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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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Mar 31 2025

8th Ibero-American Film Festival

3/31/25, 3:00 pm–4/4/25, 5:00 pm
1501 University Hall
Apr 1 2025

Multicausal Migrations: The Environmental and Policy Disasters That Drive Migration From Central America to the United States

Tuesday, 3:30 pm–5:00 pm
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building
Apr 1 2025

Chicago Humanities Fest: Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson on Abundance - A paradigm-shifting call to rethink our most entrenched problems

Tuesday, 7:00 pm–8:15 pm
UIC Isadore and Sadie Dorin Forum
Apr 2 2025

Russell Sage Foundation Campus Visit

Wednesday, 9:00 am–4:00 pm
UIC Student Center East - Room 301/ UIC Institute for Humanities
Apr 3 2025

Global Middle East Studies Inaugural Annual Symposium

Thursday, 9:30 am–7:00 pm
UIC Institute for Humanities, Suite 153
Apr 9 2025

Faculty Fellowship Lunch and Workshop

Wednesday, 12:00 pm–5:00 pm
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building
Apr 10 2025

Queer & Trans Studies Working Group Co-Working Session

Thursday, 12:30 pm–1:30 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: on Palestine, China, and the Circulation in Between"

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:30 pm
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building
Apr 11 2025

Poetry Performance Translation Now!

Friday, 11:00 am–4:00 pm
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building
Apr 17 2025

LAWSCAPES

Thursday 17th, 4:00 pm–Friday 18th, 6:00 pm
Art and Exhibition Hall, Gallery 400 Lecture Room

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