Past Events

Wednesday, June 12, 2008
A presentation of the 2008-2009 projects funded by the Women’s Board.

Luncheon - Women’s Athletic Club

Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Women's Board member Susan Higinbotham, and her husband Harlow, invite members of the Women’s Board to visit their Edwardian – era Japanese Tea Garden and Prairie School just east of Joliet, Illinois.

House and Garden Tour of Harlowarden

Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Ralph Ubl, Jean and Alan Frumkin Professor of Visual Arts, the Committee on Social Thought, speaking on Eugène Delacroix.

Luncheon – Chicago Club

Thursday, April 17, 2008
Robert Pape, Professor, Department of Political Science
and Director of the Program for International Security Politics.

Dinner buffet - The Arts Club

[Photo:President Robert J. and Therese Zimmer]
President Robert J. and Terese S. Zimmer attend a Women’s Board program


[Photo:Women’s Board evening program at the Art’s Club]
Women’s Board evening program at the Smart Museum
[Photo: Neil Shubin lecture]

Neil Shubin lecture at the University Club

Thursday, September 18th
Paul Sereno, Professor, Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy. Prof. Sereno will speak on his discovery of a dozen new dinosaur species, among them the world’s oldest and most primitive known dinosaur – the Eoraptor, or “dawn raptor.” His announcement last February of two distinct species of carnivorous dinosaurs, each as big as elephants, is the latest in a series of significant finds. He pieced the dinos together out of the 20-ton jumble of bones carted home from an expedition into the Sahara in 2000. His team is still sifting through the fossils unearthed there almost a decade ago, making sense of what Sereno called “one of the greatest feats in paleontology” because of the amount of material found and the harsh working conditions.

Luncheon - TBD

Thursday, October 23rd
Neil Harris, Professor Emeritus of History and of Art History will discuss his new book, to be published by the University of Chicago in the fall of 2008. It is on a Chicago subject, with interesting University of Chicago connections, and involves a now forgotten magazine published here in the 1920s and 30s, a counterpart to the New Yorker.

Luncheon - The Chicago Club

Thursday, November 12th
John Mark Hansen, Dean, Social Sciences Division, on the outcome and implications of the recent presidential election.

Cocktail Buffett - Arts Club