September Highlights

Committee on Creative Writing
Emerging Writers Series: Joni Tevis
5 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 9

Joni Tevis earned her Ph.D. in literature and creative writing from the University of Houston creative writing program. She has been published in Isotope, Shenandoah, Conjunctions, Pleiades, The Bellingham Review, North Dakota Quarterly and Plenty, among others. The Wet Collection, her book of lyric essays, was published in August 2007. Luke Rodehorst, a fourth-year English major, will read alongside Tevis. Tevis also will present a free lecture entitled “If Your Wheels Are Turning, You’re Double-Earning: Work Experience as Memoir Material” at 1:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 10.

Wieboldt Hall, 1050 E. 59th St., Room 408

Film Studies Center
Films of Phil Solomon
7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 10

For more than three decades, Phil Solomon was renowned for transforming found footage into molten dreamscapes through chemical and photographic processes. Now a professor of film studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Solomon will be present for a screening of four of his experimental films: The Secret Garden (1988), Remains to be Seen (1989), The Exquisite Hour (1989) and Twilight Psalm II: Walking Distance (1999). Following the screening, there will be a reception with Solomon, whom Stan Brakhage considered “the greatest filmmaker of his generation.”

Cobb Hall, 5811 S. Ellis Ave., Room 306

Rockefeller Memorial Chapel
“Music of the Spheres”
4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 11

Thomas Campion’s 17th-century masquerade, “Lord Haye’s Masque,” represents a similar “alchemical wedding” of Ptolemaic and Neoplatonic concepts through its theme of the reconciliation of opposites. Performers will include Modern Minstrelsy, Home Street Recorder Ensemble and Pullman Morris and Sword Dancers. Part of Hyde Park Day in the City of Chicago’s Humanities Festival. Free, but reservations required. Call (312) 661-1028 or visit www.chfestival.org.

1156 E. 59th St.

International House
“Democracy in Iran”
6 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 15

Shirin Ebadi is a lawyer, human rights activist and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize for her work defending women and children’s rights in Iran. The founder of three NGOs in Iran—The Association for the Defense of the Rights of the Child, The Association for Human Rights Advocates and the Organization against Mines in Iran—she also advocated an interpretation of Islam compatible with democracy and human rights. She became the first Iranian woman to preside over a legislative court, only to be demoted to a clerk following the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Unable to accept the discrimination against her she resigned. She is the author of 14 books, including her memoir, Iran Awakening. Please RSVP to Brooke Eisenmenger at beisenmenger@uchicago.edu by Monday, Oct. 13.

1414 E. 59th St.