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| African Studies | This workshop is an interdisciplinary forum for graduate students and faculty whose work concerns the material and sociocultural lives of people of the African continent and its discursively constituted diasporas, present and historical. [view full description] |
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| American Literatures and Cultures | This workshop discusses projects by graduate students, faculty, and guests relating to the broadly defined fields of American literary and cultural studies. [view full description] |
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| American Religious History | This workshop explores the role of religion in American history, culture, and society from the colonial period to the present day. [view full description] |
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| Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy | This workshop will discuss a wide range of issues concerned with ancient Greek and Roman philosophy. [view full description] |
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| Ancient Societies | The theme of this year’s workshop is “Religion and Law,” which is a natural development of last year’s theme, “Epigraphic Habits.” [view full description] |
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| Anthropology of Europe | This workshop explores current research in the anthropology of Europe and treats ongoing ethnographic fieldwork—local, regional, national, and transnational—in all areas of Europe. [view full description] |
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| Art and Politics of East Asia | This workshop provides a common intellectual forum for students and scholars of diverse fields investigating the interaction of aesthetics with political economics as reflected in textual, visual, and performance media in East Asia. [view full description] |
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| China Before Print | This workshop takes advantage of the wealth of recent archaeological discoveries in China to bring together students, faculty, and visitors in an informal setting to present and review research into the study of ancient cultures. [view full description] |
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| City, Society, and Space | The social organization of urban environments has always held a prominent place at the University of Chicago. This workshop hosts a lively and interactive series of presentations covering such topics as political economy, culture, social organization, globalization, crime, and urban history." [view full description] |
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| Clinical Ethnography | Workshop meetings provide the opportunity for the faculty and students involved with clinical ethnography and psychiatry to meet together to discuss clinical cultural issues. |
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| Comparative Behavioral Biology | Jointly sponsored by the Institute for Mind and Biology and the Department of Comparative Human Development, this workshop brings together individuals broadly interested in how biology and environment influence social behaviors and the environment in turn influences genetic change. [view full description] |
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| Comparative Human Development | The workshop builds upon the reemergence of cultural psychology as the comparative study of the way culture and psyche are constitutive of one another. |
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| Comparative Politics | Comparative politics is a broad field. The common thread running through the research presented at our workshop is the search for broad theoretical propositions and fresh empirical insights through the comparative study of politics. [view full description] |
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| Contemporary Art and Its Histories | The Contemporary Art Workshop provides a context for the consideration of history as an indispensable component of work on contemporary art. [view full description] |
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| Contemporary European Philosophy | The Contemporary European Philosophy Workshop is an interdisciplinary forum that seeks to promote sustained advanced research in the field of European philosophy at the University of Chicago and to foster a local community of scholars from across the humanities and social sciences. [view full description] |
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| Early Christian Studies | The purpose of the Early Christian Studies Workshop is to provide a venue for students and scholars of the New Testament, Greco-Roman religions and literatures, and the early history of Christianity to present their creative work on primary texts and other evidence for the early Christian movement and the world in which it grew. [view full description] |
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| Early Modern | This interdisciplinary workshop focuses on every aspect of the early modern experience, circa 1350-1800. It encompasses the entirety of the Mediterranean and European worlds as well as their rivals and colonial possessions. [view full description] |
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| East Asia: Politics, Economy, and Society | This workshop focuses on current social science research on East Asian societies, particularly the People’s Republic of China, Korea, Taiwan, and Japan. [view full description] |
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| East Asia: Transregional Histories | This workshop invites students, faculty, and scholars from other academic communities to present creative and original work that speaks across the national lines of East Asia as well as the disciplinary lines of the academic community. [view full description] |
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| Education | The Workshop on Education is an interdisciplinary workshop supporting the advancement of education related research and theory among members of the university community in two types of sessions: 1) “Methodology” and 2) “New Findings in Education.” [view full description] |
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| Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Cultures | During the years 1660-1900 cultural production achieved unprecedented heterogeneity throughout Britain, its colonial possessions, and Western Europe. The goal of this interdisciplinary workshop will be to interrogate the tensions between this diversified production and the unifying narrative of modernity often imposed on this two-hundred-and-forty-year span. [view full description] |
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| EthNoise! Ethnomusicology | The workshop contributes to a growing interdisciplinary discourse on music and its cultural context, establishing an interchange between disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. [view full description] |
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| Gender and Sexuality Studies | The Gender and Sexuality Studies Workshop provides an interdisciplinary forum for the development of critical perspectives on gender and sexuality. [view full description] |
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| Global Environment | The goal of this workshop is to provoke an informed, interdisciplinary dialogue on the various dimensions of how people engage with their environments. [view full description] |
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| History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science | The History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science Workshop is a forum devoted to interdisciplinary approaches to the sciences. [view full description] |
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| Human Potential | The Human Potential Workshop is an interdisciplinary forum for graduate students, postdocs, and faculty whose work concerns behavior, health, and well-being across the life-span and the ways in which technology and public policy shape human potential and achievement. [view full description] |
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| Human Rights | Due to domestic and world events, human rights has become a vital focus for academic research across disciplines. This workshop responds to a growing need to examine and discuss human rights and to present research and discussion on relevant contemporary human rights issues. [view full description] |
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| Immigration | The purpose of the Immigration Workshop is to stimulate and promote the development and discussion of theoretical and empirical research related to international migration and immigrants’ experiences. |
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| Interdisciplinary Approaches to Modern France | This workshop provides a forum for faculty and students from different departments in the social sciences and the humanities who share a common interest in France from the mid-seventeenth century to the present. [view full description] |
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| Interdisciplinary Archaeology | The primary objective of the workshop is to forge a lively and respectful dialogue on aspects of method and theory that cut across the field’s diverse disciplinary locations. [view full description] |
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| Interdisciplinary Workshop in Paris | This workshop provides a forum for Chicago faculty and students conducting research in Paris to share and discuss their work with their colleagues. [view full description] |
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| International Politics, Economy, and Security (PIPES) | PIPES is a center for research in international politics at the University of Chicago. Weekly PIPES workshops provide a forum for advanced graduate students and faculty to present their research. [view full description] |
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| International Security Policy (PISP) | PISP’s activities revolve around a simple and important goal: to serve as a major center for scholarship and graduate student education for deep understanding of mainstream issues of international security. |
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| Islamic Art and Artifact | The workshop will explore Islamic culture, history, and identity through archaeological and art historical interpretations. [view full description] |
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| Jewish Studies and the Hebrew Bible | Bringing together faculty and students from across various disciplines, the Jewish Studies and the Hebrew Bible Workshop seeks to provide a forum for vibrant discourse and critical reflection on work and topics that may range across the field of Judaica. |
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| Language, Cognition, and Computation | The Language, Cognition, and Computation Workshop is an interdisciplinary forum for graduate students and faculty whose work addresses human language from a variety of perspectives: cognitive, computational, experimental, theoretical, and their intersection. |
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| Language, Variation, and Change | The Language, Variation, and Change Workshop provides an interdisciplinary forum for graduate students and faculty to discuss the motivations and consequences of language change. |
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| Late Antiquity and Byzantium | We study all aspects of the peoples, cultures, histories, and religions of the late antique and Byzantine world, including the Near Eastern and Slavic regions and endeavor to create a forum for communications about recent archaeological discoveries in the region. [view full description] |
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| Latin American Cultures | The Latin American Cultures Workshop is a place of gathering for collaborative discussions and student presentations that seek to create a forum for interdisciplinary interaction and research projects in the field of Latin American cultural studies. [view full description] |
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| Latin American History | The workshop is a forum for discussion of novel approaches to Latin American history. [view full description] |
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| Law, Culture, and Society | The law stands at the center of virtually every social, political, linguistic, and cultural domain. The goal of this workshop is to facilitate the study of law as a cultural and social institution in both historical and contemporary contexts. [view full description] |
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| Literature, Theater, and Cultural History of China 1500-Present | This workshop aims to explore the cross-disciplinary understanding of literature, theater, and cultural history in early modern China. [view full description] |
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| Mass Culture | The Mass Culture Workshop is a forum for recent and ongoing academic research on the historical, theoretical, and practical dimensions of modern mass (commercial, consumer, or popular) media, including cinema, television, journalism, popular music, photography, advertising, fashion, public amusements, and computer technology. [view full description] |
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| Medicine, Practice, and Body | This workshop focuses on medical and psychiatric practices as a middle ground between the formerly dominant polarities of body as brute materiality, on the one hand, and as mere symbolic representation, on the other. [view full description] |
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| Middle East History and Theory (MEHAT) | This workshop serves as a multidisciplinary platform where University students in the humanities and social sciences can discuss a wide array of academic questions related to the history, culture, societies and politics of the Middle East. [view full description] |
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| Modern European and Russian Studies | The Modern European and Russian Studies Workshop offers a forum to discuss and critique works in progress concerning the history, culture, and societies of Modern Europe, including the former Soviet Union, East Central Europe, Germany, and France. [view full description] |
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| Modern Philosophy | This workshop provides a forum for graduate students and faculty interested in the history of philosophy from Descartes to Kant. [view full description] |
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| Money, Markets, and Consumption | The Money, Markets, and Consumption Workshop emphasizes the role of ethnographic fieldwork and historical findings to critically analyze economic assumptions. [view full description] |
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| New Media | The New Media Workshop provides a forum for faculty and graduate students to discuss the innovation and obsolescence of media, where these overlapping, asynchronous events are understood through social practices and lived experience. [view full description] |
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| Poetry and Poetics | The Poetry and Poetics Workshop provides a forum for all those members of the University devoted to the practice and study of poetry, be they graduate students, faculty, or poets. [view full description] |
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| Politcal History | This workshop explores one of the more vigorous developments in the social sciences over the past decade: an interdisciplinary revitalization of the study of politics from historical perspectives. [view full description] |
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| Politcal Psychology | The Political Psychology Workshop focuses on how psychology informs the study of political behavior and how the political world provides useful ways of studying psychological phenomena. [view full description] |
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| Politcal Theory | This workshop is a forum for the critical discussion of new research in all varieties of political theory, political philosophy, and moral, social, and legal theory and philosophy, historical and contemporary. [view full description] |
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| Politics, Communication, and Society | This workshop ties together diverse strands of research on the social and political aspects of communicative practices. [view full description] |
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| Practical Philosophy | This workshop is a forum for those interested in ethics, conceived broadly to include normative moral philosophy, meta-ethics, action theory, moral psychology, political philosophy, and the theory of practical reason. [view full description] |
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| Race and Religion | This workshop seeks to address the ideas, meanings, and practices of the sacred within racially marginalized communities. [view full description] |
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| Renaissance | The emphasis of the workshop is on a cross-disciplinary study of English and Continental culture during the Renaissance, in areas such as literature, politics, theology, and natural science. [view full description] |
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| Reproduction of Race and Racial Ideologies | This workshop addresses the different processes of racialization experienced within groups as well as across groups in sites as diverse as North America, Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, the Asian Pacific, and Europe. [view full description] |
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| Rhetoric and Poetics | The Rhetoric and Poetics Workshop is concerned with the literature of classical Greece and Rome, considered whether on its own terms or in relation to the literature and poetry of other cultures. [view full description] |
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| Semantics and Philosophy of Language | The subject of meaning in natural language is currently investigated both by philosophers and linguists, with different foci, methods, and emphasis. [view full description] |
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| Semiotics: Culture in Context | This workshop seeks to advance research based on a semiotic framework. Presentations will come from a variety of fields including, but not limited to linguistics, psychology, sociology, political science, literary theory, history, and anthropology. [view full description] |
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| Sex Panics | The Sex Panics Workshop will interrogate sexuality, sex, and gender as grounded, emergent, pragmatic, and meaningful cultural practices. [view full description] |
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| Social History | This workshop provides a forum to discuss and develop work that takes seriously social history methodology the history of everyday life and people who have been excluded from dominant historical narratives. [view full description] |
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| Social Theory | This workshop explores issues in social theory across a variety of disciplines in the social sciences and humanities. The emphasis is less on developing social theory than on exploring in a sustained fashion the social theoretical implications of the participants’ work. [view full description] |
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| Social Theory and Evidence | Social scientists continue to struggle over the relative merits of their many enterprises: explanation versus interpretation, causal versus descriptive analysis, the development of theories versus the testing of hypotheses. [view full description] |
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| Theater and Performance Studies | This workshop seeks to provide a forum for questions of performance that have arisen in a host of disciplines. [view full description] |
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| Theology | This workshop offers an interdisciplinary and comparative approach to the history, ideas, and methods of reading and thinking about theological texts and traditions. [view full description] |
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| Theory and Practice of Soth Asia (TAPSA) | This workshop is an important part of the fabric of intellectual activity in South Asian studies at the University of Chicago. [view full description] |
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| United States Locations | This workshop explores ethnographic research in Canada and the United States within social scientific fields engaging core cross-disciplinary anthropological problems. [view full description] |
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| Visual and Material Perspectives on East Asia | This workshop is focused on the study of material or visual objects from East Asia. It explores the possible uses of recent theories of art, history, and material and visual culture in the study of East Asia. [view full description] |
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| Western Mediterranean Culture | This workshop is dedicated to the study of all aspects of Western Mediterranean culture from 1200 to 1700. [view full description] |
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| Wittgenstein | This workshop aims to foster a variety of forms of interdisciplinary research that take their point of departure from a shared interest in Wittgenstein’s intellectual achievement. [view full description] |