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ISAC Exhibit: Hartapu: The Forgotten King of Anatolia
The Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (ISAC) Museum · The Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (ISAC) Museum
Seven years ago, Hartapu was little more than a name. Then, in 2019, an inscribed stone pulled from an irrigation canal in central Türkiye introduced the world to a king who claimed to have conquered Phrygia—one of the most powerful kingdoms of the ancient world. Suddenly, a ruler and a kingdom largely unknown to history demanded a place on the map of Iron Age Anatolia. The stone was found at Türkmen-Karahöyük, a massive tell rising 35 meters above the Konya Plain, that must have been Hartapu's capital. Though the site had gone largely unnoticed by archaeologists, it is one of the largest Iron Age sites in Anatolia—and excavations launched in 2024 by ISAC and Bilkent University (Ankara, Türkiye) are only beginning to reveal the city's historical development. Hartapu ruled in the eighth century BCE, during a period of intense rivalry between great powers—Phrygia to the west, the Neo-Assyrian Empire to the east—and his kingdom sat squarely between them. The exhibition tells his story through ancient inscriptions, archaeological finds, and new technologies, including 3D printing and advanced imaging, that are transforming how scholars study the past. Contemporary works by artist SaraNoa Mark offer a counterpoint, reflecting on landscape, memory, and the labor and care of preserving the past. The ISAC Museum special exhibition Hartapu: The Forgotten King of Anatolia is on view from September 17, 2026 through March 14, 2027, accessible during regular museum hours and with museum admission.
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.
Chicago Studies 1155 E 60th St. Chicago IL 60637 · Chicago Studies 1155 E 60th St. Chicago IL 60637
In the middle of the night on October 8, 1871, a blaze broke out in an immigrant neighborhood on Chicago's near West Side. By the time the fire ended some thirty hours later, nearly 17,000 structures had been destroyed, and the still-young city had suffered over $200 million in damages. Join Chicago Studies to commemorate the 155th anniversary of this traumatic event – memorialized in both Chicago's flag and the University's "phoenix rising" crest – as we walk (and talk about) the path of the Fire from Mrs. O'Leary's barn in the West Loop through downtown, across the Chicago River into River North, then along the historic shore of Lake Michigan (in what is now the Gold Coast) and into Lincoln Park to end at the Chicago History Museum. The Fire was BIG, and so this will be a robust hike – about 6 miles in total length, with numerous stops (and a bathroom break or two). Like the Chicagoans of 1871, who escaped the blaze in various creative ways, we'll offer several "exits" to transit along the way…but only those who finish the hike will receive our coveted "I survived the Great Chicago Fire" sticker! At the end of our hike, we'll walk from CHM to transit, OR you can linger in Lincoln Park/Old Town to enjoy those neighborhoods on what will hopefully be a beautiful early Fall day.
Join Student Wellness for an upcoming Maroon Mental Health Matters Training. Maroon Mental Health Matters is a 3.5-hour training program designed to give participants the skills to help someone experiencing a mental health distress or crisis. The course is tailored specifically for the University of Chicago community. Breakfast, snacks, coffee and tea are provided. By the end of the training, participants will be able to:Understand what mental well-being is and what impacts it Identify indicators of mental health distress and crisis Respond to and support someone in distress Refer and connect someone to appropriate resources Promote help-seeking behavior and foster a community of care. To register for an upcoming training, click here (https://uchicago.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6VuPwC7atfrWixg). To learn more click here (https://wellness.uchicago.edu/healthy-living/wellness-programming/maroon-mental-health-matters/). If you're interested in participating in a training, but aren't able to attend this one, please sign up for the waitlist (https://uchicago.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_ctNB3gPF3roQq1M). We will notify you when additional trainings are scheduled.
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.
Compton Lectures: John Carlstrom "Exploring the Big Bang from the South Pole"
Kersten Physics Teaching Center, Room 106 · Kersten Physics Teaching Center, Room 106
Join us for a free public lecture series celebrating 50 Years of Discovery at the Enrico Fermi Institute of UChicago. Attendees can join in person or virtually.Prof. John Carlstrom (https://astrophysics.uchicago.edu/people/profile/john-e.-carlstrom/) presents: Exploring the Big Bang from the South PoleThis talk will review measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), especially those obtained with our specialized telescopes deployed at the South Pole over the last three decades, and what they have taught us about the origin and evolution of our universe. We will then discuss our plans using new instruments at the South Pole to search for the tell-tale signal in the polarization of the CMB of gravitational waves generated by Inflation, an putative burst of super-luminal accelerated expansion at the dawn of time that led to creation of our universe.
Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with LUCERO! Join us for a free, family-friendly Health & Resource Fair. Enjoy a variety of health and wellness activities, including blood pressure and glucose screenings, CPR and Stop the Bleed demonstrations, a walk-through inflatable colon, Zumba, face painting, kids' activities, and community resources. Free lunch and raffles will also be available! Bring your family and join us for an afternoon of health, education, and community as we celebrate Hispanic heritage together.
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.
Arts Incubator, Washington Park · Arts Incubator, Washington Park
Arts + Public Life at the University of Chicago presents Intentionality, 1960: Whose Dreams? a new exhibition by Chicago artist Candace Hunter centered on the construction of the Dan Ryan Expressway and the Black communities displaced in its path. Now embedded within Chicago's physical and social fabric, the Dan Ryan Expressway obscures both the choices that produced it and the lives reorganized around it. The construction disrupted the ordinary intimacies through which a place becomes home: routes traveled, neighbors known, businesses frequented, porches gathered on. Through photographic collage, architectural fragments, archival materials, sound, sculptural interventions, and oral histories, Hunter moves between what is documented and what is remembered. The work resists the idea that displacement can be understood solely through statistics. The series builds on the Memory Teas Candace hosted during her APL residency, which gathered first-person accounts from Black Chicagoans who remember the Dan Ryan's construction and the neighborhoods transformed by it. Rather than asking these memories to complete the historical record, Hunter allows them to stay partial, layered, and unresolved. While centered on Chicago's South Side, the history at the heart of Intentionality, 1960 reaches beyond the city. Across the United States, highway construction, redevelopment, and urban renewal reshaped Black communities, often presenting profound social and spatial disruption as necessary progress. Intentionality, 1960 invites audiences to see those histories not as isolated events but as part of a larger American story.Intentionality, 1960 will be accompanied by Threshold: Conversations on the Stoop, a series of public dialogues on the front porch within the exhibition between Candace and scholars to dive into topics related to the exhibition. The Threshold conversations are presented with support from the Office of the Provost Diversity and Inclusion team, in partnership with the Chicago Forum for Free Inquiry and Expression. Intentionality, 1960: Whose Dreams? will be on view from September 24-December 12 in the Arts + Public Life Gallery Space located in the Arts Incubator at 301 E. Garfield Blvd.Gallery Hours: Thursday-Saturday | 1:00 - 5:00pm
The Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (ISAC) Museum · The Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (ISAC) Museum
Join us for a docent-led tour of the ISAC Museum every Saturday, with a few exceptions on holidays. The tour is free with museum admission and completely free for ISAC members and University of Chicago students, faculty, and staff. Tours meet in the museum lobby and last approximately one hour. No registration required. Bring your curiosity and rediscover the ancient world through the artifacts that have survived from the distant past!
Join us for a docent-led tour of the ISAC Museum every Saturday at 1:30 p.m., with a few exceptions on holidays. The tour is free with museum admission and completely free for ISAC members and University of Chicago students, faculty, and staff. Tours meet in the museum lobby and last approximately one hour. No registration required. Bring your curiosity and rediscover the ancient world through the artifacts that have survived from the distant past!No registration, just show up Saturdays at 1:30 PM.
NITMB Scientific Focus: Theory and Mathematics in Neuroscience Dynamics in Neuroscience
875 N Michigan Ave, Suite 3500 · 875 N Michigan Ave, Suite 3500
Recent advances in our ability to record simultaneously from large numbers of neurons has shifted the focus in neuroscience from understanding dynamics at a single cell level to the network level. At the same time, the rise of modern machine learning has independently generated interest in how computation arises from the coordinated activity of large networks of simple units. This workshop explores how computation emerges from network dynamics, asking how circuit structure, network architecture, and plasticity/learning shape the neural dynamics underlying cognitive functions. Part of the NITMB Scientific Focus: Theory and Mathematics in Neuroscience (https://www.nitmb.org/theory-and-mathematics-in-neuroscience-scientific-focus)
TENTATIVE: Autumn 2026 Generic Final Exam Schedule Published
The generic final exam schedule is published at the start of week 3 of the quarter and can be found at https://registrar.uchicago.edu/calendars/final-exams/ (https://registrar.uchicago.edu/calendars/final-exams/).
ISAC Exhibit: Hartapu: The Forgotten King of Anatolia
The Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (ISAC) Museum · The Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (ISAC) Museum
Seven years ago, Hartapu was little more than a name. Then, in 2019, an inscribed stone pulled from an irrigation canal in central Türkiye introduced the world to a king who claimed to have conquered Phrygia—one of the most powerful kingdoms of the ancient world. Suddenly, a ruler and a kingdom largely unknown to history demanded a place on the map of Iron Age Anatolia. The stone was found at Türkmen-Karahöyük, a massive tell rising 35 meters above the Konya Plain, that must have been Hartapu's capital. Though the site had gone largely unnoticed by archaeologists, it is one of the largest Iron Age sites in Anatolia—and excavations launched in 2024 by ISAC and Bilkent University (Ankara, Türkiye) are only beginning to reveal the city's historical development. Hartapu ruled in the eighth century BCE, during a period of intense rivalry between great powers—Phrygia to the west, the Neo-Assyrian Empire to the east—and his kingdom sat squarely between them. The exhibition tells his story through ancient inscriptions, archaeological finds, and new technologies, including 3D printing and advanced imaging, that are transforming how scholars study the past. Contemporary works by artist SaraNoa Mark offer a counterpoint, reflecting on landscape, memory, and the labor and care of preserving the past. The ISAC Museum special exhibition Hartapu: The Forgotten King of Anatolia is on view from September 17, 2026 through March 14, 2027, accessible during regular museum hours and with museum admission.
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.
100 Years of Genius: A Centennial Celebration of Oscar Brown Jr.
Logan Center, Performance Hall · Logan Center, Performance Hall
Bootblack Publishing Co, LLC, the Jazz Institute of Chicago, and the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts Co-Present100 Years of Genius: A Centennial Celebration of Oscar Brown Jr. Saturday, October 10, 2026 – 7 PM VIP Birthday Cake Cutting Reception: 5:30 PM Door Open at 6:15 PM for VIP and Sponsor Ticket Holders and 6:30 PM for General Admission Logan Center Performance Hall, 915 East 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60637Purchase Tickets Using the Link AboveGeneral Admission: $25 (plus $2 box office fee) - limited number of tickets available - Doors open at 6:30 pm Sponsor Ticket: $50 (plus $4 box office fee) – early seating at 6:15 pm VIP Ticket: $100 (plus $4 box office fee) – includes a VIP Birthday Cake Cutting Reception and OBJ 100th gift bag, and priority seating (reserved section). On the exact 100th anniversary of Oscar Brown Jr.'s birth – October 10, 2026 - family, friends, fellow artists and a new generation of performers gather for an extraordinary celebration of one of Chicago's most original and influential creative voices. Led by his daughters Maggie Brown and Africa Brown, 100 Years of Genius is more than a tribute concert—it is a journey through Oscar's remarkable world of jazz, poetry, theater, comedy, activism and storytelling. Live music, theatrical scenes, dance, spoken word, film, rare archival images and recordings—and Oscar's own voice—will illuminate a body of work that stretched from his groundbreaking recordings to his musicals: Kicks & Co., In De Beginnin', and The Great Nitty Gritty, featuring songs and poems that continue to resonate around the world. Past and present will share the stage as archival appearances by Oscar and his late son, Oscar "Bobo" Brown III, join living artists in an intimate conversation across generations. 100 Years of Genius is not simply a look backward, but a celebration of a living legacy and an artist who believed entertainment could enlighten, art could improve the human condition, and each generation has a responsibility to carry the work forward.One vision. Many voices. One hundred years. A living legacy still speaking. To learn more about all OBJ100 events visit www.oscarbrownjr.org (https://www.oscarbrownjr.org/100th-birthday%20or%20www.oscarbrownjr.org)100 Years of Genius: A Centennial Celebration of Oscar Brown Jr. is co-presented by Bootblack Publishing Co, LLC, the Jazz Institute of Chicago, and the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, with the support of Brownhouse Edutainment, Inc NFP, 51 Street Business Association, Blanc Art Gallery, the Logan Center's Jazz Forever Fund, a gift of the Revada Foundation, WVON & VON-TV (Media Sponsor) and friends of the Logan Center.
If you're a UChicago graduate student or postdoc running the marathon, let us know so we can cheer you on! If you're not running, join us in cheering for and encouraging our amazing runners as they make their way through the city. Fill out this form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeLS6M1_3NrmWoX7n1NCVp5ES21oYQXGiSqUEp31E9Bisa7nw/viewform (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeLS6M1_3NrmWoX7n1NCVp5ES21oYQXGiSqUEp31E9Bisa7nw/viewform) to let us know if you're running or cheering. This event is exclusively for UChicago graduate students and postdocs with UCID.
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.
An art loan program, exclusively for University of Chicago students Art to Live With offers UChicago students living in residence halls the unique opportunity to borrow original works of art to display in their dorm rooms. This fall, choose from specially designated artworks, including new acquisitions selected by our Art to Live With Acquisitions Committee. Works will be loaned at no cost for the duration of the academic year. Discover a collection curated for student dorm rooms and find your match!Check-in: 10 AM | Doors: 11 AM Come to the Smart Museum courtyard Sunday, October 11th by 10am and get your spot in line. Once you have checked in to secure your place, meet new friends, strategize your pick, and enjoy food and entertainment! Please note: There will NOT be multiple check-ins this year. Places in line are first come first served! The first and only check-in to secure your spot is Sunday, October 11th at 10am. The line will begin under the Smart's east portico near the main entrance, and curve into the courtyard. While you are lined up, an Art to Live With staff member will give you a sticker representing your place in line. Once you have your sticker, you will check in at the center table to confirm with staff that you live in campus housing. Once checked in, you can break out of line to enjoy snacks and lawn games until it's your turn to enter the museum. For a detailed FAQ section and details about how to browse the collection online, Art to Live With artwork Preview Days (Tuesday, October 6th–Saturday 10th), and what to bring, visit the official Art to Live With webpage (https://smartmuseum.uchicago.edu/learn-research/art-to-live-with/).
Rockefeller Memorial Chapel · Rockefeller Memorial Chapel
Join us on Sundays at 11:00 AM Sundays at Rockefeller offers inspiring words and liturgy, music on the majestic E.M. Skinner organ and the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Carillon, hymns, sung liturgies, and the voices of students and professionals alike in musical settings past and present. Free and open to all.
Ida Noyes Hall, Spiritual Life, 034 · Ida Noyes Hall, Spiritual Life, 034
You have a seat at the table. On the 2nd and 4th Sundays, join Spiritual Life in community with other students for a gentle brunch, as we ease into the week ahead. Enjoy warm company, coffee, tea, and a comforting brunch.Oct 11 Oct 25 Nov 8 Nov 22
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.
Grab a cup and a good read with International House at the Coffee & Book Tour! Join fellow graduate students for a relaxed afternoon of coffee, books, and Hyde Park exploring. We'll stroll through some of the neighborhood's favorite cafés and bookstores; you bring your curiosity and your next reading recommendation. Event attendees will meet in front of International House at 2:00 PM on Sunday, October 11th and walk together to our first stop.This event is free and exclusively for UChicago graduate students and postdocs with valid UCID. Registration is required.
Keith Buncke, bassoon (https://chicagopresents.uchicago.edu/people/keith-buncke-bassoon)Patrick Godon, piano (https://chicagopresents.uchicago.edu/people/patrick-godon-piano)Tage Larsen, trumpet (https://chicagopresents.uchicago.edu/people/tage-larsen-trumpet)Kenneth Olsen, cello (https://chicagopresents.uchicago.edu/people/kenneth-olsen-cello)John Bruce Yeh, clarinet (https://chicagopresents.uchicago.edu/people/john-bruce-yeh-clarinet)Yuan-Qing Yu, violin (https://chicagopresents.uchicago.edu/people/yuan-qing-yu-violin)Savor a musical feast by Chicago Symphony Orchestra musicians! Inspired by the theme of "gastromusicology," this program explores the intersection of food and music. Whet your appetite with Martinu's kitchen utensil-inspired ballet suiteLa revue de Cuisine, and indulge in other musical food for thought by Brahms, Beethoven, and Schoenfield.Join us for a pre-concert lecture (2:00 PM) withAssistant Professor Paula Harper (https://music.uchicago.edu/directory/paula-harper)and post-concert discussion with the artists moderated by Professor Harper.Supported by the Office of the Provost and Mary Lou Gorno. Program:Beethoven: Piano Trio No. 4 in B-flat Major, Op. 11, "Gassenhauer"Martinu:La revue de CuisineSchoenfield: Allegro fromCafé Musicfor Piano TrioBrahms: Trio in A Minor for Clarinet, Cello, and Piano, Op. 114
teamLab member Sohee Hong and curator Allison Martino discuss teamLab's creative practice and interests in perception through artworks featured in the exhibition. Free; registration is encouraged.
NITMB Scientific Focus: Theory and Mathematics in Neuroscience Dynamics in Neuroscience
875 N Michigan Ave, Suite 3500 · 875 N Michigan Ave, Suite 3500
Recent advances in our ability to record simultaneously from large numbers of neurons has shifted the focus in neuroscience from understanding dynamics at a single cell level to the network level. At the same time, the rise of modern machine learning has independently generated interest in how computation arises from the coordinated activity of large networks of simple units. This workshop explores how computation emerges from network dynamics, asking how circuit structure, network architecture, and plasticity/learning shape the neural dynamics underlying cognitive functions. Part of the NITMB Scientific Focus: Theory and Mathematics in Neuroscience (https://www.nitmb.org/theory-and-mathematics-in-neuroscience-scientific-focus)
ISAC Exhibit: Hartapu: The Forgotten King of Anatolia
The Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (ISAC) Museum · The Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (ISAC) Museum
Seven years ago, Hartapu was little more than a name. Then, in 2019, an inscribed stone pulled from an irrigation canal in central Türkiye introduced the world to a king who claimed to have conquered Phrygia—one of the most powerful kingdoms of the ancient world. Suddenly, a ruler and a kingdom largely unknown to history demanded a place on the map of Iron Age Anatolia. The stone was found at Türkmen-Karahöyük, a massive tell rising 35 meters above the Konya Plain, that must have been Hartapu's capital. Though the site had gone largely unnoticed by archaeologists, it is one of the largest Iron Age sites in Anatolia—and excavations launched in 2024 by ISAC and Bilkent University (Ankara, Türkiye) are only beginning to reveal the city's historical development. Hartapu ruled in the eighth century BCE, during a period of intense rivalry between great powers—Phrygia to the west, the Neo-Assyrian Empire to the east—and his kingdom sat squarely between them. The exhibition tells his story through ancient inscriptions, archaeological finds, and new technologies, including 3D printing and advanced imaging, that are transforming how scholars study the past. Contemporary works by artist SaraNoa Mark offer a counterpoint, reflecting on landscape, memory, and the labor and care of preserving the past. The ISAC Museum special exhibition Hartapu: The Forgotten King of Anatolia is on view from September 17, 2026 through March 14, 2027, accessible during regular museum hours and with museum admission.
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.
Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society · Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society
This exhibition features new works by the French artist and filmmaker Pierre Bismuth. The centerpiece is a long-form meditative film documenting a creative collaboration between Joshua Abrams and Sharon Udoh, two leading figures from Chicago's jazz and improvised music scene. Bismuth tasked them with composing a 21st-century spiritual based on a lyrical hymn he wrote for the project. The film traces the magic and workaday practice of "inspiration," taking the traditions of religious music as a point of departure for a multi-layered reflection on love, music, and the divine. In addition to this new film, Bismuth will present a series of digital images resembling American flags emblazoned with lyrics from the hymn. Curated by Dieter Roelstraete. The Neubauer Collegium Gallery is free and open to the public. Gallery hours: M–F, 9–4. The Neubauer Collegium Gallery is supported by the Neubauer Family Foundation and the Brenda Mulmed Shapiro Fund. Additional support for this exhibition was provided by Bernard Friedman, the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, and the France Chicago Center at the University of Chicago.
Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society · Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society
This exhibition features new works by the French artist and filmmaker Pierre Bismuth. The centerpiece is a long-form meditative film documenting a creative collaboration between Joshua Abrams and Sharon Udoh, two leading figures from Chicago's jazz and improvised music scene. Bismuth tasked them with composing a 21st-century spiritual based on a lyrical hymn he wrote for the project. The film traces the magic and workaday practice of "inspiration," taking the traditions of religious music as a point of departure for a multi-layered reflection on love, music, and the divine. In addition to this new film, Bismuth will present a series of digital images resembling American flags emblazoned with lyrics from the hymn. Curated by Dieter Roelstraete. The Neubauer Collegium Gallery is free and open to the public. Gallery hours: M–F, 9–4. The Neubauer Collegium Gallery is supported by the Neubauer Family Foundation and the Brenda Mulmed Shapiro Fund. Additional support for this exhibition was provided by Bernard Friedman, the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, and the France Chicago Center at the University of Chicago.
Don't let the flu stop you! Get your FREE flu shot from UChicago Student Wellness at the Regenstein Library. Free flu shots are available to individuals with a University ID - students, staff, and faculty. Walk-ins are accepted, or you may make an appointment online (https://www.jewelosco.com/vaccinations/group-clinic/RegensteinLibrary2026). Learn more about Flu Clinics and find additional clinic dates here (https://wellness.uchicago.edu/medical-services/flu-vaccinations/).
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)).
Additional Workshops:October 19 & 26This workshop series is open to anyone and is aimed at grad students in the humanities and social sciences undertaking their first teaching experiences (as TAs or instructors of record). Come learn about fundamental pedagogical ideas and discuss and practice key teaching strategies with other graduate students in the humanities and social sciences. Join a community of fellow pedagogues in the Chicago Center for Teaching and Learning.Facilitated by CCTL Graduate Fellows Rhya Moffitt & Mary Kemp Thornberry
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/).
Charles M. Harper Center, Room 100-9H · Charles M. Harper Center, Room 100-9H
Let's Talk provides easy access to free, informal, and confidential consultations with therapists from UChicago Student Wellness. No appointment is necessary. If you prefer, you do not have to give your name. Let's Talk is open to all University of Chicago undergraduate and graduate students and is a good fit for: Students who are not sure about therapy and wonder what it's like to talk with a therapist; Students who are not interested in therapy but would like the perspective of a counselor; Students who would like to talk through a specific problem; or Students who have a concern about a friend and want some thoughts about what to do. Autumn Quarter Let's Talk Autumn Quarter Let's Talk will be held from September 28 through December 7 with NO session on November 23 due to the Thanksgiving Holiday. Let's Talk sessions are drop-in and first-come, first-served format. The sessions of Let's Talk will be held in person. Mondays, 1:00-2:00pm: Booth Harper Center, 5807 S. Woodlawn Ave., Room 100-9H *There is no session on Monday, November 23.
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)).
Gordon Center for Integrative Science, Room W301 · Gordon Center for Integrative Science, Room W301
Join the SET Center at our 6th annual symposium, Ready. SET. Go! Hear from keynote speaker, Sarkis Mazmanian, noted microbiologist from Caltech. Network with and learn from UChicago colleagues about their research in biologic development.
This session gives instructors, and academic support staff a simple walkthrough of the UChicago Claude Enterprise tool. We'll start by exploring the Claude interface, including how to adjust your settings, view your usage, and use connectors. Then we'll move into brief descriptions and demonstrations of each of the main products: Claude Chat, Cowork, and Code. The session will consist mostly of demonstrations, with some brief optional hands-on activities. We'll model use cases from teaching and academic administration and address common concerns, including data privacy, accuracy, hallucinations, and academic integrity. We'll also help you to distinguish when AI can support your work and when it can't. Participants will leave with a clear idea of what Claude can do, how to get started, and where to find additional guidance. 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, the session is capped at 75 registrants, but there are additional sessions scheduled.)
Speaker: Amadeus Maldonado, NorthwesternTitle: Rigidity for time changes of products of Anosov flowsAbstract: Higher-rank Anosov actions often exhibit strong rigidity properties. Katok and Spatzier conjectured that, in the absence of rank-one factors, such actions are smoothly conjugate to algebraic actions.Vinhage disproved the conjecture in its original form by constructing nontrivial time changes of products of Anosov flows whose resulting actions admit no rank-one factors.In this talk, we investigate rigidity phenomena within the class of time changes of a product of Anosov flows. Our main results show that stabilizers of periodic orbits can detect when two time changes are conjugate and when a time change is conjugate to a product of flows, in both cases up to automorphism. This is joint work with Miri Son.
David Rubenstein Forum at the University of Chicago · David Rubenstein Forum at the University of Chicago
October 12, 2026 3:00 PM The David Rubenstein Forum Room 504Against Reality Distortion: Generative AI as a Weapon of War, Instrument of Mass Identity Fraud, and Endless Slop MachineJoan Donovan and Samantha Hinds The Critical Internet Studies Institute The integration of vast biometric databases with generative AI (GenAI) capabilities creates unprecedented risks for identity theft, fraud, influence campaigns, and fourth-generation warfare tactics. Dr. Joan Donovan and Samantha Hinds (https://www.criticalinternet.org/about) from the Critical Internet Studies Institute (https://www.criticalinternet.org/) will present on the evolution of biometric data collection and facial recognition technology as foundational infrastructure facilitating commercial GenAI's new features, accelerating not just "AI slop" and elided authorship credit but also cybercrime, identity fraud, and mass surveillance. We will examine the specific harms that flow from inadequate biometric information protection—including discriminatory profiling, function creep, chilling of political and civic life, and the clear path towards autonomous warfare.
CANCELED: Descolonizar el Inconsciente. ¿Qué significa esto? ¿Por qué importa?
Social Science Research, Tea Room · Social Science Research, Tea Room
Descolonizar el inconsciente. ¿Qué significa esto? ¿Por qué importa? Tres talleres con Suely Rolnik Un sistema político-económico-sociocultural, sea cual fuere, no es una abstracción; es la encarnación de la vida en un determinado modo de existencia. Dicho modo se desprende del principio que rige la producción de la subjetividad y la orientación del deseo (inseparables en la producción de un cierto tipo de relación con el otro) en el sistema en cuestión. Es en esta esfera – en la esfera micropolítica – donde un sistema gana su consistencia existencial, sin la cual no se podría sustentar. Y es, por tanto, en esta esfera donde un sistema se produce y se reproduce. Es también ahí donde se dan las batallas contra su reproducción: en el preciso lugar donde la vida se ve amenazada como consecuencia del principio que rige la producción de la existencia del sistema en cuestión (es decir, como consecuencia del régimen del inconsciente que le es propio). Los tres talleres con Suely Rolnik comenzarán enfocándose en el concepto de micropolítica, para enseguida descifrar el régimen del inconsciente que rige en esta esfera, en la cultura occidental moderna, especialmente en su versión actual. Tal desciframiento incluye tanto la manifestación del referido régimen en la producción del pensamiento como el modo en que dicho régimen toma cuerpo en la escritura teórica, especialmente en el mundo académico. Los talleres se realizarán los días 2, 9 y 12 de octubre de 2026, de 3 pm a 6 pm en el Tea Room del edificio de Ciencias Sociales de Uchicago. Cada taller quedará dividido en dos partes:Clase expositiva, seguida de debates con lxs estudiantes inscritxs. Lectura y discusión colectiva de textos breves, previamente escritos por los estudiantes, guiados por una consigna metodológica que consiste en conectarse con los efectos del actual estado de las cosas, en su propio cuerpo, y buscar palabras que expresen dichos efectos. Gracias al generoso apoyo de CLACS y de la Tinker Foundation, lxs participantes del taller que no vivan cerca del campus de la Universidad de Chicago contarán con apoyo para cubrir sus gastos de transporte. Inscripciones abiertas. CUPO LIMITADO.
CANCELED: Descolonizar el Inconsciente. ¿Qué significa esto? ¿Por qué importa?
Social Science Research, Tea Room · Social Science Research, Tea Room
Descolonizar el inconsciente. ¿Qué significa esto? ¿Por qué importa? Tres talleres con Suely Rolnik Un sistema político-económico-sociocultural, sea cual fuere, no es una abstracción; es la encarnación de la vida en un determinado modo de existencia. Dicho modo se desprende del principio que rige la producción de la subjetividad y la orientación del deseo (inseparables en la producción de un cierto tipo de relación con el otro) en el sistema en cuestión. Es en esta esfera – en la esfera micropolítica – donde un sistema gana su consistencia existencial, sin la cual no se podría sustentar. Y es, por tanto, en esta esfera donde un sistema se produce y se reproduce. Es también ahí donde se dan las batallas contra su reproducción: en el preciso lugar donde la vida se ve amenazada como consecuencia del principio que rige la producción de la existencia del sistema en cuestión (es decir, como consecuencia del régimen del inconsciente que le es propio). Los tres talleres con Suely Rolnik comenzarán enfocándose en el concepto de micropolítica, para enseguida descifrar el régimen del inconsciente que rige en esta esfera, en la cultura occidental moderna, especialmente en su versión actual. Tal desciframiento incluye tanto la manifestación del referido régimen en la producción del pensamiento como el modo en que dicho régimen toma cuerpo en la escritura teórica, especialmente en el mundo académico. Los talleres se realizarán los días 2, 9 y 12 de octubre de 2026, de 3 pm a 6 pm en el Tea Room del edificio de Ciencias Sociales de Uchicago. Cada taller quedará dividido en dos partes:Clase expositiva, seguida de debates con lxs estudiantes inscritxs. Lectura y discusión colectiva de textos breves, previamente escritos por los estudiantes, guiados por una consigna metodológica que consiste en conectarse con los efectos del actual estado de las cosas, en su propio cuerpo, y buscar palabras que expresen dichos efectos. Gracias al generoso apoyo de CLACS y de la Tinker Foundation, lxs participantes del taller que no vivan cerca del campus de la Universidad de Chicago contarán con apoyo para cubrir sus gastos de transporte. Inscripciones abiertas. CUPO LIMITADO.
Asian Philosophies Workshop: Reading Group Meeting
Harper Memorial Library, Room 145 · Harper Memorial Library, Room 145
Graduate student reading group on Nāgārjuna's Ratnāvalī led by Prof. Andrew Ollett. Text available in Sanskrit, Classical Chinese, and Classical Tibetan.
Title: Second order mean-curvature flow and the Stefan equation with Gibbs-Thomson effect.Abstract: The celebrated mean-curvature flow describes the evolution of the interface between two domains which moves so that its orthogonal velocity at each point is proportional to its mean curvature, pointing in the direction of decreasing the curvature. In the second order mean-curvature flow, it is the derivative of the orthogonal velocity (i.e., the acceleration) that is proportional to the mean curvature. Both flows can be described through partial differential equations (PDEs) for the associated arrival time functions. However, unlike the PDE for the classical mean-curvature flow, the equation for its second order version—which we refer to as the "cascade equation"—is hyperbolic and does not enjoy the comparison principle. For this reason, and due to other challenges, the standard PDE tools are not sufficient to develop a well-posedness theory for the cascade equation directly. Nevertheless, it turns out that solutions to the cascade PDE can be identified with minimal elements of a set of value functions in a family of mean-field games. As a result, the existence of a solution to the cascade equation can be shown by proving the compactness of the aforementioned set of value functions, which we accomplish by employing the tools from Geometric Measure Theory. Joint work with Y. Guo and M. Shkolnikov.
Study Abroad Barcelona: Public Policy Information Session
Harper Memorial Library, Room 284 · Harper Memorial Library, Room 284
Eager to learn more about the College's Barcelona: Public Policy Program? This session is for you! Light refreshments will be available. ¡Vamos! The Barcelona: Public Policy program is designed to expose students to policymaking in a non-U.S. setting through a combination of courses and excursions that will allow students to learn how the political and policymaking system operates in other nations. The three-course Public Policy sequence will meet the requirement for three courses in an area of specialization within the Public Policy major, though students need not be Public Policy majors to participate in the program. Applications are open for Spring 2027. Come meet with Program Manager Te'a Williams and faculty leaders Christopher Berry and Ariel Kalil to learn more.
K-12 Teacher Workshops: Object Based Learning and Artifact Analysis
Join ISAC Education for teacher workshops looking at how to incorporate objects as primary sources in your classroom. Object Based Learning & Virtual Artifact Analysis Join us for a one-hour session that will include an interactive overview of lesson plans plus suggestions for tying lessons into the ISAC's online and virtual program resources. Using the concepts of observation, inference, and evidence we will explore how to use primary and secondary sources to learn about ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt. Session One: October 12, 4:00-5:00 pm: Object Based learning Session Two: November 9, 4:00-5:00 pm: Virtual Artifact Analysis: Mesopotamia Session Three: December 7, 4:00-5:00pm: Virtual Artifact Analysis: Egypt Instructors: Madeleine Roberts-Ganim, Youth and Family Program Coordinator and Tasha Vorderstrasse, PhD, Manager, Continuing Education Program Everyone is welcome. What's included in the session: Links to the ISAC Education's new K-12 Teacher Resources PDF of ISAC lesson plans about each topic Introduction to ISAC's new "museum in a box" program + accompanying virtual lesson Everyone is welcome. Free, registration required for Zoom link.
Social Science Research, Room 305 (Albion Small Room) · Social Science Research, Room 305 (Albion Small Room)
Are you a sociology major? A prospective sociology major? Interested in taking sociology courses? If so, you're invited to attend the Sociology Open House, which will take place on Monday October 12th from 4:30-7:00PM in SSRB 305 (aka The Albion Small Room). Come learn about our curriculum and meet fellow sociology students over dinner from Saucy Porka! You will also get to design and press your very own button pins using our industrial button press. 4:30-5:00 Dinner 5:00-5:30 Information session and current student panel 5:30-7:00 Make your own button and socialize! Questions? Want to join our mailing list? Email Dr. Tessa Huttenlocher ([email protected]).
Approaches to Catholic Studies Lecture Series: Stefania Tutino 'Truth, Authenticity, and Authority in Post-Reformation Catholicism: The Sorrento Exorcisms'
Swift Hall Third Floor Lecture Room · Swift Hall Third Floor Lecture Room
Stefania Tutino, (https://religion.ucla.edu/person/stefania-tutino/) Professor of History at UCLA, continues the Approaches to Catholic Studies Lecture Series with "Truth, Authenticity, and Authority in Post-Reformation Catholicism: The Sorrento Exorcisms." The lecture will take up a contested case of exorcism in Sorrento, Italy, to ask how truth, authenticity, and religious authority were established and challenged in post-Reformation Catholic life. The Approaches to Catholic Studies Lecture Series explores the field today. Catholic Studies draws on theology, history, philosophy, ethics, and political thought, and the questions it raises about human flourishing, religious life, and the common good have proven durable across centuries and continents. Tutino's scholarship is focused on the intellectual and political history of early modern Catholicism. Her book, Uncertainty in Post-Reformation Catholicism: A History of Probabilism (Oxford University Press, 2018), reexamines probabilism, a controversial current in Catholic moral theology, as an early modern attempt to manage uncertainty amid the expanding boundaries of the post-Reformation Catholic world.
Social Science Research, Room 305 (Albion Small Room) · Social Science Research, Room 305 (Albion Small Room)
Are you a sociology major? A prospective sociology major? Someone interested in sociology? If so, you're invited to attend the Sociology Open House, which will take place on Monday October 12th from 4:30-7:00PM in SSRB 305 (aka The Albion Small Room). Come learn about our curriculum and meet fellow sociology students over dinner from Saucy Porka! You will also get to design and press your very own button pins using our industrial button press. 4:30-5:00 Dinner 5:00- 6:00 Info-Session and Current Student panel 6:00-7:00 Press your own button! Questions? Want to join our mailing list? Email Dr. Tessa Huttenlocher ([email protected])
The United States in recent years has been in a time of democratic erosion, with the V-Dem Institute earlier this year downgrading the country from the status of "liberal democracy." We have seen the concentration of power in the executive branch, attacks on civil liberties, and undermining of key democratic institutions. This has occurred in this context of constitutional hardball and the erosion of longstanding norms. Given this situation, bipartisanship may seem like a quaint relic from earlier times. Is bipartisanship dead, or can it play a role in shoring up democratic institutions? Join us for a lecture on this topic with former senator and Co-Founder of The One Country Project, Heidi Heitkamp. Senator Heitkamp was the first female senator elected from North Dakota. Working for six years in the Senate, she was dedicated to crossing the aisle and prioritized working together for solutions to benefit constituents. She has also served as North Dakota Attorney General, and has served on boards for numerous causes. Heitkamp has covered topics advocating for rural America, bipartisanship, and getting involved in public service. Organized by the Chicago Center for Democracy, join us for a timely conversation on bipartisanship and its relation to democratic erosion with food provided.
Ida Noyes Hall, Spiritual Life, 034 · Ida Noyes Hall, Spiritual Life, 034
Samatha meditation is a practice in the Buddhist tradition which cultivates calm concentration in preparation for insight to arise; this is a structured system of meditation practice which takes several weeks to learn. Classes include instruction and half-hour of sitting practice, followed by a dhamma discussion.
Governor Spencer Cox in conversation with David Axelrod
International House, Assembly Hall · International House, Assembly Hall
Republican Governor Spencer Cox of Utah has long called for turning down the temperature in the nation's political discourse, and has paired with Democrats across the nation to promote civil disagreement. His strategy was deeply tested after the murder of Charlie Kirk on a university campus in his state. What are the lessons learned? Where does he see the American political culture headed in the short-term and in a post-Trump America? An IOP Divided We Stand and Disagree Better program.This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required. The main entrance is located on the west side of the building on S. Dorchester Avenue. The accessible entrance is located on the south side of the building on E. 59th Street.
Kent Chemical Laboratory, Room 120 · Kent Chemical Laboratory, Room 120
Thinking about studying abroad during your time in the College? Before exploring site-specific opportunities, attend one of our comprehensive information sessions in October. If you've ever wondered what types and combinations of experiences are possible, how to navigate the application process, when you should get started, and how financial aid works with study abroad, you should attend this session!Study Abroad General Information SessionsMonday, October 12, 6–7 PM | In-person: Kent Chemical Laboratory, Room 120 Tuesday, October 13, 6–7 PM | In-person: Kent Chemical Laboratory, Room 120 Friday, October 16, 12:30–1:30 PM CT | Virtual: Register for the Zoom Meeting (https://uchicago.zoom.us/meeting/register/zdspoEq9RiSrvBKettKnfg#/registration)
NITMB Scientific Focus: Theory and Mathematics in Neuroscience Dynamics in Neuroscience
875 N Michigan Ave, Suite 3500 · 875 N Michigan Ave, Suite 3500
Recent advances in our ability to record simultaneously from large numbers of neurons has shifted the focus in neuroscience from understanding dynamics at a single cell level to the network level. At the same time, the rise of modern machine learning has independently generated interest in how computation arises from the coordinated activity of large networks of simple units. This workshop explores how computation emerges from network dynamics, asking how circuit structure, network architecture, and plasticity/learning shape the neural dynamics underlying cognitive functions. Part of the NITMB Scientific Focus: Theory and Mathematics in Neuroscience (https://www.nitmb.org/theory-and-mathematics-in-neuroscience-scientific-focus)
ISAC Exhibit: Hartapu: The Forgotten King of Anatolia
The Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (ISAC) Museum · The Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (ISAC) Museum
Seven years ago, Hartapu was little more than a name. Then, in 2019, an inscribed stone pulled from an irrigation canal in central Türkiye introduced the world to a king who claimed to have conquered Phrygia—one of the most powerful kingdoms of the ancient world. Suddenly, a ruler and a kingdom largely unknown to history demanded a place on the map of Iron Age Anatolia. The stone was found at Türkmen-Karahöyük, a massive tell rising 35 meters above the Konya Plain, that must have been Hartapu's capital. Though the site had gone largely unnoticed by archaeologists, it is one of the largest Iron Age sites in Anatolia—and excavations launched in 2024 by ISAC and Bilkent University (Ankara, Türkiye) are only beginning to reveal the city's historical development. Hartapu ruled in the eighth century BCE, during a period of intense rivalry between great powers—Phrygia to the west, the Neo-Assyrian Empire to the east—and his kingdom sat squarely between them. The exhibition tells his story through ancient inscriptions, archaeological finds, and new technologies, including 3D printing and advanced imaging, that are transforming how scholars study the past. Contemporary works by artist SaraNoa Mark offer a counterpoint, reflecting on landscape, memory, and the labor and care of preserving the past. The ISAC Museum special exhibition Hartapu: The Forgotten King of Anatolia is on view from September 17, 2026 through March 14, 2027, accessible during regular museum hours and with museum admission.
Symposium: Religion, Art, and Provenance in Museums
Swift Hall · Swift Hall
October 14 – 16, 2026 University of Chicago | Smart Museum of Art | The Martin Marty Center for the Public Understanding of Religion The University of Chicago's Smart Museum of Art and the Martin Marty Center for the Public Understanding of Religion are excited to bring together a group of international experts in provenance research, museum practice, and cultural heritage for the symposium "Religion, Art, and Provenance in Museums." This symposium is part of a multi-year project supported by Lilly Endowment Inc.Free and open to the public, this multi-day gathering will feature keynote lectures, panel discussions, and roundtables that explore the lives and afterlives of religious objects within museum collections. Together, participants will engage critical questions around display methodologies, community-engaged scholarship, and ethical policies for restitution and repatriation. The symposium will feature two keynote lectures by leading voices in the field, offering critical perspectives on the provenance of religious objects and their implications for museum practice, cultural heritage, and public understanding.Joanna Gohmann | Associate Curator of Provenance Research & Object Histories, Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian National Museum of Asian ArtCiraj Rassool | Senior Professor of History and Director of the African Program in Museum and Heritage Studies, University of the Western Cape For the full daily schedules, visit https://smartmuseum.uchicago.edu/events/symposium-religion-art-and-provenance-in-museums/ (https://smartmuseum.uchicago.edu/events/symposium-religion-art-and-provenance-in-museums/)
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 University of Chicago John W. Boyer Center in Paris · The University of Chicago John W. Boyer Center in Paris
Open to the public, REGISTRATION is required due to limited seating Was the American Revolution a transformative event? Scholars have long maintained that the 'Great' Revolutions —the French, Russian, and Chinese Revolutions fundamentally transformed history. Does the American Revolution belong in that category? This conference brings together leading scholars from North America and Europe to provide answers. They will focus on whether the American Revolution transformed the trajectory of American, Atlantic, European, and Global History.
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)
Teaching Elective MR | Dr. Eric Casinelli (PGY3) - 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
Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society · Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society
This exhibition features new works by the French artist and filmmaker Pierre Bismuth. The centerpiece is a long-form meditative film documenting a creative collaboration between Joshua Abrams and Sharon Udoh, two leading figures from Chicago's jazz and improvised music scene. Bismuth tasked them with composing a 21st-century spiritual based on a lyrical hymn he wrote for the project. The film traces the magic and workaday practice of "inspiration," taking the traditions of religious music as a point of departure for a multi-layered reflection on love, music, and the divine. In addition to this new film, Bismuth will present a series of digital images resembling American flags emblazoned with lyrics from the hymn. Curated by Dieter Roelstraete. The Neubauer Collegium Gallery is free and open to the public. Gallery hours: M–F, 9–4. The Neubauer Collegium Gallery is supported by the Neubauer Family Foundation and the Brenda Mulmed Shapiro Fund. Additional support for this exhibition was provided by Bernard Friedman, the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, and the France Chicago Center at the University of Chicago.
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.
Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society · Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society
This exhibition features new works by the French artist and filmmaker Pierre Bismuth. The centerpiece is a long-form meditative film documenting a creative collaboration between Joshua Abrams and Sharon Udoh, two leading figures from Chicago's jazz and improvised music scene. Bismuth tasked them with composing a 21st-century spiritual based on a lyrical hymn he wrote for the project. The film traces the magic and workaday practice of "inspiration," taking the traditions of religious music as a point of departure for a multi-layered reflection on love, music, and the divine. In addition to this new film, Bismuth will present a series of digital images resembling American flags emblazoned with lyrics from the hymn. Curated by Dieter Roelstraete. The Neubauer Collegium Gallery is free and open to the public. Gallery hours: M–F, 9–4. The Neubauer Collegium Gallery is supported by the Neubauer Family Foundation and the Brenda Mulmed Shapiro Fund. Additional support for this exhibition was provided by Bernard Friedman, the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, and the France Chicago Center at the University of Chicago.
The URA Post-Award Team will host a virtual drop-in hour. Please stop by if you're looking for some friendly advice from the Post-Award Research Administrators about award setup and management, post-award actions, and award closeout.
The URA Post-Award Team will host a virtual drop-in hour. Please stop by if you're looking for some friendly advice from the Post-Award Research Administrators about award setup and management, post-award actions, and award closeout.
Gordon Center for Integrative Science W301/303 · Gordon Center for Integrative Science W301/303
Sarkis Mazmanian, PhD, Luis & Nelly Soux Professor of Microbiology, California Institute of Technology, "The Gut Microbiome as a Risk Factor and Drug Target for Parkinson's Disease"
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)).
Sarkis K. Mazmanian, Ph.D. (California Institute of Technology)
Gordon Center for Integrative Science, Room W301/W303 · Gordon Center for Integrative Science, Room W301/W303
Department of Microbiology Special Seminar Series Tuesday, October 13th, 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.Guest Speaker: Sarkis K. Mazmanian, PhD Luis B. and Nelly Soux Professor of Microbiology Investigator, Heritage Medical Research Institute California Institute of Technology "The Gut Microbiome as a Risk Factor and Drug Target for Parkinson's Disease"" Dr. Sarkis K Mazmanian is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he also received his doctoral training in microbiology and immunology studying the mechanism by which Gram-positive pathogens anchor surface protein adhesins during bacterial infection. He was a Helen Hay Whitney Post-Doctoral Fellow at Harvard Medical School where he studied how symbiotic bacteria promote healthy maturation of the immune system. Dr. Mazmanian was promoted to assistant professor at Harvard Medical School in 2006, and later that year moved to Caltech to start his independent laboratory. His laboratory currently focuses on the study of beneficial bacterial molecules from the human gut microbiome as novel therapies for immunologic and neurologic disorders. This research has led to identification of novel drug candidates being developed for Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Autism Spectrum Disorder, and Parkinson's disease.
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)).
Free Expression in the Digital Age: Who Controls the Public Square?
1201 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637 · 1201 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Free speech in the digital era is no longer a philosophical abstraction. It is a daily contest over who gets to speak, who gets heard, and who gets silenced. The marketplace of ideas has been captured by algorithmic amplification and coordinated manipulation. Governments invoke safety to justify censorship. Platforms make consequential editorial decisions with little accountability. And the line between protecting speech and policing it grows harder to hold.What happens to democracy when citizens can no longer agree on a shared reality?What happens to public discourse when online spaces amplify the loudest and most polarizing voices? These are not hypothetical questions. They are the stakes. The Chicago Forum opens the academic year in conversation with Fall Fellows Sasha Havlicek, a leading voice on countering extremism and building digital resilience, and David Kaye, former UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression. This solutions-oriented conversation moves beyond the diagnosis to ask what it actually takes to defend free inquiry and expression at the individual, state, and global level, not as an ideal, but as a practice worth fighting for.Lunch reception to follow for in-person guests.Lead support for the Chicago Forum's Zell Speaker and Event Series comes from the Zell Family Foundation.
Knapp Center for Biomedical Discovery, Room 1103 · Knapp Center for Biomedical Discovery, Room 1103
Neuroscience Seminar Series Tuesday, October 13th, 11:00 amLiqun Luo, PhD Stanford UniversityKCBD 1103 "Deconstructing the serotonin neuromodulatory system in the mouse brain" Abstract statement: In this talk, I will discuss our recent work investigating the architecture of the serotonin projectome as well as serotonin modulation of female pup care behavior. Host: Wei Wei, PhD, Committee on Neurobiology
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/).
Rockefeller Memorial Chapel · Rockefeller Memorial Chapel
Carillon Tower Tours are at 11:30 AM and 4:30 PM Tuesdays - Fridays. The Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Carillon and its sister instrument at Riverside Church in New York City, both dating from the early 1930s, were the masterworks of the Gillett & Johnston bell foundry of Croydon, England. Carillons of this size had never before been made, and have not been made again since that time. The Chicago instrument, comprising 72 bells and 100 tons of bronze, is the single largest musical instrument ever built. Its bells were cast over a three-year period and include a massive 18.5 ton bourdon sounding a low C#. In 271 steps we can show you the bells from the perspective of our carillon students and peregrine falcons! The spiral stone staircase is taken at a leisurely pace, and is not recommended for those who are claustrophobic. Along the way you'll walk above the Chapel's false ceiling (the attic, via a catwalk), through the mechanical room housing the original carillon regulator clock as well as the pneumatically-driven mechanism of the quarter and hour chimes, past the largest bell (36,926 lbs at 117 inches in diameter) and its 13 friends, and then into the playing cabin, 240 of the 271 steps up, where the carillonneur plays the mighty instrument. Beyond the cabin, another short winding staircase leads the way to the top of the tower. In season and when permitted by the University, magnificent 360-degree views of Chicago, Lake Michigan, northern Indiana, the Michigan Harbor Country shoreline, and the University itself are available. Please note that the tour is not suitable for children under the age of 5. Young children and anyone unable to ascend the stone steps may watch the recital free of charge in the Chapel itself from one of two viewing stations in the west transept and narthex. Check in at the front desk to set off for the 45-minute round-trip climb. Carillon tours are capped at 15 guests. The carillon is played live in recital each weekday of the academic year at 12 PM and 5 PM, and on Sunday mornings after the 11 AM service. Members of the University of Chicago Guild of Carillonists are happy to incorporate requests (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc-pDRdzBpj4Ryh8y7hsAaE3F48NJslUSbnIw-V--9GtXUolA/viewform?embedded=true#start=embed) into the daily recitals.
Rockefeller Memorial Chapel · Rockefeller Memorial Chapel
Carillon Tower Tours are at 11:30 AM and 4:30 PM Tuesdays - Fridays. The Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Carillon and its sister instrument at Riverside Church in New York City, both dating from the early 1930s, were the masterworks of the Gillett & Johnston bell foundry of Croydon, England. Carillons of this size had never before been made, and have not been made again since that time. The Chicago instrument, comprising 72 bells and 100 tons of bronze, is the single largest musical instrument ever built. Its bells were cast over a three-year period and include a massive 18.5 ton bourdon sounding a low C#. In 271 steps we can show you the bells from the perspective of our carillon students and peregrine falcons! The spiral stone staircase is taken at a leisurely pace, and is not recommended for those who are claustrophobic. Along the way you'll walk above the Chapel's false ceiling (the attic, via a catwalk), through the mechanical room housing the original carillon regulator clock as well as the pneumatically-driven mechanism of the quarter and hour chimes, past the largest bell (36,926 lbs at 117 inches in diameter) and its 13 friends, and then into the playing cabin, 240 of the 271 steps up, where the carillonneur plays the mighty instrument. Beyond the cabin, another short winding staircase leads the way to the top of the tower. In season and when permitted by the University, magnificent 360-degree views of Chicago, Lake Michigan, northern Indiana, the Michigan Harbor Country shoreline, and the University itself are available. Please note that the tour is not suitable for children under the age of 5. Young children and anyone unable to ascend the stone steps may watch the recital free of charge in the Chapel itself from one of two viewing stations in the west transept and narthex. Check in at the front desk to set off for the 45-minute round-trip climb. Carillon tours are capped at 15 guests. The carillon is played live in recital each weekday of the academic year at 12 PM and 5 PM, and on Sunday mornings after the 11 AM service. Members of the University of Chicago Guild of Carillonists are happy to incorporate requests (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc-pDRdzBpj4Ryh8y7hsAaE3F48NJslUSbnIw-V--9GtXUolA/viewform?embedded=true#start=embed) into the daily recitals.
Abdullah Hasan Pratt, MD Department of Emergency Medicine Faculty Director of Community Engagement Pritzker School of Medicine "UChicago Emergency Medicine: A Forefront for Community Based Medicine"
DOP Professor Rounds | Dr. Margaret Gifford (PGY3) DOP Professor Rounds is a departmental seminar series led by residents and open to all faculty, fellows, and trainees. Each session features a resident presentation of a complex, unusual, or educational case that serves as a springboard for discussion of diagnostic reasoning, clinical decision-making, and current evidence in pediatric medicine. The series encourages active participation from faculty and learners across sections, creating a collaborative learning environment that promotes clinical curiosity, shared expertise, and scholarly discussion.
BFI Student Lunch Series – Predictably Unpredictable Inspections
Harper Center CO6 · Harper Center CO6
BFI's Student Lunch Series invites prominent speakers to engage undergraduate and graduate students in discussions on economics. The talks highlight the practical use of economics for answering real-world questions pertinent to businesses and policy makers.Lunch will be provided. Inspections are a common tool for acquiring information and incentivizing compliance. Though typically unannounced, they often follow a predictable schedule. Maggie Shi (https://www.maggie-shi.com/) shows how this predictability shapes firm effort and patient outcomes in U.S. nursing homes. Nursing homes "slack" in the low-risk period following an inspection and ramp up effort as their next inspection approaches. Patient survival mirrors this pattern, suggesting meaningful consequences for care quality. These estimates are embedded into a dynamic model, capturing how inspection regimes incentivize effort and reveal quality. Unpredictability induces as much additional effort as increasing inspection frequency by 10%, with minimal loss of informational value.View Interactive (https://bfidatastudio.org/project/nursing-homes-predictably-unpredictable-inspections/)
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.
Concrete Encoded: Poetry, Design, and the Cybernetic Imaginary in Brazil
Social Science Research, Tea Room · Social Science Research, Tea Room
Concrete Encoded: Poetry, Design, and the Cybernetic Imaginary in Brazil (University of Texas Press, 2025) examines the intersections of poetry, design, and technology in twentieth-century Brazil. Focusing on the Brazilian concrete poetry movement and its broader intellectual and artistic networks, this book presentation considers how poets and designers in the 1940s-1970s engaged ideas about information and communication, and how these encounters reshaped artistic practices involving language, code, and structure. Situating these experiments within Brazil's histories of dictatorship, modernization, and industrial production, this presentation describes the emergence of a cybernetic imaginary. Speaker Bio Nathaniel Wolfson is Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is also affiliated with the Program in Critical Theory and the Berkeley Center for New Media. His research focuses on modern and contemporary Brazilian literary and visual cultures. His book, Concrete Encoded: Poetry, Design, and the Cybernetic Imaginary in Brazil, was published by the University of Texas Press in 2025. Lunch will be provided!
Social Science Research Building, John Hope Franklin Room (Room 224) · Social Science Research Building, John Hope Franklin Room (Room 224)
"Sounding Like a State: Military Bands and the Musical Everyday" by Rebecca Epstein-Boley, UChicago History Candidate To receive pre-circulated papers, please subscribe to the HOME Workshop mailing list ([email protected] (mailto:[email protected])), or contact the coordinators Olivia Jenkins ([email protected] (mailto:[email protected])) and Liz Tully ([email protected] (mailto:[email protected])). If you have any questions about access or to request a reasonable accommodation that will facilitate your full participation in this event such as ASL interpreting, captioned videos, Braille or electronic text, food options for individuals with dietary restrictions, etc. please contact the event organizer.
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 hands-on workshop introduces an interactive R Shiny application developed and deployed by our group for single-cell RNA-seq (scRNA-seq) data exploration and visualization. Participants will gain practical experience using the application to explore, visualize, annotate, and analyze single-cell data.Topics Covered: Introduction to scRNA-seq data visualization Hands-on use of the scRNA-seq Shiny application Interpretation of scRNA-seq visualization and analysis results Workshop Purpose: The goal of this workshop is to introduce participants to practical approaches for single-cell RNA-seq data visualization and exploration using our R Shiny application. Different application tabs and visualization modules will be introduced through hands-on examples, with an emphasis on both application usage and interpretation of the results.This seminar will take place virtually via Zoom and registration is required for all attendees. Zoom meeting information will be emailed to registrants one day prior to the session.Participation is open to University of Chicago, UCM, and Pritzker School of Medicine faculty, staff, and students.About the speaker: Geetha received her Master's degree in Bioinformatics from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2023. Prior to joining CRI Bioinformatics core, she worked as Graduate Research Assistant at Georgia Tech with experience in Genomics, population genetics, NGS Data analysis and statistical analysis. Additionally, she has corporate experience focused mainly on pipeline development, and R Shiny applications. Devoted to gaining expertise in scRNA seq, ATAC-seq, ChIP-Seq and many other cutting-edge sequencing advances. Passionate about learning and incorporating Machine learning and AI models that advance our understanding of human diseases.About the series: Since 2012, the Center for Research Informatics has offered free training sessions for the University of Chicago community in informatics research tools and techniques. Topics include REDCap, clinical data, bioinformatics analysis, data visualization, high performance computing, grant preparation, and more. To hear about upcoming seminars, sign up for our email list at https://cri.uchicago.edu/seminar-series (http://cri.uchicago.edu/seminar-series).Questions? Please contact Janaya Lee at [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) or Cody Lasenby at [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])
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)).
Have you heard about LibKey Nomad? It's a browser extension that provides you with instant access to scholarly articles through the Library's subscription. Stop by to learn how to download and use it today!About Try it! Tuesday: Stop by the first floor of Regenstein Library every week to investigate tools, collections, and services you can use to support your academic research and personal interests. Featured resources will change from week to week; no registration is required.
Fundamentals of Teaching Series (STEM) - Workshop 2
WERC 201B · WERC 201B
Additional Workshops:October 20 & 27This workshop series is open to anyone and is aimed at grad students in STEM undertaking their first teaching experiences (as TAs or instructors of record). Come learn about fundamental pedagogical ideas and discuss and practice key teaching strategies with other graduate students across the STEM disciplines. Join a community of fellow pedagogues in the Chicago Center for Teaching and Learning.Facilitated by CCTL Graduate Fellows Noah Garrett & Katie GallagherNOTE: The location and time of the first session is different from the others in the series. Please plan accordingly.
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.
MAPH students are invited to join the Program in Creative writing for a MAPH Creative Writing Thesis Mixer on Tuesday, October 13, from 2-3 p.m. in Classics 110. This event will include information on this year's Creative Writing thesis process and a chance to meet with Creative Writing Thesis Workshop faculty ahead of Winter Quarter registration. All MAPH students considering writing a Creative Writing Thesis are strongly encouraged to attend. An RSVP (https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://forms.cloud.microsoft/r/bkEDNnb4Ue__;!!BpyFHLRN4TMTrA!77DRqTcyS9fM0WVWWJRGqVsCobn3mo3Oc12tmRt3XyQadI_xwozLKLCeTtstKCDwPdIpO-sVhVm29pek-330ufXHLLTEw1vdHbvTpLk$) is appreciated but not required.
TAPS: "Practice as Research for Artist-Scholars: A TAPS Roundtable"
Logan Center, Performance Lab (Dance) 701 · Logan Center, Performance Lab (Dance) 701
How do artistic practice and embodied methods generate research questions and shape scholarly work? How might practice as research develop across coursework, collaborative projects, dissertation writing, job search and professional life? Bringing together faculty and graduate student participants in the 2026, 2024, and 2022 September Lab in Performance as Research (SLIPAR), this roundtable opens a conversation about the possibilities and challenges of working as artist-scholars. Panelists will draw on their experiences across different artistic practices and stages of graduate study, sharing reflections on their work, the resources they have drawn on, and the relationships between artistic and academic inquiry. We will gather initial questions/curiosities from the audience, open with brief introductions and reflections, into a conversation among panelists, and open the space for audience responses. We welcome students, faculty, artists, and colleagues across the University who are curious about practice as research and embodied research methods, whether you are already working with these approaches or are interested in exploring them. No prior experience with or attendance to SLIPAR is needed. Please RSVP (https://forms.gle/cdbKeL7DKaVkqLNB6) for the event here. PanelistsDavid Levin, Alice H. and Stanley G. Harris Jr. Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Germanic Studies, Department of Cinema & Media Studies, TAPS, and the College Julia Rhoads, Director of Dance and Assistant Senior Instructional Professor in TAPS; founding Artistic Director of Lucky Plush Productions Ka Kei Lau, Ph.D. student, TAPS & East Asian Languages and Civilizations elena rose light, Ph.D. student, TAPS & English CJ Nizard, Ph.D. Candidate, TAPS & English
Title: Dualizable Additive CategoriesAbstract: Dualizable stable categories have recently emerged as a useful enlargement of compactly generated stable categories, particularly in algebraic K-theory and analytic geometry. In this talk, I will discuss a connective analogue: dualizable additive categories. I will explain how these categories can be described in terms of almost mathematics and how they can be reconstructed from their flat objects. For a connective adic E_\infty-ring R, we show that the category Nuc(R)_≥0 is the additive rigidification of the category of connective complete R-modules. In particular, this gives a conceptual categorical characterization of connective nuclear modules and applies to examples such as Nuc(Q_p)_{\geq 0}. Finally, I will introduce the stable category of prestable motives. Its unit corepresents nonconnective algebraic K-theory, providing a connective analogue of the theory of noncommutative motives for stable categories.This is joint work with Ishan Levy and Vladimir Sosnilo.
East Asia by the Book! CEAS Author Talks ft. Jonathan Cheng (The Wall Street Journals)
Seminary Co-op Bookstores 5751 South Woodlawn Avenue Chicago, IL 60637 · Seminary Co-op Bookstores 5751 South Woodlawn Avenue Chicago, IL 60637
Korean Messiah: Kim Il Sung and the Christian Roots of North Korea's Personality Cult Tuesday, October 13, 2026 | 4:00 pm CTSeminary Co-op Bookstores, 5751 S. Woodlawn Ave.Please click HERE (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/east-asia-by-the-book-ceas-author-talks-ft-jonathan-cheng-tickets-1997460286487?aff=oddtdtcreator) to register and for more information!This event is co-sponsored with the Seminary Co-op Bookstores and the University of Chicago Center for East Asian Studies.
Rockefeller Memorial Chapel · Rockefeller Memorial Chapel
Join us on Tuesdays at 4 PM for Tea & Pipes. Come and hear University Organist Thomas Weisflog, distinguished guests, and students from the Rockefeller organ studio play a mixture of Baroque, Romantic, and contemporary music on the E.M. Skinner organ. Enjoy the experience of sitting in Rockefeller Chapel and being swept into the vast emotional capacities of the organ's ranks of pipes: trumpets, gentle voices, sounds matching harp and flute and chimes. Tea served from 3:45 pm, the music begins at 4 pm. The Tea and Pipes concert series is on Tuesdays from September 29 to December 1 for the Autumn Quarter.
Rockefeller Memorial Chapel · Rockefeller Memorial Chapel
Carillon Tower Tours are at 11:30 AM and 4:30 PM Tuesdays - Fridays. The Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Carillon and its sister instrument at Riverside Church in New York City, both dating from the early 1930s, were the masterworks of the Gillett & Johnston bell foundry of Croydon, England. Carillons of this size had never before been made, and have not been made again since that time. The Chicago instrument, comprising 72 bells and 100 tons of bronze, is the single largest musical instrument ever built. Its bells were cast over a three-year period and include a massive 18.5 ton bourdon sounding a low C#. In 271 steps we can show you the bells from the perspective of our carillon students and peregrine falcons! The spiral stone staircase is taken at a leisurely pace, and is not recommended for those who are claustrophobic. Along the way you'll walk above the Chapel's false ceiling (the attic, via a catwalk), through the mechanical room housing the original carillon regulator clock as well as the pneumatically-driven mechanism of the quarter and hour chimes, past the largest bell (36,926 lbs at 117 inches in diameter) and its 13 friends, and then into the playing cabin, 240 of the 271 steps up, where the carillonneur plays the mighty instrument. Beyond the cabin, another short winding staircase leads the way to the top of the tower. In season and when permitted by the University, magnificent 360-degree views of Chicago, Lake Michigan, northern Indiana, the Michigan Harbor Country shoreline, and the University itself are available. Please note that the tour is not suitable for children under the age of 5. Young children and anyone unable to ascend the stone steps may watch the recital free of charge in the Chapel itself from one of two viewing stations in the west transept and narthex. Check in at the front desk to set off for the 45-minute round-trip climb. Carillon tours are capped at 15 guests. The carillon is played live in recital each weekday of the academic year at 12 PM and 5 PM, and on Sunday mornings after the 11 AM service. Members of the University of Chicago Guild of Carillonists are happy to incorporate requests (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc-pDRdzBpj4Ryh8y7hsAaE3F48NJslUSbnIw-V--9GtXUolA/viewform?embedded=true#start=embed) into the daily recitals.
Rockefeller Memorial Chapel · Rockefeller Memorial Chapel
Carillon Tower Tours are at 11:30 AM and 4:30 PM Tuesdays - Fridays. The Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Carillon and its sister instrument at Riverside Church in New York City, both dating from the early 1930s, were the masterworks of the Gillett & Johnston bell foundry of Croydon, England. Carillons of this size had never before been made, and have not been made again since that time. The Chicago instrument, comprising 72 bells and 100 tons of bronze, is the single largest musical instrument ever built. Its bells were cast over a three-year period and include a massive 18.5 ton bourdon sounding a low C#. In 271 steps we can show you the bells from the perspective of our carillon students and peregrine falcons! The spiral stone staircase is taken at a leisurely pace, and is not recommended for those who are claustrophobic. Along the way you'll walk above the Chapel's false ceiling (the attic, via a catwalk), through the mechanical room housing the original carillon regulator clock as well as the pneumatically-driven mechanism of the quarter and hour chimes, past the largest bell (36,926 lbs at 117 inches in diameter) and its 13 friends, and then into the playing cabin, 240 of the 271 steps up, where the carillonneur plays the mighty instrument. Beyond the cabin, another short winding staircase leads the way to the top of the tower. In season and when permitted by the University, magnificent 360-degree views of Chicago, Lake Michigan, northern Indiana, the Michigan Harbor Country shoreline, and the University itself are available. Please note that the tour is not suitable for children under the age of 5. Young children and anyone unable to ascend the stone steps may watch the recital free of charge in the Chapel itself from one of two viewing stations in the west transept and narthex. Check in at the front desk to set off for the 45-minute round-trip climb. Carillon tours are capped at 15 guests. The carillon is played live in recital each weekday of the academic year at 12 PM and 5 PM, and on Sunday mornings after the 11 AM service. Members of the University of Chicago Guild of Carillonists are happy to incorporate requests (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc-pDRdzBpj4Ryh8y7hsAaE3F48NJslUSbnIw-V--9GtXUolA/viewform?embedded=true#start=embed) into the daily recitals.