Poverty and Urban Schooling with Timothy Knowles, John Dewey Director and Clinical Professor, the University of Chicago Urban Education Institute.This event is part of a series of public discussions titled "Poverty, Promise, and Possibility" hosted by the University of Chicago.For more inf
The Drug War in Mexico - a discussion featuring journalists Alma Guillermoprieto, Alejandro Paez and Claudia Mendez.This event is part of the University of Chicago's Latin American Briefing Series.
Kristan Cilente, contributing author of “Leadership for a Better World: Understanding the Social Change Model of Leadership Development,” will deliver a lecture titled “Leadership for Social Change” as part of Northeastern Illinois University’s (NEIU) Presidential Lectu
From the time Burr Tillstrom and his Kuklapolitan Players first appeared in 1940 until government restrictions changed the entire landscape of local television, Chicago was at the forefront of Children’s programming.
Martha Nussbaum is one of our foremost authorities on law, freedom, and morality. In her Festival appearance, she aims her considerable intellectual firepower at the bulwark of opposition to gay equality: the politics of disgust.
Political leaders from Asia to the Middle East and from Latin America to Africa regularly state that education is central to their development strategies.
Acclaimed journalist and best-selling author Jonathan Eig discusses his book about Chicago’s most famous gangster. Get Capone tells the story using never-before-seen government documents and newly discovered letters written by Capone himself.
