[On April 26-27 the Unit for Criticism, the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities and affiliated colleagues in Sociology and Art History convened Beyond Utopia? Art, Theory, & the Coming of “Spring,” the end point...

Still from Ken Jacobs's film Capitalism: Child Labor (2007)[On April 26 and 27, 2012, the Unit for Criticism partnered with the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities for a conference, Beyond Utopia? Art, Theory, and...

[The sixth in the Unit for Criticism's multi-authored series of posts on Season 5 of AMC's Mad Men, posted prior to the publication of...

Poster for the Symposium[On April 19-20, 2012, the Nongovernmental Impulse Symposium was held as part of the Graduate College’s Focal Point project. The following account of the event’s second day was written by Martha Webber, a graduate student affiliate of the Unit and one of the project’s participants.]“I Laughed, I Cried… I Changed...

[The fifth in the Unit for Criticism's multi-authored series of posts on Season 5 of AMC's Mad Men, posted prior to the publication of...

[The fourth in the Unit for Criticism's multi-authored series of posts on Season 5 of AMC's Mad Men, posted prior to the publication of...

Poster for "Hybrid Irelands: At Culture's Edge"[Below Julie McCormick Weng, a graduate student affiliate in English and recipient of a Unit for Criticism travel grant, writes about her experience at a conference hosted by Notre Dame University that explored the relationship between hybridity and Irish Studies.]On Hybrid Irelands: At...

[The third in the Unit for Criticism's multi-authored series of posts on Season 5 of AMC's Mad Men, posted prior to the publication of...

[Below, Tania Lown-Hecht, a grad student affiliate in English and recipient of a Unit for Criticism travel grant last fall, writes about the representation of the estate house in Downton Abbey.]Downton Abbey’s Sinking ShipWritten by Tania Lown-Hecht (English) Downton Abbey, Masterpiece Theater/PBS’s dishy new drama about an early...

"The alien is already in here with us"[On April 2, 2012 the Unit for Criticism held its annual Graduate Student event. This year it was a panel of three graduate students on the topic of Technology in Theory and Practice. Below is the text of a response given...

[On April 2, 2012 the Unit for Criticism held its annual Graduate Student event. This year it was a panel of three graduate students on the topic of Technology in Theory and Practice. Below guest writer Mel Stanfill, one of the panelists, writes the second of two posts on...

[The second in the Unit for Criticism's multi-authored series of posts on Season 5 of AMC'sMad Men,prior to the publication of...

[On March 29, Joshua Landis (Director of the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma) spoke at a CAS/MillerComm presentation hosted by the Center for South Asian & Middle Eastern Studies in collaboration with the Unit for Criticism &...

[The first in the Unit for Criticism's multi-authored series of posts on Season 5 of AMC's Mad Men, prior to the publication of MAD...

Bates (Brendan Coyle) and Anna (Joanne Froggatt) of Downton Abbey[Below Cecily Garber, a grad student affiliate in English and recipient of a Unit for Criticism travel grant last fall, writes about the representation of class politics in Downton Abbey.]Upstairs, Downton?Written by Cecily Garber (English)While I am as much a fan of...