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Explore the vibrant art scene of Chicago through art history classes, where participants can delve into the rich cultural heritage of the city and gain a deeper understanding of various artistic movements and masterpieces.

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101 Chicago Books: The Baking of a Book on Books

The Newberry

The Caxton Club’s forthcoming book, tentatively titled “101 Chicago Books,” will highlight publications that have a powerful Chicago connection, tell a significant story, and have helped shape or define the city’s identity or reputation. The list of books was chosen by a committee after two years of maddening deliberations. Find out about the process used to create the selection, the challenges of list making, and hear from contributing authors...

(4) All levels 18 and older
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Faces of Love, the Sequel

The Newberry

As a follow-up to last year’s successful Faces of Love: A Memorial Concert for Norman Pellegrini, the Newberry will once again host a special musical program honoring the legacy of this icon of Chicago’s classical music scene. Norman Pellegrini was one of the founders of Chicago’s classical radio station, WFMT. He was WFMT’s program director for 43 years, and an insistent voice for presenting a wide range of classical music and Chicago musicians...

(4) All levels 18 and older
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Cervantes and Shakespeare: A Transnational Conversation

The Newberry

To commemorate the lives of Cervantes and Shakespeare, two towering figures of European literature, on the occasion of the four hundredth anniversary of their shared death date in April 1616, the Center for Renaissance Studies will host a three-day public symposium to spotlight their achievements and examine the parallels and intersections of their work. Thursday, April 14 3 to 4:45 pm Session 1: The Worlds of Cervantes and Shakespeare Chair: Anne...

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The Dangerous Mind of Benjamin Lay

The Newberry @ 60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL

This lecture, by Marcus Rediker, explores the life and thought of Benjamin Lay, a radical abolitionist dwarf who, in the 1730’s, practiced guerilla theater against slave-owners and became one of the first to argue for the immediate, unconditional abolition of slavery. This intellectual history from below argues that Lay’s radicalism was a rope of five strands: “primitive Quakerism,” seafaring solidarity, African-American freedom struggles,...

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Timothy Harrison, Finding Subjectivity in Paradise Lost

The Newberry

What, in Milton’s view, is the nature of self-awareness? Professor Harrison tries to answer this question by showing how Milton’s depiction of human subjectivity in Paradise Lost emerges from his anthropological convictions about human nature. When Milton wrote Adam and Eve’s first-person accounts of awakening in Eden, he poetically concretized a widespread seventeenth-century philosophical fantasy that sought to combine the evidence of experience...

(4) All levels 18 and older
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Go Boldly Forth – Adventures in Self-Discovery

The Newberry

The Newberry Library’s Fitzgerald Collection contains a fascinating and expansive array of books, manuscripts, and maps documenting polar exploration as early as the 17th century through today. The expeditions of great polar explorers- Ernest Shackleton, Roald Amundsen, and Robert Scott, to name a few- are all documented in this collection. Continuing in this storied and adventurous tradition is John Huston, professional polar explorer and author...

(4) All levels 18 and older
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Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War

The Newberry

"This is a one time free course" From the acclaimed, best-selling author Adam Hochschild, a sweeping history of the Spanish Civil War told through a dozen unforgettable characters: a tale of idealism, suffering, and a tragically doomed yet noble cause. For three crucial years in the 1930s, the Spanish Civil War dominated headlines in America and around the world, as volunteers flooded to Spain to help its democratic government fight off a Fascist...

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Make Music Chicago 2016 in Washington Square Park

The Newberry

This is a one time free course. The Newberry Library and the Washington Square Park Advisory Council invite you to come out to the park for a day-long celebration of music on the first day of summer! We have created an exciting lineup that, like last year’s Make Music event, will feature spirited performances around a piano in the park. From jazz to Medieval compositions; kid-friendly jams to classical masterpieces, this year’s Make Music Chicago...

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19th Nebenzahl Lectures: Maps, Their Collecting & Study

The Newberry @ 60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL

The Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography at the Newberry Library cordially invites you to the Nineteenth Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., Lectures in the History of Cartography, commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the lectures series. The program is titled Maps, Their Collecting and Study: A Fifty Year Retrospective. In 1966, the Newberry Library invited Raleigh Ashlin Skelton, Keeper of the Map Room of the British Library, to...

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Coppélia Kahn, The Man, the Myth, the Works

The Newberry @ 60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL

Coppélia Kahn, The Man, the Myth, the Works: The Challenge of Celebrating Shakespeare 2016 challenges us not to fall back on the clichés—“greatest writer in English,” “not of an age but for all time”– when we celebrate Shakespeare. No one can deny his myriad literary achievements, but something else is also at work in creating his cultural capital. Anniversary celebrations like the present one sustain him as a “timeless” icon even...

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What Dante Means To Me: A Critic's Life

The Newberry @ 60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL

This is a one time FREE course. "What Dante Means To Me": A Critic's Life with the Comedy The Center for Renaissance Studies Dante Lectures have been held each year since 2001, bringing Dante scholars from throughout the United States and Europe to the Newberry to present cutting-edge research. From 1983 to 1997, multiple lectures were held each year under the series title Lectura Dantis Newberrania. Cosponsored with the Department of Theology,...

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Sites and Soundscapes in the Italian Renaissance

The Newberry @ 60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL

How do sounds shape communities? How does noise—manmade and natural, organized and chaotic—intersect with architecture and urban space? What role do hearing and listening play in the understanding of self and one’s place in the world? “Sites and Soundscapes in the Italian Renaissance” is a day-long symposium exploring aural experience and the built environment in Renaissance Italy. Schedule 8:30 to 9 am Coffee and Continental Breakfast 9...

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Frank Lloyd Wright: Looking Forward and Thinking Back

The Newberry @ 60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL

This is a one time FREE course. To mark the 150th anniversary of Frank Lloyd Wright’s birth on June 8, 1867, John Waters will focus his talk on two important written works by Frank Lloyd Wright, and their connections with his built work. The works are “The Art and Craft of the Machine,” presented to the Chicago Arts and Crafts Society in 1901, and Genius and the Mobocracy, published in 1949. In the first, Wright laid out a way of thinking...

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An Eternal Story of Love and Loss: Orpheus and Opera

The Newberry @ 60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL

This is a one time FREE course This fall the Lyric Opera of Chicago, in collaboration with the Joffrey Ballet, is mounting an exciting new production of the 1774 Paris version of Christoph Gluck’s Orphée et Eurydice. But the myth of Orpheus journeying to the Underworld to find his deceased wife Eurydice has inspired composers from the first surviving opera by Jacopo Peri in 1600 to the Canadian composer John Robertson’s recent Orpheus masque,...

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Shakespeare Project of Chicago: Coriolanus

The Newberry @ 60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL

This is a one time FREE course “Let me have war, say I: it exceeds peace as far as day does night: it’s sprightly waking, audible, and full of vent. Peace is a very apoplexy, lethargy; mulled, deaf, sleepy, insensible: a getter of more bastard children than war’s a destroyer of men.” An informative talk by a dramaturg begins fifteen minutes before the performance, which is followed by a question-and-answer session with the director and...

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Irish Genealogy Research Program

The Newberry @ 60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL

Join the Ulster Historical Foundation experts as they describe the ins-and-outs of research in the Emerald Isle. No previous research experience is required. Topics will cover the whole of Ireland. Preliminary Schedule 9:15-10:15 am Introduction to Irish and Scots-Irish Family History 10:15-10:30 am Break 10:30-11:30 am Printed Sources for Irish Family History Newspapers, street directories, Ordnance Survey Memoirs, and British parliamentary...

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Genealogy and Local History Orientation

The Newberry @ 60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL

The Genealogy and Local History staff will introduce visitors to the Newberry and explain how to use its collections at an informal orientation. Aimed at researchers new to the library and/or new to genealogical research, this session will last approximately an hour, followed by a short tour of the library. Afterwards, you are welcome to begin your research in the General Reading Room where a reference librarian will be available to provide suggestions...

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Homer to Vonnegut: A Print Odyssey

National Veterans Art Museum @ 5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL

This two-part program explores the space between literature and art, war and peace, and land and sea. Delving into representations of Homer’s Odyssey in the Smart Museum's special exhibition Classicisms (on April 20) and in the National Veterans Art Museum’s Vonnegut's Odyssey (on April 25), we will discuss how a person’s return home from war crosses through the ages, and attempt to reveal the journey from soldier to civilian...

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