Poetry Reading by David Shapiro
A Poetry Reading by David Shapiro as part of the Poem Present Series. Shapiro has written over twenty volumes of poetry and prose, including the first book on John Ashbery, the first book on Jim Dine's painting, the first book on Jasper Johns' drawing...
Poetry Reading by Adam Zagajewski
A poetry reading by Adam Zagajewski as part of the Poem Present series at The University of Chicago. Copyright 2007 The University of Chicago. Adam Zagajewski lives in Krakow and Chicago.His collections in English translation include Tremor (1985), Ca...
Poetry Lecture by David Shapiro: My Teachers and the Structure of My Work
David Shapiro has written over twenty volumes of poetry and prose, including the first book on John Ashbery, the first book on Jim Dine's painting, the first book on Jasper Johns' drawings (the last two from Abrams) and the first study of Piet Mondria...
“The Dancing Mind” by Emilie M. Townes
The 2008 Alumna of the Year speech by Emilie M. Townes. Townes is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of African American Religion and Theology at Yale Divinity School. After earning her B.A. from the University of Chicago and her M.A. from the Divinity Sc...
Chicago Assyrian Dictionary: The Final Chapter
Martha Roth, Ph.D., Professor of Assyriology and Dean of Humanities, discusses the final volume of the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary, a comprehensive lexicon of ancient Akkadian dialects 86 years in the making. Roth has served as Editor-in-Charge of the...
Immigrant Children's Advocacy
Maria Woltjen, Director of the Immigrant Children's Advocacy Project, describes how she founded a program to provide unaccompanied immigrant children with guardians ad litem. In 2005, nearly 8,000 unaccompanied immigrant children were taken into feder...
Physics and the Cell: Mysteries of the Cytoskeleton
Margaret Gardel, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in Physics, is a 2007 recipient of the NIH Director's Pioneer award, along with four others from The University of Chicago. Fundamentally interdisciplinary, Gardel's research straddles both the physical and ...
Evolving Brains
Dr. Bruce Lahn discusses newly discovered variants in two genes, one of which affects brain-size in humans. Because these variants have arisen very recently, studying them may help researchers understand the ongoing evolution of the human brain.
Hamoukar: Redrawing the Map of the World's Earliest Cities
Clemens Reichel, Research Associate at the Oriental Institute, explains the importance of the groundbreaking archaeological expedition he co-directed at Hamoukar in Northern Syria. Until recently, archaeologists believed that urban civilization first a...
The Mystery of the Child
Martin E. Marty, Professor Emeritus of the History of Modern Christianity in the Divinity, discusses his new book, The Mystery of the Child, and the origins of his interest in the subject of children. Departing from literature on children that regards...