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Arts & Humanities Day 2025 sparks citywide conversation
On a recent day in Hyde Park, fans of Taylor Swift gathered in their Eras Tour T-shirts to hear a scholarly breakdown of the singer’s lyrics. Authors ...
UChicago Arts & Humanities Day Announces Speakers, Partnership with Chicago Humanities
September 29, 2025
This October, the annual public showcase of the humanities at the University of Chicago will take on a new life. Now in its 45th...
Humanities Day, in brief
The following was published in the Winter/25 issue of the University of Chicago Magazine.
The Division of the Humanities’ annual celebration of its...
Prof. Philip V. Bohlman to address complexity of "doing good" through music during Humanities Day keynote
By Sara Patterson
A pioneering ethnomusicologist, Prof. Philip V. Bohlman seeks to reveal how music helps human beings deal with critical ideas and...
How UChicago's Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality 'is here for everyone'
The following was published in UChicago News on June 18, 2024.
One could think of gender and sexuality in very contemporary terms—or that the ter...
Prof. Kenneth Warren to Address How Unprecedented Income Inequality Affects Literature in Humanities Day Keynote
The following was published in UChicago News on Sept. 28, 2022.
by Sara Patterson
How do novels mirror society? Prof. Kenneth W. Warren’s scholarship...
In Humanities Day Keynote, Wu Hung Explores the Rehabilitation of Damaged Art
The following was published in UChicago News on November 19, 2021.
What would it mean to rehabilitate Buddhist artworks pillaged by art dealers from ...
Prof. Martha Nussbaum to Address Animal Rights in Humanities Day Keynote
Prof. Martha C. Nussbaum has built her storied career on championing underdogs. Now, the influential philosopher and humanist is turning her attention...
Humanities Day Keynote to Examine How Home Movies Represent Cultural History
The following was published in UChicago News on October 10, 2019.
For more than a decade, Prof. Jacqueline Najuma Stewart has worked to preserve, di...
Humanists on Humanities Day: Suggestions From Bevington, Grenoble, Levin, and Rokem
Faculty members at Humanities Day are not only presenters but also audience members. We asked four presenters what Humanities Day sessions most intere...