Lec 15 - War Follows Everyone Home. For the Lyric Opera's production of George Frideric Handel's opera, Hercules, director Peter Sellars has transposed this timeless tragedy to the present, envisioning Hercules as an American general returning from the front lines. In conjunction with the production, The University of Chicago, Lyric Opera of Chicago and Peter Sellars have coordinated a series of events engaging American veterans in discussions about returning from war. On Wednesday, March 2, veterans attended a dress rehearsal of the opera followed by a panel of distinguished scholars, writers, and veterans including John Cacioppo, director of The University of Chicago Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience; Michael Sullivan, Illinois State Director of the Student Veterans of America, who served as an operator, gunner and vehicle commander with the 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion from 2000-2004; and University of Chicago trustee Jack Fuller, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and former editor of the Chicago Tribune, who covered the Vietnam War and has written novels about that conflict. The panel was moderated by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Julia Keller, cultural critic for the Chicago Tribune and author of Back Home, a novel narrated by a young girl whose father suffered a traumatic brain injury in Iraq as a National Guardsman.
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Lec 1 - Logan Center for the Arts — A Sneak Peek
Lec 2 - Logan Center for the Arts — A Look Inside
Lec 3 - From Classics to Comic Books: Inspiration and Adaptation in Popular Film
Lec 4 - Richard and Mary L. Gray - A Life of Art
Lec 5 - Announcing the Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts & Inquiry
Lec 6 - Japanese Magic Lantern Performance
Lec 7 - Japanese Magic Lantern Workshop and Matinee
Lec 9 - Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts Topping Off
Lec 11 - Logan Arts Center Groundbreaking Ceremony - Highlights
Lec 12 - Future of the City: The Arts Symposium
Lec 14 - Entertainment and Creative Arts: Your Creative Journey Starts Here
Lec 16 - War Follows Everyone Home - Highlights
Lec 17 - Peter Sellars on Handel's
Lec 18 - Logan Center for the Arts Tour, Part I: The Theaters
Lec 19 - Beck's and Willy Chyr: A Glimpse of Something Ephemeral
Lec 20 - Ari Folman (director of Waltz with Bashir) in Conversation
Lec 21 - smART Explorers: Art Programs for South Side Elementary Schools
Lec 22 - Kitty Scott on Curatorial Intelligence
Lec 23 - Tilo Schulz on Art and Exhibition
Lec 24 - Jessica Stockholder: New Chair of the Department of Visual Arts