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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Sep
17
2024
Undergrad Research Open House
Tuesday, 12:00 pm–2:00 pm
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building
Sep
17
2024
Queer and Trans Studies Working Group Meeting
Tuesday, 2:00 pm–3:00 pm
UIC Gender and Sexuality Flex Space, 183 Behavioral Sciences Building
Sep
19
2024
Viet Thanh Nguyen: A Conversation about War, Art, and Justice
Thursday, 5:00 pm–7:30 pm
UIC Student Center East
Sep
23
2024
Martin Schulze Wessel: The Curse of the Empire: Ukraine, Poland, and Russian Imperialism
Monday, 5:45 pm–7:30 pm
Institute for the Humanities Behavioral Sciences Building
Sep
24
2024
Faculty Fellow Lecture Series, Emmanuel Ortega, Art History, "Taming the Wild: Franciscan Imagery and the Ideology of Domestication in Colonial Mexico"
Tuesday, 4:00 pm–5:30 pm
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building
Sep
26
2024
Cyprus and the 1974 Invasion: Views from the Diaspora
Thursday 26th, 4:00 pm–Friday 27th, 7:00 pm
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building
Sep
27
2024
Secularism and the Question of Literature: a mini-symposium
Friday, 3:00 pm–5:00 pm
2028 University Hall
Oct
1
2024
Queer & Trans Studies Working Group Meeting
Tuesday, 2:00 pm–3:00 pm
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building
Oct
5
2024
Chicago Humanities Festival Day at UIC
Saturday, 11:00 am–7:00 pm
Isadore and Sadie Dorin Forum
Oct
9
2024
Faculty Fellow Lecture Series: Jaira J. Harrington, Black Studies: "Between Dreams, Myths and Reality: Domestic Work, Unions, and Anti-Blackness in São Paulo"
Wednesday, 4:00 pm–5:30 pm
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building
Oct
15
2024
Queer & Trans Studies Working Group Meeting
Tuesday, 2:00 pm–3:00 pm
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building
Oct
29
2024
Queer & Trans Studies Working Group Meeting
Tuesday, 2:00 pm–3:00 pm
UIC Gender and Sexuality Center Flex Space, 183 Behavioral Sciences Building
Nov
7
2024
Faculty Fellow Lecture Series: Lynn Hudson, History, "Troubled Waters: Segregated Swimming in American Cities, 1914-1954"
Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:30 pm
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building
Nov
12
2024
Queer & Trans Studies Working Group Meeting
Tuesday, 2:00 pm–3:00 pm
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building
Nov
13
2024
Resident Graduate Scholar Seminar: Themal Ellawala, Anthropology “When Ephemera Bind: On Negative & Positive Space and Queer Relationality in Sri Lanka”
Wednesday, 2:00 pm–4:00 pm
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building
Nov
19
2024
Revolutions and History
Tuesday, 1:00 pm–6:00 pm
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building
Nov
26
2024
Queer & Trans Studies Working Group Meeting
Tuesday, 2:00 pm–3:00 pm
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building
Jan
23
2025
Faculty Fellow Lecture Series: Young Richard Kim, Classics and Mediterranean Studies and History, "Cyprus and the Historiography of Late Antiquity"
Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:30 pm
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building
Feb
19
2025
Faculty Fellow Lecture Series: Sultan Tepe, Political Science, "Regulating Morality: State and Censorship in Authoritarian Regimes"
Wednesday, 4:00 pm–5:30 pm
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building
Mar
18
2025
Resident Graduate Scholar Seminar: Katherine Brandt, English “Addictive Practices: Realism and Substance Use in the Nineteenth-Century Novel"
Tuesday, 2:00 pm–4:00 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