Events

Join a group discussion featuring UChicago scholars as they share their unique lived experiences in non-democratic countries. This informal panel will showcase scholars hailing from diverse backgrounds, including Russia, Iran, China, and Malawi, offering invaluable insights into their lived experiences and perspectives.

The panel will also invite participants to ask questions and share their own lived experiences of life in authoritarian societies.

Snacks and refreshments will be provided to those who RSVP. 

Please join us for a book launch celebrating Rochelle Terman’s new book: The Geopolitics of Shaming: When Human Rights Pressure Works—and When It Backfires. Professor Rochelle Terman will discuss with John J. Mearsheimer, the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science, her new book.

Location: 1126 East 59th Street, Room 201 - Tea Room

Read more about the book here.

This event is co-sponsored by the Pozen Center for Human Rights, the Center for International Social Science Research (CISSR), and Seminary Co-op.

Speakers:

• Author: Rochelle Terman, Assistant Professor of Political Science
• Discussant: John Mearshimer, the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science

Please join us for a book launch celebrating Rochelle Terman’s new book: The Geopolitics of Shaming: When Human Rights Pressure Works—and When It Backfires. Professor Rochelle Terman will discuss with John J. Mearsheimer, the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science, her new book.

Location: 1126 East 59th Street, Room 201 - Tea Room

Read more about the book here.

This event is co-sponsored by the Pozen Center for Human Rights, the Center for International Social Science Research (CISSR), and Seminary Co-op.

Speakers:

• Author: Rochelle Terman, Assistant Professor of Political Science
• Discussant: John Mearshimer, the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science

Join us for a presentation by 

Claire Boone, PhD
NIA T32 Postdoctoral Fellow, Booth School of Business
University of Chicago

Value Based Contracting in Real World Care: Too Much of a Good Thing?

Co-sponsored by the Center for Healthy Aging Behaviors and Longitudinal Investigations (CHABLIS)

Join Zoom meeting here

The Outcomes Research Workshop (ORW) is focused on clinical outcomes, health services and comparative effectiveness research, patient-centered outcomes research, and medical education, with an emphasis on the application or use of social science research methods. The workshop is highly interactive and provides opportunities for trainees, fellows, and faculty to present early-stage research ideas or preliminary results, to practice conference talks, or to use the time as a research or grant preparation working meeting with colleagues and senior faculty. The ORW originated over 10 years ago as part of the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program and continues to be open to the University community. The workshop is sponsored by the University of Chicago Institute for Translational Medicine, CHeSS, and the Departments of Family Medicine, Medicine, Pediatrics, and Surgery. The workshop series is organized by Director of Training Programs and Communications Fahad Sajid, PhD.

Join us for a workshop on applying for the NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG).

Organized to help students prepare for upcoming application deadlines, this workshop will provide an overview of the NSF DDRIG programs and what they fund, application components and process, and deadlines. We will then offer tips for writing the proposal, advice on the planning timeline and proposal development, and strategies for success.

Please note that U.S. citizenship is not a requirement to apply for a DDRIG.

Presented by the Social Sciences Research Center and UChicagoGRAD.

Please Join this public classroom lecture (Course title: Materials and Materiality) to hear Prof. Sonia Contera speak about “Reality, Technology and Power: the deep relationship of Japan with Physics and physicists.” Wednesday, April 17, at 1:30 pm US CT.

The reality of the modern world has been modulated by the knowledge, ontologies and technologies created by Physics, from electricity, relativity and quantum mechanics to nuclear physics and computing. But, perhaps Japan, more than any other country, has shaped its modern identity, sense of pride and even destiny by its ability to do both theoretical and applied physics. Japan wanted to be at the forefront of physics, not only for the economic and military power it unleashes, but also, Prof. Contera argues, as a tool to reconnect with pre-Meiji visions of nature and how humans relate to it. Somehow, physics became the interface between the two identities Japan was trying to fuse into a complex “cultural cyborg”. As a result, modern physics was also transformed by Japan. Japanese (mostly, but not totally male) physicists succeeded to intertwine Japan’s cultural history and identity with physics, focusing on problems of “process”, “complexity” and “intelligence”, doing physics that was conscious of the interconnectedness nature and its evolution over time. The future looks uncertain, China, Taiwan and South Korea have overtaken Japan in many key areas, however, Japanese physicists are once again striving to tap into their deep cultural reservoir, as they attempt to fuel Japanese intellectual leadership in crucial future technologies, such as quantum computing and bioinspired technologies.

Sonia Contera is a Professor of Biological Physics and Associate Head of the Department of Physics (EDI) of the University of Oxford, UK. Her work is at the interface of physics, nanotechnology and biology and is motivated by finding the profound meaning of “biological shapes”. She graduated in Physics from the Autonomous University of Madrid, and after studying in Moscow, Beijing and Prague, she obtained her PhD from the School of Engineering at Osaka University, Japan; she speaks several languages. She was a founding director of the Oxford Institute of Nanoscience for Medicine, a member of the Global Nanotechnology Agenda Council of the WEF, and chair of the scanning probe microscopy section at the Royal Microscopical Society.

Any inquiries should be directed to Prof. Yuting Dong 

This Classroom visit is sponsored by the University of Chicago Center for East Asian Studies.

The John Hope Franklin Lecture

Vivek Bald
Cross-Racial Histories, Transmedia Stories: The Bengali Harlem Project

April 17, 2024
3:00 PM
The John Hope Franklin Room

Speaker: Marios Angeletos, Northwestern University
Topic: TBA

The Thinker: Aristophanes’ Clouds and the Comedy of Contemplation

by David Williams

Abstract: In this talk, I will consider the significance of Aristophanes’ Clouds as what I call a “comedy of contemplation,” a play that in its mocking portrayal of “the Thinker” Socrates, offers an implicit critique of the pursuit of knowledge as an end in itself. After introducing my interpretation of the play, I will present two case studies for how this comedy of contemplation can fruitfully be read as part of a continuing discourse about the nature and value of intellectual activity, a discourse developed above all by Plato and Aristotle as they sought to define and defend the contemplative way of life that they called “philosophy.” By interpreting the Clouds in this intellectual context, we will be in a better position to appreciate the particular value of the comedy as a document of classical intellectual history, one that can and should be read as engaging with ethical issues that are central to the subsequent Platonic-Aristotelian tradition.

Reception to follow

Open to the Public

For accommodations and other requests, contact Megan Swartz (swartzm@uchicago.edu

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