‘Rethinking Hypothyroidism’ book talk by Prof. Antonio Bianco, MD, PhD

Antonio Bianco, MD, PhD is a professor of medicine and a member of the Committee on Molecular Metabolism and Nutrition at the University of Chicago, where he runs a laboratory funded by the National Institutes of Health to study thyroid hormones. Bianco is also a former president of the American Thyroid Association(2015-16) and author of ‘Rethinking Hypothyroidism’.

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Join John Tinnell, author of The Philosopher of Palo Alto, at this book event

Join us to hear Professor Ryan Tucker Jones discuss whaling, environmental history and Soviet science with Dr Katja Bruisch

Ryan’s latest book, Red Leviathan: the Secret History of Soviet Whaling, has been shortlisted for the Pushkin House Book Prize 2023 and explores the history of Soviet whaling, which almost eradicated several species while at the same time paradoxically helping scientists to understand their complex biology.

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Join John Tinnell, author of The Philosopher of Palo Alto, at this book event

Join John Tinnell, author of The Philosopher of Palo Alto, at this book event

Mark Guarino, author of Country and Midwestern, will have an event at The Hideout

In Country and Midwestern, veteran journalist Mark Guarino tells the epic century-long story of Chicago’s influence on sounds typically associated with regions further south. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and deep archival research, Guarino tells a forgotten story of music, migration, and the ways that rural culture infiltrated urban communities through the radio, the automobile, and the railroad.

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Join us for an author talk with John Tinnell, author of The Philosopher of Palo Alto, who will be in conversation with Patrick McCray.

The Philosopher of Palo Alto chronicles Mark Weiser’s struggle to initiate a new era of computing. Working in the shadows of the dot-com boom, Weiser and his collaborators made Xerox PARC headquarters the site of a grand experiment. Throughout the building, they embedded software into all sorts of objects—coffeepots, pens, energy systems, ID badges—imbuing them with interactive features. Their push to integrate the digital and the physical soon caught on. Microsoft’s Bill Gates flagged Weiser’s Scientific American article “The Computer for the 21st Century” as a must-read. Yet, as more tech leaders warmed to his vision, Weiser grew alarmed about where they wished to take it. In this fascinating story of an innovator and a big idea, John Tinnell crafts a poignant and critical history of today’s Internet of Things. At the heart of the narrative is Weiser’s desire for deeper connection, which animated his life and inspired his notion of what technology at its best could be.

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Dong Li author of "The Orange Tree" will participate in the Poesie Festival

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Mark Guarino, author of Country and Midwestern, will have an event at Gman Tavern

In Country and Midwestern, veteran journalist Mark Guarino tells the epic century-long story of Chicago’s influence on sounds typically associated with regions further south. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and deep archival research, Guarino tells a forgotten story of music, migration, and the ways that rural culture infiltrated urban communities through the radio, the automobile, and the railroad.

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Mark Paul, author of Ends of Freedom, will have a book talk at Red Emma’s

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Mark Guarino, author of Country and Midwestern, will have an event at Oak Park River Forest Museum

In Country and Midwestern, veteran journalist Mark Guarino tells the epic century-long story of Chicago’s influence on sounds typically associated with regions further south. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and deep archival research, Guarino tells a forgotten story of music, migration, and the ways that rural culture infiltrated urban communities through the radio, the automobile, and the railroad.

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Professor Rebecca Mitchell illuminates how both in Russia and later in America, Sergei Rachmaninoff and his music were profoundly modern expressions of life in tune with an uncertain world.

Unquestionably one of the most popular composers of classical music, Sergei Rachmaninoff has not always been so admired by critics. Detractors have long perceived Rachmaninoff as part of an outdated Romantic tradition from a bygone Russian world.

How might audiences and musicians today, 150 years after the composer’s birth, gain new appreciation of the composer and his music? Drawing on extensive archival research in Russia, the United States, and the UK, this course resituates Rachmaninoff in the remarkably dynamic era in which he lived. Far from a nostalgic echo of a lost era, Rachmaninoff and his music were profoundly modern expressions of life in tune with an uncertain world.

In this course, music scholar and historian Rebecca Mitchell will section his life and music into two periods: 

Session 1, July 6: Rachmaninoff in Imperial Russia
Session 2, July 10: Rachmaninoff as an Émigré

Understanding Eleanor of Aquitaine: Europe's Medieval Queen Mother

Join prizewinning author Karen Sullivan to discuss Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of France, Queen of England, and the most famous (and infamous) female ruler of the Middle Ages.

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Professor Rebecca Mitchell illuminates how both in Russia and later in America, Sergei Rachmaninoff and his music were profoundly modern expressions of life in tune with an uncertain world.

Unquestionably one of the most popular composers of classical music, Sergei Rachmaninoff has not always been so admired by critics. Detractors have long perceived Rachmaninoff as part of an outdated Romantic tradition from a bygone Russian world.

How might audiences and musicians today, 150 years after the composer’s birth, gain new appreciation of the composer and his music? Drawing on extensive archival research in Russia, the United States, and the UK, this course resituates Rachmaninoff in the remarkably dynamic era in which he lived. Far from a nostalgic echo of a lost era, Rachmaninoff and his music were profoundly modern expressions of life in tune with an uncertain world.

In this course, music scholar and historian Rebecca Mitchell will section his life and music into two periods: 

Session 1, July 6: Rachmaninoff in Imperial Russia
Session 2, July 10: Rachmaninoff as an Émigré

Emma Smith - The Making of Shakespeare’s First Folio - will lead a multi-session course on the First Folio with 92Y

Emma Smith, Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Hertford College at the University of Oxford, will explore the world in which Shakespeare's First Folio was published, from the London in which the work was written to the play that survives only because of the Folio's printing.

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Mark Guarino, author of Country and Midwestern, will have an event with the Chicago Public Library

In Country and Midwestern, veteran journalist Mark Guarino tells the epic century-long story of Chicago’s influence on sounds typically associated with regions further south. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and deep archival research, Guarino tells a forgotten story of music, migration, and the ways that rural culture infiltrated urban communities through the radio, the automobile, and the railroad.

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Join Julian Baggini, author of How to Think like a Philosopher, on his lecture at the 92 Street Y

In this course, Julian Baggini will extract the key lessons to be learned from the philosophers who have been specialists in sound thinking for millennia. In an age which fetishizes novelty and innovation, there is a need to relearn the greatest lessons from the past and appreciate that which is timeless is always timely. In addition to the technical nuts-and-bolts of reasoning, he will focus on the attitudes, habits, and character traits that make the difference between the clever and the wise.

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Atsuro Riley, author of Heard-Hoard, will read as part of the University of South Carolina's Fall Literary Festival

 

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Atsuro Riley, author of Heard-Hoard, will read as part of the University of Michigan Zell Writers’ Program

The Zell Visiting Writers Series, hosted by the Program and presented in partnership with the University of Michigan Museum of Art, brings the best authors in contemporary fiction and poetry to Ann Arbor for readings that are free and open to the public.

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