UI prof and CHF artistic director Matti Bunzl's new job puts an outsider at the center of Viennese culture.
by Deanna Isaacs
While the Chicago Humanities Festival celebrates its 25th anniversary with a season that's all about journeys, artistic director Matti Bunzl is about to embark on a one-way journey of his own. At the end of this year, Bunzl will leave the festival—and the University of Illinois, where he's spent the last 16 years as a professor of anthropology—to return to his native Austria.…[ Read more ]