The Campus Conversation:
Guns and America after Parkland
Join the conversation with six faculty (including history professors Justin LeRoy and Kathy Olmsted) who share their knowledge and expertise on a topic that all of America is talking abo
This year’s Lunn Lecturer will be Lorraine Daston, Director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, and Professor, Committee on Social Thought, at the University of Chicago.
Professor Jones-Roger examines the market that white mothers created for enslaved wet nurses and the ways that this market intersected with slave marketplaces.
Should Confederate statues come down? Are today’s neo-Nazis like the Nazis of the Third Reich? What about immigration, refugees and building a border wall?
Kadizade Mehmed (1582-1635) was a preacher who retrospectively came to be seen as the founding father of a Muslim revivalist movement that had a major impact in seventeenth-century Ottoman public life -- and, arguably, beyond.