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UChicago's Film Studies Center to preserve groundbreaking work by Black and Filipino filmmakers
The following was published in UChicago News on August 20, 2024.
Inside a climate-controlled vault at the University of Chicago are hundreds of...
The UChicagoGRAD Diversity Advisory Board Announced the Fourth Annual Diversity Awards.
The University of Chicago’s Annual Diversity Awards recognize, honor, and celebrate the significant contributions of underrepresented students who hav...
Bridging Research and Public: Humanities Students Engage Diverse Audiences
By María Carrasquilla The 2024 UChicagoGRAD’s Research Speaks and Transcending Boundaries Symposium: Resilient Research: Diverse Approaches, Unified S...
Four Humanities Graduate Students Shine at the 2023 Transcending Boundaries Symposium
By María Carrasquilla
On April 29, 2023, the annual Transcending Boundaries symposium, organized by the Diversity Advisory Board (DAB) with support f...
Two perspectives on queering the text
Queer theory, broadly speaking, means analysis outside a heteronormative framework. Here, two scholars explore texts through a queer lens via research...
Two Perspectives on Migration
Professors Rachel Cohen and Philip Bohlman explore the stories—and the sounds—of diverse people on the move.
Rachel Cohen, professor of practice in t...
The Idea of Black Culture
Christopher Freeburg on Melville, aesthetics, inner life, and Black Lives Matter.
When Christopher Freeburg, AM’99, PhD’06, was an undergraduate at X...
Ideas in Action
Graduate students raise understanding of political movements—and save lives.Academic research can dovetail with current events in unexpected ways. Thi...
Social Justice through Documentary
Alumna Justine Nagan discusses her directorial debut and the legacy of Kartemquin Films.
Documentary filmmaker Justine Nagan, AM’04, has been a dedic...