May - June Highlights

School of Social Service Administration
“I Want to Be Your Friend, You Black Idiot: The Dynamics of Majority Involvement in Minority Movements”
Noon to 2 p.m. and 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday, May 28

Charles Payne, the Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor in the School of Social Service Administration, organized the symposium for students, which will examine the dynamics of interracial relationships in the context of the social justice movements that characterized the 1960s. The topics will be “White in a Black Movement: Freedom Summer in Retrospect” and “Black Power: Reflections on an Historical Moment.” Speakers will include three members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC); Chicago Friends of SNCC; Susan Thrasher, Southern Student Organizing Committee; and Howard Machtinger, Students For a Democratic Society and Weathermen. For more information visit http://ssacentennial.uchicago.edu/events.
969 E. 60th St., Room E1

Department of Music
Cathy Heifetz Memorial Concert: “Behold, the Sea!”
8 p.m. Saturday, May 30 and 4 p.m. Sunday, May 31

The University Chorus and Motet Choir, along with the Grand Prairie Singers, will join the University Symphony Orchestra to present Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Symphony No. 1, “A Sea Symphony,” an expansive, grandiloquent musical essay based on texts by Walt Whitman. Soloists Kimberly Jones, soprano, and Thomas Hall, baritone, will be featured; USO Music Director Barbara Schubert will conduct. Also on the program: Benjamin Britten’s “Four Sea Interludes” from Peter Grimes. Free.
Mandel Hall, 1131 E. 57th St.

Center for Gender Studies
“On Equal Terms: The History and Future of Women at the University of Chicago”
4:15 p.m. Saturday, June 6

The UnCommon Core panel will feature faculty, administrators, alumnae and students who will reflect on the experiences of women at the University. The event is organized around a special exhibition, “‘On Equal Terms’: Educating Women at the University of Chicago,” on display at the Special Collections Research Center. The exhibition is the result of a unique collaboration among undergraduates, graduate students, library staff and faculty, and is part of a larger Center for Gender Studies project on the experience of women at the University. Free and open to the public.
Biological Sciences Learning Center, 924 E. 57th St.

Rockefeller Memorial Chapel
“Albert Schweitzer’s Legacy: A Musical Gala”
4:30 p.m. Saturday, June 6

A free gala concert will celebrate the 60th anniversary of Albert Schweitzer’s historic visit to the University, in which the Nobel Peace Prize-winning physician and musician received an honorary degree at Rockefeller Memorial Chapel. It will include the world premiere of “The Schweitzer Portrait,” which will be performed on the restored E.M. Skinner pipe organ; the music of Bach, beloved by Schweitzer, on the organ and newly restored Laura Spelman Rockefeller Carillon; and the second performance of the newly commissioned piece for organ and choir, “Wachet Auf” by Sven-David Sandström. The Rockefeller Chapel Choir and Motet Choir will perform. Light refreshments will follow. Call (773) 702-7059 for more information.
5850 S. Woodlawn Ave.

Rockefeller Memorial Chapel
“Albert Schweitzer’s Legacy: From Individual Service to a World Free of Nuclear Arms”
2 p.m. Sunday, June 7

A panel discussion will bring together today’s leaders in science and medicine to discussion movements for nuclear abolition and the elimination of health disparities. Ezekiel Emanuel, a leading bioethicist and senior counselor at the White House Office of Management and Budget on health policy, will be the keynote speaker. University panelists will include Rocky Kolb, Chair of Astronomy & Astrophysics and the Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor, and Funmi Olopade, the Walter L. Palmer Distinguished Service Professor in Medicine and Human Genetics. Free and open to the public but RSVP at (800) 955-0065.
5850 S. Woodlawn Ave.