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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Oct
4
2023
Faculty Fellows Lecture Series: Nasser Mufti, English, "Britain’s Nineteenth Century, 1963-4"
Wednesday, 4:00 pm–6:00 pm
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building
Oct
11
2023
Sink or Swim. Humanities and Arts in the Anthropocene
Wednesday, 2:00 pm–6:00 pm
Behavioral Sciences Building
Oct
12
2023
Faculty Fellows Lecture Series: Joaquín M. Chávez, History, “Avant-Garde Diplomacy and Cold War Politics in Latin America: The Joint French-Mexican Declaration on El Salvador”
Thursday, 4:00 pm–6:00 pm
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building
Oct
13
2023
SEENEXT talk: Vladimir Putin’s Aggression and Suicide: The Cultural-Interactionist Perspective
Friday, 3:00 pm–5:30 pm
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building
Oct
17
2023
Endured/Chosen Communities
Tuesday, 1:45 pm–6:00 pm
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
Oct
19
2023
At Home with the Collective: A Summit on Communal Housing
Thursday 19th, 10:00 am–Friday 20th, 5:00 pm
1100 Architecture + Design Studios
Oct
24
2023
Kenan Malik In Conversation with David Stovall and Ken Warren
Tuesday, 4:00 pm–6:00 pm
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building
Nov
6
2023
Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable
Monday, 4:00 pm–5:30 pm
Behavioral Sciences Building
Nov
7
2023
Child Migration Across the Americas
Tuesday, 9:00 am–5:00 pm
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building
Nov
15
2023
Writing and Publishing Symposium with UI Press
Wednesday, 8:30 am–2:00 pm
Institute for the Humanities,153 Behavioral Sciences Building
Feb
1
2024
Faculty Fellows Lecture Series: Mario J. LaMothe, Black Studies and Anthropology, "Vodou Rich Bodies: Dance, Dedoublaj, and Imagined Identities"
Thursday, 4:00 pm–6:00 pm
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building
Feb
20
2024
Resident Graduate Scholar Seminar Series: Shilpa Menon, Department of Anthropology
Tuesday, 2:00 pm–4:00 pm
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building
Feb
22
2024
Faculty Fellows Lecture Series: Clare S. Kim, History and Global Asian Studies, "The Modern Subject: Transpacific Exchanges and the Racial Politics of Mathematics in America"
Thursday, 4:00 pm–6:00 pm
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building
Feb
27
2024
Resident Graduate Scholar Seminar Series: Dipti Sherchan, Department of Anthropology
Tuesday, 2:00 pm–4:00 pm
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building
Mar
7
2024
Faculty Fellows Lecture Series: S. Elise Archias, Art History, "Facing the Death of the Subject: Joan Mitchell and Melvin Edwards"
Thursday, 4:00 pm–6:00 pm
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building
Mar
12
2024
Faculty Fellows Lecture Series: Penelope Dean, Architecture, "Management as Design"
Tuesday, 4:00 pm–6:00 pm
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building
Apr
23
2024
Institute Spring Reception
Tuesday, 3:00 pm–5:00 pm
Behavioral Sciences Building