Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR) Concert with DJ Scientific
The 2008 University of Chicago Artspeaks Fellows Program presents Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR),Composer/Violinist/Multi-media artistProgram to include: etudes4violin&electronix (aka Sonata for Violin & Turntables) with DBR & Elan Vytal aka DJ Scientifi...
If You Agree, Won't You Change The Title For Me?
Matthea Harvey is the author of Sad Little Breathing Machine (Graywolf, 2004) and Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form (Alice James Books, 2000). Her third book of poems, Modern Life, is forthcoming from Graywolf in 2007. Her first ch...
Howard T. Ricketts Laboratory: Overview and Tour
Olaf Schneewind, M.D., Ph.D, Professor and Chair of the Department of Microbiology, and Joe Kanabrocki, Ph.D, Biosafety Officer for the Ricketts Biocontainment Laboratory, talk about a new state-of-the-art facility designed to develop new treatments, ...
Thai Family Research Project: How entrepreneurship shapes economies
Robert Townsend, co-director of the Thai Family Research Project, discusses the importance of individual entrepreneurs in shaping local and regional economies and reducing poverty. His findings draw on over 10 years of data collected from nearly 3,000...
The Underworld: Readings from Homer, Dante and Virgil
Stanley Lombardo, Professor of Classics at the University of Kansas, is a native of New Orleans. Professor Lombardo's publications are primarily literary translations of Greek poetry, including Homer's Iliad (Hackett, 1997; reviewed in the New York Ti...
The Practice of Translation
Stanley Lombardo, Professor of Classics at the University of Kansas, is a native of New Orleans. Professor Lombardo's publications are primarily literary translations of Greek poetry, including Homer's Iliad (Hackett, 1997; reviewed in the New York Ti...
Conference on Torture, Law, and War (Part 8)
Torture, Law, and War: What are the moral and legal boundaries on the use of coercion in interrogation?a conference atThe University of Chicago Law SchoolFebruary 29-March 1, 2008Recent events combined with shifts in government policy have reopened que...
Conference on Torture, Law, and War (Part 7)
Torture, Law, and War: What are the moral and legal boundaries on the use of coercion in interrogation?a conference atThe University of Chicago Law SchoolFebruary 29-March 1, 2008Recent events combined with shifts in government policy have reopened que...