Slice of Pizza and a Turnstile: Catalysts for Change
A decade ago, today's notion of learning spaces was largely theoretical. The paradigms of "smart" classrooms and computer labs were the models of the day -- simply add technology to a space and that would transform learning. What we didn't ful...
Democracy and Gender Equality in the Muslim World
Gender inequality in a variety of forms exists in all religious traditions. Contemporary Muslims in order to solve this problem and reconcile their religious heritage with the modern world have proposed various solutions to this dilemma. This talk wil...
Keeping an Eye on the Prize: Guiding Incremental Change
Incremental changes are best done in the context of a vision for the future of a library, with strategies for its transformation providing a framework to guide improvements. Getting to that vision requires thinking about the likelihood of alternative ...
Leon Despres at 100
Longtime Chicago alderman Leon Despres reminisces about his life in Hyde Park and his public service.
Reading the Qur'an in Kuala Lumpur
The Enlightenment took us from a world of Empire to an Age of Reason and equality in the public sphere. But it left the private spheres of culture and religion in the Dark Ages of imposition and unreason. In the Enlightenment worldview, freedom in the...
The Verdict of Battle
In its classic form, a “decisive” pitched battle was a beautifully contained event, lasting a single day, killing only combatants, and resolving legal questions of immense significance. Yet since the mid-nineteenth century, pitched battles no long...
QUIET Experiment
Interview with Bruce Winstein, Samuel K. Allison Distinguished Professor of Physics and Senior Scientist of the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago on the QUIET Experiment.QUIET intends to make very sensitive measureme...
The Open Practice Committee: Arturo Herrera
Part of University of Illinois Chicago's Voices lecture series at Gallery 400. Arturo Herrera (Venezuelan, born 1959) received his MFA from the University of Illinois, Chicago. Selected solo exhibitions of Herrera's work include those held at Ikon Gall...
Contemporary Art Workshop: Vitaly Komar
Vitaly Komar was born in Moscow, USSR in 1943, graduated from the Stroganov School of Art and Design in 1967, and has been living in New York since 1978. He was one of the founders of the Sots Art movement (Soviet Pop/Conceptual Art) and a pioneer of m...
The Open Practice Committee: Geof Oppenheimer and Julie Cooper
Artist Geof Oppenheimer and political sciences Professor Julie Cooper will discuss Oppenheimer's work as it is situated in the arena of the aesthetics of politics, and contemplate the future possibilities of contemporary art in the broader social fabri...