Right vs. Left and the Newborn Mexican Democracy: Can the Three Survive?
A lecture by Lorenzo Meyer, El Colegio de Mexico.
Performance and Discussion
A native of Philadelphia who was trained as a classical pianist, Caine developed a passion for jazz as a youth. He studied with Bernard Peiffer, a French jazz pianist. During his early years, Caine played professionally as a sideman with such jazz grea...
The Art of Variation: the Relationship between Structure and Freedom in Composition
This quarters Presidential Fellow in the Arts is famous for playing Bach, Beethoven and Wagner like a jazz standard. He brings klezmer, bassa nova, tango, Dixieland, street sounds, DJs, even drinking songs into the likes of Mahler and Mozart.In this le...
An Evening of Russian Music
A performance by the University of Wisconsin Russian Folk Orchestra. The Orchestra is comprised of Russian domras and balalaikas, accordions, bayans, woodwinds, and percussion. This program ranges from traditional folk songs and dances to well-known wo...
Collateral Damage: Human Rights and US Foreign Policy in the 21st Century
Samantha Power's book, A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide, was awarded the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction. She was the founding executive director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, and covered the wars in the fo...
Poverty and Growth:Reflections on Latin America - Growth, Poverty, and Economic Development
The second in a three-part workshop on poverty and growth in Latin America with Professor Juan Pablo Nicolini, Winter Tinker Visiting Professor, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella.
Songs of Chicago, Bond Chapel
The Chicago Men's A Cappella (a registered student organization) presents a special performance in Bond Chapel of music from the University of Chicago for University alumni and friends.
Jaws, the Early Years
As one of four lectures from the Alumni Club's Day of Science, evolutionary biologist Michael Coates explores the fossil record to present the monstrous precursors of the shark in Jaws: The Early Years.
Physics at the Breakfast Table
As one of four lectures from the Alumni Club's Day of Science, physicist Sidney Nagel discusses several familiar phenomena that are so ubiquitous that we hardly realize they defy our normal intuition in Physics at the Breakfast Table.
How the World Became Green
As one of four lectures from the Alumni Club's Day of Science, marine biologist Michael LaBarbera tells the strange and curious story of how blue-green algae evolved into chloroplasts that were subsequently traded and lost by various organisms in How t...