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LATEST NEWS & EVENTS
Campus Environmental Lunch and Learn 4/12 @12pm
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...
CEGU: Environmental Emergencies, Emergent Environments Conference, April 20–21, 2023
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...
Neubauer Lecture: Self-Sustaining/Self-Devouring Growth, 3/31@12pm
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 as Told...
Info Session: Updated Requirements for the CEGU Major, 3/31 @12pm
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...
A Socio-Ecological Perspective on Decision-Making in Low-Income Contexts, 3/22 @ 12.30pm
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...
Oriental Institute restores ancient Egyptian monuments threatened by climate change
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...
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