Events
Mar 19, 2024
Dissertation Procedures for Students
Are you a Ph.D. student planning to graduate in Spring 2024? Come to this session for information about the procedures for submitting your dissertation. We will review University policies and formatting requirements and discuss open access for dissertations via the institutional repository, Knowledge@UChicago. Register to receive the Zoom meeting login information.
Mar 19, 2024
Economic Theory Joint with Applied Theory Workshop
Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Duke University
Topic: TBA
Mar 20, 2024
Oral Health Policy & Research Symposium
The Center for Health and the Social Sciences (CHeSS) Program in Oral Health. Systemic Health, Well-Being, and the Social Sciences seeks to apply leading-edge social science methods to address important problems in oral health through research and the training of researchers who will transform oral health locally, nationally, and internationally.
To advance knowledge on dental conditions and national and state oral health policies and contributions to oral health related research, please join us for the inaugural
ORAL HEALTH POLICY & RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Mona Van Kanegan, DDS, MS, MPH
Oral Health Section, Chief Division of Community Health & Prevention
Illinois Department of Public Health
Wednesday, March 20th, 2024
Keynote Session: 8.30-9.30am
Presentations, Networking & Refreshments: 9.30-11am
Location: Medical Center (Billings) Room H300/ W300
Mar 20, 2024
Dissertation Procedures for Staff
Doctoral candidates use the ProQuest ETD Administrator for online submission, review, and publication of dissertations. In this session, we review the administrator’s role in helping students file their dissertations electronically. We also discuss open access for dissertations via Knowledge@UChicago. New graduate program administrators as well as experienced staff are invited. To review the ETD Administrator interface, please visit http://www.etdadmin.com/uchicago Registration is required for Zoom meeting login information.
Mar 20, 2024
Research Bites:
Lisa Moore is is a Senior Lecturer and the Director of the Master of Arts in Social Work and Social Welfare Program at the University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice. She has extensive teaching and administrative experience. Her current research includes two different projects. The first is the “Intersections of race, racism, and psychodynamic/psychoanalytic theories.” Her second research project is “Exploring relationships in intentional housing communities in Minneapolis, MN and Chicago, IL.” Her past research has included studies examining intergenerational caretaking in public housing and community activism and psychological empowerment. Read more about her here: https://crownschool.uchicago.edu/directory/lisa-moore
C. Nell Crittenden is is a Lecturer at the University of Chicago, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice, where she teaches “Black Women Work: The Labor of Black Women in Communities, Families, and Institutions.” Nell’s work as an anti-oppressive researcher and educator includes leading comparative studies on culturally responsive & trauma-informed pedagogy in higher ed classrooms and expanding intersectional feminist frames to inform domestic violence research advocacy agendas. When she isn’t teaching, Nell works as a full-time Senior Research Coordinator at the University of Chicago Medicine, leading grants from the National Institute of Health (NIH) and National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). Nell also consults for the National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma, and Mental Health. Read more about her here: https://crownschool.uchicago.edu/directory/c-nell-crittenden
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Mar 20, 2024
Cognition Workshop: Euan Prentis
Segmenting experience into generalizable predictive knowledgeHuman experience unfolds gradually over time. To make effective decisions, it is therefore necessary to predict outcomes that may occur at distant points in the future. By learning which events generally follow from one another – a process termed predictive learning – humans can infer which actions will bring us to the best futures, and effectively arbitrate between choice options. A challenge of decision making in the real world is that events are complex, composed of numerous changing features. Predictive learning must be generalized across events as features change. The present research probes how generalizable predictive representations are learned. Using a combination of computational modelling and eye tracking, we demonstrate that successful generalization may be achieved by learning at the level of features (feature-based learning) rather than events (conjunctive learning). Particularly, an inductive bias that segments learning into semantic categories may promote more accurate feature-based learning, and better choice.
Mar 20, 2024
Cochrane Lecture: “Chivalry and Human Difference in the Renaissance” Alexander Bevilacqua
Join us for the annual Cochrane Lecture on March 20, 2024 in the John Hope Franklin Room at 5 PM. Dr. Alexander Bevilacqua of Williams College presents “Chivalry and Human Difference in the Renaissance.”
Mar 21, 2024
CAS Workshop - EATRH ft. Xiaoyu Gao
March 21, 4:00 to 5:30pm | Xiaoyu Gao, PhD candidate in History
Paper title: “Empire of Copper: Chilean Copper, British Global Trade, and the Transformation of Chinese Monetary System and Copper Production (1800- 1862)”
Discussant: Yiyun Peng, Postdoctoral fellow in the Department of History
Location: CEAS 319, 1155 E 60th St
The paper can be accessed here. The password is “coppertastic”. As always, please do not hesitate to reach out with questions and suggestions.
Abstract:
This research focuses on how global trade, in the shape of copper flow, transformed the Qing Empire’s monetary system and economy in the early and mid-19th century. Silver ingot and copper cash coins composed Qing China’s currency. During Daoguang reign (1820-1850), China experienced serious financial and economic crises – copper cash depreciated by more than 76% compared with silver and severe deflation bankrupted millions of grassroot. These crises catalyzed the devastating Taiping and Panthay Rebellions, claiming over 20 million lives. Previous studies mostly revolve around the relations between silver flow and international trade – such as the silver outflow thesis that British opium trade drained silver currency in China. This research emphasizes that the importance of copper for understanding the transformation of Chinese monetary system. Through comprehensive archival research across institutions such as the National Archives of the UK, the UK Parliamentary Papers, British Library, Baring Archive, and the National Archives of Chile, my work illuminates the transnational collaboration between British merchant banks and American companies. This synergy facilitated the colossal annual shipments of Latin American copper from mines of Peru and Chile directly to burgeoning markets of South China and India between 1820 and 1860. Such a vast movement of copper not only bridged continents but might also play a decisive role in the monetary flux within Qing China. Based on English, Chinese, Japanese, and Spanish language archives, this research would explore how 19th century global trade impacted China’s finance and economy, and how Chinese statecraft responded to monetary challenges.