Imagine what the stuff of everyday life — personal letters, the deed of a house, a shop owner’s inventory records — might look like in medieval times. Since the late 1990s, historian Marina Rustow has immersed herself in a unique cache of such documents hidden away for centuries in an Egyptian synagogue. (more…)
Those who wish for revolution should be wary, a new book by Dan Chirot warns; they might come to regret that wish should revolution become a violent reality.
Chirot is a professor in the University of Washington Jackson School of International Studies and of sociology. His latest book, “You Say You Want a Revolution: Radical Idealism and its Tragic Consequences” was published in March by Princeton University Press. He is the author or co-author of many articles and several books, most recently “The Shape of the New: Four Big Ideas and How They Made the Modern World” (with Jackson School colleague Scott Montgomery, 2015). (more…)
On a hot day in 2004, Laurence Ralph, recently arrived in Chicago to attend graduate school, stood on the corner of Lawndale Avenue and Cermak Road. (more…)
Researchers from the U.S. Army and North Carolina State University have developed a computational model that can be used to expedite military operations aimed at evacuating noncombatants, disaster response or humanitarian relief. (more…)
Assoc. Prof. Emily Landon, the University of Chicago doctor who made national headlines with her public plea for social distancing, believes the nation needs a more robust response to the coronavirus outbreak. (more…)
Marie-Luisa Frick ist Professorin für Philosophie. Neben der Philosophie hat die gebürtige Lienzerin auch Rechtswissenschaften studiert. Da liegt es nahe, dass die Rechtsphilosophie zu ihren Forschungsfeldern zählt. Im Interview zum Internationalen Tag der Menschenrechte spricht Frick über Menschenrechte, ihre gesellschaftliche Bedeutung und warum es sie zu wahren gilt. (more…)
EU-Projekt veröffentlicht Erkenntnisse und umfangreiche Unterrichtsmaterialien
Die Mondlandung, Chemtrails oder der Coronavirus: Verschwörungstheorien sind allgegenwärtig, vor allem in den Sozialen Netzwerken. An der Universität Tübingen veröffentlicht ein EU-gefördertes Forschungsprojekt nun umfangreiche Forschungsergebnisse zum Thema. Unter Koordination von Professor Michael Butter hatten sich im Projekt „Comparative Analysis of Conspiracy Theories” (COMPACT) seit April 2016 insgesamt 160 Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler aus 40 Ländern mit Verschwörungstheorien auseinander gesetzt. (more…)
International conflict isn’t declining, new analysis finds
Contrary to popular belief, war is not declining, according to a new analysis of the last 200 years of international conflict. (more…)
