Bibliographies

We invite visiting authors and scholars to submit a "Bibliography," with or without annotation, of books in some way related to their own book or work. Check each post for details on related events!

November 4th, 2024

About LOW: Forthcoming November 5, 2024, this debut volume of essays, performance art instructions, and photo collages delves into the places where art and trash intersect. Borrowing from memoir, criticism, poetry, and conceptual art, Johnson calls attention to ugly, stinky, difficult places, lingering on the artistry born of cruel circumstances. This genre-bending book delivers smart, felt commentary on a range of works, from Merle Laderman Ukeles’ “Touch Sanitation” performance to political activist Emma Goldman and Shakespeare’s tragedies. Johnson’s nuanced investigations lead readers through low places teeming with art and vitality—from landfills to prisons and from impoverished, rural towns to the sidewalks of New York City—and brings them along on her journey as a working-...

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October 15th, 2024

In anticipation of their adult fantasy debut Metal from Heaven (releasing October 22nd from Erewhon Books), we asked August Clarke, author of the indie-bestselling young adult series The Scapegracers, some of our lingering questions of their potent revolutionary ecofantasy. 


CO-OP: Most of the riotously queer cast of Metal From Heaven are devout people of faith in one way or another – which goes against a common grain of assumption in our world. What is most meaningful to you as a writer and human about the queer religious experience? How does that experience translate from our world...

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August 12th, 2024

Carol Moldaw is the author of six previous books of poetry—Beauty Refracted; So LateSo Soon: New and Selected PoemsThe Lightning FieldThrough the Window; Chalkmarks on Stone; and Taken from the River—and a novella, The Widening. She has received a Merwin Conservancy Artists Residency, a National...

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June 20th, 2024

Photo Credit: Natasha Moustache

Of Her Becoming celebrates the printmaking, work, and impact of influential artist and activist Elizabeth Catlett (1915–2012) within an important site in Catlett’s career: Chicago’s South Side. Curated by Sheridan Tucker Anderson, the exhibition showcases an array of Catlett’s lithograph and linoleum prints alongside works by contemporary Black women printmakers from the South Side, Angela Davis Fegan, Krista Franklin, and Rebel Betty.

Examining the significance of Catlett’s time on the City’s South Side, this exhibition sheds new light on a period that revolutionized her artistic practice, and how her legacy still impacts artists and community organizers today.

We invite you to experience the exhibit yourself...

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February 16th, 2024

Amy Tyson and Chris Solís Green co-edited Chicago Mosaic: Immigrant Stories of Objects Kept, Lost or Left Behind and began their exploration by co-teaching a DePaul University class on Chicago immigration. As part of the class, they researched immigration issues and patterns across the country—see the reading list below. Through both their research and in conducting interviews with people across Chicago, they realized that, like any American city, Chicago is made up of a mix of stark regrets and hopes of its immigrants, all of...

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May 15th, 2023

In collaboration with the National Public Housing Museum, we are honored to celebrate the June 1 event with Richard & Leah Rothstein for Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law. Just Action provides a roadmap for achieving social justice by challenging the scourge of residential segregation. 

As part of this partnership, we have curated a comprehensive reading list that delves into the history and narratives surrounding residential segregation, public housing, and mass incarceration. This collection, featuring history, sociology, urban studies, fiction, and poetry, brings...

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March 19th, 2023

We are thrilled to be sharing a reading list in partnership with the Institute on the Formation of Knowledge’s upcoming Science and Liberalism Conference. The conference will take place on April 7-8, 2023 at the University of Chicago.

About the conference: Modern Science and modern liberalism grew up together, with shared genealogies in colonialism, racism, and capitalism. This conference centers the constitutive relationship between the two. Science and Liberalism brings together historically minded scholars from critical traditions that deconstruct both concepts. We will interrogate the ways ideas about science...

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January 13th, 2023

On Monday, January 23rd, the Institute on the Formation of Knowledge will present "Organs and Humans on Chips: Biomedical Models and the Political Economy of Innovation" as part of the Cultures & Knowledge Worskshop Series. This workshop will be presented by Melanie Jeske.

Register HERE for in-person registration

Register HERE for Zoom access

Description: In the wake of mounting concerns regarding translational failure between bench research to bedside therapies, new actors, fields, and technologies now promise to disrupt existing...

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February 1st, 2022

Silence and Silences is a meditation on the infinite search for meanings in silence from Wallis Wilde-Menozzi, author of The Other Side of the Tiber and Mother Tongue. In this Selected Bibliography, Wilde-Menozzi shares and reflects on the books that informed her exploration of silence.

Wallis Wilde-Menozzi: There is a great deal of silence in my inner writing life, and a great number of strong opinions in my outer one. Getting at silence by using words seemed a contradiction; I often longed for a solution like John Cage’s, when musicians performed his composition of silence for four minutes and thirty-three soundless seconds. Or like Tilley Olsen’s, defining it from a...

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January 19th, 2022

On January 24, The Institute on the Formation of Knowledge will present "Digital Emancipation: Augmenting Public Access to and Engagement of Historical Documents" as part of the Cultures & Knowledge Workshop Series. This workshop will be presented by Alisea W. McLeod.

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About the presenter: Alisea W. McLeod introduce ongoing historical work, Practices of Emancipation. Over several years, along with John Clegg, the two have transcribed and digitized thousands of obscure primary documents related to the U.S....

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