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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 ...
Hexacago Health Academy marks ten years of game design education
For ten summers, the Hexacago Health Academy (HHA) has brought South Side high school students into the heart of public health research—through play. ...
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...
During Year of Games, UChicago invites everyone to play
Sep 8, 2025
The University of Chicago has come to play. Throughout the 2025-26 academic year, UChicago will host the Year of Games, a campus-wide c...
Winter Dean's Salon: February 25, 2025
Dreaming Home: The Cultural Imagination and Racial Realities of Home Ownership
Video and resources coming soon.
Owning a home is one of the most...
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...
UChicago students engage their senses outside the classroom
The following was published in UChicago News on December 12, 2024.
by Tori Lee
Editor’s Note: This is part of a series called UChicago Class Vi...
Humanities scholar analyzes racial perceptions through architecture and home ownership
Assoc. Prof. Adrienne Brown’s groundbreaking research connects the architecture of skyscrapers and the propaganda of home ownership to key transformat...
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...
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...