In addition to providing faculty and graduate students intellectual space to conduct original research, the Institute for the Humanities offers a wide range of public events. Major categories of programs appear below. Specific events can also be found by looking at our event calendar.

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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
Apr 18 2025

Annual Workshop on Russian and Eurasian Modernisms: Scale

Friday 18th, 10:00 am–Saturday 19th, 2:00 pm
University of Illinois at Chicago
Apr 22 2025

Institute Spring Reception

Tuesday, 3:00 pm–5:00 pm
Behavioral Sciences Building
Apr 23 2025

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

Wednesday, 4:00 pm–5:30 pm
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building
Apr 24 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 27 2025

Chicago Humanities Fest: Jonathan Blitzer: Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here - The Making of a Crisis on the Border

Sunday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
Athenaeum Center for Thought & Culture
May 1 2025

Joseph S. Begando Lecture: Medicine in Horror/Horror in Medicine, “It was always the scene with the lumbar needle and not the exorcism”

Thursday, 1:30 pm–3:00 pm
UIC College of Medicine Research Building, Moss Auditorium
Jul 21 2025

Black Midwest Initiative (BMI) Summer Institute

Monday 21st, 9:00 am–Friday 25th, 5:00 pm
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building