Introduction
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.
Events
Upcoming events
Jan
20
2026
Faculty Fellow Lecture Series: Soledad Álvarez Velasco, Assistant Professor, Anthropology and Latin American & Latino Studies, "Inhabiting Transit: Migrant Spatial Struggles from South America to the U.S. and Back Again"
Tuesday, 4:00 pm–5:30 pm
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building
Jan
30
2026
Writing Beyond the Academy: Understanding Trade Publishing
Friday, 12:00 pm–2:00 pm
UIC Richard J. Daley Library, Room 1-470
Feb
4
2026
Book Talk: Engineered Conflict Structural Violence and the Future of Black Life in Chicago, by David Omotoso Stovall
Wednesday, 4:00 pm–5:30 pm
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building and Zoom
Feb
19
2026
Faculty Fellow Lecture Series: Justin Quang Nguyen Phan, Assistant Professor, Global Asian Studies, "Embodied Nonalignment: Vietnamese Diasporic Aesthetics and Cold War Mediations"
Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:30 pm
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building
Mar
9
2026
Carceral Liberalism Symposium
Monday 9th, 9:00 am–Tuesday 10th, 5:00 pm
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building
Mar
18
2026
Faculty Fellow Lecture Series: Will Small, Associate Professor, Philosophy, "Skill as Practical Knowledge"
Wednesday, 4:00 pm–5:30 pm
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building
Mar
31
2026
Resident Graduate Scholar Seminar: Bert Geyer, Art History, “Designing the Forest: The Aesthetic and U.S. Imperial Forestry, 1862-1942”
Tuesday, 2:00 pm–4:00 pm
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building
Apr
8
2026
Faculty Fellow Lecture Series: Zachary Davis Cuyler, Assistant Professor, History, "Fossil Lebanon: Oil and the Making of the Lebanese State"
Wednesday, 4:00 pm–5:30 pm
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building
Apr
10
2026
Latin X Literature Now!
Friday, 1:00 pm–5:00 pm
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building
Apr
16
2026
Richard Pipes: His Historical Vision and Historiographical Legacy
Thursday 16th, 9:00 am–Friday 17th, 5:00 pm
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building
Apr
21
2026
Institute for the Humanities Spring Reception
Tuesday, 3:00 pm–5:00 pm
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building