Lynda Gratton, professor of management practice at London Business School and author of Living the 100-Year Life, joins Seth Green, dean of the Graham School at the University of Chicago, to discuss longevity and work. The conversation opens with the premise that longer lives change the rules, and Gratton introduces a central shift in the…...
Sean Keilen, professor of literature at UC Santa Cruz, founding director of Shakespeare Workshop, and author of Shakespeare Scholars (Princeton University Press, 2026), joins moderator and Graham School instructor Chris Jones to draw three lessons from the liberal arts out of Shakespeare’s plays. The conversation opens with a foundational question: what does it mean to…...
NPR health correspondent Allison Aubrey traces how a reporting assignment at the Potocsnak Longevity Center at Northwestern University led to an unexpected personal reckoning. While undergoing tests measuring biological age through epigenetic clocks and DNA methylation, she arrived at a realization that she had been running too fast and needed to stop. That moment became…...
Dana Suskind, founder and co-director of the TMW Center for Early Learning and Public Health and a professor of surgery and pediatrics at the University of Chicago, traces her work from pediatric cochlear implant surgery to brain development research to the rise of generative AI. Her book Human Raised grew from a central observation in…...
Kendall Sharp traces the Greek roots of civic virtue through Aristotle, Pericles, and Homer to reveal what self-government demanded of its citizens.
Rose Horowitch, staff writer at The Atlantic, draws on her reporting to argue that the United States is moving toward a post-literate society, a condition defined not by the absence of words but by the erosion of sustained, deep reading. Drawing on cognitive scientist Maryanne Wolf and media theorist Walter Ong’s work on orality and…...
Rye Barcott, Marine veteran, co-founder of With Honor, and author of the New York Times bestseller Courage Can Save Us, joins Dean Seth Green for a conversation that is part of the Graham School’s America at 250 series. Barcott opens with a personal definition: courage is the decision to face risk in the service of…...
The University of Chicago Graham School welcomed philanthropist, investor, and civic leader David Rubenstein for a thought-provoking Bowe Stewart Lecture exploring the importance of civic education, public service, and preserving America’s history. Drawing on stories from his remarkable career, David shared how a lifelong commitment to public service has shaped his philanthropic work, from helping…...
Award-winning author Amitav Ghosh joins the University of Chicago’s Graham School for an evening conversation moderated by instructor Lin Atnip. The discussion centers on Ghosh’s essay collection Wild Fictions, published by the University of Chicago Press, spanning roughly 25 years of thinking on colonialism, biodiversity loss, and the search for narratives capable of meeting this…...
A conversation with John J. Mearsheimer and Jennifer A. Lind on the history and founding ideas that shape U.S. relations beyond its borders.
In this conversation with Dawn M. Carpenter, distinguished ethicist, financial advisor, and author of The Longevity Equation, we explored how healthspan and wealthspan are deeply intertwined across the life course. Carpenter introduced her framework for understanding longevity as an outcome shaped not only by medical care, but by financial security, institutional design, and the responsible…...
This lecture examines Albert Camus’s philosophy of absurdism and suggests that, in works such as The Myth of Sisyphus, he defends a life of courage and solidarity as a defiance of nihilism.