HRI
Thursday, October 6, 2022
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Lia García is a Mexico City-based performance artist, activist, and educator whose work has been featured at the Annual Encuentro of the Hemispheric Institute of Politics and Performance at NYU, Harvard University, and the University of Texas at Austin, among other universities and cultural centers across the Americas and Europe.
Monday, October 10, 2022
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Jacki Rand (Associate Vice Chancellor for Native Affairs, American Indian Studies) in conversation with Mimi Thi Nguyen (Gender & Women's Studies), moderated by Jenny L. Davis (American Indian Studies, Anthropology)
Thursday, October 13, 2022
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Drawing on her research on slavery at the University of Alabama, Hilary Green explores the need for recovering and untangling institutional campus histories of race and slavery and how understanding the enslaved campus experience is essential for institutional reconciliation efforts in the present.
Friday, October 14, 2022
Monday, October 17, 2022
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Graduate students: this is a great opportunity to learn more about HRI's Campus Fellowships program and to ask questions in preparation of the December 2, 2022 deadline.
Tuesday, October 18, 2022
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"14 ways of looking at the future" : a public lecture presented by Lin Hixson and Matthew Goulish, co-founders of the Chicago-based performance company Every house has a door.
Monday, October 31, 2022
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Dr. Christopher Thornton, director of the Division of Research Programs at the National Endowment for the Humanities, will speak in-depth about NEH grant opportunities and offer suggestions for submitting a successful application at this upcoming workshop.
Thursday, November 3, 2022
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Drawing from her research on hundreds on translational humanities responses to the pandemic from dozens of countries around the world, Professor Ostherr will offer new methods for addressing human health grounded in cultural and historical context.
Friday, November 4, 2022
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Graduate students in the humanities, arts and related fields: you are cordially invited to join us for a casual, relaxed gathering on the first floor of Levis Faculty Center!
Tuesday, December 6, 2022
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Talk: "The Afrofuturist Dialogues and Other Speculations" | This event is part of the Interseminars event series.
Tuesday, January 31, 2023
Saturday, February 4, 2023
Thursday, February 9, 2023
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This seminar with curator, writer, and Ethnic Studies scholar Dr. Thea Quiray Tagle will cover different models of working with BIPOC visual artists that challenge the alienating norms behind much art historical scholarship and curatorial practice.
Thursday, February 23, 2023
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Join us to hear Creative Writing Professor David Wright Faladé read from his work.
Thursday, March 2, 2023
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Dave Eggers is the author of many books, including The Circle, The Monk of Mokha, What is the What, A Hologram for the King, and The Lifters. He is founder of McSweeney’s, an independent publishing company based in San Francisco that produces books, a humor website, and a journal of new writing, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern
Friday, March 3, 2023
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Dave Eggers is the author of many books, including The Circle, The Monk of Mokha, What is the What, A Hologram for the King, and The Lifters. He is founder of McSweeney’s, an independent publishing company based in San Francisco that produces books, a humor website, and a journal of new writing, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern
Wednesday, March 8, 2023
Thursday, March 9, 2023
Thursday, March 23, 2023
Monday, March 27, 2023
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The Cancer Center at Illinois and Humanities Research Institute will be co-hosting speaker Olufunmilayo Olopade, Walter L. Pamer Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine and Human Genetics and founding director of the Center for Clinical Cancer Genetics and Global Health at the University of Chicago Medicine.
Thursday, March 30, 2023
Friday, April 14, 2023
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Presented by the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology and cosponsored by HRI. More information coming soon!
Wednesday, April 19, 2023
Thursday, April 20, 2023
Thursday, May 4, 2023
Friday, May 5, 2023
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The culminating event of the Central Asia Research Cluster. Watch for more details to come! This forum will be held on Zoom.