Film screening and discussion | Your Inner Fish

Thursday, April 3, 2014 | Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, Performance Hall, 915 East 60th Street, Chicago, IL - 60637

6:30 p.m | Free admission. Seating will be on a first-come, first-serve basis. However, to help gauge attendance for the event, please RSVP here. 

Your middle ear comes from the jawbone of a prehistoric fish. Your skin and hair can be traced to a shrew-like mammal that lived around 195 million years ago. As for your bad back--well, you can thank your primate ancestors for that. How did the human body become the complicated, quirky and amazing machine it is today?

Follow the scientific adventure story in Your Inner Fish, a new PBS series premiering April 9 at 10/9C that takes a fresh look at human evolution. Produced by Tangled Bank Studies and Windfall Films, the series is based on the best-selling book of the same name by University of Chicago paleontologist and evolutionary biologist Neil Shubin. Using fossils, embryos and genes, Shubin reveals how our bodies are the legacy of ancient fish, reptiles and primates - the ancestors you never knew were in your family tree. This program will feature the first episode of the three-part science series.

A discussion with Neil Shubin and the Field Museum's distinguished service curator Lance Grande follows the 60-minute screening.

Film | How to Survive a Plague

Friday, January 17, 2014 | 
Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, Film Screening Room, 
915 East 60th Street
Chicago, IL 60637

6:00 p.m | 
Free admission.
Seating will be on a first-come, first-served basis.
 However, to help gauge attendance for the event, please RSVP here.

How to Survive a Plague is an award-winning film story about the inspiring young people who created the most powerful social movement of our time, saving their own lives & millions more.

Director David France's film How To Survive A Plague has been hailed by the New York Times as a "moving and meticulous documentary about AIDS activism in the late 80s and early 90s," and won Best Documentary at the 2012 Gotham Independent Film Awards. It tells the story of how AIDS went from a death sentence to a survivable disease. Ordinary people and organizations such as ACT UP and TAG fought for the drugs that would save millions of lives. Their story stands as a powerful inspiration to future generations, a road map, and a call to arms.

MODERATOR

Kristen Schilt
Assistant Professor in Sociology
The University of Chicago

PANELISTS

Melissa Gilliam, MD, MPH
Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Pediatrics; Chief of the Section of Family Planning & Contraceptive Research; Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion in the Biological Sciences Division; and Director of Ci3

Judy Hoffman
Filmmaker and Professor in the Cinema and Media Studies
The University of Chicago

Harold Pollack
The Helen Ross Professor of Social Service Administration
The University of Chicago