Angle of Vision: Then, Now, and The Arabic Novel - Gamal al-Ghitany on the Autobiography of Ibn Sina
Join Gamal Al Ghitany and participants for discussions on the reception, transformation, and reiteration of classical Arabic biographical and autobiographical literature in modern Arabic fiction, as well as the process of translation and its relationsh...
Laurie L. Patton, 2015 Alumna of the Year, on "Grandmother Language: A Chicagoan Sojourn with Women, Sanskrit and The Ethnography of Reading”
Laurie L. Patton (AM 1986, PhD 1991 in the History of Religions area) the Divinity School's Alumna of the Year for 2015, delivers her public lecture entitled "Grandmother Language: A Chicagoan Sojourn with Women, Sanskrit and The Ethnography of Reading...
Dean's Spring 2015 Craft of Teaching Seminar with Alumna of the Year, Laurie L. Patton
This pedagogy seminar will focus on a graduate course on the theory of comparison: "The Very Idea of Comparing Religions." Dean Laurie Patton (Duke University, incoming President of Middlebury College) will lead a discussion on how a case-study metho...
Earth Day Wednesday lunch with Jim Schaal
Earth Day lunch with Jim Schaal, Sustainability Coordinator at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago and coordinator of the St Paul & the Redeemer Food Garden. Since 2012, the garden has provided more than 2500 pounds of fresh organic vegeta...
University of Chicago Urban Labs Launch, March 2015
University of Chicago President Robert J. Zimmer announced the University’s new Urban Labs initiative on March 9, 2015, as part of an event at the Chicago Cultural Center titled “Transforming Cities with Evidence-Based Policy.” The program featur...
Sexing the Constitution: Getting to Gay Marriage?
In the 2015 Nora and Edward Ryerson Lecture, Geoffrey R. Stone, the Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, explores historical attitudes to homosexuality, how laws discriminating against homosexuals first ca...
Trevor Price on Speciation
How do two species form from one? Labeled the mystery of mysteries by Charles Darwin, we have made considerable advances in our understanding over the past 20 years, as a result of ecological, behavioral, and, most recently, genomic studies. Trevor Pr...
Neubauer Collegium Celebrates Opening of New Home
In a milestone for the ambitious research initiative, the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society celebrated the opening of its permanent home at 5701 S. Woodlawn Ave. on April 20 with remarks by University of Chicago leaders and a panel discussion ...
Jean Tirole: Market Failures and Public Policy
Jean Tirole, the 2014 recipient of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, spoke to students about how breakthroughs in industrial organization, game theory, and information economics led him to apply economic tools ...
Quentin Skinner: Neubauer Collegium Director’s Lecture
Quentin Skinner, Barber Beaumont Professor of the Humanities at Queen Mary University of London, delivers a Neubauer Collegium Director’s Lecture, “How Should We Think about Freedom?” on April 20, 2015, in Breasted Hall of the Oriental Institute...