Announcements

2012-2013 Kaplan Faculty Fellows, Faculty Affiliates and Graduate Affiliates have been selected! Visit our Fellows and Affiliates pages for more information.

Awards and Accolades—Our Congratulations!

Prof. Amy Stanley and Prof. Julia Stern: recipients of Weinberg College Teaching and Advising Awards.

Prof. Steven Epstein: recipient of a 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship.

Connor Doak: recipient of a 2012-13 Mellon ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship.

Winter Jade Werner: recipient of the 2012 MVSA (Midwest Victorian Studies Association) Walter L. Arnstein Dissertation Prize in Victorian Studies.

The 2012-2013 Kaplan Distinguished Harris Lecture and Dialogue Series events are now in place! Visit our events page for more details.

2012-2013 Humanities Undergrad Courses

View all of the Humanities Institute undergraduate courses for the 2012-13 academic year

Mark Your Calendar!

2012 Chicago Humanities Festival Evanston Day: OCTOBER 14th, 2012

Chicago Humanities Festival Evanston Day Highlights Online

Watch or listen to some of the presentations from from the recent Chicago Humanities Festival's Day in Evanston on October 16, co-sponsored by the Kaplan Institute.

Video
Holly Clayson, Shedding Artificial Light on Art History
Ken Alder, The Truth Machine: American Justice and Our Obsession with Lie Detection
William Gibson in conversation with Bill Savage, Technology’s Tomorrow: Sci-Fi with William Gibson

Audio
Noshir Contractor, Traces in a Tangled Web
Claudia Rankine, Don’t Let Me Be Lonely

For Incoming Freshmen: The Kaplan Scholars Program

Are you an incoming freshman? Check out our Kaplan Humanities Scholars Program, a year-long investigation of the overarching theme "Humanities in the World"

Also, learn about our undergraduate curriculum, the Humanities Minor, and Weinberg College's First-Year Focus Project for Incoming Freshmen.

Events

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