Two Perspectives on Video Games
Philosopher Candace Vogler on Virtue, Happiness and the Meaning of Life
In an unassuming office on the fourth floor of Wieboldt Hall, Prof. Candace Vogler is working to answer some of the most vexing problems of human existence: Why are some people happy, and others not? What makes life good and meaningful?
Exhibit Features Archival Images of Persepolis
A new exhibition at the Oriental Institute will give visitors a rare glimpse inside the ancient city of Persepolis. “Persepolis: Images of an Empire,” which opens Oct. 13, includes archival photographs and a new multimedia presentation that document an astounding imperial complex of palaces constructed by the Persian kings Darius, Xerxes and Artaxerxes I and III, who ruled between 522 and 338 B.C. in present-day southwest Iran.
Collaborative Research Project to Examine Sources of Happiness and Personal Fulfillment
A new research project at the University of Chicago and University of South Carolina will bring together scholars from different fields to study the factors that bring about deep happiness and a sense of meaning in one’s life.
Amitav Ghosh to Deliver Berlin Family Lectures
Award-winning Indian writer Amitav Ghosh will deliver the 2015 Berlin Family Lectures on the literature, history and politics of climate change at the University of Chicago this fall.
