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.