PressNotes: Impotence, Goths, & Roy Lichtenstein

News from Chicago's academic presses, and other intellectual developments.

1. UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

Off the Presses
* Impotence: A Cultural History. By Angus McLaren.

* Aguecheek's Beef, Belch's Hiccup, and Other Gastronomic Interjections: Literature. Culture, and Food Among the Early Moderns. By Robert Applebaum.

* Wannabes, Goths, and Christians : The Boundaries of Sex, Style, and Status.. By Amy C. Wilkins.

* Chicago's Urban Nature: A Guide to the City's Architecture + Landscape. By Sally A. Kitt Chappell.

See/Do
* Theater: Arcadia. By Tom Stoppard
Through: June 3rd, Wednesday and Thursday at 7:30 p.m, Friday at 8 p.m, Saturday at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m., Sunday at 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
At: Court Theater, 5535 S. Ellis Ave.

* Workshop: "Conference on the Legal Implications of the New Research on Happiness."
On: June 1st and 2nd, from 9 a.m. - 5:10 p.m.
At: University of Chicago Law School, Room D, 1111 E. 60th.

* Exhibit: "Living Modern: German and Austrian Art and Design, 1890-1933."
Through: September 7, 2007, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
At: Smart Museum of Art, 5550 S. Greenwood Ave.

2. NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

Off the Presses
* Postal Indiscretion: The Correspondence of Tadeusz Borowski. By Tadeusz Drewnowski.

* Foucault's Askesis: An Introduction to the Philosophical Life. By Edward F. McGushin.

See/Do

* Workshop: "Chinese and Japanese Participation in Chicago's Two World Fairs," presented by Humanities Library Fellow Andrea Stamm.
On: June 4th, at 4 p.m.
At: Humanities Seminar Room, 2010 Sheridan Road.

* Exhibition: "Roy Lichtenstein Prints, 1956-97."
Through: June 17th.
At: Block Museum of Art, 40 Arts Circle, Evanston.

3. DE PAUL UNIVERSITY

See/Do

* Listen: "De Paul Symphony Orchestra and Holland America Music Society Cello Competition Finalists : Tchaikovsky: Rococo Variations. Haydn: Concerto in C."
On: June 5th, at 8 p.m.
At: De Paul Concert Hall, 800 W. Belden.

4. LOYOLA UNIVERSITY

See/Do

* Lecture: "Freedom from the Riven Earth: Karol Wojtyla's Path to Mature Love." Loyola professor Dennis Martin's discussion of the play The Jeweler's Shop, written in Poland during German occupation.
On: June 5th, at 6 p.m.
At: Simpson Lecture Hall, 820 N. Michigan Ave.
Cost: $5.

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Previously in PressNotes:

- Ink, Blood & Dictionaries.

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