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...
The Dark Side of the Universe
As one of four lectures from the Alumni Club's Day of Science, cosmologist Rocky Kolb talks about the mysterious dark matter and dark energy that make up 95 percent of the universe in The Dark Side of the Universe.
Ending Global Poverty
A lecture by Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Earth Institute and Professor of Sustainable Development and Health Policy and Management at Columbia University and the author of The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time.
Human Rights and the Arts: Guantanamo in the Theater
South African-born Gillian Slovo, co-author of ''Guantanamo: Honor-Bound to Defend Freedom,'' has published a family memoir and ten novels, including Ice Road, which was short-listed for the Orange Prize.
Islam in America: A Conversation with Paul Barrett and Umar Abd-Allah
Paul Barrett and Dr. Umar Abd-Allah in a discussion of their recent works, American Islam: The Struggle for the Soul of a Religion and A Muslim in Victorian America. Dr. Abd-Allah's work is a biography of Alexander Russell Webb, one of the earliest Ame...
Poetry Reading by Durs Grünbein
Durs Grünbein is the author of seven volumes of poetry, most recently Ashes for Breakfast (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006, tr. Michael Hoffman) and a collection of essays. His work has been awarded many major German literary prizes, including the hi...