If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Dwight N. Hopkins, professor of Theology and director of M.A. Studies in the Divinity School at the University of Chicago, discussed cultural and inter-religious values between the United States and China, and American literature with students in Jinan and Beijing.

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If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Ebony Magazine and the University of Chicago Urban Education Institute co-hosted an education roundtable on Wednesday, Aug. 11 at the University of Chicago's International House. A panel of some of the nation's most distinguished voices on education discussed the public education crisis and how best practices from all sources,...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Laura Mulvey's lecture will draw upon two British films from the very end of the silent era to reflect on differing representations of femininity and class.Both are about transgressive love and a modernity that enables their female protagonists to cross, if only temporarily, traditional British class boundaries. But while Hindle...

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If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. A journalist for more than 20 years, Tom Rosenstiel designedand directs the Project for Excellence in Journalism. He alsoserves as vice chairman of the Committee of ConcernedJournalists, an initiative engaged in conducting a nationalconversation among journalists about standards and values.A former media critic for the Los...

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If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. University of Chicago Divinity School Professor Wendy Doniger explores the cultural fascination with pretending to be another version of oneself, a popular theme in film, theater, and literature. Copyright 2005 The University of Chicago.