Events

Jonathan Skinner - Dartmouth College

Join us for a comprehensive workshop on Active Learning in the Physical Sciences, tailored for graduate student teachers, faculty, and staff in the physical sciences and related STEM fields. This single-session workshop is structured in two parts: first, we delve into the theoretical underpinnings of active learning, exploring its significance in science education for deeper learning and inclusivity. The second part provides practical implementation strategies, enabling participants to integrate these methodologies into their teaching practices effectively. This workshop is an opportunity for educators to enrich their instructional approaches, fostering greater student engagement and deeper understanding in the physical sciences.

Joao Ramos, USC
Topic: TBA

Youngjae Cha and Elizabeth Janey,
PhD students in Psychology, University of Chicago 

The Chicago Center on Democracy and The Forum on Law and Legalities present Alison LaCroix (Robert Newton Reid Professor of Law, Associate Member of the Department of History at The University of Chicago), in conversation with Eric Slauter (Deputy Dean of the Humanities Division and Master of the Humanities Collegiate Division Associate Professor), about LaCroix’s new book The Interbellum Constitution: Union, Commerce, and Slavery in the Age of Federalisms. 

About the book: Yale University Press describes the book as a “synthesis of legal, political, and social history to show how the post-founding generations were forced to rethink and substantially revise the U.S. constitutional vision.” 

LaCroix describes the period between 1815 and 1861, known as the era of the Interbellum Constitution, as an era of profound transformation for American constitutional law and politics. Learn more about the Interbellum Constitution, its historical and political context, and LaCroix’s argument for showing how deeply these constitutional questions dominated the discourse of the time.

Please RSVP; this event is free and open to the public. Refreshments and snacks will be provided.

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies

Presents

The 2024 Talat and Isabelle Othman Lecture

“Blackness and the Struggle for Palestinian Liberation”

Dr. Marc Lamont Hill is one of the leading intellectual voices in the country.

He is currently the host of BET News and a political contributor for CNN. An award-winning journalist, Dr. Hill has received numerous prestigious awards from the National Association of Black Journalists, GLAAD, and the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences.

Dr. Hill is the Steve Charles Professor of Media, Cities, and Solutions at Temple University. Prior to that, he held positions at Columbia University and Morehouse College.

Since his days as a youth in Philadelphia, Dr. Hill has been a social justice activist and organizer. He is a founding board member of My5th, a non-profit organization devoted to educating youth about their legal rights and responsibilities. He is also a board member and organizer of the Philadelphia Student Union. Dr. Hill also works closely with the ACLU Drug Reform Project, focusing on drug informant policy. Over the past few years, he has actively worked on campaigns to end the death penalty and to release numerous political prisoners.

Ebony Magazine has named him one of America’s 100 most influential Black leaders.

Dr. Hill is the author or co-author of four books: the award-winning Beats, Rhymes, and Classroom Life: Hip-Hop Pedagogy and the Politics of Identity; The Classroom and the Cell: Conversations on Black life in America; the New York Times bestseller Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on The Vulnerable from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond; and Gentrifier. He has also published two edited books: Media, Learning, and Sites of Possibility; and Schooling Hip- Hop: New Directions in Hip-Hop Based Education.

Trained as an anthropologist of education, Dr. Hill holds a Ph.D. (with distinction) from the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on the intersections between culture, politics, and education in the United States and the Middle East.

Join us for a presentation by 

Natalia Khosla, MD, MSc

Co-founder & CEO I Simbie Health

Building a Better Bridge from the Hospital to Home: A Pritzker Alum’s Journey from S&D Research into a Start Up

Co-sponsored by Healthcare Delivery Science and Innovation (HDSI)

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.

How much work does it take to make art seem effortless, the laboring body absent? Works By attempts to answer this question by bringing together four Chicago-based artists who share an interest in the many meanings of “labor.” The centerpiece of the exhibition is a floor drawing by Tony Lewis, performatively produced on site. A sculpture by Devin T. Mays features pallets collected during his wanderings around Chicago’s South Side. Erased: (Unrelated), a 2012 photograph by Bethany Collins, captures a cloud of chalk dust released into a black void—the remnants of the word “unrelated” repeatedly written on a blackboard and then erased. A large photo by Ellen Rothenberg depicts a work boot; another captures a giant lump of crumpled paper that was once a Barbara Kruger mural. The fruits of these artists’ labors will be on view from May 1 (International Workers’ Day) through July 14 (Bastille Day)—two dates that commemorate landmark events in the history of the working class.

Curated by Dieter Roelstraete.

The Center for Digital Accessibility is celebrating the 13th annual Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) this April and May, focusing on digital equality for the one billion people in the world living with a disability.

People who are neurodiverse represent one of the largest segments of the disability community. Join us as we discuss how to strengthen our digital experience to remove barriers for people who are neurodiverse, including people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism, dyslexia, and more.

This virtual meeting will include Zoom’s automated closed captions.

Speaker: Christina Arellano, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Topic: TBA