March Highlights

Center for Gender Studies and Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture
Asian American Sexualities Conference
8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, March 7

Amy Sueyoshi, associate professor in sexuality studies at San Francisco State University, will give the opening keynote, titled “Miss Morning Glory is not Transgender: Life Lessons on Being an Asian Queer in America from Yone Noguchi.” David Eng, professor in English and comparative literature at the University of Pennsylvania, will deliver the closing keynote, “The Queer Space of China,” at 3:45 p.m. For a list of speakers, visit http://csrpc.uchicago.edu/AA%20sexualities%20poster.pdf. Free and open to the public. Please contact cawalter4@uchicago.edu or visit http://csrcp.uchicago.edu for details.
Social Science Research Building, 1126 E. 59th St., Room 122

Department of Music
University Symphony Orchestra: “An Evening With Soo Bae”
8 p.m. Saturday, March 7

Guest soloist and internationally renowned cellist Soo Bae will join the orchestra, which will perform Jean Sibelius’ Symphony No. 1 in E Minor and accompany Bae on Antonin Dvorák’s Cello Concerto in B Minor. Bae, who received a prestigious artist diploma from The Julliard School, where she now is an assistant faculty member, is the winner of Canada’s Instrument Bank Competition (resulting in a three-year loan of a ca. 1696 Bonjour Stradivari cello). Suggested donation is $10, $5 students. For more information, visit http://music.uchicago.edu.
Mandel Hall, 1131 E. 57th St.

International House
Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East
6 p.m. Tuesday, March 10

Rashid Khalidi is the Edward Said professor of modern Arab studies and director of the Middle East Institute at Columbia University, and is among the foremost U.S. historians of the modern Middle East. He is the author of numerous books on the region—several written during his many years on the Chicago faculty, including Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness; Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America’s Perilous Path in the Middle East; and The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood. A book signing will follow. Free.
1414 E. 59th St.

Special Collections Research Center
“On Equal Terms”: Educating Women at the University of Chicago
Monday, March 16 to Tuesday, July 14

Since the University welcomed its first students in the fall of 1892, women have had very different stories to tell about the experiments in co-education and faculty diversification; the experience of the classroom, the laboratory, the dorm and the streets of Hyde Park; the issues of mentorship, intellectual community and career advancement; and the opportunities for political action and community involvement, for friendship, romance and sexual experimentation. The exhibition draws from the rich archives in the SCRC, where visitors can listen to excerpts from a group of more than 70 oral histories with alumnae done by the Center for Gender Studies.
Joseph Regenstein Library, 1100 E. 57th St.