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Exhibit Programs
Admission is free to all public programs, unless otherwise noted.
Public programs to accompany Outspoken have been planned in
collaboration with the Chicago Historical Society, the American Library
Association, the Public Square, and the Independent Press Association. These
programs are made possible in part by a grant from the Illinois Humanities
Council, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Illinois General
Assembly.
Outspoken Curators' Talk and Tour
Saturday, October 2,
9:30-10:30 a.m.
Curators: Tobias Higbie, Newberry Library, and Peter Alter,
Chicago Historical Society
Read-Out: The American Library Association's 23rd Annual Banned Books
Week
Saturday, October 2, 12:30-2:00 p.m.
Speaker: Carol A.
Brey-Casiano, American Library Association
Note location: Washington Square
Park, 901 N. Clark St., across the street from the Newberry Library
The Social Protest Novel in Chicago, 1930-1960
Saturday,
October 16, 9:30-10:30 a.m.
Speaker: Alan M. Wald, University of
Michigan
The Social Novel Continued: Stuart Dybek and Alexai Galaviz
Budziszeuski
Saturday, October 16, 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Speakers:
Stuart Dybek and Alexai Galaviz Budziszeuski
Discussion: Free Space, Free Speech
Sunday, October 17,
2:00-3:30 p.m.
Speakers: Donald Mitchell, Syracuse University; and Thomas
Brezcha, Thomas More Society
Note location: Chicago Historical Society, 1601
N. Clark St.
This program is free with admission to the Chicago
Historical Society: $5 general, $3 seniors and students, $1 children 12 and
under. Members of CHS and the Newberry will be admitted free to the program.
Call (312) 642-4600 for reservations.
Politics, Censorship, and Satire
Saturday, October 23,
10:00-11:30 a.m.
Chair: Barbara Ransby, The Public Square, University of
Illinois at Chicago
Outspoken, Indian Style: The Untold Story of the American Indian
Chicago Conference
Wednesday, October 27, 2:00-3:30 p.m.
Speaker:
Daniel Cobb, Miami University, Ohio
Bus Tour: Chicago's Free Speech Tradition
Saturday, November
13, 1:00-5:00 p.m.
Tour guide: William Adelman, labor historian
Note
location: Meet in the lobby of the Newberry Library at 1:00 p.m.
$35 ($25
for members of CHS and the Newberry). Call the Chicago Historical Society at
(312) 642-4600 to register for the bus tour.
Film: The Weather Underground
Tuesday, November 16, 6:30-9:30
p.m.
Speaker: Bill Siegel, film director
Note location: Chicago
Historical Society, 1601 N. Clark St.
This program is free with admission
to the Chicago Historical Society: $5 general, $3 seniors and students, $1
children 12 and under. Members of CHS and the Newberry will be admitted free to
the program. Call (312) 642-4600 for reservations.
The Days of the Martyrs and the Saints: The Enduring Memory of the
Haymarket Tragedy and Other Labor Massacres
Saturday, December 4,
10:00-11:30 a.m.
Speakers: James Green, University of Massachusetts, Boston;
and Peter Alter, Chicago Historical Society
Free Speech and the "Kids of Fairytown"
Saturday, December 11,
11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Speaker: David K. Johnson, University of Florida
How to Be a Smart Media Consumer
Wednesday, January 12,
6:00-7:30 p.m.
Chair: Alan Gitelson, Loyola University of
Chicago
Panelists: Laura S. Washington, DePaul University and the Chicago Sun-Times; Steve Edwards, Chicago Public Radio’s “Eight Forty-Eight”; Michael Miner, the Chicago Reader; and Dan Sinker, Punk Planet and the Independent Press Association.
Free Speech: The Wobblies Challenge
Saturday, January 15,
10:00-11:30 a.m.
Speakers: Paul Buhle, Brown University; and Mike Alewitz,
Central Connecticut State University
To receive printed media materials on present exhibits, please contact
Erika Hartings, Associate Director of Public Relations, at (312) 255-3553 or by
e-mail: hartingse@newberry.org.
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