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]. On almost any major issue, how the U.S. and China work together (or don’t) will shape our global future. This inaugural U.S.-China Forum focuses on one of these major issues: climate change. What is the health and economic toll of climate change and associated environmental challenges? What key energy and environmental policy...

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]. On almost any major issue, how the U.S. and China work together (or don’t) will shape our global future. This inaugural U.S.-China Forum focuses on one of these major issues: climate change. What is the health and economic toll of climate change and associated environmental challenges? What key energy and environmental policy...

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]. On almost any major issue, how the U.S. and China work together (or don’t) will shape our global future. This inaugural U.S.-China Forum focuses on one of these major issues: climate change. What is the health and economic toll of climate change and associated environmental challenges? What key energy and environmental policy...

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 Alumni Association and the UChicago Center in Beijing hosted a special event on the evening of Monday, March 23, 2015. University of Chicago President Robert J. Zimmer and noted alumnus Dr. Justin Yifu Lin discussed global economics and politics–and touched on the value of a UChicago education–in front...

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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]. China’s rise sets up fundamental changes in the international system. These changes usher in a host of questions. For example, are the United States and China heading to a “new Cold War”? Will crises in Asia—however started—escalate to major power confrontation? Is China a fragile superpower? Robert Pape’s talk presents powerful...

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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]. Ed Shaughnessy (夏含夷) is the Lorraine J. and Herrlee G. Creel Distinguished Service Professor in Early Chinese Studies, Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, and Director of the Creel Center for Chinese Paleography. In this talk at the Center in Beijing, Shaughnessy delved into the history 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]. The People’s Republic of China has been a world leader in the successful inclusion of East Asian traditional medicine in the national public health system. Biomedical criticisms notwithstanding, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has found an important and official niche in China’s health services. Now, newly recognized...

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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]. Established in 2010, the Center in Beijing is a platform for University of Chicago faculty, students, alumni, and researchers to engage with peers throughout China and around the globe. The center facilitates research, education, and academic collaborations in one of the world's most dynamic cities.

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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]. Daniel Brudney is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy who writes and teaches about political philosophy, bioethics, and the philosophy of religion. In this talk, he contrasted John Locke’s idea of a social contract with that of Thomas Hobbes and then outlined the philosophy, almost three centuries later, of John Rawls.

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]. After presenting a historical overview of the University of Chicago’s growth and development, including brilliant and often controversial decisions by its leaders over many decades, John W. Boyer took questions from the audience. Topics included the near future of the College, the advantages of researchers teaching...

John W. Boyer, the Martin A. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor in History and Dean of the College, presented a historical overview of the University of Chicago’s growth and development, including brilliant and often controversial decisions by its leaders over many decades.

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]. John W. Boyer, the Martin A. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor in History and Dean of the College, presented a historical overview of the University of Chicago’s growth and development, including brilliant and often controversial decisions by its leaders over many decades.

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]. After presenting a historical overview of the University of Chicago’s growth and development, including brilliant and often controversial decisions by its leaders over many decades, John W. Boyer took questions from the audience. Topics included the near future of the College, the advantages of researchers teaching...

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 1982, 1997, 2003, and 2008, Asia and the world were rocked by major financial crises. Robert Z. Aliber discusses past crises and the possible trajectory of the next one. Where is the next major crisis likely to begin? How will its impact compare to previous crises? Aliber, a regular speaker for Chicago Booth, co-authored...

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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]. With the help of newly digitized 18th-century American newspapers and other publications, Eric Slauter traces how people wrote about the Declaration in its own time, and examines the more nuanced story about how—and who—gave us the Declaration Americans now celebrate and looks to answer the question of what the Declaration of...