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Dean and Associate Professor of Religion, Literature and Visual Culture, Rosengarten pursues interests in genres of narrative (especially the novel), in hermeneutics, literary theory, and aesthetics, and in the development of religious thought through the "long" eighteenth century. His book Henry Fielding and the Narration of Providence: Divine Design and the Incursions of Evil locates Fielding's novels in the contexts of the debates about poetic justice in the drama, and the deism controversy's discussions of natural religion toward the claim that the eighteenth-century English novel engages broader theological questions about the security of classic notions of providential intervention in a post-Newtonian universe. He is completing a book on Roman Catholicism between the Vatican Councils under the title Styles of Catholicism: Flannery O'Connor, Frida Kahlo, Simone Weil, and plans to undertake a study of satire as a mode of apophatic language from Rabelais to Swift. Wednesday Lunch is a Divinity School tradition started many decades ago. At noon on Wednesdays when the quarter is in session a delicious vegetarian meal is made in the Swift Hall kitchen by our student chefs and lunch crew. Once the three-course meal has reached dessert each week there is a talk by a faculty member or student from throughout the University, a community member from the greater Chicago area, or a guest from a wider distance.

The Office of Sustainability works with campus and community partners to enhance a culture of sustainability using a data-driven, yet relationship-based approach that strives to connect students, faculty and staff into a cohesive University-wide network. Their philosophy: to achieve balance between environmental, social and economic sustainability in all decisions. Wednesday Lunch is a Divinity School tradition started many decades ago. At noon on Wednesdays when the quarter is in session a delicious vegetarian meal is made in the Swift Hall kitchen by our student chefs and lunch crew. Once the three-course meal has reached dessert each week there is a talk by a faculty member or student from throughout the University, a community member from the greater Chicago area, or a guest from a wider distance.

David Travis (AB'71), Author, Curator, and former Chair of the Department of Photography of the The Art Institute of Chicago, speaking. A specialist in the modernist period, he has organized a number of significant shows and contributed scholarly essays to their catalogs, including Starting With Atget: Photographs from the Julien Levy Collection (1977), Photography Rediscovered: American Photographs 1900-1930 (1979), André Kertész: Of Paris and New York (1985), On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography (1989), Edward Weston: The Last Years in Carmel (2001), Taken By Design: Photography from the Institute of Design 1937-1971 (2002),Yousuf Karsh: Regarding Heroes (2008), and most recently Karsh: Beyond the Camera (2012). He has organized and presented more than 125 exhibitions of photography at the Art Institute of Chicago and has also been active as a guest curator for other major museums. His exhibitions have been shown at the National Gallery of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art in Osaka, the Museo degli Innocenti (Florence), and for the Patrimoine photographique of the French Ministry of Culture, which inducted him as a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1987. In December of 2002, he was named a “Chicagoan of the Year” by the Chicago Tribune Arts critics. A book of his lectures and essays was issued in 2003 by David R. Godine Publisher under the title: At the Edge of the Light: Thoughts on Photographers and Photography, on Talent and Genius. Wednesday Lunch is a Divinity School tradition started many decades ago. At noon on Wednesdays when the quarter is in session a delicious vegetarian meal is made in the Swift Hall kitchen by our student chefs and lunch crew. Once the three-course meal has reached dessert each week there is a talk by a faculty member or student from throughout the University, a community member from the greater Chicago area, or a guest from a wider distance.

Quarterly Deans Forum with Kevin Hector, Associate Professor of Theology and the Philosophy of Religions. Professor Hector's recent book, “The Theological Project of Modernism: Faith and the Conditions of Mineness” (Oxford University Press, 2015), explores the idea of 'mineness,' in the sense of being able to identify with one's life or experience it as self-expressive, by tracing the development of this idea in modern theology. Professors Michael Fishbane and Angie Heo offer responses. Wednesday Lunch is a Divinity School. At noon on Wednesdays when the quarter is in session a delicious vegetarian meal is made in the Swift Hall kitchen by our student chefs and lunch crew. Once the three-course meal has reached dessert each week there is a talk by a faculty member or student from throughout the University, a community member from the greater Chicago area, or a guest from a wider distance. Wednesday Lunch is a Divinity School tradition started many decades ago. At noon on Wednesdays when the quarter is in session a delicious vegetarian meal is made in the Swift Hall kitchen by our student chefs and lunch crew. Once the three-course meal has reached dessert each week there is a talk by a faculty member or student from throughout the University, a community member from the greater Chicago area, or a guest from a wider distance.

Today’s lunch is this quarters’s Dean's Forum, which invites a faculty member to discuss one of his or her recent works, with formal response from several Divinity School colleagues. Today's forum features Heidegger’s Confessions: The Remains of Saint Augustine in Being and Time and Beyond (University of Chicago Press, 2015) by Ryan Coyne, Assistant Professor of the Philosophy of Religions and Theology. Daniel A. Arnold, Associate Professor of the Philosophy of Religions and Jean-Luc Marion, Andrew Thomas Greeley and Grace McNichols Greeley Professor of Catholic Studies and Professor of the Philosophy of Religions and Theology will be offering responses. Wednesday Lunch is a Divinity School tradition. At noon on Wednesdays when the quarter is in session a delicious vegetarian meal is made in the Swift Hall kitchen by our student chefs and lunch crew. Once the three-course meal has reached dessert each week there is a talk by a faculty member or student from throughout the University, a community member from the greater Chicago area, or a guest from a wider distance.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Richard A. Rosengarten, Dean and Associate Professor of Religion and Literature, kick off our 2015-2016 Lunch program. Wednesday Lunch is a Divinity School tradition started many decades ago. At noon on Wednesdays when the quarter is in session a delicious vegetarian meal is made in the Swift Hall kitchen by our student chefs and lunch crew. Once the three-course meal has reached dessert each week there is a talk by a faculty member or student from throughout the University, a community member from the greater Chicago area, or a guest from a wider distance.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Richard A. Rosengarten, Dean and Associate Professor of Religion and Literature, kick off our 2015-2016 Lunch program. Wednesday Lunch is a Divinity School tradition started many decades ago. At noon on Wednesdays when the quarter is in session a delicious vegetarian meal is made in the Swift Hall kitchen by our student chefs and lunch crew. Once the three-course meal has reached dessert each week there is a talk by a faculty member or student from throughout the University, a community member from the greater Chicago area, or a guest from a wider distance.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Olatunji Oboi Reed, speaking on the transformative power of bicycling. Oboi Reed is the co-founder and president of the Slow Roll Chicago bicycle movement – "building an equitable, diverse bicycle culture in Chicago, transforming communities as we ride" – and is involved with groups such as Red Bike & Green and South Side Critical Mass, organized rides focused on getting more people of color biking. An organizer and advocate in many venues for communities of color and low- to moderate-income communities throughout Chicago to have access to the health, economic, and social benefits of cycling. Wednesday Lunch is a Divinity School tradition started many decades ago. At noon on Wednesdays when the quarter is in session a delicious vegetarian meal is made in the Swift Hall kitchen by our student chefs and lunch crew. Once the three-course meal has reached dessert each week there is a talk by a faculty member or student from throughout the University, a community member from the greater Chicago area, or a guest from a wider distance.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Olatunji Oboi Reed, speaking on the transformative power of bicycling. Oboi Reed is the co-founder and president of the Slow Roll Chicago bicycle movement – "building an equitable, diverse bicycle culture in Chicago, transforming communities as we ride" – and is involved with groups such as Red Bike & Green and South Side Critical Mass, organized rides focused on getting more people of color biking. An organizer and advocate in many venues for communities of color and low- to moderate-income communities throughout Chicago to have access to the health, economic, and social benefits of cycling. Wednesday Lunch is a Divinity School tradition started many decades ago. At noon on Wednesdays when the quarter is in session a delicious vegetarian meal is made in the Swift Hall kitchen by our student chefs and lunch crew. Once the three-course meal has reached dessert each week there is a talk by a faculty member or student from throughout the University, a community member from the greater Chicago area, or a guest from a wider distance.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. "An Endangered Religion and a Destroyed People: The Yazidi Undoing and the Attempt to Respond." Matthew Barber is a PhD student in the department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, with interests in modern Syria and Iraq, and Islamic thought. He lived in Syria at the advent of the Syrian uprising and is co-editor of the academic blog Syria Comment. Last summer, Matthew was conducting research in northern Iraq when the self-declared Islamic State ethnically cleansed the Yazidi homeland of Sinjar and began a project of mass enslavement of Yazidi women. In the following months, he became highly involved in advocacy work on behalf of the Yazidis, one of most endangered religious minorities in the world. Matthew can be followed on Twitter at @Matthew__Barber. Wednesday Lunch is a Divinity School tradition started many decades ago. At noon on Wednesdays when the quarter is in session a delicious vegetarian meal is made in the Swift Hall kitchen by our student chefs and lunch crew. Once the three-course meal has reached dessert each week there is a talk by a faculty member or student from throughout the University, a community member from the greater Chicago area, or a guest from a wider distance. Many times these talks focus on various aspects of religion in public life and the academic study of religion. All are welcome.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Earth Day lunch with Jim Schaal, Sustainability Coordinator at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago and coordinator of the St Paul & the Redeemer Food Garden. Since 2012, the garden has provided more than 2500 pounds of fresh organic vegetables for homeless and hungry neighbors. Wednesday Lunch is a Divinity School tradition started many decades ago. At noon on Wednesdays when the quarter is in session a delicious vegetarian meal is made in the Swift Hall kitchen by our student chefs and lunch crew. Once the three-course meal has reached dessert each week there is a talk by a faculty member or student from throughout the University, a community member from the greater Chicago area, or a guest from a wider distance.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Jas Elsner on "Empires of Faith." Jas Elsner is Visiting Professor of Art and Religion and Associate Faculty in the Department of Art History. His main research interest is in the art of the Roman empire, broadly conceived to include late antiquity and the early middle ages and including Byzantium as well as the pre-Christian Classical world. Since 2013 he has been Principal Investigator on the Empires of Faith Project, a joint project of the British Museum and the University of Oxford, which explores the visual cultures of the world religions in the Mediterranean and Asia between 200 and 800 AD. Wednesday Lunch is a Divinity School tradition started many decades ago. At noon on Wednesdays when the quarter is in session a delicious vegetarian meal is made in the Swift Hall kitchen by our student chefs and lunch crew. Once the three-course meal has reached dessert each week there is a talk by a faculty member or student from throughout the University, a community member from the greater Chicago area, or a guest from a wider distance

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Jas Elsner on "Empires of Faith." Jas Elsner is Visiting Professor of Art and Religion and Associate Faculty in the Department of Art History. His main research interest is in the art of the Roman empire, broadly conceived to include late antiquity and the early middle ages and including Byzantium as well as the pre-Christian Classical world. Since 2013 he has been Principal Investigator on the Empires of Faith Project, a joint project of the British Museum and the University of Oxford, which explores the visual cultures of the world religions in the Mediterranean and Asia between 200 and 800 AD. Wednesday Lunch is a Divinity School tradition started many decades ago. At noon on Wednesdays when the quarter is in session a delicious vegetarian meal is made in the Swift Hall kitchen by our student chefs and lunch crew. Once the three-course meal has reached dessert each week there is a talk by a faculty member or student from throughout the University, a community member from the greater Chicago area, or a guest from a wider distance.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Earth Day lunch with Jim Schaal, Sustainability Coordinator at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago and coordinator of the St Paul & the Redeemer Food Garden. Since 2012, the garden has provided more than 2500 pounds of fresh organic vegetables for homeless and hungry neighbors. Wednesday Lunch is a Divinity School tradition started many decades ago. At noon on Wednesdays when the quarter is in session a delicious vegetarian meal is made in the Swift Hall kitchen by our student chefs and lunch crew. Once the three-course meal has reached dessert each week there is a talk by a faculty member or student from throughout the University, a community member from the greater Chicago area, or a guest from a wider distance.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Julia Parzen, speaking on Sustainability: A Framework for Solving Complex Urban Problems. Julia Parzen is a social entrepreneur who cofounded Working Assets, one of the first socially responsible mutual funds; the Urban Sustainability Directors Network, a renowned network of 130 North American local government sustainability leaders; and Partners for Places a grant fund that has helped local government and foundation partners to attract $4 million for sustainability projects. Julia’s career in public service and sustainability has spanned public, private, publishing and non-profit sectors, including a strong mix of strategy development and implementation. Most recently, she co-authored The Guide to Greening Cities (Island Press, 2013). Wednesday Lunch is a Divinity School tradition started many decades ago. At noon on Wednesdays when the quarter is in session a delicious vegetarian meal is made in the Swift Hall kitchen by our student chefs and lunch crew. Once the three-course meal has reached dessert each week there is a talk by a faculty member or student from throughout the University, a community member from the greater Chicago area, or a guest from a wider distance.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Gender JUST: Queer Politics Outside the Mainstream. Gender JUST is a multi-racial, multi-generational collective with a diversity of marginalized gender and sexual identities, skills, cultures, abilities, citizenship status, educational backgrounds and income levels. We seek to (1) transform queer communities by abolishing race, class, gender, age, religion and ability hierarchies in service of a multi-dimensional and powerful movement and to (2) promote innovative, community-based solutions to safety, wellness, and resource disparities that are accountable to those most vulnerable to institutional violence and harm. Panelists Yasmin Nair, Julian Hendrix, and Lucky Mosqueda. Wednesday Lunch is a Divinity School tradition started many decades ago. At noon on Wednesdays when the quarter is in session a delicious vegetarian meal is made in the Swift Hall kitchen by our student chefs and lunch crew. Once the three-course meal has reached dessert each week there is a talk by a faculty member or student from throughout the University, a community member from the greater Chicago area, or a guest from a wider distance.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Gender JUST: Queer Politics Outside the Mainstream. Gender JUST is a multi-racial, multi-generational collective with a diversity of marginalized gender and sexual identities, skills, cultures, abilities, citizenship status, educational backgrounds and income levels. We seek to (1) transform queer communities by abolishing race, class, gender, age, religion and ability hierarchies in service of a multi-dimensional and powerful movement and to (2) promote innovative, community-based solutions to safety, wellness, and resource disparities that are accountable to those most vulnerable to institutional violence and harm. Panelists Yasmin Nair, Julian Hendrix, and Lucky Mosqueda. Wednesday Lunch is a Divinity School tradition started many decades ago. At noon on Wednesdays when the quarter is in session a delicious vegetarian meal is made in the Swift Hall kitchen by our student chefs and lunch crew. Once the three-course meal has reached dessert each week there is a talk by a faculty member or student from throughout the University, a community member from the greater Chicago area, or a guest from a wider distance.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Julia Parzen, speaking on Sustainability: A Framework for Solving Complex Urban Problems. Julia Parzen is a social entrepreneur who cofounded Working Assets, one of the first socially responsible mutual funds; the Urban Sustainability Directors Network, a renowned network of 130 North American local government sustainability leaders; and Partners for Places a grant fund that has helped local government and foundation partners to attract $4 million for sustainability projects. Julia’s career in public service and sustainability has spanned public, private, publishing and non-profit sectors, including a strong mix of strategy development and implementation. Most recently, she co-authored The Guide to Greening Cities (Island Press, 2013). Wednesday Lunch is a Divinity School tradition started many decades ago. At noon on Wednesdays when the quarter is in session a delicious vegetarian meal is made in the Swift Hall kitchen by our student chefs and lunch crew. Once the three-course meal has reached dessert each week there is a talk by a faculty member or student from throughout the University, a community member from the greater Chicago area, or a guest from a wider distance.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Chad Broughton on "Boom, Bust, Exodus." Dr. Broughton is a senior lecturer in Public Policy Studies in the College. He is the author of Boom, Bust, Exodus: The Rust Belt, the Maquilas, and a Tale of Two Cities, a ground-level look at the rapid transition to a globalized economy, from the perspective of those whose lives it has most deeply affected. The book is based on several years of fieldwork in the U.S. and Mexico and is told through interwoven stories of people, places, and policies. Wednesday Lunch is a Divinity School tradition started many decades ago. At noon on Wednesdays when the quarter is in session a delicious vegetarian meal is made in the Swift Hall kitchen by our student chefs and lunch crew. Once the three-course meal has reached dessert each week there is a talk by a faculty member or student from throughout the University, a community member from the greater Chicago area, or a guest from a wider distance. Many times these talks focus on various aspects of religion in public life and the academic study of religion, but not always. Sometimes there are musical performances instead of a talk. All are welcome (you do not have to be a Divinity School student or faculty or staff to come.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Chad Broughton on "Boom, Bust, Exodus." Dr. Broughton is a senior lecturer in Public Policy Studies in the College. He is the author of Boom, Bust, Exodus: The Rust Belt, the Maquilas, and a Tale of Two Cities, a ground-level look at the rapid transition to a globalized economy, from the perspective of those whose lives it has most deeply affected. The book is based on several years of fieldwork in the U.S. and Mexico and is told through interwoven stories of people, places, and policies. Wednesday Lunch is a Divinity School tradition started many decades ago. At noon on Wednesdays when the quarter is in session a delicious vegetarian meal is made in the Swift Hall kitchen by our student chefs and lunch crew. Once the three-course meal has reached dessert each week there is a talk by a faculty member or student from throughout the University, a community member from the greater Chicago area, or a guest from a wider distance. Many times these talks focus on various aspects of religion in public life and the academic study of religion, but not always. Sometimes there are musical performances instead of a talk. All are welcome (you do not have to be a Divinity School student or faculty or staff to come.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. The Enhancing Life Project team will speak on this three-year grant project funded by the John Templeton Foundation. The project will draw together 35 international scholars to address the profound expansion of human power through technology, as well as advances in genetics, ecology, and other fields that impact both the vulnerability and the enhancement of life. William Schweiker, the Edward L. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor of Theological Ethics, will be joined by his two colleagues from Bochum University colleague Günter Thomas. Wednesday Lunch is a Divinity School tradition started many decades ago. At noon on Wednesdays when the quarter is in session a delicious vegetarian meal is made in the Swift Hall kitchen by our student chefs and lunch crew. Once the three-course meal has reached dessert each week there is a talk by a faculty member or student from throughout the University, a community member from the greater Chicago area, or a guest from a wider distance. Many times these talks focus on various aspects of religion in public life and the academic study of religion, but not always. Sometimes there are musical performances instead of a talk. All are welcome (you do not have to be a Divinity School student or faculty or staff to come.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Our guest for today is the Student Counseling Service (SCS) liaison to the Divinity School community. Michael Pietrus, Psy.D is a licensed clinical psychologist at the University of Chicago Student Counseling Service with a primary focus in psychotherapy, assessment, and consultation. His work is based in an existential/phenomenological model and is informed by interpersonal, constructivist and systems theory. He also coordinates the ADHD assessment protocol at SCS with additional interests in motivation, innovation, and the intersection of technology and psychology as well as social justice and multicultural issues. See more at http://counseling.uchicago.edu/ Wednesday Lunch is a Divinity School tradition started many decades ago. At noon on Wednesdays when the quarter is in session a delicious vegetarian meal is made in the Swift Hall kitchen by our student chefs and lunch crew. Once the three-course meal has reached dessert each week there is a talk by a faculty member or student from throughout the University, a community member from the greater Chicago area, or a guest from a wider distance. Many times these talks focus on various aspects of religion in public life and the academic study of religion, but not always. Sometimes there are musical performances instead of a talk. All are welcome (you do not have to be a Divinity School student or faculty or staff to come.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. The Enhancing Life Project team will speak on this three-year grant project funded by the John Templeton Foundation. The project will draw together 35 international scholars to address the profound expansion of human power through technology, as well as advances in genetics, ecology, and other fields that impact both the vulnerability and the enhancement of life. William Schweiker, the Edward L. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor of Theological Ethics, will be joined by his two colleagues from Bochum University colleague Günter Thomas. Wednesday Lunch is a Divinity School tradition started many decades ago. At noon on Wednesdays when the quarter is in session a delicious vegetarian meal is made in the Swift Hall kitchen by our student chefs and lunch crew. Once the three-course meal has reached dessert each week there is a talk by a faculty member or student from throughout the University, a community member from the greater Chicago area, or a guest from a wider distance. Many times these talks focus on various aspects of religion in public life and the academic study of religion, but not always. Sometimes there are musical performances instead of a talk. All are welcome (you do not have to be a Divinity School student or faculty or staff to come.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Our guest for today is the Student Counseling Service (SCS) liaison to the Divinity School community. Michael Pietrus, Psy.D is a licensed clinical psychologist at the University of Chicago Student Counseling Service with a primary focus in psychotherapy, assessment, and consultation. His work is based in an existential/phenomenological model and is informed by interpersonal, constructivist and systems theory. He also coordinates the ADHD assessment protocol at SCS with additional interests in motivation, innovation, and the intersection of technology and psychology as well as social justice and multicultural issues. See more at http://counseling.uchicago.edu/ Wednesday Lunch is a Divinity School tradition started many decades ago. At noon on Wednesdays when the quarter is in session a delicious vegetarian meal is made in the Swift Hall kitchen by our student chefs and lunch crew. Once the three-course meal has reached dessert each week there is a talk by a faculty member or student from throughout the University, a community member from the greater Chicago area, or a guest from a wider distance. Many times these talks focus on various aspects of religion in public life and the academic study of religion, but not always. Sometimes there are musical performances instead of a talk. All are welcome (you do not have to be a Divinity School student or faculty or staff to come.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Dean's Forum on the new edition (University of Chicago Press, 2014) of The Journey To The West by Anthony C. Yu, Carl Darling Buck Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, with responses from Wendy Doniger, Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of History of Religions, and Brook A. Ziporyn, Professor of Chinese Religion, Philosophy, and Comparative Thought. Yu's translation of The Journey To the West, initially published in 1983, introduced English-speaking audiences to the classic Chinese novel in its entirety for the first time. Written in the sixteenth century, The Journey To the West tells the story of the fourteen-year pilgrimage of the monk Xuanzang, one of China's most famous religious heroes, and his three supernatural disciples, in search of Buddhist scriptures. Wednesday Lunch is a Divinity School tradition started many decades ago. At noon on Wednesdays when the quarter is in session a delicious vegetarian meal is made in the Swift Hall kitchen by our student chefs and lunch crew. Once the three-course meal has reached dessert each week there is a talk by a faculty member or student from throughout the University, a community member from the greater Chicago area, or a guest from a wider distance.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Steven Daniel Sacks on "Angels and Exegesis: Israel and Other Secondary Powers in Rabbinic Literature." Professor Sacks (Ph.D., The University of Chicago Divinity School, '06) is Associate Professor of Religion at Cornell College and author of Midrash and Multiplicity (Walter DeGruyter, 2009). Wednesday Lunch is a Divinity School tradition started many decades ago. At noon on Wednesdays when the quarter is in session a delicious vegetarian meal is made in the Swift Hall kitchen by our student chefs and lunch crew. Once the three-course meal has reached dessert each week there is a talk by a faculty member or student from throughout the University, a community member from the greater Chicago area, or a guest from a wider distance.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Dean's Forum on the new edition (University of Chicago Press, 2014) of The Journey To The West by Anthony C. Yu, Carl Darling Buck Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, with responses from Wendy Doniger, Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of History of Religions, and Brook A. Ziporyn, Professor of Chinese Religion, Philosophy, and Comparative Thought. Yu's translation of The Journey To the West, initially published in 1983, introduced English-speaking audiences to the classic Chinese novel in its entirety for the first time. Written in the sixteenth century, The Journey To the West tells the story of the fourteen-year pilgrimage of the monk Xuanzang, one of China's most famous religious heroes, and his three supernatural disciples, in search of Buddhist scriptures. Wednesday Lunch is a Divinity School tradition started many decades ago. At noon on Wednesdays when the quarter is in session a delicious vegetarian meal is made in the Swift Hall kitchen by our student chefs and lunch crew. Once the three-course meal has reached dessert each week there is a talk by a faculty member or student from throughout the University, a community member from the greater Chicago area, or a guest from a wider distance.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Steven Daniel Sacks on "Angels and Exegesis: Israel and Other Secondary Powers in Rabbinic Literature." Professor Sacks (Ph.D., The University of Chicago Divinity School, '06) is an Associate Professor of Religion at Cornell College and author of Midrash and Multiplicity (Walter DeGruyter, 2009). Wednesday Lunch is a Divinity School tradition started many decades ago. At noon on Wednesdays when the quarter is in session a delicious vegetarian meal is made in the Swift Hall kitchen by our student chefs and lunch crew. Once the three-course meal has reached dessert each week there is a talk by a faculty member or student from throughout the University, a community member from the greater Chicago area, or a guest from a wider distance.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Islamic Law "101" with Divinity PhD student Timothy Guttman. Now in its third year, UChicago 101s offers the opportunity to learn about a variety of topics at a basic level, no prior knowledge needed or expected! Timothy Gutmann is a PhD candidate in the Divinity School in the area of in Islamic Studies. Wednesday Lunch is a Divinity School tradition started many decades ago. At noon on Wednesdays when the quarter is in session a delicious vegetarian meal is made in the Swift Hall kitchen by our student chefs and lunch crew. Once the three-course meal has reached dessert each week there is a talk by a faculty member or student from throughout the University, a community member from the greater Chicago area, or a guest from a wider distance. Lunch topics have addressed everything from the parakeets of Hyde Park to the world of male modeling to language loss in Siberia, presented over an always-delicious meal, cooked and served that day by our creative and energetic student staff. Sit at any table and join the conversation: the programs provide a unique opportunity for students, staff, and faculty to engage one another.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Demond Drummer, speaking. Drummer, an MA student at the Divinity School, was the recent recipient of a Community Programs Accelerator grant for his CoderSpace project. Drummer is also a founding member of the Resident Association of Greater Englewood (R.A.G.E.) and a long-time member of Chicago's open government movement. He was previously an Organizing Fellow with the New Organizing Institute and a field organizer for Barack Obama's primary campaign in South Carolina. In 2013 he spearheaded the crowdfunding and launch of Englewood Codes, which teaches local teens to code; CoderSpace grew out of that project. In addition, he facilitates digital leadership trainings with block club members, parent leaders and business owners in Chicago's Englewood community. Wednesday Lunch is a Divinity School tradition started many decades ago. At noon on Wednesdays when the quarter is in session a delicious vegetarian meal is made in the Swift Hall kitchen by our student chefs and lunch crew. Once the three-course meal has reached dessert each week there is a talk by a faculty member or student from throughout the University, a community member from the greater Chicago area, or a guest from a wider distance. Lunch topics have addressed everything from the parakeets of Hyde Park to the world of male modeling to language loss in Siberia, presented over an always-delicious meal, cooked and served that day by our creative and energetic student staff. Sit at any table and join the conversation: the programs provide a unique opportunity for students, staff, and faculty to engage one another.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Our guest for today is the Student Counseling Service (SCS) liaison to the Divinity School community. Michael Pietrus, Psy.D is a licensed clinical psychologist at the University of Chicago Student Counseling Service with a primary focus in psychotherapy, assessment, and consultation. His work is based in an existential/phenomenological model and is informed by interpersonal, constructivist and systems theory. He also coordinates the ADHD assessment protocol at SCS with additional interests in motivation, innovation, and the intersection of technology and psychology as well as social justice and multicultural issues. See more at http://counseling.uchicago.edu/ Wednesday Lunch is a Divinity School tradition started many decades ago. At noon on Wednesdays when the quarter is in session a delicious vegetarian meal is made in the Swift Hall kitchen by our student chefs and lunch crew. Once the three-course meal has reached dessert each week there is a talk by a faculty member or student from throughout the University, a community member from the greater Chicago area, or a guest from a wider distance. Many times these talks focus on various aspects of religion in public life and the academic study of religion, but not always. Sometimes there are musical performances instead of a talk. All are welcome (you do not have to be a Divinity School student or faculty or staff to come.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Our guest for today is the Student Counseling Service (SCS) liaison to the Divinity School community. Michael Pietrus, Psy.D is a licensed clinical psychologist at the University of Chicago Student Counseling Service with a primary focus in psychotherapy, assessment, and consultation. His work is based in an existential/phenomenological model and is informed by interpersonal, constructivist and systems theory. He also coordinates the ADHD assessment protocol at SCS with additional interests in motivation, innovation, and the intersection of technology and psychology as well as social justice and multicultural issues. See more at http://counseling.uchicago.edu/ Wednesday Lunch is a Divinity School tradition started many decades ago. At noon on Wednesdays when the quarter is in session a delicious vegetarian meal is made in the Swift Hall kitchen by our student chefs and lunch crew. Once the three-course meal has reached dessert each week there is a talk by a faculty member or student from throughout the University, a community member from the greater Chicago area, or a guest from a wider distance. Many times these talks focus on various aspects of religion in public life and the academic study of religion, but not always. Sometimes there are musical performances instead of a talk. All are welcome (you do not have to be a Divinity School student or faculty or staff to come.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Islamic Law "101" with Divinity PhD student Timothy Guttman. Now in its third year, UChicago 101s offers the opportunity to learn about a variety of topics at a basic level, no prior knowledge needed or expected! Timothy Gutmann is a PhD candidate in the Divinity School in the area of in Islamic Studies. Wednesday Lunch is a Divinity School tradition started many decades ago. At noon on Wednesdays when the quarter is in session a delicious vegetarian meal is made in the Swift Hall kitchen by our student chefs and lunch crew. Once the three-course meal has reached dessert each week there is a talk by a faculty member or student from throughout the University, a community member from the greater Chicago area, or a guest from a wider distance. Lunch topics have addressed everything from the parakeets of Hyde Park to the world of male modeling to language loss in Siberia, presented over an always-delicious meal, cooked and served that day by our creative and energetic student staff. Sit at any table and join the conversation: the programs provide a unique opportunity for students, staff, and faculty to engage one another.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Amanda Woodward on "Infants' Grasp of the Social World." Amanda Woodward is the William S. Gray Professor of Psychology. Her research investigates infant social cognition and early language development including the understanding of goal-directed actions, agency, theory of mind, and learning from social partners. Dr. Woodward received her Ph.D. in Psychology from Stanford University. Her research has been recognized by several awards including the John Merck Fund Young Scholars Award (1994), the APA Boyd McCandless Award (2000), and a James McKeen Cattell Sabbatical Fellowship (2003–2004). She is a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and of the American Psychological Association. Wednesday Lunch is a Divinity School tradition started many decades ago. When the quarter is in session, a delicious vegetarian meal is made in the Swift Hall kitchen by our student chefs and lunch crew on Wednesday afternoons. Once the three-course meal has reached dessert each week, there is a talk by a faculty member or student from throughout the University, a community member from the greater Chicago area, or a guest from a wider distance. Many times these talks focus on various aspects of religion in public life and the academic study of religion, but not always. Sometimes there are musical performances instead of a talk. All are welcome (you do not have to be a Divinity School student or faculty or staff to come). See more at: http://divinity.uchicago.edu/wednesday-lunch-archive

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Amanda Woodward on "Infants' Grasp of the Social World." Amanda Woodward is the William S. Gray Professor of Psychology. Her research investigates infant social cognition and early language development including the understanding of goal-directed actions, agency, theory of mind, and learning from social partners. Dr. Woodward received her Ph.D. in Psychology from Stanford University. Her research has been recognized by several awards including the John Merck Fund Young Scholars Award (1994), the APA Boyd McCandless Award (2000), and a James McKeen Cattell Sabbatical Fellowship (2003–2004). She is a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and of the American Psychological Association. Wednesday Lunch is a Divinity School tradition started many decades ago. When the quarter is in session, a delicious vegetarian meal is made in the Swift Hall kitchen by our student chefs and lunch crew on Wednesday afternoons. Once the three-course meal has reached dessert each week, there is a talk by a faculty member or student from throughout the University, a community member from the greater Chicago area, or a guest from a wider distance. Many times these talks focus on various aspects of religion in public life and the academic study of religion, but not always. Sometimes there are musical performances instead of a talk. All are welcome (you do not have to be a Divinity School student or faculty or staff to come). See more at: http://divinity.uchicago.edu/wednesday-lunch-archive

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. End-of-the-quarter fun: Improv Comedy with Piebenga Plumbing. Mark and Scott Piebenga, sons of Grand Rapids MI, have been performing improvisation and comedy for the bulk of the last two decades. Scott has performed in Crawlspace Eviction (Kalamazoo), We Can Make You Laugh (national tour), Bovine Metropolis (Denver), and currently performs at iO Chicago and the Playground. Mark has perfromed in Monkapult (Kalamazoo), the Playground, Annoyance, iO, and Second City (Chicago). He currently performs at the Annoyance Theater. They have shamelessly re-appropriated the name of their grandfather, uncle, and father’s actual plumbing outfit without concern for the shocking disparity in work ethic and usefulness. Wednesday Lunch is a Divinity School tradition started many decades ago. When the quarter is in session, a delicious vegetarian meal is made in the Swift Hall kitchen by our student chefs and lunch crew on Wednesday afternoons. Once the three-course meal has reached dessert each week, there is a talk by a faculty member or student from throughout the University, a community member from the greater Chicago area, or a guest from a wider distance. Many times these talks focus on various aspects of religion in public life and the academic study of religion, but not always. Sometimes there are musical performances instead of a talk. All are welcome (you do not have to be a Divinity School student or faculty or staff to come). See more at: http://divinity.uchicago.edu/wednesday-lunch-archive

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. End-of-the-quarter fun: Improv Comedy with Piebenga Plumbing. Mark and Scott Piebenga, sons of Grand Rapids MI, have been performing improvisation and comedy for the bulk of the last two decades. Scott has performed in Crawlspace Eviction (Kalamazoo), We Can Make You Laugh (national tour), Bovine Metropolis (Denver), and currently performs at iO Chicago and the Playground. Mark has perfromed in Monkapult (Kalamazoo), the Playground, Annoyance, iO, and Second City (Chicago). He currently performs at the Annoyance Theater. They have shamelessly re-appropriated the name of their grandfather, uncle, and father’s actual plumbing outfit without concern for the shocking disparity in work ethic and usefulness. Wednesday Lunch is a Divinity School tradition started many decades ago. When the quarter is in session, a delicious vegetarian meal is made in the Swift Hall kitchen by our student chefs and lunch crew on Wednesday afternoons. Once the three-course meal has reached dessert each week, there is a talk by a faculty member or student from throughout the University, a community member from the greater Chicago area, or a guest from a wider distance. Many times these talks focus on various aspects of religion in public life and the academic study of religion, but not always. Sometimes there are musical performances instead of a talk. All are welcome (you do not have to be a Divinity School student or faculty or staff to come). See more at: http://divinity.uchicago.edu/wednesday-lunch-archive

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Lucy K. Pick, Director of Undergraduate Studies and Senior Lecturer in the History of Christianity, on “Pilgrimage,” pilgrimage, and writing historical fiction. Lucy Pick is a historian of medieval religious thought and practice. Her current research and teaching interests include the relationships between gender and religion, connections between historical writing and theology, development of monastic thought and practice, reading and writing as spiritual exercises, and theways in which religion shapes lives through ritual. Her book “Conflict and Coexistence: Archbishop Rodrigo and the Muslims and Jews of Thirteenth-Century Spain,” discusses Jewish, Christian, and Muslim relations in thirteenth-century Toledo. Dr. Pick is currently working on a monograph studying the intersection of gender, politics, and religion in the Middle Ages by examining the careers of royal women in early medieval Spain. Her first novel, “Pilgrimage,” was published this summer. It is a story about the Middle Ages that explores betrayal, friendship, illness, miracles, healing, and redemption on the road to Compostela. At Lunch, Dr. Pick discuses how she wrote and published a historical novel and the connection between academic writing and writing for a broader audience. Wednesday Lunch is a Divinity School tradition started many decades ago. When the quarter is in session, a delicious vegetarian meal is made in the Swift Hall kitchen by our student chefs and lunch crew on Wednesday afternoons. Once the three-course meal has reached dessert each week, there is a talk by a faculty member or student from throughout the University, a community member from the greater Chicago area, or a guest from a wider distance. Many times these talks focus on various aspects of religion in public life and the academic study of religion, but not always. Sometimes there are musical performances instead of a talk. All are welcome (you do not have to be a Divinity School student or faculty or staff to come). See more at: http://divinity.uchicago.edu/wednesday-lunch-archive

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Lucy K. Pick, Director of Undergraduate Studies and Senior Lecturer in the History of Christianity, on “Pilgrimage,” pilgrimage, and writing historical fiction. Lucy Pick is a historian of medieval religious thought and practice. Her current research and teaching interests include the relationships between gender and religion, connections between historical writing and theology, development of monastic thought and practice, reading and writing as spiritual exercises, and theways in which religion shapes lives through ritual. Her book “Conflict and Coexistence: Archbishop Rodrigo and the Muslims and Jews of Thirteenth-Century Spain,” discusses Jewish, Christian, and Muslim relations in thirteenth-century Toledo. Dr. Pick is currently working on a monograph studying the intersection of gender, politics, and religion in the Middle Ages by examining the careers of royal women in early medieval Spain. Her first novel, “Pilgrimage,” was published this summer. It is a story about the Middle Ages that explores betrayal, friendship, illness, miracles, healing, and redemption on the road to Compostela. At Lunch, Dr. Pick discuses how she wrote and published a historical novel and the connection between academic writing and writing for a broader audience. Wednesday Lunch is a Divinity School tradition started many decades ago. When the quarter is in session, a delicious vegetarian meal is made in the Swift Hall kitchen by our student chefs and lunch crew on Wednesday afternoons. Once the three-course meal has reached dessert each week, there is a talk by a faculty member or student from throughout the University, a community member from the greater Chicago area, or a guest from a wider distance. Many times these talks focus on various aspects of religion in public life and the academic study of religion, but not always. Sometimes there are musical performances instead of a talk. All are welcome (you do not have to be a Divinity School student or faculty or staff to come). See more at: http://divinity.uchicago.edu/wednesday-lunch-archive

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. "Ecumenism 101" with Aaron Hollander. Division among Christians is as old as Christianity, but from the early Church to the present day there have been sustained attempts to find understanding and reconciliation. Now in its third year, UChicago 101 offers the opportunity to learn about a variety of topics at a basic level, no prior knowledge needed or expected! Aaron Hollander is a PhD Candidate in Theology at the Divinity School, writing a dissertation on holiness as an ecumenical problem. Before coming to Chicago, he studied religion and environmental studies at Swarthmore College, and completed a master's degree in ecumenics at Trinity College, Dublin. Just think, after today, you’ll know what on earth "ecumenics" is! At Chicago, Hollander has been a coordinator of sundry Theology and Craft of Teaching workshops, a bassoonist in the UChicago Symphony, and an enthusiastic devourer of Wednesday Lunches. Wednesday Lunch is a Divinity School tradition started many decades ago. When the quarter is in session, a delicious vegetarian meal is made in the Swift Hall kitchen by our student chefs and lunch crew on Wednesday afternoons. Once the three-course meal has reached dessert each week, there is a talk by a faculty member or student from throughout the University, a community member from the greater Chicago area, or a guest from a wider distance. Many times these talks focus on various aspects of religion in public life and the academic study of religion, but not always. Sometimes there are musical performances instead of a talk. All are welcome (you do not have to be a Divinity School student or faculty or staff to come). See more at: http://divinity.uchicago.edu/wednesday-lunch-archive

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. "Ecumenism 101" with Aaron Hollander. Division among Christians is as old as Christianity, but from the early Church to the present day there have been sustained attempts to find understanding and reconciliation. Now in its third year, UChicago 101 offers the opportunity to learn about a variety of topics at a basic level, no prior knowledge needed or expected! Aaron Hollander is a PhD Candidate in Theology at the Divinity School, writing a dissertation on holiness as an ecumenical problem. Before coming to Chicago, he studied religion and environmental studies at Swarthmore College, and completed a master's degree in ecumenics at Trinity College, Dublin. Just think, after today, you’ll know what on earth "ecumenics" is! At Chicago, Hollander has been a coordinator of sundry Theology and Craft of Teaching workshops, a bassoonist in the UChicago Symphony, and an enthusiastic devourer of Wednesday Lunches. Wednesday Lunch is a Divinity School tradition started many decades ago. When the quarter is in session, a delicious vegetarian meal is made in the Swift Hall kitchen by our student chefs and lunch crew on Wednesday afternoons. Once the three-course meal has reached dessert each week, there is a talk by a faculty member or student from throughout the University, a community member from the greater Chicago area, or a guest from a wider distance. Many times these talks focus on various aspects of religion in public life and the academic study of religion, but not always. Sometimes there are musical performances instead of a talk. All are welcome (you do not have to be a Divinity School student or faculty or staff to come). See more at: http://divinity.uchicago.edu/wednesday-lunch-archive

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. A Dean's Forum on “On Hinduism” (Delhi: Aleph Book Company, 2013) by Wendy Doniger, the Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions. With responses from colleagues Bruce Lincoln, the Caroline E. Haskell Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions, and Steven Collins, Associate Faculty and the Chester D. Tripp Professor in the Humanities, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations. Wednesday Lunch is a Divinity School tradition started many decades ago. When the quarter is in session, a delicious vegetarian meal is made in the Swift Hall kitchen by our student chefs and lunch crew on Wednesday afternoons. Once the three-course meal has reached dessert each week, there is a talk by a faculty member or student from throughout the University, a community member from the greater Chicago area, or a guest from a wider distance. Many times these talks focus on various aspects of religion in public life and the academic study of religion, but not always. Sometimes there are musical performances instead of a talk. All are welcome (you do not have to be a Divinity School student or faculty or staff to come). See more at: http://divinity.uchicago.edu/wednesday-lunch-archive

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. A Dean's Forum on “On Hinduism” (Delhi: Aleph Book Company, 2013) by Wendy Doniger, the Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions. With responses from colleagues Bruce Lincoln, the Caroline E. Haskell Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions, and Steven Collins, Associate Faculty and the Chester D. Tripp Professor in the Humanities, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations. Wednesday Lunch is a Divinity School tradition started many decades ago. When the quarter is in session, a delicious vegetarian meal is made in the Swift Hall kitchen by our student chefs and lunch crew on Wednesday afternoons. Once the three-course meal has reached dessert each week, there is a talk by a faculty member or student from throughout the University, a community member from the greater Chicago area, or a guest from a wider distance. Many times these talks focus on various aspects of religion in public life and the academic study of religion, but not always. Sometimes there are musical performances instead of a talk. All are welcome (you do not have to be a Divinity School student or faculty or staff to come). See more at: http://divinity.uchicago.edu/wednesday-lunch-archive

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Jan Deckenbach is the Pantry Coordinator for the Hyde Park/Kenwood Hunger Programs. In this video, Deckenbach discusses the history and work of the programs. The Divinity School community also presents their toiletries drive to benefit the program. Wednesday Lunch is a Divinity School tradition started many decades ago. When the quarter is in session, a delicious vegetarian meal is made in the Swift Hall kitchen by our student chefs and lunch crew on Wednesday afternoons. Once the three-course meal has reached dessert each week, there is a talk by a faculty member or student from throughout the University, a community member from the greater Chicago area, or a guest from a wider distance. Many times these talks focus on various aspects of religion in public life and the academic study of religion, but not always. Sometimes there are musical performances instead of a talk. All are welcome (you do not have to be a Divinity School student or faculty or staff to come). See more at: http://divinity.uchicago.edu/wednesday-lunch-archive

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Jan Deckenbach is the Pantry Coordinator for the Hyde Park/Kenwood Hunger Programs. Deckenbach discusses the history and work of the programs. The Divinity School community also presents their toiletries drive to benefit the program. Wednesday Lunch is a Divinity School tradition started many decades ago. When the quarter is in session, a delicious vegetarian meal is made in the Swift Hall kitchen by our student chefs and lunch crew on Wednesday afternoons. Once the three-course meal has reached dessert each week, there is a talk by a faculty member or student from throughout the University, a community member from the greater Chicago area, or a guest from a wider distance. Many times these talks focus on various aspects of religion in public life and the academic study of religion, but not always. Sometimes there are musical performances instead of a talk. All are welcome (you do not have to be a Divinity School student or faculty or staff to come). See more at: http://divinity.uchicago.edu/wednesday-lunch-archive

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Michael W. Phillips Jr., speaking. Phillips is the founder of South Side Projections, a nonprofit organization presenting (alternative) film to Chicago's south side. Wednesday Lunch is a Divinity School tradition started many decades ago. At noon on Wednesdays when the quarter is in session a delicious vegetarian meal is made in the Swift Hall kitchen by our student chefs and lunch crew. Once the three-course meal has reached dessert each week there is a talk by a faculty member or student from throughout the University, a community member from the greater Chicago area, or a guest from a wider distance. Lunch topics have addressed everything from the parakeets of Hyde Park to the world of male modeling to language loss in Siberia, presented over an always-delicious meal, cooked and served that day by our creative and energetic student staff. Sit at any table and join the conversation: the programs provide a unique opportunity for students, staff, and faculty to engage one another.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Michael W. Phillips Jr., speaking. Phillips is the founder of South Side Projections, a nonprofit organization presenting (alternative) film to Chicago's south side. Wednesday Lunch is a Divinity School tradition started many decades ago. At noon on Wednesdays when the quarter is in session a delicious vegetarian meal is made in the Swift Hall kitchen by our student chefs and lunch crew. Once the three-course meal has reached dessert each week there is a talk by a faculty member or student from throughout the University, a community member from the greater Chicago area, or a guest from a wider distance. Lunch topics have addressed everything from the parakeets of Hyde Park to the world of male modeling to language loss in Siberia, presented over an always-delicious meal, cooked and served that day by our creative and energetic student staff. Sit at any table and join the conversation: the programs provide a unique opportunity for students, staff, and faculty to engage one another.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. MDiv student Elijah Kindred and members of the Bright Star Church community and the Anshe Emet synagogue community join us at our Wednesday Lunch on October 15 to discuss their project to build interfaith understanding AND a playground in Bronzeville – from the ground up – in one day. Wednesday Lunch is a Divinity School tradition started many decades ago. At noon on Wednesdays when the quarter is in session a delicious vegetarian meal is made in the Swift Hall kitchen by our student chefs and lunch crew. Once the three-course meal has reached dessert each week there is a talk by a faculty member or student from throughout the University, a community member from the greater Chicago area, or a guest from a wider distance. Lunch topics have addressed everything from the parakeets of Hyde Park to the world of male modeling to language loss in Siberia, presented over an always-delicious meal, cooked and served that day by our creative and energetic student staff. Sit at any table and join the conversation: the programs provide a unique opportunity for students, staff, and faculty to engage one another.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Dr. Gilbert is a microbial ecologist whose ongoing research is focused on exploring how microbial communities assemble themselves in natural and human-made environments. He currently manages the Earth Microbiome Project, which is an ongoing effort to characterize the microbial diversity of our planet, The Home Microbiome Project exploring how humans interact with the bacteria living in their homes; and the Hospital Microbiome Project, examining how adding patients and staff into a hospital building effects the development of microbial communities and important pathogens. Wednesday Lunch is a Divinity School tradition started many decades ago. At noon on Wednesdays when the quarter is in session a delicious vegetarian meal is made in the Swift Hall kitchen by our student chefs and lunch crew. Once the three-course meal has reached dessert each week there is a talk by a faculty member or student from throughout the University, a community member from the greater Chicago area, or a guest from a wider distance. Lunch topics have addressed everything from the parakeets of Hyde Park to the world of male modeling to language loss in Siberia, presented over an always-delicious meal, cooked and served that day by our creative and energetic student staff. Sit at any table and join the conversation: the programs provide a unique opportunity for students, staff, and faculty to engage one another.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. MDiv student Elijah Kindred and members of the Bright Star Church community and the Anshe Emet synagogue community join us at our Wednesday Lunch on October 15 to discuss their project to build interfaith understanding AND a playground in Bronzeville – from the ground up – in one day. Wednesday Lunch is a Divinity School tradition started many decades ago. At noon on Wednesdays when the quarter is in session a delicious vegetarian meal is made in the Swift Hall kitchen by our student chefs and lunch crew. Once the three-course meal has reached dessert each week there is a talk by a faculty member or student from throughout the University, a community member from the greater Chicago area, or a guest from a wider distance. Lunch topics have addressed everything from the parakeets of Hyde Park to the world of male modeling to language loss in Siberia, presented over an always-delicious meal, cooked and served that day by our creative and energetic student staff. Sit at any table and join the conversation: the programs provide a unique opportunity for students, staff, and faculty to engage one another.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Dr. Gilbert is a microbial ecologist whose ongoing research is focused on exploring how microbial communities assemble themselves in natural and human-made environments. He currently manages the Earth Microbiome Project, which is an ongoing effort to characterize the microbial diversity of our planet, The Home Microbiome Project exploring how humans interact with the bacteria living in their homes; and the Hospital Microbiome Project, examining how adding patients and staff into a hospital building effects the development of microbial communities and important pathogens. Wednesday Lunch is a Divinity School tradition started many decades ago. At noon on Wednesdays when the quarter is in session a delicious vegetarian meal is made in the Swift Hall kitchen by our student chefs and lunch crew. Once the three-course meal has reached dessert each week there is a talk by a faculty member or student from throughout the University, a community member from the greater Chicago area, or a guest from a wider distance. Lunch topics have addressed everything from the parakeets of Hyde Park to the world of male modeling to language loss in Siberia, presented over an always-delicious meal, cooked and served that day by our creative and energetic student staff. Sit at any table and join the conversation: the programs provide a unique opportunity for students, staff, and faculty to engage one another.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. "For God's Sake, Who is Alterman?" This question will be approached by Dan Laor, who will share his experience as the biographer of Nathan Alterman, long recognized as the national poet of modern Israel. Dan Laor is Visiting Professor of Israel Studies at the Divinity School. He teaches Modern Hebrew Literature and is the incumbent of the Jacob and Shoshana Schreiber Chair for Contemporary Jewish Culture, Tel Aviv University. Former Chairman of the Department of Hebrew Literature and Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Laor is the author and editor of more than a dozen books, among them the prize-winning biography of S.Y. Agnon, Israel's Nobel Prize Laureate for Literature for the year 1966. Laor's recent book is Nathan Alterman, A Biography (Hebrew), published on November 2013. It has been on Israel's best-seller list for nonfiction for over three months. Wednesday Lunch is a Divinity School tradition started many decades ago. At noon on Wednesdays when the quarter is in session a delicious vegetarian meal is made in the Swift Hall kitchen by our student chefs and lunch crew. Once the three-course meal has reached dessert each week there is a talk by a faculty member or student from throughout the University, a community member from the greater Chicago area, or a guest from a wider distance. Recorded in Swift Hall on April 23, 2014.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. "For God's Sake, Who is Alterman?" This question will be approached by Dan Laor, who will share his experience as the biographer of Nathan Alterman, long recognized as the national poet of modern Israel. Dan Laor is Visiting Professor of Israel Studies at the Divinity School. He teaches Modern Hebrew Literature and is the incumbent of the Jacob and Shoshana Schreiber Chair for Contemporary Jewish Culture, Tel Aviv University. Former Chairman of the Department of Hebrew Literature and Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Laor is the author and editor of more than a dozen books, among them the prize-winning biography of S.Y. Agnon, Israel's Nobel Prize Laureate for Literature for the year 1966. Laor's recent book is Nathan Alterman, A Biography (Hebrew), published on November 2013. It has been on Israel's best-seller list for nonfiction for over three months. Wednesday Lunch is a Divinity School tradition started many decades ago. At noon on Wednesdays when the quarter is in session a delicious vegetarian meal is made in the Swift Hall kitchen by our student chefs and lunch crew. Once the three-course meal has reached dessert each week there is a talk by a faculty member or student from throughout the University, a community member from the greater Chicago area, or a guest from a wider distance. Recorded in Swift Hall on April 23, 2014.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Dawn Xiana Moon and Michi Trota, speaking about women, art, gatekeeping, and geek culture. Moon is a lifelong geek who has worked professionally in almost every area of the arts. She the producer and director of Raks Geek, geek bellydance and fire company, which achieved viral internet fame with a video of a Wookiee bellydancing to a Klingon band playing an original song in Shyriiwook. Raks Geek has been written up by CNN, MSN, Timeout Chicago (Critics' Pick), The Daily Mail (UK), and more. As a singer-songwriter, Dawn has performed in 10 states and has released two solo albums; her latest CD, Spaces Between, fuses elements from traditional Chinese music with jazz and alt folk pop. She has served as a section editor for RELEVANT Magazine, performs as a soloist with Read My Hips tribal bellydance, and, as a web designer/developer, works with clients like Anheuser-Busch, Chicago Booth, and Georgia Tech. Trota is an organizer for both the Chicago Full Moon Jams and the Chicago Nerd Social Club; she also performs as a fire-spinner with Raks Geek. Discussions about geek culture, feminism and intersectionality are guaranteed to get her talking for hours - she's organized panels at C2E2, Chicago Comic Con, and the University of Chicago on topics relating to sexism in geek culture. Wednesday Lunch is a Divinity School tradition started many decades ago. At noon on Wednesdays when the quarter is in session a delicious vegetarian meal is made in the Swift Hall kitchen by our student chefs and lunch crew. Once the three-course meal has reached dessert each week there is a talk by a faculty member or student from throughout the University, a community member from the greater Chicago area, or a guest from a wider distance. Recorded in Swift Hall on April 9, 2014.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Dawn Xiana Moon and Michi Trota, speaking about women, art, gatekeeping, and geek culture. Moon is a lifelong geek who has worked professionally in almost every area of the arts. She the producer and director of Raks Geek, geek bellydance and fire company, which achieved viral internet fame with a video of a Wookiee bellydancing to a Klingon band playing an original song in Shyriiwook. Raks Geek has been written up by CNN, MSN, Timeout Chicago (Critics' Pick), The Daily Mail (UK), and more. As a singer-songwriter, Dawn has performed in 10 states and has released two solo albums; her latest CD, Spaces Between, fuses elements from traditional Chinese music with jazz and alt folk pop. She has served as a section editor for RELEVANT Magazine, performs as a soloist with Read My Hips tribal bellydance, and, as a web designer/developer, works with clients like Anheuser-Busch, Chicago Booth, and Georgia Tech. Trota is an organizer for both the Chicago Full Moon Jams and the Chicago Nerd Social Club; she also performs as a fire-spinner with Raks Geek. Discussions about geek culture, feminism and intersectionality are guaranteed to get her talking for hours - she's organized panels at C2E2, Chicago Comic Con, and the University of Chicago on topics relating to sexism in geek culture. Wednesday Lunch is a Divinity School tradition started many decades ago. At noon on Wednesdays when the quarter is in session a delicious vegetarian meal is made in the Swift Hall kitchen by our student chefs and lunch crew. Once the three-course meal has reached dessert each week there is a talk by a faculty member or student from throughout the University, a community member from the greater Chicago area, or a guest from a wider distance. Recorded in Swift Hall on April 9, 2014.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Kristen Schilt and Chase Joynt, speaking at today's Wednesday Lunch program at The Divinity Schoool/ Schilt, Assistant Professor of Sociology, and multi-media artist Chase Joynt are conducting a year-long collaborative project. Sponsored by a Mellon Fellowship in Arts Practice & Scholarship at the Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry, their project explores the construction of public narratives about transgender identities. The collaborators will create a series of multi-media installations that deploy and disrupt positions of scholarly, artistic and experiential authority. Wednesday Lunch is a Divinity School tradition started many decades ago. At noon on Wednesdays when the quarter is in session a delicious vegetarian meal is made in the Swift Hall kitchen by our student chefs and lunch crew. Once the three-course meal has reached dessert each week there is a talk by a faculty member or student from throughout the University, a community member from the greater Chicago area, or a guest from a wider distance. Recorded in Swift Hall on April 30, 2014.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Kristen Schilt and Chase Joynt, speaking at today's Wednesday Lunch program at The Divinity Schoool/ Schilt, Assistant Professor of Sociology, and multi-media artist Chase Joynt are conducting a year-long collaborative project. Sponsored by a Mellon Fellowship in Arts Practice & Scholarship at the Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry, their project explores the construction of public narratives about transgender identities. The collaborators will create a series of multi-media installations that deploy and disrupt positions of scholarly, artistic and experiential authority. Wednesday Lunch is a Divinity School tradition started many decades ago. At noon on Wednesdays when the quarter is in session a delicious vegetarian meal is made in the Swift Hall kitchen by our student chefs and lunch crew. Once the three-course meal has reached dessert each week there is a talk by a faculty member or student from throughout the University, a community member from the greater Chicago area, or a guest from a wider distance. Recorded in Swift Hall on April 30, 2014.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Wednesday Lunch is an ongoing program of The Divinity School. Once a quarter our Lunch is a "musical offering." This program's invited musical guests were members of Harmony Hope & Healing. "HHH" is an organization that provides creative, therapeutic, and educational music programs offering emotional and spiritual support to homeless and under-served women, children and men in the Chicago area. Recorded in Swift Hall on March 5, 2014.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Sunny Yudkoff, Lecturer in Yiddish Language, discusses a cohort of tubercular writers who wrote and recuperated together under the auspices of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society of Denver, Colorado, from the 1910s to 1930s. She explains how the variables of philanthropy, illness and literary expression came to mediate the lively literary scene of the sanatorium and the careers of its patient-writers. Wednesday Lunch is a regular program of The Divinity School. Recorded in Swift Hall on February 26, 2014

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Sliman Bensmaia, Assistant Professor in the Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy: "Restoring touch with a prosthetic hand through a brain interface." Professor Besmaia studies the neural basis of the sense of touch, research that could lead to a direct interface with the brain that could someday allow those who have lost limbs to, not only manipulate objects, but also to be able to touch and feel again. Wednesday Lunch is a regular program of the Divinity School. This lunch was recorded on January 29, 2014, in Swift Hall’s Common Room.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. A Wednesday Lunch at the University of Chicago Divinity School with guest Mollie Stone: “Songs of Struggle: The Powerful Use of Black South African Choral Music to Create Social and Political Change.” Stone is a conductor with the Chicago Children’s Choir, currently pursuing her doctorate in choral conducting at Northwestern University. While serving as the graduate associate for the Amherst College music department in 2001, she received a grant from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation to create a DVD on black South African choral music. She has since received another grant to study how South Africans are using choral music in the struggle against HIV. Wednesday Lunch is a lunchtime presentation series of the Divinity School.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. A Wednesday Lunch at the Divinity School featuring Joshua Frieman, Director of the Dark Energy Survey and Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago, speaking on "The Dark Energy Survey and the Mystery of the Accelerating Universe." The discovery that the universe is accelerating, not slowing down from the mass it contains, is the surprise that sets the initial research program of 21st Century cosmology. The Dark Energy Survey is a next generation sky survey aimed directly at understanding this mystery. Their quarry is the dark energy, the reasons the universe is accelerating.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Wednesday Lunch at the Divinity School October 30, 2013, with guest speaker Rozenn Bailleul-LeSuer, on "Between Heaven and Earth: Birds of Ancient Egypt"

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Wednesday Lunch at the Divinity School on “Would You Buy This Book? Academic Publishing and the Research Library” with Anne Knafl. Knafl, the Bibliographer for Religion and Philosophy at The University of Chicago Library, received her MA in Religious Studies (2002) and PhD in Bible (2011) from the Divinity School. She is completing her first book, Forms of God, Forming God: A Typology of Divine Anthropomorphism in the Pentateuch.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Wednesday Lunch at the Divinity School on November 6, 2013, with Professor Stephan Palmié. Palmie conducts ethnographic and historical research on Afro-Caribbean cultures, with an emphasis on Afro-Cuban religious formations and their relations to the history and cultures of a wider Atlantic world. His other interests include practices of historical representation and knowledge production, systems of slavery and unfree labor, constructions of race and ethnicity, conceptions of embodiment and moral personhood, medical anthropology, and the anthropology of food and cuisine.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Truck Farm Chicago: It's a simple concept with a big impact. Truck Farm is a mini-farm planted in the back of a biodiesel-fueled pickup truck, used to connect kids to food and health. With Tim Magner, rookie farmer and cocreater/codirector of Truck Farm. A Wednesday Lunch at the Divinity School.