Don’t Yield Ancient History and Literature to the Alt-Right
—The Washington Post
Humanities Day 2012: China’s reinterpretation of Western classics
—Chicago Maroon
Bartsch ponders “The Wisdom of Fools”
—Tableau
Discussion to examine history, future and power of religion
—University of Chicago News
Students tackle life’s hardest questions in new experimental courses
—University of Chicago News
Inaugural Stevanovich Institute conference examines how knowledge is formed
—University of Chicago News
Featured Articles:
‘SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome’, by Mary Beard
—Financial Times
The Archaeologist as Minotaur
—The New Republic
“We Damn Your Memory,” an article on the complex issue of tearing down historical statues. Forthcoming in Encyclopedia Britannica special issue with Madeleine Albright, Paul Krugman, Shirin Ebadi, et al.
“Les facettes d’un tyran.” Review essay of D. Grau, Néron en Occcident: Une figure de l’histoire. Critique (2017)
“Introduction: Formations of Knowledge.” KNOW 1.1 and 1.2 (2017)
Interview with BBC Radio 4 “Start the Week” on great women of antiquity.
The Latke-Hamantash Debate: The Latke-Hamantash Debate has been a University of Chicago tradition since 1946. UChicago faculty members apply the knowledge and tools of their disciplines to resolve this age-old question in an evening of fun and frivolity! Past participants have included Nobel Prize winners and University presidents.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jared Diamond delivered the inaugural lecture at the Stevanovich Institute on the Formation of Knowledge on April 20 at the University of Chicago. Before his lecture, he spoke with the institute’s director, Prof. Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer, about the evolution of religion.