University and Student Events

This week, the Persian Circle at the University of Chicago is fortunate to host Dr. Fatemeh Shams, Assistant Professor of modern Persian literature at the University of Pennsylvania. She will be giving a talk in Persian entitled:

"Dialogues with the Dead: Reading Poetry in Iranian Graveyards"

- Dr. Fatemeh Shams

Address:

Thursday 26th April

5:00-6:30pm

Farouk Mustafa Seminar Room (Pick Hall #218)

5828 S. University Ave

Chicago, IL 60637

Please join the Intellectual History Workshop on Thursday, May 3rd, where we welcome Kaitlyn Tucker, Ph.D candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures, who will be presenting her paper “Dionysian Socialism?: The Korčula Summer School as Kurort of the New Left."

We will be meeting at 5pm in Foster 505.

Refreshments will be provided, along with some sunlit photos.

Dear Friends of the Armenian Circle,

Please join us this Wednesday 4/25 at 5:30 in Pick Hall 218 for a very special talk in English from our very own Dumanian Visiting Professor in Armenian Studies!

"Remembering the Russian Armenian POWs in WWI Germany" by: Melissa Bilal

Looking forward to seeing you all there!

There will be food!

Please join us Wednesday, April 25, at a joint Transnational Approaches to Modern Europe (TAMEW) and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia (REECA) workshop session on:

The Ukrainophile Household: Private Life and Politics in Late Imperial Kiev

Description/abstract:

THE GREAT WALL

Film screening and discussion with Director Tadhg O'Sullivan

Wieboldt 408 / Wednesday April 25 6-8pm

Fulbright U.S. Student Program Information Session

May 15th at 4pm in the UChicagoGRAD HQ

Click here for more information on the Fulbright U.S. Student Program

Workshop on Translating Humanities Skills and Expertise for Employers
Thursday, April 26, 4:30-6:00 p.m., GRAD HQ (3rd Floor, UChicago Bookstore)

Resumes for Government, Industry, & Nonprofits
Wednesday April 25, 3-4pm, UChicagoGRAD HQ Suite 340 – 3rd Floor of the UChicago Bookstore Building

FEATURED EVENT: Expose Yourself! at the Art Institute of Chicago

Thursday, May 3, 6-9pm, The Art Institute of Chicago (159 E. Monroe St., Modern Wing Entrance) Please meet in the Modern Wing lobby no later than 5:45PM - Tours will begin promptly at 6:00PM. UCID required.