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(Co)-Humanitarian Exhibit Poster (Co)-Humanitarian
(Co)-Humanitarian used print and visual resources to illustrate the ideological and geographic divisions between South and North Korea. The exhibit also conveyed North Korea’s human rights issues.
Locations
Regenstein 5th Floor Reading Room
May 1 — Aug. 1, 2017
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Subjects
Area Studies
Korean Studies
Folk Festival poster final.pdf Putting the Folk Back in Folk Music: Sixty Years of the University of Chicago Folk Festival [Temporarily Closed]
From its first concerts in the early 1950s , the University of Chicago Folklore Society has been a major driving force in the nation for presenting exceptional traditional musicians from their source communities to new audiences. Its first festival, in February 1961, drew national attention for its outstanding artistic quality and traditionalist focus, in contrast to the singer songwriting and more distanced relationship to traditions of the folk music revival sweeping the United States. Over the years, popular interest in traditional folk music has waxed and waned, while the Festival resiliently keeps to its time tested format while continuing to introduce new musicians from a wide array of cultures.
Locations
Regenstein 5th Floor Reading Room
Feb. 13 — May 26, 2020
Stamp depicting rhododendron Understanding North Korea through Stamps
The East Asian Collection acquired more than 2,000 North Korean stamps this year, each of which has been digitized and accompanied by in-depth data to form the first digital collection of its kind developed by any library worldwide.
Locations
Regenstein 5th Floor Reading Room
Sept. 23 — Feb. 12, 2020
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Subjects
East Asian Studies
Sectarian Body Stamp The World of South Asian Scripts
This exhibit explores the rich historical heritage as well as the lively contemporary usage of South Asian scripts.
Locations
Regenstein 5th Floor Reading Room
Sept. 5 — Dec. 14, 2018
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Subjects
Southern Asia
South Asia