Division of the Humanities
By Andrew Bauld
March 1, 2018
Prof. Steven Collins, a world-renowned scholar of Buddhism and its associated Pali language, passed away from natural causes Feb. 15, while leading a seminar in New Zealand. He was 66...Read more
By Andrew Bauld
January 4, 2018
Prof. Emeritus Jonathan Z. Smith, an influential historian of religion and a celebrated faculty member at the University of Chicago, passed away Dec. 30. He was 79. A member of...Read more
By Andrew Bauld
October 19, 2017
Humanities Day has become an annual University of Chicago tradition since it began in 1980. On Oct. 21, visitors will have the chance to take part in the free, daylong...Read more
October 17, 2017
A gift from Joyce Z. Greenberg, AB’52, will support the expansion of Jewish Studies at the University of Chicago through the newly named Joyce Z. and Jacob Greenberg Center for...Read more
By Andrew Bauld
June 19, 2017
Philip Gossett, an acclaimed musicologist and scholar of 19th-century Italian opera, died June 13 at his home in Hyde Park. He was 75. Gossett, the Robert W. Reneker Distinguished Service...Read more
By Andrew Bauld
May 10, 2017
Final address on May 15 to feature Q&A, discussion
By Andrew Bauld
April 18, 2017
Beginning with Fall Quarter 2017, UChicago will offer Poetry and the Human , the first new Humanities Core sequence since 2007. Students in the sequence will study techniques and concepts...Read more
March 29, 2017
Anne Walters Robertson, the Claire Dux Swift Distinguished Service Professor of Music and the Humanities in the College, has been appointed dean of the Division of the Humanities . President...Read more
By Mary Abowd
October 11, 2016
Free discussions, tours, performances and lectures set for Oct. 15
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September 28, 2016
In this talk, psychologist Howard Nusbaum and philosopher Candace Vogler look at various forms of self-transcendence that provide contexts in which the exercise of virtue in daily life can operate...Read more
July 8, 2016
Anne Walters Robertson, chair of the Department of Music and the Claire Dux Swift Distinguished Service Professor of Music and the Humanities in the College, has been named to serve...Read more
By Susie Allen
January 26, 2016
Prof. Gary Tubb first scholar to hold new position
December 10, 2015
A $5 million gift from Bruce C. Lindsay, MBA’65, and Suzanne Glover Lindsay will establish the first professorship in economics and public policy at the University of Chicago Booth School...Read more
October 13, 2015
Speakers representing departments and programs across the Division of the Humanities will share their work with the public at Humanities Day on Saturday, Oct. 17. The annual event includes more...Read more
By Megan E. Doherty
September 28, 2015
English Language Institute helps acclimate students who are studying in United States for first time
By Susie Allen
September 23, 2015
Award-winning Indian writer Amitav Ghosh will deliver the 2015 Berlin Family Lectures on the literature, history and politics of climate change at the University of Chicago this fall. Ghosh, who...Read more
By Wen Huang
August 27, 2015
During a teaching career that spanned 34 years at the University of Chicago, Amy Kass designed courses that addressed both the enduring questions of human existence and the urgent questions...Read more
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July 15, 2015
The Division of the Humanities Diploma and Hooding Ceremony was held in Mandel Hall on June 13, 2015, as part of the University of Chicago's 523rd Convocation.Read more
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July 1, 2014
The Division of the Humanities Diploma and Hooding Ceremony was held in Mandel Hall on June 14, 2014, as part of the University of Chicago’s 519th Convocation.Read more
By Susie Allen
May 16, 2014
Beginning in 2014, the Division of the Humanities at the University of Chicago will welcome leading scholars, writers and creative artists from around the world through the new Randy L...Read more