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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Mar
25
2024
Elastic Empire: Refashioning War through Aid in Palestine - A book talk with Lisa Bhungalia
Monday, 12:00 pm–1:30 pm
Institute for the Humanities. Behavioral Sciences Building. Suite 153
Mar
26
2024
Resident Graduate Scholar Seminar Series: Shilpa Menon, Department of Anthropology, "You Must Learn to Jostle in Like Us": Governance, Cis Feminists, and Trans Politics
Tuesday, 2:00 pm–4:00 pm
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building
Mar
29
2024
Spiraling towards autocratic abyss: The turbulent journey of Bangladesh
Friday, 10:00 am–11:30 am
Virtual and Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building
Mar
29
2024
Speculative Fiction From the Global South: From Science Fiction to Futurism in Peruvian Literature
Friday, 4:00 pm–6:00 pm
UH 1501
Apr
2
2024
Resident Graduate Scholar Seminar Series: Dipti Sherchan, Department of Anthropology "A Government for Artists: Making Modern Art/Institution under Monarchy"
Tuesday, 2:00 pm–4:00 pm
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building
Apr
4
2024
Navigating "Alli"ship: Notes on Queer Methods and Research Fatigue from Kerala, India
Thursday, 3:30 pm–5:30 pm
Institute for the Humanities, Behavioral Sciences Building
Apr
9
2024
Until I Find You: A Roundtable
Tuesday, 3:30 pm–5:00 pm
1550 University Hall
Apr
10
2024
Book Talk and Conversation with Nouri Gana on Melancholy Acts: Defeat and Cultural Critique in the Arab World
Wednesday, 2:00 pm–3:30 pm
Arab American Cultural Center, 101 Taft Hall
Apr
10
2024
SEENEXT talk: Strange but Familiar: Connected Histories between Poland and Vietnam after 1955
Wednesday, 5:00 pm–7:30 pm
Institute for the Humanities. Behavioral Sciences Building
Apr
11
2024
A Second Sight
Thursday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building
Apr
11
2024
Between Banat: Queer Arab Critique and Transnational Arab Archives
Thursday, 3:00 pm–4:30 pm
101 Taft Hall
Apr
11
2024
dear elia: Letters from the Asian American Abyss: A book event with Mimi Khúc
Thursday, 4:30 pm–6:00 pm
Daley Library 1-470
Apr
12
2024
Ellen Jovin's Grammar Table at UIC
Friday, 10:00 am–2:00 pm
East Campus Quad
Apr
12
2024
Latinx Literature Now!: Translation, Performance, Documentary
Friday, 11:00 am–3:00 pm
Institute for the Humanities
Apr
12
2024
Surviving Academic Hyperproductivity: A conversation for instructors with Mimi Khúc
Friday, 11:00 am–12:00 pm
Women’s Leadership and Resource Center, 1700 SSB
Apr
17
2024
Creations: Paradise Lost, the Popol Vuh, and the Diné Bahane' in Dialogue
Wednesday, 11:00 am–12:30 pm
Institute for the Humanities. Behavioral Sciences Building
Apr
18
2024
“Athletic warriors – warlike athletes? On the relationship between sport and war in ancient Greece”
Thursday, 4:00 pm–6:00 pm
Institute for the Humanities, Behavioral Sciences Building
Apr
23
2024
Institute Spring Reception
Tuesday, 3:00 pm–5:00 pm
Behavioral Sciences Building