2023

This tour is sold out. Visit our current special exhibition, “Back to School in Babylonia,” at ISAC (formerly Oriental Institute) and explore a 3,700-year-old school excavated in Iraq. The exhibition covers teaching materials and related objects found in the school building and sheds new light on one of the oldest curricula in the world. Topics of education for ancient scribes include mathematics, literature, religion, law, and rhetoric. Associate Professor of Assyriology and Tablet Collection Curator at ISAC, Susanne Paulus leads the tour.

This tour is sold out. Engage with three distinct exhibitions at the Smart Museum of Art through a guided exploration of a selection of artworks on view. Attendees will learn more about the exhibitions “Ruth Duckworth: Life as a Unity,” “Poetry is Everything,” and “Calling on the Past” and participate in looking closely at ceramics, paintings, and mixed-media works. May Peterson and Kirsten Lopez will lead the tours. Peterson and Lopez are academic engagement graduate fellows within the Smart Museum’s Feitler Center for Academic Inquiry.

Engage with three distinct exhibitions at the Smart Museum of Art through a guided exploration of a selection of artworks on view. Attendees will learn more about the exhibitions “Ruth Duckworth: Life as a Unity,” “Poetry is Everything,” and “Calling on the Past” and participate in looking closely at ceramics, paintings, and mixed-media works. May Peterson and Kirsten Lopez will lead the tours. Peterson and Lopez are academic engagement graduate fellows within the Smart Museum’s Feitler Center for Academic Inquiry.

Engage with three distinct exhibitions at the Smart Museum of Art through a guided exploration of a selection of artworks on view. Attendees will learn more about the exhibitions “Ruth Duckworth: Life as a Unity,” “Poetry is Everything,” and “Calling on the Past” and participate in looking closely at ceramics, paintings, and mixed-media works. May Peterson and Kirsten Lopez will lead the tours. Peterson and Lopez are academic engagement graduate fellows within the Smart Museum’s Feitler Center for Academic Inquiry.

How do you breathe correctly? How often should you take a deep breath? What if the air that surrounds you is polluted? Contaminated by uranium and asbestos from the mining industry? Poisoned by history? By hate and violence? What if breathing makes you dizzy? What if it makes you sick? What if the air carries bacteria? What if it carries death? Imperialism has always functioned through the suppression and exploitation of breath. In Franz Fanon’s words, "Under these conditions, the individual's breathing is an observed, an occupied breathing.

This tour is sold out. In the fall of 2023, the Neubauer Collegium gallery hosts an exhibition by the Viennese artist collective Gelitin, presented as part of the fifth Chicago Architecture Biennial. Founded in 1993, the quartet first met in 1978 “when they all attended a summer camp”—and they have been “playing and working together” ever since.

This tour is sold out. Thousands of objects housed in the ISAC Museum (formerly the Oriental Institute) museum tell the history of Ancient Mesopotamia, and no category of object tells this story in greater detail than the cuneiform tablets. For more than 3,000 years, this writing system was used and transmitted by scribes, who played an important role not only as literati but above all as accountants, administrators, and bureaucrats.

This tour is sold out. Thousands of objects housed in the ISAC Museum (formerly the Oriental Institute) museum tell the history of Ancient Mesopotamia, and no category of object tells this story in greater detail than the cuneiform tablets. For more than 3,000 years, this writing system was used and transmitted by scribes, who played an important role not only as literati but above all as accountants, administrators, and bureaucrats.

This tour is sold out. Visit our current special exhibition, “Back to School in Babylonia,” at ISAC (formerly Oriental Institute) and explore a 3,700-year-old school excavated in Iraq. The exhibition covers teaching materials and related objects found in the school building and sheds new light on one of the oldest curricula in the world. Topics of education for ancient scribes include mathematics, literature, religion, law, and rhetoric. Associate Professor of Assyriology and Tablet Collection Curator at ISAC, Susanne Paulus leads the tour.