by kocakozge | May 13, 2023 | Education & Training, Events, Faculty and OAAs, News, Publications, Research, Staff, Students
“Our book offers a new interpretation of the idea of scarcity in economic thought. We explain how modern economics arrived at its influential axiom of scarcity – infinite wants in a finite world – and also why this peculiar definition has no claim to...
by kocakozge | May 12, 2023 | Education & Training, Events, Faculty and OAAs, Publications, Research, Staff, Students
May 17, 2023, 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm CDT With a rapidly growing population and an economy growing even faster, India’s energy demand is set to double by 2030. If this increased demand is met with coal or other fossil fuels, it could make reaching global climate targets all...
by kocakozge | May 4, 2023 | Education & Training, Events, Faculty and OAAs, Research, Staff, Students
Eleana Kim, University of California, Irvine Michael Fisch, University of Chicago (interlocutor) Tuesday, May 9, 2023 at 4:00pm CT, Room 142, 1155 E. 60th St. This book talk discusses Eleana Kim’s recently published ethnography of the ecologies of the South Korean...
by kocakozge | Apr 24, 2023 | Uncategorized
with Michael Kimmelman, The New York Times and interlocutor Nootan Bharani, The University of Chicago, Arts + Public Life The Theatre, Ida Noyes Hall 1212 E. 59th St. Third Floor Chicago, IL 60637 Register here. — When climate change, aging infrastructure and an...
by kocakozge | Apr 13, 2023 | Earth Month, Earth Week, Education & Training, Events, Faculty and OAAs, News, Research, Staff, Uncategorized, Veterans
Across the UChicago community, numerous virtual and in-person programs are scheduled in April around International Earth Day on April 22, 2023. Please see below for ways to engage in and learn more about how our community reflects on environmental impact and ways to...
by kocakozge | Apr 11, 2023 | Earth Month, Education & Training, Faculty and OAAs, News, Publications, Research, Staff, Students
Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC) published a new poll with The Associated Press–NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, which explores Americans’ attitudes on climate change, their views on key climate and energy policies, and how...
by kocakozge | Apr 11, 2023 | Education & Training, Faculty and OAAs, News, Research, Staff, Students
Photo by Jason Smith Prof. David Keith, who has worked at the interface of climate science, technology and public policy for over three decades, has joined the faculty of UChicago’s Department of the Geophysical Sciences to explore climate systems engineering....
by kocakozge | Apr 3, 2023 | Publications, Staff, Students, Volunteering
Lucas Berard, Isabella Bonito, and Will Harding led efforts for the on-campus thrift store, reSTORE. By Ashley Wynstra (originally published on the CSL website) In the basement of Stuart Hall, visitors will find a once empty space filled with new life. The Phoenix...
by kocakozge | Mar 30, 2023 | Earth Month, Earth Week, Education & Training, Events, News, Research, Students
Join us for a lunch and learn about efforts around environmental issues at the University of Chicago. Lunch will be provided! Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation at the University of Chicago 1155 East 60th Street Room 101 Chicago, IL 60637 Join us for a Campus...
by kocakozge | Mar 30, 2023 | Earth Month, Earth Week, Education & Training, Events, Faculty and OAAs, News, Research, Staff, Students
REGISTER! The climate crisis unfolds through a series of environmental emergencies at once abrupt and long-churning. These emergencies are deeply interwoven and yet, at the same time, engender unique and emergent environments of disaster, struggle, and social...
by kocakozge | Mar 22, 2023 | Education & Training, Events, Faculty and OAAs, Research, Staff, Students
Friday, March 31 · 12 – 2pm Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society 5701 South Woodlawn Avenue Chicago, IL 60637 Jennifer Wenzel (Columbia University) will open this talk by positing Julie Livingston’s slim parable Self-Devouring Growth: A Planetary Parable...
by kocakozge | Mar 20, 2023 | Education & Training, Students
As of Autumn 2023, the Major and Minor in Environmental and Urban Studies will become the Major and Minor in Environment, Geography and Urbanization. We invite interested first and second years to join us for an information session on these updated program...
by kocakozge | Mar 16, 2023 | Events, Faculty and OAAs, Staff, Students
Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington, Assistant Professor of Social Psychology, London School of Economics and Political Science Urban Cognition Series Wednesday, March 22, 12:30 PM Hybrid Event: 1155 E. 60th St., Room 101 (Mansueto Lounge), or via Zoom – Speaker will be...
by kocakozge | Feb 22, 2023 | Education & Training, Faculty and OAAs, News, Research, Staff, Students, Uncategorized
Institute led dismantling and reconstruction of three monumental gates in danger of collapse The ancient temple complex Medinet Habu has survived for thousands of years in the arid desert climate. But in the 100 years since the Oriental Institute’s (OI) Epigraphic...
by kocakozge | Feb 22, 2023 | Earth Month, Education & Training, Events, News, Staff, Students
The Chicago Cli-Fi Library 02.22.2023 – 06.11.2023 Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, 18 West 11th Street, March 6, 1970, 2006. This exhibition is a modest attempt to make sense of the paralysis that sets in when artists try to fashion a response to the complexity and...
