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A new book co-edited by UChicago's Geoffrey R. Stone and Columbia University's Lee Bollinger examines the complicated and evolving terrain around government leaks. ....
UChicago graduate students organize series of events to commemorate Juneteenth May 27, 2021 Events include June 19 keynote address from renowned activist, scholar Angela Davis On June 19, 1865, Union Army soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, bringing with them news of the Emancipation Proclamation. Now known as Juneteenth, the day is recognized as a celebration of freedom marking past struggles for liberty in the United States, as well as the struggles that still lie ahead. This year, following the one-year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd, a group of University of Chicago graduate students have created a monthlong series of events to commemorate Juneteenth. ....
‘Arabic Oration’ earns prestigious Sheikh Zayed Book Award, more than $200,000 in prize money More than a decade ago, Prof. Tahera Qutbuddin embarked on journey researching and writing the first study in English of seventh-century Arabic oration, which strongly influenced its literature and culture. The result was Popularly known as the Nobel Prizes of the Arab world, the Sheikh Zayed Book Awards give each winner the equivalent of over $200,000 in prize money. The first author from India to receive this award, Qutbuddin was honored for her groundbreaking work on Arabic oration, which transports readers into a different world and gives them a direct window into the hearts and minds of people who lived 1,400 years ago. ....
Prolific scholar and activist remembered for academic influence and personal warmth Marshall D. Sahlins, an eminent cultural anthropologist of the Pacific known for sparking lively academic debates, died April 5. He was 90. Renowned for his prolific contributions to anthropology, Sahlins was the Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago. For decades, he studied the history and ethnography of communities in Hawaii, Fiji and other islands in the South Pacific during the period of European contact engaging his research with indigenous political structures, modes of kinship and conceptions of nature. For Sahlins, anthropology was both a privilege and an adventure, offering an opportunity to “reproduce within one’s mind the way the world is put together for other people,” he said during a 2014 appearance at the Chicago Humanities Festival. ....
Newly discovered fossils of fish from multiple life stages may ‘rewrite textbooks’ A new study out of the University of Chicago, the Canadian Museum of Nature and the Albany Museum challenges a long-held hypothesis that the larvae of modern lampreys are a holdover from the distant past, resembling the ancestors of all living vertebrates, including ourselves. The new fossil discoveries indicate that ancient lamprey hatchlings more closely resembled modern adult lampreys, and were completely unlike their modern larvae counterparts. The results were published on March 10 in “We’ve basically removed lampreys from the position of the ancestral condition of vertebrates,” said first author Tetsuto Miyashita, formerly a Chicago Fellow at the University of Chicago and now a paleontologist at the Canadian Museum of Nature. “So now we need an alternative.” ....