Jones

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Sarah Jones: One-woman Performance

The shape-shifting, mind-boggling Sarah Jones reprises her enormously popular one-woman Festival performance with a program that showcases embodiment and impersonation. The New York Times heralded Jones’s show Bridge & Tunnel as a “sweet-spirited valentine to New York City, its polyglot citizens and the larger notion of an all-inclusive America, that ideal place where concepts like liberty, equality, and opportunity have concrete meaning and are not just boilerplate phrases slapped around in stump speeches and news conferences.” You won’t quite believe you’re in the room with just one performer after glimpsing the raft of characters Jones brings to life.

This program is generously underwritten by Penny and Bill Obenshain.

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Jennifer Finney Boylan

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Jennifer Finney Boylan: A Life in Two Genders

With her bestselling book She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders, Jennifer Finney Boylan helped redefine the conversation about being transgendered in the United States.  In this program, Boylan talks candidly about being transgender—and about the changes in her roles as spouse, parent, and friend as she transitioned  from male to female.

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Matti Bunzl

Matti Bunzl is a native of Vienna’s small post-Holocaust Jewish community. A graduate of Stanford University and the University of Chicago, he has been on the faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 1998. He is a professor of anthropology, history, and German and has served as director of the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (2003 to 2007) and the Program in Jewish Culture and Society (2008 to the present).

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We Are What We Eat

One day, we feast at the latest all-organic, locavore restaurant; the next we binge on fast food. If we really are what we eat, what does that make us?

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Lecture

Ramón Gutiérrez: On Arizona’s Immigration Law

Ramón Gutiérrez of the University of Chicago analyzes the context of the Arizona law and discuss its larger implications for the Latina/o population in the United States, the relations between the US and Mexico, and the larger debate on race in this country.

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