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Yiyun Li’s Berlin Family Lectures Reflect on Language, Attention, and the Work of Being
On March 31, April 7, and April 14, internationally acclaimed writer Yiyun Li delivered the 2026 Berlin Lectures. Revisit the lectures with this serie...
War, Print, and the Fate of Books: Andrew Pettegree to Deliver 2026 Paleography Lecture
Paleography and the Book Visiting Scholar Program presents esteemed book historian Andrew Pettegree (University of St Andrews) who offers an examinati...
Entwined with History, Art, and Audiences
Edgar Garcia’s award-winning work cuts a singular and expansive path working across multiple critical and creative modes, including criticism, dramatu...
Press start to change your mind
Students in UChicago's Media Arts and Design program are using capstone projects to explore how games and video can drop us into someone else's world
The Mouly Carlson Family Establishes Endowed Chair to Advance Game Design and Media Innovation at UChicago
The Catherine Mouly & Anthony and Leo Carlson Professorship in Media, Arts, and Design will build on UChicago’s historical leadership in humanistic re...
Writer Yiyun Li to deliver Berlin Family Lectures beginning March 31
Acclaimed novelist and essayist to discuss literature as a mediative space in uncertain times
Creating live texts to think with
Editor and philosophy professor Anastasia Berg, AM’13, PhD’17, promotes humanities training as a foundation of engaged public thinking.
“I always say...
Open spaces
Music junior faculty explore the world through music and sound.
“Are music and sound just aesthetic forms, or are they actually ways to study sociopo...
Play on
Meet three Arts & Humanities alumni who made games their main quest.
For a growing number of UChicago alumni, video games aren’t just a pastime—they’...
Reading the landscape
Graduate research assistants use cutting-edge mapping technologies to understand the everyday lives of ancient people.
“I think of it as a laboratory...