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AREA News

• AREA’s 68/08 Project is Kicked Off

  by AREA   |   Published June 25, 2008

  AREA has officially kicked off planning for our 68/08 Issue (see full project description here). We are excited to be working with the Jane Addams Hull House Museum on this issue and event series. If you want to know more or get involved:

  • You can check out our research blog here
  • Submit a proposal by August 1st (Drafts are due Sept 1st and Final content is due Oct 1st) to areachicago@gmail.com
  • Check out one of our upcoming events. The best way to keep up with the events is to join our email announcement list here.

  
  Of other interest, please check out the new website dedicated to our Notes for a People's Atlas project. We have a general People's Atlas site that will serve to document the overall project and some of the other cities that are developing People's Atlas projects and then we have one dedicated to the Notes for a People's Atlas of Chicago project as well. Get in touch with areachicagointern@gmail.com if you are interested in contributing to this effort.

Report Back

• ReportBack #1: Tamms/Laurie Jo Reynolds @ Hyde Park Art Center

  2008-03-25
  A report back on the day of the tenth anniversary of Tamms CMAX prison, concerning an event called TalkingPoint at Hyde Park Art Center, December 10, 2007 by Laurie Palmer It felt like a great weight falling off; or like a stone decomposing in response to vibration. The weight was an old calcified idea, a prohibition that [...]
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• AREA Chicago Announces a New Web Project: Report Back

  2008-02-11
  A new weblog dedicated to documenting events and people’s impressions of them throughout Chicago AREA Chicago, the publication and event series, has initiated this as an extension of its ongoing interest in documenting activities at the intersections of arts, education, research and activism in Chicago. The site is meant to fill in some of the gaps [...]
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1968

• Planning Meeting

  2008-06-21
  Come to a meeting about the 68/08 Issue of AREA Chicago at 2129 N Rockwell at 6pm on Tuesday June 24th, 2008. You must RSVP for this meeting at areachicago@gmail.com. Bring ideas for the issue and a willingness to contribute time and energy to this project. More info: The project Blog http://1968.areachicago.org featuring 10 guest correspondents from [...]
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• Will the Left Ever Learn to Communicate Across Generations?

  2008-06-21
  This article from the Chronicle of Higher Education by Maurice Isserman deals mostly with the relationship between Michael Harrington and Tom Hayden. Harrington famously lambasted Hayden following the release of the “Port Huron Statement” which was an early document of the Students for a Democratic Society. The article also deals with the unintended consequences of [...]
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• The Sixties and the presidential race

  2008-06-21
  Daniel Finkelstein in The Times Online discusses the role of the presidential candidates McCain and Obama in transforming the legacy of ‘68
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• Zizek on “The Ambiguous Legacy of ‘68″

  2008-06-21
  This was printed in this month’s In These Times. http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3751/the_ambiguous_legacy_of_68/
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• 68 or its illusion?

  2008-06-10
  From Prospect Magazine.
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