Events

Join Student Wellness on the first floor of Regenstein Library to learn more about imposter syndrome.

Join us for a presentation by 

Lindsey J. Leininger, PhD Clinical Professor of Business Administration, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth

Standing Up for Science: A Communication Playbook for the Next Health Emergency

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Core Conversations is a series of rigorous discussions that engages the full arc of the Core, as it traces through the Biological Sciences, Humanities, Physical Sciences, and Social Sciences. For this gathering, we welcome Dean Melina Hale and Professor Gabriel Lear, who will take part in a discussion on the Core and its importance to the liberal arts education of our undergraduates. The event will include a Q&A with members of the audience, and a reception will follow. Open to all faculty and instructors who teach in the Core or who are interested in learning and talking about the Core.

April 25, 4:00-5:30 PM | Dr. Wang You

Harper-Schmidt Fellow, Collegiate Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago

Title: Being East to the Great Lake: a Work Relief and an Official-Gentry-Laborer Play in the Early Nineteenth-Century China

Discussant: Dr. Oliver Cussen, Harper-Schmidt Fellow

Location: John Hope Franklin Room, SSRB

The paper for this workshop will follow shortly.

Abstract:

This chapter investigates a hydraulic project of the Baimao River after a catastrophic flood plagued East Lake Tai Basin in 1833. Focusing on the fundraising and implementation process in the project, it analyzes the financial, managerial, and technical challenges that emerged and collaboration and tensions between provincial officials, local gentry, and laborers. To restore the project, it juxtaposes official reports, self-publications of a local gentry and manager, and other records.

“North Korea’s Mundane Revolution, 1953-1965”

THIS IS AN IN-PERSON EVENT AND WILL NOT BE LIVE STREAMING.

Thursday, April 25, 2024 - 6:30 pm

Joseph Regenstein Library, Room 122 1100 E. 57th St. Chicago, IL 60637

Part of the CEAS Lecture Series, this lecture is co-sponsored with the University of Chicago Library and features University of Toronto’s Andre Schmid. Professor Schmid presents findings from his recently published monograph of the same title which examines how North Korean Party-state emphasis on ideological and cultural change in pursuit of socialist goals ironically led to the depoliticization of two of is key revolutionary categories – class and gender.

AI: What If We Succeed?

Stuart Russell in conversation with Rebecca Willett

The media are agog with claims that recent advances in AI put artificial general intelligence (AGI) within reach. Is this true? If so, is that a good thing? Alan Turing predicted that AGI would result in the machines taking control. At this lecture, Stuart Russell will argue that Turing was right to express concern but wrong to think that doom is inevitable. Instead, we need to develop a new kind of AI that is provably beneficial to humans. Unfortunately, we are heading in the opposite direction.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Stuart Russell, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, is one of the world’s leading experts on artificial intelligence. He is co-chair of the World Economic Forum Council on AI and the OECD Expert Group on AI Futures, and he is a US representative to the Global Partnership on AI. His research covers a wide range of topics in artificial intelligence including machine learning, probabilistic reasoning, knowledge representation, planning, real-time decision making, multitarget tracking, computer vision, computational physiology, global seismic monitoring, and philosophical foundations. His textbook Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (with Peter Norvig) is used in over 1,500 universities in 135 countries. His current concerns include the threat of autonomous weapons and the long-term future of artificial intelligence and its relation to humanity. The latter topic is the subject of his book Human Compatible: AI and the Problem of Control.

Rebecca Willett is Professor of Statistics and Computer Science at the University of Chicago and Faculty Director of AI at the Data Science Institute. Her research is focused on machine learning, signal processing, and large-scale data science.

A livestream of this event will be available via Zoom. 

Please note that the location of this talk has changed to Foster 107.

A key ambition of this talk is to bring the question of temporality to the center of anthropological engagements with Syria and the diverse legacies of the past fourteen years of upheaval. Engaging with temporality, tempo, and tempus are central to this endeavor. How can we, as scholars, speak across the moving and malleable terrain of discrepant Syrian experiences that are themselves moving in time – that are speaking back to what happened and holding on to hopes and futures envisioned in the past, while simultaneously moving towards new and different understandings and futures?

This talk offers some theoretical reflections on this question in conversation with Syrians’ varied and changing engagements with the past, which are crucial to comprehending how Syrians are moving towards the future, or more accurately different futures. Centrally, it advances an understanding of the time not merely as flowing but rather percolating, hereby exploring questions of sedimentation and historical experience in the plural.

The Chicago Center on Democracy would like to invite graduate students to our third Graduate Student Research Workshop of the year, featuring CCD Graduate Student Affiliate Pedro Huet, who will be sharing his research titled “Measuring Democracy: The Challenges of Ranking Democracy with Personal Data.”

The workshop will be held on Thursday, April 25th 2024 at 5:00 PM at the CCD lounge in Pick Hall Room 505. Please review Pedro’s project proposal ahead of the workshop so that you can show up with an understanding of how to offer feedback.

Please RSVP; dinner provided.

Thursday, April 25, 2024  David Rubenstein Forum (1201 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637) Beginning at 5:00 PM

Livestream will be available here.

Welcome Remarks:

Paul Alivisatos, President, University of Chicago and the John D. MacArthur Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Chemistry, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering and the College.

Cathy J. Cohen, David and Mary Winton Green Distinguished Service Professor and Inaugural Chair, Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity

Waldo E. Johnson, Jr., Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice and Vice Provost, Diversity and Inclusion

Opening Remarks: Centering Allison Davis

Walter E. Massey, former Director of Argonne National Laboratory, former UChicago Vice President for Research, professor and board trustee emeritus, President emeritus of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Morehouse College

Keynote and Commentary:

Resurrecting Allison Davis: A Scholar of Race in the time of American Apartheid

Brent Staples, AM’76, PhD’82, Pulitzer Prize winning editorial writer for The New York Times

Danielle Allen, the James Bryant Conant University Professor and Director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University

Reception to follow

Friday, April 26, 2024 Harper Center (Booth) 104

Welcome Remarks: Waldo E. Johnson, Jr. 9:00 AM

Graduate Student Panel 9:10-10:15 AM Panelists will be recipients of the Allison Davis Graduate Research Award

Race and the Academy 10:30-11:45 AM Cathy J. Cohen, David and Mary Winton Green Distinguished Service Professor and Chair, Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity Margaret Beale Spencer, Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor Emerita, Department of Comparative Human Development Waldo E. Johnson, Jr., Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice and Vice Provost, Diversity and Inclusion Gina Samuels, Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice, and Faculty Director, Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture

Education and Race 1-2:15 PM Barbara T. Bowman, founder and past President of the Erickson Institute in Early Childhood, Director of Early Childhood for CPS, and long-time friend of Allison Davis Mary Pattillo, Harold Washington Professor and Chair, Sociology at Northwestern, Ph D UChicago Sociology, and prominent expert on urban neighborhoods Onnie Rogers, currently of Northwestern psychology, who will join UChicago as Associate Professor of Comparative Human Development, an expert on cultural stereotypes, identity formation and educational inequities Stephen Raudenbush, Lewis-Sebring Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Sociology and Chair, Committee on Education

Concluding Remarks 2:15 PM

Thursday, April 25, 2024
 David Rubenstein Forum (1201 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637)
Beginning at 5:00 PM

Welcome Remarks:

Paul Alivisatos, President, University of Chicago and the John D. MacArthur Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Chemistry, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering and the College.

Cathy J. Cohen, David and Mary Winton Green Distinguished Service Professor and Inaugural Chair, Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity

Waldo E. Johnson, Jr., Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice and Vice Provost, Diversity and Inclusion

Opening Remarks: Centering Allison Davis

Walter E. Massey, former Director of Argonne National Laboratory, former UChicago Vice President for Research, professor and board trustee emeritus, President emeritus of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Morehouse College

Keynote and Commentary:

Resurrecting Allison Davis: A Scholar of Race in the time of American Apartheid

Brent Staples, AM’76, PhD’82, Pulitzer Prize winning editorial writer for The New York Times

Danielle Allen, the James Bryant Conant University Professor and Director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University

Reception to follow

Friday, April 26, 2024
The Quadrangle Club

Welcome Remarks: Waldo E. Johnson, Jr. 9:00 AM

Graduate Student Panel 9:10-10:15 AM
Panelists will be recipients of the Allison Davis Graduate Research Award

Race and the Academy 10:30-11:45 AM
Cathy J. Cohen, David and Mary Winton Green Distinguished Service Professor and Chair, Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity
Margaret Beale Spencer, Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor Emerita, Department of Comparative Human Development
Waldo E. Johnson, Jr., Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice and Vice Provost, Diversity and Inclusion
Gina Samuels, Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice, and Faculty Director, Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture

Education and Race 1-2:15 PM
Barbara T. Bowman, founder and past President of the Erickson Institute in Early Childhood, Director of Early Childhood for CPS, and long-time friend of Allison Davis
Mary Pattillo, Harold Washington Professor and Chair, Sociology at Northwestern, Ph D UChicago Sociology, and prominent expert on urban neighborhoods
Onnie Rogers, currently of Northwestern psychology, who will join UChicago as Associate Professor of Comparative Human Development, an expert on cultural stereotypes, identity formation and educational inequities
Stephen Raudenbush, Lewis-Sebring Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Sociology and Chair, Committee on Education

Concluding Remarks 2:15 PM