All Past Events
Merve Emre: The Function of Criticism
What is the role of criticism in an age when everyone is, or can be, a critic?
February 4, 2026
Science in Flux and Under Siege
Carl Zimmer and Reporting in All-Too-Interesting Times
January 21, 2026
When All News Is Fake, All Stories Are True (featured)
John Cameron Mitchell on Storytelling and the Truth
December 3, 2025
Reporting on Something You Don’t Like (featured)
How Los Angeles Times columnist Gustavo Arellano Tells the Stories of 2025
November 5, 2025
2025 Pulitzer Prize Winners for Local Reporting (featured)
The Baltimore Banner Investigative Team
October 15, 2025
Finding the Story in Science
With Nell Greenfieldboyce
May 15, 2025
The End of the University and the Future of Criticism
A Public Thinking Conference
April 3, 2025
Is There a Mainstream Media?
James Bennet on the 2024 Election and the Triumph of Partisan News
February 26, 2025
Crafting a More Democratic Digital Sphere
A Student Workshop and Practicum with Nick Briz, Sarah Grant, and Emily Martinez
February 22, 2025
“Whistleblowing into the Wind”
with Alice Dreger
January 15, 2025
Writing Political Nonfiction in the New Media Landscape
A Lunch with Nicholas Lemann
November 15, 2024
The Promise and the Perils of Political Narrative
A Discussion with Nicholas Lemann
November 14, 2024
How to Tell People They Are Fish
With Neil H. Shubin
October 28, 2024
Election 2024: Is the News Media Up for the Job? (featured)
A Conversation with Margaret Sullivan
October 19, 2024
Reporting the News in Chaotic Times
An Evening with Margaret Sullivan
October 18, 2024
A Matinee with Mavis Staples (featured)
Mavis Staples, legendary singer and activist, returns to UChicago to inspire next generation
April 3, 2024
Politics and Advocacy after October 7th
with Rula Daood and Itamar Avneri
April 2, 2024
The Future of Mainstream Political Journalism
A conversation with James Bennet
February 27, 2024
An Evening with Elena Kostyuchenko (featured)
Journalist & author of I Love Russia (2023)
November 14, 2023
Song Dong on Chinese Protest Art in the 1990s
On Art and his Motivation for Creative Expression
November 11, 2023
Dima Khalidi on the Palestinian Exception to Free Speech
On academic freedom and campus discourse
November 6, 2023
Professor Christopher Wild on the Aims of Education
Addressing the 2027 Class at Rockefeller Chapel
September 21, 2023