Videos

The Dark Side of the Universe

As one of four lectures from the Alumni Club's Day of Science, cosmologist Rocky Kolb talks about the mysterious dark matter and dark energy that make up 95 percent of the universe in The Dark Side of the Universe.

Ending Global Poverty

A lecture by Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Earth Institute and Professor of Sustainable Development and Health Policy and Management at Columbia University and the author of The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time.

Human Rights and the Arts: Guantanamo in the Theater

South African-born Gillian Slovo, co-author of ''Guantanamo: Honor-Bound to Defend Freedom,'' has published a family memoir and ten novels, including Ice Road, which was short-listed for the Orange Prize.

Islam in America: A Conversation with Paul Barrett and Umar Abd-Allah

Paul Barrett and Dr. Umar Abd-Allah in a discussion of their recent works, American Islam: The Struggle for the Soul of a Religion and A Muslim in Victorian America. Dr. Abd-Allah's work is a biography of Alexander Russell Webb, one of the earliest Ame...

Poetry Reading by Durs Grünbein

Durs Grünbein is the author of seven volumes of poetry, most recently Ashes for Breakfast (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006, tr. Michael Hoffman) and a collection of essays. His work has been awarded many major German literary prizes, including the hi...

The Road Not Taken-Twice: Of Courage and the Choice Between the Literary and the Legal Life

Michael Blumenthal, formerly Director of Creative Writing at Harvard and a 1974 graduate of the Cornell Law School, is the author, most recently, of the memoir All My Mothers and Fathers (Harper Collins, 2002), and of Dusty Angel (BOA Editions, 1999),...

Milton Friedman Memorial Service

Speakers at the event included Gary Becker, University Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago; Arnold Harberger, Professor in Economics at UCLA and the Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in Economics at t...

Translations of Cesar Vallejo

  The poet Clayton Eshleman has been translating Cesar Vallejo's poetry since 1958, when he was a student at Indiana University. Clayton Eshleman apprenticed himself to poetry while in Kyoto, Japan, in the early 1960s, by committing to a translat...

Poetry Reading by Michael Palmer

A poetry reading by Michael Palmer as part of the Poem Present series at The University of Chicago. Copyright 2006 The University of Chicago.

In Company:On Artistic Collaboration and Solitude

A lecture by Michael Palmer as part of the Poem Present series at The University of Chicago. Copyright 2006 The University of Chicago.