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

Sep 16 2026

Undergraduate Research Open House

Wednesday, 12:00 pm–2:00 pm
Institute for the Humanities, BSB 153
Oct 6 2026

Faculty Fellow Lecture Series: Francesco Marullo, Associate Professor, School of Architecture, "A Project of Distance. Bertolt Brecht's Chicago and the Architecture of Production"

Tuesday, 4:00 pm–5:30 pm
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building
Oct 14 2026

What I Wish I Knew Before I Published My First Book

Wednesday, 1:00 pm–3:00 pm
Institute for the Humanities, BSB 153
Nov 5 2026

Resident Graduate Scholar Seminar: Noah Blakemore-Briggs, Political Science, "Spectral Sovereignties: Modern American Spiritualism and the New American Polity"

Thursday, 2:00 pm–4:00 pm
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building
Nov 11 2026

Faculty Fellow Lecture Series: Liat Ben-Moshe, Associate Professor, Criminology, Law and Justice, "The Politics of Disability, Militarized Colonialism and Incarceration in Israel/Palestine"

Wednesday, 2:00 pm–4:00 pm
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building
Feb 10 2027

Faculty Fellow Lecture Series: Keely Stauter-Halsted, Professor, History, "Refugees and the End of Empire: Constructing Citizen Subjectivity in the Polish Second Republic"

Wednesday, 4:00 pm–5:30 pm
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building
Mar 4 2027

Faculty Fellow Lecture Series: Michelle Lee, Assistant Professor, Global Asian Studies, "Refiguring Asian America: Gender, Sexuality, and the Visuality of Race"

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:30 pm
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building
Mar 11 2027

Resident Graduate Scholar Seminar: Ritu Ghosh, Anthropology, "Legislating Reproductive Labor: Altruistic Surrogacy in Contemporary India"

Thursday, 2:00 pm–4:00 pm
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building
Mar 16 2027

Faculty Fellow Lecture Series: Patrisia Macias-Rojas, Associate Professor, Sociology, Latin American and Latino Studies, "Justice Across Borders: Everyday Practices of Security, Sovereignty, and Belonging Twenty Years After the Creation of the Department of Homeland Security"

Tuesday, 4:00 pm–5:30 pm
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building
Apr 8 2027

Faculty Fellow Lecture Series: Manoucheka Celeste, Associate Professor, Gender and Women's Studies, "When Black Women Wail: Communicating Citizenship in Life and Death"

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