Great Conversations Lecture Series
Susan Gzesh on Human Rights at Home: The Chicago Police Torture Cases (mp3)
Susan Gzesh is executive director of the Human Rights Program and Senior Lecturer at the University of Chicago. In addition to teaching, she directs a broad range of activities in the Human Rights Program including an internship program, public events, and a project on human rights curriculum in liberal-arts education funded by the Teagle Foundation. Her publications include America’
Michael Dawson on Blacks In and Out of the Left (Full w QA) (mp3)
Michael C. Dawson is the John D. MacArthur Professor of Political Science and the College at the University of Chicago and the founding and current director of the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture at the University. He is a leading expert on African-American political behavior, identity, and public opinion, the political effects of urban poverty, and African-American political ideology. His books include Blacks In and Out of the Left: Past, Present and Future, Reflections on Black Politics in the Early 21st Century, Not in Our Lifetimes: The Future of Black Politics, Black Visions: The Roots of Contemporary African-American Political Ideologies, and Behind the Mule: Race and Class in African-American Politics.
John Roemer on Ideology and Inequality in the U.S. (mp3)
October 25, 2013
John Roemer is the Elizabeth S. and A. Varick Professor of Political Science and Economics at Yale University, and one of the outstanding radical political economists of our time. A Fellow of the Econometric Society, who has also been a Fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation and the Russell Sage Foundation, he is a sharp critic of the “Chicago School” of libertarian economics. His research concerns political economy and distributive justice, and his books include: Political Competition, Equality of Opportunity, Theories of Distributive Justice, and Free to Lose.
An Evening with Geoffrey R. Stone (mp3)
April 19, 2012
Geoffrey R. Stone is Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago Law School. He has served as dean of the Law School and, from 1993 to 2002, as provost of the University of Chicago. His most recent books are Top Secret: When Our Government Keeps Us in the Dark (2007) and War and Liberty: An American Dilemma (2007). Mr. Stone’s Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism (2004) received numerous national awards.
An Evening with Alan Ryan (mp3)
March 29, 2012
A prominent public intellectual who publishes regularly in The New York Review of Books, the London Review of Books, and the TLS, Alan Ryan is one of the world’s leading social and political philosophers. Professor of politics at Princeton University, and formerly warden of New College, Oxford University, and director of the Rothermere American Institute, Ryan is a Fellow of the British Academy and the author of such books as The Philosophy of John Stuart Mill, Property and Political Theory, Russell: A Political Life, John Dewey and the High Tide of American Liberalism, Liberal Anxieties and Liberal Education. He is currently completing a massive work, Thinking About Politics-Since Herodotus.
An Evening with Martha Nussbaum (mp3)
January 6, 2011
Martha Nussbaum
Martha Nussbaum, a past President of the American Philosophical Association, is the author of many important works, including Frontiers of Justice, Liberty of Conscience, and Not For Profit: Liberal Education and Democratic Citizenship.
An Evening with Earl Shorris (mp3)
October 21, 2010
Earl Shorris
Earl Shorris is the founder of the Clemente Course in the Humanities, the award-winning global program that uses the humanities in antipoverty efforts. A contributing editor of Harper’s Magazine, he has received the National Humanities Medal, awarded by President Clinton, and the Condecoracion de la Orden del Aguila Azteca. His books include Riches for the Poor: the Clemente Course in the Humanities, The Politics of Heaven: America in Fearful Times, New American Blues: A Journey Through Poverty to Democracy, and Under the Fifth Sun: A Novel of Pancho Villa.
What Capabilities Do We Have? (mp3)
January 14, 2010
Martha Nussbaum
Martha Nussbaum, a past President of the American Philosophical Association, is the author of many important works, including Frontiers of Justice, Liberty of Conscience, and Not For Profit: Liberal Education and Democratic Citizenship.
When Worlds Collide (mp3)
February 28, 2008
Melvyn J. Shochet
Elaine M. and Samuel D. Kersten, Jr. Distinguished Service Professor in Physical Science, Department of Physics, Enrico Fermi Institute, and the College at the University of Chicago
EcoSystem Evolution: Biomimicry of the Built Environment (mp3)
January 31, 2008
Justin Borevitz
Professor in the Department of Ecology & Evolution at the University of Chicago
Sociobiology, Evolution, and Religion (mp3)
May 22, 2007
Jerry Coyne
Title: Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Chicago
Religion versus the Greatest Happiness: Bentham and Benthamism Past and Present (mp3)
March 22, 2007
Philip Schofield
Title: Professor, Faculty of Laws
Director of the Bentham Project
University College London
Climate of Concern: Ethical and Religious Responses to Global Warming (mp3)
January 25, 2007
Raymond T. Pierrehumbert
Professor in the Department of Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago
Michael Hogue
Assistant Professor of Theology at Meadville Lombard Theological Seminary in Chicago.
MLA Open House and Lecture Series
Mysteries of the Dark Universe (mp3)
January 16, 2010
Edward 'Rocky' Kolb
Howard L. Willett Professor in the College, the Committee on Social Thought, and the Departments of Classics and Anthropology at the University of Chicago. Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor and Chair of the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago.
Rewriting Hindu History: Including Women, Dogs and Horses (mp3)
November 7, 2009
Wendy Doniger
Mircea Eliade Professor in the Divinity School, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, Committee on Social Thought, and the College at the University of Chicago
Old Shamanism and the New Animism
January 17, 2009
Raymond Fogelson
Professor in the Departments of Anthropology and Comparative Human Development in the College and at the University of Chicago
The Trial and Death of Socrates
November 1, 2008
James Redfield
Edward Olson Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Classical Languages and Literatures and the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago
Why I Could Not Think About the Olympic Games Without Knowing Marx, Weber, Durkheim, and Freud
June 28, 2008
John J. MacAloon
Professor and Academic Associate Dean of the Social Sciences Division and Professor in the College at the University of Chicago
Amnesia and Self-Imitation in Ancient India and Hollywood
January 12, 2008
Wendy Doniger
Mircea Eliade Professor in the Divinity School, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, Committee on Social Thought, and the College at the University of Chicago
Chaos in Space, Catastrophe on Earth
November 17, 2007
Peter Vandervoort
Professor in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics and the College at the University of Chicago
Liberal Education: The "Naissance" to the Renaissance to Modern Times
August 11, 2007
Raymond Ciacci
Dean of Students and Director of the Master of Liberal Arts Program and Lecturer in the Humanities Collegiate Division at the University of Chicago
Plato, Socrates, and the Sophists (mp3)
July 21, 2007
Herman Sinaiko
Professor in the Division of the Humanities and the College at the University of Chicago
The Journey to the West: The formation of fiction and its reception (mp3)
January 13, 2007
Anthony Yu
Carl Darling Buck Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Humanities, and Professor Emeritus, Divinity School, East Asian Languages and Civilization, English Language and Literature, Comparative Literature, and the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago
Mourning the past: Nostalgia and the burdens of modernity (mp3)
July 15, 2006
Bertram Cohler
William Rainey Harper Professor, Social Sciences Collegiate Division, and Professor in the Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry, and the Divinity School at the University of Chicago
MScTRM Open Houses and Lectures
Public Health Response During Complex Emergencies (mp3)
May 11, 2007
Scott Filer, MPH
Title: Senior Analyst, National Health Security Group
Homeland Security Analysis Group
Argonne National Laboratory
Strategic Partnerships (mp3)
April 11, 2007
Cortez Trotter
Title: Chief Emergency Officer
City of Chicago
Research Centers of Excellence and their Strategic Role in Biodefense (mp3)
March 19, 2007
Olaf Schneewind, MD, PhD
Title: Chair, Committee on Microbiology
Professor, Department of Microbiology
Pritzker School of Medicine
The University of Chicago
Business and Professional Programs Information Sessions and Panels
Confronting the Issues - Project Management 2010 (mp3)
January 21, 2010
A panel of senior project managers led a straightforward discussion of workplace issues facing senior Project Managers. To download the PowerPoint Presentation from this panel, click here.
Rebuilding Morale and Engagement During Difficult Times (mp3)
February 4, 2010
Panelists discussed ways of sustaining workplace optimism in a tough economy. To download the PowerPoint presentation from this panel, click here.