A Newberry Library Event

Chicago Lithuanians and The Jungle
Wednesday, February 13, 6:00 pm
60 W. Walton
Chicago, IL 60634
Speaker: Giedrius Subaèius

Professor Giedrius Subaèius will discuss Lithuanian Chicago in the context of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. The lecture will focus on the history of the Chicago Lithuanian community and the real-life Lithuanians whom Sinclair might have met in Chicago. The talk will provide a great case-study for researchers interested in Chicago's ethnic communities.

Dr. Giedrius Subaèius is an associate professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a senior research fellow at the Research Institute of the Lithuanian Language, Vilnius. His primary scholarly interests are historical sociolinguistics, development of standard languages, history of Lithuanian, development of alphabets. His latest monograph is: Upton Sinclair: The Lithuanian Jungle, Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, 2006.