Videos

Casey Mulligan, Professor in the Department of Economics and the College at the University of Chicago, discusses his new book on the Affordable Care Act of 2010. The Affordable Care Act of 2010, sometimes known as Obamacare after the president who cham...

A conversation with organ scholar Chelsie Coren, her teacher Phillip Kloeckner, and Dean Elizabeth Davenport about a new music scholarship at the University of Chicago for students who want to learn to play the organ.

University Organist Thomas Weisflog provides a behind-the-scenes peek at the E. M. Skinner organ in Rockefeller Memorial Chapel at the University of Chicago, demonstrating the instrument’s color, power, and magnificence.

The spread of English around the world, especially over the past century, has often been compared to that of Latin at the peak of the Roman Empire and even after the collapse of the latter. In both cases the process has been associated with, inter ali...

The University Ceremony of the 521st Convocation of the University of Chicago was held on December 12, 2014, in Rockefeller Memorial Chapel. The University of Chicago Pipe Band led distinguished faculty and graduating students in a procession, followed...

The University Ceremony of the 521st Convocation of the University of Chicago was held on December 12, 2014, in Rockefeller Memorial Chapel. The University of Chicago Pipe Band led distinguished faculty and graduating students in a procession, followed...

The Islamic Studies Workshop presents Lauren Osborne (PhD, Islamic Studies, 2014), Assistant Professor of Religion at Whitman College. In addition to her teaching at Whitman, Prof. Osborne has taught at Carleton College and the University of Illinois...

Poets Jeet Thayil and Srikanth Reddy read from their works. The session is moderated by Akhil Katyal, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Shiv Nadar University. Jeet Thayil was born in Mamalasserie, Kerala, and educated in Bombay, Hong Kong, an...

Each year the University of Chicago hosts this legendary event, where faculty teams line up in fierce but fun-loving defense of either the latke or the hamantash, attempting to determine once and for all which is the better Jewish food. The debaters at...

The Latke-Hamantash Debate has been a University of Chicago tradition since 1946. UChicago faculty members apply the knowledge and tools of their disciplines to resolve this age-old question in an evening of fun and frivolity! Past participants have in...