The Mansueto Institute hosts a robust schedule of lectures, conferences, and events, including a biweekly colloquium series, to support the exchange of new ideas and developments related to urban innovation and the science behind cities. We invite you to explore our calendar of upcoming events. Watch past events hosted on the Mansueto Institute YouTube page.
Events Calendar
| October 6, 2022 9:00am-3:30 pm CT |
Forced Migration & the Mental Health & Wellbeing of Children, Youth, & Families |
Ida Noyes, 3rd Floor Theater, 1212 E. 59th Street Register (space limited) |
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October 7, 2022 12:00-1:00pm CT |
TIWG Forced Migration Speaker Series: Aimee Hilado, Assistant Professor Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice |
Virtual Event |
| October 12, 2022 12:30-1:30pm CT |
Mansueto Lunch Colloquium – Speaker TBA |
Hybrid Event 1155 E. 60th St., Room 142 Zoom registration forthcoming
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| October 25, 2022 7pm CT |
The Impact of Urban Development on Human Health |
Virtual Event |
| October 26, 2022 12:30-1:30pm CT |
Mansueto Lunch Colloquium – Speaker TBA |
Hybrid Event 1155 E. 60th St., Room 142 Zoom registration forthcoming
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November 4, 2022 12:00-1:00pm CT |
TIWG Forced Migration Speaker Series: Ben Austen, Lecturer, Division of the Humanities in Creative Writing at the University of Chicago |
Virtual Event Zoom registration forthcoming |
| November 9, 2022 12:30-1:30pm CT |
Mansueto Lunch Colloquium – Speaker TBA |
Hybrid Event 1155 E. 60th St., Room 142 Zoom registration forthcoming
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| November 11, 2022 12:30-1:30pm CT |
Mansueto Lunch Colloquium – Fellow TBA |
Hybrid Event In person location TBA Zoom registration forthcoming
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| November 30, 2022 12:30-1:30pm CT |
“Remote Work and City Structure,” Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor, Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics at the University of Chicago |
Hybrid Event 1155 E. 60th St., Room 101 (Mansueto Lounge) Zoom registration forthcoming
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December 2, 2022 12:00-1:00pm CT |
TIWG Forced Migration Speaker Series: Jeannie Annan, Senior Research Associate at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy and Chief Research and Innovation Officer for the International Rescue Committee |
Virtual Event Zoom registration forthcoming |
| July 19-22 | IC2S2 Conference – 8th International Conference on Computational Social Science | Harper Center of the Booth School of Business, University of Chicago |
| 6/16/2022 9 am |
Breakfast Colloquium – “Spatial Restructuring: Urbanization and Urban Systems in China” – Ming Lu, Professor of Economics at Shanghai Jiao Tong University |
Hybrid Event 1155 E. 60th Street, Mansueto Institute Lounge, or via Zoom |
| 6/1/2022-6/3/2022 |
MetroLab Summit |
David Rubenstein Forum, University of Chicago, 1201 E. 60th Street
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| 5/19/2022 from 6:30-8:30 pm | Trauma Interest Work Group Film Festival Minding the Gap – by Bing Liu |
In-Person: 1155 E. 60th St., Room 142
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| 5/16/2022 |
Kreisman for Housing Law and Policy Symposium – “Beyond the Single-Family Home: Zoning, Equity, and Access” |
David Rubenstein Forum, University of Chicago, 1201 E. 60th Street |
| 5/13/22 from 10 am – 3 pm |
Ecopod @ DuSable Museum for Green City Day |
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| 5/12/22 from 6:30-8:30 pm | Trauma Interest Work Group Film Festival Deej, Speaker: Ralph Savarese – by Robert Rooy | |
| 5/5/22 from 6:30-8:30 pm | Trauma Interest Work Group Film Festival Any Given Day – by Margaret Byrne | |
| 4/28/22 from 6:30-8:30 pm | Trauma Interest Work Group Film Festival It Shoudda Been Me – by Doriane Miller | |
| 4/22/22 from 12-1 pm |
Trauma Interest Work Group Brown Bag: “Capitalizing on Crisis: Chicago Policy Responses to Homicide Waves” – Robert Vargas, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago |
Event Recording |
| 4/20/2022 from 12:30-1:30pm CT | Mansueto Lunch Colloquium: “Strategic COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution Can Simultaneously Elevate Social Utility and Equity” – Fengli Xu, Institute Postdoctoral Fellow & Knowledge Lab Postdoctoral Scholar |
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| 4/15/2022 from 12-1pm CT |
Trauma Interest Working Group Brown Bag: “Listening to Community: The Origins of the Wellness Resilience Arts Program (WRAP)” – Doriane C. Miller, Director, Center for Community Health and Vitality and Professor of Medicine at University of Chicago |
Event Recording |
| 4/8/2022 |
Environmental Data Science Lunch Colloquium (Hosted by Data Science for Energy and Environmental Research Program) – “Mapping Informal Settlements in Sub-Saharan Africa” – Nico Marchio, Research Data Scientist, Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation |
Event Recording |
| 4/6/2022 from 12:30 to 1:20pm CT | Mansueto Lunch Colloquium – “Divergent Definitions? How Social Network Analysis Detects ‘Gangs’ and What It Means for Policing” – Alex Ciomek, Institute Postdoctoral Fellow & Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice Postdoctoral Scholar |
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| 3/25/2022 from 12:00-1:00pm CT | Distinguished Speaker Colloquium on Biological Sciences and Climate Change – “Managing Landscapes to Reduce the Triple Anthropocene Threat” – Claire Kremen, Professor and President’s Excellence Chair in Biodiversity at University of British Columbia |
Event Recording |
| 3/23/2022 from 12:30 to 1:20pm CT | Mansueto Lunch Colloquium – “How Racial Heterogeneity in Contextual Frames Subvert Choice-Based Policies: The Case of Community Crime and School Enrollment in Los Angeles County,” Jared Schachner, Institute Postdoctoral Fellow & Sociology Postdoctoral Scholar |
Event Recording |
| 3/11/2022 from 12:00-1:00pm CT | Distinguished Speaker Colloquium on Biological Sciences and Climate Change – “Adaptation Response to Climate Change: Evidence for Public Health,” Sari Kovats, Associate Professor in the Department of Public Health, Environments and Society at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine | Event Recording |
| 3/9/2022 from 12:30 to 1:20pm CT |
Mansueto Lunch Colloquium – “The Creation of Urban Hinterlands: An Archaeological Perspective from Turkey, 3000 BCE-1900 CE,” Michele Massa – Institute Postdoctoral Fellow & Oriental Institute Postdoctoral Scholar |
Event Recording |
| 2/25/2022 from 12:00 to 1:00pm CT |
Trauma Interest Working Group Brown Bag Session with Dr. Candice Norcott – “Mental Health & Reproductive Justice: Binding our Liberation Together” |
Event Recording |
| 2/23/2022 from 12:30 to 1:30pm CT |
Mansueto Lunch Colloquium – “Where did Redlining Matter?: Regional Heterogeneity and the Uneven Distribution of Advantage” Wenfei Xu, Institute Postdoctoral Fellow & Center for Spatial Data Science Postdoctoral Scholar | Event Recording |
| 2/18/2022 from 12:00 to 1:00pm CT | Distinguished Speaker Colloquium on Biological Sciences and Climate Change – Actions on the Climate Crisis offer Major and Immediate Health Gains Virtual Event | Event Recording |
| 2/9/2022 from 12:30 to 1:30pm CT |
Mansueto Lunch Colloquium: Chris Esposito, Institute & Knowledge Lab Postdoctoral Fellow | Online |
| 2/4/2022 from 1:30 to 2:00pm CT |
EFCampus Student Information Session – Research Assistant Positions Summer 2022 | Event Recording |
| 1/20/2022 from 2:00 to 4:00pm CT |
Chicago’s Array of Things: Pioneering Intelligent Urban Sensing | Online |
| 12/1/2021 from 12:30 to 1:30pm CT | Mansueto Lunch Colloquium: Stuart Lynn and Dylan Halpern – A New Forever Open Platform for Spatial Data Analysis | Event Recording |
| 11/10/2021 from 12:30 to 1:30pm CT | Mansueto Lunch Colloquium: Madeleine Daepp – The Design and Deployment of a Chicago Air Quality Sensing Network | Event Recording |
| 10/28/21 from 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM CT | Luis Bettencourt Book Talk – Introduction to Urban Science | Online |
| 10/27/2021 from 12:30 to 1:30pm CT | Mansueto Lunch Colloquium: Lav Varshney – Graph Augmentation for Equitable Access via Reinforcement Learning | Event Recording |
| 10/13/2021 from 12:30 to 1:30pm CT | Mansueto Lunch Colloquium: Francis “Alvin” Pearman – Gentrification, Educational Inequality, and the Future of Urban Schooling |
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5/18/2021 from 4:10 to 5:30pm CT
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Chicago Futures: The Data-Driven City with Luis Bettencourt
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Online |
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5/17/2021 at 12:30pm CT
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Occupations: A Collective, A Pedagogy, A Politics
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Online |
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5/13/2021 at 9:30am CT
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The Formation of Fin de Siècle Vienna
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Online |
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5/7/2021 from 12:00 – 1:00pm CT
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Trauma Interest Working Group Speaker Series featuring Tynisha Jointer from CPS on the Power of Space in the Midst of Harm
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View event recording here |
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4/20/2021 from 10:00-11:00pm CT
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EFCampus Student Project Showcase: students-staff-faculty partner to address campus sustainability
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Online |
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4/9/2021 from 12:00 -1:00pm CT
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Trauma Interest Working Group Speaker Series featuring Dr. Emiliana Vegas, Co-Director of the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution, on the Unequal Impact of COVID-19 School Closures Globally
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Online |
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3/30/2021 from 1:00 – 4:00pm CT
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Research Center for Computing Mind Bytes From AI to Quantum Computing: Towards a Transformative Research Ecosystem
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3/22/2021 from 8:00 – 9:00am CT
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Global Urban Network Seminar Series: Building Sustainable Cities at the Neighbourhood Scale featuring Luis Bettencourt
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| 3/17/2021 from 12:30-1:30pm CT | Lunch Colloqium: “Ancient Cities in their Ecological and Socio-Political Landscapes: a Case Study from Turkey” featuring Michele Massa, Mansueto Fellow and Oriental Institute Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Chicago | Online |
| 3/10/2021 from 12:30 – 1:30pm CT | Lunch Colloqium: “Neighborhood Effects in the 21st Century: Disadvantage, Density and the Spatial Distribution of Institutional Resources” featuring Jared Schachner, Mansueto Fellow and Sociology Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Chicago | Online |
| 3/8/2021 from 1:00 – 2:00pm CT | EFCampus Undergrad Summer RA Info Session | Online |
| 3/5/2021 from 12:00 – 1:00pm CT | Trauma Interest Working Group Speaker Series: Rebecca Winthrop, Center for Universal Education, Brookings Institution | Online |
| 2/24/2021 from 9:00 – 10:00am CT | Brunch Colloquium: “COVID-19 Risks in Urban Space: A Human Mobility Perspective” featuring Fengli Xu, Mansueto Fellow & Knowledge Lab Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Chicago | Online |
| 2/12/2021 from 12:00 – 1:00pm CT | Trauma Interest Working Group Speaker Series: Dr. Valerie Adams-Bass, University of Virginia Curry School of Education | Online |
| 2/10/2021 from 1:00 – 2:00pm CT | Art of Captivity Book Launch with Jon Lee Anderson of The New Yorker | Online |
| 2/8/2021 at 3:00pm CT | CDAC Distinguished Speaker Series: Brian Christian, “The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values” | Online |
| 1/22/2021 from 12:00 – 1:00pm CT | “Reopening K-12 Schools during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Equity, Ethical and Policy Considerations” Trauma Interest Workgroup Speaker Series: Lainie Friedman Ross, MD, PhD | Online |
| 1/11/2020 at 1:15pm – 2:00pm CT | CDAC Rising Stars in Data Science Workshop: Interdisciplinary Data Science Panel with Luis Bettencourt | Online |
| 12/9/2020 from 9:00 – 10:00am CT | Brunch Colloquium: Shenjing He, The University of Hong Kong | Online |
| 11/18/2020 from 12:30 – 1:30pm CT | Storytelling with Urban Data Visualizations: A Chicago Studies Data in Dialogue session with Nicholas Marchio | Online |
| 11/18/2020 from 12:30 – 1:30pm CT | Lunch Colloquium: Geoff Boeing, USC Urban Data Lab | Online |
| 11/04/2020 from 9:00 – 10:00am CT | “The effect of urban environmental features on mental and physical health,” by The Centre for Urban Mental Health, featuring Prof. Marc Berman | Online |
| 10/30/2020 from 8:00 – 9:45am CT | Local Innovations, SDGs and COVID-19: World Cities Day 2020 presented by the UN-Habitat New York Liaison Office, featuring Prof. Luis Bettencourt | Online |
| 10/28/2020 from 1:00 – 2:00pm CT | Lunch Colloquium: Nico Marchio, Research Data Scientist, Mansueto Institute | Online |
| 10/21/2020 from 12:30 – 1:30pm CT | Lunch Colloquium: Dr. Hannes Taubenböck, German Aerospace Center | Online |
| 10/19/2020 from 14:00 – 15:15pm UTC (9:00 – 10:15am CT) | UN World Data Forum: The Million Neighborhoods Map and OpenReblock: Spatial data-driven processes and tools to accelerate sustainable and equitable human development in fast-growing cities | Online |
| 10/14/2020 from 1:30 – 2:30pm CT | Design and the Post-Pandemic City: A conversation with Bruce Mau | Online |
| 9/16/2020 from 8:00-9:30am CT | Becoming Urban: Complexities in Contemporary Developing Cities | Online |
| 9/9/2020 from 3:00-4:00pm CT | Student Q&A: Certificate Program in Urban Science and Sustainable Development | Online |
| 7/21/2020 at 3pm ET (2pm CT) | US COVID Atlas: Exploring Data to Move to Action | Online |
| 7/15/2020 at 5:00-6:00pm ET (4:00-5:00pm CT) | AESS 2020 Conference: “Environmental Frontiers: Collaborative Campus Sustainability at the University of Chicago” | Online |
| 7/5/2020 at 17:15 UTC (12:15 CT) | State of the Map 2020: Detecting Informal Settlements via Topological Analysis | Online |
| 6/4/2020 from 12 – 1pm CT | Lunch Colloquium: Victoria Romeo Aznar, Mansueto Institute Postdoctoral Fellow & Evolution and Ecology Postdoctoral Scholar | Online |
| 5/22/2020 from 12:00 – 1:00pm | Food in Focus: Global Hunger and the COVID Pandemic | Online |
| 4/23/2020 from 5-6pm | 50th Anniversary of Earth Day Virtual Happy Hour | Online |
| 3/10/2020 from 12:30 – 1:30pm | Lunch Colloquium: Benjamin Fogarty-Valenzuela, Institute Postdoctoral Fellow & Sociology Postdoctoral Scholar | Searle Chemical Lab, Room 240A |
| 3/5/2020 from 12:00 – 1:30pm | Lunch Colloquium: Tamma Carleton, Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC) | Searle Chemical Lab, Room 240A |
| 2/28/2020 – 3/1/2020 | Inter-Policy School Summit: Climate Change and Urban Adaptation | Harris School of Public Policy |
| 2/20/2020 from 12:00 – 1:30pm | Lunch Colloquium: Diego Rybski, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research | Searle Chemical Lab, Room 240A |
| 2/12/2020 from 4:30 – 6:30pm | The Million Neighborhoods Network: Localizing Sustainable Development Through Better Connected Communities (WUF10 Networking Event) | Abu Dhabi Exhibition Center, Hall 2, Room 9, NE 149 |
| 2/11/2020 from 7:00 – 9:00pm | Chicago WUF10 Reception (Hosted by Mansueto Institute and Chicago Council on Global Affairs) | Relax@12 at Aloft Hotel, Abu Dhabi |
| 2/5/2020 from 12:30 – 1:30pm | Lunch Colloquium: Anni Beukes, Institute Resident Fellow | Searle Chemical Lab, Room 240B |
| 1/28/2020 from 12:30 – 1:30pm | Lunch Colloquium: Nicole Rosner, Institute Postdoctoral Fellow & Anthropology Postdoctoral Scholar | Searle Chemical Lab, Room 240A |
| 1/21/2020 at 6pm | Urban Readers Series: Lee Anne Fennell – “Slices and Lumps: Division and Aggregation in Law and Life” | Seminary Co-op Bookstore |
| 1/21/2020 at 5:30 – 7:30pm | Race, Space, and the Built Environment: Exploring the Intersection of Place and Social (in)Justice | University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration, 969 E. 60th St |
| 1/14/2020 from 6:00 – 9:30pm | Chi Hack Night presents Million Neighborhoods: Mapping Slums on a Global Scale | Braintree office, 222 W. Merchandise Mart Plaza, 8th Floor, Chicago, IL 60654 |
| 1/14/2020 from 12:30 – 1:30pm | Lunch Colloquium: Kyoung Whan Choe, Institute Postdoctoral Fellow & Psychology Postdoctoral Scholar | Searle Chemical Lab, Room 240A |
| 12/4/2019 | Lunch Colloquium: Christof Brandtner, Institute Postdoctoral Fellow & Sociology Postdoctoral Scholar, Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation | Searle Chemical Lab, Room 240B |
| 12/3/2020 | Motown’s Makeover: What Worked, and for Whom? | Ida Noyes Hall |
| 11/20/2019 | Lunch Colloquium: Daniel Zünd, Institute Postdoctoral Fellow & Evolution and Ecology Postdoctoral Scholar, Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation | Searle Chemical Lab, Room 240B |
| 11/13/2019 | Urban Readers Series: George Galster – “Making Our Neighborhoods, Making Our Selves” | School of Social Service Administration Library |
| 11/6/2019 | Lunch Colloquium: Deborah Strumsky, Assistant Research Professor, ASU-SFI Center for Biosocial Complex Systems | Searle Chemical Lab, Room 240B |
| 10/25/2019 | Urban Readers Series: Angela S. García – “Legal Passing: Navigating Undocumented Life and Local Immigration Law” | Seminary Co-op Bookstore |
| 10/23/2019 – 10/25/2019 | Global Symposium on Sustainable Cities and Neighborhoods | University of Chicago |
| 10/16/2019 | Lunch Colloquium: Devin White, Manager, Autonomous Sensing & Perception, Sandia National Laboratories | Searle Chemical Lab, Room 240B |
| 7/15/2019 – 7/26/2019 | Global Sustainability Summer School (GSSS) | Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM |
| 7/1/2019 | Lunch Colloquium: Dr. Charlotta Mellander, Professor of Economics at Jönköping International Business School, Jönköping University | Searle Chemical Laboratory, 240A |
| 6/13/2019 | Lunch Colloquium: Dr. J. W. Hanson, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Classics, University of Reading | Searle Chemical Laboratory, 240B |
| 6/4/2019 | Lunch Colloquium: Dr. Celine Rozenblat, Professor of Urban Geography, University of Lausanne | Searle Chemical Laboratory, 240B |
| 5/7/2019 | Lunch Colloquium: Dr. Daniel T. O’Brien, Associate Professor, Northeastern University | Searle Chemical Laboratory, 240B |
| 4/16/2019 | Lunch Colloquium: Dr. Roland Fletcher, Professor of Theoretical and World History, University of Sydney | Searle Chemical Laboratory, 240B |
| 4/15/2019 | Lunch Colloquium: Dr. Haneen Khreis, Assistant Research Scientist, Texas A&M Transport Institute | Searle Chemical Laboratory, 240B |
| 4/4/2019 | Panel Discussion “Revisiting a Trailblazing Text: Robert Park and Ernest Burgess’ The City” | Regenstein Library |
| 3/13/2019 | Mansueto Institute Lecture: The Kind of Problem a City Is | University of Chicago, Hong Kong Center |
| 2/14/2019 | Mansueto Mapathon: One Million Neighborhoods Initiative | Searle Chemical Laboratory, 240B |
| 1/16/2019 | Kreisman Panel Discussion: Space, Equity, and Lessons Learned from the Housing Field | International House, University of Chicago |
| 11/30/2018 | Lunch Colloquium: Rongjun Qin | Searle Chemical Laboratory, 240A |
| 11/4/2018 | San Francisco Harper Lecture: The Kind of Problem a City Is | San Francisco, CA |
| 11/1/2018 | Citizenship, Migration, and Urban Space Symposium | Chicago Cultural Center |
| 10/30/2018 | Urban Innovations Series: A Conversation on the Future of Cities | Oriental Institute Museum, University of Chicago |
| 7/19/2018 | Lunch Colloquium with Juval Portugali: Complexity, Cognition, Information, and the City | University of Chicago |
| 5/15/2018 | Roundtable Discussion: Housing and Racism in the Age of Trump and Grenfell | National Public Housing Museum, Chicago |
| 5/2018 | Urban Innovations Series: Designing Re-entry for Women and Cities | Chicago Cultural Center |
These convenings are open to all invitees who are compliant with UChicago vaccination requirements and, because of ongoing health risks, particularly to the unvaccinated, participants are expected to adopt the risk mitigation measures (masking and social distancing, etc.) appropriate to their vaccination status as advised by public health officials or to their individual vulnerabilities as advised by a medical professional. Public convening may not be safe for all and carries a risk for contracting COVID-19, particularly for those unvaccinated. Participants will not know the vaccination status of others and should follow appropriate risk mitigation measures.