In the Media
Chicago Maroon: Newly Launched McKeon Center Looks to Cross Fields and Platform Tough Conversations
November 02, 2023
The McKeon Center seeks to reinvigorate the humanities with programming based on real-world events and plans for new minor.
In the Media
Dido’s Bar: The Origin Myth featuring Shadi Bartsch Zimmer
October 27, 2021
Dido's Bar podcast with guest Shadi Bartsch on Virgil's Aeneid, why it's so brilliant and how it's retained so much resonance and significance today
In the Media
IFK Postdoc Jordan Bimm comments on Jeff Bezos’ commercial space station
October 26, 2021
Blue Origin, the private aerospace company owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, announced plans Monday to launch a commercial space station, named Orbital Reef.
Announcements
The Crisis of American Democracy
October 15, 2021
How can we safeguard American democracy now and for the future? Join the online event on Nov 11, jointly sponsored by Stanford and University of Chicago.
In the Media
SJ Zhang discusses “marronage” in the Caribbean in Teen Vogue article
October 15, 2021
African Americans who escaped from bondage participated in an influential, nearly lost part of American history.
In the Media
New ideas are struggling to emerge from the sea of science
October 15, 2021
A flood of scientific papers may be paradoxically preventing new ideas from advancing — and slowing the progress of science.
In the Media
You Can Buy Spaceflight History Now
October 13, 2021
Jordan Bimm comments on William Shatner, Captain Kirk, first real flight into space
News
Jordan Bimm and Iris Clever on Research in Archives: Human Bodies in History course
October 11, 2021
In the Media
IFK Faculty Tom Ginsburg and Power to the People: Constitutionalism in the Age of Populism
October 08, 2021
Watch Harvard Law You-Tube Video of panel discussion including Tom Ginsburg
In the Media
Lars Peter Hansen says central banks lack tools fight climate change
October 06, 2021
Nobel Laureate, economist and IFK Faculty Lars Peter Hansen describes climate-focused stress tests as "a superficial attempt to address a very challenging problem"
Announcements
Haun Saussy in Conversation with Grammy Award Winning Third Coast Director David Skidmore at Chicago Humanities Festival
October 05, 2021
Haun Saussy on Archetypes, a film which captures Third Coast performing the entire album in-studio
Announcements
Rochona Majumdar Art Cinema and India’s Forgotten Futures Book Salon
October 04, 2021
Join a 3CT salon Nov 1 to celebrate the publication of IFK Faculty Rochona Majumdar’s new book, Art Cinema and India’s Forgotten Futures: Film and History in the Postcolony
In the Media
How the Renaissance Challenged the Church and Influenced the Reformation
October 01, 2021
IFK Faculty Ada Palmer shares how the Humanism movement broadened the palette of ideas people were thinking about during the Renaissance on the History Channel