Campus Events

Empire and International Law

May 2, 2018
5:15 PM - 6:00 PM

450 North Cityfront Plaza Drive, Room 621

Jennifer Pitts, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and the College, in The Franke Forum Lecture Series.
Workshops

Varieties of Islamic Social Science

May 7, 2018
12:00 PM - 1:20 PM

Stevanovich Institute on the Formation of Knowledge, 5737 S. University Ave.

Alireza Doostdar discusses attempts to Islamize the human and social sciences in Iran since 1979, and the politics of knowledge involved in these efforts.
Workshops

Making the Medical Herbalist: Distinguishing Science from Religion in Postcolonial Ghana

May 21, 2018
12:00 PM - 1:20 PM

The Stevanovich Institute on the Formation of Knowledge, 5737 S. University Avenue, Rm 104, Chicago IL 60637

SIFK Postdoctoral Researcher Damien Droney on the distinction between science and non-science in Ghanaian herbal medicine practice.
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Japan’s Russia: Challenging the East-West Paradigm

May 25 - May 26, 2018
All Day Event

This event invites scholars of Russia & Japan to address the topic of Russo-Japanese cultural relations as a challenge to traditional binary views on the knowledge exchange between East & West.
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Critique/Desire/Practice: Photography and Beyond

June 1 - June 2, 2018
All Day Event

CWAC 157

The Department of Art History, in collaboration with former students of Joel Snyder’s, is organizing a Spring 2018 conference on photography to honor Snyder's work and teaching at UChicago.
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Midwest Summer School in the Philosophy of Physics

July 23 - July 28, 2018
All Day Event