In the Media
Chicago Maroon: Newly Launched McKeon Center Looks to Cross Fields and Platform Tough Conversations
November 02, 2023
The McKeon Center seeks to reinvigorate the humanities with programming based on real-world events and plans for new minor.
Announcements
Ada Palmer’s Terra Ignota series 2022 Hugo Awards Finalist
April 12, 2022
IFK Faculty Ada Palmer's series Terra Ignota is a 2022 Hugo Award Finalist for Best Series!In the Media
How the Ukraine War has restarted the Space Race between Russia and the rest of the world
March 21, 2022
Jordan Bimm comments on the politics of space in Fortune MagazineFeatures
Critical Periods in Science and the Science of Critical Periods: Canine Behavior in America - Brad Bolman
March 11, 2022
IFK postdoc Brad Bolman has a new article in Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte on eugenics and the history of canine behavior studies in the United StatesIn the Media
On International Space Station, War In Ukraine Has Put ‘Crescendo’ On Already-Rising Tensions Between U.S. And Russia
March 01, 2022
Jordan Bimm discusses the history of Russia/U.S. space collaboration with CBS ChicagoAnnouncements
“The Maintenance of Ambiguity in Martian Exobiology”, co-authored by Jordan Bimm
March 01, 2022
New article co-authored by Jordan Bimm in the journal Social Studies of Science (SSS) about how astrobiologists sustain their scientific search for life in the cosmos without ever finding anyWIRED: Ada Palmer and the Weird Hand of Progress
February 11, 2022
"The past we think we know is wrong and so is the future." IFK Faculty Ada Palmer talks about dystopias, her science-fiction series Terra Ignota, and more with Wired Magazine.Announcements
Ada Palmer presenting at Boskone, New England’s oldest science fiction convention
February 11, 2022
Boskone is the annual science fiction convention of New England Science Fiction Association (NESFA) and the oldest science fiction/fantasy/horror [SF/F/H] convention in New England.In the Media
Robert J Richards on Nazi racial ideas
February 11, 2022
IFK Faculty Robert J Richards cited in Evolution News article "Darwinian Racism: How Evolutionary Theory Shaped Nazi Thinking"In the Media
Is the legal standard for libel outdated?
February 04, 2022
IFK Faculty Genevieve Lakier looks at Sarah Palin's lawsuit against the New York Times and discusses the Sullivan rule in libel law, in the Washington Post.In the Media
‘Jim Crow relic’: A short history of the filibuster
January 18, 2022
IFK Faculty William Howell comments on the history of the filibusterIn the Media
Austan Goolsbee in conversation on midterms and the U.S. economy
January 18, 2022
IFK Faculty Austan Goolsbee in conversation on midterms and the U.S. economy on MSNBCThe Sleep of Reason Produces Cats
January 12, 2022
IFK Faculty Michael Rossi on Edward L. Thorndike’s experiments with cats and scientific experimentationIn the Media
There is no Planet B
January 11, 2022
Science fiction scholars and IFK postdocs Katherine Buse and Anastasia Klimchynskaya offer insight on sci fi history and planet speculation in Popular ScienceIn the Media
Was Voltaire the First Sci-Fi Author?
January 11, 2022
IFK Faculty Ada Palmer tells WIRED Voltaire could be considered the first Sci-Fi writer thanks to a piece he wrote in 1752, Micromegas which features aliens.News
Brad Bolman receives various honorable mentions for essay awards and research grant
December 02, 2021
Honorable mentions from FHHMLS Graduate Essay Award and FHHS John C. Burnham Early Career Award and Received Royal Society Lisa Jardine Grant