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Presentations in the Cultures and Knowledge Workshop Series range across historical and disciplinary boundaries, and provide a major component of SIFK's inquiry into the process of knowledge formation and transmittal from antiquity to the present day. SIFK faculty, postdocs, fellows and guests present research-in-progress for real-time feedback from a broadly cross-disciplinary community of scholars. Presentations take the form of a 45-minute presentation followed by a lively 25 minute discussion, and are open to all members of the University of Chicago community.
Noon-1:20 PM via Zoom
Please see the events calendar https://sifk.uchicago.edu/events/category/15/Workshops/ to register.
Monday, November 1
Of Types and Trees: Evolutionary Thought, Ancient DNA and Research on the Human Past
Hannah Moots
Monday, November 15
The Dog Years: A History of Beagle Science
Brad Bolman
Monday, November 29
Fact Culture: Polling and the Politics of Objectivity
Tal Arbel
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-studioAnnouncements
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 PostcolonyIn 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 ChannelAnnouncements
The power and politics of fetal imagery
October 01, 2021
IFK Faculty Brian Callendar and Former Postdoc Margaret Carlyle explore the history of the image of the fetus and current implications on politics, policy and culture in The LancetAnnouncements
Institute Faculty Arnold Davidson featured in France Chicago Collection
September 28, 2021
France Chicago CollectionAnnouncements
17 Major sci-fi and fantasy books arriving in fall 2021
September 27, 2021
Open a book and brand new world. Institute Faculty Ada Palmer's Perhaps the Stars makes the top list of new sci-fi books.Announcements
Dogs for Life: Beagles, Drugs, and Capital in the Twentieth Century
September 27, 2021
Brad Bolman tracks the transformation of beagle dogs from a common breed in mid-twentieth century American laboratories to the de jure standard in global toxicological research by the turn of the 21stIn the Media
The Serendipity of Llama Biocapital
September 27, 2021
Institute Postdoc Brad Bolman explores the fascinating history of llamas and camels in contemporary biotechnologyBlogs
Will Virtual Doctors Care for Future Astronauts? The Promise and Perils of AI in Space Medicine
September 26, 2021
By Jordan Bimm and Giacomo CetorelliIn the Media
IFK Faculty, Prof. Michael Greenstone calls air pollution ‘the greatest external threat to human health on the planet’
September 02, 2021
Air pollution is slashing years off the lives of billions, report finds