July - August Highlights

Doc Films
Week of D.W. Griffith films
Through Saturday, July 19

The film series will include The Sorrows of Satan (1926) and Isn’t Life Wonderful? (1924) and will culminate with Saturday’s screening of The Struggle (1931). Satan (8 p.m. Thursday, July 17) was a disastrous production abandoned by Cecil B. DeMille, and it is remembered for its magnificent sets, pictoral effects and the vampish turn of Lya de Putti. Life (7 and 9:30 p.m. Friday, July 17) is the harsh tale of Polish immigrants in the Weimar Republic and was shot on location in Köpenick, Germany. The Struggle (7 p.m. Saturday, July 19) and its sophisticated sound design were mostly ignored—many panned it as Soviet propaganda—and was withdrawn from circulation after a week. The film is an archival 35-millimeter print. The first two pictures are on 16-millimeter film and are unavailable on DVD. Admission is $5. For ticket information, call (773) 702-8575 or visit docfilms.uchicago.edu.
Max Palevsky Cinema, Ida Noyes Hall, 1212 E. 59th St.

Law School
“2008 Chicago Conference on China’s Economic Transformation Program”
Through Friday, July 18

Renowned economist Ronald Coase, the Clifton R. Musser Professor Emeritus of Economics, will host the conference, which will welcome Chinese entrepreneurs and government officials to provide insight into the transformation of their country’s economic climate. The 97-year-old Coase, sometimes referred to as the father of reform for the allocation of the radio frequency spectrum because of his 1959 article, “The Federal Communications Commission.” He spent most of his academic career at the Law School and won the 1991 Nobel Prize in Economics. He will give closing remarks at 4:30 p.m. Friday, July 18. For more information and a schedule of events, visit http://www.law.uchicago.edu/lawecon/events/china.html.
Gleacher Center, 450 N. Cityfront Plaza Drive