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Presentations in the Cultures and Knowledge Workshop Series range across historical and disciplinary boundaries, and provide a major component of SIFK's inquiry into the process of knowledge formation and transmittal from antiquity to the present day. SIFK faculty, postdocs, fellows and guests present research-in-progress for real-time feedback from a broadly cross-disciplinary community of scholars. Presentations take the form of a 45-minute presentation followed by a lively 25 minute discussion, and are open to all members of the University of Chicago community.

Noon-1:20 PM via Zoom

Please see the events calendar https://sifk.uchicago.edu/events/category/15/Workshops/ to register. 

Monday, November 1

Of Types and Trees: Evolutionary Thought, Ancient DNA and Research on the Human Past

Hannah Moots 

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Monday, November 15

The Dog Years: A History of Beagle Science

Brad Bolman

Recording Coming Soon

 

Monday, November 29

Fact Culture: Polling and the Politics of Objectivity

Tal Arbel

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In the Media

Can democracy survive?

May 10, 2019

Law Professor and SIFK Faculty member Tom Ginsburg sits down with the UChicago Magazine to explore populism and other threats to our political system.
In the Media

Should Athletes Be Allowed to Enhance Their Genes?

May 09, 2019

Marcy Darnovsky, a feature speaker at our 2020 Genetic Medicine and Eugenics Conference, weighs in on the ethics of genetic doping.
In the Media

Tom Pashby discusses quantum mechanics.

April 10, 2019

SIFK core faculty member Tom Pashby appears on the Elucidations podcast.

Why public distrust could prove ‘corrosive’ to U.S. democracy

April 03, 2019

Presidential scholar and SIFK faculty member William Howell discusses Trump, threats to government
In the Media

Why Is Silicon Valley So Obsessed With the Virtue of Suffering?

April 03, 2019

Ada Palmer helps provide insight on why the Stoics continue to be the dominant thought leaders impacting the tech world.
In the Media

Why Trump’s decision to intervene in campus speech policies is so dangerous

April 03, 2019

SIFK Faculty Member Ada Palmer explains that while Trump might be encouraging unrestricted speech, he’s creating a method for others to do the opposite.
In the Media

How #Article13 is like the Inquisition: John Milton Against the EU #CopyrightDirective

March 25, 2019

UChicago Historian and SIFK Faculty Member Ada Palmer talks censorship, from English printing in 1662 to the EU's 2019 Directive on Copyright.
Announcements

Call for Papers: Genealogies of Knowledge II

March 18, 2019

Genealogies of Knowledge II will continue to explore how forms of mediation participate in the production and contestation of knowledge.
News

Purely Evidence-Based Policy Doesn’t Exist

March 12, 2019

Nobel laureate and SIFK Professor Lars Peter Hansen on why data needs theory to be useful

SIFK Faculty Member John Goldsmith Publishes New Book: “Battle in the Mind Fields”

March 07, 2019

John Goldsmith and Bernard Laks embark on an interdisciplinary history of the genesis of linguistics.

How did the Fetal Ultrasound Become Such an Iconic Image?

March 06, 2019

Margaret Carlyle and Brian Callender discuss the evolution of the image of the fetus. This blog is based off of their current exhibit on display in the Regenstein Library Special Collections.
News

Politically Polarized Teams Produce Better Work

March 05, 2019

UChicago’s Knowledge Lab analyzed Wikipedia pages to find that collaborations with balanced ideological diversity and strong guidelines produce higher quality articles

Smaller teams produce more innovative research

February 14, 2019

University of Chicago researchers examined 60 years of publications and found that smaller teams were far more likely to introduce new ideas to science and technology.
In the Media

SIFK Faculty Member William Howell on Trump’s State of the Union

February 14, 2019

Howell's Op-Ed contribution to the Hill discusses Trump's risk in pushing aside populism to occupy a grand stage
News

‘The Fetus in Utero’ exhibit reveals mysteries of the womb

February 12, 2019

The Chicago Tribune covers 'The Fetus in Utero' exhibit curated by SIFK members Margaret Carlyle and Brian Callender