Meet the Winter-Spring 2025 Pritzker Fellows
1212 E. 59th Street, Chicago, 60637
Jan 28, 2025
5:30pm
– 6:45pm
CST
Join us as we welcome the Winter-Spring 2025 cohort of Pritzker Fellows! Each of our Fellows will introduce themselves and seminar topics, followed by a brief chat with IOP director Heidi Heitkamp. They’ll then rotate around to meet students and field their questions!
Snacks will be provided.[...]
Trumpian Tumult: What Europe's Meltdown Means For Us
1414 E 59th St, Chicago, 60637
Jan 29, 2025
5:00pm
– 6:15pm
CST
Political disarray throughout Europe offers lessons – and warnings – for the United States. From the rise of authoritarian populism in Hungary and Turkey and the collapse of the German and French governments to economic disarray in Britain and the growing clout of a right-wing prime minister in[...]
Chris LaCivita | Your Neighbor is MAGA
5707 S Woodlawn Ave,
Jan 29, 2025
12:30pm
– 1:45pm
CST
IOP Pritzker Fellow Chris LaCivita on "Your Neighbor is MAGA"
THIS SEMINAR IS OPEN TO CURRENT UCHICAGO STUDENTS ONLY
Wednesday, January 29
12:30-1:45pm
Let me tell you how I know that: unpacking the modern voter who led to this decisive victory.
Pritzker Fellows seminars are[...]
Chris LaCivita | Poetry & Prose
5707 S Woodlawn Ave,
Jan 30, 2025
12:30pm
– 1:45pm
CST
IOP Pritzker Fellow Chris LaCivita on "Poetry & Prose"
THIS SEMINAR IS OPEN TO CURRENT UCHICAGO STUDENTS ONLY
Thursday, January 30
12:30-1:45pm
Like all candidates, Trump made a lot of policy promises. Here’s what I expect in the first 100 days.
Pritzker Fellows seminars[...]
Violence Prevention Policy Trek
Jan 31, 2025
9:00am
– 11:30am
CST
Violence Prevention Policy Trek
Friday, Janurary 31st | 9:00 AM - 11:30 AM
The IOP hosts Chicago Treks in partnership with the Center for Effective Government and Crown Family School. Each trek offers 20 students the chance to dive into a political issue area through meeting with a broad range[...]
Policy Challenge Super Bowl
1212 E. 59th Street, Chicago, 60637
Feb 03, 2025
5:00pm
– 6:00pm
CST
Join the student finalist teams from University of Chicago, University of Cincinnati, and University of Kansas as they go head to head with their Urban-Rural Divide Policy Challenge proposals in our Policy Challenge Super Bowl! Judged by former U.S. Senator Jon Tester (D-MT).
If you have any[...]
Shalanda Young | I Don’t Remember That From My Civics Class
5707 S Woodlawn Ave,
Feb 03, 2025
3:30pm
– 4:45pm
CST
IOP Pritzker Fellow Shalanda Young on "I Don’t Remember That From My Civics Class"
THIS SEMINAR IS OPEN TO CURRENT UCHICAGO STUDENTS ONLY
Monday, February 3
3:30-4:45pm
Let me tell you about the twists and turns that led me to the byzantine world of appropriations and finally to the[...]
Natalia Pelevina | How Did Russia Go From Possible Pal to Frenemy & Back To Existential Threat?
5707 S Woodlawn Ave,
Feb 04, 2025
12:30pm
– 1:45pm
CST
IOP Pritzker Fellow Natalia Pelevina on "How Did Russia Go From Possible Pal to Frenemy & Back To Existential Threat?"
THIS SEMINAR IS OPEN TO CURRENT UCHICAGO STUDENTS ONLY
Tuesday, February 4
12:30-1:45pm
XYLet’s talk about how we got here. For Russia, the new century began[...]
Pete Buttigieg | Washington in Transition: 2021 & 2025
5707 S Woodlawn Ave,
Feb 04, 2025
3:30pm
– 4:45pm
CST
IOP Pritzker Fellow Pete Buttigieg on "Washington in Transition: 2021 & 2025"
THIS SEMINAR IS OPEN TO CURRENT UCHICAGO STUDENTS ONLY
Tuesday, February 4
3:30-4:45pm
In January of 2021, I arrived in Washington to take the helm of the U.S. Department of Transportation. Four years[...]
Walls are Witnesses: Celebrating Black History Month in Chicago
1212 E. 59th Street, Chicago, 60637
Feb 04, 2025
5:30pm
– 6:45pm
CST
From Afrofuturist visions of space travel to the invention of house music, Black Chicagoans have made essential contributions to our culture, our technology, and our everyday lives. What does the changing national zeitgeist and local cityscape — from reverse migration to places like Atlanta to[...]
Jon Tester | I Have Never Fit In Here
5707 S Woodlawn Ave,
Feb 05, 2025
12:30pm
– 1:45pm
CST
IOP Pritzker Fellow Jon Tester on "I Have Never Fit In Here"
THIS SEMINAR IS OPEN TO CURRENT UCHICAGO STUDENTS ONLY
Wednesday, February 5
12:30-1:45pm
How did I go from farmland to the United States Senate, and how did the world change after I landed in Washington in 2007? How did[...]
Xochitl Torres Small | On Losing: What Can We Learn at Our Lowest Moment?
5707 S Woodlawn Ave,
Feb 05, 2025
3:30pm
– 4:45pm
CST
IOP Pritzker Fellow Xochitl Torres Small on "On Losing: What Can We Learn at Our Lowest Moment?"
THIS SEMINAR IS OPEN TO CURRENT UCHICAGO STUDENTS ONLY
Wednesday, February 5
3:30-4:45pm
I started my career as a field organizer in New Mexico’s colonias and decided to run for Congress[...]
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