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

Final address on May 15 to feature Q&A, discussion

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

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

Free discussions, tours, performances and lectures set for Oct. 15

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

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

Prof. Gary Tubb first scholar to hold new position

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

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

English Language Institute helps acclimate students who are studying in United States for first time

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

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

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

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

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

Don R. Swanson believed laboratories weren't the only source of new scientific discoveries. Swanson, a specialist in the relationship between natural and computer languages, thought electronic databases also held the...Read more

The Division of the Humanities will showcase its work on topics ranging from the life of Rudolph Valentino to gastromusicology in India at the 34th annual Humanities Day . The...Read more

For Joseph Neubauer and Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer, the $26.5 million gift in support of the Neubauer Family Collegium for Culture and Society is the latest in a series of efforts to...Read more

Neubauer Collegium, supported by $26.5 million gift, to promote collaboration on big questions