Latin American Business Conference: ''Managing Growth: Uncertainty in Latin America''
Panel discussion with Edmundo Vallejo, General Electric Latin America; Christopher Baudoin, Aon Risk Services Latin America; and Luis Ramirez Rojas, Nusoft; from the Latin American Briefing Series of the Center for Latin American Studies (http://clas....
Conference: Consolidating Democracy in Mexico
Keynote address by Jose Woldenberg, former president Federal Electoral Institute; from the Latin American Briefing Series of the Center for Latin American Studies (http://clas.uchicago.edu).
President Zimmer's Inauguration
On July 1, 2006, Robert J. Zimmer became the 13th president of the University of Chicago. President Zimmer returned to Chicago from Brown University where he had served as provost since 2002. Prior to his position at Brown, Mr. Zimmer was a University...
Karl Joachim Weintraub Lecture
Listen to Mr. Weintraub's 1984 Ryerson Lecture, introduced by Hanna H. Gray.
Building Tiktaalik
University of Chicago fossil preparator, Tyler Keillor, discusses the iterative process of creating the model for Tiktaalik, the fossil discovery by paleontologist Neil Shubin that fills in the evolutionary gap between fish and land animals.
The Rest of the Animals - Alumni Weekend
Reacquaint yourself with our invertebrate brethren. In his teaching lab full of strange and wonderful creatures, biologist Michael LaBarbera will talk about the revolution in our understanding of invertebrate animals and illustrate with living animals...
How fish learned to walk
While all life originally arose in the seas, about 370 million years ago one group of fish evolved new anatomical features that enabled them to crawl out of the ocean and take up residence on dry land. This invasion of land by fish was one of the majo...
Chivalry and the Machine - Alumni Weekend
Chivalry and the Machine: What do knights have to do with the origins of the railroad? Historian Rachel Fulton will offer a discussion of the way in which nineteenth-century Europeans, particularly in England, developed a mythology of industrial produ...
Workshop with Bill T. Jones
Choreographer and dancer Bill T. Jones participates in a workshop examining genealogies of black, gay, male dance to students in the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture; the Center for Gender Studies; and the Lesbian and Gay Studies Pro...
Presidential Fellows in the Arts Program: Bill T. Jones
Provocative choreographer and dancer Bill T. Jones gives a presentation entitledThe Persistence of Questions.Jones, who was named anirreplaceable dance treasureby the Dance Heritage Coalition, will also enters a public conversation with WBEZ's Gretche...