Wednesday Lunch at the Divinity School with Jas Elsner
Jas Elsner on "Empires of Faith." Jas Elsner is Visiting Professor of Art and Religion and Associate Faculty in the Department of Art History. His main research interest is in the art of the Roman empire, broadly conceived to include late antiquity...
UChicago Local
March 2015 marked the one-year anniversary of the launch of UChicago Local, an initiative designed to support local businesses on the mid-South Side, providing training and connections to help them work with the University and the University of Chicago...
Brook Ziporyn on China's Precious Spiritual Heritage
Brook A. Ziporyn (Professor of Chinese Religion, Philosophy, and Comparative Thought at the University of Chicago Divinity School) is a scholar of ancient and medieval Chinese religion and philosophy, and an expositor and translator of some of the most...
You and Your Microbiome: Is This Why I’m Allergic to Peanuts?
How do intestinal immune cells distinguish the trillions of normal, endogenous bacteria in the gut from pathogenic ones. How do normally harmless external dietary substances sometimes elicit a potentially life-threatening immune response in an individ...
Beyond Polarization: Professor Martin Marty on Strategies for Public Engagement | The Craft of Teaching
In collaboration with the Marty Center, the Craft of Teaching is pleased to present a special workshop with Martin E. Marty, Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of the History of Modern Christianity. Reflecting on a lifetime of p...
Harper Lecture with Stacy Tessler Lindau, MD, AM’02: “Innovating Urban Health”
The University of Chicago is undertaking an ambitious plan to transform the health and health care environment of traditionally underserved and low-income communities, beginning on Chicago’s South Side. These communities have never had a coordinated ...
Using Bodies and Brains to Learn Science
Students who physically experience scientific concepts have a deeper understanding of the information and improved test scores, according to a new study. UChicago psychology professor Sian Beilock is an internationally known expert on the mind-body con...
Angle of Vision: Then, Now, and The Arabic Novel - Cameron Cross and Michael Sells
Cameron Cross on Translating a Work of Yusuf Idris, followed by Michael Sells on Authorial Personas of Ibn al-`Arab. Join Gamal Al Ghitany and participants for discussions on the reception, transformation, and reiteration of classical Arabic biographic...
Angle of Vision: Then, Now, and The Arabic Novel - Panel Discussion
Kay Heikkinen leads a panel devoted to readings from Gamal al-Ghitany's works in the English translations by Farouk Mustafa, followed by readings by al-Ghitany from the original and comments by al-Ghitany on the narrative form and linguistic register o...