The 'Urban' in International Economic Development: Lessons from a Colombian City
Lecture by Enrique Penalosa, former Mayor of Bogota; response by Ronald Grzywinski, President of South Shore Bank; discussion with Luis Medina and Alicia Mendez, University of Chicago; from the Latin American Briefing Series of the Center for Latin Am...
Adapting and Reforming Institutions for Democracy
Panel featuring Jacqueline Peschard, former member of the Federal Electoral Institute; Lorenzo Meyer, El Colegio de Mexico; and Jorge Chabat, Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economica; from the Latin American Briefing Series of the Center for Latin ...
Constructing a North American Community
Lecture by Robert Pastor, Director, Center for North American Studies, American University; from the Latin American Briefing Series of the Center for Latin American Studies (http://clas.uchicago.edu).
Mexico: Problems of a New Democracy
Lecture by Jesus Silva-Herzog Marquez, Professor of Law at the Instituto Tecnlogico Autnomo de Mxico; from the Latin American Briefing Series of the Center for Latin American Studies (http://clas.uchicago.edu).
Monsters to Destroy: Bush's War on Terror and Sin
In an ambitious effort to clarify a complicated issue, Ira Chernus tackles the question of why U.S. foreign policy aimed at building national strength and security has the paradoxical effect of making the country less safe and secure. His answer: The '...
Blind into Baghdad:America's War in Iraq
Atlantic Monthly editor James Fallows discusses his new book, based on his award-winning series of articles for the magazine. Fallows analyzes the decision-making behind the Iraq war, and argues that the administration didn't fail to plan it just ignor...
Infections, Transmissions, Cultures: the AIDS Scandals of 1990s Japan and the Genesis of 'J-Horror
Lecture by Brian Bergstrom, PhD candidate, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago. From the ''Epidemics Then and Now: Infectious Diseases Around the World,'' the 2006 University of Chicago Summer Institute for Educators. Co-spons...
Local and Global Public Health Links: Preparation for an Influenza Pandemic
Dr. Nicole Cohen, Medical Director, Acute Disease Surveillance, Chicago Department of Public Health. From the ''Epidemics Then and Now: Infectious Diseases Around the World,'' the 2006 University of Chicago Summer Institute for Educators. Co-sponsored ...
The Cholera Pandemic and 19th Century Japanese Culture
Lecture by Susan Burns, Professor in the History Department, University of Chicago. From the ''Epidemics Then and Now: Infectious Diseases Around the World,'' the 2006 University of Chicago Summer Institute for Educators. Co-sponsored by the Center for...
DPT - From Epidemics to Immunizations a Modern Success Story
Lecture by Dr. Mindy Schwartz, Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Chicago. From the ''Epidemics Then and Now: Infectious Diseases Around the World,'' the 2006 University of Chicago Summer Institute for Educators. Co-sponsored by the Center ...