Save the Dates for Francis W. Parker School’s
2012–13 Nightviews speaker series
Parker’s Nightviews speaker series provides a forum
for conversation on world perspectives featuring talks on
current educational, political, cultural, social,
psychological and scientific issues.
All events are free and open to the public.
Upcoming events include:
The Interrupters
Free Screening and Post-Show Discussion with Kathryn Saclarides from Enlace Chicago and Violence Interrupter Eddie Bocanegra
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
7 pm | Heller Auditorium
Parker invites the school and Chicago-area community to a public screening of The Interrupters. This film is an unusually intimate journey into the stubborn persistence of violence in our cities. Shot over the course of a year out of Kartemquin Films, The Interrupters captures a period in Chicago when it became a national symbol for the violence in our cities. During that period, the city was besieged by high-profile incidents, most notably the brutal beating of Derrion Albert, a Chicago High School student, whose death was caught on videotape.
2011–12 Robert A. Pritzker
Visiting Scientist • Inventor • Engineer in Residence
Ka Yee Lee, Ph.D.
An Interdisciplinary Approach Towards the Development
of New Therapies for Treating Diseases
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
7 pm | Heller Auditorium
All are invited to a public lecture at Parker from this year’s 2011–12 Robert A. Pritzker Visiting Scientist • Inventor • Engineer in Residence Dr. Ka Yee Lee. In this talk, Dr. Lee will specifically look at how this cross-disciplinary approach has impacted our understanding of medical problems, and how knowledge gleaned from these studies has aided the development of new strategies for the treatment of various medical conditions, from helping patients with respiratory distress syndrome to breathe to sealing structurally compromised cell membranes, and from developing new drug delivery systems to elucidating regional effects of strictureplasty performed on patients with Crohn’s disease.
Francine C. Rosenberg Memorial Lecture Series presents
Michael G. Thompson, Ph.D.
Best Friends/Worst Enemies: Friendship Development,
Popularity and Social Cruelty in Childhood
Monday, May 7, 2012
7:30 pm | Heller Auditorium
The Chicago-community is invited to join together for the 14th annual Francine C. Rosenberg Memorial Lecture Series. In this lecture, Dr. Thompson will examine the complex social world of childhood. Drawing on research to highlight the differences between friendship and popularity, he will offer suggestions about the management of social problems in schools and make the case that while all children yearn for popularity, it is friendship that helps children survive and thrive.
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