Dialogs, Lit, Live lit events, Nonfiction

Dialogs: Actor/Performer/Etc. Alan Cumming Brings Charm and Stories to Chicago Humanities Festival

By Carr Harkrader With its dramatic palazzo ornamentation, twinkling star-lit ceiling, and mischievous cherubs nuzzling within insets, the Music Box Theatre was perhaps the perfect place for a talk with […]

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Dialogs, Lit, Stages, Virtual

Dialogs: Should Social Media Be Regulated? CHF Panel Considers a Thorny Question

Social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter are private entities even though we may think of them as similar to public “marketplaces of ideas.” A panel of three experts on […]

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Uncategorized

Dialogs: Young Activists Discuss Grief, Action, Hope, Radical Love in CHF Panel

screenshot of Youth Leading Change

Four Chicagoans—and one cute and persistent dog—joined together in the Chicago Humanities Festival panel “Youth Leading Change” to discuss grief, collective action, hope, and radical love. The panel began in […]

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Art & Museums

Dialogs: 2020 CHF Event—Chicago Neighborhood Check-in: Arts and Neighborhood Development

Reported by C.E. Archer-Helke In a Chicago Neighborhood Check-In as lively and vibrant as any in-person panel, Bernard Lloyd of Urban Juncture and Build Bronzeville; Billy Ocasio, “reformed” politician and […]

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Events, Interviews, Lit, Nonfiction

Dialogs: 2020 CHF Event—Discussing MLK and Malcolm X with Dr. Peniel E. Joseph

Reported by Carr Harkrader “Whoever heard of a revolution that came out singing, and not swinging,” Malcolm X asked about the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.’s nonviolent civil rights strategy. […]

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Fiction, Lit, Live lit events

Dialogs: 2020 CHF Panel—A Scholarly Conversation on Author Elena Ferrante’s Transnational Appeal

The Chicago Humanities Festival recently hosted a conversation among Katherine Hill, Merve Emre, and translator Ann Goldstein, all scholars of elusive Italian novelist Elena Ferrante. The discussion is available to […]

Terry Galvan /
Events, Lit, Live lit events, Nonfiction

Dialogs: 2020 CHF Panel Discusses Art as a Means to Social Change

Art in the Moment Reported by C.E. Archer-Helke Speaking from separate corners of Chicago, Chicago artists Bob Faust, Edra Soto, and Sadie Woods and art historian Greg Foster-Rice brought warmth, […]

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Events, Lit, Live lit events, Nonfiction

Dialogs: CHF Panel Explores Racist Corners of American History in What’s Next: Wealth, Property and Inequality

Reported by C.E. Archer-Helke In a Chicago Humanities Festival panel moderated by Chicago journalist Natalie Moore, economist William Darity, legal scholar Matthew L.M. Fletcher, and historian Rebecca K. Marchiel brought […]

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Events, Lit, Live Lit, Stages

Dialogs: Two Screenwriters Talk About Their New Novels—Utopia Avenue and Antkind

It was just serendipity that the Chicago Humanities Festival scheduled two screenwriters with hot new novels two weeks in a row for their livestream show. Well, serendipity and the fact […]

Nancy S Bishop /
Lit, Live lit events, Reviews

Roxane Gay, Camille Paglia and Jessa Crispin at War in My Head

Jessa Crispin, book

Several weeks ago, I went to hear Roxane Gay read from her latest book Hunger as a part of the Chicago Humanities Festival Now summer programming. The event fell on […]

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Fiction, Lit, Live lit events

George Saunders, Pop Culture Phenom, Comes to Chicago

I’ve liked George Saunders’ since I read his short story collection Pastoralia as a freshman in college. I’d never read anything like it. There was a historical re-enactment theme park, […]

Emma Terhaar /