Events

SPI is an initiative started by John List, Michael Price, and Anya Samek in 2012 to encourage experimental (field and lab) research on charitable giving. In addition to providing an avenue for research discussions, another aim of the conference is to bring together researchers studying charitable giving with practitioners in the field of philanthropy.

Recent years have seen an enormous increase and interest in academic research using experimental methods in the field to address questions across a broad range of topics in economics. Moreover, businesses and governments across many countries around the world are starting to appreciate the power that field experiments can have on the design of products, services, and policies.

The Advances with Field Experiments 2023 conference will gather a group of academics to present the best and most innovative new work using field experiments to address economic questions. Previous Advances with Field Experiments conferences convened in 2011, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, virtually in 2020, and in 2022.

All types of field experiments, including natural, framed, and artefactual field experiments, are encouraged. In particular, we strongly encourage Ph.D. students to participate.

On September 23 the Neubauer Collegium will host a reception to open Democratic Sculpture 7, an exhibition by the Viennese artist collective Gelitin presented as part of the fifth Chicago Architecture Biennial. Founded in 1993 by Ali Janka, Florian Reither, Tobias Urban, and Wolfgang Gantner, the quartet allegedly first met in 1978 “when they all attended a summer camp” – and they have been “playing and working together” ever since. Known internationally for their ambitious public art projects and transgressive performances, Gelitin are indefatigable partisans of the ludic impulse in art, forever honoring Friedrich Schiller’s claim that “man only plays when he is in the fullest sense of the word a human being, and he is only fully a human being when he plays.” For their exhibition at the Neubauer Collegium, Gelitin will activate a major new sculpture that will make a series of brief guest appearances at selected Chicago Architecture Biennial sites.

RDI Welcome Back Party and Housewarming
Thursday, September 28, 2023
 Kelly 108
 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM

Persons with disabilities requiring assistance or accommodations should contact RDI 72 hours in advance of the event at RaceDiasporaIndigeneity@uchicago.edu

Join us for good food and even better company as we celebrate our second year!

Persons with disabilities requiring assistance or accommodations should contact RDI 72 hours in advance of the event at RaceDiasporaIndigeneity@uchicago.edu