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• Aural traditions: Neil Verma, AM’04, PhD’08, is tuned in to the golden age of radio.

Tableau

• Native knowledge: Junior scholars bring modern touches to linguistics’ traditional focus.
• Unearthed: Linguistic detectives solve textual mysteries.
• Two Perspectives on Ghosts: From antiquity to modern times, ghosts have served as cultural metaphors, storytelling devices, and figures in religious or afterlife beliefs. Faculty members Judith Zeitlin and Patrick Crowley explore the role of ghosts within their particular disciplines.
  • A Look at The Peony Pavilion
• In Dialogue: The Division offers a new joint doctoral degree in Theater and Performance Studies (TAPS).
• Digging Deep: Stuart Tave fellows’ courses address video games, ISIS headlines, and physiognomy
• Unification: Wu Hung, who helped to establish contemporary Chinese art history, works toward a global approach.
• Two Perspectives on Ancient Climate Change: Coping with changing climates in early antiquity
• Tales from the Tell: Digging up experience at the Egyptian excavation site of Tell Edfu
  • Hippo bones and never-ending rooms: Graduate students share more of their experiences from the excavation at Tell Edfu
• Power play: Marissa Fenley studies control dynamics between ventriloquists and their dummies.
  • Marissa Fenley Talks Muppets, Protest Puppetry, and More

The Core

• “Tinged with ghosts”: Horror filmmaker Matilda “Mattie” Szydagis, AB’95, reminisces about the Shoreland, Svengoolie, and Halloween on Chicago’s South Side.
• If you frighten easily …: Radio dramatist Arch Oboler, EX’36, shone a light on the horrors of humanity—in fiction and in reality.