Address:
1115 East 58th Street
Chicago, IL

Description:
Location:
Franke Institute Seminar Room, East Wing of Regenstein Library
1100 E. 57th St.

Note:
The conference is made possible by the Chicago Center for Jewish Studies, the Committee on Social Thought, the Department of History, the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, and the Divinity School at the University of Chicago.

Contact Name:
Christina Heisser

Contact E-mail:
cheisser@uchicago.edu

Contact Phone:
773-702-7108

Description:
The conference will explore the ways in which Jews have invoked the borders of the Land of Israel as a malleable metaphor for considering a variety of issues that extend beyond geography. The Hebrew Bible presents several border schemes of the Land of Israel: some extend from the Nile to the Euphrates, while others are limited to the land of Canaan hemmed in by the Jordan; some emphasize natural boundaries while others delineate the borders according to ritual logic. Each scheme represents a different conception of the sanctity of space and the way divine favor is mapped onto the physical landscape. Thus, in biblical references to natural and political borders the landscape becomes a powerful metaphor for defining and upholding cultural and hermeneutical boundaries.

Subsequently, Jews from antiquity to the present day have continued to use the borders of Israel as a broad interpretive category for thinking about a variety of religious, social, and political concerns. Even in their earliest formulations, the borders were not merely geographic markers, but a means of providing spatial representations for discourses of power, legitimization and communal identity with respect to real or imagined neighbors.

The goal of this conference is to look at ways in which thinkers – such as Jewish pilgrims, sectarians, settlers, soldiers, poets, artists, politicians, philosophers,

Times:04:00 AM

Address:
1115 East 58th Street
Chicago, IL

Description:
Location:
Rosenwald 405

Contact Name:
Kate Soto

Times:07:30 AM

Address:
1115 East 58th Street
Chicago, IL

Description:
Location:
Harris Theater for Music and Dance, 205 E. Randolph Drive

Contact Name:
Chicago Presents

Contact E-mail:
chicagopresents@uchicago.edu

Contact Phone:
773.702.8068

Description:
Shulamit Ran, artistic director
eighth blackbird
Pacifica Quartet
Tony Arnold, soprano
Ricardo Rivera, baritone
Collins Trier, double bass
Stas Venglevski, bayan (Russian accordion)

Sofia Gubaidulina:
A Pilgrimage of Four (world premiere)
Perception
In croce

This all-Sofia Gubaidulina program includes the world premiere of A Pilgrimage of Four, commissioned for Contempo by The Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation in the Library of Congress and The Koussevitzky Music Foundation, Inc.

This event is a part of the Soviet Arts Experience.

Times:03:00 AM

Address:
1115 East 58th Street
Chicago, IL

Description:
Location:
TBA

Contact Name:
Julia Thomas

Contact E-mail:
jmthomas@uchicago.edu

Times:07:30 AM

Address:
1115 East 58th Street
Chicago, IL

Description:
Location:
Mandel Hall, 1131 E. 57th Street

Contact Name:
Chicago Presents

Contact E-mail:
chicagopresents@uchicago.edu

Contact Phone:
773.702.8068

Description:
Mahler: Piano Quartet in A minor
Fauré: Piano Quartet No. 2 in G minor, op. 45
Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, op. 25

The award winning, up and coming piano quartet continues to receive rave review from across the globe, described as having “flawless precision and breathtaking musicality” (Deustchland Radio) and “chamber music making of the highest order” (Radio Bremen). Hear them perform signature piano quartets, including the Fauré, in their Chicago debut.

"The Faure Quartett began their life together by scooping numerous European chamber music prizes: now they attract superlatives wherever they go." (The Strad)