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Stories and content by Jon Catlin

LGBTQ activist denounces Israeli “pinkwashing”

By Jon Catlin / November 19, 2013
Activist author and professor Sarah Schulman (X ’80) spoke against the “pinkwashing” of the Israeli presence in the West Bank last Thursday in Ida Noyes. In a talk sponsored by Students for Justice in Palestine and Queers and Associates, Schulman discussed Israel’s relationship with the LGBTQ community and queer activism in the Palestinian resistance movement,...

Chicago Humanities Festival: Prof. Jonathan Lear analyzes Cole Porter, love

By Jon Catlin / November 5, 2013
Committee on Social Thought John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor Jonathan Lear from the philosophy department spoke Saturday on “the uncanny” in human experience as part of the annual Chicago Humanities Festival’s Karla Scherer Endowed Lecture Series, which brings UChicago faculty to the festival each year. Relating to the festival’s theme this year, “Animal: What...

With new score, silent film wins the golden ticket

By Jon Catlin / October 28, 2013
A silent film that tells the story of Lea Rabb, a Jewish university student in tsarist Russia, screened at the Logan Center this past Saturday. Grammy-winner Alicia Svigals and pianist Marilyn Lerner offered live accompaniment.

Arendt biopic hits the mark, but misses the woman

By Jon Catlin / October 10, 2013
Director Margarethe von Trotta's work addresses time the philosopher spent reporting on the internationally-watched trial of Nazi bureaucrat Adolf Eichmann: "Ultimately, the film delivers flashes of inspiration behind her thought, but falls short of genuine engagement with it; for this, you'll have to read the book.".
Philosophy professor Gabriel Lear convinces a room full of undergraduates why they should care what Aristotle says about virtue.

Harboring the Humanities

By Jon Catlin / June 4, 2013
We go inside the Humanities Division, the history of the Common Core, the Graduate Aid Initiative, and double majors to understand why the Humanities will always have a strong home at the University of Chicago.

Ebert gives last thumbs up to Malick’s To the Wonder

By Jon Catlin / April 25, 2013
Both times I saw director Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life (2011) in theaters, once in the U.K. and once in the Chicago suburbs, impatient audience members laughed in disbelief and left mid-screening. Other theaters purportedly knew enough to post notices at the box office: “Art film—no refunds.” On seeing Malick’s latest, To the Wonder,...

Gun control laws face uncertain trajectory

By Jon Catlin / January 11, 2013
Law School Professor and U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Richard A. Posner, in a 2–1 decision from the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, declared the Illinois state law banning concealed carry of firearms unconstitutional last month. Posner, who has sat on the Seventh Circuit Court since 1981, penned the December 11 decision. “All that...

Israeli prof. speaks to importance of literature for cultural empathy

By Jon Catlin / November 30, 2012
Just over a week after Israel agreed to a cease-fire with Hamas, Israeli author Ronit Matalon spoke on the importance of narratives from minority communities such as immigrants as a counter to Israeli nationalism. Matalon, a professor of literature at the University of Haifa, has written eight novels and received the Bernstein Prize for Hebrew...
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