Autumn Quarter

Stephen Orgel
Professor of English and
Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Humanities
Stanford University

Monday, November 12
Time: 4:30pm
Lecture: "Real Places in Imaginary Spaces: Architecture and the Stage"
Classics 110

Reception to follow.

Tuesday, November 13
Time: 4:30pm
Lecture: "What is an Audience?"
Rosenwald 405

Reception to follow.

Wednesday, November 14
Time: 4:30pm
Seminar: PhD seminar on early print
Special Collections, Regenstein Library

Martin Puchner
Byron and Anita Wien Professor of Drama
and of English and Comparative Literature
Harvard University

Thursday, November 29
Time 4:30 pm
Lecture: "Wittgenstein's Literary Heirs"
Classics 110

Reception to follow.

Friday, November 30

Time: 12:00pm
Workshop: "Wittgenstein, Stoppard, and Dramatic Language"
Logan Center for the Arts, Terrace Seminar Room (Rm. 801)

The workshop is being organized by the Theater and Performance Studies (TAPS) workshop in collaboration with the Literature and Philosophy workshop and the Nicholson Center for British Studies. 

For a copy of the workshop paper, please contact the workshop coordinators--Lauren Caldwell (caldwellian@uchicago.edu) and Amy Stebbins (amystebbins@uchicago.edu)-- or Jeanne Fitzsimmons (fitzsimmons@uchicago.edu).

Winter Quarter

Bernard Wasserstein
Harriet & Ulrich E. Meyer Professor, Modern European Jewish History
University of Chicago

Nicholson Faculty Lecture

Thursday, February 21
Lecture: "Hitler's Little Helpers: Arab and Jewish Axis Agents in British Mandatory Palestine, 1939-1945"
Classics 110
4:30pm
Reception to follow.

With participation of the Chicago Center for Jewish Studies.

Catherine Masud
Director/Producer Audiovision Productions, Bangladesh

The work of Tareque and Catherine Masud speaks eloquently to the post-imperial conditions of Bangladesh.

Wednesday, March 13
Venue: Foster 103
4:00pm

"Muktir Kotha" ("Words of Freedom")
70 mins, 1999
Oral history documentary on ordinary people’s participation in ’71 War and their struggle and frustration post liberation.
"Naroshundor" ("The Barbershop")
15 mins, 2009
A short “political thriller” that tells the story of a fleeing Freedom Fighter who takes refuge in a Bihari-run barbershop during the Pakistan Army crackdown in '71.  
Two screenings and discussion with the director
Venue: Foster 103
4:00pm

Thursday, March 14
"Runway"
90 mins, 2010
A feature film about a boy’s descent into radical Islam. 
Film Screening and discussion with the director
Venue: Foster 103
4:00pm

These events are being organized by the Nicholson Center for British Studies and the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations.

Spring Quarter

C.A. Bayly
Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History
University of Cambridge

Monday, April 8
Lecture: "Marshall G.S. Hodgson: Islam and World History in the Modern Age"
Venue: Home Room, International House
Time: 5:15 pm

This Nicholson Center Lecture is co-sponsored with the Committee on Southern Asian Studies and the International House Global Voices Program.
 

Richard Strier
Frank L. Sulzberger Distinguished Service Professor
University of Chicago

Nicholson Faculty Lecture
Thursday, April 18
Lecture: "Mind, Nature, Heterodoxy, and Iconoclasm in The Winter's Tale"
Venue:Classics 110
4:30pm

Reception to follow.

Paul Kildea
Conductor & Author of Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century (2013)

Thursday May 2

"Britten and Identity: The American Years"
4:00pm
Fulton Recital Hall, Goodspeed Hall (4th Floor)

This lecture is part of the "Benjamin Britten:Spheres of Influence" symposium and was co-sponsored with the Department of Music and the Franke Institute.

Daniel Albright
Ernest Bernbaum professor of Literature
Harvard University

Friday May 3
2:15pm
Fulton Recital Hall, Goodspeed Hall (4th Floor)
 

This lecture is part of the "Benjamin Britten:Spheres of Influence" symposium and was co-sponsored with the Department of Music and the Franke Institute.

Academic Year 2013-2014

Autumn Quarter

Nigel Thrift
Vice Chancellor and Professor of Human Geography and the Social Sciences
University of Warwick

Workshop: TBA

Lecture: TBA

Date/Time: TBA

Venue: TBA 

For a listing of past Nicholson Center lectures, please visit our Events Archive.