CHF Chicago Humanities Festival

Sachs provides a recent historical context to help us better understand the recent financial meltdown and the origins of the recession, and highlights the predictors that should have forewarned policymakers and bankers of the looming crisis. But, he cautions, we must realize that there are four even more important bubbles requiring our immediate attention—namely, those of environmental degradation, skyrocketing population, extreme poverty, and the growing underclass.

In 2005, former United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information Shashi Tharoor envisioned the shape of tomorrow's UN, from structure to aid programs.

This program is part of the national speaker series offered by Facing History and Ourselves, an international and professional development organization with a commitment to cultivating a more humane and informed citizenry through the engagement of students of diverse backgrounds.

In 2005, former United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information Shashi Tharoor envisioned the shape of tomorrow's UN, from structure to aid programs.

Matt Shlian, designer, artist, and paper engineer, and Max Shtein, a University of Michigan materials scientist working on renewable energy technology at the molecular level, present the elegant and inspiring constructions they use to teach students about the science of energy conversion and the central role design can play in inspiring more effective, accessible solutions.

This program is part of the national speaker series offered by Facing History and Ourselves, an international and professional development organization with a commitment to cultivating a more humane and informed citizenry through the engagement of students of diverse backgrounds.

This program is part of the national speaker series offered by Facing History and Ourselves, an international and professional development organization with a commitment to cultivating a more humane and informed citizenry through the engagement of students of diverse backgrounds.

Thinking Big celebrates human ambition, and the glory and sometimes folly occasioned by the pursuit of the grand gesture, the great scheme, the Big Idea, that human predilection for thinking at scale.

In 2008, economist Gary Becker lectured on the various forms of fear and how they shape our actions, our economy, and our international society.