''Virgin Soil'' Epidemics and Demographic Collapse in the Americas
Lecture by Kris Jones, Associate Director and Senior Lecturer in CLAS, 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 ...
Black Death in the Middle East and Europe
Lecture by Stuart Borsch, Assistant Professor in History Department at Assumption College. From the ''Epidemics Then and Now: Infectious Diseases Around the World,'' the 2006 University of Chicago Summer Institute for Educators. Co-sponsored by the Cen...
Health Care and Epidemics in Antiquity: The Example of Ancient Mesopotamia
Lecture by Walter Farber, Professor of Assyriology, Oriental Institute, 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...
Latin American Business Conference: ''Sustained Growth in Latin America: Key Lessons From Chile''
Lecture by Pedro Aspe, Protego, former Finance Minister of Mexico; from the Latin American Briefing Series of the Center for Latin American Studies (http://clas.uchicago.edu).
Latin American Business Conference: ''Argentina: Development, Outlook, Opportunities''
Lecture by Ricardo Lopez Murphy, former Finance and Defense Minister of Argentina; from the Latin American Briefing Series of the Center for Latin American Studies (http://clas.uchicago.edu).
Latin American Business Conference: ''Managing Growth: Uncertainty in Latin America''
Panel discussion with Edmundo Vallejo, General Electric Latin America; Christopher Baudoin, Aon Risk Services Latin America; and Luis Ramirez Rojas, Nusoft; from the Latin American Briefing Series of the Center for Latin American Studies (http://clas....
Conference: Consolidating Democracy in Mexico
Keynote address by Jose Woldenberg, former president Federal Electoral Institute; from the Latin American Briefing Series of the Center for Latin American Studies (http://clas.uchicago.edu).
President Zimmer's Inauguration
On July 1, 2006, Robert J. Zimmer became the 13th president of the University of Chicago. President Zimmer returned to Chicago from Brown University where he had served as provost since 2002. Prior to his position at Brown, Mr. Zimmer was a University...
Karl Joachim Weintraub Lecture
Listen to Mr. Weintraub's 1984 Ryerson Lecture, introduced by Hanna H. Gray.
Building Tiktaalik
University of Chicago fossil preparator, Tyler Keillor, discusses the iterative process of creating the model for Tiktaalik, the fossil discovery by paleontologist Neil Shubin that fills in the evolutionary gap between fish and land animals.