Newberry Seminars Chicago Interest Arts, Music, and Language

WINTER / SPRING 2016 Newberry Seminars Chicago Interest Arts, Music, and Language

Gilded Age Chicago Women The Keys to 400 Years of Keyboard Music Wednesdays, 5:45 - 7:45 pm Tuesdays, 2 - 4 pm February 17 - April 20 February 16 - April 19 In this seminar, we will utilize gender as a In “The Keys to 400 Years of Keyboard Music” lens through which to scrutinize an era that is our syllabus will comprise piano pieces by often associated with male titans of industry Beethoven, Mozart, Brahms, the Schumanns, and their economic achievements. Framed Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland, Debussy, by the Gilded Age’s oft-competing concepts Ravel, and Liszt; early Baroque keyboard works of capitalism and democracy, our historical by Couperin and Scarlatti; the output of such inquiries will seek to reexamine women’s roles nineteenth-century American composers as in the formation of social class structures and William Mason, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Chicago’s industrialization, urbanization, and and Stephen Foster; the offerings of such political struggles. Readings for the first session “popular” composers as Gershwin, Bernstein, will be distributed electronically; please refer to and Ellington; and finally some representative your registration confirmation for details. Ten twentieth-century works by Karlheinz sessions, $270. Stockhausen, Ruth Crawford Seeger, and Olivier Messiaen. Ten sessions, $270. LaShonda Barnett, a historian and novelist, writes short fiction and plays; she is the author of the 2015 Stephen Kleiman holds a BS degree from the Mannes historical novel Jam on the Vine, a Chicago College of Music and an MM degree in music composi- Tribune Editor’s pick. Raised in Park Forest, Illinois, tion from the University of Michigan. He has conducted she received her PhD in American Studies from the throughout Europe and the U.S., and his music has College of William and Mary. been performed in many countries. Mr. Kleiman has been teaching at the Newberry for 8 years. Chicago Roots Thursdays, 5:45 - 7:45 pm The French Correction: A Relaxed Approach March 3 - March 31 to le français (class will not meet March 24) Thursdays, 5:45 - 7:45 pm February 18 - April 28 While records such as birth certificates and (class will not meet March 24) marriage licenses can yield important insights for genealogists, knowing where to find a city’s Looking for an enjoyable way to start studying unique records can ease the process of tracking French or to improve your French pronunciation? down elusive ancestors. This seminar will This laid-back course, intended for students at cover research sources and strategies specific to any level of proficiency, will use the vocabulary Chicago in four lively, participatory sessions. The of fine food and wine to help you decode the final session will include time for brainstorming French spelling system and pronounce French solutions to participants’ Chicago-specific words more easily and accurately in a welcoming research problems. The class is designed for any classroom environment. Ten sessions, $270. level of researcher interested in the people of Susan Pezzino, a lifetime French-English bilingual Chicago’s past. Four sessions, $160. and former United States Fulbright Scholar, holds an Ginger Frere, MLIS, is a Newberry reference librarian MA in applied linguistics and works as a professional and professional researcher. language teacher and multimedia curriculum designer in Chicago.

An illustration of the Womans Building from the Worlds Columbian Exposition in Chicago, 1893.

Registration opens January 12. The early registration deadline is February 6. Register online at www.newberry.org/adult-education-seminars or call (312) 255-3700. Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse: Twentieth-Century Music A Creative Dialogue Wednesdays, 2 - 4 pm Saturdays, 10 am - noon February 24 - April 13 February 20 - April 2 Twentieth-century music is no longer (class will not meet March 26) “contemporary” music; it has become yet Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse were the another complex and multifaceted notch along towering artistic geniuses of the first half of the the continuum of musical history. We can twentieth century, and their legacies are still now examine with reasonable objectivity the apparent. The two were friends and rivals, and influence and permanence of a diverse range of their artistic production reflects this competitive composers, from the once-radical (Schoenberg, spirit. This course will consider their careers Varese) to the once-reactionary (Rachmaninov, as artists and public figures by exploring the Copland), while also distinguishing the intersections – and the divergences – in their art various “-isms”: primitivism (Prokofiev, Orff), and in their words. For the first class, participants neoclassicism (Stravinsky, Les Six), minimalism, should read pages 1-26 and 30-43 in Jack Flam’s post-minimalism, and neo-spirituality Matisse on Art. Six sessions, $200. (Reich, Adams, Gorecki). We will also study those figures that defy classification, such as Margaret Farr is an art historian who has worked at Shostakovich, Britten, Bartok, and Hindemith. the Art Institute for 17 years and has taught at the Eight sessions, $240. Newberry, St. Xavier University, and Columbia College. John Gibbons, a music teacher and lecturer, holds a PhD in composition from the University of Chicago and Examining the Life and Works of is a long-time instructor at the Graham School. George Frideric Handel Saturdays, 1 - 2:30 pm Historical Bookbinding: February 20 - April 16 Three Specimens in Paper (class will not meet March 26) Wednesdays, 5:45 - 7:45 pm February 24 - March 23 Handel’s earliest biographer described him as a man with a “noble spirit of independency.” Plain and decorative papers have been Today, however, we might describe him as a incorporated into book coverings for centuries. hothead. Handel fought a duel with a leading From simple blue wrappers to more embellished German musician; he threatened to throw a paste, printed, and marbled designs, paper soprano out a window; and he evaded authorities has been both an economical and a beautiful to realize the performance of his works. This covering material for the protection of the class explores the composer’s colorful personality, printed book. This course will explore historical adventurous life, and engaging operatic works, designs and techniques and will present especially Agrippina (1709) and Giulio Cesare participants with the exciting opportunity to (1724). Eight sessions, $200. examine sixteenth- through nineteenth-century examples from the Newberry’s collection. Regina Compton holds a PhD in musicology from Participants will create model bindings with the Eastman School of Music; awarded the 2015 plain and patterned papers based on three of the International Handel Research Prize, her dissertation Newberry specimens. Five sessions, $170. There examines the simple recitative in Handel’s operas. will be an additional $20 materials fee payable at the first class session. Richard Wagner and the Ring Cycle Wednesdays, 2 - 4 pm Lesa Dowd is the Director of Conservation Services February 24 - April 13 for the Newberry. Outside of her daily work in conservation, she enjoys practicing the art of fine The musical dramas of Wagner’s Ring Cycle, bookbinding. She has studied French fine binding 15.5 hours in length, are among the most technique with Tini Miura and Monique Lallier. distinguished and enduring works of music in Western culture. Through listening and watching, we will explore the genesis and musicality of each of the cycle’s four operas: The Rhine Gold, The Valkyrie, Siegfried, and Twilight of the Gods. We will also study the performance history of these masterpieces, at Bayreuth and beyond. Eight sessions, $240.

David Pituch completed his formal music studies at the University of Colorado and at Northwestern University. He was the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship to the Musicology Institute of Warsaw University. He served as a co-director of a National Endowment for the Arts Seminar for College Professors held at New York University and in Bayreuth, Germany. Dr. Pituch has attended the Ring Cycle at the Bayreuth Festival on three wonderful occasions.

An example of a bookbinding from the Newberry’s Ayer Collection. Great Movie Music from Greta Garbo to Exploring Medieval Music Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Thursdays, 2 - 4 pm Thursdays, 2 - 4 pm March 3 - April 7 February 25 - April 14 Driven by voice and tailored to specific settings, In this seminar, we will explore the development medieval music remains largely unexplored by of film music, from its inception to the 1960s. the modern listener. How can we appreciate the Originally appearing as mere background beauty of medieval music today? In this seminar, accompaniment, movie music was eventually we will listen to and discuss important music deployed to enhance atmosphere or elicit composed from the twelfth through the fifteenth emotional reactions from the audience. We centuries, from the bawdy and satirical pieces in will listen to and discuss music from some of the original Carmina Burana and the emotional the greatest early film composers, including expressions of courtly love of the troubadours, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Adolph Deutsch, to contemplative music composed for medieval Dmitri Shostakovich, Aaron Copland, and cathedrals. Short talks and discussions led by Bernard Herrmann, along with the incomparable the instructor will increase our understanding contributions of the Disney Studios. “That’s All and appreciation of the music’s texts, physical Folks!” Eight sessions, $240. settings, functions, and intended responses. No previous knowledge of medieval music is Stephen Kleiman holds a BS degree from the Mannes necessary. Six sessions, $200. College of Music and an MM degree in music composition from the University of Michigan. He has conducted John Nygro is a lecturer, musician, and actor in the throughout Europe and the U.S., and his music has Chicago area. been performed in many countries. Mr. Kleiman has been teaching at the Newberry for 8 years. The Art of Silent Film Thursdays, 2 - 4 pm Italian Music since 1850 March 3 - April 7 Thursdays, 2 - 4 pm Silent movies are much more than simply February 25 - April 14 “movies without sound.” Rather, they represent In the second half of the nineteenth century, a distinct art form. This seminar invites you to Italian classical music was almost exclusively watch and discuss 12 international masterpieces operatic. Verdi, Puccini, Mascagni, and of the silent film era, including examples of Leoncavallo created masterworks that are still comedy, drama, suspense, and expressionism. in the international repertoire. In the twentieth Through lively readings of early film criticism, century, new composers like Respighi inspired we will develop new ways of seeing the moving renewed interest in the orchestra, while folk and image and appreciating how these silent movies popular music have developed independently of stand as fully formed artistic achievements. Six classical music. We will hear examples of all these sessions, $200. genres by Italian artists of past and present. Eight Steven Venturino, PhD, teaches at Loyola University sessions, $240. Chicago and is the author of The Complete Idiot’s Guy Marco has taught in 11 universities, written Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism. or edited 50 books, and published a hundred articles and reviews. He holds a PhD from the University of Gustav Mahler Reconsidered: Chicago and has led Newberry seminars since 1996. The Conductor and Composer Saturdays, 10 - 11:30 am Italian Renaissance Art: Theory, Practice, March 12 - April 23 and Myth (class will not meet March 26) Saturdays, 1 - 3 pm In this seminar we will explore the continued February 27 - April 23 relevance of Gustav Mahler’s music and the (class will not meet April 16) historical context in which the conductor In this seminar, we will focus on the complex composed his own works. Mahler’s innovations relationship between the realities of art-making as a conductor are as modern as his work as a in Renaissance Italy, the theoretical musings put composer, an insight to which his memoirs and forth by critics and artists, and the mythologies letters attest. These documents, as well as the surrounding artists and the creative process composer’s reading preferences, will be examined that developed at that time. Discussion of to reveal his process of intellectual and aesthetic contemporary writings on art will alternate development. Six sessions, $180. with visual analysis as we look at some of the Salvatore Calomino is a Germanist who has done greatest works of the period by artists like Giotto, extensive research in music, and James L. Zychowicz Donatello, Botticelli, and the towering geniuses is a musicologist who has specialized in Mahler’s music of the High Renaissance: Leonardo da Vinci, and published extensively on the composer and his Michelangelo, and Raphael. Eight sessions, $240. works. Both are scholars-in-residence at the Newberry. Jeffrey Nigro is an art historian, adjunct lecturer, and Research Associate in the Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, where he also serves as Co-President of the Classical Art Society. Limp Bindings Saturdays, 10 am - 1 pm History and Social Science April 2 - April 23 Limp bindings (coverings without stiff boards) Britain’s Stonehenge: Legend, Science, and have a long history. They have been in use since Symbolism through Time the advent of the codex in the second century. Saturdays, 9:30 am - 1 pm Typically covered with vellum or paper, these February 13 - February 20 lightweight structures were quickly produced Stonehenge, one of the world’s most iconic with less expensive material than stiff-board archaeological sites, has inspired historians, books required, making them popular with scientists, artists, and countless others for scholars of the time. In this seminar, participants centuries. This intensive two-session seminar will look at a variety of limp structures – both will trace the changing perceptions of the site’s vellum and paper – from the Newberry’s origin, construction, and purpose. We will collection, and will create two different styles start with the earliest mention of Stonehenge of limp bindings using paper as the covering in medieval chronicles and proceed through material. Four sessions, $200. There will be an the pioneering archaeological explorations, additional $15 materials fee payable at the first astronomical interpretations, and recent studies class session. aimed at understanding the monument not in Barbara Korbel works as the Collections and isolation but as an integral part of the physical Exhibition Conservator at the Newberry, where she and cultural landscape of ancient Britain. For encounters extraordinary bindings on a daily basis. the first class meeting, participants should read the introduction through chapter 2 of Stonehenge: A New Understanding: Solving the Mysteries of the Greatest Stone Age Monument. Philosophy and Religion Two sessions, $140. Lee Minnerly has an MA in anthropology (historical Socrates and the Sophists: The Teaching of archaeology) and teaches classes at the Newberry and Virtue and the Corruption of Youth other Chicago-area institutions. He also volunteers at Saturdays, 1 - 2:30 pm the Webster Institute for the History of Astronomy at February 27 - April 16 Adler Planetarium. (class will not meet March 19) The Third Reich: Germany 1933-1945 Socrates distinguished himself as a philosopher Section A: Tuesdays, 1 - 3 pm by exploring the idea of virtue while his Section B: Tuesdays, 5:45 - 7:45 pm contemporaries – the Sophists – catered to the politically ambitious by teaching the art of February 16 - April 19 persuasive speech. Through examination of This seminar will explore the politics, society, Socratic conversations appearing in Xenophon’s and culture of Germany from the ascendance Memorabilia and Plato’s Protagoras, we will explore of Hitler to the downfall of the Nazi regime. how Socrates’s method of teaching differed from Topics will include the consolidation of power that of the Sophists, and what that reveals about by the Nazi Party; the abrogation of the Treaty his understanding of virtue. This course assumes of Versailles; the development of anti-Semitic no previous exposure to philosophy and can serve policies; Hitler’s increasingly aggressive foreign as a good introduction to the basic aspects of policy and the quest for Lebensraum; daily life classical Greek thinking. Seven sessions, $190. in Germany during the Second World War; Jerry Barmore holds a PhD in philosophy from the and the final military collapse. Prior to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. first class meeting participants should read the prologues of Benz’s A Concise History of The Philosophy of Anxiety the Third Reich and Haffner’s Defying Hitler: A Saturdays, 1 - 2:30 pm Memoir, as well as the documents in section 1 March 5 - April 23 of Moeller’s The Nazi State and German Society. Ten sessions, $270. Our so-called “age of anxiety” is also the age that, much to its peril, has dismissed the human- Frank Biletz holds a PhD in history from the ities (especially the discipline of philosophy) as University of Chicago, with a primary specialization in an impractical academic pursuit with little utility modern British and Irish history, and a secondary field as a career path or as a guide for living well. Yet in modern German history. He is a lecturer in history anxiety has been a central concern for thinkers at Loyola University Chicago and has been teaching from Epictetus and Kierkegaard to Heidegger seminars at the Newberry since 1994. and Lacan. We will ask, “why is anxiety a philo- sophical problem and how might philosophy help ameliorate our anxiety?” Readings for the first session will be distributed electronically; please refer to your registration confirmation for details. Eight sessions, $200.

Harrison Sherrod is the coordinator of the Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture at the University of Chicago and a programmer for South Side Projections. Edwardian Passions: Dress and Desire, Picturing America: Art in the United States from 1890-1915 the Colonial Period to the Civil War Tuesdays, 5:45 - 7:45 pm Wednesdays, 11 am - 1 pm February 16 - March 22 March 2 - April 20 (class will not meet March 30) Passion fueled British society under the reign of Edward VII. This era, marked by wide-ranging This seminar will explore the rich history of social and political change, brought about the American art and visual culture from the colonial promise of upward mobility along with the era to the Civil War, a period of dramatic turmoil associated with a shifting social order. upheaval that witnessed the birth of the new This seminar will explore the volatility of this nation, western expansion, and an increasingly era, using three novels as our texts and fashion as diverse citizenry. We will study key artists and our code for change: Vita Sackville-West’s The cultural institutions, and examine the role the Edwardians (1930); Elinor Glynn’s Three Weeks visual arts played in constructing national and (1907); and E. M. Forster’s Room with a View regional identities as well as gender and class (1908). Although not required, participants can distinctions. Readings for the first session will start reading The Edwardians prior to the first class be distributed electronically; please refer to meeting if they would like to get a head start. Six your registration confirmation for details. Seven sessions, $200. sessions, $220.

Debra Mancoff, author of Fashion Muse, Fashion in Patricia Scanlan holds a PhD in American art and Impressionist Paris, and Danger! Women Artists visual culture from Indiana University. She is an at Work, writes on the intersection of art, fashion, and independent art historian in Chicago and serves as an culture. adjunct lecturer at the Art Institute of Chicago.

The Roman Empire The Civic Strains of Reconstruction Saturdays, 10 am - noon Saturday, 9 am - 4 pm, February 20 - May 7 with one hour for lunch (class will not meet March 26 and April 2) March 12 Celebrated for their practical skills – winning After the Civil War, Americans faced battles, building roads, and making laws – the fundamental questions of citizenship and Romans of the imperial period left behind a nationality as the defeated South was rebuilt. lasting legacy of cultural achievements, as well This one-day seminar will focus on five topics: as a rich array of both impressive and appalling the Fourteenth Amendment, voting rights in the personalities. This course will survey the history South, the rift between black and female activists, of ancient Rome from Augustus’s establishment tactics for suppressing the Ku Klux Klan, and the of the principate in 27 BCE to the deposition of shaping of the Civil War’s legacy. In discussing Romulus Augustulus in 476 BCE, with particular these topics, participants will be challenged to attention devoted to the Julio-Claudian dynasty, clarify their own thinking about the civic issues including the reigns of Tiberius, Claudius, and that remain relevant today. One session, $120. Nero. Participants should read chapters 1-2 of Joseph Harrington holds a master’s degree in history Wells’s The Roman Empire prior to the first class from the University of Connecticut. He has led meeting. Ten sessions, $270. numerous Newberry seminars. Frank Biletz holds a PhD in history from the University of Chicago, with a primary specialization Race in America: History, Science, and Culture in modern British and Irish history. He is a lecturer Thursdays, 5:45 - 7:45 pm in history at Loyola University Chicago. He has been March 17 - May 5 teaching seminars at the Newberry since 1994. Race is so embedded in American life that it is difficult to believe that society was not always More Dumber in America divided according to racial categories. This Thursdays, 6 - 7:30 pm seminar will examine the historical roots of February 25 - March 31 racial theories, how they evolved and spread, and Anti-intellectualism, pseudo-intellectualism, and the ways they still shape society today. Topics ignorance are perennial problems in American will include science and racial theories; race, life. However, when the health of a society’s slavery, and nations; eugenics and social reform; civic life and politics depend on rational debate, the creation of the idea of the “white race”; those issues are more than mere annoyances. the fluidity of race; and claims that we live in a This seminar thinks historically about the roots, “post-racial” society. Readings for the first class consequences, and present state of ignorance will be distributed electronically; please refer to in American life by examining works by Mark your registration confirmation for details. Eight Noll, Naomi Oreskes, Erik Conway, and others. sessions, $240. For the first class meeting, participants should Brooke Heagerty holds a PhD in history and is read chapters 1-2 in Noll’s The Scandal of the writing a book on the legacies of race and slavery, and Evangelical Mind. Additional readings for the first the power of history and memory. session will be distributed electronically; please refer to your registration confirmation for details. Six sessions, $180.

Tim Lacy, PhD, is a historian and educator who has published on the history of American thought, culture, and education. Genetic Genealogy Genealogy Saturdays, 9:30 am - 12:30 pm February 20 - March 12 Fundamentals of Genealogy: Basics for Everyone All genealogists know the frustration of being April 9 - April 23 stymied when a paper trail ends or there is not Whether you’re a beginner or simply looking for enough evidence to prove a relationship. DNA formal fundamentals training, try these seminars, analysis, combined with traditional documentary tailored to meet your research needs. Take all six research methods, can extend the reconstruction sessions or just those that most interest you. of your family tree. We will explore the biological concepts of genetics and inheritance Six-session rate: $210. Individual prices marked patterns to be able to analyze DNA results within below a genealogical context. Although not required, participants will derive maximum benefit from 1. Research Methodology the course if they have DNA autosomal results Saturday, April 9, 10 am - 1 pm from a testing company (FamilytreeDNA, We will tackle the fundamentals of accredited 23andMe, or AncestryDNA) prior to the course. genealogical research and process methodology, Please read the first two chapters of Jones’s including research basics, strategies for beginners, Mastering Genealogical Proof for the first session. precepts, and establishing standards of proof. We Four sessions, $200. will review genealogical software and online Karen Stanbary is a professional genealogist trained in resources for research. One session, $65. the use of DNA testing for genealogical purposes.

2. Records Group I Saturday, April 9, 2 - 4 pm Genetic Genealogy: Advanced Practical Application We will cover how to find and use U.S. Federal Saturdays, 9:30 am - 12:30 pm Census records, religious records, vital records, March 19 - April 9 and more using Newberry.org, Ancestry.com & This seminar is the second in a sequence with FamilySearch.org. One session, $45. Genetic Genealogy (see above). We will further explore the concepts taught in the first seminar 3. Records Group II with the use of real-time demonstration and Saturday, April 16, 10 am - noon a hands-on practical skills laboratory. This This session focuses on library research and ref- course will focus exclusively on the analytical erence tools, including catalog searching, interli- methodology and the tools used to solve brary loans, and Chicago genealogical materials. genealogical problems with autosomal DNA We will also take a tour of the Newberry and its test results. In addition to having autosomal test genealogical resources. One session, $45. results in hand, participants will need a laptop or tablet for use in class. Four sessions, $200. 4. Records Group III Karen Stanbary is a professional genealogist trained in Saturday, April 16, 1 - 3 pm the use of DNA testing for genealogical purposes. We will discuss wills and probate records, local histories and city/county/telephone directories Genealogical Research Beyond Shaking Leaves (including HeritageQuest Books), genealogical Saturday, 9:30 am - 12:30 pm publications (including PERSI), military records, February 27 tax records, and ethnic records. One session, $45. Did you get your start in genealogy with 5. Networking, Analyzing, Recording, Ancestry.com? Not really sure what to do now and Organizing that you’ve exhausted their resources? This Saturday, April 23, 10 am - noon one-session seminar will help you take your genealogical project to the next level with Learn networking the old-fashioned way, as accredited research methods, tools you’ve never well as online via genealogical service providers, used, and a multitude of other public sources. social media, societies, e-mailing lists, e-bulletin One session, $65. boards, DNA databases, and more. We will also discuss information analysis methods, worksheet Marsha Peterson-Maass is a forensic genealogist examples, recording software, citations, style and member of the Association of Professional sheets, and other methods of organizing Genealogists. She has led genealogy seminars at the information. One session, $45. Newberry since 2002.

6. Records Group IV Saturday, April 23, 1 - 3 pm We will investigate important sources for maps, land records, newspaper records, as well as immigration and naturalization records. One session, $45.

Marsha Peterson-Maass is a forensic genealogist and member of the Association of Professional Genealogists. She has taught Newberry seminars since 2002. Certification of the arms of Juan Ramón Literature and Theater de Torres Bermúdez of Reading Magical Realism Cádiz. VAULT Tuesdays, 5:45 - 7:45 pm folio Case MS February 16 - April 19 5263 This course will explore the literary genre of magical realism not just as a literary movement but as a response to the political and cultural climates from which it emerged. Postcolonial contexts, for example, have been especially prolific incubators of magical realist fiction. We will distinguish magical realism from other genres and consider its strengths and weaknesses in confronting and commenting upon “reality.” We will discuss the history of and theory behind magical realism, and then examine Kafka’s novella The Metamorphosis, short stories from Introduction to DNA for Kinship Borges, and two great twentieth-century novels Saturday, 1:30 - 4:30 pm that are some of the best exemplars of the genre. February 27 For the first class, please read The Metamorphosis. Whether you have taken any DNA tests or not, Ten sessions, $270. this seminar will help you understand atDNA, James Hecimovich has a Master’s in English from Y-DNA, and mtDNA test results, including the University of Chicago and has taught courses on haplogroups, ethnicity, and database cousin historical fiction, Gabriel Garcîa Márquez, Don matches. We’ll also discuss today’s basic kinship Quixote, and Don DeLillo at the Newberry. analysis processes (including an overview of triangulation, chromosome mapping, and phasing), DNA project groups, and contacting The Hobbit: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Mythic Sources your cousin matches. One session, $65. Wednesdays, 5:45 - 7:45 pm February 17 - April 13 Marsha Peterson-Maass is a forensic genealogist and member of the Association of Professional Discover the roots of The Hobbit in Norse Genealogists. She has led genealogy seminars at the mythology, German legend, and English Newberry since 2002. literature. Participants will read J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic novel in detail as they explore ancient poems and tales of wizards and wanderers, Building Your Ancestor’s Business Biography dwarves and dragons, heroes and hoards. Nine Saturday, 9:30 am - 12:30 pm sessions, $260. March 19 Karl Seigfried writes The Norse Mythology Blog How much of your ancestor’s biography reflects and is currently working on his fourth degree, an MA his or her work life? This one-session seminar in religion at the University of Chicago Divinity will show you how to build a business biography, School. find genealogical employee and business records for everyone from factory workers to coal miners to business owners, and even take part in a The Art of Memory in Exile working-life version of “Who Do You Think Wednesdays, 5:45 - 7:45 pm You Are?” One session, $65. February 24 - April 27

Marsha Peterson-Maass is a forensic genealogist We will address the timely issues of displacement, and member of the Association of Professional fragmented identity, and assimilation by reading Genealogists. She has led genealogy seminars at the the works of Heinrich Heine, Stefan Zweig, Newberry since 2002. Milan Kundera, and Andre Aciman – all writers who left their home countries, either fleeing for their lives or in search of creative freedom. Forensic Techniques for the Everyday Their short stories, novellas, and poems bring Genealogist the emotions associated with memory and loss Saturday, 1:30 - 4:30 pm into sharp relief. We will also explore why March 19 privileged intellectuals facing no actual danger Explore the growing field of forensic genealogy of banishment might choose to live in a self- and learn amazing techniques using today’s imposed state of metaphorical exile. Ten sessions, science and technology to take your genealogy $270. projects up a notch. We’ll discuss map and Dagmar Herrmann is an award-winning translator, geographic identification, photo detective work, lecturer, and independent scholar. Her academic document examination, anthropometric facial background spans from Prague to Grenoble, and from measurement, handwriting analysis, and more! Jerusalem to Chicago. One session, $65.

Marsha Peterson-Maass is a forensic genealogist and member of the Association of Professional Genealogists. She has led genealogy seminars at the Newberry since 2002. Ulysses and Modernism Emma at 200: An Exploration Wednesdays, 6 - 7:30 pm of Jane Austen’s Novel February 17 - April 20 Tuesdays, 2 - 4 pm February 23 - March 29 This course focuses on Ulysses as the defining text of literary modernism. We will read the Emma, often described as Jane Austen’s book closely to appreciate Joyce’s particular masterpiece, celebrates its 200th anniversary version of modernist experimentalism. Through in 2016. Austen herself admitted that she had close attention to his technical and linguistic created “a heroine whom no one but myself will innovations, participants will emerge from the much like,” and, indeed, Emma Woodhouse has course with a sense of delight in reading Joyce her fair share of critics (although she has plenty and having gained critical skills that will be of admirers as well). In addition to its gallery of useful long after the seminar is over. For the first memorable characters, Emma is a work of such session, please read the first two chapters of the brilliant literary complexity and sophistication novel. Ten sessions, $230. that the first four weeks of this seminar will be devoted to discussing it. The final two weeks Susan Bazargan is a professor emerita of English. She will be dedicated to the diverse, and sometimes is a Joyce specialist with an extensive background in controversial, filmed versions of the novel, from teaching and publishing articles on his work. more “faithful” adaptations to Amy Heckerling’s clever 1995 interpretation, Clueless. For the first Hemingway and Craft week, participants should read chapters 1-13 in Thursdays, 2 - 3:30 pm Emma, Volume 1. Six sessions, $200. February 18 - April 21 Jeffrey Nigro is active in the Jane Austen Society of Few associate Hemingway with timidity, but in North America as a lecturer and writer; he currently a 1958 interview with the Paris Review he seems serves as the society’s Regional Coordinator for the spooked by inquiries concerning the creative Greater Chicago Region. Jeff received his BA from process. He is much more forthcoming when Oberlin College and his MA in art history from the it comes to the topic of mechanics. Participants University of Virginia. in this seminar will perform close readings of seven of Hemingway’s short stories and one of Grit and Grace: Craft and Meaning his novels, with questions of style in mind. The in Raymond Carver’s Short Fiction course is well-suited for writers, who will benefit Tuesdays, 5:45 - 7:45 pm from the insights on craft and method that a February 23 - March 29 seminar on Hemingway – “a writer’s writer” – will generate. Readings for the first session Raymond Carver, regarded by some as the will be distributed electronically; please refer to American Chekhov, looks unflinchingly yet your registration confirmation for details. Ten compassionately at everyday people struggling sessions, $230. through their lives, expressing their stories with spare, uncomplicated prose. This seminar will Lyle Roebuck holds an MA in Latin from the explore Carver beyond the films Birdman and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a Short Cuts; the influence of his editor, Gordon published fiction writer and has been teaching Latin, Lish; and his many imitators and parodists, and classics, and English literature for over 20 years. set out to prove that there is more to appreciate in Carver than may be apparent to the casual observ- Shakespeare in Winter er. Readings for the first session will be distribut- Thursdays, 5:45 - 7:45 pm ed electronically; please refer to your registration February 18 - April 28 confirmation for details. Six sessions, $200. (class will not meet March 24) Julie Benesh, MFA, PhD, is an avid reader, writer, Winter is the season for gathering ‘round the and educator. Her work has been nominated for a hearth and letting stories take your mind off of Pushcart Prize, and she has received an Illinois Arts the blistering cold outside. There is no better Council Grant. collection of stories than the eight plays studied in this seminar: Macbeth, As You Like It, Hamlet, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Twelfth Night, The Merchant of Venice, Richard II, Gentleman Coriolanus, and The Tempest. The settings may be Tuesdays, 5:45 - 7:45 pm exotic and the action appalling or enchanting, February 23 - March 29 but the destination is always the same, for Shakespeare is still our best guide to and through Laurence Sterne’s The Life and Opinions of Tristram the labyrinth of the human heart. Please read Shandy, Gentleman, published in nine volumes Macbeth for the first class session. Ten sessions, between 1759 and 1767, is one of the greatest $270. comic novels ever written. A runaway success when first published, the novel became the Robert Sprott holds an MA in anthropology and focus of fierce critical debate. This seminar will theology, and a PhD in linguistics. A Catholic priest undertake a close reading of the text, looking to and a Franciscan, he is the administrator of St. James answer the question Tristram’s own mother poses Church in the Bronzeville neighborhood. near the end of the novel: “Lord! what is all this story about?” Six sessions, $200.

Jill Gage, Reference Librarian and Bibliographer of British History and Literature at the Newberry, holds a PhD in English from the University of London. American Drama: All in the Family Mystery Fiction: From Escapism Thursdays, 6 - 7:30 pm to Social Critique February 25 - April 14 Wednesdays, 5:45 - 7:45 pm March 2 - April 13 The plays of Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, (class will not meet March 23) Edward Albee, and Lorraine Hansberry define what it meant to be an American during a This seminar traces the spectacular rise of period of great change, showcasing the unique detective fiction from Edgar Allan Poe and Sir power and influence of American theater. In Arthur Conan Doyle to more modern writers this lecture- and discussion-based seminar, we such as Agatha Christie and Tony Hillerman. We will examine major works of these playwrights, will examine the historical and social conditions using the motif of the family to explore social, that fostered the emergence and development of moral, and political changes taking place in mid- this popular genre as it evolved from escapism century America. Analysis will concentrate on to social critique. Discussion will focus on the theme, structure, and social impact. We will read structure and evolution of formula fiction, its role Death of a Salesman, A Streetcar Named Desire, The in popular and high culture, and its reflection Crucible, and A Raisin in the Sun, among other of the preoccupations of Western societies. For plays. For the first class meeting, please read the the first session, please read “The Murders in play Hughie by Eugene O’Neill. Eight sessions, the Rue Morgue” and “The Purloined Letter” $200. from Edgar Allen Poe’s Tales. These stories are available online; please refer to your registration Todd Bauer holds an MA in Liberal Studies from confirmation for details. Six sessions, $200. Northwestern University. He is a playwright and director whose work has been performed in Chicago and Elzbieta Foeller-Pituch teaches literature at North- New York. western University, where she is also the Assistant Director of the Chabraja Center for Historical Studies. Marcel Proust’s Time Regained Tuesdays, 6 - 7:30 pm A Fierce Beauty: Modern Irish Theater March 8 - April 19 from Synge to McPherson (class will not meet April 5) Wednesdays, 5:45 - 7:45 pm March 2 - April 13 In the final volume of Proust’s great novel, In Search of Lost Time, war and the passage of years Irish plays, integral to the Western theater tradi- have dramatically altered Parisian society and the tion, touch upon the eternal while expressing the people who had been the objects of the narrator’s plain poetry of everyday life. We will examine fascination. As he discovers what is subject to modern Irish theater through close readings of ceaseless change and what persists, time – and the work of six significant Irish playwrights: John how we live both within and outside of it – Millington Synge, Sean O’Casey, Samuel Beckett, reveals itself as the central theme of the book he Brian Friel, Martin McDonagh, and Conor will write. Please read to page 63 of In Search of McPherson. We will conclude by examining Lost Time, Volume 6 (Modern Library) for the first the Irish-American theater tradition in Chicago. class. Six sessions, $180. Seven sessions, $220.

Mike Levine’s most recent Newberry seminar was on June Sawyers, born in Glasgow, Scotland, has Marcel Proust’s The Captive and The Fugitive. He published and lectured frequently on Celtic topics. She holds a PhD in English from Rice University. is the founder of the Phantom Collective, a local arts group that presents music and theater programs. Six Shakespeare Heroines Wednesdays, 2 - 4 pm Baba Yaga in Russian Fairy Tales and Beyond March 2 - April 6 Saturdays, 10 am - noon March 19 - April 30 Although originally performed by young male (class will not meet March 26 or April 23) players in the Renaissance theater, Shakespeare’s female roles are rich, varied, flesh-and-blood Baba Yaga is one of the most memorable and characters that have captivated generations of complex figures in Eastern European folklore. play-goers. In this seminar we will read, discuss, Reading Russian fairy tales and Dubravka and view female characters from six of the Bard’s Ugresic’s Baba Yaga Laid an Egg, we will examine plays – Cymbeline, The Winter’s Tale, The Taming the character’s functions and ambiguity, as well as of the Shrew, Measure for Measure, Macbeth, and her influence on Russian and Western literature, Much Ado About Nothing – focusing on their art, film, animation, and contemporary popular power, motivations, and the risks they take. Six culture. In Baba Yaga: The Wild Witch of the East sessions, $200. in Russian Fairy Tales, please read “Baba Yaga I,” “Baba Yaga II,” “Baba Yaga and the Kid,” John Nygro is a lecturer, musician, and actor in the “Baba Yaga and the Runt,” “The Brother,” “The Chicago area. Daughter-in-Law,” “The Geese and Swan,” and “The Stepdaughter and the Stepdaughter’s Daughter” for the first meeting. Five sessions, $170.

Julia Kriventsova Denne studied literature at St. Petersburg University, Russia, and teaches Russian literature in the Chicago area. Twenty-first Century Literature Writing for the Theater Tuesdays, 2 - 3:30 pm Saturdays, 1 - 3 pm April 5 - May 10 March 5 - April 30 (class will not meet March 19) What are the most highly-acclaimed works of literature from the past 10 years? Find out in this Designed for beginning playwrights as well as very contemporary seminar. We will read two writers of other media, this seminar emphasizes short novels – Julian Barnes’s Sense of an Ending what makes a scene work, how to develop char- and Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist acter through dialogue and action, and how to – as well as short stories from Jhumpa Lahiri’s think in theatrical terms. Weekly writing assign- Unaccustomed Earth, George Saunders’s Tenth of ments will focus on points of attack, conflict, December, and Elizabeth Strout’s Olive Kitteridge. resolution, text, and subtext. At the conclusion We will discuss the authors’ varied backgrounds of the class, students will have a better under- and the writers that influenced them, and explore standing of how to write scenes that are dramatic, different styles, themes, and companion pieces engaging, and entertaining. Eight sessions, $240. of their works, as well as the moral questions Douglas Post is an award-winning playwright whose they raise. For the first class meeting, please read plays have been produced around the world. He has “Pharmacy,” “Incoming Tide,” and “A Little taught at Northwestern University, DePaul University, Burst” from Olive Kitteridge. Six sessions, $180. and Victory Gardens Theater. He currently teaches at Linda Levine has an MA in English education from Chicago Dramatists. Northwestern University, and has taught English and other humanities subjects for several decades, including Oh, the Possibilities: Writing for Children previous seminars at Newberry. in Today’s Publishing World Saturday, 10 am - 4 pm March 5 Still dreaming of writing a children’s book Writing Workshops someday? Anxious to learn what to do once you write it? This workshop introduces newcomers Writing Poetry: The Visual and the Poetic to today’s world of children’s book publishing Tuesdays, 2 - 4 pm and offers rules of the road and shortcuts for February 23 - April 12 navigating the craft and industry. Participants In this poetry-writing workshop, we will explore will have the opportunity to share a work-in- the visual aspect of poetry and the use of found progress in order to see its possibilities in today’s texts and images to create new work. Each week, publishing world. (Note: please bring lunch, we will discuss a specific concept or idea and as class continues during the lunch hour.) One write new poems based on writing exercises. In session, $120. a supportive, encouraging atmosphere, we will Esther Hershenhorn authors picture books and middle- discuss and share our work. Exercises will include grade fiction, coaches children’s books writers, and “Poems and Structure,” “Bringing the Visual recently served on the Board of Advisors of The Society into the Poem,” and “Poetry by Elimination.” of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. Eight sessions, $240.

Kate Ingold is a 2009 Illinois Arts Council Fellowship The Source of Stories: Writing from Finalist Award winner, a 2007 Poetry Society of Your Own Experience America National Chapbook Fellow, and a visual Thursdays, 5:45 - 7:45 pm artist. March 17 - April 21 Our stories are based on our own experiences. In Writing the Long(ish) Poem this self-paced workshop, we will learn about the Wednesdays, 2 - 4 pm important choices we make in telling them. The February 24 - April 13 instructor will provide guidelines and suggestions In this poetry workshop, we will read, discuss, on finding stories within the reservoir of personal and write long(ish) poems: poems of at least history, how to begin them, how to tell them, three pages in length that may be sectional or and how to end them. Students will make their continuous, theme-centric or conceptual. Each own choices on genre and form. Six sessions, week, we will look at twentieth- and twenty-first- $200. century longish poems and share our own writing. Beatriz Badikian-Gartler has been teaching writing Poets we will read and discuss include T.S. Eliot, and literature for over 40 years. Etel Adnan, Maggie Nelson, Claudia Rankine, and Timothy Donnelly. Eight sessions, $240.

Kate Ingold is a 2009 Illinois Arts Council Fellowship Finalist Award winner, a 2007 Poetry Society of America National Chapbook Fellow, and a visual artist.

Registration opens January 12. The early registration deadline is February 6. Register online at www.newberry.org/adult-education-seminars or call (312) 255-3700. Welcome to the Winter/Spring 2016 term of the Newberry Seminars Program

We are proud to offer a wide variety of informal, non-credit courses designed for adults with busy schedules and inquiring minds, all under the roof of one of the nation’s most renowned humanities research libraries.

Registration opens Tuesday, January 12, at 10 am. The early registration deadline is Saturday, February 6, at 4 pm. After this date, registration costs will increase by 10 percent, and classes with fewer than the minimum seven registrants will be canceled. All listed prices in the brochure reflect the early registration cost. The term begins Saturday, February 13, with classes starting on a rolling basis after that.

Seminar registrations are processed on a first-come, first-served basis. Many seminars fill quickly; therefore, we encourage you to enroll early. Full payment is required at the time of registration, and we cannot pro-rate tuition to compensate for missed classes. Seven registrants are needed to run a class.

We offer a 10 % discount to: – Associates of the Newberry at the Author level ($100 and above), or – Seniors 65 and over, or – Students (valid student ID required)

Refunds: Requests for refunds must be received in writing; to request a refund, email us at [email protected]. The Seminars Office retains a 10 % processing fee. – For single- or two-session seminars, tuition (less the 10% processing fee) is refundable until 24 hours before the seminar begins. – For all seminars longer than two sessions, tuition (less the 10% processing fee) is refundable until 24 hours prior to the second class meeting.

Books and Materials: The Newberry Bookstore stocks most required and rec- ommended titles for the seminars. Associates of the Newberry at the Author level ($100 and above) receive a 10% discount on all seminar texts. Book and material costs are not included in the tuition price unless otherwise noted.

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