Humanities at Northwestern Calendar

CLOWNFLÂNEUR: MFA Thesis Exhibition

CLOWNFLÂNEUR MFA Thesis Exhibition from the Department of Art Theory + Practice May 3—June 23, 2013 Opening reception: May 2, 2013, 5-7 pm Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art 40 Arts Circle Drive Evanston, IL 60208 This exhibition represents points of culmination and crisis that overlap within the art-making practices of Amanda Elise Bowles, Daniel Giles, Esau McGhee, and Matt Morris. The intensive research with which they have been engaged during their tenure in the Department of Art Theory and Practice situates the resulting artworks in a climate of rigorous critical thinking and a negotiation of today’s art worlds. Variously reflexive, incisive and contemplative, this exhibition poses fresh lines of inquiry into material conditions that give shape to our present and future. Amanda Elise Bowles is a project-based artist who works in performance, installation and video. Her practice demarcates the studio as site for transmission and transformation; this is foremost engaged materially whereby substance and action allow for the emergence of performative gesturing and language play. In her current project, My_Space, Bowles explores digital platforms as an amateur ethnographer, using the constraints of the website Chat Roulette as the space for chance encounters. Daniel Giles is an artist whose practice negotiates the spaces, tropes and artifacts of black cultural production and addresses the mediation and consumption of cultural fantasies. Employing a range of practices, Giles addresses sites of consumer display, public spectacle and the aesthetics of protest. He received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2011. Esau McGhee aka Blackdynamite considers himself a conceptual formalist. His transition from the conventions of urban documentary photography have lead him to produce large scale works that frame collage as a panoramic landscape. For McGhee the collision of imagery within severe grids results in a cinematic assault of both material as imagery and the image as material. He received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2005. Matt Morris is an artist and writer who uses photography, installation and other interventions into space to articulate the cultural positionality of the queer political subject within imbricated systems of control. Through tropes of both subtlety and excess, Morris renders visible the complex erotics that underlie social landscapes. He has presented work in Chicago, IL; Reims, France; Cincinnati, OH; San Antonio, TX; and Baton Rouge, LA. His writing has appeared in regional and international publications, including Art Papers, Sculpture, City Beat (Cincinnati, OH), Alice Blue Review, and Aeqai, as well as numerous exhibition catalogues and artist monographs. He is a transplant from southern Louisiana and holds a BFA from the Art Academy of Cincinnati.

The Political Theory Colloquium presents: Matthew Gibney

The Political Theory Colloquium presents:  Matthew Gibney, University of Oxford, Refugee Studies Center, Oxford Department of International Development University Reader in Politics and Forced Migration &  Fellow of Linacre College, Associate Director of Refugee Studies Center  "Should Citizenship be Conditional? The Ethics of Denaturalization" Co-sponsored by Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, Center for the Study of Forced Migration, Legal Studies, and the Buffett Center for Comparative and International Studies

Colloquim Speaker Elinor Ochs

ANTHROPOLOGY COLLOQUIUM SERIES "Reconsidering the American Dream" Elinor Ochs, Professor of Anthropology, University of California at Los Angeles May 20, 2013  3-5PM 1810 Hinman Seminar Room 104 Reception to follow

Simon Blattner Visiting Assistant Professor in Creative Writing Lecture

Professor Eugene Cross will deliver the 2013 Simon Blattner Visiting Assistant Professor in Creative Writing Lecture.

IPR Q-Center: Peter Steiner | Matching Designs for Observational Studies

"Matching Designs for Observational Studies with Multilevel Data" by Peter Steiner, Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison. This is part of the IPR Q-Center Series.

CLOWNFLÂNEUR: MFA Thesis Exhibition

CLOWNFLÂNEUR MFA Thesis Exhibition from the Department of Art Theory + Practice May 3—June 23, 2013 Opening reception: May 2, 2013, 5-7 pm Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art 40 Arts Circle Drive Evanston, IL 60208 This exhibition represents points of culmination and crisis that overlap within the art-making practices of Amanda Elise Bowles, Daniel Giles, Esau McGhee, and Matt Morris. The intensive research with which they have been engaged during their tenure in the Department of Art Theory and Practice situates the resulting artworks in a climate of rigorous critical thinking and a negotiation of today’s art worlds. Variously reflexive, incisive and contemplative, this exhibition poses fresh lines of inquiry into material conditions that give shape to our present and future. Amanda Elise Bowles is a project-based artist who works in performance, installation and video. Her practice demarcates the studio as site for transmission and transformation; this is foremost engaged materially whereby substance and action allow for the emergence of performative gesturing and language play. In her current project, My_Space, Bowles explores digital platforms as an amateur ethnographer, using the constraints of the website Chat Roulette as the space for chance encounters. Daniel Giles is an artist whose practice negotiates the spaces, tropes and artifacts of black cultural production and addresses the mediation and consumption of cultural fantasies. Employing a range of practices, Giles addresses sites of consumer display, public spectacle and the aesthetics of protest. He received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2011. Esau McGhee aka Blackdynamite considers himself a conceptual formalist. His transition from the conventions of urban documentary photography have lead him to produce large scale works that frame collage as a panoramic landscape. For McGhee the collision of imagery within severe grids results in a cinematic assault of both material as imagery and the image as material. He received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2005. Matt Morris is an artist and writer who uses photography, installation and other interventions into space to articulate the cultural positionality of the queer political subject within imbricated systems of control. Through tropes of both subtlety and excess, Morris renders visible the complex erotics that underlie social landscapes. He has presented work in Chicago, IL; Reims, France; Cincinnati, OH; San Antonio, TX; and Baton Rouge, LA. His writing has appeared in regional and international publications, including Art Papers, Sculpture, City Beat (Cincinnati, OH), Alice Blue Review, and Aeqai, as well as numerous exhibition catalogues and artist monographs. He is a transplant from southern Louisiana and holds a BFA from the Art Academy of Cincinnati.

Circulo de lectores y fiesta 121-3

4pm Circulo de lectores 6pm fiesta, spanish 121-3

CLOWNFLÂNEUR: MFA Thesis Exhibition

CLOWNFLÂNEUR MFA Thesis Exhibition from the Department of Art Theory + Practice May 3—June 23, 2013 Opening reception: May 2, 2013, 5-7 pm Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art 40 Arts Circle Drive Evanston, IL 60208 This exhibition represents points of culmination and crisis that overlap within the art-making practices of Amanda Elise Bowles, Daniel Giles, Esau McGhee, and Matt Morris. The intensive research with which they have been engaged during their tenure in the Department of Art Theory and Practice situates the resulting artworks in a climate of rigorous critical thinking and a negotiation of today’s art worlds. Variously reflexive, incisive and contemplative, this exhibition poses fresh lines of inquiry into material conditions that give shape to our present and future. Amanda Elise Bowles is a project-based artist who works in performance, installation and video. Her practice demarcates the studio as site for transmission and transformation; this is foremost engaged materially whereby substance and action allow for the emergence of performative gesturing and language play. In her current project, My_Space, Bowles explores digital platforms as an amateur ethnographer, using the constraints of the website Chat Roulette as the space for chance encounters. Daniel Giles is an artist whose practice negotiates the spaces, tropes and artifacts of black cultural production and addresses the mediation and consumption of cultural fantasies. Employing a range of practices, Giles addresses sites of consumer display, public spectacle and the aesthetics of protest. He received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2011. Esau McGhee aka Blackdynamite considers himself a conceptual formalist. His transition from the conventions of urban documentary photography have lead him to produce large scale works that frame collage as a panoramic landscape. For McGhee the collision of imagery within severe grids results in a cinematic assault of both material as imagery and the image as material. He received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2005. Matt Morris is an artist and writer who uses photography, installation and other interventions into space to articulate the cultural positionality of the queer political subject within imbricated systems of control. Through tropes of both subtlety and excess, Morris renders visible the complex erotics that underlie social landscapes. He has presented work in Chicago, IL; Reims, France; Cincinnati, OH; San Antonio, TX; and Baton Rouge, LA. His writing has appeared in regional and international publications, including Art Papers, Sculpture, City Beat (Cincinnati, OH), Alice Blue Review, and Aeqai, as well as numerous exhibition catalogues and artist monographs. He is a transplant from southern Louisiana and holds a BFA from the Art Academy of Cincinnati.

Special Topics in Medical Humanities & Bioethics Lecture Series

The Medical Humanities & Bioethics Lectures run weekly on Thursdays at noon, addressing diverse topics within bioethics and the medical humanities. Speakers are MH&B faculty or special guests we've invited to present. All lectures run from noon to 12:45pm in the Searle Seminar Room in the Lurie building. All are welcome. Please feel free to bring a lunch.

Medieval Colloquium: Emily Steiner

Professor of English, Penn “Lords, Servants, and the Ethics of Medieval Literature”

CLOWNFLÂNEUR: MFA Thesis Exhibition

CLOWNFLÂNEUR MFA Thesis Exhibition from the Department of Art Theory + Practice May 3—June 23, 2013 Opening reception: May 2, 2013, 5-7 pm Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art 40 Arts Circle Drive Evanston, IL 60208 This exhibition represents points of culmination and crisis that overlap within the art-making practices of Amanda Elise Bowles, Daniel Giles, Esau McGhee, and Matt Morris. The intensive research with which they have been engaged during their tenure in the Department of Art Theory and Practice situates the resulting artworks in a climate of rigorous critical thinking and a negotiation of today’s art worlds. Variously reflexive, incisive and contemplative, this exhibition poses fresh lines of inquiry into material conditions that give shape to our present and future. Amanda Elise Bowles is a project-based artist who works in performance, installation and video. Her practice demarcates the studio as site for transmission and transformation; this is foremost engaged materially whereby substance and action allow for the emergence of performative gesturing and language play. In her current project, My_Space, Bowles explores digital platforms as an amateur ethnographer, using the constraints of the website Chat Roulette as the space for chance encounters. Daniel Giles is an artist whose practice negotiates the spaces, tropes and artifacts of black cultural production and addresses the mediation and consumption of cultural fantasies. Employing a range of practices, Giles addresses sites of consumer display, public spectacle and the aesthetics of protest. He received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2011. Esau McGhee aka Blackdynamite considers himself a conceptual formalist. His transition from the conventions of urban documentary photography have lead him to produce large scale works that frame collage as a panoramic landscape. For McGhee the collision of imagery within severe grids results in a cinematic assault of both material as imagery and the image as material. He received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2005. Matt Morris is an artist and writer who uses photography, installation and other interventions into space to articulate the cultural positionality of the queer political subject within imbricated systems of control. Through tropes of both subtlety and excess, Morris renders visible the complex erotics that underlie social landscapes. He has presented work in Chicago, IL; Reims, France; Cincinnati, OH; San Antonio, TX; and Baton Rouge, LA. His writing has appeared in regional and international publications, including Art Papers, Sculpture, City Beat (Cincinnati, OH), Alice Blue Review, and Aeqai, as well as numerous exhibition catalogues and artist monographs. He is a transplant from southern Louisiana and holds a BFA from the Art Academy of Cincinnati.

CLOWNFLÂNEUR: MFA Thesis Exhibition

CLOWNFLÂNEUR MFA Thesis Exhibition from the Department of Art Theory + Practice May 3—June 23, 2013 Opening reception: May 2, 2013, 5-7 pm Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art 40 Arts Circle Drive Evanston, IL 60208 This exhibition represents points of culmination and crisis that overlap within the art-making practices of Amanda Elise Bowles, Daniel Giles, Esau McGhee, and Matt Morris. The intensive research with which they have been engaged during their tenure in the Department of Art Theory and Practice situates the resulting artworks in a climate of rigorous critical thinking and a negotiation of today’s art worlds. Variously reflexive, incisive and contemplative, this exhibition poses fresh lines of inquiry into material conditions that give shape to our present and future. Amanda Elise Bowles is a project-based artist who works in performance, installation and video. Her practice demarcates the studio as site for transmission and transformation; this is foremost engaged materially whereby substance and action allow for the emergence of performative gesturing and language play. In her current project, My_Space, Bowles explores digital platforms as an amateur ethnographer, using the constraints of the website Chat Roulette as the space for chance encounters. Daniel Giles is an artist whose practice negotiates the spaces, tropes and artifacts of black cultural production and addresses the mediation and consumption of cultural fantasies. Employing a range of practices, Giles addresses sites of consumer display, public spectacle and the aesthetics of protest. He received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2011. Esau McGhee aka Blackdynamite considers himself a conceptual formalist. His transition from the conventions of urban documentary photography have lead him to produce large scale works that frame collage as a panoramic landscape. For McGhee the collision of imagery within severe grids results in a cinematic assault of both material as imagery and the image as material. He received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2005. Matt Morris is an artist and writer who uses photography, installation and other interventions into space to articulate the cultural positionality of the queer political subject within imbricated systems of control. Through tropes of both subtlety and excess, Morris renders visible the complex erotics that underlie social landscapes. He has presented work in Chicago, IL; Reims, France; Cincinnati, OH; San Antonio, TX; and Baton Rouge, LA. His writing has appeared in regional and international publications, including Art Papers, Sculpture, City Beat (Cincinnati, OH), Alice Blue Review, and Aeqai, as well as numerous exhibition catalogues and artist monographs. He is a transplant from southern Louisiana and holds a BFA from the Art Academy of Cincinnati.

CLOWNFLÂNEUR: MFA Thesis Exhibition

CLOWNFLÂNEUR MFA Thesis Exhibition from the Department of Art Theory + Practice May 3—June 23, 2013 Opening reception: May 2, 2013, 5-7 pm Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art 40 Arts Circle Drive Evanston, IL 60208 This exhibition represents points of culmination and crisis that overlap within the art-making practices of Amanda Elise Bowles, Daniel Giles, Esau McGhee, and Matt Morris. The intensive research with which they have been engaged during their tenure in the Department of Art Theory and Practice situates the resulting artworks in a climate of rigorous critical thinking and a negotiation of today’s art worlds. Variously reflexive, incisive and contemplative, this exhibition poses fresh lines of inquiry into material conditions that give shape to our present and future. Amanda Elise Bowles is a project-based artist who works in performance, installation and video. Her practice demarcates the studio as site for transmission and transformation; this is foremost engaged materially whereby substance and action allow for the emergence of performative gesturing and language play. In her current project, My_Space, Bowles explores digital platforms as an amateur ethnographer, using the constraints of the website Chat Roulette as the space for chance encounters. Daniel Giles is an artist whose practice negotiates the spaces, tropes and artifacts of black cultural production and addresses the mediation and consumption of cultural fantasies. Employing a range of practices, Giles addresses sites of consumer display, public spectacle and the aesthetics of protest. He received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2011. Esau McGhee aka Blackdynamite considers himself a conceptual formalist. His transition from the conventions of urban documentary photography have lead him to produce large scale works that frame collage as a panoramic landscape. For McGhee the collision of imagery within severe grids results in a cinematic assault of both material as imagery and the image as material. He received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2005. Matt Morris is an artist and writer who uses photography, installation and other interventions into space to articulate the cultural positionality of the queer political subject within imbricated systems of control. Through tropes of both subtlety and excess, Morris renders visible the complex erotics that underlie social landscapes. He has presented work in Chicago, IL; Reims, France; Cincinnati, OH; San Antonio, TX; and Baton Rouge, LA. His writing has appeared in regional and international publications, including Art Papers, Sculpture, City Beat (Cincinnati, OH), Alice Blue Review, and Aeqai, as well as numerous exhibition catalogues and artist monographs. He is a transplant from southern Louisiana and holds a BFA from the Art Academy of Cincinnati.

CLOWNFLÂNEUR: MFA Thesis Exhibition

CLOWNFLÂNEUR MFA Thesis Exhibition from the Department of Art Theory + Practice May 3—June 23, 2013 Opening reception: May 2, 2013, 5-7 pm Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art 40 Arts Circle Drive Evanston, IL 60208 This exhibition represents points of culmination and crisis that overlap within the art-making practices of Amanda Elise Bowles, Daniel Giles, Esau McGhee, and Matt Morris. The intensive research with which they have been engaged during their tenure in the Department of Art Theory and Practice situates the resulting artworks in a climate of rigorous critical thinking and a negotiation of today’s art worlds. Variously reflexive, incisive and contemplative, this exhibition poses fresh lines of inquiry into material conditions that give shape to our present and future. Amanda Elise Bowles is a project-based artist who works in performance, installation and video. Her practice demarcates the studio as site for transmission and transformation; this is foremost engaged materially whereby substance and action allow for the emergence of performative gesturing and language play. In her current project, My_Space, Bowles explores digital platforms as an amateur ethnographer, using the constraints of the website Chat Roulette as the space for chance encounters. Daniel Giles is an artist whose practice negotiates the spaces, tropes and artifacts of black cultural production and addresses the mediation and consumption of cultural fantasies. Employing a range of practices, Giles addresses sites of consumer display, public spectacle and the aesthetics of protest. He received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2011. Esau McGhee aka Blackdynamite considers himself a conceptual formalist. His transition from the conventions of urban documentary photography have lead him to produce large scale works that frame collage as a panoramic landscape. For McGhee the collision of imagery within severe grids results in a cinematic assault of both material as imagery and the image as material. He received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2005. Matt Morris is an artist and writer who uses photography, installation and other interventions into space to articulate the cultural positionality of the queer political subject within imbricated systems of control. Through tropes of both subtlety and excess, Morris renders visible the complex erotics that underlie social landscapes. He has presented work in Chicago, IL; Reims, France; Cincinnati, OH; San Antonio, TX; and Baton Rouge, LA. His writing has appeared in regional and international publications, including Art Papers, Sculpture, City Beat (Cincinnati, OH), Alice Blue Review, and Aeqai, as well as numerous exhibition catalogues and artist monographs. He is a transplant from southern Louisiana and holds a BFA from the Art Academy of Cincinnati.

IPR Q-Center: Jeffrey Smith | Women of the National Supported Work Demonstration

"Women of the National Supported Work Demonstration" by Jeffrey Smith, Professor of Economics and Public Policy, University of Michigan. This is part of the IPR Q-Center Series.

Special Topics in Medical Humanities & Bioethics Lecture Series

The Medical Humanities & Bioethics Lectures run weekly on Thursdays at noon, addressing diverse topics within bioethics and the medical humanities. Speakers are MH&B faculty or special guests we've invited to present. All lectures run from noon to 12:45pm in the Searle Seminar Room in the Lurie building. All are welcome. Please feel free to bring a lunch.

Workshop in Applied Microeconomics

Sarah Reber (University of California, Los Angeles): "Survey Incentives for Teenagers"

CLOWNFLÂNEUR: MFA Thesis Exhibition

CLOWNFLÂNEUR MFA Thesis Exhibition from the Department of Art Theory + Practice May 3—June 23, 2013 Opening reception: May 2, 2013, 5-7 pm Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art 40 Arts Circle Drive Evanston, IL 60208 This exhibition represents points of culmination and crisis that overlap within the art-making practices of Amanda Elise Bowles, Daniel Giles, Esau McGhee, and Matt Morris. The intensive research with which they have been engaged during their tenure in the Department of Art Theory and Practice situates the resulting artworks in a climate of rigorous critical thinking and a negotiation of today’s art worlds. Variously reflexive, incisive and contemplative, this exhibition poses fresh lines of inquiry into material conditions that give shape to our present and future. Amanda Elise Bowles is a project-based artist who works in performance, installation and video. Her practice demarcates the studio as site for transmission and transformation; this is foremost engaged materially whereby substance and action allow for the emergence of performative gesturing and language play. In her current project, My_Space, Bowles explores digital platforms as an amateur ethnographer, using the constraints of the website Chat Roulette as the space for chance encounters. Daniel Giles is an artist whose practice negotiates the spaces, tropes and artifacts of black cultural production and addresses the mediation and consumption of cultural fantasies. Employing a range of practices, Giles addresses sites of consumer display, public spectacle and the aesthetics of protest. He received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2011. Esau McGhee aka Blackdynamite considers himself a conceptual formalist. His transition from the conventions of urban documentary photography have lead him to produce large scale works that frame collage as a panoramic landscape. For McGhee the collision of imagery within severe grids results in a cinematic assault of both material as imagery and the image as material. He received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2005. Matt Morris is an artist and writer who uses photography, installation and other interventions into space to articulate the cultural positionality of the queer political subject within imbricated systems of control. Through tropes of both subtlety and excess, Morris renders visible the complex erotics that underlie social landscapes. He has presented work in Chicago, IL; Reims, France; Cincinnati, OH; San Antonio, TX; and Baton Rouge, LA. His writing has appeared in regional and international publications, including Art Papers, Sculpture, City Beat (Cincinnati, OH), Alice Blue Review, and Aeqai, as well as numerous exhibition catalogues and artist monographs. He is a transplant from southern Louisiana and holds a BFA from the Art Academy of Cincinnati.

CLOWNFLÂNEUR: MFA Thesis Exhibition

CLOWNFLÂNEUR MFA Thesis Exhibition from the Department of Art Theory + Practice May 3—June 23, 2013 Opening reception: May 2, 2013, 5-7 pm Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art 40 Arts Circle Drive Evanston, IL 60208 This exhibition represents points of culmination and crisis that overlap within the art-making practices of Amanda Elise Bowles, Daniel Giles, Esau McGhee, and Matt Morris. The intensive research with which they have been engaged during their tenure in the Department of Art Theory and Practice situates the resulting artworks in a climate of rigorous critical thinking and a negotiation of today’s art worlds. Variously reflexive, incisive and contemplative, this exhibition poses fresh lines of inquiry into material conditions that give shape to our present and future. Amanda Elise Bowles is a project-based artist who works in performance, installation and video. Her practice demarcates the studio as site for transmission and transformation; this is foremost engaged materially whereby substance and action allow for the emergence of performative gesturing and language play. In her current project, My_Space, Bowles explores digital platforms as an amateur ethnographer, using the constraints of the website Chat Roulette as the space for chance encounters. Daniel Giles is an artist whose practice negotiates the spaces, tropes and artifacts of black cultural production and addresses the mediation and consumption of cultural fantasies. Employing a range of practices, Giles addresses sites of consumer display, public spectacle and the aesthetics of protest. He received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2011. Esau McGhee aka Blackdynamite considers himself a conceptual formalist. His transition from the conventions of urban documentary photography have lead him to produce large scale works that frame collage as a panoramic landscape. For McGhee the collision of imagery within severe grids results in a cinematic assault of both material as imagery and the image as material. He received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2005. Matt Morris is an artist and writer who uses photography, installation and other interventions into space to articulate the cultural positionality of the queer political subject within imbricated systems of control. Through tropes of both subtlety and excess, Morris renders visible the complex erotics that underlie social landscapes. He has presented work in Chicago, IL; Reims, France; Cincinnati, OH; San Antonio, TX; and Baton Rouge, LA. His writing has appeared in regional and international publications, including Art Papers, Sculpture, City Beat (Cincinnati, OH), Alice Blue Review, and Aeqai, as well as numerous exhibition catalogues and artist monographs. He is a transplant from southern Louisiana and holds a BFA from the Art Academy of Cincinnati.

CLOWNFLÂNEUR: MFA Thesis Exhibition

CLOWNFLÂNEUR MFA Thesis Exhibition from the Department of Art Theory + Practice May 3—June 23, 2013 Opening reception: May 2, 2013, 5-7 pm Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art 40 Arts Circle Drive Evanston, IL 60208 This exhibition represents points of culmination and crisis that overlap within the art-making practices of Amanda Elise Bowles, Daniel Giles, Esau McGhee, and Matt Morris. The intensive research with which they have been engaged during their tenure in the Department of Art Theory and Practice situates the resulting artworks in a climate of rigorous critical thinking and a negotiation of today’s art worlds. Variously reflexive, incisive and contemplative, this exhibition poses fresh lines of inquiry into material conditions that give shape to our present and future. Amanda Elise Bowles is a project-based artist who works in performance, installation and video. Her practice demarcates the studio as site for transmission and transformation; this is foremost engaged materially whereby substance and action allow for the emergence of performative gesturing and language play. In her current project, My_Space, Bowles explores digital platforms as an amateur ethnographer, using the constraints of the website Chat Roulette as the space for chance encounters. Daniel Giles is an artist whose practice negotiates the spaces, tropes and artifacts of black cultural production and addresses the mediation and consumption of cultural fantasies. Employing a range of practices, Giles addresses sites of consumer display, public spectacle and the aesthetics of protest. He received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2011. Esau McGhee aka Blackdynamite considers himself a conceptual formalist. His transition from the conventions of urban documentary photography have lead him to produce large scale works that frame collage as a panoramic landscape. For McGhee the collision of imagery within severe grids results in a cinematic assault of both material as imagery and the image as material. He received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2005. Matt Morris is an artist and writer who uses photography, installation and other interventions into space to articulate the cultural positionality of the queer political subject within imbricated systems of control. Through tropes of both subtlety and excess, Morris renders visible the complex erotics that underlie social landscapes. He has presented work in Chicago, IL; Reims, France; Cincinnati, OH; San Antonio, TX; and Baton Rouge, LA. His writing has appeared in regional and international publications, including Art Papers, Sculpture, City Beat (Cincinnati, OH), Alice Blue Review, and Aeqai, as well as numerous exhibition catalogues and artist monographs. He is a transplant from southern Louisiana and holds a BFA from the Art Academy of Cincinnati.

AMST: Senior Symposium

The Senior Symposium is an opportunity for the program and its students to celebrate the intellectual accomplishments of its seniors. In May, when all of the senior theses have been submitted to the department for evaluation, the American Studies Program invites friends, family, sponsors, and the Northwestern community to a presentation of the projects conducted over the previous year. Each senior major gives a brief presentation on his or her thesis and attendees have the opportunity to ask questions or provide comments on their research. The presentations are followed by a reception.

Special Topics in Medical Humanities & Bioethics Lecture Series

The Medical Humanities & Bioethics Lectures run weekly on Thursdays at noon, addressing diverse topics within bioethics and the medical humanities. Speakers are MH&B faculty or special guests we've invited to present. All lectures run from noon to 12:45pm in the Searle Seminar Room in the Lurie building. All are welcome. Please feel free to bring a lunch.

CLOWNFLÂNEUR: MFA Thesis Exhibition

CLOWNFLÂNEUR MFA Thesis Exhibition from the Department of Art Theory + Practice May 3—June 23, 2013 Opening reception: May 2, 2013, 5-7 pm Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art 40 Arts Circle Drive Evanston, IL 60208 This exhibition represents points of culmination and crisis that overlap within the art-making practices of Amanda Elise Bowles, Daniel Giles, Esau McGhee, and Matt Morris. The intensive research with which they have been engaged during their tenure in the Department of Art Theory and Practice situates the resulting artworks in a climate of rigorous critical thinking and a negotiation of today’s art worlds. Variously reflexive, incisive and contemplative, this exhibition poses fresh lines of inquiry into material conditions that give shape to our present and future. Amanda Elise Bowles is a project-based artist who works in performance, installation and video. Her practice demarcates the studio as site for transmission and transformation; this is foremost engaged materially whereby substance and action allow for the emergence of performative gesturing and language play. In her current project, My_Space, Bowles explores digital platforms as an amateur ethnographer, using the constraints of the website Chat Roulette as the space for chance encounters. Daniel Giles is an artist whose practice negotiates the spaces, tropes and artifacts of black cultural production and addresses the mediation and consumption of cultural fantasies. Employing a range of practices, Giles addresses sites of consumer display, public spectacle and the aesthetics of protest. He received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2011. Esau McGhee aka Blackdynamite considers himself a conceptual formalist. His transition from the conventions of urban documentary photography have lead him to produce large scale works that frame collage as a panoramic landscape. For McGhee the collision of imagery within severe grids results in a cinematic assault of both material as imagery and the image as material. He received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2005. Matt Morris is an artist and writer who uses photography, installation and other interventions into space to articulate the cultural positionality of the queer political subject within imbricated systems of control. Through tropes of both subtlety and excess, Morris renders visible the complex erotics that underlie social landscapes. He has presented work in Chicago, IL; Reims, France; Cincinnati, OH; San Antonio, TX; and Baton Rouge, LA. His writing has appeared in regional and international publications, including Art Papers, Sculpture, City Beat (Cincinnati, OH), Alice Blue Review, and Aeqai, as well as numerous exhibition catalogues and artist monographs. He is a transplant from southern Louisiana and holds a BFA from the Art Academy of Cincinnati.

CLOWNFLÂNEUR: MFA Thesis Exhibition

CLOWNFLÂNEUR MFA Thesis Exhibition from the Department of Art Theory + Practice May 3—June 23, 2013 Opening reception: May 2, 2013, 5-7 pm Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art 40 Arts Circle Drive Evanston, IL 60208 This exhibition represents points of culmination and crisis that overlap within the art-making practices of Amanda Elise Bowles, Daniel Giles, Esau McGhee, and Matt Morris. The intensive research with which they have been engaged during their tenure in the Department of Art Theory and Practice situates the resulting artworks in a climate of rigorous critical thinking and a negotiation of today’s art worlds. Variously reflexive, incisive and contemplative, this exhibition poses fresh lines of inquiry into material conditions that give shape to our present and future. Amanda Elise Bowles is a project-based artist who works in performance, installation and video. Her practice demarcates the studio as site for transmission and transformation; this is foremost engaged materially whereby substance and action allow for the emergence of performative gesturing and language play. In her current project, My_Space, Bowles explores digital platforms as an amateur ethnographer, using the constraints of the website Chat Roulette as the space for chance encounters. Daniel Giles is an artist whose practice negotiates the spaces, tropes and artifacts of black cultural production and addresses the mediation and consumption of cultural fantasies. Employing a range of practices, Giles addresses sites of consumer display, public spectacle and the aesthetics of protest. He received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2011. Esau McGhee aka Blackdynamite considers himself a conceptual formalist. His transition from the conventions of urban documentary photography have lead him to produce large scale works that frame collage as a panoramic landscape. For McGhee the collision of imagery within severe grids results in a cinematic assault of both material as imagery and the image as material. He received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2005. Matt Morris is an artist and writer who uses photography, installation and other interventions into space to articulate the cultural positionality of the queer political subject within imbricated systems of control. Through tropes of both subtlety and excess, Morris renders visible the complex erotics that underlie social landscapes. He has presented work in Chicago, IL; Reims, France; Cincinnati, OH; San Antonio, TX; and Baton Rouge, LA. His writing has appeared in regional and international publications, including Art Papers, Sculpture, City Beat (Cincinnati, OH), Alice Blue Review, and Aeqai, as well as numerous exhibition catalogues and artist monographs. He is a transplant from southern Louisiana and holds a BFA from the Art Academy of Cincinnati.

Undergraduate African Studies Film & Research Showcase

Undergraduate African Studies Film & Research Showcase Students of the African Degree adjunct major, class of 2013, will present this showcase to highlight their individual research projects carried out in several countries in Africa throughout the past year. Simultaneously, this showcase will be a gateway for lowerclassmen to explore the various funding fellowships, grants and faculty to nurture and advise various research ideas into projects.

CLOWNFLÂNEUR: MFA Thesis Exhibition

CLOWNFLÂNEUR MFA Thesis Exhibition from the Department of Art Theory + Practice May 3—June 23, 2013 Opening reception: May 2, 2013, 5-7 pm Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art 40 Arts Circle Drive Evanston, IL 60208 This exhibition represents points of culmination and crisis that overlap within the art-making practices of Amanda Elise Bowles, Daniel Giles, Esau McGhee, and Matt Morris. The intensive research with which they have been engaged during their tenure in the Department of Art Theory and Practice situates the resulting artworks in a climate of rigorous critical thinking and a negotiation of today’s art worlds. Variously reflexive, incisive and contemplative, this exhibition poses fresh lines of inquiry into material conditions that give shape to our present and future. Amanda Elise Bowles is a project-based artist who works in performance, installation and video. Her practice demarcates the studio as site for transmission and transformation; this is foremost engaged materially whereby substance and action allow for the emergence of performative gesturing and language play. In her current project, My_Space, Bowles explores digital platforms as an amateur ethnographer, using the constraints of the website Chat Roulette as the space for chance encounters. Daniel Giles is an artist whose practice negotiates the spaces, tropes and artifacts of black cultural production and addresses the mediation and consumption of cultural fantasies. Employing a range of practices, Giles addresses sites of consumer display, public spectacle and the aesthetics of protest. He received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2011. Esau McGhee aka Blackdynamite considers himself a conceptual formalist. His transition from the conventions of urban documentary photography have lead him to produce large scale works that frame collage as a panoramic landscape. For McGhee the collision of imagery within severe grids results in a cinematic assault of both material as imagery and the image as material. He received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2005. Matt Morris is an artist and writer who uses photography, installation and other interventions into space to articulate the cultural positionality of the queer political subject within imbricated systems of control. Through tropes of both subtlety and excess, Morris renders visible the complex erotics that underlie social landscapes. He has presented work in Chicago, IL; Reims, France; Cincinnati, OH; San Antonio, TX; and Baton Rouge, LA. His writing has appeared in regional and international publications, including Art Papers, Sculpture, City Beat (Cincinnati, OH), Alice Blue Review, and Aeqai, as well as numerous exhibition catalogues and artist monographs. He is a transplant from southern Louisiana and holds a BFA from the Art Academy of Cincinnati.

CLOWNFLÂNEUR: MFA Thesis Exhibition

CLOWNFLÂNEUR MFA Thesis Exhibition from the Department of Art Theory + Practice May 3—June 23, 2013 Opening reception: May 2, 2013, 5-7 pm Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art 40 Arts Circle Drive Evanston, IL 60208 This exhibition represents points of culmination and crisis that overlap within the art-making practices of Amanda Elise Bowles, Daniel Giles, Esau McGhee, and Matt Morris. The intensive research with which they have been engaged during their tenure in the Department of Art Theory and Practice situates the resulting artworks in a climate of rigorous critical thinking and a negotiation of today’s art worlds. Variously reflexive, incisive and contemplative, this exhibition poses fresh lines of inquiry into material conditions that give shape to our present and future. Amanda Elise Bowles is a project-based artist who works in performance, installation and video. Her practice demarcates the studio as site for transmission and transformation; this is foremost engaged materially whereby substance and action allow for the emergence of performative gesturing and language play. In her current project, My_Space, Bowles explores digital platforms as an amateur ethnographer, using the constraints of the website Chat Roulette as the space for chance encounters. Daniel Giles is an artist whose practice negotiates the spaces, tropes and artifacts of black cultural production and addresses the mediation and consumption of cultural fantasies. Employing a range of practices, Giles addresses sites of consumer display, public spectacle and the aesthetics of protest. He received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2011. Esau McGhee aka Blackdynamite considers himself a conceptual formalist. His transition from the conventions of urban documentary photography have lead him to produce large scale works that frame collage as a panoramic landscape. For McGhee the collision of imagery within severe grids results in a cinematic assault of both material as imagery and the image as material. He received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2005. Matt Morris is an artist and writer who uses photography, installation and other interventions into space to articulate the cultural positionality of the queer political subject within imbricated systems of control. Through tropes of both subtlety and excess, Morris renders visible the complex erotics that underlie social landscapes. He has presented work in Chicago, IL; Reims, France; Cincinnati, OH; San Antonio, TX; and Baton Rouge, LA. His writing has appeared in regional and international publications, including Art Papers, Sculpture, City Beat (Cincinnati, OH), Alice Blue Review, and Aeqai, as well as numerous exhibition catalogues and artist monographs. He is a transplant from southern Louisiana and holds a BFA from the Art Academy of Cincinnati.

Linguistics Colloquium: Dr. Emily Myers

CLOWNFLÂNEUR: MFA Thesis Exhibition

CLOWNFLÂNEUR MFA Thesis Exhibition from the Department of Art Theory + Practice May 3—June 23, 2013 Opening reception: May 2, 2013, 5-7 pm Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art 40 Arts Circle Drive Evanston, IL 60208 This exhibition represents points of culmination and crisis that overlap within the art-making practices of Amanda Elise Bowles, Daniel Giles, Esau McGhee, and Matt Morris. The intensive research with which they have been engaged during their tenure in the Department of Art Theory and Practice situates the resulting artworks in a climate of rigorous critical thinking and a negotiation of today’s art worlds. Variously reflexive, incisive and contemplative, this exhibition poses fresh lines of inquiry into material conditions that give shape to our present and future. Amanda Elise Bowles is a project-based artist who works in performance, installation and video. Her practice demarcates the studio as site for transmission and transformation; this is foremost engaged materially whereby substance and action allow for the emergence of performative gesturing and language play. In her current project, My_Space, Bowles explores digital platforms as an amateur ethnographer, using the constraints of the website Chat Roulette as the space for chance encounters. Daniel Giles is an artist whose practice negotiates the spaces, tropes and artifacts of black cultural production and addresses the mediation and consumption of cultural fantasies. Employing a range of practices, Giles addresses sites of consumer display, public spectacle and the aesthetics of protest. He received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2011. Esau McGhee aka Blackdynamite considers himself a conceptual formalist. His transition from the conventions of urban documentary photography have lead him to produce large scale works that frame collage as a panoramic landscape. For McGhee the collision of imagery within severe grids results in a cinematic assault of both material as imagery and the image as material. He received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2005. Matt Morris is an artist and writer who uses photography, installation and other interventions into space to articulate the cultural positionality of the queer political subject within imbricated systems of control. Through tropes of both subtlety and excess, Morris renders visible the complex erotics that underlie social landscapes. He has presented work in Chicago, IL; Reims, France; Cincinnati, OH; San Antonio, TX; and Baton Rouge, LA. His writing has appeared in regional and international publications, including Art Papers, Sculpture, City Beat (Cincinnati, OH), Alice Blue Review, and Aeqai, as well as numerous exhibition catalogues and artist monographs. He is a transplant from southern Louisiana and holds a BFA from the Art Academy of Cincinnati.

CLOWNFLÂNEUR: MFA Thesis Exhibition

CLOWNFLÂNEUR MFA Thesis Exhibition from the Department of Art Theory + Practice May 3—June 23, 2013 Opening reception: May 2, 2013, 5-7 pm Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art 40 Arts Circle Drive Evanston, IL 60208 This exhibition represents points of culmination and crisis that overlap within the art-making practices of Amanda Elise Bowles, Daniel Giles, Esau McGhee, and Matt Morris. The intensive research with which they have been engaged during their tenure in the Department of Art Theory and Practice situates the resulting artworks in a climate of rigorous critical thinking and a negotiation of today’s art worlds. Variously reflexive, incisive and contemplative, this exhibition poses fresh lines of inquiry into material conditions that give shape to our present and future. Amanda Elise Bowles is a project-based artist who works in performance, installation and video. Her practice demarcates the studio as site for transmission and transformation; this is foremost engaged materially whereby substance and action allow for the emergence of performative gesturing and language play. In her current project, My_Space, Bowles explores digital platforms as an amateur ethnographer, using the constraints of the website Chat Roulette as the space for chance encounters. Daniel Giles is an artist whose practice negotiates the spaces, tropes and artifacts of black cultural production and addresses the mediation and consumption of cultural fantasies. Employing a range of practices, Giles addresses sites of consumer display, public spectacle and the aesthetics of protest. He received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2011. Esau McGhee aka Blackdynamite considers himself a conceptual formalist. His transition from the conventions of urban documentary photography have lead him to produce large scale works that frame collage as a panoramic landscape. For McGhee the collision of imagery within severe grids results in a cinematic assault of both material as imagery and the image as material. He received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2005. Matt Morris is an artist and writer who uses photography, installation and other interventions into space to articulate the cultural positionality of the queer political subject within imbricated systems of control. Through tropes of both subtlety and excess, Morris renders visible the complex erotics that underlie social landscapes. He has presented work in Chicago, IL; Reims, France; Cincinnati, OH; San Antonio, TX; and Baton Rouge, LA. His writing has appeared in regional and international publications, including Art Papers, Sculpture, City Beat (Cincinnati, OH), Alice Blue Review, and Aeqai, as well as numerous exhibition catalogues and artist monographs. He is a transplant from southern Louisiana and holds a BFA from the Art Academy of Cincinnati.

CLOWNFLÂNEUR: MFA Thesis Exhibition

CLOWNFLÂNEUR MFA Thesis Exhibition from the Department of Art Theory + Practice May 3—June 23, 2013 Opening reception: May 2, 2013, 5-7 pm Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art 40 Arts Circle Drive Evanston, IL 60208 This exhibition represents points of culmination and crisis that overlap within the art-making practices of Amanda Elise Bowles, Daniel Giles, Esau McGhee, and Matt Morris. The intensive research with which they have been engaged during their tenure in the Department of Art Theory and Practice situates the resulting artworks in a climate of rigorous critical thinking and a negotiation of today’s art worlds. Variously reflexive, incisive and contemplative, this exhibition poses fresh lines of inquiry into material conditions that give shape to our present and future. Amanda Elise Bowles is a project-based artist who works in performance, installation and video. Her practice demarcates the studio as site for transmission and transformation; this is foremost engaged materially whereby substance and action allow for the emergence of performative gesturing and language play. In her current project, My_Space, Bowles explores digital platforms as an amateur ethnographer, using the constraints of the website Chat Roulette as the space for chance encounters. Daniel Giles is an artist whose practice negotiates the spaces, tropes and artifacts of black cultural production and addresses the mediation and consumption of cultural fantasies. Employing a range of practices, Giles addresses sites of consumer display, public spectacle and the aesthetics of protest. He received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2011. Esau McGhee aka Blackdynamite considers himself a conceptual formalist. His transition from the conventions of urban documentary photography have lead him to produce large scale works that frame collage as a panoramic landscape. For McGhee the collision of imagery within severe grids results in a cinematic assault of both material as imagery and the image as material. He received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2005. Matt Morris is an artist and writer who uses photography, installation and other interventions into space to articulate the cultural positionality of the queer political subject within imbricated systems of control. Through tropes of both subtlety and excess, Morris renders visible the complex erotics that underlie social landscapes. He has presented work in Chicago, IL; Reims, France; Cincinnati, OH; San Antonio, TX; and Baton Rouge, LA. His writing has appeared in regional and international publications, including Art Papers, Sculpture, City Beat (Cincinnati, OH), Alice Blue Review, and Aeqai, as well as numerous exhibition catalogues and artist monographs. He is a transplant from southern Louisiana and holds a BFA from the Art Academy of Cincinnati.

CLOWNFLÂNEUR: MFA Thesis Exhibition

CLOWNFLÂNEUR MFA Thesis Exhibition from the Department of Art Theory + Practice May 3—June 23, 2013 Opening reception: May 2, 2013, 5-7 pm Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art 40 Arts Circle Drive Evanston, IL 60208 This exhibition represents points of culmination and crisis that overlap within the art-making practices of Amanda Elise Bowles, Daniel Giles, Esau McGhee, and Matt Morris. The intensive research with which they have been engaged during their tenure in the Department of Art Theory and Practice situates the resulting artworks in a climate of rigorous critical thinking and a negotiation of today’s art worlds. Variously reflexive, incisive and contemplative, this exhibition poses fresh lines of inquiry into material conditions that give shape to our present and future. Amanda Elise Bowles is a project-based artist who works in performance, installation and video. Her practice demarcates the studio as site for transmission and transformation; this is foremost engaged materially whereby substance and action allow for the emergence of performative gesturing and language play. In her current project, My_Space, Bowles explores digital platforms as an amateur ethnographer, using the constraints of the website Chat Roulette as the space for chance encounters. Daniel Giles is an artist whose practice negotiates the spaces, tropes and artifacts of black cultural production and addresses the mediation and consumption of cultural fantasies. Employing a range of practices, Giles addresses sites of consumer display, public spectacle and the aesthetics of protest. He received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2011. Esau McGhee aka Blackdynamite considers himself a conceptual formalist. His transition from the conventions of urban documentary photography have lead him to produce large scale works that frame collage as a panoramic landscape. For McGhee the collision of imagery within severe grids results in a cinematic assault of both material as imagery and the image as material. He received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2005. Matt Morris is an artist and writer who uses photography, installation and other interventions into space to articulate the cultural positionality of the queer political subject within imbricated systems of control. Through tropes of both subtlety and excess, Morris renders visible the complex erotics that underlie social landscapes. He has presented work in Chicago, IL; Reims, France; Cincinnati, OH; San Antonio, TX; and Baton Rouge, LA. His writing has appeared in regional and international publications, including Art Papers, Sculpture, City Beat (Cincinnati, OH), Alice Blue Review, and Aeqai, as well as numerous exhibition catalogues and artist monographs. He is a transplant from southern Louisiana and holds a BFA from the Art Academy of Cincinnati.

Nikkey Finney

Nikky Finney was born in South Carolina, within listening distance of the sea. A child of activists, she came of age during the civil rights and Black Arts Movements. At Talladega College, nurtured by Hale Woodruff's Amistad murals, Finney began to understand the powerful synergy between art and history. Finney has authored four books of poetry: Head Off & Split (2011); The World Is Round (2003); Rice (1995); and On Wings Made of Gauze (1985). The Guy Davenport Endowed Professor in the Department of English at the University of Kentucky, Finney also authored Heartwood (1997) edited The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South (2007), and co- founded the Affrilachian Poets. Finney's fourth book of poetry, Head Off & Split was awarded the 2011 National Book Award for poetry.

Festival of Writing

Three invited authors will give craft talks, readings, and participate in a panel discussion over three days.