Why I Went to Iraq: Three Years Later
A talk by Noriaki Imai, student environmental and peace activist. At 18 years of age, Noriaki Imai traveled to Iraq to study the effects of depleted uranium on Iraqi children. While in Iraq, he was taken hostage and threatened to be killed unless Japan...
The China Fantasy: How Our Leaders Explain Away Chinese Repression
James Mann is author in residence at Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies and the author of Rise of the Vulcans, About Face, and Beijing Jeep. He was previously the Los Angles Times Beijing bureau chief. ...
Nicaraguan Presidential Elections: Prospects for the Region
A panel discussion with: Alejandro Bendana, Centro de Estudios Internacionales, Nicaragua; Michel Gobat, Professor, History, Iowa University; and Rose Spalding, Professor, Political Science, DePaul University.
Reading 'Legitimation Crisis' in Tehran
A talk by Danny Postel, Senior Editor of openDemocracy, an online global magazine of politics and culture. The Iran depicted in the headlines is a rogue state ruled by ever-more-defiant Islamic fundamentalists. Yet inside the borders, an unheralded tra...
New Writing from the Balkans
Readings of original poetry and fiction by two leading South Slavic authors, Igor Stiks from Croatia and Ales Debeljak from Slovenia, both of whom currently reside in Chicago. The readings are followed by a discussion of the creative atmosphere and tre...
The Economic Value of Life
Robert Topel, professor of economics from The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, assesses the benefits of medical research from an economic perspective. Topel calculates the social value of increased longevity, observing that even mode...
A Reading in conjunction with Chicago Review’s ‘British Poets’ Issue
Peter Manson (born 1969) is a contemporary Scottish poet. His books include For the Good of Liars (Barque Press 2006), Adjunct: an Undigest (Edinburgh Review 2005), Before and After Mallarmé (Survivors' Press 2005), Two renga (collaborations with...
Mexico's 2006 Presidential Elections and Challenges for the New Government
A lecture by Maria Amparo Casar, Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas, A.C.
How to Read the Declaration
Generations of scholars have explored the writing of the Declaration of Independence--the philosophy informing Jefferson and his co-authors, the political circumstances behind its drafting, even the literary qualities of the document. We know far less...
Mexico's 2006 Presidential Elections and the Fragility of Democratic Institutions
A lecture by Francois Prud'homme of El Colegio de Mexico.