Features

Mark Usher
alumni profile

Adaptation

Classics professor Mark Usher stitches together an unorthodox career.
faculty projects

A Series of Fortunate Events

How book series and their faculty editors shape, define, and defend their fields.
graduate students

The Social Scientists of Music

Ethnomusicology students blend art and science in their research.
Illustration from The Plum in the Golden Vase
emeritus faculty

A Lifetime Fascination

David Tod Roy finishes his translation of a once-banned Chinese classic.

News in Brief

events
Let Your Mind Waner

Let Your Mind Wander

The 35th annual Humanities Day is October 19, 2013.
on campus

New Faculty Fall 2013

New hires build on strength throughout the division.
humanities at work
Paintings at the Fisher Art Foundation in San Francisco.

Mission Critical

Four alumni find homes as humanists in the nonprofit sector.
philanthropy
Emmett Dedmon, AB'39

Discovery and Adventure

The Dedmon Visiting Writers program unites the scholarly and the creative.

Featured Events

Mon.
Apr. 21		Undergraduate Women in Philosophy club - meet to leave for UIC to hear Ann Cudd, 'The Lack of Diversity in Philosophy: What Needs to Change'
02:45 PM - 05:45 PM
Off Campus (see description)
Tue.
Apr. 22		Industry and Revolution: Social and Economic Change in the Orizaba Valley, Mexico
12:00 PM - 01:30 PM
Social Science Research, Room 224
Tue.
Apr. 22		Jill Weinberg - 'Law,Consent, and Embodiment' - Gender and Sexuality Workshop
02:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Centers for Gender/Race Studies, Community Room (105)
Tue.
Apr. 22		Practicing an Alternative Epistemology: Thinking at the Edge
04:30 PM - 06:30 PM
Swift Hall, Third Floor Lecture Room
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