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Jennifer Scappettone - "Poetry After Barbarism" - Na’ama Rokem & Rachel Galvin

Jennifer Scappettone
Poetry After Barbarism: The Invention of Motherless Tongues and Resistance to Fascism
Jan
14
Wednesday
Jan 14, 2026
4:30pm - 5:30pm
The Seminary Co-op
5751 S Woodlawn Ave
Chicago, IL 60637
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Andrei Pop - "Fregean Realism" - Florian Klinger

Andrei Pop
Fregean Realism: Frodo Lives! and Other Fictions
Jan
15
Thursday
Jan 15, 2026
4:00pm - 5:00pm
The Seminary Co-op
5751 S. Woodlawn Ave
Chicago, IL 60637
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Robert Gooding-Williams - "Democracy and Beauty"

Robert Gooding-Williams
Democracy and Beauty
Jan
16
Friday
Jan 16, 2026
4:00pm - 5:30pm
Social Science Research Building Tea Room
1126 E. 59th St., 2nd Floor
Chicago, IL 60637
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John P. McCormick - "The People’s Princes" - Daragh Grant, Julia Brown, Max Benjamin Smith

John P. McCormick
People's Princes: Machiavelli, Leadership, and Liberty
Jan
17
Saturday
Jan 17, 2026
3:00pm - 4:00pm
Seminary Co-op Bookstore
5751 S Woodlawn Ave
Chicago, IL 60637
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Martin A. Berger - "Inventing Stereotype" - Kenneth Warren

Inventing Stereotype: Race, Representation, and Interwar America
Jan
21
Wednesday
Jan 21, 2026
4:00pm - 5:00pm
The Seminary Co-op
5751 S Woodlawn Ave
Chicago, IL 60637
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Ryan Cecil Jobson - "Peasants and Capital" - Mark Hauser & William Balan Gaubert

Ryan Cecil Jobson
Peasants and Capital: Dominica in the World Economy
Jan
23
Friday
Jan 23, 2026
4:00pm - 5:00pm
The Seminary Co-op
5751 S Woodlawn Ave
Chicago, IL 60637
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Joshua Colangelo-Bryan - "Through the Gates of Hell" - Seema Ahmad

Through the Gates of Hell: American Injustice at Guantanamo Bay
Jan
24
Saturday
Jan 24, 2026
3:00pm
The Seminary Co-op
5751 S Woodlawn Ave
Chicago, IL 60637
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Danielle Bainbridge - "Currencies of Cruelty" - Miriam J. Petty

Danielle Bainbridge
Currencies of Cruelty: Slavery, Freak Shows, and the Performance Archive
Jan
27
Tuesday
Jan 27, 2026
4:00pm - 5:00pm
The Seminary Co-op
5751 S. Woodlawn Ave
Chicago, IL 60637
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Brad Bigelow - "Virginia Faulkner"

Brad Bigelow
Virginia Faulkner
Jan
29
Thursday
Jan 29, 2026
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Seminary Co-op Bookstore
5751 S Woodlawn Ave
Chicago, IL 60637
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Robert B. Pippin - "Robert Bresson: Cinematic Style As Philosophy" - Daniel Morgan

Robert B. Pippin
Robert Bresson: Cinematic Style as Philosophy
Jan
30
Friday
Jan 30, 2026
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Seminary Co-op
5751 S Woodlawn Ave
Chicago, IL 60637
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Keisha-Marie Allison - "The Adventures of Hildey Wisedotter: The Dragon in a Cave"

Keisha-Marie Allison
Adventures of Hildey Wisedotter: The Dragon in a Cave
Jan
31
Saturday
Jan 31, 2026
2:00pm - 4:00pm
57th Street Books
1301 E 57th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
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Andrew DeCort - "Reviving the Golden Rule" - Russell Johnson & Colton Bernasol

Andrew DeCort
Reviving the Golden Rule: How the Ancient Ethic of Neighbor Love Can Heal the World
Jan
31
Saturday
Jan 31, 2026
3:00pm - 4:00pm
The Seminary Co-op
5751 S Woodlawn Ave
Chicago, IL 60637
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Anna Piela & Michael Woolf - "Confronting Islamophobia in the Church" - Tariq El-Amin

Anna Piela & Michael Woolf
Feb
03
Tuesday
Feb 03, 2026
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Hyde Park Union Church
5600 S Woodlawn Ave
Chicago, IL 60637
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John Samuel Harpham - "The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery" - Ken Warren

John Samuel Harpham
Intellectual Origins of American Slavery: English Ideas in the Early Modern Atlantic World
Feb
05
Thursday
Feb 05, 2026
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Seminary Co-op
5751 S Woodlawn Ave
Chicago, IL 60637
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Lucia V. Delgado - "Of the River: A Collection" - JR Ansera

Lucia V. Delgado
Of the River: A Collection
Feb
06
Friday
Feb 06, 2026
4:00pm - 5:00pm
The Seminary Co-op
5751 S Woodlawn Ave
Chicago, IL 60637
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Chris Serb - "Eckie"

Chris Serb
Eckie
Feb
07
Saturday
Feb 07, 2026
3:00pm - 4:00pm
57th Street Books
1301 E 57th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
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Patricia Albers - "Everything Is Photograph"

Patricia Albers
Everything Is Photograph
Feb
09
Monday
Feb 09, 2026
4:00pm - 5:00pm
The Seminary Co-op
5751 S. Woodlawn Ave
Chicago, IL 60637
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Brian Soucek - "The Opinionated University"

Brian Soucek
The Opinionated University: Academic Freedom, Diversity, and the Myth of Neutrality in American Higher Education
Feb
10
Tuesday
Feb 10, 2026
4:00pm - 5:00pm
The Seminary Co-op
5751 S. Woodlawn Ave
Chicago, IL 60637
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Michael Ansara - "The Hard Work of Hope"

Michael Ansara
The Hard Work of Hope
Feb
11
Wednesday
Feb 11, 2026
4:00pm - 5:00pm
The Seminary Co-op
5751 S. Woodlawn Ave
Chicago, IL 60637
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Jennifer Sichel & Caroline Lillian Schopp - "Criticism Without Authority" & "In-action" - Matthew Jesse Jackson

Jennifer Sichel & Caroline Lillian Schopp
Criticism Without Authority: Gene Swenson's and Jill Johnston's Queer Practices
Feb
18
Wednesday
Feb 18, 2026
4:00pm - 5:00pm
The Seminary Co-op
5751 S. Woodlawn Ave
Chicago, IL 60637
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Nicole L. Woods - "Performing Chance" - Christine Mehring

Nicole L. Woods
Performing Chance: The Art of Alison Knowles In/Out of Fluxus
Feb
19
Thursday
Feb 19, 2026
4:00pm - 5:00pm
The Seminary Co-op
5751 S. Woodlawn Ave
Chicago, IL 60637
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Martha Feldman - "Castrato Phantoms" - Seth Brodsky & Maria Anna Mariani

Martha Feldman
Castrato Phantoms: Moreschi, Fellini, and the Sacred Vernacular in Rome
Feb
23
Monday
Feb 23, 2026
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Seminary Co-op
5751 S Woodlawn Ave
Chicago, IL 60637
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Jessica Landau & Maria Lux - "Unserious Ecocriticism" - Darya Tsymbalyuk, Patrick Gonder, Kimiko Matsumura, and Deke Weaver

Jessica Landau & Maria Lux
Unserious Ecocriticism: Humor, Play & Environmental Destruction in Art & Visual Culture
Feb
26
Thursday
Feb 26, 2026
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Seminary Co-op Bookstore
5751 S Woodlawn Ave
Chicago, IL 60637
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An Afternoon of Poetry with John Tipton and Liza Hudock

Liza Hudock and John Tipton
Reveille
Feb
27
Friday
Feb 27, 2026
4:00pm - 5:00pm
The Seminary Co-op
5751 S. Woodlawn Ave
Chicago, IL 60637
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Bradley Morgan - "U2: Until the End of the World"

Bradley Morgan
U2: Until the End of the World
Feb
28
Saturday
Feb 28, 2026
3:00pm - 4:00pm
The Seminary Co-op
5751 S. Woodlawn Ave
Chicago, IL 60637
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Aurore Spiers - "Archiving the Past" - Allyson Nadia Field

Aurore Spiers
Archiving the Past: Women's Film History in France, 1927-1978 Volume 10
Mar
04
Wednesday
Mar 04, 2026
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Seminary Co-op Bookstore
5751 S. Woodlawn
Chicago, IL 60637
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Darya Tsymbalyuk - "Ecocide in Ukraine" - Jonathan Flatley

Darya Tsymbalyuk
Ecocide in Ukraine: The Environmental Cost of Russia's War
Mar
06
Friday
Mar 06, 2026
4:00pm - 5:00pm
The Seminary Co-op
5751 S Woodlawn Ave
Chicago, IL 60637
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Barry Pearce - "The Plan of Chicago" - Garin Cycholl

Barry Pearce
Plan of Chicago: A City in Stories
Mar
07
Saturday
Mar 07, 2026
3:00pm - 4:00pm
Seminary Co-op Bookstore
5751 S. Woodlawn
Chicago, IL 60637
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Howard Husock - "The Projects" - Matthew Paprocki

Howard A. Husock
Projects: A New History of Public Housing
Mar
13
Friday
Mar 13, 2026
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Seminary Co-op
5751 S Woodlawn Ave
Chicago, IL 60637
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Slavoj Žižek – On Liberal Fascism - Live In Chicago

Slavoj Žižek
Apr
02
Thursday
Apr 02, 2026
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Cahn Auditorium
600 Emerson St
Evanston, IL 60201
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