Dear Emeriti Colleagues,
 
We hope your 2023 is off to a great start! Campus is busy with lots to do indoors on cold winter days. One highlight is the exhibition But Is It a Book? at the Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, which will run through April 28. Starting on February 23rd, you can see two new exhibitions at the Smart Museum of Art, Not All Realisms and The Metropol Drama.
 
There are also spiritual and wellness activities offered both virtually and in person this winter. You may join a virtual session of gentle yoga on Wednesdays by emailing yoga@lists.uchicago.edu; or attend a Mindful Breath session at Ida Noyes Hall, offered every Tuesday by emailing spirit@uchicago.edu. For more events, you can also check the UChicago calendar of events.

When on campus stop by the Emeriti Center - we hope to see you there!
 
Through the Winter Quarter, the Center will be open and staffed from 9am-5pm for emeriti and their guests. The Center is a quiet place to relax, work, and meet with others. Drinks and snacks are available and the graduate students who staff the Center are great.

Please also consider joining us for regular engagements throughout February with our campus partners at Benefits Office, Information Technology and Academic Technology Solutions (ATS). See below for dates and times. These sessions will also be available on zoom for those away from campus or who prefer to connect in hybrid format.

Thanks to UChicago Press, we have recently added new faculty books to our lounge collection this month. Some of the emeriti books we acquired include Ribbon of Darkness by  Barbara Maria Stafford, William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor, Emerita in Art History, Fragments and Filaments by David Tracy, Andrew Thomas Greeley and Grace McNichols Greeley Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in Divinity, Chicago Apartments by Neil Harris, Preston and Sterling Morton Professor Emeritus, History and Art History, which he co-authored with Teri J. Edelstein, as well as Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed in Translation, a volume edited by UChicago professors Joseph Stern, William H. Colvin Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, James Robinson, Caroline E. Haskell Professor of the History of Judaism, Islamic Studies, and the History of Religions and graduate student Yonatan Shemesh. Come check them out!

You will need your UChicago ID card to access the building and the Center, which is located in the Klowden Family Library (Room 106) to your left as you enter. For more information about the Emeriti Center and events, please visit the emeriti faculty website.
 

Desktop Support Specialist Gordon Dickson will be on hand to answer questions and provide technology support on Thursday, February 16th, from 1:00-2:00pm; or attend virtually through zoom.  

ATS staff will be at the Center on alternating Tuesdays from 2:00-3:30pm to answer any questions you may have about the different technological tools you use in your pedagogy. Office hours are a chance for emeriti faculty to ask any questions they may have about Canvas, Zoom, Panopto, or other tools for teaching with technology. Attend in person or virtually through zoom on February 21.

ATS staff will be at the Center on alternating Tuesdays from 2:00-3:30pm to answer any questions you may have about the different technological tools you use in your pedagogy. Office hours are a chance for emeriti faculty to ask any questions they may have about Canvas, Zoom, Panopto, or other tools for teaching with technology. Attend in person or virtually through zoom on February 21.

The Emeriti Center and the Office of the Provost recently announced the second funding cycle of the Emeriti Grants for Academic Activities. The grants are intended to support emeriti engaged in any academic activities or research and may be used to offset expenses including, but not limited to, attending professional conferences, field work, or other research.

Emeriti faculty interested in applying for the first round of funding should submit a 1-page proposal describing activities that would be supported and projected expenses to the Emeriti Center at emeritifaculty@uchicago.edu by February 17, 2023. Awards will typically be made for expenses up to $3000 and are expected to be used within 12 months of the award. Emeriti will be notified of decisions in March. A committee of emeriti and members of the Office of the Provost will review proposals and make recommendations for funding to the Provost or her delegate. The next call for proposals will be in the Summer of 2023.
 
Award recipients are expected to give a public lecture or presentation (in-person or virtual) as a part of Emeriti Center programming within 12 months of the award.  

If you have a new or forthcoming publications, let us know!

Neubauer Collegium
Notes of the Great Migration exhibition at Neubauer Collegium comes to an end this quarter. The exhibition is Houston-based artist, and Neubauer Collegium Visiting Fellow, Rick Lowe’s first solo show in Chicago and will be open at the Neubauer Collegium Gallery until February 10th. You can learn more about the exhibit curated by Dieter Roelstraete from the press release as well as view the exhibition checklist on the Neubauer’s website. 
 

Rockefeller Chapel
The 2022-23 Gerrish Organ Recital at Rockefeller Chapel is taking place on Saturday, February 11th at 7:30PM. This recital will feature Richard Elliott, Principal Tabernacle Organist. General admission is $25 and senior admission is $15.
 
Through March 7th, every Tuesday at 4pm, Rockefeller Chapel presents Tea and Pipes, organ music that includes a mix of performances and musical genres.

Seminary Coop Bookstore
There is a busy slate of author events throughout February at the bookstore. On February 8th, José Olivarez will discuss Promises of Gold, “a groundbreaking collection of poems addressing how every kind of love—self, brotherly, romantic, familial, cultural—is birthed, shaped, and complicated by the invisible forces of gender, capitalism, religion, migration,” among other things. Denise Kripper Associate Professor of Spanish at Lake Forest College, will be joined by our own Alba Girons Masot, Associate Senior Instructional Professor, from Romance Languages and Literatures in a discussion of Kripper’s recent book
Narratives of Mistranslation: Fictional Translators in Latin American Literature.  

Renaissance Society
This year, as part of the Frequency Festival 2023, the Renaissance Society will present Berlin-based experimental composer Julia Reidy in a free concert on February 23 at 8pm in Bond Chapel. The Frequency Festival 2023 program also features performances by artists like Bill Orcutt& Chris Corsano / Eli Winter, Pascale Criton, Silvia Tarozzi & Judith Hamann/Ning Yu and Ensemble Dal Niente at Constellation Chicago for $15.
 
From February 25 to April 26, the Renaissance Society will present a new exhibition: “Aria Dean: Abattoir, U.S.A”, where Aria Dean raises questions about the relationship between modernism and death. The exhibit will feature an artist talk and an opening celebration.