Videos

A lecture by Gamal al Ghitany, a renowned Egyptian author, whose short stories and novels have helped shape currents in Arabic fiction over the past four decades. Translation by Mohamed Wajdi Ben Hammed, PhD student of Literature at the University of N...

Wednesday Lunch at the Divinity School October 30, 2013, with guest speaker Rozenn Bailleul-LeSuer, on "Between Heaven and Earth: Birds of Ancient Egypt"

Wednesday Lunch at the Divinity School on “Would You Buy This Book? Academic Publishing and the Research Library” with Anne Knafl. Knafl, the Bibliographer for Religion and Philosophy at The University of Chicago Library, received her MA in Religio...

Truck Farm Chicago: It's a simple concept with a big impact. Truck Farm is a mini-farm planted in the back of a biodiesel-fueled pickup truck, used to connect kids to food and health. With Tim Magner, rookie farmer and cocreater/codirector of Truck Far...

From the Divinity School's Craft of Teaching in the Academic Study of Religion program. Led by Professors Lucy Pick, Director of Undergraduate Studies and Senior Lecturer in the History of Christianity, and Richard Rosengarten,  Associate Professor of...

Michael Fishbane, the Nathan Cummings Distinguished Service Professor of Jewish Studies in the Divinity School and the College at UChicago, discussed how Jewish sources from antiquity through the early modern period describe the construction of stages ...

Luigi Zingales, the Robert C. McCormack Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, gives an informal talk on the future of the euro and the difficulties of mending a flawed currency union.

For nearly four decades, the federal government has been funding services for homeless youth by providing grants to community- and faith-based organizations as well as to local public and tribal agencies that operate emergency shelters, conduct street ...

This workshop, led by Catherine Brekus, Professor in Religions in America and the History of Christianity, and Jeffrey Stackert, Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible, will help graduate students learn how to write good letters of recommendation for thei...

Twice a year, the University of Chicago offers the Joint Speaker Series for members of the University, Argonne, and Fermilab communities to foster new interactions. The program provides a setting for all three communities to gather informally around to...