Division of the Arts and Humanities

Enjoy these fall exhibitions across UChicago

From the Declaration of Independence to the Dan Ryan Expressway, UChicago’s autumn lineup is now on display

Why we still care about the ‘Odyssey’

Ahead of major film release, UChicago scholars discuss gods, heroes, casting and why Homer’s epic matters 3,000 years later

Paolo Cherchi, distinguished Romance philologist and devoted teacher, 1937-2026

A scholar of extraordinary range, Cherchi guided generations of UChicago students with rigor, curiosity and care

New UChicago digital research tool opens paths connecting cultures and continents

Maps of Chicago, Guerrilla Television, Middle East photographs, and more are connected with metadata to power research

Edith Rickert: Novelist, Chaucer scholar and WWI code breaker

New biography of UChicago professor and alumna shines light on her contributions to cryptography and medieval scholarship

Court Theatre’s ‘Out Here’ rebuilds the queer musical from the ground up

Incubated at UChicago, the original work reimagines divorce, coming out at 50 and the conventions of musical theater

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

Exhibition traces ‘inseparable’ links between gaming and fantasy genre

In ‘Charting Imaginary Worlds,’ UChicago Library presented a collection that spanned history, literature and fun

Trailblazing ‘Halo’ video game producer advises students to ‘make stuff’

Alum Alex Seropian of Bungie, Look North World and more returns to UChicago as keynote for Year of Games