PressNotes: Baboons, Wood and Don Juan

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

1. UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

Off the Presses
* Baboon Metaphysics: The Evolution of a Social Mind. By Dorothy L. Cheney and Robert M. Seyfarth.

* No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy. By Robert Hairman and John Louis Lucaites.

* Isolarion: A Different Oxford Journey. By James Attlee.

See/Do
* Exhibit: "The World Writ Small: Early Northern European Prints"
Through: September 9, 2007, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
At: Smart Museum of Art, 5550 S. Greenwood Ave.

* Lecture: "From Hand to Machine: German and Austrian Design, 1890-1933"
On: July 20th, at noon
At: Smart Museum of Art, 5550 S. Greenwood Ave.

2.NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

Off the Presses
* The First Person Singular. By Alphonso Lingis.

* About Chekhov: The Unfinished Symphony. By Ivan Bunin and Thomas Gaiton Murillo.

See/Do
* Exhibit: "Tom James: Landscapes/Abstracts/Musings on Wood"
Through: August 5, 2007, from 10 a.m. -10 p.m.
At: Ditmar Memorial Gallery at Norris University Center, 1999 University Drive, Evanston.

* Exhibit: "Theo Leffmann: Weaving a Life into Art"
Through: August 26th.
At: Block Museum of Art, 40 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston.

* Listen: Northwestern University Summer Orchestra
On: July 6, 2007, at 7:30 p.m.
At: School of Music/Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, 50 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston.

3. LOYOLA UNIVERSITY

See/Do
* Theater: "Don Juan in Chicago," as part of the Rogers Park Summer Festival.
On: July 19 - July 29, at 7:30 p.m.
At: Centennial Forum Student Union Student Theater, at the corner of W. Loyola and N. Sheridan
Cost: $10.