Events

Join us for a Pearson Speaker Series featuring Emma DeSouza, former women's leadership coordinator at the National Women's Council of Ireland. Northern Ireland has long enjoyed a period of sustained peace, but peace has not been felt evenly. A failure to fully implement Northern Ireland's comprehensive peace agreement, combined with decades of political instability, has limited progress in developing a positive peace. This talk will explore the successes, and challenges in addressing the legacy of Northern Ireland's conflict, looking more broadly at the role of civic society in transitioning a post-conflict society from a negative to a positive peace, alongside the role of the international community in conflict resolution. 

Tuesday, May 6
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM CT
Keller Center, Sky Suite or Online

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James A. Robinson, the renowned economist and political scientist who recently became the University of Chicago’s latest Nobel Prize winner, will deliver the 2025 Nora and Edward Ryerson Lecture.

A UChicago tradition since 1972, the Ryerson Lecture features prominent UChicago faculty members who have made “research contributions of lasting significance.” This year’s event, which will begin at 5 p.m. April 23 in the Rubenstein Forum’s Friedman Hall, is free and open to the public; it also will be webcast on UChicago digital channels. 

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Join us on April 2 for a Pearson Speaker Series event featuring Isabel Guerrero, who will discuss her journey in development work.

Isabel Guerrero is an economist and a psychoanalyst and the co-founder and Executive Director of Imago Global Grassroots, a non-profit that supports mission driven organizations scale up impact.

Wednesday, April 2
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CT
Keller Center, Room 0001
*In-person only

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