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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
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IFK Faculty Eve L. Ewing and Michael Rossi Receive the 2020 and 2021 Laing Awards
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The Crisis of American Democracy
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Jordan Bimm comments on William Shatner, Captain Kirk, first real flight into spaceNews
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IFK Faculty Tom Ginsburg and Power to the People: Constitutionalism in the Age of Populism
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Watch Harvard Law You-Tube Video of panel discussion including Tom Ginsburg