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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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Dr. Mary Beth Rose

The Institute for the Humanities is sorry to share the news that former Director of the Institute and Professor Emerita of English Mary Beth Rose died peacefully on December 17, 2024. Her energy, leadership, brilliance, and kindness made an indelible mark on the Institute, on UIC, and on many other communities, and our thoughts are especially with those who had the great pleasure of knowing and working with her. Please see this lovely obituary which gives a sense of her rich life and many achievements and contributions.

We will update as plans for a memorial develop.

She will be deeply missed.

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Jan 22 2025

Crip Spacetime Access, Failure, and Accountability in Academic Life: A book talk with Margaret Price

Wednesday, 3:30 pm–5:00 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: The Environmental Turn"

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:30 pm
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building
Jan 29 2025

Anthropocene Lab Reading Group

Wednesday, 4:00 pm–6:00 pm
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building
Feb 11 2025

As the Dust of the Earth: The Literature of Abandonment in Revolutionary Russia and Ukraine: A book talk by the author Dr. Harriet Murav

Tuesday, 6:00 pm–8:00 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 3 2025

Global Middle East Studies Inaugural Annual Symposium

Thursday, 9:00 am–6:00 pm
UIC Institute for Humanities, Suite 153
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
Apr 22 2025

Institute Spring Reception

Tuesday, 3:00 pm–5:00 pm
Behavioral Sciences Building

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