Cultural Studies (video)

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Dwight N. Hopkins, professor of Theology and director of M.A. Studies in the Divinity School at the University of Chicago, discussed cultural and inter-religious values between the United States and China, and American literature with students in Jinan and Beijing.

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If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Jean Comaroff, an anthropologist who is a leading expert on South Africa, its societies and cultures, gave the 2011 Nora and Edward Ryerson Lecture on Tuesday, May 17, at the Max Palevsky Cinema in Ida Noyes Hall. Comaroff, the Bernard E. and Ellen C. Sunny Distinguished Service Professor in Anthropology and the College at the University of Chicago, presented the talk, "Divine Detection: Crime and the Metaphysics of Disorder.

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If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Ebony Magazine and the University of Chicago Urban Education Institute co-hosted an education roundtable on Wednesday, Aug. 11 at the University of Chicago's International House. A panel of some of the nation's most distinguished voices on education discussed the public education crisis and how best practices from all sources, public, charter and private schools, as well as the emerging educational technology sector can transform the nation's K-12 schools. The goal of the roundtable was to reengage the community on educational issues, and to identify at hand tools that teachers and parents can use to better prepare their children for the future in a challenging knowledge economy.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Laura Mulvey's lecture will draw upon two British films from the very end of the silent era to reflect on differing representations of femininity and class.Both are about transgressive love and a modernity that enables their female protagonists to cross, if only temporarily, traditional British class boundaries. But while Hindle Wakes, set in a Northern industrial milieu and adapted from Stanley Houghton's Ibsen inspired play, remains within a realist register, Piccadilly, scripted by Arnold Bennett and devised as a vehicle for Anna May Wong, depends on melodrama to deal with an affair that is inter-racial as well as trans-class.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Dr. Kenneth Mayer visited from Brown University to speak about what we can learn from our experiences with HIV here in the United States and what that means for our increasingly global gene pool.This interdisciplinary seminar in clinical medical ethics has met each year since 1981 when Mark Siegler and Richard Epstein organized a year-long program on Bad Outcomes after Medical Innovation. The 2009-10 seminar, the 28th annual seminar in this series, will focus on Global Health and Medical Ethics. We have invited distinguished national and local experts to address these issues.The 2009-2010 Global Health Ethics Seminar aims to promote greater awareness of the complex ethical challenges that pervade international health. Faculty and guest speakers from a wide range of academic disciplines including economics, law, religion, public policy, and medicine will speak at these weekly seminars throughout the academic year. The Seminar Series is organized and sponsored by the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics and the Global Health Initiative.Under the distinguished leadership of Dr. Funmi Olopade, the Global Health Initiative (GHI) at the University of Chicago is dedicated to improving health through educational, research, and clinical programs that link the University of Chicago with partners around the world. Since many academic disciplines contribute to global health, GHI brings together a diverse group of faculty, students, and other trainees from many different schools and programs. The GHI aims to solve complex international health challenges through novel, integrative approaches.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Prof. Richard Shweder discusses his book, The Child: An Encyclopedic Companion

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. A nearly life-size red dinosaur looms over Millennium Park a toy-like, yet ominous, figure with Made in China stamped prominently on its belly. A summer breeze blows through the open-grid construction of Windy City Dinosaur, which serves as a visual riff on Chicago's nickname.In its shadow stands Wu Hung, a giant in the world of contemporary Chinese art, who inspired longtime friend Sui Jianguo China's most prominent sculptor to create the piece for an exhibit of Chinese sculpture in Millennium Park.A Beijing native who has deep roots in the city's artistic avant-garde, Wu, the Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor of Art History and East Asian Languages & Civilizations, has known many of his country's most important artists for decades. He visited them in China and was crucial in bringing four monumental pieces by the country's most famous sculptors to Chicago.One of the foremost champions of Chinese modern art since the 1980s and a curator who has introduced China's bold aesthetic to the West, Wu was the obvious choice when the City of Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs needed an exhibit co-curator for a new downtown exhibit called A Conversation with Chicago: Contemporary Sculptures from China.He is the star curator of contemporary Chinese art, says co-curator Lucas Cowan, Millennium Park's visual arts coordinator. It would have been shameful if I didn't have him do this.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. A journalist for more than 20 years, Tom Rosenstiel designedand directs the Project for Excellence in Journalism. He alsoserves as vice chairman of the Committee of ConcernedJournalists, an initiative engaged in conducting a nationalconversation among journalists about standards and values.A former media critic for the Los Angeles Times and chiefcongressional correspondent for Newsweek magazine, he alsois the editor and principal author of PEJ's Annual Report on theState of the News Media, a comprehensive report on the healthof American journalism. Rosenstiel is co-author of the CCJ'sTraveling Curriculum, an ongoing education program that hastrained more than 6,000 journalists in print, TV, and onlinenewsrooms. His books include The Elements of Journalism:What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect,with Bill Kovach. He is a frequent commentator on radio andtelevision and in print.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Paul Sereno, Professor in Organismal Biology & Anatomy, discusses an unexpected discovery he made while searching for dinosaur fossils in the Sahara desert in 2000. Sereno and his team uncovered a massive graveyard containing over 200 burials. By combining techniques from paleontology and archeology, the team was able to preserve a site that might otherwise have been lost.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Law professor Cass R. Sunstein talks about his book on Franklin Delano Roosevelt and brings back from obscurity an important speech: FDR's State of the Union Address of 1944, in which he articulates the idea that human beings have inherent economic and social rights. Copyright 2004 The University of Chicago.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. University of Chicago Divinity School Professor Wendy Doniger explores the cultural fascination with pretending to be another version of oneself, a popular theme in film, theater, and literature. Copyright 2005 The University of Chicago.