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Big Brains Podcast: Shannon Lee Dawdy on how death in the US is changing
May 17, 2022
From green burials to DIY funerals, understand how death in America is changing with Shannon Lee Dawdy (Ep 84). Anthropologist examines what our rituals reveal about society, especially after 9/11.
In the Media
Austan Goolsbee in conversation on midterms and the U.S. economy
January 18, 2022
IFK Faculty Austan Goolsbee in conversation on midterms and the U.S. economy on MSNBCThe Sleep of Reason Produces Cats
January 12, 2022
IFK Faculty Michael Rossi on Edward L. Thorndike’s experiments with cats and scientific experimentation
In the Media
There is no Planet B
January 11, 2022
Science fiction scholars and IFK postdocs Katherine Buse and Anastasia Klimchynskaya offer insight on sci fi history and planet speculation in Popular Science
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Was Voltaire the First Sci-Fi Author?
January 11, 2022
IFK Faculty Ada Palmer tells WIRED Voltaire could be considered the first Sci-Fi writer thanks to a piece he wrote in 1752, Micromegas which features aliens.News
Brad Bolman receives various honorable mentions for essay awards and research grant
December 02, 2021
Honorable mentions from FHHMLS Graduate Essay Award and FHHS John C. Burnham Early Career Award and Received Royal Society Lisa Jardine Grant
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Ana Klimchynskaya receives the Science Fiction Research Association Support a New Scholar Grant!
December 02, 2021
Congratulations to IFK Postdoc Ana Klimchynskaya on receiving the Science Fiction Research Association Support a New Scholar Grant! The New Scholar Program supports scholars of outstanding promise in
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Shannon Lee Dawdy’s ‘American Afterlives’ charts growing marketplace for new death rituals
November 15, 2021
IFK Faculty and Research Grant Recipient Shannon Lee Dawdy's book 'American Afterlives: Reinventing Death in the 21st Century' charts growing marketplace for new death rituals.
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IFK Faculty Eve L. Ewing and Michael Rossi Receive the 2020 and 2021 Laing Awards
November 15, 2021
IFK Core Faculty Michael Rossi and SIFK Faculty Research Grant Recipient Eve Ewing recently received the prestigious 2020 and 2021 Laing Awards
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America Needs a New Scientific Revolution
November 05, 2021
James Evans' research on scientific progress and the "ossification" of research
Announcements
Ada Palmer Releases New Book with Seminary Coop
November 04, 2021
The event will include a reading, a Q&A and a book signing.
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Eve Ewing selected to give the faculty welcome at the inauguration of President Paul Alivisatos
October 27, 2021
Ewing is an award-winning author and sociologist of education whose work focuses on the impact of racism and social inequality in K-12 public school systems
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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.
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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.