Today, University of Chicago Office of Civic Engagement announced a partnership with Cook County to offer seven weeks of curated educational content for the public during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We are excited to offer this unique educational opportunity to residents of Cook County and hope to empower learning during a difficult time when people are at home and looking for something new to do,” said Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, an alum of the University of Chicago.
The curated educational content will feature a combination of past lectures and interviews by University of Chicago faculty and staff in audio and video formats. Themes for each week of the content include: Racial Justice Movement, COVID-19, Humanities, Community and Education, Democracy and Citizenship, Science and Discovery, and Law and Policy. Additionally, Career Development webinars, originally developed for UChicago students, will be available during the seven-week period.
“The Office of Civic Engagement is pleased to partner with Cook County and share a unique cross-section of offerings from our faculty and experts throughout the University with our neighbors,” says Derek Douglas, Vice President of Civic Engagement and External Affairs at the University of Chicago. “We commend President Preckwinkle for her work to provide educational enrichment to County residents during these unprecedented times and hope the new perspectives on topics from economics to philosophy, and medicine to political science spark deeper understanding of the world around us.”
While new content will be published each week, participants can enjoy the lectures and interviews at their own pace.
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Week of August 10: Community and Education
Big Brains Podcast: How Students and Schools Can Recover From Coronavirus, with Elaine Allensworth
Big Brains Podcast: How the Loss of Community Threatens Society with Raghuram Rajan
WBEZ: Chicago Sociologist Eve Ewing Talks ‘Ghosts In The Schoolyard’
Big Brains Podcast: What Rats Can Teach Us About Empathy and Racism, with Peggy Mason
TEDxBroadway: "They are Children: How Posts on Social Media Lead to Gang Violence" - Desmond Patton
Bonus Content: Career Development
Decision Making in Tough Environments
Week of August 3: Humanities
Big Brains Podcast: Why Chasing The Good Life Is Holding Us Back, With Lauren Berlant
UChicago Division of the Humanities: Agnes Callard, What Good Is Public Philosophy?
The Oriental Institute: Irving Finkel | The Ark Before Noah: A Great Adventure
UChicago Division of the Humanities: Jacqueline N. Stewart, Home Movie Day: Personal Archives Lost and Found
CAN TV: The Life and Times of Timuel D. Black: A Centenary Symposium
Bonus Content: Career Development
Negotiating in Times of Change
Week of July 27: COVID-19
Virtual Harper Lecture: The American Presidency in a Time of COVID, featuring William Howell
Big Brains Podcast: Coronavirus Shows Why We Need To Rethink Health Care, with Katherine Baicker
Big Brains Podcast: The Science of Conspiracy Theories and Political Polarization with Eric Oliver
Big Brains Podcast: How Coronavirus Is Exposing Our Racial Disparities, with Monica Peek
Berlin Family Lectures: Democracy in the Time of Coronavirus
Bonus Content: Career Development
Leadership and Skyscrapers
Week of July 20: Racial Justice Movement
Big Brains Podcast: Black Lives Matter Protests: Hope for the Future?
NPR: Poet Eve Ewing Connects 1919 Chicago to Today's Racial Unrest
MacLean Center for Bioethics: Peggy Mason – Racism: Is it Biological?
New Dawn Podcast: Creating a Caring World
Growing up in Chicago’s “Black Belt” - Timuel Black
Bonus Content: Career Development
Learning Leadership: Lessons from a Pop-Up Choir