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Poezye un iberzetsung vi a tsugang tsu yidishkayt un tsu der velt, a reading and discussion with Yiddish poet-translator Prof. Zackary Shalom Berger in conversation with University of Chicago’s own Kenneth Moss, Harriet and Ulrich E. Meyer Professor of Jewish History and the College, and Anna Torres, Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature and the College. A reception will follow.

February 2, 2023
4:30pm CST
Social Science Research Building, Tea Room, Room 201, 1126 E 59th St.
For information, contact Nancy Pardee, npardee@uchicago.edu.

Please the Greenberg Center for this event, either in person or via Zoom.

If you will participate via Zoom, please register in advance for this meeting:
https://uchicago.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAodOGvqTIiEtJUEK8cwpqx4dMaFG9CxqHk

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The Forum on Law and Legalities welcomes Professor Monika Nalepa, Professor of Political Science here at UChicago to discuss her new book After Authoritarianism: Transitional Justice and Democratic Stability with PhD student Helena Ratté.

Professor Nalepa’s book tackles transitional justice – the act of reckoning with a former authoritarian regime after it has ceased to exist – has direct implications for democratic processes. Mechanisms of transitional justice have the power to influence who decides to go into politics, can shape politicians’ behavior while in office, and can affect how politicians delegate policy decisions. However, these mechanisms are not all alike: some, known as transparency mechanisms, uncover authoritarian collaborators who did their work in secret while others, known as purges, fire open collaborators of the old regime.

The event will be held in the John Hope Franklin Room, SSRB 224, from 1-2:30pm on Wednesday, January 11th, 2023.

Register to attend here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-prof-monika-nalepa-discusses-after-authoritarianism-tickets-487106728337

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Monday, November 7, 3PM, in Classics 110
Nicola Scaldaferri, Associate Professor, University of Milan, Italy presents his book Wild Songs, Sweet Songs: The Albanian Epic in the Collections of Milman Parry and Albert B. Lord.

In the 1930s, Milman Parry and Albert B. Lord, two pioneering scholars of oral poetry, conducted adventurous fieldwork in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and northern Albania, collecting singularly important examples of Albanian epic song. Wild Songs, Sweet Songs presents these materials, which have not previously been published, for the first time.

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AI:When A Robot Writes A Play

Innovative Theater Workshop presented by Švanda Theatre and TheAItre (Prague, Czech Republic) at the University of Chicago

Thursday June 2, 2022
10.00am-3.00pm (lunch will be provided)
1155 East 60th Street, Room 319
Chicago, IL 60637

Capacity is limited to 20 participants
Register at https://bit.ly/3l9hmKM

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