Corbett vs. Dempsey
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Since 1988, John Corbett has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC); he was artistic director of Berlin JazzFest 2002 and co-curated the Empty Bottle Jazz Series from 1996 to 2005. Corbett was co-curator of Pathways to Unknown Worlds: Sun Ra, El Saturn, and Chicago's Afro-Futurist Underground, 1954-1968 (Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, 2006; Institute of Contemporary Art, Phila
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The conversation with Ivy Wilson, Associate Professor of English at Northwestern University, and John Corbett about Duke Ellington’s 1939 U.S. passport has been postponed. Please join us on Saturday, February 21 at 2pm to dive into this fascinating artifact, the significance of personal documentation in periods of international crisis, and the status of ephemeral material culture in African American history.
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