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[The next in our series of blog posts from the Unit's 2/19 symposium, MAD WORLD: Sex, Politics, Style, and the 1960s, is a response to Lynne Joyrich's afternoon keynote lecture, "Media Madness: Multiple Identity Disorder in...

[On February 19, 2010, the Unit for Criticism's hosted a winter symposium called MAD WORLD: Sex, Politics, Style and the 1960s. Over the next couple of weeks we will publish a series of guest posts on Kritik covering specific...

Above left: Alexander Doty links homosexualityon Mad Men to Sex and the Single Girl (1962); Above right: Pat Gill moderates the first panel sporting a vintage dress worn by her mother in the 1960s.Photos from the MAD WORLD symposium, February 19, 2010...

Michael Szalay delivers his morning keynote address on the advent of market segmentation in 1960s advertising.Leslie Reagan and Clarence Lang speaking, respectively. on women's reproductive experience and civil rights in the 1960s....

[The next in our "15 Ways" series on the condition of higher education offers a reflection on the choice between furloughs and voluntary pay reductions.]Written by Joseph Valente (English)On January 20, our Interim Chancellor, Robert Easter, sent us all a message: “we are pleased to be able to offer... to our faculty and...

[The next in our series on higher education, 15 Ways to Take Your Furlough/Voluntary Pay Cut, features the reflections of five members of the Graduate Employee’s Organization (GEO)]Written by Melinda Bernardo (Research Assistant and Ph.D. Student, Anthropology); Peter Odell Campbell (Teaching Assistant and Ph.D. Student,...

[The next in our series on the condition of higher education comes from outside the University of Illinois. Joseph Childers, a scholar of Victorian literature, is professor of...

To help set the mood for this month's symposium, MAD WORLD: Sex, Politics, Style and the 1960s, the Unit for Criticism has created a slideshow inspired by music and images from the 1960s as well as from Mad Men.The event will take place on Friday 2/19, beginning at 9:30 am and will conclude with a 9pm Dance Party at V. Picasso in...

[Cary Nelson's contribution to the "15 Ways to Take Your Furlough/Voluntary Pay Cut" series on the condition of higher education is excerpted from the lecture he gave for the Unit for Criticism's January 25 colloquium, "Higher Education's Perfect Storm: What Can We Do?"]Written by Cary Nelson (English/President, AAUP)The...

Written by Dianne Harris (Director, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities and Professor of Landscape Architecture, Architecture, Art History, and History)As an architectural historian, I am a humanist who studies the history of human interactions with the built environment. As such, I’ve spent a fair amount of time...

Detail from Leonardo's Codex Written by Sevinç Türkkan (Comparative Literature)When I first found out that translating literature is not considered academic work on many campuses across the USA, I was very surprised. Does that mean that in academic circles today, translation is considered merely as the...

The Brooklyn Bridge photographed in the 1950s[On January 25, 2010 the Unit hosted a lecture by Cary Nelson, “Higher Education’s Perfect Storm: What Can We Do?,” with responses by Douglas Beck (Physics) and Harriet Murav (Slavic/Comparative & World Lit). Below is an abridged version of Professor...

[On January 25 the Unit for Criticism hosted a colloquium, "Higher Education's Perfect Storm: What Can We Do?," featuring Cary Nelson, professor of English, president of the national AAUP, and author of the forthcoming book No University is...

"Red Dress in F Minor" by Midori Furze[On January 20, 2010, Interim Chancellor/Provost Robert Easter announced a new Voluntary Pay Reduction program as an alternative to the mandatory furlough program announced...