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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