Guido da Vigevano’s "Anathomia" (ca. 1345) evokes a medieval medical culture that grappled with the question of why illness occurs.

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Two perspectives on medicine and the humanities

A literature scholar and a linguist engage with biomedical science.
Students practice making critical judgments about art during an October 2025 excursion to Theaster Gates’s "Unto Thee" with the Program for Public Thinking.

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Creating live texts to think with

Editor and philosophy professor Anastasia Berg, AM’13, PhD’17, promotes humanities training as a foundation of engaged public thinking.
UChicago alumna Noor Amin works on "League of Legends," a globally popular online game, as a designer.

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Meet three Arts & Humanities alumni who made games their main quest.
Images and sounds prompted by the movements of magnified microorganisms from Boston Harbor and the Charles River.

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Open spaces

Music junior faculty explore the world through music and sound.
UChicago's Center for Ancient Middle Eastern Landscapes (CAMEL) reconstructs patterns of settlement, exchange, and environmental interaction to better understand how people lived in the past.

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Reading the landscape

Graduate research assistants use cutting-edge mapping technologies to understand the everyday lives of ancient people.

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A video game developed by the education-focused studio Filament Games.

For the n00bs

Three alumni recommend games—digital and tabletop—for beginner players.
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Author and critic Merve Emre spoke at a campus event in January.

Everyone’s a critic

Rethinking cultural criticism in the face of Substack, BookTok, and Goodreads
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