 4 HERE & NOW

HERE & NOWHE- FELLOWSHIPS here&now Taking Leave: Professor makes historic visit to Algeria

Walter Kaegi, Professor of History and permanent voting member of the Oriental Institute, recently returned from a year in Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, which was supported by a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship.

ulbright just resumed relations with Algeria in 2004–5, and Kaegi was one of four inaugural fellows; he also Fholds the distinction of being the only fellow permitted to reside outside the capital. Kaegi spent four of his twelve-months leave in the northeastern city of Constantine, regarded as the birthplace of the 1950s Algerian revolution against French colonial rule. Kaegi’s research focuses on a much early revolution: the Muslim expansion of the seventh century CE. The Muslim conquest CHICAGO ART MAKERS of late antique North Africa is poorly understood due to an emphasis on the Levant, Syria, and Egypt Crossings: Ten Artists from Kaohsiung and Chicago in Middle Eastern studies; the Orientalist prejudices of earlier historiography; and few extant primary Modern artists have progressed from bohemian beginnings in select cities—notably Berlin, Paris, sources on the Byzantine Empire. and New York—in the early days of the twentieth century to today’s cosmopolitans engaged in art practices with less regional or even national affiliations. The Chicago Cultural Center’s recent “Crossings” exhibition is a case in point.

urators Gregory Knight and Tseng artists chosen to represent the city of Chicago. The Fangling selected work by five exhibit conveys the two poles of a cosmopolitan Taiwanese and five Chicago existence: the intellectual expansion afforded by Cartists that address the idea of travel joined to a desire for the particularities of cultural crossing. Dianna Frid and Laura Letinsky, home through what is culturally familiar, domestic, Archaeological Site, Madaure, Algeria. Photo: Youcef Albeche both faculty in the Visual Arts, were two of the and comforting. These visual commentaries on the collapse of physical distances through travel and Kaegi finessed these lacunae of the past by the expansion of metaphoric examining museum artifacts and archaeological distances through development of the interior self sites, analyzing topography, using resources in exemplify how contemporary artists working in many national and academic libraries, and broadening cities and countries are now considered “modern,” his perspective through affiliations with academic whereas less than twenty years ago, they would institutions in each country. He presented more have been labeled regionalists. As Frid explained, than a dozen lectures and participated in several “not [being] rooted, you have to improvise certain major conferences, including the International ways of moving . . . and certain ways of being in Congress on Africa Romana (in Morocco), which the world.” provided access, as Kaegi explained, “to the On view in Chicago from July 30– October 9, latest researches in many countries, many still “Crossings” travelled to the Kaohsiung Museum unpublished, on multidisciplinary aspects of of Fine Arts in Taiwan in December. North Africa.” Kaegi returned to Chicago with a wealth of scholarly contacts and a four-hundred- — Joanne M. Berens, MFA 1993 page draft of his next book, which he hopes to Above: Laura Letinsky, Untitled, #49, 2002, complete this year. courtesy of Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago. — Joanne M. Berens, MFA 1993 At left: Dianna Frid, “Projection #2,” 2003. TABLEAU 5

Left: Enhancing Assets Conference, January 2005. Photographer: Peter Kiar “. . . the Civic Knowledge Project has begun to provide educational and humanities-based programming that disseminates knowledge from the University to the community and from the community back to the University.”

Foundation, first CKP, the School of Social Service Administration, and the University Hospitals mapped neighborhood resources, and the information we collected on more than two hundred South Side institutions will soon be available on a public data- base. Enhancing Assets also offers free or subsidized professional development courses and networking events and hosts an annual conference for leaders of local art centers, theaters, galleries, historical societies, and dance troupes. Our first conference was held in January 2005.

Black Metropolis One of CKP’s most promising new initiatives is the Black Metropolis Research Consortium. Project Director Vera Davis is collaborating with University faculty as well as key staff at Special Collections and THE CIVIC KNOWLEDGE PROJECT AT ONE YEAR the Jazz Archive (Regenstein Library), the DuSable Museum, the Vivian G. Harsh Collection (Carter Woodson Library), the Center for Black Music Research (Columbia College), and the History Makers. They plan to bring beyond a boundary to life — for both the public and researchers — the significant cultural, historical, political, and economic C.L.R. James’s 1963 autobiographical essay, Beyond a Boundary, used the metaphor of the archives of Chicago’s African American experience. cricket field to demonstrate how West Indians were challenging boundaries of race and colonialism. Teachers, Research, Sanctuary, The Division of the Humanities’ Civic Knowledge Project likewise considers the exchange of and Celebration knowledge as a means for dispelling boundaries of race and class in Chicago. Our pilot program to obtain access to the University’s

by Elizabeth Babcock, MA 2004, Executive Director of the Civic Knowledge Project research libraries for local elementary and high school teachers currently provides comprehensive library anielle Allen has said that “democracy living in poverty make the leap to higher education orientations and access cards to more than thirty succeeds when it figures out how to and to further academic and economic opportunities. teachers. The Division is also providing “safe space” generate knowledge across different To date, 140 adults have completed the free year- access on campus for community groups, such as Dsorts of boundaries.” Upon her appoint- long program, which is taught in English and Spanish Magic, which works with Woodlawn youth. To cele- ment as Dean of the Division of the Humanities in versions by University faculty. brate the rich culture of the South Side, CKP has also 2004, she put this democratic principle into practice Building on the success of Odyssey, Allen invited compiled a collection of historic and contemporary by establishing the Civic Knowledge Project (CKP), me in 2003 to expand and institutionalize the Division’s essays, poetry, and song lyrics by South Side artists which aims to embrace the knowledge and experiences community engagement. I am happy to report that for incoming University students; and our weekly of our surrounding communities. In just over a year, the Civic Knowledge Project has begun to provide newsletter of local events is distributed to diverse the project has launched several major initiatives, educational and humanities-based programming groups within the University and throughout Chicago. and we recently completed a $65,000 Chicago that disseminates knowledge from the University to Community Trust grant proposal to support future the community and from the community back to the Learn More programs. But first a little history. University. Here are some examples of our work. We are trying to reimagine the University within The Civic Knowledge Project is rooted in a 1997 “the larger “universes” of neighborhood and city. partnership that Allen established between the Illinois Enhancing Assets I invite you to learn more about the Civic Knowledge Humanities Council and the University of Chicago, The Enhancing Assets Resource Network helps the Project at http://civicknowledge.uchicago.edu. which brought the Odyssey Project to South Side smallest arts and humanities institutions in the city Contributions in support of our efforts are always residents. Founded on the idea that humanistic study (those with budgets under $250,000) connect with welcome. Please contact Mary Jean Kraybill, develops critical thinkers who can challenge assump- each other and build their organizations. With fund- Director of Development, Division of the Humanities, tions about their world, the Odyssey Project helps adults ing from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur 1115 East 58th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637. 6 AREA STUDIES TABLEAU 7 AT CHICAGO AT AREA STUDIES

GEOGRAPHY CHANGES EVERYTHING TOWARD AN ATLAS OF THE OF AN ATLAS TOWARD

OVER THE PAST HALF CENTURY, expanding geographic perspectives have led scholars to challenge the ways in which non-Western languages, cultures, and texts are studied and taught in American universities. The changes these questions inspire have, in turn, altered the internal “geography” of the modern research university, with the traditional organizing structures of discipline, department, and field now enhanced by new opportunities provided through area centers, institutes, and interdisciplinary workshops. Today scholars are finding ever new ways to explore the geographic location of intellectual work — as it exists within an institution, a network of fields and disciplines, and a geopolitical context. It is a question with roots that are surprisingly deep at the University of Chicago.

BY SOPHIA CARROLL, BA 2000, MA 2002, EDITOR OF TABLEAU (2004–5)

Map makers, circa 1940s. Hulton Archive, Getty Images 8 AREA STUDIES

John D. Rockefeller needed several years to talk Asia, and many of these graduates went on to William Rainey Harper into accepting the job of the positions in the military or the foreign service. University of Chicago’s first president. Still in his Over the next fifty years, the expansion of the early thirties, Harper was one of Yale’s most cele- area-studies model (at Chicago, for example, NELC brated scholars. Trained as a Hebrew linguist, he is among the largest departments in the Humanities also taught Assyrian, Arabic, Aramaic, and Syriac, Division) challenged scholars and students to edited the scholarly journal Hebraica, and, having look beyond the canons of Western civilization a knack for public speaking, gave a public lecture and inspired them to question how knowledge is

series on the Bible to appreciative audiences in everything structured and produced within a university. Seeking a countrywide tour during the late nineteenth new intellectual terrains outside Western culture, century. It is no wonder that when Rockefeller first therefore, ultimately altered the landscape of approached Harper, Yale put up a tremendous fight knowledge within the university. to keep him by offering a 50 percent salary increase Today Chicago scholars are addressing this and a full professorship in both philosophy and at exchange of knowledge in a variety of ways. The the Yale Theological Seminary. Harper took nearly changing relation between the disciplines and the five years to make his final decision, which was “areas” is a central concern of a three-year project, bitterly received: “I would much rather you had changes “New Perspectives on the Disciplines: Comparative never come to Yale at all,” wrote a chagrined Studies in Higher Education,” at the Franke Institute President Timothy Dwight. Yet the very spirit that of the Humanities under the auspices of the Mellon had made Harper irreplaceable at Yale — his Foundation. One workshop,“Toward an Atlas of the expansive approach to education that drew scholar- Disciplines,” held at the Institute last spring took ship in, to new fields, and out, to new audiences — a specifically geographic approach to the question, made him feel duty-bound to come to Chicago. with participants producing “a map (or maps) of Thomas Wakefield Goodspeed, in A History of the actual organization of intellectual activity as it the University of Chicago: The First Quarter-Century takes place today.”

(1916), observed that “it was President Harper’s geography Another intellectual mapping is occurring within purpose to extend college and university instruction the Civic Knowledge Project (CKP), an endeavor to the public at large, to make the University useful initiated within the University’s Center for the Study to other institutions, and to expand its influence of Race, Politics, and Culture and now part of the

Approaches to learning and usefulness.” It is a testament to Harper’s vision Humanities (story, p. 5). CKP fosters relationships that the University’s first class of 1892 hailed from about Asian subjects between two communities of scholars and leaders: fifteen foreign countries and thirty-three of the forty- the University and our neighbors on the South Side four states. Today Harper’s vision is most alive among had previously prioritized of Chicago. Here, questions inspired by area studies Chicago scholars who focus their studies on the history and classical –– such as, What is our place as educators in a greatest distances away from campus. In the Division global (or in this case local) context? and How can of the Humanities, three departments study the languages, but now these the scholarly study of communities create mutual Middle East, South Asia, and East Asia. They serve benefits?–– are used to extend and improve as nodes in a large network of interdisciplinary were subordinated to relationships between the University and local committees, centers, and workshops that make the modern language communities. University of Chicago unique in the depth of scholar- In the current political engagements of area ship devoted to these three areas of the world. acquisition, anthropology, studies, we see a twenty-first-century trace of Harper’s Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (NELC), philosophy of civic responsibility. “We have an South Asian Languages and Civilizations (SALC), and and geography, all intellectual imperative to reconceptualize the area East Asian Languages and Civilizations (EALC) are the considered more relevant studies paradigm towards a more engaged approach,” only divisional departments with “civilization” in says Martin Stokes, Associate Professor of Music their titles. Their nomenclature reflects mid-twentieth- to the needs of the and Director of the Center for Middle Eastern century beginnings, when, in response to United Studies, “producing knowledge that is more sophis- States involvement in World War II, Chicago and students headed for ticated in terms of political awareness and policy other American universities began the first programs military deployment. dimensions.” Stokes is at the helm of an effort to in “area studies.” These programs provided college create a joint master’s program between NELC and graduates with intensive training in the languages, the Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy geography, and cultures of the Middle East and Studies that will prepare students for public service TABLEAU 9

in the Middle East. “We’d like to see students with intellectual study than the pragmatic training Franke Institute’s Mellon Project systematically solid language skills, a historical framework, with programs of the 1940s. Renewed support from the address. “In the humanities and social sciences, some sense of the intellectual diversity of Middle Department of Defense in the 1960s cold war era there are two sets of coordinates for mapping East studies, but also with an . . . alertness to ironically allowed these institutes to flourish, and knowledge,” explains James Chandler, Director questions of globalization, the environment . . . they survive on campus today as language and area of the Franke Institute and the Barbara E. and media policy, gender, family and reproduction issues, resource centers (since the 1980s, federal funding Richard J. Franke Professor of English, “one deals and journalism.” Explicitly preparing students for has shifted to the Department of Education). Two in geographical areas, the other in the disciplinary entry into the global political arena is not new to additional centers, the Centers for Latin American operations we perform on our objects of study. Chicago, although it may come as a surprise that Studies and for Eastern European and Russian/ These things come together in the recognition that contemporary efforts to create intellectual inclusivity Eurasian Studies, also receive federal funding and disciplinary systems are differently configured in are the unexpected fruits of programs intended to are affiliated with divisional departments. The different areas of the world.” The Mellon Project prepare U.S. military officials for war. second part of the Redfield plan, the Comparative is providing an important critique of the role of the Civilizations Project, encompassed efforts to foster American university among institutions of higher The Far East and the West communication among scholars of all disciplines learning elsewhere in the world. Much early interest in Eastern civilizations was and geographic specialties for “crossing disciplinary We are increasing our understanding that grounded in philology, the reconstruction of ancient boundaries, cross-cultural studies, [and] cross- universities contribute knowledge to a more fluid texts. Harper, a self-described Orientalist, included fertilization of ideas.” With more than $400,000 in world where information circulates not only Sanskrit in the curriculum, but mainly to provide aid from the Ford Foundation, the Civilizations between teachers and students, departments and insight into the origins of Indo-European languages. Project and the University became renowned for divisions, but also among institutions, populations, Asia was not studied systematically until the 1941 interdisciplinarity. There was a major departmental countries, and continents. Scholars at Chicago, bombing of Pearl Harbor concentrated American shift in ‘60s as well, with the Department of Oriental such as those involved with the Mellon Project, minds on their ignorance of “the Far East.” In 1943, Languages and Literatures dividing in three: the are continuing to question the efficacy of former the U.S. Army established Army Specialized new departments for the study of South Asia, East geographic and intellectual boundaries in preparing

“We have an intellectual imperative to reconceptualize the area studies paradigm towards a more engaged approach.”

— Martin Stokes, Associate Professor of Music and Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies

Training Schools and Civil Affairs Training Schools Asia, and the Near East expanded their prerogatives students for the twenty-first century. They challenge on university campuses, including Chicago, where from languages and literatures to that of languages themselves and their students to understand that officers studied geography, history, culture, and and civilizations. material learned in class is part of a global circulation, languages. Although this training furthered a and that the very acts of teaching and learning makes New Ways of Looking “western” agenda, it nevertheless marked the first us active participants in the world. More than one studies of Asia and the Middle East as topics in Over the past few decades, these interdisciplinary hundred years after Harper considered the usefulness and of themselves, and is one example of Harper’s approaches to understanding geographic regions of a new university on the edge of the Great Plains, 1893 mandate that the University must engage in and civilizations have in turn altered the study of his call to service remains an ideal in the humanities. “service not merely to the students within its walls, the United States and western Europe. Last year A similiar call was articulated in May 2003 by but also to the public.” the Nicholson Center for British Studies opened Edward W. Said in his preface to the twenty-fifth with a generous bequest from the estate of Robert anniversary edition of Orientalism : “We have at our Postwar Idealism Nicholson. The Center offers programs and research disposal the rational interpretive skills that are the After the war, anthropologist and Dean of the travel fellowships for scholars of both the British legacy of humanistic education. Not as a sentimental Division of the Social Sciences Robert Redfield Isles and their former colonies. Another newer piety enjoining us to return to traditional values of keenly observed that military programs “were not organization, the France-Chicago Center, founded the classics, but as the active practice of worldly necessarily appropriate for university education in in 2001, provides a forum for interdisciplinary secular discourse, . . . humanism is the only, and times of peace.” Redfield believed that international scholarship related to France. With offices in I would go so far as to say, the final resistance we understanding was the only sure road to global Chicago and Paris, the Center promotes conversation have against the inhuman practices and injustices peace. He devised a two-part plan that tailored the between Chicago scholars and their colleagues that disfigure human history.” ■ good that had come from wartime teaching for an in French universities. era of growing international involvement by the New uses for area studies also raise fresh United States. The first part of the Redfield plan questions about the relation of the areas to the established Area Institutes, which offered deeper disciplines, questions that participants in the 10 MAGIC RINGS

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Wendy Doniger is the Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions in the Divinity School, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, the Committee on Social Thought, and the College; Director of the Martin Marty Center; Cochair of BY WENDY SouthDONIGER Asian Languages and Civilizations. This article is a revised version of the THE HUMANITIES AS CUSTODIAN OF NARRATIVES:keynote address presented at the Humanities Open House, the University of Chicago, THE TALE OF THE ALIBIon October 23, 2004.RING

HHuman beings have long used storytelling to impose order on the chaos of our existence. Though our stories vary widely, their common elements indicate certain ways in which we attempt to solve problems that often prove

insoluble. Mythologies containing narrative elements such as floods and magic rings appear across cultures and

over long periods of time. ✣ In many mythologies, rings of memory and forgetfulness are a common narrative

convention, used as tools of persuasion. Individual members of the intended audience either accept the con-

vention of the ring, allowing themselves to be persuaded, or challenge the assertions that the ring is meant to

prove. The details of the ring stories change with teller and intended audience, yet the basic patterns remain. 12 MAGIC RINGS

Consider three types of mythical rings, which often join forces in a single Copernican leap and simply telling a different, sun-centered story? There seems to be a limit to story. The first kind, the signet ring, is not magic at all. It is the ring of identity the number of basic plots that can be used.2 If the author cannot change what happened, the plot, she and occurs in stories in which a lost-and-then-found ring validates a woman’s may at least be able to change the balance of power in the knowledge of the plot — who knew claim that a certain man has slept with her. The second ring is fantastic: this ring what and when (as we often ask of politicians). The ring of forgetfulness is often precisely the gets lost in the ocean, to be found later inside the belly of a fish. The recovered tool to jimmy open the moral line in this way: it produces and obscures knowledge at will, thus ring may have a positive or a negative power; sometimes its owner has tried to enabling the teller to shift moral responsibility.

lose it, other times to find it, but inevitably the ring returns. The third type of ring

is actually magic: it makes people forget — and sometimes

remember — the people they love or their own identities.

CIn the Hindu story of Shakuntala, a caddish lover seeks to influence the claims that the amnesiac effects of such a ring excuse future, communion draws his behavior, and, as we shall see, the storyteller upon the past. also uses the ring to shift moral responsibility mag- Moreover, communion ically within the story to befit the changing context may lead us on to new of its telling. communications, to the assimilation of new stories, The Ring to the Rescue from our own culture or First, a word or two about mythological narratives. from others. Just as the prince, in the old story, Fishy Rings Originality is not an essential ingredient of a good follows the deer until he finds himself in what and Fishy Stories myth. Rather, the elements of myth build a potentially Shakespeare called “another part of the forest” and infinite number of stories by rearranging a limited Dante called “una selva oscura,” so the storyteller Now let us consider some narratives about rings, number of known mythic themes. Each culture chooses lures the reader or listener from one story to another, beginning with the ring of identity. The ring of identity, the scraps that it wants to keep; some have proved from the familiar territory of the recognized general or the signet ring, is the personal emblem of the more recyclable than others. The scraps that are plot (“Oh, I know this story, it’s the one about the owner, an extension of the hand with its handwriting kept are known to audiences as well as to story- prince chasing the deer”) to the terra incognita of and, later, fingerprints. In the Hebrew Bible a signet tellers, for the audience has an expectation of what the new particular version with its unique details ring “as the legal surrogate of the bearer would have the story should say and the storyteller invokes that — the deer is chasing the prince or the prince been a kind of ancient Near Eastern equivalent of paradigm to fulfill the expectation. The audience becomes the deer or the prince turns out to be the all a person’s major credit cards.”3 takes pleasure in predicting what will happen and deer in disguise. Just as losing your ring means losing your identity, then satisfaction in having predicted correctly The great puzzle is why a story is not simply so finding it again means rediscovering yourself. rather than in being surprised or shocked. discarded or changed. Certain basic lines of the Often the ring is magically recovered inside the In this way, retelling a myth takes on the function plot remain intact, even when, over many centuries, belly of a fish.4 These fish stories are the mythical of communion rather than communication: people those lines becoming increasingly problematic for expression of a perfectly banal happening: fisherman listen to stories not merely to learn something new moral, aesthetic, or political reasons. What is it fish things up out of the deep. But the ring in the (communication), but to relive, together, the stories about some stories that inspires whole narrative belly of the fish also reminds us that we cannot that they already know, stories about themselves traditions to create epicycle upon epicycle, as escape our fate, regardless of whether we fear it or (communion).1 Where communication is effective, astronomers did for the Ptolemaic earth-centered desire it. And this story provides us with the key to communion is evocative. Where communication system for many centuries, instead of making the the great lost-and-found of the narrative world. TABLEAU 13

Shakuntala and from her words, there would have been doubt among the Ring of Recognition the people.” He accepts his son and forgives Shakuntala The entirely straightforward fact that you lose your for the harsh words she had spoken to him in her official identification, and hence your persona, your anger.6 No explanation is given for his decision to personal identity, if you lose your ring (or, nowadays, lie about her, other than his statement that he rejected the theme is somewhat rearranged). your credit cards) — what we now call identity Shakuntala because of his fear of public disapproval, We might hazard a kind of historical development theft — leads to the quasi-magical idea of losing a claim that rings hollow.7 here, as we trace certain basic plots. In the earliest your memory of who you are when you lose your The poet Kalidasa, writing in the fourth century CE, versions of many of these stories, the man simply ring, or your memory of your connection with a was under the patronage of the Gupta dynasty, who abandons the woman without any justification, lover when you lose the ring that was a lover’s gift traced their lineage back to Bharata, the disputed brazening it out, denying and rejecting the woman and always reminded you of the giver. And when child of Shakuntala and Dushyanta. Kalidasa had he has seduced or raped (and, often, impregnated). you find the ring, you remember again. The magic his work cut out for him to transform Bharata’s father In the revised version, he lies to society; social ring of memory and forgetfulness combines with (Dushyanta) from a lying cad to a sympathetic lover,8 pressure makes him pretend to forget. But still later both the signet ring and the recovered-ring-in-a-fish and he fell back upon the tried and true devices of revisionist tellings get the man off the hook by theme in the ancient Indian story of Shakuntala. the fishy ring and the ring of forgetfulness. attributing his behavior to a convenient bout of A clear historical development is evident in the In Kalidasa’s version of the story, Dushyanta amnesia caused by— of course — a ring. By this textual history of this story. Shakuntala is best known offers Shakuntala his signet ring with his name point, the man often actually thinks that he forgets; from a Sanskrit play by the poet Kalidasa, in the engraved on it. He places his ring on her finger as here he is lying not to society but to himself. Just as losing your ring means losing your identity, so finding it again means rediscovering yourself. Often the ring is magically recovered inside the belly of a fish. fourth century CE, but the story is based upon a he leaves to return to court, telling her to count off Someone finally has to take the rap, and the ring story in the Mahabharata, the great Sanskrit epic one day for each letter of his name, and at the end is the fall guy. Thus we see how, in cultures that composed between 300 BCE and 300 CE. he will send for her. An angry sage curses her to be honor the narrative convention of the ring, the ring In the story’s early version, King Dushyanta forgotten by the man she loves until he sees some offers a socially viable reason for doing what you comes to a hermitage, where he meets a beautiful ornament as a token of recognition. Shakuntala secretly want to do. young woman named Shakuntala. He persuades fulfills the curse by losing the ring, and the king Down-to-Earth her to marry him by the private gandharva rite of does not recognize her when she appears at court, Reasoning and Coincidence mutual desire,5 but she makes him promise that if pregnant. She runs away, and he does nothing until, she bears him a son the boy will become king. He one day, a fisherman brings him a fish in which he So welcome is the alibi of the ring that it is often leaves, promising to send for her. Shakuntala gives finds his ring, and then he remembers her. He finds accepted as a valid excuse even when clear evidence birth to a boy, and when he is six years old she her and his son, and they are happily reunited. shows otherwise. But sometimes down-to-earth brings him to court, saying to Dushyanta, “This is Thus the fish story gets Kalidasa out of what reasoning intrudes into the plot, and the “proof” your son. Remember the promise you made long subsequent Indian scholars recognized as a true of the ring is pushed aside to make way for more ago when we lay together.” moral dilemma. The curse is a very convenient and logical proofs of identity. When the king hears her words, he remembers rather suspicious excuse, as the cynical ladies in the That the logical arguments were always perfectly well, but he says, “I do not remember. court point out in the play: “Such a passion should available to storytellers and audiences in most of Whose woman are you? I don’t remember ever having not need a token of remembrance or recognition.” the cultures that have preserved these stories is had anything to do with you. Your son is too big, The king’s reply, “So, let me blame the ring,” is easily demonstrated by a number of stories in and too strong, to have been born as recently as about as close to an admission of guilt as that sort which down-to-earth reasoning does in fact play you claim. Your own birth is low, and you look to of ruler, indeed that sort of man, will ever get. a role — even if it is ultimately shouted down by me like a whore [pumschali].” She argues with him the romantic concerns of the text. Down-to-earth The Alibi Ring at some length, but he insists that he does not reasoning says, “Lots of people have rings like know her, and she leaves. Men like Dushyanta are found in stories told in that” or “You stole the ring” or “That’s not my At that moment a disembodied voice from the sky many different cultures; they appear, in particular, ring”— in other words, “The ring lies.” says, “Support your son, and do not reject Shakuntala.” in several related medieval cycles from Welsh, Initial skepticism about jewelry, however, is often Then Dushyanta says to his courtiers, “I knew Celtic, French, German, and early English literature, overcome by the power of the convention. In one all of this perfectly well, knew that he was my own including Lancelot (with Guenever),9 Tristan (with version of the tale of Tristan and Isolde, when son, but if I had accepted him as my own son just Isolde), and Siegfried (with Brunnhilde, though here CONTINUED ON PAGE 20 14 CURRICULUM VITAE

Fellowships A. Holly Shissler, Assistant Prizes and Academic Professor, Near Eastern Society Elections Philip Bohlman, Mary Languages and Civilizations, Werkman Professor of Music, has been chosen to be a Philip Bohlman, Mary was awarded an Alexander resident Keddie-Balzan Werkman Professor of Music, von Humboldt Foundation Research Scholar at the was elected President of the fellowship for summer 2005 University of California at Society for Ethnomusicology research in Berlin and Eastern Los Angeles for 2005–6 in autumn 2004 Europe

VITAE Barbara Stafford, William Ted Cohen, Professor of John Brinkman, Charles B. Ogden Distinguished Philosophy, Visual Arts, and H. Swift Distinguished Service Professor, Art History, General Studies in the Service Professor Emeritus, has been invited to be a Fellow Humanities, was named the Near Eastern Languages and at the Wissenschaftskolleg Vice President/President-Elect Civilizations and the Oriental in Berlin for 2005–6 of the American Philosophical Institute, was awarded the Association’s Central Division Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Jacqueline Stewart, Emeritus Fellowship for 2005 Associate Professor, English, Anna Lisa Crone, Professor, Africa and African-American Slavic Languages and Litera- Kyeong-Hee Choi, Associate Studies, and Cinema & tures, was awarded the Barbara Professor, East Asian Languages Media Studies, was awarded Heldt Prize for Outstanding and Civilizations, received residential fellowships at the Achievements in Scholarship fellowships from the Schomburg Center for Research and Mentoring in Russian National Humanities Center in Black Culture at the New (2005–6) and the Social York Public Library for autumn Patrick Claude Henri Science Research Council/ 2005 and at the Shelby Cullom Dandrey, Visiting Professor, Japan Society for the Davis Center for Historical Romance Languages and Liter- Promotion of Science (2006) Studies at Princeton University ature, and Professor, Université for spring 2006 Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), has Victor Friedman, Andrew been named a Fellow of the

2004–2005 W. Mellon Professor of Slavic Matthew Stolper, John Royal Society of Canada A. Wilson Professor, Near | and Balkan Linguistics, Linguistics, and Slavic Eastern Languages and Victor Friedman, Andrew Languages and Literatures, Civilizations and the Oriental W. Mellon Professor in the

CURRICULUM was a visiting fellow at the Institute, was awarded an Humanities, and Slavic Research Center for Linguistic American Council of Learned Languages and Literatures, Typology of the Institute for Societies fellowship to support and Director, Center for East Advanced Studies at LaTrobe a research leave of absence European and Russian/Eurasian University, Melbourne, for work on continuing publi- Studies was elected to the Australia cation of the Persepolis Academy of Arts and Sciences Fortification archive of Kosova Jacqueline Goldsby, Associate Professor, English, Lisa Voigt, Assistant Jonathan Hall, Phyllis F. was awarded a Bibliographic Professor, Romance Languages Horton Professor in the Society of America fellowship and Literatures, was awarded Humanities, Professor and to support archival research a fellowship by the Omohundro Department Chair, Classics, for preparing a critical edition Institute of Early American and Professor, History, was of James Weldon Johnson’s History and Culture at the awarded the 2004 Gordon J. 1912 novel, The Autobiography College of William and Mary Laing Prize by the University of of an Ex-Coloured Man, forth- for 2005–6 Chicago Press for Hellenicity: coming in 2006 Between Ethnicity and Culture Martha Ward, Associate Walter Kaegi, Professor, Professor, Art History and Carla Mazzio, Assistant History, and permanent voting Visual Arts, was awarded a Professor, English, was named HUMANITIES FACULTY AWARDS AWARDS FACULTY HUMANITIES member of the Oriental Clark Art Institute fellowship one of the “the six most Institute, spent twelve months for spring 2006 brilliant Renaissance scholars in Algeria, Morocco, and in the world under forty” by Tunisia as a Fulbright-Hays David Wellbery, LeRoy T. the Hudson Strode Program in Fellow, where he conducted and Margaret Deffenbaugh Renaissance Studies at the research on the dynamics of Carlson University Professor, University of Alabama and the Muslim expansion and Germanic Studies, won the was invited to speak at their Byzantine collapse in North Alexander von Humboldt 2005 “Enfants Terribles” Africa (see story, page 4) Foundation Research Award conference TABLEAU 15

Janel Mueller, William Linguistics and Computer which was commissioned Shulamit Ran, William H. Koussevitzky Music Rainey Harper Distinguished Science, received an National by the Chicago Symphony Colvin Professor of Music, Foundation at the Library Service Professor Emerita in Science Foundation/National Orchestra and performed by premiered a new composition of Congress and performed the College and Professor Endowment for the Humanities Amy Dissanayake, on Under the Sun’s Gaze by the San Francisco Emerita of English, and former Documenting Endangered February 16, 2005, at the first (Concerto da Camera III), Contemporary Players Dean of the Humanities, Languages grant of $147,615 concert of CSO MusicNOW, commissioned by the Serge on April 25, 2005 and Ian Mueller, Professor for his project, “Digital a series of contemporary Emeritus, Philosophy, have Preservation of Linguistic chamber music been named Distinguished Archives” Visiting Faculty at Christ’s College, Cambridge, for Theo van den Hout, 2005–6 Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Thomas Pavel, Helen B. received a $280,000 grant and Frank C. Sulzberger from the National Endowment Professor, Romance for the Humanities in support Languages and Literatures, of the Chicago Hittite was awarded the Order Dictionary Project for the of Arts and Letters by the period 2005–7 French government in 2004 Wu Hung, Harrie H. Vander- R. Barton Schultz, Fellow, stappen Distinguished Service Humanities, and Lecturer, Professor, Art History and Humanities Collegiate East Asian Languages and Division received the Civilizations, Director, Center American Philosophical for the Art of East Asia, Society’s Jacques Barzun received two grants totaling Prize in Cultural History in $441,000 from the E. Rhodes recognition of his book & Leona B. Carpenter Henry Sidgwick: Eye of the Foundation and the J. Paul Universe: An Intellectual Getty Trust for a research Biography, published by project on the Xiangtangshan Cambridge University Press Caves (see story, page 7) in 2004 Exhibitions, Premieres,

Lawrence Zbikowski, and Performances MELLON DISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Associate Professor, Music, won the Society for Music Laura Letinsky, Professor, the Division of the Humanities. The award Theory’s 2004 Wallace Berry Visual Arts and Cinema AWARD FOCUS aims to underscore the decisive contribu- Award for a distinguished & Media Studies, and Chair, book on music theory for Visual Arts, recently exhibited tions the humanities make to the nation’s his Conceptualizing Music: her photographs in Belgium, intellectual life, and the $1.5 million grant is Cognitive Structure, Theory, New York, Chicago, and intended to deepen scholarly research at the and Analysis Taiwan. In spring of 2006, philipgossett recipient’s institution. It is a stipulation that look for exhibits at Joseph Gossett welcomes. “A more nurturing envi- Grants Bellows Gallery (LaJolla), hilip Gossett, Robert W. ronment for a young scholar, or for a mature Oakville Gallery (Toronto), James Conant, Chester D. and James Harris Gallery Reneker Distinguished Service scholar, is hard to imagine,” he said in last Tripp Professor, Philosophy, (Seattle). PProfessor of Music, and former January, reflecting on his thirty-seven years and David Wellbery, LeRoy Dean of the Humanities, was recently hon- at Chicago. He has already given much to T. and Margaret Deffenbaugh David Levin, Associate ored with a Mellon Distinguished the University, including serving as the Dean Carlson University Professor, Professor, Germanic Studies Achievement Award. Gossett, an expert in of Humanities for a decade (1989–99). As a Germanic Studies, were and Cinema & Media Studies, awarded a $120,000 Mellon served as production Italian opera studies, is widely credited by result of the award, we will soon see an Sawyer Seminar Grant to dramaturge for the world musicologists with having validated the increase in opera-related activities on cam- support a year-long seminar premiere of the comic opera study of nineteenth-century Italian opera at pus. Gossett proposes to bring visiting schol- titled “The Problem of Non- A Wedding at the Lyric Opera a time when Verdi, Rossini, Donizetti, and ars to campus for symposia and teaching, to Discursive Thought from of Chicago Bellini were scarcely studied outside their collaborate with the Chicago Opera Theatre Goethe to Wittgenstein” native country. In the award’s four-year his- on two Rossini productions, and to complete Marta Ptaszynska, Helen John Goldsmith, Edward B. and Frank L. Sulzberger tory, Gossett is the third recipient from the two monumental critical editions on the Carson Waller Distinguished Professor of Music, premiered University of Chicago and the second from works of Rossini and Verdi. ■ Service Professor of a new work, Pianophonia, 16 ONWARD & UPWARD

Cinema & Media Studies Dawn Marlan, Visiting History of Culture Assistant Professor (1 yr), Kaveh Askari, Postdoctoral Comparative Literature, Mary Bachvarova, Assistant Fellow, Film Studies, University University of Oregon Professor, Classical Studies, of California Berkeley; Assistant Willamette University Professor (beginning 2006), Francisco Ortega, Associate Wayne State University Professor, History, Universidad Ruth Chojnacki, Associate Nacional de Bogotá Director, Adult Education, Classics & Ancient Instituto del Progreso Latino Mediterranean World Daniel Russek, Assistant Professor, Hispanic & Italian Roderick Coover, Assistant Neil Coffee, Assistant Studies, University of Victoria Professor, Film & Media Art, Professor, Classics, State Temple University University of New York at Michael Syrimis, Assistant Christopher Lehrich, Buffalo Professor, Italian, Tulane University (see story, p.17) Instructor, Writing Program, Sarah Cohen, Assistant Boston University Professor, Classics, Dalhousie East Asian Languages Phillip Thompson, Director, University & Civilizations Center for Ethics & Leadership, Edith Foster, Visiting Assistant Weihong Bao (joint Ph.D. St. Edward’s University Professor, Classical Studies, degree with Cinema & Media College of Wooster Studies), Postdoctoral Fellow, Linguistics Chinese Studies, University of Adi Hastings (joint Ph.D. Kevin Hawthorne, Assistant California at Berkeley; Assistant degree with Anthropology), Professor, Classics, Baylor Professor (beginning 2006), East Assistant Professor, Anthropology, University Asian Languages & Literatures, University of Iowa Ohio State University John Hyland, Lecturer (1 yr), Saeko Reynolds, Associate Social Sciences Collegiate Paize Keulemans, Society of Professor, Tokyo Women's Division, University of Chicago Fellows, Columbia University; Medical University Assistant Professor (beginning Carolina López-Ruiz, 2006), Yale University Assistant Professor, Greek & Daniel Suslak (joint Ph.D. degree with Anthropology), Latin, Ohio State University Miho Matsugu, Assistant Assistant Professor, Anthropology, Professor, Chinese & Japanese, Elizabeth Manwell, Assistant Indiana University Grinnell College Professor, Classical Studies, Tamra Wysocki, Lecturer Kalamazoo College David Sena, Lecturer, Asian (1 yr), Linguistics, University Studies, University of Texas, Ian Moyer, Assistant Professor, of Chicago Austin Classics, Pomona College Music Ilse Müller, Assistant English Professor, Classical Studies, Daniel Barolsky, Postdoctoral Zarena Aslami, Assistant upward Nipissing University Fellow (2 yrs), Conservatory of Professor, University of British Music, Lawrence University Stacie Raucci, Assistant Columbia (declined); Assistant Professor, Classics, Union Professor, English, Michigan Byron Dueck, Artist in State University Looking for other Chicago alumni College Residence (1 yr), Music, Columbia College Daniel Richter, Assistant Anthony Brown, Assistant at your institution or in your area? Professor, Classics, University Professor, English, University of Jeffers Engelhardt, Minnesota Curious about where recent of Southern California Postdoctoral Fellowship (2 yrs), and Amherst College Oliver Gaycken, Assistant classes of Humanities graduates Christopher Star, Assistant Professor, Classics, Middlebury Professor, English, Temple Peter Martens, Assistant University found appointments? Our list College Professor, Music, Texas Tech University Matthew Hofer, Assistant includes graduates who accepted Benjamin Stevens, Visiting Assistant Professor (2 yrs), Professor, English, University Yossi Maurey, Assistant full-time employment that exercises Classical Studies, Bard College of New Mexico Professor, University of Texas, Austin (declined); Rothschild Aeron Hunt, Assistant William Stull, Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (2 yrs), their graduate training. Have Professor, English, University Assistant Professor (1 yr, Hebrew University of Jerusalem we missed you? Please let us renewable), Classics, Colgate of New Mexico University Ryan Minor, Assistant Joanne Myers, Assistant know of your accomplishments: Professor, Music, Stony Brook Professor, Humanities & Comparative Literature University [email protected] English, Valparaiso University

onward Cynthia Klestinec, Assistant Catherine Saucier, Visiting Andrew Rabin, Assistant Professor, Literature, Lecturer (1 yr), Music, University Professor, English, University Communication & Culture, of Oklahoma of Louisville Georgia Institute of Technology Suzanne Sorkin, Associate Sarah Rivett, Assistant Nicole Lassahn, Assistant Professor, Fine Arts, St. Joseph Professor, English, Washington Dean of the Graduate School, University University Loyola University, Chicago Recent job placements for Humanities graduates Humanities for placements job Recent TABLEAU 17

Near East Languages Eric Schliesser, Assistant & Civilizations Professor, Philosophy, Syracuse University; Research Fellowship François Gaudard, Epigrapher from the Dutch government (1 yr), Chicago House in Luxor, Egypt, Oriental Institute Epigraphic Abe Stone, Assistant Survey, University of Chicago Professor, Philosophy, University of California at Santa Cruz Sooyong Kim, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Islamic George Streeter, Visiting Culture, Bryn Mawr College Assistant Professor (1 yr), Philosophy, University of Hratch Papazian, Lecturer Missouri–Saint Louis (1 yr), Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, University of Benjamin Vilhauer, Assistant Chicago Professor, Philosophy, William Paterson University Roschanack Shaery-Eisenlohr,

Lecturer, Washington University Romance Languages the storm from in St. Louis & Literatures

Fehrullah Terkan, Assistant Janis Breckenridge, Professor, Theology, Ankara Assistant Professor, Spanish, University Hiram College

Jason Ur, Assistant Professor, Olivia Edelman, Assistant Anthropology, Harvard Professor, Foreign Languages Michael Syrimis University & Literatures, Northern Illinois University (PhD 2003) was attending New Testament & to what should have been a Early Christian Literature Amy Graves, Assistant (though informal) arrangement at Washington Professor, Romance Languages routine task of a new junior

finding shelter finding and thought that this great opportunity could Yonder Gillihan, Assistant & Literatures, State University professor (listing his course on go to another Gulf Coast scholar. Professor, Biblical Studies, of New York at Buffalo Boston College “Neorealism in Film and Literature” as I left New Orleans carrying my laptop and Sarah Hill, Assistant Professor, a writing intensive requirement), except electronic versions of my work. But I left behind Philosophy Italian & Spanish, Victoria that the date was August 26 at Tulane the huge amount of handwritten notes and University of Wellington photocopies, gathered in the last fifteen years. Marshall Abrams, Visiting University, three days before Hurricane Assistant Professor (1 yr), Meredith Ray, Assistant However, in the first days after the storm, as Philosophy, George Washington Professor, Foreign Languages Katrina would make landfall in New I witnessed the catastrophic losses, I came to University & Literatures, University of Orleans. His story of academic collegiality terms with the possibility of losing all of my Delaware Kate Abramson, Assistant and friendship follows. personal belongings and feeling very grateful Professor, Philosophy, Indiana Eric Touya, Assistant for being alive. University Professor, Languages & I had moved to New Orleans on August 1, On October 7, when I visited New Orleans, International Studies, Adelphi exactly four weeks before the storm. I was just my apartment was exactly as I had left it. I live Marc Djaballah, Visiting University Assistant Professor (1 yr), feeling settled in town (and loving it) when in Uptown, which is a lovely residential area, Philosophy, University of Florence Vatan, Assistant we were evacuated. Not having experienced thanks to its unique architecture, flora, romantic Memphis Professor, Languages, Literature a hurricane before, I relied on colleagues and narrow streets, and silence. The atmosphere & Linguistics, Syracuse neighbors to help secure my apartment. It was in the French Quarter was equally reassuring. Anne Eaton, Assistant University Professor, Philosophy, University difficult to find a flight on Sunday, and by the Bars and restaurants were open, the streets of Illinois at Chicago Kerry Wilks, Assistant time we started boarding, all flights had been were crowded, the music was certainly there. Professor, Liberal Arts & cancelled except mine and another one. However, the festiveness dissolved outside the Dave Forman, Assistant Sciences, Wichita State I came to St. Louis, where I had had a seven- Vieux Carré. The rest of the city seemed deserted. Professor, Philosophy, University University of Nevada at Las Vegas year affiliation with Washington University. In I left for a second time with mixed feelings, South Asian Languages the face of Katrina, faculty in the Romance including both reassurance and a heavy heart. Mark Jenkins, Visiting Assistant & Literatures department have been extremely supportive. In his frequent messages to the Tulane Professor (1 yr), Philosophy, Professor John Garganigo, a colleague and community, Scott Cowen, the university president, Johns Hopkins University Yigal Bronner, Assistant close friend, is letting me stay in his house, as has been very optimistic. I return in January Professor, South Asian Irene Liu, Assistant Professor, Languages & Literatures, well as use his office and library carrel, while for the spring semester and to reunite with my Philosophy, LeMoyne College University of Chicago I am enjoying full library privileges. This allowed new colleagues of French and Italian. From Gideon Manning, Assistant me to continue doing research and prepare my conversing with the French faculty, I find that Professor, Philosophy, College Rochona Majumdar, Tulane courses. there is a strong interest in addressing the of William and Mary Assistant Professor, South Colleagues from the University of Chicago points of intersection between the two cultures, Asian Languages & Literatures, eagerly offered their support. Armando Maggi especially with respect to theoretical issues of Matthew Parker, Postdoctoral University of Chicago Fellow (2 yrs), London School of from Romance and Matthew Howard of the modernity and cinema, which is my area of Economics Andrew Nicholson, Assistant Provost’s Media Initiatives Group offered me expertise. Furthermore, in New Orleans Italian Professor, Religious Studies, their hospitality, and Miriam Hansen, who was scholars from Tulane and other universities Alan Pichanick, Assistant St. Vincent College one of my dissertation advisors, informed me of meet regularly. It is a wonderful opportunity Professor, Philosophy, George Washington University a visiting scholarship for displaced Gulf Coast for Italianists in a range of disciplines to scholars. I did not apply due to my similar exchange ideas. I am eager to return. ■ 18 THE HONOR ROLL

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Doniger, continued from page 13 me blame the ring.” And Tristan complains bitterly jewels that ”it is not hard to find a coincidence of to Isolde: “What mattered this ring? Do you not feel ornaments.” Yet, to some extent, the idea of coin- Tristan objects that Isolde did not recognize him how far sweeter it would have been to have been cidence itself flies in the face of down-to-earth until she saw the telltale ring of green jasper, she recognized at the very mention of our former love?”11 reasoning and can be challenged. As Lady Bracknell replies: “We are surrounded by treachery . . . One common sense argument that challenges remarks in Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Neither the mention of your past life, nor the sound the “proof” of the ring is coincidence: maybe two Earnest : “In families of high position strange coin- of your voice, not even this very ring, proved any- people have the same ring (or the same name or cidences are not supposed to occur.” thing to me, for all these might have been the evil the same face). Coincidence may be invoked to These scattered passages demonstrate that the tricks of a sorcerer. Nevertheless I yield myself at explain away the striking resemblance between two audiences for these texts were just as capable as the sight of this ring; did I not swear, as soon as I apparently different (but actually the same) pieces we are of seeing the logical flaws in the use of a should see it again, at the risk of my life to always of jewelry. Thus, in the Sanskrit play The Lady of ring as proof. But still the myths go on using the do what you bade me, be it wisdom or folly?”10 In the Jeweled Necklace, composed in the seventh ring, and even in the texts that point out its inade- other words, she really did not trust the ring, but century CE, when a lost queen is apparently identified quacy, it functions as a proof. This is because the merely kept her promise to act as if she trusted it; by a necklace, one of the witnesses pooh-poohs the antiscientific, antilogical argument it represents is in much the same mood, Dushyanta said, “So, let evidence, arguing that princesses have so many often essential to the narrative. TABLEAU 21

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And so the convention generally prevails: the 3. Robert Alter, The Art of Biblical Narrative (New York: was — a man who refused to accept responsibility for seducing ring rings true. Moreover, these coincidences point Basic Books, 1981), 9. an innocent woman” (and, I would add, abandoning her). Romila Thapar, Sakuntala: Texts, Readings, Histories (New Delhi: Kali us toward another sort of coincidence: the coincidence 4. Wendy Doniger O’Flaherty, Dreams, Illusion, and Other for Women, 1999), 256. of the masquerading self with the undisguised self. Realities (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984), 222–23. 9. Best known from Malory’s Morte d’Arthur (1470), but based This is a high-wire act, one self flying through the 5. It is known as a gandharva marriage because the Gandharvas on earlier sources: the Vita Merlini composed between 1148 and masquerade to catch the outstretched hands of some — demigods who preside over fertility and music and are relat- 1151 by Geoffrey of Monmouth (who calls her Guanhamara); the other self, and it must be performed without any ed, etymologically, to the Centaurs — are the only witnesses. English prose Merlin composed between 1215 and 1235 by Robert de Boron (who calls her Gonnore); Lancelot (also known net but the narrative chain-mail made up of rings. ■ 6. Mahabharata of Vyasa (Poona: Bhandarkar Oriental Research as the Lancelot proper), a French romance composed during the Institute, 1933–69), 1.64–69. same period (Guenièvre); and Lancelot of the Lake, the so-called ENDNOTES 7. It is equally hollow when Rama uses it against Sita in the noncyclic French prose version of the story from roughly the 1. Wendy Doniger, Other Peoples’ Myths: The Cave of Echoes Ramayana of Valmiki (Baroda: Oriental Institute, 1960–75), same period (Guinevere). (New York: Macmillan, 1988; Chicago: University of Chicago 6.103–6. Press, 1995), 148–49. V. Narayana Rao made this distinction, in 10. Joseph Bédier, The Romance of Tristan and Iseult, trans. private communication. 8. In 1938, Akhtar Husain Raipuri translated the play into Urdu. Hilaire Belloc and Paul Rosenfeld (New York: Pantheon, 1945; He argued that Kalidasa, being a man of his time and identifying New York: Vintage, 1965), 140. 2. Wendy Doniger, The Implied Spider: Politics and Theology in with Brahmanical high culture, changed the original epic story in 11. Ibid., 139, citing a French poem. Myth (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998), 139–45. an attempt “to save the king from being seen for what he really 22 IN MEMORIAM

Annette Martin Cronin Photo: Randy Tunnell 1934–2005 catalogue confirms Prof. Brown’s assessment: all Annette Martin Cronin (MA 1988), a former circulating copies of The Director of Special Events at the University, Rhetoric of Fiction are either died of complications from Parkinson’s on reserve or checked out. — the Editor ] disease on June 26. She was 71. Equally dedicated to Mrs. Cronin organized the University of Chicago’s teaching, Booth received the first Humanities Open House in 1979. The free, Llewellyn John and Harriet daylong public forum of lectures, symposia, and Manchester Quantrell performances provides visitors, families of students, Award for Excellence in and alumni with an opportunity to learn from many Undergraduate Teaching in of the most distinguished scholars in the Division. 1971, and on the occasion Her legacy continues today: the University celebrated of his retirement in 1991, its twenty-sixth open house this past October. Mrs. the University established Cronin’s support of her husband, physicist James IN MEMORIAM the Wayne C. Booth Cronin (MS 1953, PhD 1955), University Professor Graduate Student Prize for Emeritus, was recognized in his acceptance remarks Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. But he for the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics: “On even the Wayne C. Booth returned to the classroom well into retirement. worst days, when nothing was working in the lab, David Bevington, Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished I knew that at home I would find warmth, peace, 1921-2005 Service Professor in Humanities and English, recalls companionship, and encouragement. As a conse- Booth, at age 84, teaching in the Humanities core Wayne Booth, George M. Pullman quence, the next day would surely be better.” A sequence: “He was a passionate and inspiring painter and a pianist, Mrs. Cronin painted still lifes Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of teacher who elevated the Socratic teaching method and landscapes in the Swiss decorative style; she English and one of the twentieth century’s into a fine art.” also enjoyed playing the musical compositions of most influential literary critics, died at home Booth continued to write significant works of Schubert and Debussy. Mrs. Cronin was born March literary criticism at Chicago, including A Rhetoric of in Chicago on October 10, 2005. 18, 1934, in Chicago. She attended Wright Junior Irony (1974), but he also dabbled in satire, fiction, College for two years before transferring to the Booth was born on February 22, 1921, in American and autobiography. Booth’s scholarship and humanitas University, where she studied English and met her Fork, Utah. He served in World War II and attended influenced generations of students and enriched future husband, James. They were married in 1954. Brigham Young University (BA 1944). In 1946, he the lives of his colleagues. Richard Stern, novelist She postponed her studies to raise a family, married Phyllis Barnes (University of Chicago, MA and Helen A. Regenstein Professor Emeritus in English, later completing her bachelor’s degree at Roosevelt 1966). Booth completed his PhD in English at Chicago saw in Booth “a depth of decency and generosity University in 1977 and a master’s degree in social and began teaching at Haverford College, both in that made him not only a marvelous friend and sciences from Chicago in 1988. She joined the 1950. Three years later, Earlham College invited him colleague but one of the true pillars of a great University’s Special Events staff in 1978, serving as to head their English department; he returned to university, a great community, and — I don’t exag- Director from 1980 to 1982. Mrs. Cronin is survived Chicago as the George M. Pullman Professor in 1962. gerate — a great country . . . He is irreplaceable." by her husband James; three children, Cathryn Booth’s The Rhetoric of Fiction (1961) transformed Wayne Booth is survived by his wife Phyllis; Cranston (LAB 1973), Daniel Cronin, and Emily Grothe the study of literature. The book adapted Aristotelian his daughters, Katherine Booth Stevens (LAB 1965) (LAB 1978); a brother, John Martin (PhD 1963); and theory to explore narrative techniques in a range of and Alison Booth (LAB 1971), and their husbands; four grandchildren. classic novels and to consider the ways that narra- and three grandchildren. A longer version of Prof. The family requests that contributions be made tives ethically shape the reader. Bill Brown, Edward Booth’s obituary appeared in the University of in memory of Mrs. Cronin to the Division of the Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor and Chicago Chronicle on October 11, 2005. Humanities. Gifts will help support the festival Chair of English, described The Rhetoric of Fiction The University of Chicago will hold a memorial that she helped inaugurate. The 2006 festival, to as “the single most important American contribution service for Wayne Booth on March 9, 2006, in be renamed Humanities Day, will be dedicated to to narrative theory — a book that continues to be Rockefeller Chapel from 4:30 to 6:00 PM. Mrs. Cronin. Please send gifts to Mary Jean read, taught, and fought about.” [ The Regenstein Kraybill, Division of the Humanities, University The next issue of Tableau will feature reminiscences of Chicago, 1115 East 58th Street, Room 213E, of Professor Booth by his colleagues and students. Chicago, Illinois 60637. Mrs. Cronin’s obituary I invite readers to contribute by writing to tableau previously appeared in the University of Chicago @uchicago.edu. — Joanne M. Berens, Editor Chronicle on July 14, 2005. TABLEAU 23

Knox Hill 1910–2005

Knox Hill (PhD 1954), professor of Philosophy and the College, died in Hyde Park on Paul Ricoeur February 3, 2005, at the age of 94. 1913–2005 A lifelong resident of Hyde Park whose father Paul Ricoeur, one of the leading philosophers taught at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, Hill taught at the University for forty-one of the twentieth century, died on May 20, years before retiring in 1980. Among other contri- 2005, in Châtenay-Malabry, France. He was butions, he was instrumental in developing the 92, and his passing has been noted by both introductory Humanities sequence that has long scholars and heads of state. been part of the College’s core curriculum. Hill’s philosophical interests were dominated “We lose today more than a philosopher,” French by developments in the theory of aesthetics by such Prime Minister, Jean-Pierre Raffarin, said in a thinkers as Croce, Dewey, and Hume, but he also statement. “The entire European humanist tradition studied Aristotelian ethics and pre-Socratic Greek is mourning one of its most talented spokesmen.” philosophy. In addition to articles in scholarly journals, Ricoeur, the John Nuveen Professor Emeritus in the Hill wrote Interpreting Literature: History, Fiction Divinity School and Professor Emeritus in Philosophy, and Drama, Philosophy, Rhetoric (1966), in which he taught at the University of Chicago for twenty years provided a guide for students and teachers on how (1971–91). Ricoeur considered himself a philosopher Photo: Carolyn Ulrich to carefully read and analyze different forms of the who listened carefully to religion, yet he listened written word. equally well to literary theory and rhetoric, psycho- served in the French army when he was taken captive While a doctoral student and instructor at the analysis and cognitive science, political theory and held from 1941– 45 in a German prison camp. University, Hill joined the ROTC and was called to and cultural criticism. Perhaps best known for his While a prisoner, Ricoeur read German philosophy active duty in 1941, within months of the attack contributions to the field of phenomenology — the extensively and, along with other interned intellectuals, on Pearl Harbor. He served in the U.S. Army in study of how a person’s reality is shaped by their was allowed to form a “university” in the camp. England, North Africa, and Italy, earning a Bronze perception of the events of the world — the French “He was an extremely important philosopher, but Star for his contribution to the war effort. In 1945 philosopher was the author of more than twenty more than that he was a real advocate for humane he returned to the University, where he continued books and hundreds of articles. He also received values in the face of the terrors of inhumane evil and his studies and helped teach the great influx of countless awards and honors, including most recently injustice,” recalled William Schweiker, Professor of returning veterans. the John W. Kluge Prize for Lifetime Achievement Theological Ethics at the Divinity School. “He insisted During his career, Hill served as Director of Under- in the Human Sciences, an honor sometimes called on the glory and turmoil of human life found in our graduate Programs in Philosophy at the University; the Nobel Prize for the humanities. capacities for action and responsibility while also editor of the Journal of General Education and the Born in the town of Valence, Ricoeur was examining the source and force of our fallibility and University Examiner; and Secretary of the Faculties, orphaned at an early age. He eventually studied our faults.” a position that made him responsible for recording philosophy at the Sorbonne where he began his After the war, Ricoeur held professorships at minutes for all of the University’s ruling bodies. In long career of writing, often on themes of Christian Strasbourg, the Sorbonne, and the new university 1953 he received the Llewellyn John and Harriet socialism and pacifism. During World War II, he at Nanterre, before coming to Chicago. While here, Manchester Quantrell Award in Excellence in he published a number of important books, includ- Undergraduate Teaching. ing The Living Metaphor (1975), Time and Narrative Hill is preceded in death (three volumes, 1983 to 1985), and Oneself as by Pauline Willis Hill, his Another (1990). Upon his return in 1991 to France, wife of 38 years, and survived Ricoeur continued to write crucial studies and extended by their children, Susan his concerns into new fields: justice (Tolerance Ireland Burnett (BA 1972, between Intolerance and the Intolerable, 1996), MAT 1979), Virginia Hill neuroscience (What Makes Us Think, 1998), and the study of time (Memory, History, Forgetting, 2000). Carpenter (BA 1960, MA 1963), André LaCocque, who taught at the Chicago Joan Fee Dutton (BA 1966), Theological Seminary, remembered his friend and and Thomas Hill (LAB 1964), three grandchildren, and colleague thus: “One of the most penetrating state- ments of Paul Ricoeur says, ‘Justice proceeds by seven great-grandchildren. conceptual reduction; love proceeds by poetic amplification.’ Justice and love summarize, in my mind, the man Ricoeur.” Paul Ricoeur’s obituary previously appeared in the University of Chicago Chronicle, on May 23, 2005. 24 A TRIBUTE

an approachable eminence A Remembrance of Wayne Booth

by David M. Thompson, PhD 1997, Associate Dean of Planning & Programs

Beginning with this issue, David Thompson will when he would sit at the dining room table for such be contributing a regular column to Tableau that a snack. I don’t remember if I ever sat down with him at those moments. I tended to stack and file. will focus primarily on the history of the Division In a note that he once wrote to me outlining the and those individuals who have made it what it “drill” that I should go through whenever I left his is. For this first installment, David offers some office for the day, he instructed, “Clean up whatever you can on all surfaces, so that I get the illusion reminiscences of Wayne Booth. that there is order in my world.” I wasn’t that far from some demonic reincarnation of Miss Hathaway I first met Wayne Booth in the winter of 1989 when on the old television show The Beverly Hillbillies, I was a student in his seminar “Ethical Criticism,” frequently exhibiting what Wallace Stevens called which met in the evenings in the living room of his “the maker’s rage to order words of the sea” while home on Greenwood Avenue. It was the perfect the flotsam and jetsam of Mr. Booth’s interests representation of a kind of academic domesticity bobbed and eddied about me. that many graduate students in the 1980s longed for Mr. Booth made it impossible to sustain anything but—given the realities of the job market—found approaching rage, in part because of the manner in that the profession could not quite provide. There was which he displayed his interest in the lives of others. a baby grand piano, midcentury modernist furniture, Photo: Peter Kiar I remember one day when I arrived at his house and various relics of trips around the world, including a comradeship of sorts that lasted for four years, feeling rickety and slow due to a sore back. I explained a sketch by Whistler. a period during which we were together for ten to my sorry state, with some consciousness of the Mr. Booth (I never called him Wayne or “Professor,” twenty hours a week, usually in his home study. oddness of doing so to a man forty-two years my though I can’t say exactly why) had just published At this close range, I found Mr. Booth endlessly senior. Mr. Booth responded by promptly lying down The Company We Keep: An Ethics of Fiction (1988), interesting as a person in the world. And a very on the floor and demonstrating exercises that he one of the touchstone works in a career that was particular world it was—he had completed his had learned from a physical therapist. Mr. Booth was drawing to an official close, though he continued to Mormon mission on the South Side of Chicago, like that, capable of taking joy from small things write and publish as long as he was able. In the served in Europe during World War II, completed like the ice crystals that he would photograph in his seminar, we would talk about writers—Baudelaire, his PhD at the University of Chicago on the G.I. Bill, window and save or the bits of colored glass that he Lawrence, Rabelais—whose tinkerings with morality worn the badge of Aristotelianism in the ’50s, kept on his bookshelves next to pictures of his family. were more than a little disturbing, but also strangely published his landmark book The Rhetoric of Fiction Mr. Booth always seemed to me somewhat beautiful. My particular interest is in how the category (1961) and returned to the University as faculty in quizzical about the life he had been given, and this of the aesthetic declares itself over and against other the early ’60s, worked as Dean of the College in playfulness with the idea of his own existence was categories of response to works of fiction and poetry; the late ’60s, participated in important institutional one of his great appeals. The last time I saw him Mr. Booth enlivened my interest in how the resources projects like the founding of Critical Inquiry and the was in May 2005, at a gathering held in honor of of the aesthetic can be marshaled to provoke other Committee on Ideas and Methods in the ’70s, and Janel Mueller and David Bevington upon their kinds of responses (primarily ethical ones) via aes- weathered the storm of literary theory by champion- retirements. When I asked Mr. Booth how he was thetic means. ing critical pluralism in the late ’70s and ’80s. This doing, he responded, “Not so good.” When I asked It was a few months after the seminar ended is to say nothing of his many enthusiasms (his family, why, he said, “Oh, you know, the state of the world.” that I became Mr. Booth’s research assistant. I had the cello, practical jokes, Utah, among others). I know now that failing health was already clouding been working part-time at a downtown law firm since All of these things Mr. Booth had passed his thoughts at this point, but it seems fitting to me I began my studies at Chicago, and when I decided through without ever merely enduring, sticking to that as he was receding into darkness, he was still that I needed more intellectual stimulation in my many of his oldest friendships and continuing to thinking about states of affairs that existed beyond work, I responded to Mr. Booth’s advertisement by snack occasionally on white bread soaked in milk. him. The clarity of Mr. Booth’s descriptions of these telling him that I could offer him high-level organiza- This was, he explained to me, a concoction that he states of affairs in his many writings is something tional and editorial skills, as long as he was willing had relied on as a child in the Depression and that that sticks with me, as does the restlessness to pay me $10 an hour ($2 more than he had been he drew comfort from as an adult. There were (indeed, rambunctiousness) with which he carried hoping to pay). He accepted my offer, and we began several occasions during my time as his assistant out the task of being human in today’s world. ■ The RenaissanceSociety, 2006)”2005,digitalphotograph “SnowSprinkles(studyforexhibitionat Yutaka Sone, Events onCampus Neighborhood A Selection of A Selection and inthe happenings The St.PaulChamberOrchestra made introductorycomments. film scholarandascreenwriterforthefilm, noted historian week inNovember. ChrisJonesofthe in OctoberofMichelangeloAntonioni’s was deliveredby Bomb andtheEndofAsia-PacificWar,” Reflections ontheSixtiethAnniversaryof “How LongDoWe NeedtoRemember? autumn dayinHydePark.Thekeynoteaddress, enjoyed forty-twopresentationsonacrisp October 22.Morethan800participants Notable Recent Events Court Theatre SONY Passenger The Cinema andMediaStudies Bookstores. and SocialSciencestheSeminaryCo-op cosponsored bythedivisionsofHumanities (released inNovember2005);hisvisitwas Humanities OpenHouse 15 tohear Institute’s BreastedAuditoriumonNovember It wasstandingroomonlyintheOriental Ingersoll ProfessorofJapaneseStudies. with acclaimed Franklin’s autobiography, wide-ranging conversationcenteredon as “oneofthebest showsoftheyear.” re-release. MichaelBarker, copresidentof Tribune Doc Films Pictures Classics,andPeterWollen, praised theCharlesNewellproduction Man of La Mancha La of Man Jesse JacksonJr. (1975), beforeitsnationwide John HopeFranklin extended thecritically , sponsoredafreescreening Norma Field Mirror to America to Mirror was heldon , incollaboration for anextra , RobertS. interview . The Chicago Contempo’s celebratedresidentensembles, “Continental Divide”concertwillfeature by LouisSullivanandrecentlyrestored.The Roosevelt University’s GanzHall,designed its forty-firstseasononMarch5atanewvenue, and otherprograms(seearticleonp.4). with ChicagoPresentsthatincludesconcerts hasbegunathree-yearresidency Orchestra music. Ofspecial ensembles ofchamberandinternationalearly .edu) offersconcertsbyworld-renowned artistic perspectives. separate continentsandfiveverydifferent include Chicagopremieresofworksfromthree the public. Allreadingsarefreeandopento 19–20. andC.K.WilliamsonApril February 23–24 on spring quarters,includingNathanielMackey contemporary poetsthroughoutthewinterand continues aseriesofreadingsbyimportant in thecomingmonths. Here areafewgoodreasonstovisitcampus Considering atriptoChicagooraroundtown? Save theDate Chicago Presents blackbird eighth Contempo Poem Present LISTEN (contempo.uchicago.edu) continues (poempresent.uchicago.edu) and thePacificaQuartet, note: theSt.PaulChamber (chicagopresents.uchicago CONTINUED > 25 HAPPENINGS

Through April 2, the DuSable Museum The Organization of Black Students has of African American History invited Cornel West, Princeton University, (www.dusablemuseum.org) presents to give their annual George E. Kent 100 Plus One: Celebrating America’s Music Lecture (March 2 at 7 PM in Mandel Hall). Before Motown and Beyond. The exhibit The lecture honors Professor Kent, the first connects social history with recording artists African American full professor in the and their music, from ragtime and jazz to Humanities. Kent, who taught English from disco and hip-hop. Look for rare artifacts 1970 until his death in 1982, was especially — such as handwritten sheet music, master interested in poetry and wrote a biography recording, gold records, and costumes — of the Chicago poet Gwendolyn Brooks. LISTEN selected from the collection of the Keeper Live blues and jazz fill our nights at the of the Word Foundation, a Detroit-based Peter Filkins, poet, translator, and associate reopened Checkerboard Lounge in Harper organization committed to perpetuate the professor at Simon’s Rock College of Bard, Court and at Blu 47 Restaurant (Thursdays legacy of artists, authors, and activists. will deliver the Jean and Harold Gossett only) on Martin Luther King Drive. Lecture in Memory of Holocaust Victims You have until April 23 to view Whose Martha and Paul Feivel Korngold on LOOK Land? European and American April 11 at 5:30 PM in Classics 110. He will happenings Landscapes, 1600–1900 at the Smart also offer a poetry reading on April 10 at Court Theatre (www.courttheatre.org) Museum (smartmuseum.uchicago.edu), 5:30 PM in Rosenwald 405. The reading is continues its 2005–6 season with August which features masterworks from the cosponsored by Poem Present and the Wilson’s Fences (January 12–February 12). museum’s collection and details exchanges Committee on Jewish Studies. Guest director Ron OJ Parson recently among landscape traditions. directed Wedding Band by Alice Childress The Franke Institute for the Humanities at Steppenwolf Theatre Company. Court’s LEARN (humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/institute) will season concludes with Glass Menagerie conclude the 2003–6 Mellon Project on New (March 6–April 9) and Lettice and Lovage Jacques Rancière, Professor Emeritus Perspectives on the Disciplines: Comparative (May 11–June 11). of Philosophy at the University of Paris-VIII Studies in Higher Education with a major (St. Denis), will deliver the Sigmund H. conference. The conference on April 27–29 Yutaka Sone will create an installation Danziger Jr. Distinguished Lecture in will consider the fate of the disciplines (see simply titled “Forecast: Snow” at the the Humanities on February 24, Social related article, pp. 6–9). Renaissance Society (www.renaissance Sciences 122 at 4:30 PM. His talk is titled society.org) this winter (January 29–April 9). “Why Emma Bovary Had To Be Killed: The 2006 Humanities Day (the new name The artist plays with viewers’ expectations Some Reflections on Literature, Medicine, of Humanities Open House) will be dedicated by carving snow crystals out of marble, the and Democracy.” Established in 1988 by the to Annette Martin Cronin (MA 1988), who stone most associated with heroic statuary Danziger family in memory of Mr. Danziger organized the first festival in 1979. The date

A Selection of Events on Campus and in the Neighborhood on Campus Events of Selection A of the Renaissance, and by planting a forest (BA 1937), the lectureship commemorates his is set for Saturday, October 21 (see Mrs. of 200 firs within the gallery. Let it snow! love for the University and the humanities. Cronin’s obituary on p. 22).

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