News Archives
Huge New Multimedia Installation Heading To Huge Downtown Tower
April 14, 2017
Faculty Fellow Jason Salavan (Critical Computation) will be the first artist exhibiting in a new installation space in downtown Chicago, reports Chicagoist.
UChicago Charts Future of Ethnographic Research
April 10, 2017
Faculty Fellows Forrest Stuart (The State, Violence, and Social Control in the Contemporary World), Kimberly Hoang (The Economy and its Boundaries), and Kristen Schilt (Gaming Orientation) represent a new generation of sociologists advancing the University’s multidisciplinary tradition.
David Kertzer on “Mussolini, the Pope, and Italy’s Racial Laws” The distinguished historian delivered a Director's Lecture on April 5, 2017.
April 7, 2017
The distinguished historian delivered a Director's Lecture on April 5, 2017.
Political Echo Chambers and Consumption of Science
April 3, 2017
Faculty Advisory Board member James Evans, Professor of Sociology and Director of Knowledge Lab at the University of Chicago, explains a new study using online book sale data to investigate whether readers of liberal and conservative books also read different science books.
What’s Really Important About the NEA
March 29, 2017
Faculty Fellow Lawrence Rothfield (The Past for Sale) reflects on the importance of the National Endowment for the Arts in this article from the Chicago Reader by Joe Raedle.
Can the Great Lakes Be Saved?
March 26, 2017
In this essay for the Los Angeles Review of Books, Faculty Fellow Fredrik Albritton Jonsson (Climate Change: Disciplinary Challenges to the Humanities and the Social Sciences) reviews and considers The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan.
Using Discards to Build Art (and Rebuild a City)
March 14, 2017
In this New York Times video and accompanying article, Faculty Fellow Theaster Gates (Art & Public Life) discusses his new exhibition, "The Minor Arts," which opened at the National Gallery of Art last week and runs through Sept. 4.
Anxiety Affects Test Scores Even Among Students Who Excel at Math
March 10, 2017
Facutly Fellow Sian Beilock, a Principal Investigator on The Body’s Role in Thinking, Performing, and Referencing research project, speaks to UChicago News about the effects of anxiety on test-takers.
Whitney Cox on David Shulman’s “Tamil”
March 6, 2017
Faculty Fellow Whitney Cox, a principal investigator on the Imperial Interstices project, reviews David Shulman's Tamil, a "biography" of one of the world's oldest languages. "Gently humorous, frequently lyrical, and wearing great learning very lightly, the book’s prose admirably summons up what it might be like to listen to a series of lectures by a gifted teacher," Cox writes in The New York Review of Books.
University to Celebrate Life and Legacy of Poet Gwendolyn Brooks
February 22, 2017
Faculty Fellow and Principal Investigator of the Outsider Writing research project John Wilkinson discusses the upcoming Centennial Brooks celebration honoring Gwendolyn Brooks.