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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Feb 26 2025

'Ceasefire': What Next for Palestine Solidarity?

Wednesday, 3:30 pm–5:00 pm
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building
Feb 26 2025

Anthropocene Lab Reading Group

Wednesday, 4:00 pm–6:00 pm
Henry Hall 106
Mar 7 2025

Writing for Money: Professional Writers Offer Career Advice to Students

Friday, 1:00 pm–3:00 pm
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building
Mar 11 2025

"Women Who Explained the World to Us: Polish Left Cultural Activists as Agents of Anti-Colonialism and Socialist Solidarity with the Global South in the Long Sixties and Beyond," Agnieszka Mrozik

Tuesday, 6:00 pm–8:00 pm
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building
Mar 12 2025

Queer and Trans Histories/Futures for Our Times, a Mini-Symposium

Wednesday, 9:30 am–1:00 pm
Institute for the Humanities, Behavioral Sciences Building
Mar 18 2025

Resident Graduate Scholar Seminar: Katherine Brandt Sartain, English “A Devilish Indian Diamond: Empire, Emplotment, and Opiates in The Moonstone"

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

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"

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
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
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