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.
What makes for a happy, fulfilling life? And how do our connections, with others and with ourselves, shape our well-being?
What if the second half of your life isn’t about winding down, but finally scaling up?
Join us for a meaningful conversation in our ‘Enduring Excellence’ series with Vik Malhotra, Former Chairman of the Americas at McKinsey & Company and co-author of CEO Excellence.
Join us for a wide-ranging discussion with novelist and essayist Amitav Ghosh on the present ‘catastrophic convergence’ of social, historical, and natural forces—and how new (and old) narratives might allow us to repair our relationships with our environment and one another.
Join us for our Enduring Excellence conversation with Steven R. Swartz, President and CEO of Hearst, one of the world’s largest and most diversified global information, services, and media companies.
What if the greatest untapped resource in today’s workforce has been there all along? And what does it take to lead through the most significant demographic shift of our time?
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……