Foreign Policy & The 2016 Election
University of Chicago political science professor Robert Pape, an expert in international security affairs and director of the Chicago Project on Security and Terrorism (CPOST), interviews Robert Kagan, a senior fellow in the foreign policy program at ...
The Expressive Powers of Law: Theories and Limits
Richard H. McAdams, Bernard D. Meltzer Professor of Law and Aaron Director Research Scholar at the University of Chicago Law School, discusses his new book. When asked why people obey the law, legal scholars usually give two answers: Law deters ill...
Curricula and Criticism in Religious Studies: Notes from the Institutional Field with Brian Britt | The Craft of Teaching
Led by Professor Brian Britt (MA 1987, PhD, Religion and Literature, 1992), Chair of the Department of Religion and Culture at Virginia Tech. Professor Britt will discuss some key elements of Religious Studies curricula and departments, with a focus...
The Case for Paying College Athletes
The current compensation arrangement for big-time college athletics is inefficient, inequitable, and very likely unsustainable, according to a new study by economists from the University of Chicago and Vanderbilt University. The article concludes that ...
The Turn of the Tortoise: Interactive session with T.N Ninan and William Kooser
Business Standard Chairman, T.N. Ninan and Associate Dean of Global Outreach at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, William Kooser held an Interactive Session around T.N. Ninan's latest book- "The Turn of the Tortoise", a broad-canvas y...
Wednesday Lunch with Chad Broughton
Chad Broughton on "Boom, Bust, Exodus." Dr. Broughton is a senior lecturer in Public Policy Studies in the College. He is the author of Boom, Bust, Exodus: The Rust Belt, the Maquilas, and a Tale of Two Cities, a ground-level look at the rapid tran...
Robert Chaskin on Remaking the Inner City
Robert J. Chaskin is an Associate Professor and the Deputy Dean for Strategic Initiatives at the School of Social Service Administration. His research interests include community organizing and development, community social organization, comprehensive...
Hermits and Zen: Solitary and Communal Practice in China | A Public Lecture by Bill Porter
Hermits and Zen: Solitary and Communal Practice in China Bill Porter, aka Red Pine, is one of the premier translators of traditional Chinese poetry and Buddhist writings and an expert on Buddhism in contemporary China. The search for spiritual fulfil...
Wednesday Lunch at the Divinity School with Michael Pietrus: "How Being Smart Makes You Dumb: Mindset, Happiness and Our Students"
Our guest for today is the Student Counseling Service (SCS) liaison to the Divinity School community. Michael Pietrus, Psy.D is a licensed clinical psychologist at the University of Chicago Student Counseling Service with a primary focus in psychoth...