Programs are one hour duration unless otherwise noted.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2
6:00 p.m.
#501 American Airlines Lecture: Do Americans Still Have a Dream?
St. James Cathedral
7:30 p.m.
# 502 Great Books: Delbanco
St. James Cathedral
#601 Three Generations
St. James Cathedral
#648 Sight Unseen
Merle Reskin Theatre
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3
1:00 p.m.
#602 Martha Peake
Newberry Library
8:00 p.m.
#600 Around the World with Cole Porter
Symphony Center, Armour Stage
8-9:30
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4
10:00 a.m.
#201 Once Upon a Time–is NOW!
Ogden School
#301 Elastic Time on Flexible Stages
Merle Reskin Theatre
#302 The Twentieth Century: Were the Good Guys Bound to Win?
Newberry Library
10:30 a.m.
#303 Taoism and the Arts of China
Art Institute, Rubloff Auditorium
#603 Comedy & Revenge
Symphony Center, Armour Stage
10:30 – 11:45 a.m.
11:00 a.m.
#304 Time May Not Exist
Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
#503 Religion & the Family Now
Museum Of Contemporary Art
#504 SENSAZIONE! Public vs. Private Funding of “Offensive Art”: A Mock Appeal
Chicago Historical Society
11 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
#604 Hollywood: Then and Now
Harold Washington Library
#605 “Might As Well Live”: Mining Humor from Tragedy in Women’s Literature
Loyola
11:30 a.m.
#101 Border-Crossings: Literature & Cultural Translation
Newberry Library
11:30 – 1 p.m.
12:00 p.m.
#202 Making Music, Bridging Lives
Ogden School
#305 History NOW!
National Louis University
Noon-1:30 p.m.
#506 Why Are Americans So Restless in the Midst of Prosperity?
Gleacher Center
#606 A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to This Poem
Roosevelt University, Ganz Hall
12:30 p.m.
#306 Capturing the Now
Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
1:00 p.m.
#307 Mao Now
Art Institute, Rubloff Auditorium
#308 Islam and Time
Alliance Francaise
#507 Magdalena Abakanowicz
Museum Of Contemporary Art
#607 What Now? When, Already.
Symphony Center, Armour Stage
#608 Saul Bellow: An American Life
Gleacher Center
1:30 p.m.
#609 Myths, Dreams, and Stories
Roosevelt University, Ganz Hall
2:00 p.m.
#102 A Reading with Anita Desai
Loyola, Rubloff Auditorium
#203 The Adventures of Sindbad
Ogden School
#508 Only Sixteen
Roosevelt University, Ganz Hall
#611 Austin Pendleton
Harold Washington Library
#613 Beowulf
Symphony Center, Buntrock Hall
2-3:30 p.m.
2:30 p.m.
#309 Zen Motifs: Love, Will, and Desire
Art Institute, Stock Exchange
#310 Einstein’s Dreams
Chicago Historical Society
2:30 – 4 p.m.
#509 I May Not Get There with You: Martin Luther King for the 21st Century
St. James Cathedral
#616 What’s Cooking? Food & Entertainment Now
Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
2:30 – 4 p.m.
3:00 p.m.
#401 Education in the Age of the Internet
Gleacher Center
#510 Race & Writing
Newberry Library
#617 Kevin Cole: A Work in Progress
Symphony Center, Armour Stage
#618 The Language of Clothes
Museum Of Contemporary Art
3:30 p.m.
#103 Cairomania: Cairo as the “Always” City
Alliance Francaise
#204 HUMANA-RAMA: Games, Voices, and Children’s Theatre
Ogden School
#311 What’s So Special About the Present?
Loyola, Rubloff Auditorium
#612 Writers’ Theatre on Austin Pendleton
Harold Washington Library
4:00 p.m.
#619 A Good House
Roosevelt University, Ganz Hall
4:30 p.m.
#312 The Manifold Now
National Louis University
4:30 – 6 p.m.
5:00 p.m.
#620 A Double Writing
Alliance Francaise
6:00 p.m.
#205 An Evening of Mime
Ogden School
7:00 p.m.
#610 Princess Mononoke
Facets Cinematheque
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5
10:00 a.m.
#400 Chicago Tribune Lecture: Bridging the Digital Divide
Symphony Center, Armour Stage
11:30 a.m.
#313 Where History is Headed
Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
#621 A Conversation with Jaume Plensa
Museum Of Contemporary Art
12:00 p.m.
#105 How Africa Met Ireland in American Song
Roosevelt University, Ganz Hall
#106 The Marriage of True Minds: Writers and Translators
Alliance Francaise
Noon-1:30 p.m.
#206 Stories and Songs of African People
Ogden School
#511 Richard J. Daley: American Pharaoh
National Louis University
#512 Healing History
Chicago Historical Society
12:00 — 1:30 p.m.
#622 “The Dearest Freshness Deep Down Things”: The Humanities and the Concept of the New
Symphony Center, Buntrock Hall
#623 How Oceans Connect
Newberry Library
12:00 – 1:30 p.m.
12:30 p.m.
#107 Hostages to Empire: Now and Then
Loyola, Rubloff Auditorium
1:00 p.m.
#108 Baywatch: American Pop Culture Abroad
Harold Washington Library
#513 Theater and Politics
Museum Of Contemporary Art
#624 !WEN . . . Looking Back Along the Edge
Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
2:00 p.m.
#109 The Backlash against the Americanization of Global Culture
Roosevelt University, Ganz Hall
#110 Moth Smoke
Loyola, Rubloff Auditorium
#207 Illustration Workshop
Ogden School
#514 The History of the “Interracial”
Alliance Francaise
#515 A Celebration of Memory
Chicago Historical Society
#614 Beowulf
Symphony Center, Buntrock Hall
2:00 – 3:30 p.m.
#625 Families in Literature
National Louis University
2:30 p.m.
#314 The Past, Present, and Future of Maps
Newberry Library
2:30 — 4:00 p.m.
#626 The Audience Now
Harold Washington Library
2:30 — 4:00 p.m.
3:00 p.m.
#627 A Celebration of The New Yorker’s 75th Anniversary
Museum Of Contemporary Art
3:00 — 4:30 p.m.
3:30 p.m.
#315 The Question of Bruno
Loyola, Rubloff Auditorium
#516 Why Don’t Americans Vote?
Chicago Historical Society
4:00 p.m.
#208 The Young Musician’s Survival Guide
Ogden School
#615 Great Books: Beowulf
National Louis University
#628 Visible Cities
Alliance Francaise
#629 A Conversation with Donald Margulies
Roosevelt University, Ganz Hall
7:00 p.m.
#517 Religion NOW!
St. James Cathedral
7:00 – 8:30 p.m.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6
7:00 p.m.
#801 The Ascent
Facets Cinematheque
7:00 — 8:45 p.m.
9:00 p.m.
#802 The Horse Thief
Facets Cinematheque
9:00 — 10:30 p.m.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7
6:30 p.m.
#803 La Jetee & Alphaville
Facets Cinematheque
6:30 — 8:15 p.m.
9:00 p.m.
#804 Archangel
Facets Cinematheque
9:00 – 10:30 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8
7:00 p.m.
#805 Fallen Angels
Facets Cinematheque
7:00 — 8:30 p.m.
9:00 p.m.
#806 Beau Travail
Facets Cinematheque
9:00 — 10:30 p.m.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9
5:30 p.m.
#518 Life in Lawyerland
NU Law School
5:30 – 7:00 p.m.
7:00 p.m.
#807 On Top of the Whale
Facets Cinematheque
7:00 — 8:30 p.m.
8:45 p.m.
#808 Second Circle
Facets Cinematheque
8:45 — 10:15 p.m.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10
12:00 p.m.
#111 Iran: The Last Great Revolution
Harold Washington Library
7:00 p.m.
#809 Taste of Cherry
Facets Cinematheque
7:00 — 8:40 p.m.
7:30 p.m.
#209 The Second Hurricane
Francis Parker School
7:30 — 9:00 p.m.
#630 Songwriters Now
NU Law School, Thorne Auditorium
7:30 — 9:00 p.m.
8:45 p.m.
#810 Wittgenstein
Facets Cinematheque
8:45 — 10:00 p.m.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11
10:30 a.m.
#631 The Arts & Culture of the Iranian Diaspora
Harold Washington Library
10:30 a.m. — 12:00 p.m.
11:00 a.m.
#112 Learning to Love Globalization
Roosevelt University, Ganz Hall
#113 International Justice
Chicago Historical Society
#316 La Milpa: A Mayan City in the Belize Jungle
Alliance Francaise
#317 Great Books: T.S. Eliot
National Louis University
#402 The Internet: Transforming Business and Society
Symphony Center, Buntrock Hall
#520 Peace and Reconciliation: The Old Bridge
Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
#632 Collecting Now
National Louis University
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
12:00 p.m.
#211 Without a Net
Ogden School
12:30 p.m.
#114 Statesmanship Now
Chicago Historical Society
#403 Privacy & the Internet
Roosevelt University, Ganz Hall
12:30 – 2:00 p.m.
#633 Contemporary Iranian Art
Harold Washington Library
1:00 p.m.
#115 The Birth of the New Russia Out of the Spirit of Music
Symphony Center, Buntrock Hall
#116 Ourselves as Others See Us
NU Law School, Thorne Auditorium
1:00 – 2:30 p.m.
#404 The Death of the New
Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
#634 Architecture Now
Alliance Francaise
#636 FSG Poetry Reading
National Louis University
1:00 – 2:30 p.m.
#701 Jelly Roll Blues
Field Museum, Simpson Theatre
BONUS PROGRAM: Write Now
Harold Washington Library
2:00 p.m.
#521 A Conversation with Glenda Jackson
Symphony Center, Armour Stage
#522 J. M. Coetzee: A Reading
Chicago Historical Society
#637 Voices of a Changing Ireland
Ogden School
2:30 p.m.
#117 Iran Today
Harold Washington Library
2:30 – 4:00 p.m.
#318 Uncovering the Oldest Civilization: Tell Hamoukar
Alliance Francaise
#702 Ensemble Stop-Time
Field Museum, Simpson Theatre
2:30 – 4:00 p.m.
3:00 p.m.
#319 Time Stands Still: Chronos and Eternity
Methodist Temple
#320 A Conversation with John Edgar Wideman
Roosevelt University, Ganz Hall
#405 The Internet: Who Owns It? Who Runs It?
Symphony Center, Buntrock Hall
#635 Las Vegas: The Now City
Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
3:00 – 4:30 p.m.
3:30 p.m.
#118 Hala Sarhan
Chicago Historical Society
#406 The Internet Revolution
NU Law School, Thorne Auditorium
#638 Re-Media: An Overview of Web-based Art
National Louis University
3:30 – 5:00 p.m.
4:00 p.m.
#523 The Apartheid Museum
Alliance Francaise
#639 Aspects of Oscar
Ogden School
5:00 p.m.
#703 Robinson and Weber: A Piano Tribute to Jelly Roll
Field Museum, Simpson Theatre
5:30 p.m.
#119 The U.S. and the UN: Prospects for the 21st Century
NU Law School, Thorne Auditorium
7:00 p.m.
#704 Improv Evolution
Field Museum, Simpson Theatre
7:00 – 8:30 p.m.
#811 Two X Greenaway: Vertical Features Remake & A Walk through H
Facets Cinematheque
7:00 — 8:30 p.m.
7:30 p.m.
#210 The Second Hurricane
Francis Parker School
7:30 — 9:00 p.m.
8:45 p.m.
#812 Brightness
Facets Cinematheque
8:45 — 10:15 p.m.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 12
11:30 a.m.
#321 Roadworks Productions
Roosevelt University, Ganz Hall
#407 The Internet as a Virtual Frontier
Alliance Francaise
#640 Fashion Now
Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
11:30 – 1:00 p.m.
12:00 p.m.
#120 A Long View of U.S. Foreign Policy
Symphony Center, Buntrock Hall
#408 E-Business Panel
Chicago Historical Society
12:00 — 1:30 p.m.
#641 Rainer Maria Rilke: In Two Different American Voices
National Louis University
1:00 p.m.
#121 One Europe: The Responsibilities of America and the West
Harold Washington Library
#409 Humanizing Technology
Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
#643 Joan of Arc
Alliance Francaise
#644 Oh, Mr. Mercer!: The Songs of the Man from Moon River
NU Law School, Thorne Auditorium
1:00 – 2:30 p.m.
#705 The Nicholas Brothers
Field Museum, Simpson Theatre
2:00 p.m.
#410 The Hidden History of Now
Chicago Historical Society
#519 God and the Death Penalty: Different Religious Perspectives
National Louis University
2:00 — 3:30 p.m.
#642 Great Books: Rilke
National Louis University
#645 Concerto in Blue Tack: Contemporary Piano Music
Symphony Center, Buntrock Hall
#646 Frank Bidart on Robert Lowell
Roosevelt University, Ganz Hall
2:30 p.m.
#122 European Union Writers’ Roundtable
Alliance Francaise
2:30 – 4:00 p.m.
3:00 p.m.
#123 Al Jazeera Network: Uncensored Journalism in the Arab World
Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
#124 History of the Present: Europe Between Unification and Ethnic Cleansing
Harold Washington Library
#706 Jelly Roll’s Manuscripts
Field Museum, Simpson Theatre
3:30 p.m.
#411 The Internet: Past, Present, and Future
Chicago Historical Society
#647 The Letters of Oscar Wilde
Roosevelt University, Ganz Hall
4:00 p.m.
#524 Toward a Creole-American Literature
National Louis University
5:00 p.m.
#707 Jelly Roll Morton: The 1920s
Field Museum, Simpson Theatre
5:00 – 6:30 p.m.
8:00 p.m.
#708 Jelly Roll Morton: The 1930s
Field Museum, Simpson Theatre
8:00 – 9:30 p.m.
FESTIVAL XI SITES
Alliance Francaise
54 W. Chicago Ave.
Art Institute of Chicago
(East entry)
230 S. Columbus Dr.
Chicago Historical Society
1601 N. Clark St.
Chicago Public Library
Harold Washington Library Center
400 S. State St.
Facets Cinematheque
1517 W. Fullerton Ave.
The Field Museum
(West entry)
1400 S. Lake Shore Dr.
First United Methodist Church
The Chicago Temple
77 W. Washington
Francis W. Parker School
330 W. Webster
Loyola University — Chicago
Downtown campus
25 E. Pearson
Merle Reskin Theatre
60 E. Balbo Ave.
Museum of Contemporary Art
220 E. Chicago Ave.
National Louis University
Downtown Chicago Campus
122 S. Michigan Ave.
The Newberry Library
60 W. Walton
Northwestern University Law School
Chicago Campus
375 E. Chicago Ave.
Ogden Elementary School
24 W. Walton St.
Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
N. Cannon Dr.
Roosevelt University
430 S. Michigan Ave.
St. James Episcopal Cathedral
Wabash and Huron
Symphony Center
220 S. Michigan Ave.
The University of Chicago, Gleacher Center
Downtown Campus
450 N. City Front Plaza Dr.
