PressNotes: Blood, Ink & Dictionaries

News from Chicago's academic presses.

1. UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

Off the Presses
* Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City: Mary Pattillo

* When the Press Fails: Political Power and the News Media from Iraq to Katrina: W. Lance Bennett, Regina G. Lawrence, and Steven Livingston

* Real American Ethics: Taking Responsibility for Our Country: Albert Borgmann

* Chicago Architecture: Charles Waldheim

* Sprawl: Robert Bruegmann

See/Do
* Exhibit: Cosmophilia: Islamic Art from the David Collection, Copenhagen
Through: 5/20/2007, from 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
At: Smart Museum of Art, 5550 S. Greenwood Ave

* Exhibit: The Meaning of Dictionaries
Through: 7/6/2007, from 8:30 AM - 4:45 PM
At: Special Collections Research Center, Regenstein Library, 1100 E. 57th Street

* Lecture: "Unseasonable Thoughts on Imperial Dispositions: Beyond Learned Ignorance and Bad Faith." A Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory Lecture by Ann Stoler, New School for Social Research:
On: 5/17/2007, at 2:00
At: Social Sciences 122, 126 East 59th Street

2. NORTHWESTERN

Off the Presses

* Waiting for Gautreaux: A Story of Segregation, Housing, and the Black Ghetto: Alexander Polikoff

* The Yellow Journalism: The Press and America's Emergence as a World Power: David R. Spencer

* Bridges of Memory Volume 2: Chicago's Second Generation of Black Migration: Timuel D. Black

See/Do
* Film: Terra Incognita: the Promise and Peril of Stem Cell Research
On: May 16, 200, at 7:00 pm
At: The Ryan Family Auditorium, Technological Institute, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston

* Lecture: "After Hegemony?" By Perry Anderson, Professor of History at UCLA.
On: May 15, 2007 at 5:00
At: The Lower Level Conference Room, Chambers Hall, corner of Foster and Sheridan, Evanston

* Lecture: "Information Transparency: Materiality and Mimicry in the Journalistic Field and Beyond." By Pablo Boczkowski, Professor of Communications at Northwestern.
On: May 18, 2007, noon
At: University Hall, Room 201, 1897 Sheridan, Evanston

3. DePAUL

See/Do
* Exhibit: "Blood and Ink: Disasters of War from Goya to the Chapman Brothers"
Through: June 15, 2007
At: De Paul Art Museum, 2350 N. Kenmore

* Theater: "Good Worker," written by Isaac Holter
Through: May 20, 2007, Wed-Sat at 7:30, Sun at 2
At: Athenaeum Studio Three, 2936 N. Southport

4. LOYOLA

See/Do
* Lecture: "Surrounded by Terror: Life and Death in Occupied Poland During World War II." By Mark Suszko, Professor of History, Loyola.
On: May 22, 2007,at 6:00
At: Simpson Lecture Hall, 820 N. Michigan