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.

Upcoming events

Apr 17 2025

Teach In: The Assault on Science, Humanities, and Human Rights

Thursday, 3:30 pm–5:30 pm
UIC Forum, rooms DEF
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 24 2025

2025 Tracy Lecture and CAMS Award Ceremony, “Guilds and Religion the Early Roman Empire and Tang Dynasty China”

Thursday, 4:00 pm–6:30 pm
UIC Institute for the Humanities
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
May 1 2025

GWS End of Year Celebration & CECSCO Awards

Thursday, 5:00 pm–6:30 pm
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building
May 5 2025

Book Talk: Polish Jewish Culture Beyond the Capital: Centering the Periphery

Monday, 5:00 pm–7:00 pm
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building Address
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