Events
Nov 4, 2024
Introduction to Collaborative Learning at UChicago
Collaborative learning is a type of active learning where students engage in learning activities together, depending on each other’s resources and skills to support their learning process. Research indicates that students benefit greatly in a collaborative learning environment from the peer interactions through which they share experiences and skills. The UChicago Collaborative Learning method has been successfully adopted by faculty in several STEM disciplines across the university, expanding from engaging more than 380 undergraduate students in Autumn 2023 to over 700 undergraduate students in Autumn 2024. This event welcomes faculty and instructors from across the disciplines at UChicago to learn more about collaborative learning and its current implementation.
This event is open to faculty and instructors from any discipline interested in collaborative learning, and it does not assume any prior knowledge of these techniques.
This event is hosted by Britni Ratliff, Senior Instructional Professor, Associate Master, PSCD, and Director of STEM Pedagogy for PSD and Zsuzsanna Szaniszlo, Senior Instructional Professor and Neubauer Phoenix STEM Director.
Nov 4, 2024
When Dancers Make History
This event will feature Jennifer Homans, New Yorker dance critic and founding director of the Center for Ballet and the Arts at New York University, in conversation with historian Tara Zahra and dancer Meredith Dincolo. The discussion will center on Homans’ acclaimed biography of George Balanchine, Mr. B: George Balanchine’s 20th Century (2022), as well as the broader questions of what dance can teach us about history and what history can teach us about dance. What is the role of an ephemeral art form in understanding and commemorating the past and present?
A livestream of this event will be available via Zoom.
About the Speaker
Jennifer Homans is the dance critic for The New Yorker. She is the author of Mr. B: George Balanchine’s 20th Century (2022), finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Apollo’s Angels: A History of Ballet (2010). Homans was a professional dancer before completing a PhD in Modern European History at New York University, where she is now a Global Distinguished Professor and the founding director of the Center for Ballet and the Arts.
Organized by the Neubauer Collegium in partnership with the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry at the University of Chicago.
Nov 5, 2024
Student Wellness Tabling
Join Student Wellness Peer Health Advocates on the first floor of Regenstein Library to discuss financial wellbeing.
Nov 5, 2024
Economic Theory Joint with Applied Theory Workshop
November 5 Andrea Galeotti, London Business School “Robust Market Interventions” joint with Benjamin Golub, Sanjeev Goyal, Eduard Talamas, and Omer Tamuz
Nov 5, 2024
GSSW: Yuanxie Shi, “Lacemakers and Their Voices: A Historian and Her Rural Interlocutors”
We are excited to announce the Autumn 2024 schedule for the Gender and Sexuality Studies Workshop! Sessions will be held on alternate Tuesdays at 5:00PM - 6:20PM (central) in person at The Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, 5733 S University Ave, in room 103.
November 5 “Lacemakers and Their Voices: A Historian and Her Rural Interlocutors” Yuanxie Shi, CSGS Residential Fellow, PhD Candidate in East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Papers will be made available one week in advance via our website. If you are interested in joining our email list, go to https://lists.uchicago.edu/web/info/sexuality-gender-wkshp. If you have any questions or accommodation requests, please don’t hesitate to contact the workshop co-coordinators, Lizette Arellano and Fara Taddei, at gssworkshop@gmail.com.
Nov 5, 2024
Election Twilight Study Break
We can’t imagine anything much spookier than this year’s election so we’re having a spooky Twilight themed study break on Election Night! Join us from 6:00-7:30 for a chance to relax before things get crazy. We’ll have a caramel apple bar, mocktails, face painting (Werewolf? Vampire?), Twilight coloring books, a Twilight photo booth, and a Twilight TRIVIA contest with a great prize! Bring your friends! Oh, and we’ll have election results playing in the basement so you can pop down and watch that too.
Nov 6, 2024
Post-Election Drop-In
Come decompress with the CSGS and CSRPC after Election Day. Stop into 5733 S University Avenue any time between 10am-4pm for snacks, community, and de-stressing activities. All are welcome to join!
Nov 6, 2024
Reading Group for Faculty & Instructors - Meeting 3
Additional Meetings: October 23 & November 6 | 1:30PM - 2:50PM
CCTL Reading Groups create community around specific topics among faculty & instructors. Join us for three meetings in Autumn Quarter 2024 to discuss James Lang’s Small Teaching (2nd edition), a research-based look into small approaches to teaching that can have big impacts. Meetings are informal and provide an opportunity to share reactions, questions, and thoughts about implementation and practice. The CCTL will provide books and refreshments for all participants. Books will be available to pick up in advance of our first meeting. For planning purposes, we ask that those interested in participating only register if they plan to attend all three sessions (Oct. 9, Oct. 23, Nov. 6). Registration is limited to 25.
Nov 6, 2024
Econometrics Workshop
November 6 Frank Schorfheide, University of Pennsylvania Topic TBA
Nov 6, 2024
The Modern Making of the Ancient Egyptian “Book of the Dead”: Rune Nyord, Emory University
ISAC Lecture: Rune Nyord, Emory University
Join us as we welcome lecturer Rune Nyord, Associate Professor of Ancient Egyptian Art and Archaeology at Emory University. Nyord will present The modern making of the ancient Egyptian “Book of the Dead”. The Egyptian “Book of the Dead” is one of the most famous products of the ancient culture, rivalling pyramids and mummified bodies in the modern imagination. Equally well known is the standard interpretation of the work as a guide to the afterlife containing literal descriptions and depictions of what the ancient Egyptians believed the hereafter was like. However, the work itself is rather coy about what it is actually about, raising the question of how we came to be so certain of this conventional interpretation.
This talk traces the modern conception of the “Book of the Dead” from its 19th-century beginnings, arguing that in many ways, key expectations were coming more from the Christian background of early scholars than from the ancient sources which were only gradually and imperfectly becoming known. The second part addresses the resulting question: If the modern understanding of the “Book of the Dead” is so historically contingent, what might a framework look like that is less burdened with modern conceptual baggage and more firmly rooted in ancient social and intellectual contexts?