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	Forest of Leaders: Talents and Impacts of UChicago's Korean International Students Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Korean Foundation for Advanced Studies (KFAS), this exhibit follows the footprints left by talented Korean students at UChicago and highlights some of the lasting impacts they have made in professional and academic fields, as well as a look at the commercial and philanthropic contributions made by founder Chey Jong-hyon (MA ‘61 Economics) and his son and business successor Chey Tae-won (X, Economics).	Sept. 3 — Dec. 13, 2024 View web exhibit	Subjects University of Chicago Korean Studies
Exhibits
	(Co)-Humanitarian (Co)-Humanitarian used print and visual resources to illustrate the ideological and geographic divisions between South and North Korea. The exhibit also conveyed North Korea’s human rights issues.	Locations Regenstein 5th Floor Reading Room May 1 — Aug. 1, 2017 View web exhibit >>	Subjects Area Studies Korean Studies
	20 Years and After: Korean Collections Consortium of North America (KCCNA) The Korean Collections Consortium of North America (KCCNA) was founded in 1994 with 6 member institutions, with the University of Chicago quickly joining as the 7th member in 1995. This exhibit shows a selection of the University of Chicago’s KCCNA-assigned subject books.	Locations Regenstein Bookstacks, 5th Floor March 1 — April 1, 2016 View web exhibit >>	Subjects Korean Studies
	Adventures in the Soviet Imaginary: Children's Books and Graphic Art Adventures in the Soviet Imaginary examines both the intensive and extensive dimensions of Soviet posters and children books.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Aug. 22 — Dec. 30, 2011 View web exhibit >>	Subjects Slavic/Eastern Europe/Eurasia Art
	Celebrating the Poetry of Asia & the Middle East For their inaugural joint exhibit, five area-studies librarians on the fifth floor of the Joseph Regenstein Library celebrate poetry from their own areas of expertise.	Locations Regenstein Bookstacks, 5th Floor May 1 — June 30, 2018 View web exhibit >>	Subjects Korean Studies Middle East Southern Asia Japanese Studies Chinese Studies
	East European Jews in the German-Jewish Imagination from the Ludwig Rosenberger Library of Judaica This exhibition traces the place of East European Jewry in the imagination and experience of German Jews from emancipation in the nineteenth century to the decline of German-Jewish life on the eve of World War II.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Sept. 1 — June 30, 2009 View web exhibit >>	Subjects Jewish Studies
	Envisioning South Asia: Texts, Scholarship, Legacies This exhibition introduces the Regenstein Library's extraordinary resources related to South Asia through visual metaphors of imagination, representation, and engagement.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Jan. 11 — March 18, 2016 View web exhibit >>	Subjects Southern Asia South Asia
	Forest of Leaders: Talents and Impacts of UChicago's Korean International Students Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Korean Foundation for Advanced Studies (KFAS), this exhibit follows the footprints left by talented Korean students at UChicago and highlights some of the lasting impacts they have made in professional and academic fields, as well as a look at the commercial and philanthropic contributions made by founder Chey Jong-hyon (MA ‘61 Economics) and his son and business successor Chey Tae-won (X, Economics).	Sept. 3 — Dec. 13, 2024 View web exhibit >>	Subjects University of Chicago Korean Studies
	The Graphics of Revolution and War: Iranian Poster Arts Designed for mass distribution and aimed towards a large public audience, posters embed social, political, and religious concerns that frequently are articulated through both text and image. Perhaps more so than at any other moment in recent history, posters served as powerful modalities for mobilization and communication during the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and the Iran-Iraq War (1980-88).	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Oct. 15 — Dec. 18, 2011 View web exhibit >>	Subjects Art Middle East
	Homer in Print: The Transmission and Reception of Homer's Works Homer in Print illustrates what we can learn when we look beyond the stories to ask what sources went into shaping this particular edition or how the multitude of English translations differ from each other.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Jan. 13 — March 15, 2014 View web exhibit >>	Subjects Classics
	Red Press Red Press: Radical Print Culture from St. Petersburg to Chicago represents the Bolshevik revolution as it was waged through broadsides, pamphlets, periodicals and posters. Many materials are drawn from the archive of Samuel N. Harper, son of the University’s founding president, the first American Russianist, and eyewitness to the revolution. Through these rare printed sources visitors can trace the worldwide spread of revolutionary and antirevolutionary media and ideas.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Sept. 25 — Feb. 2, 2018 View web exhibit >>	Subjects History Slavic/Eastern Europe/Eurasia
	Researching Mexico: University of Chicago Field Explorations in Mexico, 1896-2014 University of Chicago scholars have traveled to Mexico since the late nineteenth century, pursuing research subjects ranging from archival investigation of revolutionary leaders, to documentation of indigenous communities and languages, to the search for the cause of a deadly strain of typhus.	Locations The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center June 30 — Oct. 4, 2014 View web exhibit >>	Subjects Latin American Studies
	The Shanghai Jews This three-case exhibit is part of an event series exploring the experience of many thousands of Jewish refugees who escaped to Shanghai during World War II.	Locations Regenstein 3rd Floor Reading Room Jan. 15 — March 30, 2019 View web exhibit >>	Subjects East Asian Studies Jewish Studies
	T. Kimball Brooker Prize for Undergraduate Book Collecting The Brooker Prize is awarded annually to second- and fourth year students with outstanding book collections. This exhibit provides an opportunity for award winners to share selections from their collections with a wider audience.	Locations Regenstein 1st Floor Reading Room View web exhibit >>	Subjects Latin American Studies Medieval Studies Gender Studies Arts
	Understanding North Korea through Stamps The East Asian Collection acquired more than 2,000 North Korean stamps this year, each of which has been digitized and accompanied by in-depth data to form the first digital collection of its kind developed by any library worldwide.	Locations Regenstein 5th Floor Reading Room Sept. 23 — Feb. 12, 2020 View web exhibit >>	Subjects East Asian Studies
	The World of South Asian Scripts This exhibit explores the rich historical heritage as well as the lively contemporary usage of South Asian scripts.	Locations Regenstein 5th Floor Reading Room Sept. 5 — Dec. 14, 2018 View web exhibit >>	Subjects Southern Asia South Asia
	인재의 숲: 시카고대학교 출신 한국 유학생들의 발자취 Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Korean Foundation for Advanced Studies (KFAS), this exhibit follows the footprints left by talented Korean students at UChicago and highlights some of the lasting impacts they have made in professional and academic fields, as well as a look at the commercial and philanthropic contributions made by founder Chey Jong-hyon (MA ‘61 Economics) and his son and business successor Chey Tae-won (X, Economics).	View web exhibit >>	Subjects University of Chicago Korean Studies