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We are very excited to be back for another school year and look forward to bringing you many new events. Below you will find information about our past events. Check back for upcoming events soon.

Past Events

2015 - 2016 School Year Events

LGBTQ Economics Event
Space Conference Event
Moneyball: UChicago Event

2014 - 2015 School Year Events

The Contemporary Short Story Event
Paradoxes of Race event
Minimum Wage: A Debate Event
The Economics of Infrastructure Event
Technology and Society Conference Event
Do We Need the Core? Event
Adaptive Reuse and Citizen Engagement Event
  • "Israel, Palestine, and the World: Prospects for Peaceful Resolution" (5/14/09–5/15/09)
  • Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright Delivers Thomas Garrigue Masaryk Lecture on Democracy (5/13/08)
  • “Petroleum: Prospects and Politics” (5/18-5/19/07)
  • “China and the Future of the World” (4/28–4/29/06)
  • “Consolidating Democracy in Mexico” (4/23–4/24/04)
  • “Colombia: Confronting Conflict, Striving Towards Peace” (4/5/03)

  • "The Economic Crisis: Past, Present, and Predictions" (3/5/09)
  • "A History: Milton Friedman and Chile" (2/12/09)
  • Milton Friedman's Legacies: On the U.S. Economic Crisis featuring U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (12/2/08)
  • Becker Posner Blog Live! October 2008 (Oct. 2008)
  • “Credit for the Poor: Fighting Poverty with Microfinance in India” (4/22/08)
  • “Four Years in the Islamic Republic: Reflections of an American Graduate Student” (4/8/08)
  • “LOL 102: An Evening of Comedy” featuring Jordan Carlos (1/24/08)
  • “Chicago Society Presents: Inequality in America” featuring James Heckman (1/22/08)
  • “Super Freakonomics” featuring Steven Levitt (10/11/07)
  • “Iran: A Grand Bargain” (4/18/07)
  • “LOL 101: Comedy as Commentary” (4/17/07)
  • “America Undressed: The ‘Naked Economics’ of Domestic Issues” (2/26/07)
  • “Intellectual Property in the Digital Age” (2/23/07)
  • “The Challenges of Islam and Democracy” (11/8/06)
  • “Democracy on Deadline” (10/30/06)
  • “Our Future in Space: Weaponizing the Final Frontier?” (10/23/06)
  • “Love: A Symposium” (10/12/06)
  • “Off the Wall: Art Beyond the Gallery” (5/23/06)
  • “Rediscovering Ragtime: An Evening with Reginald Robinson” (2/23/06)
  • “The World Undressed: The ‘Naked Economics’ of Global Issues” (2/8/06)
  • “Media and the Public Interest: Debating the Responsibility of the Press in a Democratic Society” (1/19/06)
  • “A Night of Comedy: Stand-Up Comics Perform and Discuss Their Art” (10/22/05)
  • “Envisioning Kosovo: Prospects for an Uncertain Future” (5/5/05)
  • “College Undressed: The Naked Economics of Student Life” (3/3/05)
  • “Business Ethics Today: Is There a Market for Ethics in Corporate America?” (1/27/05)
  • “Mexico: Problems of a New Democracy” (10/21/04)
  • “American Foreign Policy and Amnesia: The Case of Iraq” with Samantha Power (5/13/04)
  • “American Media's Coverage of Foreign Events & News” with Ray Suarez (5/2/04)
  • “The 2004 Election: United States Foreign Policy Toward the Middle East” (4/26/04)
  • “Autumn’s Final Country” with Filmmaker Sonia Jabbar (4/20/04)
  • “Religious Identity in Kashmir” (4/9/04)
  • “Guantanamo Between the Lines: Humanitarian Issues” (3/31/04)
  • “The Future of the United Nations in International Peace and Security” (2/26/04)
  • “Guantanamo Between the Lines: Contested Legality” (2/19/04)
  • “The Stories of Kashmir: An Evening Exploring Literary Traditions” (2/5/04)
  • “Kashmir: A Cultural and Historical Perspective” (2/2/04)
  • “The Making of Chechen Terrorists: The Clash of Forces and Discourses” (1/27/04)
  • “China’s Governance Under New Leaders” with Dali Yang (1/20/04)
  • “Today’s Cuba: The Political Struggle for Human Rights” (5/30/03)
  • “Tune In! The Channels of Media” (5/23/03)
  • “What’s Wrong with Prostitution?” (5/21/03)
  • “A Fireside Chat with Rashid Khalidi on the Axis of Evil” (1/29/03)
  • “Democratization in Latin America” (12/7/02)
  • Panel on the Future of Indonesia with Presidential Candidate Dr. Sjahrir (11/7/02)
  • Iraq War Debate with Rashid Khalidi, April 25, 2008
  • Howard Margolis - Professor in the Harris School of Public Policy (11/29/07)
  • Robert Bird - Associate Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures (11/15/07)
  • Adam Davis - Lecturer in Political Philosophy; Executive Director of Camp of Dreams (5/24/07)
  • David Bevington - Professor in the Humanities and English Language & Literature; Shakespearean scholar (3/29/07)
  • Alison Boden - Dean of Rockefeller Memorial Chapel (2/15/07)
  • William K. Davis - Director of the United Nations Information Center in Washington, D.C. (1/18/07)
  • Jonathan Z. Smith - Historian of Religion; former Dean of the College at the University of Chicago (1/10/07)
  • Jonathan Greenblatt - Co-Founder, Ethos Water; Former Vice President, Global Consumer Products, Starbucks Coffee (10/27/06)
  • Edward O. Laumann - Professor of Sociology (5/17/06)
  • Stephen P. Klass - Vice President and Dean of Students at the University of Chicago (4/17/06)
  • Richard A. Goldberg - former Staff Director of the U.S.-China Working Group in the House of Representatives (4/10/06)
  • Judith Farquhar - Professor of Anthropology and Social Sciences (4/6/06)
  • Dennis J. Hutchinson - Professor and Master of the New Collegiate Division (3/2/06)
  • Katrina vanden Heuvel - Publisher and Editor of The Nation with John Nichols, DC Correspondent (1/19/06)
  • Geoffrey R. Stone - Professor, Law School (1/13/06)
  • Wendy Doniger - Professor in the Divinity School (10/14/05)
  • Les Janka - President, Council on American-Saudi Dialogue (9/28/05)
  • John Comaroff - Professor of Anthropology (5/26/05)
  • Danielle Allen - Dean of the Humanities (1/31/05)
  • Jesus Silva-Herzog Marquez - Political Commentator from Mexico (10/22/04)
  • Alexander Wendt - Professor of Political Science (5/26/04)
  • Ronald Suny - Professor of History and Political Science (5/21/04)
  • Stadler Trengove - United Nations Legal Officer (2/27/04)
  • Allen Sanderson - Senior Lecturer, Economics (2/17/04)
  • Dr. Jorge G. Castaneda - Mexico’s Former Minister of Foreign Affairs (5/30/03)
  • Crime in the Windy City
  • Education in the Windy City
  • Latin America 2020
  • The Naked Economics of the Environment
  • China and the World