by ncarsenault | Jul 8, 2019 | 2015, Art, Film & Literature, Economics, History & Social Sciences, Human Rights, International, Politics
Video Jeff McCarter (Founder & Executive Director, Free Spirit Media) talks about how young people from low-income neighborhoods in Chicago can benefit from education and hands-on training in media production. Web Link Free Spirit...
by ncarsenault | Jul 8, 2019 | 2015, Economics, Egypt, History & Social Sciences, Middle East
Video Debora Heard (PhD Candidate, University of Chicago) delivered a presentation on the topic of how relatively recent concepts of inequality and racial differentiation shape our views of the Nubian and Egyptian past....
by ncarsenault | Jul 8, 2019 | 2015, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Eastern Europe / Russia / Eurasia, Economics, History & Social Sciences, Politics
Readings Economic Lives during Socialism Adriatic for All: Summer Holidays in Croatia Plan, Market and Unequal Regional Development in Yugoslavia Systemic Changes and Unemployment Growth in Yugoslavia, 1965–1984 The Problem of Social Class under Socialism Postwar...
by ncarsenault | Jul 8, 2019 | 2015, History & Social Sciences, Human Rights, Middle East, Politics
Reading The Archaeology of Rank – Chapter 28 Video Sam Harris (PhD Student, University of Chicago) delivered a talk on the origins of inequality and the structures of egalitarianism in the societies of the ancient Near...
by ncarsenault | Jul 8, 2019 | 2015, Art, Film & Literature, Economics, History & Social Sciences, International, Politics, United States, World Languages
Video The Odyssey Project is a college-credit granting program in the humanities for income-eligible adults with limited or no prior exposure to higher education. In the Chicago area, the Odyssey Project has conducted classes in the Woodlawn, Pilsen (in English and...
by ncarsenault | Jul 8, 2019 | 2015, Art, Film & Literature, Cambodia, Economics, History & Social Sciences, International, Politics, World Languages
Video Izabela Grobelna and Tola Ros of the Chicago Cultural Alliance presented on the topic of intercultural dialogue in the classroom and beyond through working with cultural centers and ethnic museums. Web Links Chicago Cultural Alliance National Cambodian...