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Thinking Big!

Thinking Big delves into the heart of human ambition, its grand gesture, and its sweep and scale through the arts and humanities. Big ideas, massive movements, and revolutionary moments in a wealth of disciplines allow us to peer back at where we’ve come from, as well as forward to where we might be going.

 

ALL VIDEO AUDIO SLIDESHOWS
Interview
Robert Irwin
Lecture
Wendy Kopp: Teach for America
Panel
Saving the World
Lecture
Sean Wilentz: The Rise of American Democracy
Panel
The Great American Novel, Revisited
Lecture
Jeffrey Stern: Macbeth's Vaulting Ambition
Lecture
Adam Bly: Our Renaissance
Lecture
David Kennedy: Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal
Panel
Emergence
Lecture
Naomi Klein: The Shock Doctrine
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  • leaders & thinkers

    Daniel Burnham The urban visionary who created the Plan of Chicago. His motto was "make no little plans"
    Louise ArbourFormer UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and president of the International Crisis Group

  • related events

    Daniel Burnham's Plan of ChicagoExhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago: Sunday, September 14, 2008 to Tuesday, December 15, 2009

  • good reads

    Everything that Rises: ConvergencesMcSweeney's hosts CHF Artistic Director Lawrence Weschler's convergence contest. Convergences are unlikely, striking pairs of images, and an exploration of their deeper resonances.
    Human AmbitionTime investigates why ambition is the key to success

 

  • online resources

    Big Think A global online forum connecting people and ideas
    The Burnham Plan CentennialA comprehensive celebration of the Bold Plans and Big Dreams that shaped metropolitan Chicago for the past century
    Big IdeasWNET New York explores the big thinkers, ideas, and failures in a wide-ranging series
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