Events
C2ST works on achieving its mission by hosting critical, relevant and timely public programs on a variety of topics hosted in different locations throughout Chicagoland. Check out what programs we have planned for the upcoming season and discover what programs we’ve hosted in the past. Many of our past programs are recorded and are also available on our YouTube channel, C2ST TV.
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February 28, 2019
6:00 pm
– 8:00 pm
McGowan South, Room 108, DePaul University
McGowan South, West Belden Avenue, Chicago, IL, USA
Program Series:
Life Science
Resilience, empathy, and plasticity are important parts of the human experience, but how do these traits actually emerge biologically? Read more…
November 9, 2018
6:00 pm
– 8:00 pm
Film Row Cinema, Columbia College - Chicago
Film Row Cinema, South Wabash Avenue, Chicago, IL, USA
Program Series:
Life Science
This event is a screening of the award-winning documentary Rise of the Warrior Apes, featuring a question and answer session with collaborating scientist Dr. John Mitani.
“Filmed over 23 years, Rise of the Warrior Apes tells the epic story of an extraordinary troop of chimpanzees in Ngogo, Uganda – featuring four mighty warriors who rule through moral ambiguity, questionable politics, strategic alliances, and destroyed trust. Read more…
November 8, 2018
6:00 pm
– 7:30 pm
Café Brauer, Lincoln Park Zoo
Cafe Brauer, North Stockton Drive, Chicago, IL, USA
Program Series:
Life Science
Chimpanzees and their sister species, the bonobo, are humankind’s closest living relatives. Because of this close evolutionary relationship, chimpanzees provide a model system to evaluate claims about human uniqueness. Read more…
May 23, 2018
6:00 pm
– 7:30 pm
Chicago Public Library, Harold Washington Center
400 S State St, Chicago, IL, USA
Program Series:
Life Science
The Leakey Foundation, Chicago Council on Science and Technology and Chicago Public Library present
The Origins of the Genus Homo
When did our ancestors look the way we expect the earliest members of our genus to have looked? Read more…
January 16, 2018
Pint Chicago
1547 North Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago, IL, USA
Program Series:
Life Science
Every human carries a unique individual genome. The ways in which human genomes are similar or different to one another is just now being detailed at high resolution thanks to technological advances in DNA sequencing. These new observations reveal much about our origins as humans and the evolutionary processes that shape both human adaptation and disease. Read more…
October 12, 2017
Walter Payton College Prep High School
1034 North Wells Street, Chicago, IL, USA
Program Series:
Life Science