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Dr. Eric Whitaker, University of Chicago executive vice president for strategic affiliations and associate dean for community-based research, oversees the Urban Health Initiative (UHI). This partnership between the University of Chicago Medical Center and community doctors, clinics, and hospitals seeks to address and improve the long-term health of South Side residents.
Admission:
General: $5.00, Teachers & Students: FREE
Where:
Mandel Hall,
1131 East 57th Street,
Chicago,
IL 60637
The Metropolitan Opera’s spring 2010 production of Dmitri Shostakovich’s The Nose was one of New York’s most important cultural events of the year. This multimedia program discusses the production, the artist’s vision, and preparation for it.
Admission:
General: $5.00, Teachers & Students: FREE
Where:
International House - Assembly Hall,
1414 East 59th Street,
Chicago,
IL 60637
Small groups will be given access to the University of Chicago’s rare books collection to see and interact with the university’s historic medical texts firsthand—an up-close and personal experience normally available only to students and researchers.
Admission:
General: $10.00, Teachers & Students: FREE
Where:
Special Collections Research Center - The Joseph Regenstein Library,
1100 East 57th Street,
Chicago,
IL 60637
Hear two leading figures from the international art world (Tania Bruguera and Hamza Walker) engage in a freewheeling discussion about the relationship between art and politics.
Admission:
General: $5.00, Teachers & Students: FREE
Where:
Fulton Recital Hall - Goodspeed Hall, 4th Floor,
1010 East 59th Street,
Chicago,
IL 60637
A panel of scholars from varied perspectives addresses the relevance and value of the University of Chicago's extensive collection of rare medical texts.
Admission:
General: $5.00, Teachers & Students: FREE
Where:
The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago - Breasted Hall,
1155 East 58th Street,
Chicago,
IL 60637
The leaders of the University of Chicago’s Human Rights Program—Michael Geyer, its faculty director and a prominent historian of war and political violence, and Susan Gzesh, executive director of the program—discuss new work in the field of human rights that puts some very old ideas to new uses.
Admission:
General: $5.00, Teachers & Students: FREE
Where:
International House - Assembly Hall,
1414 East 59th Street,
Chicago,
IL 60637