This event occurs at 9AM on 2/25 in Hong Kong Time. Human lives are getting longer, more varied, and less linear. As careers stretch across multiple chapters and individuals navigate reinvention, transition, and renewal, a central question emerges: How do people continue to grow, contribute, and find purpose across an extended lifespan?
Join “Sound Opinions” co-host and former Chicago Tribune music critic Greg Kot and Graham instructor and author Nora Titone for an exciting preview of their upcoming course of the classic anthems and artists who reshaped our world.
Join us for a conversation about the history and ideas that have shaped U.S. foreign policy.
Join us for a virtual conversation in the ‘Enduring Excellence’ series featuring Herminia Ibarra, the Charles Handy Professor of Organisational Behaviour at London Business School and a global expert on leadership and career reinvention.
How real and urgent are the existential threats to the future of humanity and how might we confront them? Join us for a luncheon discussion with one of the world’s leading authorities on the science of understanding and mitigating existential risks.
This First Friday Lecture is supported by the Anastaplo Lecture Series Fund in memory of Basic Program Instructor George Anastaplo.
Join us on campus for UChicago’s Master’s Programs Open House, an opportunity to explore the wide range of graduate degrees GSAL coursework can lead to and to experience the intellectual community firsthand.
This event will preview Stephanie Wilson Medlock’s upcoming course, “The Art of Creating Alternate Realities”.
Join us to learn more about Aging Brilliantly: Lifespan, Healthspan, and Joyspan, an upcoming course led by gerontologist and New York Times best-selling author Dr. Kerry Burnight.
What if the key to good longevity isn’t the length of your life, but the quality of your life? How can we move beyond fear-driven approaches to aging and embrace a philosophy of joyful longevity?
Join us for an important conversation in the ‘Enduring Excellence’ series with Paul Polman—former CEO of Unilever and Co-Founder of IMAGINE, a social venture advancing sustainable business leadership.
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.
In this conversation with Michael Rossi, associate professor of the history of medicine and author of his recent book about Duke Kahanamoku Capturing Kahanamoku: How a Surfing Legend and a Scientific Obsession Redefined Race and Culture, we explored how a surfing legend became the subject of a eugenics campaign in 1920s America, and how he……