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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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Oct 15 2024

Queer & Trans Studies Working Group Meeting

Tuesday, 2:00 pm–3:00 pm
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building
Oct 16 2024

Core Stories in the Anthropocene with Professor Francine McCarthy

Wednesday 16th, 8:30 am–Friday 18th, 12:00 pm
Art and Exhibition Hall
Oct 23 2024

"Prophetic Strength and Prophetic Weakness in the Face of Catastrophe" with Professor Yosefa Raz

Wednesday, 3:00 pm–4:30 pm
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building
Oct 28 2024

How Civil Rights Won the White House: Harry Truman, Hubert Humphrey, A. Philip Randolph and the Breakthrough of 1948

Monday, 2:00 pm–3:30 pm
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building
Oct 29 2024

Queer & Trans Studies Working Group Meeting

Tuesday, 2:00 pm–3:00 pm
UIC Gender and Sexuality Center Flex Space, 183 Behavioral Sciences Building
Nov 1 2024

Exclusive Screening of The Master and Margarita: Adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel

Friday, 7:00 pm–10:00 pm
Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
Nov 7 2024

Faculty Fellow Lecture Series: Lynn Hudson, History, "Troubled Waters: Segregated Swimming in American Cities, 1914-1954"

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:30 pm
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building
Nov 8 2024

UIC Program for Writers Graduate Student Fall Reading

Friday, 4:00 pm–5:30 pm
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building
Nov 12 2024

Queer & Trans Studies Working Group Meeting

Tuesday, 2:00 pm–3:00 pm
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building
Nov 13 2024

Resident Graduate Scholar Seminar: Themal Ellawala, Anthropology “When Ephemera Bind: On Negative & Positive Space and Queer Relationality in Sri Lanka”

Wednesday, 2:00 pm–4:00 pm
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building

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