Two Chicago -area residents and a University of Chicago grad are among the 32 winners of this year's Rhodes scholarships. The prestigious scholarships provide tuition and a living stipend for two to three years study in any field at the University of Oxford in England. The winners include Russell A. Perkins of Evanston , Daniel D. Shih of Aurora and Stephanie A. Bell , a University of Chicago graduate....
Historians of Modern Architecture have cultivated the image of the architect as a temperamental genius, unconcerned by issues of politeness or pragmatics—a reading reinforced in cultural representations of Modern Architects, such as Howard Roark, the protagonist in Ayn Rand's 1943 novel The Fountainhead (a character widely believed to be based on the architect Frank Lloyd Wright). The perception...
The KKK gathered at Ole Miss today to protest the University chancellor's decision to remove "From Dixie with Love" from the school band's song list. The song had drawn controversy because some fans chanted "the South will rise again" when it was played at Ole Miss football games. *** SCROLL DOWN FOR PHOTOS & VIDEO *** According to the AP , around twelve members of the Mississippi...
Ah yes, a delicious stew of questionable/fake (pseudo)hard science heavily seasoned with some dubious sociology and extra dubious gender studies. What a treat it will be to slug down that tasty meal eh? A feast of heavenly dimension for sure....
Illustration by Brian McLachlan/Torontoist. We all remember what it was like to be sixteen. The pressure to be a man led boys to grow those dreaded teen-'stashes and direct uninformed vulgar remarks toward their female classmates. Girls struggled to maintain their self-esteem in the face of mounting pressure to show skin and be like all of their friends. Nobody knew which way was up when it came to...
Dear Students, Where have we--your elders-failed? Last year marked the 40th anniversary of the Columbia University uprisings. The students had many grievances, including the university's attempt to build a private gym in a public park and its involvement in the war in Vietnam, as well as the war itself and the unpopular draft. This year marks the 40th anniversary of both the Stonewall uprising and...
Have you ever visited your local Christian bookstore as an exercise in gender studies? Notice as you walk down the “women’s” aisle how all the books take on shades of pink and lavender. Have a careful look, also, at the…
Obama drank Bud Light, but in Julie Hébert’s “Tree,” now at [Inside] the Ford, a mixed-race family’s beer summit comes with a lot more kick. White gender studies professor Didi (Jacqueline Wright) shows up at the Chicago home of African...
GLLC-G220 (26296) Global Celebrations (3 cr.) (S&H) (TR, 11:15-12:30 pm, FQ 012A) Audrey Ricke From Chinese New Year celebrations in California to Oktoberfest in Brazil, there is a growing popularity of celebrations outside their place of origin. This course will explore the political, economic, and social ramifications of the increase in this type of public celebration. Classroom readings, discussions,...
Dr. Heike Kahlert & Dr. Sabine Schäfer 06.11.2009 9 November 2009 marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the historical starting point of the political and social transformation of the former socialist societies in Eastern and Central Eastern Europe, and the starting point for the German re-unification in 1990. While in the (early) 1990s, the discussion was still intense...
Reeling and The Queer Film Society will be presenting New Queer Cinema: Now or Never , a panel discussion on the state of independent queer cinema – then, now and toward the future – this Saturday, November 14, at 3 pm. Gay film critics Hank Sartin ( Time Out Chicago ), Richard Knight, Jr. ( Windy City Times ), Jonathan Lewis ( Gay Chicago Magazine ), Nick Davis (Assistant Professor of...
Photo: "Toronto Streets" by Luke T. , member of the blogTO Flickr Pool . Events on Toronto's Radar for MONDAY NOVEMBER 10, 2009... lovingly handpicked from blogTO's events calendar . MUSIC | Girls at the Elmo San Francisco band Girls bring their brand of sunny San Francisco Pitchfork-certified pop to the Elmo tonight. There's a scary back story to the band which includes parental members...
and "gender studies" are just plain idiotic. So over at Depaul University - allegedly a college - students and faculty are up in hairy arms over the denial of tenure to Melissa Bradshaw, a professor of "women's and gender studies." In case you don't know what tenure is, it's a guaranteed lifetime job. And in case you don't know what "women's and gender studies" are, join...
Special Issue for Wagadu, Journal of Transnational Women’s and Gender Studies , Edited by Susan Dewey, Ph.D. (University Studies, DePauw University) Sex workers throughout the world share a uniquely maligned mystique that simultaneously positions them as sexually desirable and socially repulsive. In order to better understand how these processes function cross-culturally, this special issue...
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