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The Institute for the Humanities at the University of Illinois Chicago seeks to foster an intellectually vital, interdisciplinary community of scholars working at one of the nation’s most exciting urban research centers. As the hub of humanities scholarship on campus, the Institute provides a forum for intellectual exchange among faculty and students at UIC and other colleges and universities in the region. At its base, the Institute for the Humanities highlights the importance of public higher education. It provides a space for vigorous debate and exchange, so crucial in a democratic society.

The UIC Institute for the Humanities celebrated its forty years of operation in 2022. It is one of the oldest humanities centers in the United States. Over the years, the Institute has become the major hub for all humanities activities on campus, creating an intellectual space in which faculty and graduate students can broaden their perspectives, conduct original research, and engage with scholars and communities both in and outside the university.

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Nov 22 2024

Just Write! Workshop

Friday, 10:00 am–3:30 pm
UIC Institute for Humanities
Nov 26 2024

Queer & Trans Studies Working Group Meeting

Tuesday, 2:00 pm–3:00 pm
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building
Jan 23 2025

Faculty Fellow Lecture Series: Young Richard Kim, Classics and Mediterranean Studies and History, "Cyprus and the Historiography of Late Antiquity"

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:30 pm
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building
Feb 19 2025

Faculty Fellow Lecture Series: Sultan Tepe, Political Science, "Regulating Morality: State and Censorship in Authoritarian Regimes"

Wednesday, 4:00 pm–5:30 pm
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building
Mar 18 2025

Resident Graduate Scholar Seminar: Katherine Brandt, English “Addictive Practices: Realism and Substance Use in the Nineteenth-Century Novel"

Tuesday, 2:00 pm–4:00 pm
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building
Apr 10 2025

Faculty Fellow Lecture Series: Kareem Rabie, Anthropology "Everywhere in the World there is a Chinatown, in China there is a Khaliltown"

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:30 pm
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building

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