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	Life of the Spirit, Life of the Mind: Rockefeller Memorial Chapel at 75 Drawing on photographs and documents from the University Archives, this exhibition explores how the planners of Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, Chapel Deans, the student body, and the broader community have interpreted this mission to shape the architecture of the Chapel as well as the programs it supports.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center March 1 — June 1, 2004	Subjects University of Chicago
	UChicago Celebrates Black History A selection of books that explore all dimensions of Black life, history and Black experience. All books were suggested by UChicago students, staff, faculty, and librarians.	Locations Regenstein 1st Floor Reading Room Feb. 10 — Feb. 29, 2020 View web exhibit >>	Subjects History
	Censorship and Information Control Why do people censor? For ambition? Religion? Profit? Power? Fear? This global history of attempts to control or silence information, from antiquity’s earliest written records to our new digital world, examines how censorship has worked, thrived, or failed in different times and places, and shows how real censorship movements tend to be very different from the centralized, methodical, top-down censorship depicted in Orwell’s 1984, which so dominates how we imagine censorship today. From indexes of forbidden books, to manuscripts with passages inked out by Church Inquisitors, to comics and pornography, to self-censorship and the subtle censorship of manipulating translations or teaching biased histories, the banned and challenged materials in this exhibit will challenge you to answer: how do you define what is and isn’t censorship?	Sept. 17 — Dec. 14, 2018 View web exhibit >>	Subjects History
	T. Kimball Brooker Prize for Undergraduate Book Collecting The Brooker Prize is awarded annually to second- and fourth year students with outstanding book collections. This exhibit provides an opportunity for award winners to share selections from their collections with a wider audience.	Locations Regenstein 1st Floor Reading Room View web exhibit >>	Subjects Latin American Studies Medieval Studies Gender Studies Arts
	Swiss Treasures: From Biblical Papyrus and Parchment to Erasmus, Zwingli, Calvin, and Barth This exhibition explores the importance of Swiss religious influences across a range of traditions and historical personalities, among them Erasmus, Zwingli, John Calvin, and Karl Barth.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Sept. 21 — Dec. 14, 2012	Subjects Religion
	"A Case for Reparations at the University of Chicago": Sources A selection of original manuscripts, publications, and legal documents that trace the connections and continuities between the Old University of Chicago and the new University, founded in 1890.	Locations Regenstein Bookstacks, 4th Floor April 25 — Aug. 11, 2019 View web exhibit >>
	Integrating the Life of the Mind: African Americans at the University of Chicago, 1870-1940 This exhibit presents original manuscripts, rarely seen portraits and photographs, African American publications, books by African American graduates of the University of Chicago, and other documents that trace the interlocking strands of academic and gradual social integration through the mid-twentieth century.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Sept. 1 — Feb. 28, 2009 View web exhibit >>	Subjects African-American Studies University of Chicago
	Chicago Celebrates Darwin The John Crerar Library presents Chicago Celebrates Darwin, an exhibit which revisits the Darwin Centennial Celebration hosted by the University in 1959. We look back at the original letters, pictures, and documents from that conference to get a sense of the atmosphere and the importance of the events, including the effect of Darwin’s theories on the research and popular opinion of the day.	Locations Crerar Library, 1st Floor: Other Spaces Oct. 19 — March 26, 2010 View web exhibit >>	Subjects University of Chicago Ecology & Evolution Organismal Biology Biological Sciences Chicago and Illinois