Great Cities Institute  at the University of Illinois at Chicago








Neighborhoods Initiative

Urban Affairs Review

Chicago Politics

Professional Education

College of Urban
Planning & Public
Affairs

Giving to GCI

 
October 9, 2007
GCI Seminar
 
Title
Lessons from One Year at Hull-House
and the Legacy of Jane Addams at UIC:
Engaging Publics, Counterpublics and Communities
   
Speaker
Lisa Lee
Director, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
University of Illinois at Chicago
   
Location

Great Cities Institute, Suite 400 CUPPA Hall
412 South Peoria, Chicago, IL 60607

RSVP Appreciated: (312) 996-8700
Lisa Yun Lee, the Director of the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum will talk about the challenges of bridging various publics, engaging contentious history through Alternative Labeling Projects, finding funding for projects in the age of the so-called "non-profit industrial complex", and the movement away from viewing museum visitors not simply as consumers and towards addressing them as citizens and towards something less exclusionary than citizens in this moment of immigration reform.

Lisa Yun Lee is the Director of the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, and a faculty member of Art History, which are a part of the College of Architecture and the Arts at UIC. She is the Co-Founder and former Director of The Public Square at the Illinois Humanities Council. Lisa received her B.A. in Religion at Bryn Mawr College and her Ph.D. in German Studies from Duke University. She also teaches a class on art and politics and the relationship between theory and practice as a visiting professor at the School of the Art Institute Chicago.

Lisa's last book was Dialectics of the Body: Corporeality in the Philosophy of Theodor W. Adorno (Routledge, 2005) and she is working on a new project about the radical potential and practice of oppositional body language and gesture. She serves on the Board of Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, the Ms. Magazine Advisory Board, the Boards of Young Chicago Authors, the Public Housing Museum, Chicago Humanities Festival, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, WBEZ Chicago Public Radio, International Contemporary Music Ensemble and the Chicago Children's Theatre.

Read the GCI News story or download the podcast of this presentation.