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Towards a Genealogy of Native Fiddle Dances on Prairies
This paper chronicles Native fiddling and jigging through time, discussing its origins in the nineteenth century and taking its practice up to more recent periods. It focuses primarily on Alberta and Edmonton music/dance practices and highlights those periods when these practices have become more and more valued as signs of heritage. This paper also examines the changing social contexts for their performance over time and fits within a larger work...
Civil Rights in Chicago Today
The Newberry @ 60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL
Across the country, protests have erupted against the systemic perpetuation of racial inequality. In Chicago, African-American activists have taken to the streets and organized their communities to challenge institutionalized racism in the areas of policing, health care, education, and human rights. The Newberry welcomes three young African-American activists for a panel discussion on civil rights in Chicago today and the prospects for change in...
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101 Chicago Books: The Baking of a Book on Books
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...
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Faces of Love, the Sequel
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...
Cervantes and Shakespeare: A Transnational Conversation
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...
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
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...
Go Boldly Forth – Adventures in Self-Discovery
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...
Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War
"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...
Make Music Chicago 2016 in Washington Square Park
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...
The Townshend Duties and Origins of American Revolution
In 1767, the British Atlantic community experienced a “moment” of sorts. In that year, Charles Townshend assumed the role of Chancellor of the Exchequer. He used his position to try to reshape all the empire and to transform the relationship between Britain and America. Ultimately, he passed a series of duties on select goods, the revenue from which would be used to create the bases of a new imperial system. He did so as his brother George, named...
FamilySearch.org Primer
Loren M. Knowles spent more than fifty years researching his descendants and those of his wife. His daughter, Carol Knowles of Southern California, will speak about the highlights and trials of that endeavor, the results of which were donated to the Newberry Library over the last year. His massive archives have been declared among the most comprehensive, cohesive, and extensive collections of Americana. She will also address “the good, the bad...
Equivocation in 1606
When Shakespeare first used the word “equivocation” in Hamlet it was in the neutral sense of “ambiguous.” Seven years later he would make much of this word in Macbeth (whose protagonist complains of the ‘equivocation of the fiend /That lies like truth”). By then the word “equivocation” was understood to mean something duplicitous, a device by which Catholics in particular could justify lying under oath. This talk traces the...
Shakespeare on Screens in the 21st Century
Live performances streamed to movie theatres across the world. Movies watched on television, computer screen and smartphones - and even, occasionally, on the kinds of screens for which they were intended. Plays reconstructed into text messages or as tweets or in blogs or vlogs. Everything from YOLO Juliet to a Downton Abbey Romeo. We watch Shakespeare in performance on a bewildering variety of screens, large and small, through a range of delivery...
Shakespeare Project of Chicago: Henry V
“And Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be rememberèd; We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile This day shall gentle his condition: And gentlemen in England, now a-bed Shall think themselves accursed they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint...
Re-Imagining Shakespearean Works in Opera
The Newberry @ 60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL
Join experts from Chicago Opera Theater (COT), as well as musicologist Linda Austern, in a discussion, and sneak peek performance, of their 2016 production of The Fairy Queen, by Henry Purcell. This adaptation of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dreampremiered in 1692, creating an opera based on the masques from the original play. COT, in partnership with Culture Clash, has taken the adaptation one step further...
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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...
The Man, the Myth, the Works: 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 as tastes, technology, and politics change that very icon. What is the value, and what...
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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A Cricket on the Hearth
The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home was written by Charles Dickens in 1845. It is the third of Dickens’ five short Christmas books (the best-known of which is A Christmas Carol). Featuring a cast of eight professional actors, Jeff Christian’s adaptation brings this heart-warming and touching tale of love, loss, empathy, and reunion to life. Join us for a cup of hot chocolate and a cookie to celebrate the holiday season....
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