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Created Equal: The Premises and Promises of the Declaration of Independence
Regenstein Library, The Special Collections Research Center · Regenstein Library, The Special Collections Research Center
On July 2, 1776, the Continental Congress voted to declare independence from Great Britain. Two days later, delegates in Philadelphia finalized a document designed to announce and explain that act to readers in America and Europe. The Declaration of Independence asserted the revolutionary right of a people to alter or abolish a government, grounding that principle in the "self-evident" claims that "all Men are created Equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights" and "that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness." Over time, many readers have come to consider the radical philosophical premises in the Declaration as founding political promises of the United States. In doing so, they transformed an indictment of the British King and a manifesto of secession from the British Empire into an American charter of liberty, equality, and rights. But the Declaration's meaning has never been solitary. From the start, readers disagreed about what its authors intended. Since 1776, radically different interpretations of the Declaration's ideas have been put to different ends—from demands for the legal, political, and social equality of all persons, to claims for the rights of states to secede from the union, to calls for the revolutionary overthrow of the government. How did the Declaration's premises become its promises? Drawing on rare materials from the seventeenth century to the present, this exhibition invites you to explore the document's meanings in its own time, to consider contested interpretations across history, and to reflect on what the Declaration means today. Curator Eric Slauter, Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literature; Associate faculty member, Divinity School; Founding Director of the Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture; The University of Chicago Visitors This exhibition is free and open to all. Visitors to the University of Chicago Library may obtain an entry pass by checking in at Regenstein Library's entry desk and presenting a current, government-issued photo ID, such as a driver's license, CityKey (https://www.chicityclerk.com/about-citykey/citykey-faq), state ID, or passport to confirm identity. Get more visitor information (https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/borrow/access-privileges/visitors/).Exhibition Gallery Hours (https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/libraries/libraries-hours/): Weekdays, 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.
Created Equal: The Premises and Promises of the Declaration of Independence
Regenstein Library, The Special Collections Research Center · Regenstein Library, The Special Collections Research Center
On July 2, 1776, the Continental Congress voted to declare independence from Great Britain. Two days later, delegates in Philadelphia finalized a document designed to announce and explain that act to readers in America and Europe. The Declaration of Independence asserted the revolutionary right of a people to alter or abolish a government, grounding that principle in the "self-evident" claims that "all Men are created Equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights" and "that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness." Over time, many readers have come to consider the radical philosophical premises in the Declaration as founding political promises of the United States. In doing so, they transformed an indictment of the British King and a manifesto of secession from the British Empire into an American charter of liberty, equality, and rights. But the Declaration's meaning has never been solitary. From the start, readers disagreed about what its authors intended. Since 1776, radically different interpretations of the Declaration's ideas have been put to different ends—from demands for the legal, political, and social equality of all persons, to claims for the rights of states to secede from the union, to calls for the revolutionary overthrow of the government. How did the Declaration's premises become its promises? Drawing on rare materials from the seventeenth century to the present, this exhibition invites you to explore the document's meanings in its own time, to consider contested interpretations across history, and to reflect on what the Declaration means today. Curator Eric Slauter, Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literature; Associate faculty member, Divinity School; Founding Director of the Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture; The University of Chicago Visitors This exhibition is free and open to all. Visitors to the University of Chicago Library may obtain an entry pass by checking in at Regenstein Library's entry desk and presenting a current, government-issued photo ID, such as a driver's license, CityKey (https://www.chicityclerk.com/about-citykey/citykey-faq), state ID, or passport to confirm identity. Get more visitor information (https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/borrow/access-privileges/visitors/).Exhibition Gallery Hours (https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/libraries/libraries-hours/): Weekdays, 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.
Created Equal: The Premises and Promises of the Declaration of Independence
Regenstein Library, The Special Collections Research Center · Regenstein Library, The Special Collections Research Center
On July 2, 1776, the Continental Congress voted to declare independence from Great Britain. Two days later, delegates in Philadelphia finalized a document designed to announce and explain that act to readers in America and Europe. The Declaration of Independence asserted the revolutionary right of a people to alter or abolish a government, grounding that principle in the "self-evident" claims that "all Men are created Equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights" and "that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness." Over time, many readers have come to consider the radical philosophical premises in the Declaration as founding political promises of the United States. In doing so, they transformed an indictment of the British King and a manifesto of secession from the British Empire into an American charter of liberty, equality, and rights. But the Declaration's meaning has never been solitary. From the start, readers disagreed about what its authors intended. Since 1776, radically different interpretations of the Declaration's ideas have been put to different ends—from demands for the legal, political, and social equality of all persons, to claims for the rights of states to secede from the union, to calls for the revolutionary overthrow of the government. How did the Declaration's premises become its promises? Drawing on rare materials from the seventeenth century to the present, this exhibition invites you to explore the document's meanings in its own time, to consider contested interpretations across history, and to reflect on what the Declaration means today. Curator Eric Slauter, Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literature; Associate faculty member, Divinity School; Founding Director of the Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture; The University of Chicago Visitors This exhibition is free and open to all. Visitors to the University of Chicago Library may obtain an entry pass by checking in at Regenstein Library's entry desk and presenting a current, government-issued photo ID, such as a driver's license, CityKey (https://www.chicityclerk.com/about-citykey/citykey-faq), state ID, or passport to confirm identity. Get more visitor information (https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/borrow/access-privileges/visitors/).Exhibition Gallery Hours (https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/libraries/libraries-hours/): Weekdays, 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.
The pedagogical implications of AI continue to evolve as these tools and technologies develop, and as instructors and students learn more about them. Join the Chicago Center for Teaching and Learning (https://teaching.uchicago.edu/) (CCTL), Academic Technology Solutions (https://academictech.uchicago.edu/) (ATS), and the Library (https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/) and colleagues from across campus for a series of in-person conversations and presentations over a day and a half as we take stock of the current pedagogical landscape as shaped by AI. This program will draw on and feature the insights of UChicago faculty and instructors who have been thinking through and experimenting with various approaches to AI tools, from constructive integration to thoughtful restriction of their use in a variety of teaching and learning contexts. Day 2 is structured as a full day of faculty panels and workshops focused on pedagogical approaches to teaching without AI and teaching with AI. Topics will include: Panel discussions featuring UChicago faculty and instructors teaching with and without AI tools Strategies to support AI-literacy skills for students Designing AI-aware assignments and assessments Integrating low/no-tech assessments and activities Using AI tools to support student learning goals Faculty and instructors from across the University are welcome to attend all or part of the program on either day. Lunch will be provided on both days. Please click here to visit the CCTL website (https://teaching.uchicago.edu/programs/teaching-generative-ai-landscape) for the event schedule.
The pedagogical implications of AI continue to evolve as these tools and technologies develop, and as instructors and students learn more about them. Join the Chicago Center for Teaching and Learning (https://teaching.uchicago.edu/) (CCTL), Academic Technology Solutions (https://academictech.uchicago.edu/) (ATS), and the Library (https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/) and colleagues from across campus for a series of in-person conversations and presentations over a day and a half as we take stock of the current pedagogical landscape as shaped by AI. This program will draw on and feature the insights of UChicago faculty and instructors who have been thinking through and experimenting with various approaches to AI tools, from constructive integration to thoughtful restriction of their use in a variety of teaching and learning contexts. Day 2 is structured as a full day of faculty panels and workshops focused on pedagogical approaches to teaching without AI and teaching with AI. Topics will include: Panel discussions featuring UChicago faculty and instructors teaching with and without AI tools Strategies to support AI-literacy skills for students Designing AI-aware assignments and assessments Integrating low/no-tech assessments and activities Using AI tools to support student learning goals Faculty and instructors from across the University are welcome to attend all or part of the program on either day. Lunch will be provided on both days. Please click here to visit the CCTL website (https://teaching.uchicago.edu/programs/teaching-generative-ai-landscape) for the event schedule.
Mathematics, High-Performance Computing, and Neural Networks: New Perspectives for Molecular Simulation
The University of Chicago John W. Boyer Center in Paris · The University of Chicago John W. Boyer Center in Paris
Workshop closed to the public The project focuses on molecular simulation, a powerful computational approach used to understand how molecules behave in fields such as medicine, chemistry, and materials science. Simulating molecular processes is extremely challenging because it involves complex physical laws, large-scale computations, and events that unfold over very different time scales. Progress, therefore, hinges on close collaboration between mathematicians, computer scientists, and molecular scientists. Recent advances in computing power and artificial intelligence offer new opportunities to make these simulations faster, more accurate, and more predictive. This kickoff meeting will serve as a catalyst for building a durable transatlantic partnership, encouraging collaboration across disciplines and career stages. By bringing together senior researchers and young scientists, it will help establish a shared scientific culture and lay the foundation for innovative, long-term joint research efforts.
Mathematics, High-Performance Computing, and Neural Networks: New Perspectives for Molecular Simulation
The University of Chicago John W. Boyer Center in Paris · The University of Chicago John W. Boyer Center in Paris
Workshop closed to the public The project focuses on molecular simulation, a powerful computational approach used to understand how molecules behave in fields such as medicine, chemistry, and materials science. Simulating molecular processes is extremely challenging because it involves complex physical laws, large-scale computations, and events that unfold over very different time scales. Progress, therefore, hinges on close collaboration between mathematicians, computer scientists, and molecular scientists. Recent advances in computing power and artificial intelligence offer new opportunities to make these simulations faster, more accurate, and more predictive. This kickoff meeting will serve as a catalyst for building a durable transatlantic partnership, encouraging collaboration across disciplines and career stages. By bringing together senior researchers and young scientists, it will help establish a shared scientific culture and lay the foundation for innovative, long-term joint research efforts.
The UChicago Claude Enterprise support team will host virtual office hours via Zoom to help University of Chicago faculty, other academic appointees, postdocs, and staff answer their specific technical questions about accessing Claude Enterprise and using the Claude tools.Morning Office Hours:For the morning office hours from 10 a.m. to noon CT, please join via this Zoom Meeting Link. (https://uchicagogroup.zoom.us/j/97980118485?pwd=Q0lZ4tLB2sdQvO4OwPBIS4ZLo1hceY.1) Email the Claude Enterprise support team at [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) with any questions.
The UChicago Claude Enterprise support team will host virtual office hours via Zoom to help University of Chicago faculty, other academic appointees, postdocs, and staff answer their specific technical questions about accessing Claude Enterprise and using the Claude tools.Morning Office Hours:For the morning office hours from 10 a.m. to noon CT, please join via this Zoom Meeting Link. (https://uchicagogroup.zoom.us/j/97980118485?pwd=Q0lZ4tLB2sdQvO4OwPBIS4ZLo1hceY.1) Email the Claude Enterprise support team at [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) with any questions.
As artificial intelligence enters our nurseries, classrooms, and daily lives, what should technology touch, and what must remain human? In her new book, Human Raised: Nurturing Connection, Curiosity & Lifelong Learning in the Age of AI (https://www.amazon.com/Human-Raised-Nurturing-Connection-Curiosity/dp/B0GFZTD3N9/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3IW3HYQB97F6F&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.CglgFCbBwSIrBMHS48P3YzVGWjpa1nm5EJBxQIuS_0A.rDK1hUfPQXAREo4rcZEa9nBCQ5xjxO2Swpg1KI09y1g&dib_tag=se&keywords=dana+suskind+human+raised&qid=1783708842&sprefix=%2Caps%2C162&sr=8-1), New York Times bestselling author and University of Chicago professor Dana Suskind, MD, offers a timely guide to protecting what matters most in childhood and beyond. Drawing on neuroscience, evolutionary biology, and the lived experience of countless families, Suskind reveals why human connection is irreplaceable and how we can cultivate the capacities no algorithm can replicate: critical thinking, empathy, creativity, and resilience. Join us for a conversation about raising children, and living well ourselves, in a world being rapidly reshaped by AI.
As artificial intelligence enters our nurseries, classrooms, and daily lives, what should technology touch, and what must remain human? In her new book, Human Raised: Nurturing Connection, Curiosity & Lifelong Learning in the Age of AI (https://www.amazon.com/Human-Raised-Nurturing-Connection-Curiosity/dp/B0GFZTD3N9/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3IW3HYQB97F6F&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.CglgFCbBwSIrBMHS48P3YzVGWjpa1nm5EJBxQIuS_0A.rDK1hUfPQXAREo4rcZEa9nBCQ5xjxO2Swpg1KI09y1g&dib_tag=se&keywords=dana+suskind+human+raised&qid=1783708842&sprefix=%2Caps%2C162&sr=8-1), New York Times bestselling author and University of Chicago professor Dana Suskind, MD, offers a timely guide to protecting what matters most in childhood and beyond. Drawing on neuroscience, evolutionary biology, and the lived experience of countless families, Suskind reveals why human connection is irreplaceable and how we can cultivate the capacities no algorithm can replicate: critical thinking, empathy, creativity, and resilience. Join us for a conversation about raising children, and living well ourselves, in a world being rapidly reshaped by AI.
Longer Than the Sky: Art of the Obama Years is presented by Logan Center Exhibitions on the occasion of the opening of the Obama Presidential Center. The exhibition presents a constellation of around thirty works by an intergenerational group of artists, amounting to a significant sliver of art produced during the Obama Presidency. Longer Than the Sky charts a provisional art history of the recent past, featuring works by Kevin Beasley, Andrea Fraser, Rachel Harrison, Jacqueline Humphries, Josh Kline, Louise Lawler, Jason Lazarus, Ralph Lemon, Glenn Ligon, Kerry James Marshall, Catherine Opie, Adrian Piper, Pope.L, Seth Price, Aliza Nisenbaum, Cameron Rowland, Allan Sekula, Cauleen Smith, Hito Steyerl, Diamond Stingily, Martine Syms, Danh Vo, Jack Whitten, and Amanda Williams among other artists. The exhibition's title, Longer Than the Sky, comes from James Baldwin's 1957 short story, "Sonny's Blues," and evokes the intermingling of optimism and despair that defined the period between 2008 and 2016. The story concludes when the younger of two brothers performs a stirring rendition of the blues, an event that carries the fleeting glimmer of hopefulness, even freedom. "I was yet aware that this was only a moment," the narrator subsequently reflects, "that the world waited outside, as hungry as a tiger, and that trouble stretched above us, longer than the sky."Longer Than the Sky centers on artistic practices that gained relevance for the ways they engaged self-reflexively with their historical moment. These artworks have been assembled not for their stylistic similarities, but rather, for the ways they offer distinct perspectives on the circumstances in which they were made. While some address specific political events, the majority evoke their political context more obliquely, highlighting an overlapping set of social, technological, and aesthetic concerns that shaped the art of this era. Though the exhibition includes several artists who launched their careers in these years, it also foregrounds many who made period-defining work long before 2008. The prominence of the latter points to the ways these years were marked as much by continuity as they were by change and rupture. Opened in 2012 at the height of the Obama years, the Reva & David Logan Center for the Arts is part of this history. Its architects, Billie Tsien and Tod Williams, would go on to design the Obama Presidential Center down the street. Through its exhibitions and programs, the Logan Center has played a key role in supporting artistic communities on the South Side of Chicago. In keeping with this context, Longer Than the Sky situates the work of several Chicago-based artists within broader conversations about global contemporary art. Longer Than the Sky: Art of the Obama Years is presented by Logan Center Exhibitions and curated by Jenny Harris (https://arthistory.uchicago.edu/graduate/profiles/harris), doctoral candidate in Art History at the University of Chicago, who partnered with the Logan Center in 2024 to co-curate the exhibition Jessica Stockholder: For Events. The Logan Center is pleased to partner with the Obama Presidential Center on related programs that will take place during the exhibition. Exhibition-related programs will be developed in partnership with Dorian Sylvain (https://doriansylvain.com/), an artist and curator who has frequently partnered with the Logan Center and was commissioned by The Obama Foundation to develop a collaborative site-specific mural at the Obama Presidential Center's Home Court. Exhibition and programming support has been provided by the Ng Family Visiting Artist Fund, the Revada Foundation, and Friends of the Logan Center.
Longer Than the Sky: Art of the Obama Years is presented by Logan Center Exhibitions on the occasion of the opening of the Obama Presidential Center. The exhibition presents a constellation of around thirty works by an intergenerational group of artists, amounting to a significant sliver of art produced during the Obama Presidency. Longer Than the Sky charts a provisional art history of the recent past, featuring works by Kevin Beasley, Andrea Fraser, Rachel Harrison, Jacqueline Humphries, Josh Kline, Louise Lawler, Jason Lazarus, Ralph Lemon, Glenn Ligon, Kerry James Marshall, Catherine Opie, Adrian Piper, Pope.L, Seth Price, Aliza Nisenbaum, Cameron Rowland, Allan Sekula, Cauleen Smith, Hito Steyerl, Diamond Stingily, Martine Syms, Danh Vo, Jack Whitten, and Amanda Williams among other artists. The exhibition's title, Longer Than the Sky, comes from James Baldwin's 1957 short story, "Sonny's Blues," and evokes the intermingling of optimism and despair that defined the period between 2008 and 2016. The story concludes when the younger of two brothers performs a stirring rendition of the blues, an event that carries the fleeting glimmer of hopefulness, even freedom. "I was yet aware that this was only a moment," the narrator subsequently reflects, "that the world waited outside, as hungry as a tiger, and that trouble stretched above us, longer than the sky."Longer Than the Sky centers on artistic practices that gained relevance for the ways they engaged self-reflexively with their historical moment. These artworks have been assembled not for their stylistic similarities, but rather, for the ways they offer distinct perspectives on the circumstances in which they were made. While some address specific political events, the majority evoke their political context more obliquely, highlighting an overlapping set of social, technological, and aesthetic concerns that shaped the art of this era. Though the exhibition includes several artists who launched their careers in these years, it also foregrounds many who made period-defining work long before 2008. The prominence of the latter points to the ways these years were marked as much by continuity as they were by change and rupture. Opened in 2012 at the height of the Obama years, the Reva & David Logan Center for the Arts is part of this history. Its architects, Billie Tsien and Tod Williams, would go on to design the Obama Presidential Center down the street. Through its exhibitions and programs, the Logan Center has played a key role in supporting artistic communities on the South Side of Chicago. In keeping with this context, Longer Than the Sky situates the work of several Chicago-based artists within broader conversations about global contemporary art. Longer Than the Sky: Art of the Obama Years is presented by Logan Center Exhibitions and curated by Jenny Harris (https://arthistory.uchicago.edu/graduate/profiles/harris), doctoral candidate in Art History at the University of Chicago, who partnered with the Logan Center in 2024 to co-curate the exhibition Jessica Stockholder: For Events. The Logan Center is pleased to partner with the Obama Presidential Center on related programs that will take place during the exhibition. Exhibition-related programs will be developed in partnership with Dorian Sylvain (https://doriansylvain.com/), an artist and curator who has frequently partnered with the Logan Center and was commissioned by The Obama Foundation to develop a collaborative site-specific mural at the Obama Presidential Center's Home Court. Exhibition and programming support has been provided by the Ng Family Visiting Artist Fund, the Revada Foundation, and Friends of the Logan Center.
The UChicago Claude Enterprise support team will host simultaneous in-person and Zoom office hours to help University of Chicago faculty, other academic appointees, postdocs, and staff answer their technical questions about accessing Claude Enterprise and using the Claude tools. In-Person Join for in-person, drop-in office hours at the TechBar Studio, which is located at the Regenstein Library (1100 E. 57th St., Chicago).Virtual Office Hours Attend the virtual office hours via Zoom (learn more about how to join the morning and afternoon virtual office hours by Zoom (https://intranet.uchicago.edu/news-and-events/announcements/2026/07/july-8-claude-enterprise-support-office-hours)).
The UChicago Claude Enterprise support team will host simultaneous in-person and Zoom office hours to help University of Chicago faculty, other academic appointees, postdocs, and staff answer their technical questions about accessing Claude Enterprise and using the Claude tools. In-Person Join for in-person, drop-in office hours at the TechBar Studio, which is located at the Regenstein Library (1100 E. 57th St., Chicago).Virtual Office Hours Attend the virtual office hours via Zoom (learn more about how to join the morning and afternoon virtual office hours by Zoom (https://intranet.uchicago.edu/news-and-events/announcements/2026/07/july-8-claude-enterprise-support-office-hours)).
Practices include primarily from the early Buddhist teachings including Samadhi (concentration), Vipassana (Insight) and Metta (Lovingkindness) along with dharma talk and discussion. No prior experience necessary.
Created Equal: The Premises and Promises of the Declaration of Independence
Regenstein Library, The Special Collections Research Center · Regenstein Library, The Special Collections Research Center
On July 2, 1776, the Continental Congress voted to declare independence from Great Britain. Two days later, delegates in Philadelphia finalized a document designed to announce and explain that act to readers in America and Europe. The Declaration of Independence asserted the revolutionary right of a people to alter or abolish a government, grounding that principle in the "self-evident" claims that "all Men are created Equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights" and "that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness." Over time, many readers have come to consider the radical philosophical premises in the Declaration as founding political promises of the United States. In doing so, they transformed an indictment of the British King and a manifesto of secession from the British Empire into an American charter of liberty, equality, and rights. But the Declaration's meaning has never been solitary. From the start, readers disagreed about what its authors intended. Since 1776, radically different interpretations of the Declaration's ideas have been put to different ends—from demands for the legal, political, and social equality of all persons, to claims for the rights of states to secede from the union, to calls for the revolutionary overthrow of the government. How did the Declaration's premises become its promises? Drawing on rare materials from the seventeenth century to the present, this exhibition invites you to explore the document's meanings in its own time, to consider contested interpretations across history, and to reflect on what the Declaration means today. Curator Eric Slauter, Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literature; Associate faculty member, Divinity School; Founding Director of the Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture; The University of Chicago Visitors This exhibition is free and open to all. Visitors to the University of Chicago Library may obtain an entry pass by checking in at Regenstein Library's entry desk and presenting a current, government-issued photo ID, such as a driver's license, CityKey (https://www.chicityclerk.com/about-citykey/citykey-faq), state ID, or passport to confirm identity. Get more visitor information (https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/borrow/access-privileges/visitors/).Exhibition Gallery Hours (https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/libraries/libraries-hours/): Weekdays, 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.
Created Equal: The Premises and Promises of the Declaration of Independence
Regenstein Library, The Special Collections Research Center · Regenstein Library, The Special Collections Research Center
On July 2, 1776, the Continental Congress voted to declare independence from Great Britain. Two days later, delegates in Philadelphia finalized a document designed to announce and explain that act to readers in America and Europe. The Declaration of Independence asserted the revolutionary right of a people to alter or abolish a government, grounding that principle in the "self-evident" claims that "all Men are created Equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights" and "that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness." Over time, many readers have come to consider the radical philosophical premises in the Declaration as founding political promises of the United States. In doing so, they transformed an indictment of the British King and a manifesto of secession from the British Empire into an American charter of liberty, equality, and rights. But the Declaration's meaning has never been solitary. From the start, readers disagreed about what its authors intended. Since 1776, radically different interpretations of the Declaration's ideas have been put to different ends—from demands for the legal, political, and social equality of all persons, to claims for the rights of states to secede from the union, to calls for the revolutionary overthrow of the government. How did the Declaration's premises become its promises? Drawing on rare materials from the seventeenth century to the present, this exhibition invites you to explore the document's meanings in its own time, to consider contested interpretations across history, and to reflect on what the Declaration means today. Curator Eric Slauter, Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literature; Associate faculty member, Divinity School; Founding Director of the Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture; The University of Chicago Visitors This exhibition is free and open to all. Visitors to the University of Chicago Library may obtain an entry pass by checking in at Regenstein Library's entry desk and presenting a current, government-issued photo ID, such as a driver's license, CityKey (https://www.chicityclerk.com/about-citykey/citykey-faq), state ID, or passport to confirm identity. Get more visitor information (https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/borrow/access-privileges/visitors/).Exhibition Gallery Hours (https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/libraries/libraries-hours/): Weekdays, 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.
Created Equal: The Premises and Promises of the Declaration of Independence
Regenstein Library, The Special Collections Research Center · Regenstein Library, The Special Collections Research Center
On July 2, 1776, the Continental Congress voted to declare independence from Great Britain. Two days later, delegates in Philadelphia finalized a document designed to announce and explain that act to readers in America and Europe. The Declaration of Independence asserted the revolutionary right of a people to alter or abolish a government, grounding that principle in the "self-evident" claims that "all Men are created Equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights" and "that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness." Over time, many readers have come to consider the radical philosophical premises in the Declaration as founding political promises of the United States. In doing so, they transformed an indictment of the British King and a manifesto of secession from the British Empire into an American charter of liberty, equality, and rights. But the Declaration's meaning has never been solitary. From the start, readers disagreed about what its authors intended. Since 1776, radically different interpretations of the Declaration's ideas have been put to different ends—from demands for the legal, political, and social equality of all persons, to claims for the rights of states to secede from the union, to calls for the revolutionary overthrow of the government. How did the Declaration's premises become its promises? Drawing on rare materials from the seventeenth century to the present, this exhibition invites you to explore the document's meanings in its own time, to consider contested interpretations across history, and to reflect on what the Declaration means today. Curator Eric Slauter, Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literature; Associate faculty member, Divinity School; Founding Director of the Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture; The University of Chicago Visitors This exhibition is free and open to all. Visitors to the University of Chicago Library may obtain an entry pass by checking in at Regenstein Library's entry desk and presenting a current, government-issued photo ID, such as a driver's license, CityKey (https://www.chicityclerk.com/about-citykey/citykey-faq), state ID, or passport to confirm identity. Get more visitor information (https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/borrow/access-privileges/visitors/).Exhibition Gallery Hours (https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/libraries/libraries-hours/): Weekdays, 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.
Mathematics, High-Performance Computing, and Neural Networks: New Perspectives for Molecular Simulation
The University of Chicago John W. Boyer Center in Paris · The University of Chicago John W. Boyer Center in Paris
Workshop closed to the public The project focuses on molecular simulation, a powerful computational approach used to understand how molecules behave in fields such as medicine, chemistry, and materials science. Simulating molecular processes is extremely challenging because it involves complex physical laws, large-scale computations, and events that unfold over very different time scales. Progress, therefore, hinges on close collaboration between mathematicians, computer scientists, and molecular scientists. Recent advances in computing power and artificial intelligence offer new opportunities to make these simulations faster, more accurate, and more predictive. This kickoff meeting will serve as a catalyst for building a durable transatlantic partnership, encouraging collaboration across disciplines and career stages. By bringing together senior researchers and young scientists, it will help establish a shared scientific culture and lay the foundation for innovative, long-term joint research efforts.
Mathematics, High-Performance Computing, and Neural Networks: New Perspectives for Molecular Simulation
The University of Chicago John W. Boyer Center in Paris · The University of Chicago John W. Boyer Center in Paris
Workshop closed to the public The project focuses on molecular simulation, a powerful computational approach used to understand how molecules behave in fields such as medicine, chemistry, and materials science. Simulating molecular processes is extremely challenging because it involves complex physical laws, large-scale computations, and events that unfold over very different time scales. Progress, therefore, hinges on close collaboration between mathematicians, computer scientists, and molecular scientists. Recent advances in computing power and artificial intelligence offer new opportunities to make these simulations faster, more accurate, and more predictive. This kickoff meeting will serve as a catalyst for building a durable transatlantic partnership, encouraging collaboration across disciplines and career stages. By bringing together senior researchers and young scientists, it will help establish a shared scientific culture and lay the foundation for innovative, long-term joint research efforts.
4th Annual University of Chicago Neurotrauma Symposium: From Evidence to Impact
1201 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637 · 1201 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
From Guidelines to Impact: Advancing Care in Penetrating Brain Injury Join us for a powerful and forward-looking symposium dedicated to advancing care for patients with penetrating brain injury (PBI). Addressing persistent gaps in the care of penetrating brain injury, this year's symposium focuses on translating newly updated clinical practice guidelines into meaningful clinical and systems-level impact. In recognition of the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, the symposium will also explore how lessons from military and civilian mass casualty experiences have reshaped modern neurotrauma care and what that means for today's clinicians. Designed for multidisciplinary teams, this dynamic program brings together leading experts to: Examine how recent guideline updates are changing practice Identify ongoing variability in care delivery Highlight actionable strategies to standardize treatment and improve outcomes across diverse settings Through engaging discussions on acute management, neurocritical care, rehabilitation, and research innovation, participants will gain practical insights they can apply immediately. The program emphasizes collaboration, implementation, and high-impact thinking—equipping you to close persistent gaps in care and drive meaningful improvements for patients. Whether you're on the front lines of care or shaping systems and research, this is an opportunity to be part of the next phase of progress in neurotrauma. Reserve your seat today! Target Audience This activity is designed for clinicians, multidisciplinary healthcare professionals, clinical researchers, health system leaders, policy stakeholders, and community partners committed to advancing the care of patients with penetrating brain injury (PBI).
4th Annual University of Chicago Neurotrauma Symposium: From Evidence to Impact
1201 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637 · 1201 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
From Guidelines to Impact: Advancing Care in Penetrating Brain Injury Join us for a powerful and forward-looking symposium dedicated to advancing care for patients with penetrating brain injury (PBI). Addressing persistent gaps in the care of penetrating brain injury, this year's symposium focuses on translating newly updated clinical practice guidelines into meaningful clinical and systems-level impact. In recognition of the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, the symposium will also explore how lessons from military and civilian mass casualty experiences have reshaped modern neurotrauma care and what that means for today's clinicians. Designed for multidisciplinary teams, this dynamic program brings together leading experts to: Examine how recent guideline updates are changing practice Identify ongoing variability in care delivery Highlight actionable strategies to standardize treatment and improve outcomes across diverse settings Through engaging discussions on acute management, neurocritical care, rehabilitation, and research innovation, participants will gain practical insights they can apply immediately. The program emphasizes collaboration, implementation, and high-impact thinking—equipping you to close persistent gaps in care and drive meaningful improvements for patients. Whether you're on the front lines of care or shaping systems and research, this is an opportunity to be part of the next phase of progress in neurotrauma. Reserve your seat today! Target Audience This activity is designed for clinicians, multidisciplinary healthcare professionals, clinical researchers, health system leaders, policy stakeholders, and community partners committed to advancing the care of patients with penetrating brain injury (PBI).
Mathematics, High-Performance Computing, and Neural Networks: New Perspectives for Molecular Simulation
The University of Chicago John W. Boyer Center in Paris · The University of Chicago John W. Boyer Center in Paris
Workshop closed to the public The project focuses on molecular simulation, a powerful computational approach used to understand how molecules behave in fields such as medicine, chemistry, and materials science. Simulating molecular processes is extremely challenging because it involves complex physical laws, large-scale computations, and events that unfold over very different time scales. Progress, therefore, hinges on close collaboration between mathematicians, computer scientists, and molecular scientists. Recent advances in computing power and artificial intelligence offer new opportunities to make these simulations faster, more accurate, and more predictive. This kickoff meeting will serve as a catalyst for building a durable transatlantic partnership, encouraging collaboration across disciplines and career stages. By bringing together senior researchers and young scientists, it will help establish a shared scientific culture and lay the foundation for innovative, long-term joint research efforts.
Mathematics, High-Performance Computing, and Neural Networks: New Perspectives for Molecular Simulation
The University of Chicago John W. Boyer Center in Paris · The University of Chicago John W. Boyer Center in Paris
Workshop closed to the public The project focuses on molecular simulation, a powerful computational approach used to understand how molecules behave in fields such as medicine, chemistry, and materials science. Simulating molecular processes is extremely challenging because it involves complex physical laws, large-scale computations, and events that unfold over very different time scales. Progress, therefore, hinges on close collaboration between mathematicians, computer scientists, and molecular scientists. Recent advances in computing power and artificial intelligence offer new opportunities to make these simulations faster, more accurate, and more predictive. This kickoff meeting will serve as a catalyst for building a durable transatlantic partnership, encouraging collaboration across disciplines and career stages. By bringing together senior researchers and young scientists, it will help establish a shared scientific culture and lay the foundation for innovative, long-term joint research efforts.
The UChicago Claude Enterprise support team will host virtual office hours via Zoom to help University of Chicago faculty, other academic appointees, postdocs, and staff answer their specific technical questions about accessing Claude Enterprise and using the Claude tools.Morning Office Hours:For the morning office hours from 10 a.m. to noon CT, please join via this Zoom Meeting Link. (https://uchicagogroup.zoom.us/j/97980118485?pwd=Q0lZ4tLB2sdQvO4OwPBIS4ZLo1hceY.1) Email the Claude Enterprise support team at [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) with any questions.
The UChicago Claude Enterprise support team will host virtual office hours via Zoom to help University of Chicago faculty, other academic appointees, postdocs, and staff answer their specific technical questions about accessing Claude Enterprise and using the Claude tools.Morning Office Hours:For the morning office hours from 10 a.m. to noon CT, please join via this Zoom Meeting Link. (https://uchicagogroup.zoom.us/j/97980118485?pwd=Q0lZ4tLB2sdQvO4OwPBIS4ZLo1hceY.1) Email the Claude Enterprise support team at [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) with any questions.
Didactic Topic | Presenter -The Core Pediatric Residency Program's primary educational Noon Conference series featuring didactics, case discussions, board review, and simulation, among other topics. Sessions are designed to advance pediatric knowledge and enhance clinical practice for learners across all levels.SCHOLARLY CONCENTRATION DIDACTIC KEYMedical EducationAdvocacy/Health EquityResearchQuality ImprovementPrimary Care
Didactic Topic | Presenter -The Core Pediatric Residency Program's primary educational Noon Conference series featuring didactics, case discussions, board review, and simulation, among other topics. Sessions are designed to advance pediatric knowledge and enhance clinical practice for learners across all levels.SCHOLARLY CONCENTRATION DIDACTIC KEYMedical EducationAdvocacy/Health EquityResearchQuality ImprovementPrimary Care
Longer Than the Sky: Art of the Obama Years is presented by Logan Center Exhibitions on the occasion of the opening of the Obama Presidential Center. The exhibition presents a constellation of around thirty works by an intergenerational group of artists, amounting to a significant sliver of art produced during the Obama Presidency. Longer Than the Sky charts a provisional art history of the recent past, featuring works by Kevin Beasley, Andrea Fraser, Rachel Harrison, Jacqueline Humphries, Josh Kline, Louise Lawler, Jason Lazarus, Ralph Lemon, Glenn Ligon, Kerry James Marshall, Catherine Opie, Adrian Piper, Pope.L, Seth Price, Aliza Nisenbaum, Cameron Rowland, Allan Sekula, Cauleen Smith, Hito Steyerl, Diamond Stingily, Martine Syms, Danh Vo, Jack Whitten, and Amanda Williams among other artists. The exhibition's title, Longer Than the Sky, comes from James Baldwin's 1957 short story, "Sonny's Blues," and evokes the intermingling of optimism and despair that defined the period between 2008 and 2016. The story concludes when the younger of two brothers performs a stirring rendition of the blues, an event that carries the fleeting glimmer of hopefulness, even freedom. "I was yet aware that this was only a moment," the narrator subsequently reflects, "that the world waited outside, as hungry as a tiger, and that trouble stretched above us, longer than the sky."Longer Than the Sky centers on artistic practices that gained relevance for the ways they engaged self-reflexively with their historical moment. These artworks have been assembled not for their stylistic similarities, but rather, for the ways they offer distinct perspectives on the circumstances in which they were made. While some address specific political events, the majority evoke their political context more obliquely, highlighting an overlapping set of social, technological, and aesthetic concerns that shaped the art of this era. Though the exhibition includes several artists who launched their careers in these years, it also foregrounds many who made period-defining work long before 2008. The prominence of the latter points to the ways these years were marked as much by continuity as they were by change and rupture. Opened in 2012 at the height of the Obama years, the Reva & David Logan Center for the Arts is part of this history. Its architects, Billie Tsien and Tod Williams, would go on to design the Obama Presidential Center down the street. Through its exhibitions and programs, the Logan Center has played a key role in supporting artistic communities on the South Side of Chicago. In keeping with this context, Longer Than the Sky situates the work of several Chicago-based artists within broader conversations about global contemporary art. Longer Than the Sky: Art of the Obama Years is presented by Logan Center Exhibitions and curated by Jenny Harris (https://arthistory.uchicago.edu/graduate/profiles/harris), doctoral candidate in Art History at the University of Chicago, who partnered with the Logan Center in 2024 to co-curate the exhibition Jessica Stockholder: For Events. The Logan Center is pleased to partner with the Obama Presidential Center on related programs that will take place during the exhibition. Exhibition-related programs will be developed in partnership with Dorian Sylvain (https://doriansylvain.com/), an artist and curator who has frequently partnered with the Logan Center and was commissioned by The Obama Foundation to develop a collaborative site-specific mural at the Obama Presidential Center's Home Court. Exhibition and programming support has been provided by the Ng Family Visiting Artist Fund, the Revada Foundation, and Friends of the Logan Center.
Longer Than the Sky: Art of the Obama Years is presented by Logan Center Exhibitions on the occasion of the opening of the Obama Presidential Center. The exhibition presents a constellation of around thirty works by an intergenerational group of artists, amounting to a significant sliver of art produced during the Obama Presidency. Longer Than the Sky charts a provisional art history of the recent past, featuring works by Kevin Beasley, Andrea Fraser, Rachel Harrison, Jacqueline Humphries, Josh Kline, Louise Lawler, Jason Lazarus, Ralph Lemon, Glenn Ligon, Kerry James Marshall, Catherine Opie, Adrian Piper, Pope.L, Seth Price, Aliza Nisenbaum, Cameron Rowland, Allan Sekula, Cauleen Smith, Hito Steyerl, Diamond Stingily, Martine Syms, Danh Vo, Jack Whitten, and Amanda Williams among other artists. The exhibition's title, Longer Than the Sky, comes from James Baldwin's 1957 short story, "Sonny's Blues," and evokes the intermingling of optimism and despair that defined the period between 2008 and 2016. The story concludes when the younger of two brothers performs a stirring rendition of the blues, an event that carries the fleeting glimmer of hopefulness, even freedom. "I was yet aware that this was only a moment," the narrator subsequently reflects, "that the world waited outside, as hungry as a tiger, and that trouble stretched above us, longer than the sky."Longer Than the Sky centers on artistic practices that gained relevance for the ways they engaged self-reflexively with their historical moment. These artworks have been assembled not for their stylistic similarities, but rather, for the ways they offer distinct perspectives on the circumstances in which they were made. While some address specific political events, the majority evoke their political context more obliquely, highlighting an overlapping set of social, technological, and aesthetic concerns that shaped the art of this era. Though the exhibition includes several artists who launched their careers in these years, it also foregrounds many who made period-defining work long before 2008. The prominence of the latter points to the ways these years were marked as much by continuity as they were by change and rupture. Opened in 2012 at the height of the Obama years, the Reva & David Logan Center for the Arts is part of this history. Its architects, Billie Tsien and Tod Williams, would go on to design the Obama Presidential Center down the street. Through its exhibitions and programs, the Logan Center has played a key role in supporting artistic communities on the South Side of Chicago. In keeping with this context, Longer Than the Sky situates the work of several Chicago-based artists within broader conversations about global contemporary art. Longer Than the Sky: Art of the Obama Years is presented by Logan Center Exhibitions and curated by Jenny Harris (https://arthistory.uchicago.edu/graduate/profiles/harris), doctoral candidate in Art History at the University of Chicago, who partnered with the Logan Center in 2024 to co-curate the exhibition Jessica Stockholder: For Events. The Logan Center is pleased to partner with the Obama Presidential Center on related programs that will take place during the exhibition. Exhibition-related programs will be developed in partnership with Dorian Sylvain (https://doriansylvain.com/), an artist and curator who has frequently partnered with the Logan Center and was commissioned by The Obama Foundation to develop a collaborative site-specific mural at the Obama Presidential Center's Home Court. Exhibition and programming support has been provided by the Ng Family Visiting Artist Fund, the Revada Foundation, and Friends of the Logan Center.
The UChicago Claude Enterprise support team will host simultaneous in-person and Zoom office hours to help University of Chicago faculty, other academic appointees, postdocs, and staff answer their technical questions about accessing Claude Enterprise and using the Claude tools. In-Person Join for in-person, drop-in office hours at the TechBar Studio, which is located at the Regenstein Library (1100 E. 57th St., Chicago).Virtual Office Hours Attend the virtual office hours via Zoom (learn more about how to join the morning and afternoon virtual office hours by Zoom (https://intranet.uchicago.edu/news-and-events/announcements/2026/07/july-8-claude-enterprise-support-office-hours)).
The UChicago Claude Enterprise support team will host simultaneous in-person and Zoom office hours to help University of Chicago faculty, other academic appointees, postdocs, and staff answer their technical questions about accessing Claude Enterprise and using the Claude tools. In-Person Join for in-person, drop-in office hours at the TechBar Studio, which is located at the Regenstein Library (1100 E. 57th St., Chicago).Virtual Office Hours Attend the virtual office hours via Zoom (learn more about how to join the morning and afternoon virtual office hours by Zoom (https://intranet.uchicago.edu/news-and-events/announcements/2026/07/july-8-claude-enterprise-support-office-hours)).
Support and Reflection for Trainees: Nancy B. Schwartz, PhD
BSLC Room 115 · BSLC Room 115
Dear Trainees and Postdoctoral Scholars, Many of you knew Nancy B. Schwartz, PhD, who passed away on August 28. For more than five decades, Nancy championed scientists at every stage of their careers. She was especially devoted to students from the widest range of educational backgrounds, postdoctoral scholars, and MD/PhD students. She created and ran pathway programs that served students for decades, including the longest-running PREP and IMSD programs in the country. She helped build one of the first university postdoctoral associations in the country and shaped national professional communities that continue to benefit our field today. Despite her national acclaim, she formed personal relationships with many of you and was known for nurturing her mentees individually. We know her loss is a personal loss for many. You can read a full tribute to Nancy's life and work at biologicalsciences.uchicago.edu (https://biologicalsciences.uchicago.edu/news/nancy-b-schwartz-obituary). We'd like to bring people together to share memories and talk about the impact she had on us. This is not meant to take the place of a formal memorial service — simply a time for our community to gather as we adjust to this difficult news.
Created Equal: The Premises and Promises of the Declaration of Independence
Regenstein Library, The Special Collections Research Center · Regenstein Library, The Special Collections Research Center
On July 2, 1776, the Continental Congress voted to declare independence from Great Britain. Two days later, delegates in Philadelphia finalized a document designed to announce and explain that act to readers in America and Europe. The Declaration of Independence asserted the revolutionary right of a people to alter or abolish a government, grounding that principle in the "self-evident" claims that "all Men are created Equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights" and "that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness." Over time, many readers have come to consider the radical philosophical premises in the Declaration as founding political promises of the United States. In doing so, they transformed an indictment of the British King and a manifesto of secession from the British Empire into an American charter of liberty, equality, and rights. But the Declaration's meaning has never been solitary. From the start, readers disagreed about what its authors intended. Since 1776, radically different interpretations of the Declaration's ideas have been put to different ends—from demands for the legal, political, and social equality of all persons, to claims for the rights of states to secede from the union, to calls for the revolutionary overthrow of the government. How did the Declaration's premises become its promises? Drawing on rare materials from the seventeenth century to the present, this exhibition invites you to explore the document's meanings in its own time, to consider contested interpretations across history, and to reflect on what the Declaration means today. Curator Eric Slauter, Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literature; Associate faculty member, Divinity School; Founding Director of the Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture; The University of Chicago Visitors This exhibition is free and open to all. Visitors to the University of Chicago Library may obtain an entry pass by checking in at Regenstein Library's entry desk and presenting a current, government-issued photo ID, such as a driver's license, CityKey (https://www.chicityclerk.com/about-citykey/citykey-faq), state ID, or passport to confirm identity. Get more visitor information (https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/borrow/access-privileges/visitors/).Exhibition Gallery Hours (https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/libraries/libraries-hours/): Weekdays, 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.
Created Equal: The Premises and Promises of the Declaration of Independence
Regenstein Library, The Special Collections Research Center · Regenstein Library, The Special Collections Research Center
On July 2, 1776, the Continental Congress voted to declare independence from Great Britain. Two days later, delegates in Philadelphia finalized a document designed to announce and explain that act to readers in America and Europe. The Declaration of Independence asserted the revolutionary right of a people to alter or abolish a government, grounding that principle in the "self-evident" claims that "all Men are created Equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights" and "that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness." Over time, many readers have come to consider the radical philosophical premises in the Declaration as founding political promises of the United States. In doing so, they transformed an indictment of the British King and a manifesto of secession from the British Empire into an American charter of liberty, equality, and rights. But the Declaration's meaning has never been solitary. From the start, readers disagreed about what its authors intended. Since 1776, radically different interpretations of the Declaration's ideas have been put to different ends—from demands for the legal, political, and social equality of all persons, to claims for the rights of states to secede from the union, to calls for the revolutionary overthrow of the government. How did the Declaration's premises become its promises? Drawing on rare materials from the seventeenth century to the present, this exhibition invites you to explore the document's meanings in its own time, to consider contested interpretations across history, and to reflect on what the Declaration means today. Curator Eric Slauter, Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literature; Associate faculty member, Divinity School; Founding Director of the Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture; The University of Chicago Visitors This exhibition is free and open to all. Visitors to the University of Chicago Library may obtain an entry pass by checking in at Regenstein Library's entry desk and presenting a current, government-issued photo ID, such as a driver's license, CityKey (https://www.chicityclerk.com/about-citykey/citykey-faq), state ID, or passport to confirm identity. Get more visitor information (https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/borrow/access-privileges/visitors/).Exhibition Gallery Hours (https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/libraries/libraries-hours/): Weekdays, 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.
Created Equal: The Premises and Promises of the Declaration of Independence
Regenstein Library, The Special Collections Research Center · Regenstein Library, The Special Collections Research Center
On July 2, 1776, the Continental Congress voted to declare independence from Great Britain. Two days later, delegates in Philadelphia finalized a document designed to announce and explain that act to readers in America and Europe. The Declaration of Independence asserted the revolutionary right of a people to alter or abolish a government, grounding that principle in the "self-evident" claims that "all Men are created Equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights" and "that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness." Over time, many readers have come to consider the radical philosophical premises in the Declaration as founding political promises of the United States. In doing so, they transformed an indictment of the British King and a manifesto of secession from the British Empire into an American charter of liberty, equality, and rights. But the Declaration's meaning has never been solitary. From the start, readers disagreed about what its authors intended. Since 1776, radically different interpretations of the Declaration's ideas have been put to different ends—from demands for the legal, political, and social equality of all persons, to claims for the rights of states to secede from the union, to calls for the revolutionary overthrow of the government. How did the Declaration's premises become its promises? Drawing on rare materials from the seventeenth century to the present, this exhibition invites you to explore the document's meanings in its own time, to consider contested interpretations across history, and to reflect on what the Declaration means today. Curator Eric Slauter, Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literature; Associate faculty member, Divinity School; Founding Director of the Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture; The University of Chicago Visitors This exhibition is free and open to all. Visitors to the University of Chicago Library may obtain an entry pass by checking in at Regenstein Library's entry desk and presenting a current, government-issued photo ID, such as a driver's license, CityKey (https://www.chicityclerk.com/about-citykey/citykey-faq), state ID, or passport to confirm identity. Get more visitor information (https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/borrow/access-privileges/visitors/).Exhibition Gallery Hours (https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/libraries/libraries-hours/): Weekdays, 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.
Mathematics, High-Performance Computing, and Neural Networks: New Perspectives for Molecular Simulation
The University of Chicago John W. Boyer Center in Paris · The University of Chicago John W. Boyer Center in Paris
Workshop closed to the public The project focuses on molecular simulation, a powerful computational approach used to understand how molecules behave in fields such as medicine, chemistry, and materials science. Simulating molecular processes is extremely challenging because it involves complex physical laws, large-scale computations, and events that unfold over very different time scales. Progress, therefore, hinges on close collaboration between mathematicians, computer scientists, and molecular scientists. Recent advances in computing power and artificial intelligence offer new opportunities to make these simulations faster, more accurate, and more predictive. This kickoff meeting will serve as a catalyst for building a durable transatlantic partnership, encouraging collaboration across disciplines and career stages. By bringing together senior researchers and young scientists, it will help establish a shared scientific culture and lay the foundation for innovative, long-term joint research efforts.
Mathematics, High-Performance Computing, and Neural Networks: New Perspectives for Molecular Simulation
The University of Chicago John W. Boyer Center in Paris · The University of Chicago John W. Boyer Center in Paris
Workshop closed to the public The project focuses on molecular simulation, a powerful computational approach used to understand how molecules behave in fields such as medicine, chemistry, and materials science. Simulating molecular processes is extremely challenging because it involves complex physical laws, large-scale computations, and events that unfold over very different time scales. Progress, therefore, hinges on close collaboration between mathematicians, computer scientists, and molecular scientists. Recent advances in computing power and artificial intelligence offer new opportunities to make these simulations faster, more accurate, and more predictive. This kickoff meeting will serve as a catalyst for building a durable transatlantic partnership, encouraging collaboration across disciplines and career stages. By bringing together senior researchers and young scientists, it will help establish a shared scientific culture and lay the foundation for innovative, long-term joint research efforts.
Longer Than the Sky: Art of the Obama Years is presented by Logan Center Exhibitions on the occasion of the opening of the Obama Presidential Center. The exhibition presents a constellation of around thirty works by an intergenerational group of artists, amounting to a significant sliver of art produced during the Obama Presidency. Longer Than the Sky charts a provisional art history of the recent past, featuring works by Kevin Beasley, Andrea Fraser, Rachel Harrison, Jacqueline Humphries, Josh Kline, Louise Lawler, Jason Lazarus, Ralph Lemon, Glenn Ligon, Kerry James Marshall, Catherine Opie, Adrian Piper, Pope.L, Seth Price, Aliza Nisenbaum, Cameron Rowland, Allan Sekula, Cauleen Smith, Hito Steyerl, Diamond Stingily, Martine Syms, Danh Vo, Jack Whitten, and Amanda Williams among other artists. The exhibition's title, Longer Than the Sky, comes from James Baldwin's 1957 short story, "Sonny's Blues," and evokes the intermingling of optimism and despair that defined the period between 2008 and 2016. The story concludes when the younger of two brothers performs a stirring rendition of the blues, an event that carries the fleeting glimmer of hopefulness, even freedom. "I was yet aware that this was only a moment," the narrator subsequently reflects, "that the world waited outside, as hungry as a tiger, and that trouble stretched above us, longer than the sky."Longer Than the Sky centers on artistic practices that gained relevance for the ways they engaged self-reflexively with their historical moment. These artworks have been assembled not for their stylistic similarities, but rather, for the ways they offer distinct perspectives on the circumstances in which they were made. While some address specific political events, the majority evoke their political context more obliquely, highlighting an overlapping set of social, technological, and aesthetic concerns that shaped the art of this era. Though the exhibition includes several artists who launched their careers in these years, it also foregrounds many who made period-defining work long before 2008. The prominence of the latter points to the ways these years were marked as much by continuity as they were by change and rupture. Opened in 2012 at the height of the Obama years, the Reva & David Logan Center for the Arts is part of this history. Its architects, Billie Tsien and Tod Williams, would go on to design the Obama Presidential Center down the street. Through its exhibitions and programs, the Logan Center has played a key role in supporting artistic communities on the South Side of Chicago. In keeping with this context, Longer Than the Sky situates the work of several Chicago-based artists within broader conversations about global contemporary art. Longer Than the Sky: Art of the Obama Years is presented by Logan Center Exhibitions and curated by Jenny Harris (https://arthistory.uchicago.edu/graduate/profiles/harris), doctoral candidate in Art History at the University of Chicago, who partnered with the Logan Center in 2024 to co-curate the exhibition Jessica Stockholder: For Events. The Logan Center is pleased to partner with the Obama Presidential Center on related programs that will take place during the exhibition. Exhibition-related programs will be developed in partnership with Dorian Sylvain (https://doriansylvain.com/), an artist and curator who has frequently partnered with the Logan Center and was commissioned by The Obama Foundation to develop a collaborative site-specific mural at the Obama Presidential Center's Home Court. Exhibition and programming support has been provided by the Ng Family Visiting Artist Fund, the Revada Foundation, and Friends of the Logan Center.
The Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (ISAC) Museum · The Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (ISAC) Museum
Join us for a free docent-led tour of the ISAC Museum at 1:30pm on the first, second and third Saturday of each month. The tours meet in Breasted Hall (lobby) and last one hour. Bring your curiosity and re-discover the ancient world!
The Renaissance Society, Cobb Lecture Hall, 4th Floor · The Renaissance Society, Cobb Lecture Hall, 4th Floor
Please join us to celebrate the opening of Tendered (https://renaissancesociety.org/exhibitions/564/-karimah-ashadu-tendered/) by Karimah Ashadu. Refreshments in the gallery will be available from 4–7pm, with an artist talk at 4pm in Swift Hall. The gallery will be open from 10am–4pm. The artist talk will take place on the 3rd floor of Swift Hall. The talk will be recorded. Please contact us if you need directions or accommodations. In fall 2026, the Renaissance Society presents Tendered, a solo exhibition by Karimah Ashadu, whose moving-image practice examines the conditions under which bodies are formed, disciplined, and rendered legible within contemporary systems of labor and value, especially within the cultural context of West Africa. Working across film and installation, Ashadu develops close, sustained encounters with people whose lives unfold within informal economies, attending to how aspirations are negotiated under material constraint. The exhibition marks the U.S. debut of MUSCLE, a new moving-image installation centered on bodybuilders training in the heart of Lagos's slums. The work situates bodybuilding within a broader field of exertion: the body as site of labor, investment, and self-fashioning. MUSCLE was co-commissioned and co-produced by the Renaissance Society, Fondazione In Between Art Film, and Camden Art Centre, and is accompanied by a series of new sculptural works that draw directly from the film's environments. Having grown up between Nigeria and the United Kingdom, the artist situates her point of view within a constant negotiation of distance. In MUSCLE, she works with a sympathetic—and sometimes visceral—proximity to the subjects of the film, eschewing the documentary point of view. As she gathers the stories of men in this film, she extends an ongoing inquiry present in earlier works, including Machine Boys (2024), Plateau (2022), and Red Gold (2016). The exhibition is organized within the framework of Unison, a biennial initiative established by the Fondazione In Between Art Film to commission and produce moving image-based exhibitions in collaboration with international institutions. Tendered is curated by Alessandro Rabottini and Leonardo Bigazzi of Fondazione In Between Art Film with Myriam Ben Salah and Karsten Lund for its iteration at the Renaissance Society. KARIMAH ASHADU (b. London 1985) is a British-born Nigerian artist and film director living and working between Hamburg and Lagos. Her work has been exhibited and screened at institutions internationally, including the 60th Venice Biennale, where she was awarded the Silver Lion for a Promising Young Participant in the International Exhibition. Other Institutional shows and screenings include Camden Arts Centre, London, Canal Projects, New York, MoMA PS1, New York, Kunsthalle Bremen, Tate Modern, London, Secession, Vienna, Kunstverein in Hamburg, South London Gallery, London, Museum of Modern Art, New York and Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève. Forthcoming solo shows include the Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover. Karimah Ashadu: Tendered is presented in conjunction with the installation of the artist's work Machine Boys at the Art Institute of Chicago, opening September 11, 2026. Principal support for this exhibition is provided by Raven Thomas Abdul-Aleem & Zaid Abdul-Aleem. Additional support is provided by Mirja Spooner Haffner & Karim Corringham and Sadie Coles HQ, London.Major annual support for the Renaissance Society is provided by the Mellon Foundation. Renaissance Society programs are supported by Teiger Foundation and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. General operations are supported by grants from the Illinois Arts Council and The Provost's Discretionary Fund at the University of Chicago.All Renaissance Society publications are made possible by The Mansueto Foundation Publications Program.
Green Line Performing Arts Center, 329 E. Garfield Blvd · Green Line Performing Arts Center, 329 E. Garfield Blvd
The songs that last — Robyn's "Dancing on My Own," Beyonc��'s "Love On Top," Mariah Carey's "Fly Like a Bird," Raye's recent "I Know You're Hurting" — share something essential: they are honest to the point of discomfort. They reveal longing, desperation, and loneliness without the usual sheen of celebrity protection. Featuring a live DJ set, interactive stations, a panel discussion, and an after-event dance party, this program explores why vulnerability in song is not just an artistic choice but the mechanism by which art lasts and legacy is born. This program curated and hosted by Britt Julious, 2023 Chicago Critics Table Cohort member. This is part of a series of public programs co-designed between Chicago Critics Table alumni and the APL team to provide more public access to the deeper critical conversations our critics are having. You can learn more about CCT here (https://artsandpubliclife.org/critics-table) About Britt Julious Britt Julious is a writer, editor, essayist, and storyteller, writing about subjects that intersect the worlds of art, culture, race, feminism and politics. A firm believer in the underground, the avant-garde and the underdog, Britt currently serves as the music critic for the Chicago Tribune and is the Director of Content for Thoughtful, a new wellness startup. As a journalist, she has written for the New York Times, Vogue, Glamour, The Cut, ELLE, Harper's Bazaar and many others. In 2019, Britt won the Studs Terkel award in journalism for her work spotlighting underserved communities.
Created Equal: The Premises and Promises of the Declaration of Independence
Regenstein Library, The Special Collections Research Center · Regenstein Library, The Special Collections Research Center
On July 2, 1776, the Continental Congress voted to declare independence from Great Britain. Two days later, delegates in Philadelphia finalized a document designed to announce and explain that act to readers in America and Europe. The Declaration of Independence asserted the revolutionary right of a people to alter or abolish a government, grounding that principle in the "self-evident" claims that "all Men are created Equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights" and "that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness." Over time, many readers have come to consider the radical philosophical premises in the Declaration as founding political promises of the United States. In doing so, they transformed an indictment of the British King and a manifesto of secession from the British Empire into an American charter of liberty, equality, and rights. But the Declaration's meaning has never been solitary. From the start, readers disagreed about what its authors intended. Since 1776, radically different interpretations of the Declaration's ideas have been put to different ends—from demands for the legal, political, and social equality of all persons, to claims for the rights of states to secede from the union, to calls for the revolutionary overthrow of the government. How did the Declaration's premises become its promises? Drawing on rare materials from the seventeenth century to the present, this exhibition invites you to explore the document's meanings in its own time, to consider contested interpretations across history, and to reflect on what the Declaration means today. Curator Eric Slauter, Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literature; Associate faculty member, Divinity School; Founding Director of the Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture; The University of Chicago Visitors This exhibition is free and open to all. Visitors to the University of Chicago Library may obtain an entry pass by checking in at Regenstein Library's entry desk and presenting a current, government-issued photo ID, such as a driver's license, CityKey (https://www.chicityclerk.com/about-citykey/citykey-faq), state ID, or passport to confirm identity. Get more visitor information (https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/borrow/access-privileges/visitors/).Exhibition Gallery Hours (https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/libraries/libraries-hours/): Weekdays, 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.
Created Equal: The Premises and Promises of the Declaration of Independence
Regenstein Library, The Special Collections Research Center · Regenstein Library, The Special Collections Research Center
On July 2, 1776, the Continental Congress voted to declare independence from Great Britain. Two days later, delegates in Philadelphia finalized a document designed to announce and explain that act to readers in America and Europe. The Declaration of Independence asserted the revolutionary right of a people to alter or abolish a government, grounding that principle in the "self-evident" claims that "all Men are created Equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights" and "that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness." Over time, many readers have come to consider the radical philosophical premises in the Declaration as founding political promises of the United States. In doing so, they transformed an indictment of the British King and a manifesto of secession from the British Empire into an American charter of liberty, equality, and rights. But the Declaration's meaning has never been solitary. From the start, readers disagreed about what its authors intended. Since 1776, radically different interpretations of the Declaration's ideas have been put to different ends—from demands for the legal, political, and social equality of all persons, to claims for the rights of states to secede from the union, to calls for the revolutionary overthrow of the government. How did the Declaration's premises become its promises? Drawing on rare materials from the seventeenth century to the present, this exhibition invites you to explore the document's meanings in its own time, to consider contested interpretations across history, and to reflect on what the Declaration means today. Curator Eric Slauter, Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literature; Associate faculty member, Divinity School; Founding Director of the Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture; The University of Chicago Visitors This exhibition is free and open to all. Visitors to the University of Chicago Library may obtain an entry pass by checking in at Regenstein Library's entry desk and presenting a current, government-issued photo ID, such as a driver's license, CityKey (https://www.chicityclerk.com/about-citykey/citykey-faq), state ID, or passport to confirm identity. Get more visitor information (https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/borrow/access-privileges/visitors/).Exhibition Gallery Hours (https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/libraries/libraries-hours/): Weekdays, 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.
For almost every two years since 1997, the Bacillus anthracis, cereus, thuringiensis (BACT) International Conference has brought together scientists from all over the world interested in the physiology, ecology and virulence of Bacillus anthracis, Bacillus cereus and Bacillus thuringiensis. The BACT Conference is dedicated to advancing research on pathogenic Bacillus species, which are distinct from the model spore-former B. subtilis. The meeting offers a unique forum to discuss the genetic, metabolic, and environmental traits that underlie the biology and pathogenicity of these organisms.
For almost every two years since 1997, the Bacillus anthracis, cereus, thuringiensis (BACT) International Conference has brought together scientists from all over the world interested in the physiology, ecology and virulence of Bacillus anthracis, Bacillus cereus and Bacillus thuringiensis. The BACT Conference is dedicated to advancing research on pathogenic Bacillus species, which are distinct from the model spore-former B. subtilis. The meeting offers a unique forum to discuss the genetic, metabolic, and environmental traits that underlie the biology and pathogenicity of these organisms.
Biological Function in Space and Time: From Forces and Cues to Emerging Decision-making in Fates, States, and Shapes
875 N Michigan Ave, Suite 3500 · 875 N Michigan Ave, Suite 3500
Biological systems are physical systems operating in space and time. Understanding how they leverage dynamics and spatial extension to achieve functions, transforming physical cues into decisions, is a compelling challenge which requires new mathematical frameworks to identify and characterize emerging patterns in modern high-dimensional data, to quantify reproducibility, to describe how the information is encoded and transferred across scales, and to elucidate decision-making mechanisms. The goal of this workshop is to bring together experimental biologists, specialists in data analysis and theorists to identify current challenges, establish collaborations, and discuss strategies to advance our understanding of how biological systems maintain and organize function across space and time. Researchers across biological subfields have developed formalisms and concepts adapted to their systems of interest. By breaking the traditional barriers of scale, we hope this meeting can be a way of identifying universal hallmarks disseminated across fields.
Biological Function in Space and Time: From Forces and Cues to Emerging Decision-making in Fates, States, and Shapes
875 N Michigan Ave, Suite 3500 · 875 N Michigan Ave, Suite 3500
Biological systems are physical systems operating in space and time. Understanding how they leverage dynamics and spatial extension to achieve functions, transforming physical cues into decisions, is a compelling challenge which requires new mathematical frameworks to identify and characterize emerging patterns in modern high-dimensional data, to quantify reproducibility, to describe how the information is encoded and transferred across scales, and to elucidate decision-making mechanisms. The goal of this workshop is to bring together experimental biologists, specialists in data analysis and theorists to identify current challenges, establish collaborations, and discuss strategies to advance our understanding of how biological systems maintain and organize function across space and time. Researchers across biological subfields have developed formalisms and concepts adapted to their systems of interest. By breaking the traditional barriers of scale, we hope this meeting can be a way of identifying universal hallmarks disseminated across fields.
Final Study Abroad Application Deadline for Winter 2027 Thematic Programs in Paris and London
Online · Online
College Study Abroad Deadline The Final Application Deadline for these UChicago faculty-led thematic programs is Monday, September 14 (before 11:59 PM Central Time).Winter 2027 Thematic ProgramsLondon: Democracy (https://study-abroad.uchicago.edu/london-democracy) (Social Sciences Core) Paris: Cinema and Media Studies (https://study-abroad.uchicago.edu/paris-cinema-and-media-studies) (Arts Core) Paris: Economics (https://study-abroad.uchicago.edu/paris-economics)Paris: Global Health (https://study-abroad.uchicago.edu/paris-global-health) Please note that the final application deadline for Hong Kong: Global Studies (https://study-abroad.uchicago.edu/hong-kong-global-studies) is earlier: Tuesday, September 1. UChicago faculty-led thematic programs offer a range of courses across disciplines, some of which meet major, minor, or general education requirements. Participants also take a fourth course in the local language. Students should apply to their first-choice Winter thematic program and, if interested, may rank alternate thematic programs from the same quarter within their application. View all College Study Abroad application deadlines on the Programs (https://study-abroad.uchicago.edu/programs) page of our website.
Created Equal: The Premises and Promises of the Declaration of Independence
Regenstein Library, The Special Collections Research Center · Regenstein Library, The Special Collections Research Center
On July 2, 1776, the Continental Congress voted to declare independence from Great Britain. Two days later, delegates in Philadelphia finalized a document designed to announce and explain that act to readers in America and Europe. The Declaration of Independence asserted the revolutionary right of a people to alter or abolish a government, grounding that principle in the "self-evident" claims that "all Men are created Equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights" and "that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness." Over time, many readers have come to consider the radical philosophical premises in the Declaration as founding political promises of the United States. In doing so, they transformed an indictment of the British King and a manifesto of secession from the British Empire into an American charter of liberty, equality, and rights. But the Declaration's meaning has never been solitary. From the start, readers disagreed about what its authors intended. Since 1776, radically different interpretations of the Declaration's ideas have been put to different ends—from demands for the legal, political, and social equality of all persons, to claims for the rights of states to secede from the union, to calls for the revolutionary overthrow of the government. How did the Declaration's premises become its promises? Drawing on rare materials from the seventeenth century to the present, this exhibition invites you to explore the document's meanings in its own time, to consider contested interpretations across history, and to reflect on what the Declaration means today. Curator Eric Slauter, Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literature; Associate faculty member, Divinity School; Founding Director of the Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture; The University of Chicago Visitors This exhibition is free and open to all. Visitors to the University of Chicago Library may obtain an entry pass by checking in at Regenstein Library's entry desk and presenting a current, government-issued photo ID, such as a driver's license, CityKey (https://www.chicityclerk.com/about-citykey/citykey-faq), state ID, or passport to confirm identity. Get more visitor information (https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/borrow/access-privileges/visitors/).Exhibition Gallery Hours (https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/libraries/libraries-hours/): Weekdays, 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.
The Renaissance Society, Cobb Lecture Hall, 4th Floor · The Renaissance Society, Cobb Lecture Hall, 4th Floor
In fall 2026, the Renaissance Society presents Tendered (https://renaissancesociety.org/exhibitions/564/-karimah-ashadu-tendered/), a solo exhibition by Karimah Ashadu, whose moving-image practice examines the conditions under which bodies are formed, disciplined, and rendered legible within contemporary systems of labor and value, especially within the cultural context of West Africa. Working across film and installation, Ashadu develops close, sustained encounters with people whose lives unfold within informal economies, attending to how aspirations are negotiated under material constraint. The exhibition marks the U.S. debut of MUSCLE, a new moving-image installation centered on bodybuilders training in the heart of Lagos's slums. The work situates bodybuilding within a broader field of exertion: the body as site of labor, investment, and self-fashioning. MUSCLE was co-commissioned and co-produced by the Renaissance Society, Fondazione In Between Art Film, and Camden Art Centre, and is accompanied by a series of new sculptural works that draw directly from the film's environments. Having grown up between Nigeria and the United Kingdom, the artist situates her point of view within a constant negotiation of distance. In MUSCLE, she works with a sympathetic—and sometimes visceral—proximity to the subjects of the film, eschewing the documentary point of view. As she gathers the stories of men in this film, she extends an ongoing inquiry present in earlier works, including Machine Boys (2024), Plateau (2022), and Red Gold (2016). The exhibition is organized within the framework of Unison, a biennial initiative established by the Fondazione In Between Art Film to commission and produce moving image-based exhibitions in collaboration with international institutions. Tendered is curated by Alessandro Rabottini and Leonardo Bigazzi of Fondazione In Between Art Film with Myriam Ben Salah and Karsten Lund for its iteration at the Renaissance Society. KARIMAH ASHADU (b. London 1985) is a British-born Nigerian artist and film director living and working between Hamburg and Lagos. Her work has been exhibited and screened at institutions internationally, including the 60th Venice Biennale, where she was awarded the Silver Lion for a Promising Young Participant in the International Exhibition. Other Institutional shows and screenings include Camden Arts Centre, London, Canal Projects, New York, MoMA PS1, New York, Kunsthalle Bremen, Tate Modern, London, Secession, Vienna, Kunstverein in Hamburg, South London Gallery, London, Museum of Modern Art, New York and Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève. Forthcoming solo shows include the Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover.Karimah Ashadu: Tendered is presented in conjunction with the installation of the artist's work Machine Boys at the Art Institute of Chicago, opening September 11, 2026.Principal support for this exhibition is provided by Raven Thomas Abdul-Aleem & Zaid Abdul-Aleem. Additional support is provided by Mirja Spooner Haffner & Karim Corringham and Sadie Coles HQ, London.Major annual support for the Renaissance Society is provided by the Mellon Foundation. Renaissance Society programs are supported by Teiger Foundation and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. General operations are supported by grants from the Illinois Arts Council and The Provost's Discretionary Fund at the University of Chicago.All Renaissance Society publications are made possible by The Mansueto Foundation Publications Program.
Longer Than the Sky: Art of the Obama Years is presented by Logan Center Exhibitions on the occasion of the opening of the Obama Presidential Center. The exhibition presents a constellation of around thirty works by an intergenerational group of artists, amounting to a significant sliver of art produced during the Obama Presidency. Longer Than the Sky charts a provisional art history of the recent past, featuring works by Kevin Beasley, Andrea Fraser, Rachel Harrison, Jacqueline Humphries, Josh Kline, Louise Lawler, Jason Lazarus, Ralph Lemon, Glenn Ligon, Kerry James Marshall, Catherine Opie, Adrian Piper, Pope.L, Seth Price, Aliza Nisenbaum, Cameron Rowland, Allan Sekula, Cauleen Smith, Hito Steyerl, Diamond Stingily, Martine Syms, Danh Vo, Jack Whitten, and Amanda Williams among other artists. The exhibition's title, Longer Than the Sky, comes from James Baldwin's 1957 short story, "Sonny's Blues," and evokes the intermingling of optimism and despair that defined the period between 2008 and 2016. The story concludes when the younger of two brothers performs a stirring rendition of the blues, an event that carries the fleeting glimmer of hopefulness, even freedom. "I was yet aware that this was only a moment," the narrator subsequently reflects, "that the world waited outside, as hungry as a tiger, and that trouble stretched above us, longer than the sky."Longer Than the Sky centers on artistic practices that gained relevance for the ways they engaged self-reflexively with their historical moment. These artworks have been assembled not for their stylistic similarities, but rather, for the ways they offer distinct perspectives on the circumstances in which they were made. While some address specific political events, the majority evoke their political context more obliquely, highlighting an overlapping set of social, technological, and aesthetic concerns that shaped the art of this era. Though the exhibition includes several artists who launched their careers in these years, it also foregrounds many who made period-defining work long before 2008. The prominence of the latter points to the ways these years were marked as much by continuity as they were by change and rupture. Opened in 2012 at the height of the Obama years, the Reva & David Logan Center for the Arts is part of this history. Its architects, Billie Tsien and Tod Williams, would go on to design the Obama Presidential Center down the street. Through its exhibitions and programs, the Logan Center has played a key role in supporting artistic communities on the South Side of Chicago. In keeping with this context, Longer Than the Sky situates the work of several Chicago-based artists within broader conversations about global contemporary art. Longer Than the Sky: Art of the Obama Years is presented by Logan Center Exhibitions and curated by Jenny Harris (https://arthistory.uchicago.edu/graduate/profiles/harris), doctoral candidate in Art History at the University of Chicago, who partnered with the Logan Center in 2024 to co-curate the exhibition Jessica Stockholder: For Events. The Logan Center is pleased to partner with the Obama Presidential Center on related programs that will take place during the exhibition. Exhibition-related programs will be developed in partnership with Dorian Sylvain (https://doriansylvain.com/), an artist and curator who has frequently partnered with the Logan Center and was commissioned by The Obama Foundation to develop a collaborative site-specific mural at the Obama Presidential Center's Home Court. Exhibition and programming support has been provided by the Ng Family Visiting Artist Fund, the Revada Foundation, and Friends of the Logan Center.
Logan Center, Performance Hall · Logan Center, Performance Hall
Join us for the free Production Institute Film Showcase, celebrating the 12 original short films produced by the 2026 Production Institute cohort. Fellows were selected from a highly competitive pool of talented South Side media makers and underwent 13 weeks of intensive production training to produce and direct their own 5-minute narrative and documentary projects. The development of these projects deepened their artistic capacities, strengthened community connections, and built collaborative relationships across identities and lived experiences. The film screening is held in person on Sunday, September 13 at 1pm in the Performance Hall at the Logan Center (915 E 60th St). Event Timeline: 1pm: Introductions 1:15pm: Film Screenings (~65 minutes) 2:20: Moderated Discussion with Filmmakers 3pm: Closing Remarks 3:15-4pm: Reception in Lobby Please RSVP so that we have an accurate estimate of attendees for this exciting screening of community stories. An RSVP does not guarantee a seat at the screening, so plan on arriving early to ensure that you will be admitted. Doors open at 12:30pm. We're thrilled to present the films of our 2026 Cohort: – Coquie Hughes – Danielle Glenn – Elijah Nixon – Jeanelle Sims – Jelani Julyus – Keyana Robinson – Salimat Solebo – Sundi Reeder – Tarji Stewart – Toby Nnawuchi – Victor Owoeye – Vinh Hoang About the Production Institute (https://www.logancenter.uchicago.edu/filmcinema/dsi) The Production Institute, presented in partnership with the Community Film Workshop of Chicago, makes high-quality digital production training accessible to emerging media makers from South Side communities. The aim of the Production Institute is to provide skills enhancement and engage artists in telling stories of the rich culture of their communities and institutions. The Production Institute is a program of the Digital Storytelling Initiative at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts and is supported by the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation.
Created Equal: The Premises and Promises of the Declaration of Independence
Regenstein Library, The Special Collections Research Center · Regenstein Library, The Special Collections Research Center
On July 2, 1776, the Continental Congress voted to declare independence from Great Britain. Two days later, delegates in Philadelphia finalized a document designed to announce and explain that act to readers in America and Europe. The Declaration of Independence asserted the revolutionary right of a people to alter or abolish a government, grounding that principle in the "self-evident" claims that "all Men are created Equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights" and "that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness." Over time, many readers have come to consider the radical philosophical premises in the Declaration as founding political promises of the United States. In doing so, they transformed an indictment of the British King and a manifesto of secession from the British Empire into an American charter of liberty, equality, and rights. But the Declaration's meaning has never been solitary. From the start, readers disagreed about what its authors intended. Since 1776, radically different interpretations of the Declaration's ideas have been put to different ends—from demands for the legal, political, and social equality of all persons, to claims for the rights of states to secede from the union, to calls for the revolutionary overthrow of the government. How did the Declaration's premises become its promises? Drawing on rare materials from the seventeenth century to the present, this exhibition invites you to explore the document's meanings in its own time, to consider contested interpretations across history, and to reflect on what the Declaration means today. Curator Eric Slauter, Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literature; Associate faculty member, Divinity School; Founding Director of the Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture; The University of Chicago Visitors This exhibition is free and open to all. Visitors to the University of Chicago Library may obtain an entry pass by checking in at Regenstein Library's entry desk and presenting a current, government-issued photo ID, such as a driver's license, CityKey (https://www.chicityclerk.com/about-citykey/citykey-faq), state ID, or passport to confirm identity. Get more visitor information (https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/borrow/access-privileges/visitors/).Exhibition Gallery Hours (https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/libraries/libraries-hours/): Weekdays, 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.
Created Equal: The Premises and Promises of the Declaration of Independence
Regenstein Library, The Special Collections Research Center · Regenstein Library, The Special Collections Research Center
On July 2, 1776, the Continental Congress voted to declare independence from Great Britain. Two days later, delegates in Philadelphia finalized a document designed to announce and explain that act to readers in America and Europe. The Declaration of Independence asserted the revolutionary right of a people to alter or abolish a government, grounding that principle in the "self-evident" claims that "all Men are created Equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights" and "that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness." Over time, many readers have come to consider the radical philosophical premises in the Declaration as founding political promises of the United States. In doing so, they transformed an indictment of the British King and a manifesto of secession from the British Empire into an American charter of liberty, equality, and rights. But the Declaration's meaning has never been solitary. From the start, readers disagreed about what its authors intended. Since 1776, radically different interpretations of the Declaration's ideas have been put to different ends—from demands for the legal, political, and social equality of all persons, to claims for the rights of states to secede from the union, to calls for the revolutionary overthrow of the government. How did the Declaration's premises become its promises? Drawing on rare materials from the seventeenth century to the present, this exhibition invites you to explore the document's meanings in its own time, to consider contested interpretations across history, and to reflect on what the Declaration means today. Curator Eric Slauter, Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literature; Associate faculty member, Divinity School; Founding Director of the Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture; The University of Chicago Visitors This exhibition is free and open to all. Visitors to the University of Chicago Library may obtain an entry pass by checking in at Regenstein Library's entry desk and presenting a current, government-issued photo ID, such as a driver's license, CityKey (https://www.chicityclerk.com/about-citykey/citykey-faq), state ID, or passport to confirm identity. Get more visitor information (https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/borrow/access-privileges/visitors/).Exhibition Gallery Hours (https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/libraries/libraries-hours/): Weekdays, 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.
Created Equal: The Premises and Promises of the Declaration of Independence
Regenstein Library, The Special Collections Research Center · Regenstein Library, The Special Collections Research Center
On July 2, 1776, the Continental Congress voted to declare independence from Great Britain. Two days later, delegates in Philadelphia finalized a document designed to announce and explain that act to readers in America and Europe. The Declaration of Independence asserted the revolutionary right of a people to alter or abolish a government, grounding that principle in the "self-evident" claims that "all Men are created Equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights" and "that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness." Over time, many readers have come to consider the radical philosophical premises in the Declaration as founding political promises of the United States. In doing so, they transformed an indictment of the British King and a manifesto of secession from the British Empire into an American charter of liberty, equality, and rights. But the Declaration's meaning has never been solitary. From the start, readers disagreed about what its authors intended. Since 1776, radically different interpretations of the Declaration's ideas have been put to different ends—from demands for the legal, political, and social equality of all persons, to claims for the rights of states to secede from the union, to calls for the revolutionary overthrow of the government. How did the Declaration's premises become its promises? Drawing on rare materials from the seventeenth century to the present, this exhibition invites you to explore the document's meanings in its own time, to consider contested interpretations across history, and to reflect on what the Declaration means today. Curator Eric Slauter, Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literature; Associate faculty member, Divinity School; Founding Director of the Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture; The University of Chicago Visitors This exhibition is free and open to all. Visitors to the University of Chicago Library may obtain an entry pass by checking in at Regenstein Library's entry desk and presenting a current, government-issued photo ID, such as a driver's license, CityKey (https://www.chicityclerk.com/about-citykey/citykey-faq), state ID, or passport to confirm identity. Get more visitor information (https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/borrow/access-privileges/visitors/).Exhibition Gallery Hours (https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/libraries/libraries-hours/): Weekdays, 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.
Biological Function in Space and Time: From Forces and Cues to Emerging Decision-making in Fates, States, and Shapes
875 N Michigan Ave, Suite 3500 · 875 N Michigan Ave, Suite 3500
Biological systems are physical systems operating in space and time. Understanding how they leverage dynamics and spatial extension to achieve functions, transforming physical cues into decisions, is a compelling challenge which requires new mathematical frameworks to identify and characterize emerging patterns in modern high-dimensional data, to quantify reproducibility, to describe how the information is encoded and transferred across scales, and to elucidate decision-making mechanisms. The goal of this workshop is to bring together experimental biologists, specialists in data analysis and theorists to identify current challenges, establish collaborations, and discuss strategies to advance our understanding of how biological systems maintain and organize function across space and time. Researchers across biological subfields have developed formalisms and concepts adapted to their systems of interest. By breaking the traditional barriers of scale, we hope this meeting can be a way of identifying universal hallmarks disseminated across fields.
Biological Function in Space and Time: From Forces and Cues to Emerging Decision-making in Fates, States, and Shapes
875 N Michigan Ave, Suite 3500 · 875 N Michigan Ave, Suite 3500
Biological systems are physical systems operating in space and time. Understanding how they leverage dynamics and spatial extension to achieve functions, transforming physical cues into decisions, is a compelling challenge which requires new mathematical frameworks to identify and characterize emerging patterns in modern high-dimensional data, to quantify reproducibility, to describe how the information is encoded and transferred across scales, and to elucidate decision-making mechanisms. The goal of this workshop is to bring together experimental biologists, specialists in data analysis and theorists to identify current challenges, establish collaborations, and discuss strategies to advance our understanding of how biological systems maintain and organize function across space and time. Researchers across biological subfields have developed formalisms and concepts adapted to their systems of interest. By breaking the traditional barriers of scale, we hope this meeting can be a way of identifying universal hallmarks disseminated across fields.
Grades for the current quarter are due by this date. To learn more about our grading system, visit https://registrar.uchicago.edu/records/grading/ (https://registrar.uchicago.edu/records/grading/).
Academic Technology Solutions (https://academictech.uchicago.edu/) (ATS) Virtual Office Hours allow you to meet one-on-one with an ATS staff member who can answer questions you have about teaching with technology. We have expertise with University-supported teaching tools (https://academictech.uchicago.edu/teaching-tools/), (including Canvas, Panopto, and Zoom) but are happy to explore non-University supported tools and strategies as well. During ATS virtual office hours, you can drop by our Zoom meeting using your UChicago Zoom account. Visit ATS Office Hours (https://academictech.uchicago.edu/office-hours/) to learn more. If you prefer to meet in person or at a different time, you can book a consultation with an instructional designer (https://outlook.office365.com/owa/calendar/[email protected]/bookings/).
Didactic Topic | Presenter -The Core Pediatric Residency Program's primary educational Noon Conference series featuring didactics, case discussions, board review, and simulation, among other topics. Sessions are designed to advance pediatric knowledge and enhance clinical practice for learners across all levels.SCHOLARLY CONCENTRATION DIDACTIC KEYMedical EducationAdvocacy/Health EquityResearchQuality ImprovementPrimary Care
Didactic Topic | Presenter -The Core Pediatric Residency Program's primary educational Noon Conference series featuring didactics, case discussions, board review, and simulation, among other topics. Sessions are designed to advance pediatric knowledge and enhance clinical practice for learners across all levels.SCHOLARLY CONCENTRATION DIDACTIC KEYMedical EducationAdvocacy/Health EquityResearchQuality ImprovementPrimary Care
Join us for an introductory session on Claude Cowork, designed for beginners. The session will include a brief overview of Claude Cowork and a demo. Some familiarity with Claude Chat (basic navigation and terminology) is helpful for this training. It is recommended you request access and activate Claude before the session. View instructions (https://uchicago.service-now.com/services?id=kb_article&sysparm_article=KB06004829).
The UChicago Claude Enterprise support team will host simultaneous in-person and Zoom office hours to help University of Chicago faculty, other academic appointees, postdocs, and staff answer their technical questions about accessing Claude Enterprise and using the Claude tools. In-Person Join for in-person, drop-in office hours at the TechBar Studio, which is located at the Regenstein Library (1100 E. 57th St., Chicago).Virtual Office Hours Attend the virtual office hours via Zoom (learn more about how to join the morning and afternoon virtual office hours by Zoom (https://intranet.uchicago.edu/news-and-events/announcements/2026/07/july-8-claude-enterprise-support-office-hours)).
The UChicago Claude Enterprise support team will host simultaneous in-person and Zoom office hours to help University of Chicago faculty, other academic appointees, postdocs, and staff answer their technical questions about accessing Claude Enterprise and using the Claude tools. In-Person Join for in-person, drop-in office hours at the TechBar Studio, which is located at the Regenstein Library (1100 E. 57th St., Chicago).Virtual Office Hours Attend the virtual office hours via Zoom (learn more about how to join the morning and afternoon virtual office hours by Zoom (https://intranet.uchicago.edu/news-and-events/announcements/2026/07/july-8-claude-enterprise-support-office-hours)).
337 E. Garfield Blvd, the Arts Lawn · 337 E. Garfield Blvd, the Arts Lawn
First Monday Jazz returns to the Arts Lawn for its landmark 13th season. The September Featured Performer is Clif Wallace Big Band Launched in 2013, First Monday Jazz is APL's longest-running program, featuring emerging and established Chicago musicians and vocalists on the first Monday of every month. First Monday Jazz is returning to the Arts Lawn for its landmark 13th season, and we are absolutely thrilled to announce that this year's program is curated by the incredibly talented Clif Wallace II. Our September artist is Clif Wallace Big Band Attendees may start setting up their spots starting at 6:00pm. The program begins at 7:00pm.We encourage bringing your blanket or a low-profile lawn chair to relax in the front seating on the grass.For APL events on the Arts Lawn, restrooms are available inside the Green Line Performing Arts Center. About Clif Wallace Big Band In, 2018, Drummer/Band leader Clif Wallace assembled an ensemble of peers whom he considers some of Chicago's best in music performance of any genre. Appropriately named the Clif Wallace Big Band, this ensemble performs a repertoire of music that caters to the tastes of virtually that choose to listen and observe.
Created Equal: The Premises and Promises of the Declaration of Independence
Regenstein Library, The Special Collections Research Center · Regenstein Library, The Special Collections Research Center
On July 2, 1776, the Continental Congress voted to declare independence from Great Britain. Two days later, delegates in Philadelphia finalized a document designed to announce and explain that act to readers in America and Europe. The Declaration of Independence asserted the revolutionary right of a people to alter or abolish a government, grounding that principle in the "self-evident" claims that "all Men are created Equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights" and "that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness." Over time, many readers have come to consider the radical philosophical premises in the Declaration as founding political promises of the United States. In doing so, they transformed an indictment of the British King and a manifesto of secession from the British Empire into an American charter of liberty, equality, and rights. But the Declaration's meaning has never been solitary. From the start, readers disagreed about what its authors intended. Since 1776, radically different interpretations of the Declaration's ideas have been put to different ends—from demands for the legal, political, and social equality of all persons, to claims for the rights of states to secede from the union, to calls for the revolutionary overthrow of the government. How did the Declaration's premises become its promises? Drawing on rare materials from the seventeenth century to the present, this exhibition invites you to explore the document's meanings in its own time, to consider contested interpretations across history, and to reflect on what the Declaration means today. Curator Eric Slauter, Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literature; Associate faculty member, Divinity School; Founding Director of the Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture; The University of Chicago Visitors This exhibition is free and open to all. Visitors to the University of Chicago Library may obtain an entry pass by checking in at Regenstein Library's entry desk and presenting a current, government-issued photo ID, such as a driver's license, CityKey (https://www.chicityclerk.com/about-citykey/citykey-faq), state ID, or passport to confirm identity. Get more visitor information (https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/borrow/access-privileges/visitors/).Exhibition Gallery Hours (https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/libraries/libraries-hours/): Weekdays, 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.
Created Equal: The Premises and Promises of the Declaration of Independence
Regenstein Library, The Special Collections Research Center · Regenstein Library, The Special Collections Research Center
On July 2, 1776, the Continental Congress voted to declare independence from Great Britain. Two days later, delegates in Philadelphia finalized a document designed to announce and explain that act to readers in America and Europe. The Declaration of Independence asserted the revolutionary right of a people to alter or abolish a government, grounding that principle in the "self-evident" claims that "all Men are created Equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights" and "that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness." Over time, many readers have come to consider the radical philosophical premises in the Declaration as founding political promises of the United States. In doing so, they transformed an indictment of the British King and a manifesto of secession from the British Empire into an American charter of liberty, equality, and rights. But the Declaration's meaning has never been solitary. From the start, readers disagreed about what its authors intended. Since 1776, radically different interpretations of the Declaration's ideas have been put to different ends—from demands for the legal, political, and social equality of all persons, to claims for the rights of states to secede from the union, to calls for the revolutionary overthrow of the government. How did the Declaration's premises become its promises? Drawing on rare materials from the seventeenth century to the present, this exhibition invites you to explore the document's meanings in its own time, to consider contested interpretations across history, and to reflect on what the Declaration means today. Curator Eric Slauter, Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literature; Associate faculty member, Divinity School; Founding Director of the Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture; The University of Chicago Visitors This exhibition is free and open to all. Visitors to the University of Chicago Library may obtain an entry pass by checking in at Regenstein Library's entry desk and presenting a current, government-issued photo ID, such as a driver's license, CityKey (https://www.chicityclerk.com/about-citykey/citykey-faq), state ID, or passport to confirm identity. Get more visitor information (https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/borrow/access-privileges/visitors/).Exhibition Gallery Hours (https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/libraries/libraries-hours/): Weekdays, 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.
Biological Function in Space and Time: From Forces and Cues to Emerging Decision-making in Fates, States, and Shapes
875 N Michigan Ave, Suite 3500 · 875 N Michigan Ave, Suite 3500
Biological systems are physical systems operating in space and time. Understanding how they leverage dynamics and spatial extension to achieve functions, transforming physical cues into decisions, is a compelling challenge which requires new mathematical frameworks to identify and characterize emerging patterns in modern high-dimensional data, to quantify reproducibility, to describe how the information is encoded and transferred across scales, and to elucidate decision-making mechanisms. The goal of this workshop is to bring together experimental biologists, specialists in data analysis and theorists to identify current challenges, establish collaborations, and discuss strategies to advance our understanding of how biological systems maintain and organize function across space and time. Researchers across biological subfields have developed formalisms and concepts adapted to their systems of interest. By breaking the traditional barriers of scale, we hope this meeting can be a way of identifying universal hallmarks disseminated across fields.
Biological Function in Space and Time: From Forces and Cues to Emerging Decision-making in Fates, States, and Shapes
875 N Michigan Ave, Suite 3500 · 875 N Michigan Ave, Suite 3500
Biological systems are physical systems operating in space and time. Understanding how they leverage dynamics and spatial extension to achieve functions, transforming physical cues into decisions, is a compelling challenge which requires new mathematical frameworks to identify and characterize emerging patterns in modern high-dimensional data, to quantify reproducibility, to describe how the information is encoded and transferred across scales, and to elucidate decision-making mechanisms. The goal of this workshop is to bring together experimental biologists, specialists in data analysis and theorists to identify current challenges, establish collaborations, and discuss strategies to advance our understanding of how biological systems maintain and organize function across space and time. Researchers across biological subfields have developed formalisms and concepts adapted to their systems of interest. By breaking the traditional barriers of scale, we hope this meeting can be a way of identifying universal hallmarks disseminated across fields.
Created Equal: The Premises and Promises of the Declaration of Independence
Regenstein Library, The Special Collections Research Center · Regenstein Library, The Special Collections Research Center
On July 2, 1776, the Continental Congress voted to declare independence from Great Britain. Two days later, delegates in Philadelphia finalized a document designed to announce and explain that act to readers in America and Europe. The Declaration of Independence asserted the revolutionary right of a people to alter or abolish a government, grounding that principle in the "self-evident" claims that "all Men are created Equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights" and "that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness." Over time, many readers have come to consider the radical philosophical premises in the Declaration as founding political promises of the United States. In doing so, they transformed an indictment of the British King and a manifesto of secession from the British Empire into an American charter of liberty, equality, and rights. But the Declaration's meaning has never been solitary. From the start, readers disagreed about what its authors intended. Since 1776, radically different interpretations of the Declaration's ideas have been put to different ends—from demands for the legal, political, and social equality of all persons, to claims for the rights of states to secede from the union, to calls for the revolutionary overthrow of the government. How did the Declaration's premises become its promises? Drawing on rare materials from the seventeenth century to the present, this exhibition invites you to explore the document's meanings in its own time, to consider contested interpretations across history, and to reflect on what the Declaration means today. Curator Eric Slauter, Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literature; Associate faculty member, Divinity School; Founding Director of the Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture; The University of Chicago Visitors This exhibition is free and open to all. Visitors to the University of Chicago Library may obtain an entry pass by checking in at Regenstein Library's entry desk and presenting a current, government-issued photo ID, such as a driver's license, CityKey (https://www.chicityclerk.com/about-citykey/citykey-faq), state ID, or passport to confirm identity. Get more visitor information (https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/borrow/access-privileges/visitors/).Exhibition Gallery Hours (https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/libraries/libraries-hours/): Weekdays, 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.
UCM Parking Garage B 5656 S Maryland Ave Chicago IL 60637 · UCM Parking Garage B 5656 S Maryland Ave Chicago IL 60637
Volunteers needed to help with harvest and delivery from the rooftop garden to the Feed First patient food pantry sites.About Feed1st | The Lindau Lab (https://voices.uchicago.edu/lindaulab/about-feed1st/) There's a garden on parking garage B rooftop of the medical center. Harvest occurs Tuesday and Thursday morning from 8-9am to bring produce over to the hospital clinics during the summer/ early fall.UChicago Medicine has opened a rooftop garden - UChicago Medicine (https://www.uchicagomedicine.org/forefront/community-articles/rooftop-garden)
Didactic Topic | Presenter - The Core Pediatric Residency Morning Report is an interactive, case-based conference focused on pediatric clinical reasoning, diagnostic decision-making, and evidence-based management. Faculty and trainees discuss real clinical cases to promote collaborative learning and patient-centered care.SCHOLARLY CONCENTRATION DIDACTIC KEYMedical EducationAdvocacy/Health EquityResearchQuality ImprovementPrimary Care
CRI's High Performance Computing: Live Office Hours
Medical Campus, Peck Pavilion, Room N-161 · Medical Campus, Peck Pavilion, Room N-161
The Center for Research Informatics is excited to announce that the High Performance Computing team now offers free in-person support! Join us every Tuesday for live expert assistance with your HPC needs, no appointment necessary. Sessions are hosted by Michael Jarsulic, Associate Director of Scientific Computing.
Building upon the foundations of our introductory session, this workshop shifts from general awareness to practical fluency within the Claude Chat environment. This session guides instructors in cultivating the critical judgment necessary when using AI in teaching and learning, emphasizing quality and intentionality over mere speed. This is a hands-on session: participants will dive directly into the interface to explore key capabilities like Projects and Artifacts. Facilitators will lead an exercise focused on authentic academic workflows—such as refining course syllabi, designing assessment rubrics, or distilling complex policy documents—while also addressing the limitations of the tool. Attendees will depart having developed examples using Claude Chat.If you are interested in additional Claude resources, check out our Office Hours and other Workshops on the Academic Technology Calendar (https://events.uchicago.edu/month/groups/Academic%20Technologies).Note: Intro to Claude is recommended prior to this session.
Student Wellness will be closing early on September 15th due to an All Staff Meeting. The Student Wellness Center will re-open on Wednesday, September 16th. —For urgent mental health care, students can reach the Therapist-on-Call 24/7/365 at 773-702-3625. If you are experiencing a medical or mental health emergency, please go to the nearest emergency room. If you are in Hyde Park, the University of Chicago Medicine's Emergency Department is located at 5656 South Maryland Avenue, 773-702-6250. If you are unsure where to turn, you can always reach a Dean-on-Call, 24/7/365, by calling UCPD at 773-702-8181 or by texting through the UChicago Safe App.
Academic Technology Solutions (https://academictech.uchicago.edu/) (ATS) Virtual Office Hours allow you to meet one-on-one with an ATS staff member who can answer questions you have about teaching with technology. We have expertise with University-supported teaching tools (https://academictech.uchicago.edu/teaching-tools/), (including Canvas, Panopto, and Zoom) but are happy to explore non-University supported tools and strategies as well. During ATS virtual office hours, you can drop by our Zoom meeting using your UChicago Zoom account. Visit ATS Office Hours (https://academictech.uchicago.edu/office-hours/) to learn more. If you prefer to meet in person or at a different time, you can book a consultation with an instructional designer (https://outlook.office365.com/owa/calendar/[email protected]/bookings/).
Rediscovering Purpose in Midlife: A Conversation with Allison Aubrey
Join award-winning Health & Science correspondent for NPR News Allison Aubrey for an inspiring conversation about her book, Your Turn: How to Create a Midlife You Love. Drawing on decades of health journalism and her own curiosity tour interviewing women ages 45 to 105, Aubrey offers a practical, evidence-backed road map for rebuilding a sense of identity and finding new meaning beyond parenting and career achievement. We'll explore how midlife can become an opportunity for reinvention rather than a moment of crisis.
Rediscovering Purpose in Midlife: A Conversation with Allison Aubrey
Join award-winning Health & Science correspondent for NPR News Allison Aubrey for an inspiring conversation about her book, Your Turn: How to Create a Midlife You Love. Drawing on decades of health journalism and her own curiosity tour interviewing women ages 45 to 105, Aubrey offers a practical, evidence-backed road map for rebuilding a sense of identity and finding new meaning beyond parenting and career achievement. We'll explore how midlife can become an opportunity for reinvention rather than a moment of crisis.
Didactic Topic | Presenter -The Core Pediatric Residency Program's primary educational Noon Conference series featuring didactics, case discussions, board review, and simulation, among other topics. Sessions are designed to advance pediatric knowledge and enhance clinical practice for learners across all levels.SCHOLARLY CONCENTRATION DIDACTIC KEYMedical EducationAdvocacy/Health EquityResearchQuality ImprovementPrimary Care
Didactic Topic | Presenter -The Core Pediatric Residency Program's primary educational Noon Conference series featuring didactics, case discussions, board review, and simulation, among other topics. Sessions are designed to advance pediatric knowledge and enhance clinical practice for learners across all levels.SCHOLARLY CONCENTRATION DIDACTIC KEYMedical EducationAdvocacy/Health EquityResearchQuality ImprovementPrimary Care
Medical Campus, Peck Pavilion, Room N-161 · Medical Campus, Peck Pavilion, Room N-161
The Center for Research Informatics is excited to announce that the Bioinformatics Core now offers free in-person support! Join us every Tuesday afternoon for live expert assistance with your bioinformatics research needs, no appointment necessary. Sessions are hosted by Yan Li, Associate Director of Bioinformatics.
Student Engagement through Digital Annotation (Hypothes.is)
This forty-five-minute workshop introduces participants to digital annotation, the practice of engaging closely with textual materials through annotations, highlights, and notes rendered by a digital tool. In this session, we will consider two modalities of digital annotation – independent annotation, conducted by individual students, and social annotation, produced collaboratively by students working in groups or as a class – and explore instructional contexts for their use across the disciplines. We will also examine two digital annotation tools – Canvas Annotation Assignments and Hypothes.is – and provide an introduction to their use for independent and social annotation. Additionally, this session will suggest a workflow and offer resources for making course readings and annotation activities accessible to all learners, and will provide a variety of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) recognition resources.
The UChicago Claude Enterprise support team will host simultaneous in-person and Zoom office hours to help University of Chicago faculty, other academic appointees, postdocs, and staff answer their technical questions about accessing Claude Enterprise and using the Claude tools. In-Person Join for in-person, drop-in office hours at the TechBar Studio, which is located at the Regenstein Library (1100 E. 57th St., Chicago).Virtual Office Hours Attend the virtual office hours via Zoom (learn more about how to join the morning and afternoon virtual office hours by Zoom (https://intranet.uchicago.edu/news-and-events/announcements/2026/07/july-8-claude-enterprise-support-office-hours)).
The UChicago Claude Enterprise support team will host simultaneous in-person and Zoom office hours to help University of Chicago faculty, other academic appointees, postdocs, and staff answer their technical questions about accessing Claude Enterprise and using the Claude tools. In-Person Join for in-person, drop-in office hours at the TechBar Studio, which is located at the Regenstein Library (1100 E. 57th St., Chicago).Virtual Office Hours Attend the virtual office hours via Zoom (learn more about how to join the morning and afternoon virtual office hours by Zoom (https://intranet.uchicago.edu/news-and-events/announcements/2026/07/july-8-claude-enterprise-support-office-hours)).
This orientation is for those who are working at UChicago, sponsored in the H-1B, TN, or E-3 immigration status. Orientation will cover maintaining status, travel and visa renewal, extending status, and much more. This is also a great opportunity to meet other employees from across campus and share resources available to employees during your stay at the University.
Created Equal: The Premises and Promises of the Declaration of Independence
Regenstein Library, The Special Collections Research Center · Regenstein Library, The Special Collections Research Center
On July 2, 1776, the Continental Congress voted to declare independence from Great Britain. Two days later, delegates in Philadelphia finalized a document designed to announce and explain that act to readers in America and Europe. The Declaration of Independence asserted the revolutionary right of a people to alter or abolish a government, grounding that principle in the "self-evident" claims that "all Men are created Equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights" and "that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness." Over time, many readers have come to consider the radical philosophical premises in the Declaration as founding political promises of the United States. In doing so, they transformed an indictment of the British King and a manifesto of secession from the British Empire into an American charter of liberty, equality, and rights. But the Declaration's meaning has never been solitary. From the start, readers disagreed about what its authors intended. Since 1776, radically different interpretations of the Declaration's ideas have been put to different ends—from demands for the legal, political, and social equality of all persons, to claims for the rights of states to secede from the union, to calls for the revolutionary overthrow of the government. How did the Declaration's premises become its promises? Drawing on rare materials from the seventeenth century to the present, this exhibition invites you to explore the document's meanings in its own time, to consider contested interpretations across history, and to reflect on what the Declaration means today. Curator Eric Slauter, Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literature; Associate faculty member, Divinity School; Founding Director of the Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture; The University of Chicago Visitors This exhibition is free and open to all. Visitors to the University of Chicago Library may obtain an entry pass by checking in at Regenstein Library's entry desk and presenting a current, government-issued photo ID, such as a driver's license, CityKey (https://www.chicityclerk.com/about-citykey/citykey-faq), state ID, or passport to confirm identity. Get more visitor information (https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/borrow/access-privileges/visitors/).Exhibition Gallery Hours (https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/libraries/libraries-hours/): Weekdays, 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.
Created Equal: The Premises and Promises of the Declaration of Independence
Regenstein Library, The Special Collections Research Center · Regenstein Library, The Special Collections Research Center
On July 2, 1776, the Continental Congress voted to declare independence from Great Britain. Two days later, delegates in Philadelphia finalized a document designed to announce and explain that act to readers in America and Europe. The Declaration of Independence asserted the revolutionary right of a people to alter or abolish a government, grounding that principle in the "self-evident" claims that "all Men are created Equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights" and "that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness." Over time, many readers have come to consider the radical philosophical premises in the Declaration as founding political promises of the United States. In doing so, they transformed an indictment of the British King and a manifesto of secession from the British Empire into an American charter of liberty, equality, and rights. But the Declaration's meaning has never been solitary. From the start, readers disagreed about what its authors intended. Since 1776, radically different interpretations of the Declaration's ideas have been put to different ends—from demands for the legal, political, and social equality of all persons, to claims for the rights of states to secede from the union, to calls for the revolutionary overthrow of the government. How did the Declaration's premises become its promises? Drawing on rare materials from the seventeenth century to the present, this exhibition invites you to explore the document's meanings in its own time, to consider contested interpretations across history, and to reflect on what the Declaration means today. Curator Eric Slauter, Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literature; Associate faculty member, Divinity School; Founding Director of the Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture; The University of Chicago Visitors This exhibition is free and open to all. Visitors to the University of Chicago Library may obtain an entry pass by checking in at Regenstein Library's entry desk and presenting a current, government-issued photo ID, such as a driver's license, CityKey (https://www.chicityclerk.com/about-citykey/citykey-faq), state ID, or passport to confirm identity. Get more visitor information (https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/borrow/access-privileges/visitors/).Exhibition Gallery Hours (https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/libraries/libraries-hours/): Weekdays, 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.
Biological Function in Space and Time: From Forces and Cues to Emerging Decision-making in Fates, States, and Shapes
875 N Michigan Ave, Suite 3500 · 875 N Michigan Ave, Suite 3500
Biological systems are physical systems operating in space and time. Understanding how they leverage dynamics and spatial extension to achieve functions, transforming physical cues into decisions, is a compelling challenge which requires new mathematical frameworks to identify and characterize emerging patterns in modern high-dimensional data, to quantify reproducibility, to describe how the information is encoded and transferred across scales, and to elucidate decision-making mechanisms. The goal of this workshop is to bring together experimental biologists, specialists in data analysis and theorists to identify current challenges, establish collaborations, and discuss strategies to advance our understanding of how biological systems maintain and organize function across space and time. Researchers across biological subfields have developed formalisms and concepts adapted to their systems of interest. By breaking the traditional barriers of scale, we hope this meeting can be a way of identifying universal hallmarks disseminated across fields.
Biological Function in Space and Time: From Forces and Cues to Emerging Decision-making in Fates, States, and Shapes
875 N Michigan Ave, Suite 3500 · 875 N Michigan Ave, Suite 3500
Biological systems are physical systems operating in space and time. Understanding how they leverage dynamics and spatial extension to achieve functions, transforming physical cues into decisions, is a compelling challenge which requires new mathematical frameworks to identify and characterize emerging patterns in modern high-dimensional data, to quantify reproducibility, to describe how the information is encoded and transferred across scales, and to elucidate decision-making mechanisms. The goal of this workshop is to bring together experimental biologists, specialists in data analysis and theorists to identify current challenges, establish collaborations, and discuss strategies to advance our understanding of how biological systems maintain and organize function across space and time. Researchers across biological subfields have developed formalisms and concepts adapted to their systems of interest. By breaking the traditional barriers of scale, we hope this meeting can be a way of identifying universal hallmarks disseminated across fields.
Created Equal: The Premises and Promises of the Declaration of Independence
Regenstein Library, The Special Collections Research Center · Regenstein Library, The Special Collections Research Center
On July 2, 1776, the Continental Congress voted to declare independence from Great Britain. Two days later, delegates in Philadelphia finalized a document designed to announce and explain that act to readers in America and Europe. The Declaration of Independence asserted the revolutionary right of a people to alter or abolish a government, grounding that principle in the "self-evident" claims that "all Men are created Equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights" and "that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness." Over time, many readers have come to consider the radical philosophical premises in the Declaration as founding political promises of the United States. In doing so, they transformed an indictment of the British King and a manifesto of secession from the British Empire into an American charter of liberty, equality, and rights. But the Declaration's meaning has never been solitary. From the start, readers disagreed about what its authors intended. Since 1776, radically different interpretations of the Declaration's ideas have been put to different ends—from demands for the legal, political, and social equality of all persons, to claims for the rights of states to secede from the union, to calls for the revolutionary overthrow of the government. How did the Declaration's premises become its promises? Drawing on rare materials from the seventeenth century to the present, this exhibition invites you to explore the document's meanings in its own time, to consider contested interpretations across history, and to reflect on what the Declaration means today. Curator Eric Slauter, Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literature; Associate faculty member, Divinity School; Founding Director of the Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture; The University of Chicago Visitors This exhibition is free and open to all. Visitors to the University of Chicago Library may obtain an entry pass by checking in at Regenstein Library's entry desk and presenting a current, government-issued photo ID, such as a driver's license, CityKey (https://www.chicityclerk.com/about-citykey/citykey-faq), state ID, or passport to confirm identity. Get more visitor information (https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/borrow/access-privileges/visitors/).Exhibition Gallery Hours (https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/libraries/libraries-hours/): Weekdays, 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.