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The Perfect Meal: A Journey with Chicago Tastemakers
by Bonnie This post originally appeared on Bonnie and Joan. Republished with permission. The Body: Chicago Humanities Festival 2010 this past week included The Perfect Meal: A Journey with Chicago Tastemakers, bringing together pastry chef Mindy Segal, chef Paul Kahan and sommelier Alpana Singh for a lighthearted discussion—and I was so excited to be there! Moderator Gwen Macsai kept the discussion moving around the... Continue Reading >>
Posted Tuesday, November 23 by
Bodies in Motion and at Rest
Guest blogger John Barr is President of the Poetry Foundation. He will interview Thomas Lynch on Sunday, November 14th. Fittingly, the Festival closes its programs on “The Body” with a reading by one of America’s preeminent writers on the subject of Death.  In his half dozen books Thomas Lynch has explored the last experience every living body will surely have.  “Preeminent” in part because he knows whereof he speaks.  If most of us know death from the news or from the infrequent... Continue Reading >>
Posted Monday, November 08 by John Barr
The Hook
Debra Hawhee is a professor of English at Penn State University. She is author of Bodily Arts: Rhetoric and Athletics in Ancient Greece. Prior to her graduate training, Hawhee was a member of two NCAA championship basketball teams at the University of Tennessee. She will be appearing in two festival events for The Body. From the time I first took up basketball after an astonishing tween growth spurt during the summer between my seventh and eighth grade years, my father... Continue Reading >>
Posted Monday, November 01 by Debra Hawhee
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