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]. Since the presidency of William Rainey Harper, the University of Chicago has cultivated a powerful and distinct identity marked by intellectual rigor, merit, and free debate. In this talk based on his forthcoming book, The University of Chicago: A History (University of Chicago Press), dean John Boyer, AM’69, PhD’75, shows that...

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]. Since the presidency of William Rainey Harper, the University of Chicago has cultivated a powerful and distinct identity marked by intellectual rigor, merit, and free debate. In this talk based on his forthcoming book, The University of Chicago: A History (University of Chicago Press), dean John Boyer, AM’69, PhD’75, shows that...

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]. Explore history, the arts, or the inside of your own brain with University of Chicago faculty around the world. Harper Lectures offer a chance to learn while connecting with the UChicago community. alumni.uchicago.edu/harper

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]. Explore history, the arts, or the inside of your own brain with University of Chicago faculty around the world. Harper Lectures offer a chance to learn while connecting with the UChicago community. alumni.uchicago.edu/harper

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]. Terrorism and insurgency sway national and international politics and have profound repercussions for human welfare, the stability of governments, and economic growth. Ethan Bueno de Mesquita, AB’96, using leading social scientific research, argues that terrorists’ actions unfold according to the same strategic decision-making...

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]. Terrorism and insurgency sway national and international politics and have profound repercussions for human welfare, the stability of governments, and economic growth. Ethan Bueno de Mesquita, AB’96, using leading social scientific research, argues that terrorists’ actions unfold according to the same strategic decision-making...

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]. Harper Lectures bring faculty to selected cities around the globe to discuss recent breakthroughs and discoveries and give the UChicago community a chance to share ideas and conversation. Reserve your spot today. alumniandfriends.uchicago.edu/harper

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]. Harper Lectures bring faculty to selected cities around the globe to discuss recent breakthroughs and discoveries and give the UChicago community a chance to share ideas and conversation. Reserve your spot today. alumniandfriends.uchicago.edu/harper

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]. Each year half a million people are murdered worldwide; and in almost every society on earth, violence is disproportionately concentrated among young people. In the United States, African American males lose nearly as many years of potential life before age 65 to homicide as to the nation’s overall leading cause of death, heart...

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]. Each year half a million people are murdered worldwide; and in almost every society on earth, violence is disproportionately concentrated among young people. In the United States, African American males lose nearly as many years of potential life before age 65 to homicide as to the nation’s overall leading cause of death, heart...

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]. According to conventional wisdom, democracies can only form once an authoritarian regime collapses in a destabilizing crisis. Yet East and Southeast Asia have shown that leaders can democratize nations during times of strength without sacrificing political stability. In fact, conceding democratic reforms at stabler times allows...

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]. Before they are even one year old, infants born into poverty score lower in cognitive development than their more affluent peers. By their fourth birthday, these children will have heard, on average, 30 million fewer words than others their age. Those 30 million missing words affect future learning, academic readiness and...

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]. How can the US government protect our national security and advance our foreign policy while also respecting our commitment to privacy and civil liberties? After the leaks by Chelsea (née Bradley) Manning and Edward Snowden, that’s the question President Obama put to Geoffrey R. Stone, JD’71, University of Chicago law professor...

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]. Before they are even one year old, infants born into poverty score lower in cognitive development than their more affluent peers. By their fourth birthday, these children will have heard, on average, 30 million fewer words than others their age. Those 30 million missing words affect future learning, academic readiness and...

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]. How can the US government protect our national security and advance our foreign policy while also respecting our commitment to privacy and civil liberties? After the leaks by Chelsea (née Bradley) Manning and Edward Snowden, that’s the question President Obama put to Geoffrey R. Stone, JD’71, University of Chicago law professor...

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]. The University of Chicago is undertaking an ambitious plan to transform the health and health care environment of traditionally underserved and low-income communities, beginning on Chicago’s South Side. These communities have never had a coordinated health care system, an absence aggravated by such factors as outdated civil...

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]. The University of Chicago is undertaking an ambitious plan to transform the health and health care environment of traditionally underserved and low-income communities, beginning on Chicago’s South Side. These communities have never had a coordinated health care system, an absence aggravated by such factors as outdated civil...

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]. Our consensus on what constitutes a human right dates back only to the 1940s, when the global human rights imagination first began to take shape. In this lecture, Mark Philip Bradley chronicles the complex histories that have formed our contemporary understanding of human rights and illustrates how that understanding has become a...

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]. Our consensus on what constitutes a human right dates back only to the 1940s, when the global human rights imagination first began to take shape. In this lecture, Mark Philip Bradley chronicles the complex histories that have formed our contemporary understanding of human rights and illustrates how that understanding has become a...

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]. In this talk, senior University of Chicago lecturer Susan Gzesh examined the situation of asylum seekers, stateless persons, and migratory workers in the contemporary world. She discussed various models for striking the balance among the duties of citizenship, national identity, the role of foreign nationals, and respect for...

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]. As the amount of information available to individuals about their health status grows, important questions arise about whether people really want that information and what they will do with it when they get it. Emily Oster discusses the demand for and use of health information. Using data on individuals at risk for Huntington’s...

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]. James Henry Breasted (1865-1935), the founder of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, is one of the most important figures in the growth of Egyptology in North America. Emily Teeter's lecture will explore how this field developed through the colorful life and career of James Henry Breasted--from his birth in...

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]. Physical Sciences 13400, Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast, goes international as a free massive open online course, or MOOC, this fall on coursera.org. This course, which has been taught since 1995 and became the most popular class in the University of Chicago catalog, has a long history of outreach toward the education...

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]. Following his Harper Lecture “Love and Friendship in Hamlet,” noted Shakespeare expert David Bevington held a live webchat with alumni viewers. Bevington is the Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Humanities, Professor in English Language and Literature and Comparative Literature, and Chair of...

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]. Following his Harper Lecture “Love and Friendship in Hamlet,” noted Shakespeare expert David Bevington held a live webchat with alumni viewers. Bevington is the Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Humanities, Professor in English Language and Literature and Comparative Literature, and Chair of...