February Highlights

Divinity School
“A Gay Male Christian Sexual Ethic”
4 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 5

Dale Martin, the Woolsey professor of religious studies at Yale University, specializes in New Testament and Christian origins, including attention to the social and cultural history of the Greco-Roman worlds. He also has published on topics related to the family, gender and sexuality in the ancient world. His books include Slavery as Salvation: Slavery as Salvation: The Metaphor of Slavery in Pauline Christianity; Sex and the Single Savior: Gender and Sexuality in Biblical Interpretation; and The Cultural Turn in Late Ancient Studies: Gender, Asceticism, and Historiography (ed.). The lecture is a second in a series on gender and theology scheduled in memory of Alexander Hivoltze-Jimenez. A reception will follow.
Swift Common Room, 1025 E. 58th St.

University of Chicago Presents
“Musica Vaticana, 1503–34: Musical Masterworks from the Sistine Chapel at the Time of Michelangelo”
7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 6

To view the grandeur of Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel frescoes is to appreciate a pinnacle of High Renaissance art. To hear the music the great painter must have heard during his labors is quite something else. The American vocal ensemble Pomerium, which models itself on Renaissance chapel choirs, will perform an overview of the works found in the papal choir books of the day. Tickets are $32, $5 students and available by calling (773) 702-8068.
Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, 5850 S. Woodlawn Ave.

International House
Global Voices Lecture Series: Sudhir Venkatesh
6 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 11

Venkatesh (A.M.,’92, Ph.D.,’97) will speak about his book Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets. Taking an ethnographer’s approach in his sociological study, Venkatesh embedded himself for seven years in the former Robert Taylor Homes at the height of crack cocaine sales in Chicago during the 1980s. What he found was a tightly organized community, held together by friendship and compassion as well as force. A book signing will follow.
Assembly Hall, 1414 E. 59th St.

Film Studies Center
“The Unadapted: Warner Bros. Reads Zora Neale Hurston”
5 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 19

Elizabeth Binggeli, Postdoctoral Instructor in English Language & Literature and Cinema & Media Studies, will speak about previously unexamined studio archival records from the 1930s and 1940s related to Hollywood’s reception of the works of African American novelist and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston. Hurston’s literary work was shaped by a desire to both see her works adapted to film and to rearticulate Hollywood’s entrenched codes of racial representation. Binggeli will make the case that Hurston’s 1948 novel Seraph on the Suwanee was a deliberate attempt to cite the 1946 MGM adaptation of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’ novel The Yearling, and that this citation encouraged the readers of the Warner Bros. story department to consider her novel for studio purchase. James Lastra, Associate Professor in English Language & Literature and the College, will introduce Binggeli.
Cobb Hall, 5811 S. Ellis Ave., Room 307