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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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"

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 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