ELECTION 2024: IS THE NEWS MEDIA UP FOR THE JOB?

Former New York Times public editor and award-winning columnist and author Margaret Sullivan will join us at UChicago to survey the volatile course of the 2024 election in the news media.

THINKING AND ACTIVISM AFTER OCTOBER 7TH

Monday, April 1, 2024
4:30-6:30 p.m.

Two activists from Standing Together—the largest Jewish-Palestinian movement for justice, equality, and peace in Israel/Palestine—are coming to the University of Chicago to discuss the challenges of thinking, acting, and organizing for peace after October 7th.

SHOULD WRITERS TALK?

January 18, 2023
9 p.m. - midnight

Writers often get asked to do speaking engagements. Is this a good thing? Should we expect writers to be good speakers, or should we judge them by their written words alone?

AT THE LIMITS OF FORGIVENESS
March 27, 2023
5 p.m.

For the inaugural talk in the Public Thinking Lecture Series, Elizabeth Bruenig, a writer at The Atlantic and Pulitzer Prize finalist, comes to the University of Chicago to forgiveness as a social virtue.