Great Chicago Places and Spaces: Conversations Within Communities

The University of Chicago Press, in partnership with the City of Chicago’s Mayor’s Office of Special Events, announces the launch of a new lecture series—Great Chicago Places and Spaces: Conversations Within Communities. With a goal of fostering dialogue between Chicago citizens and Chicago writers, and supported with a generous grant from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, Conversations within Communities brings award-winning authors to the public square. Each author will be featured in free noontime lectures in the Millennium Room at the Chicago Cultural Center, followed by free evening readings at community sites throughout Chicago. All evening readings begin at 6:30 P.M.

The series will kick off on Wednesday, April 16th with Mary Pattillo, author of Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City. A professor of African American studies and sociology at Northwestern University, Pattillo’s evening reading will be held at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum at the University of Illinois at Chicago located at 800 S. Halsted St.

On Wednesday April 23rd, Ronne Hartfield will speak on her book, Another Way Home: The Tangled Roots of Race in one Chicago Family. Hartfield is an international museum consultant, and her book has been hailed as ”a warm and touching memoir of a close-knit family as well as a record of the tumultuous history of race relations in the U.S.” by Booklist. Hartfield’s evening reading will be at the Hyde Park Art Center located at 5020 S. Cornell Ave.

Sally A. Kitt Chappell, author of Chicago’s Urban Nature: A Guide to the City’s Architecture and Landscape, will read on Wednesday, April 30th. Professor Emerita of art and architectural history at DePaul University, Chappell’s latest book was called “a tactile and visual pleasure” by Landscape Architecture Magazine. Sally Chappell’s evening reading will be at Access Living located at 115 W. Chicago Ave.

Louise W. Knight, author of Citizen: Jane Addams and the Struggle for Democracy, will speak on Wednesday, May 7th. An independent scholar who has taught at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago and at Northwestern University, Knight’s latest book was called “a gift, meant to enlighten and improve” by the New York Times Book Review. Knight’s evening reading will be at the Center on Halsted located at 3656 N. Halsted St.

Stuart Dybek, author of Childhood and Other Neighborhoods, will speak on Wednesday, May 14th. An author and poet from Southwest Chicago, Stuart Dybek teaches in the writing program at Northwestern University and was awarded the MacArthur prize in 2007. His other works include The Coast of Chicago, and I Sailed with Magellan. Dybek’s evening reading will be at the Lawson YMCA 30 W. Chicago Ave.

For more information, please contact Ellen Gibson at (773) 702-3233 or EG@press.uchicago.edu



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