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T.H. Tsien, Scholar and Librarian of East Asian Studies, 1909-2015

Tsuen-hsuin (T.H.) Tsien, curator emeritus of the East Asian Collection of the Joseph Regenstein Library and professor emeritus of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, passed away April 9 in Chicago. He was 105.

Three Faculty Members Receive American Council of Learned Societies Fellowships

Thomas Christensen, Nadine Moeller, David Simon

Three faculty members from the Division of the Humanities have received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies. These prestigious fellowships allow scholars to spend six to 12 months on full-time research and writing.

Objects and Voices Exhibition Foregrounds Smart Museum's Collection and the Craft of Curation

Attributed to Wassily Kandinsky, Composition, 1914, Oil on canvas. Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, Gift of Dolores and Donn Shapiro in honor of Jory Shapiro, 2012.51. Courtesy of Smart Museum of Art

For the second time in four months, the Smart Museum of Art is featuring artworks from its permanent collection throughout its entire space. Following the success of the fall show Carved Cast and Crumpled: Sculpture All Ways, the Smart galleries have again been transformed into a wide-ranging exhibition in honor of the museum’s 40th anniversary, along with this year’s campus-wide celebration of shared anniversaries, UChicago Artennial.

Visiting Fellows Bring Expertise, Energy to Neubauer Collegium

Neubauer Collegium Visiting Fellow Peter Cook performs at the inaugural conference of the Center for Gesture, Sign and Language.

An expert in classics and a scholar of comparative literature. A statistician and a historian of film. A deaf storyteller and experts in linguistics. The Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society supports ambitious faculty research projects that cut across disciplinary boundaries.

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