Announcements
Spring 2012 Humanities Undergrad Courses
View all of the Humanities Institute undergraduate courses for the spring term
Spring 2012 Humanities Graduate Courses
We have updated our quarterly list of all NU graduate courses in the humanities open to students from outside departments
Congratulations to Ryan Lafferty!
To celebrate the establishment of the new undergraduate "Paris Program in Critical Theory, Literature, and the Media," the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, along with the Office for International Program Development and the French Interdisciplinary Group, have created an annual Prize for Best Paper in the Program. We are delighted to confer the first year's prize on Ryan Lafferty's paper: "Atget’s Animation of Stillness: The Life of the Still." Ryan will receive his prize at the beginning of the Institute's upcoming Dialogue on "The Origins and Disappearance of the Humanities."
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
Graduate Affiliate Honored
Kaplan Institute Graduate Affiliate Taka Daitoku's paper, "Japan and the Bomb Reconsidered: The Making of a Non-Nuclear Nuclear State, 1964-76," was recently selected as the 2011 best graduate student paper by the Japan Studies Association. Congratulations Taka!
2011-2012 FELLOWS
David Ebrey, Philosophy
Nina Gourianova, Slavic Languages & Literatures
Katherine Hoffman, Anthropology
Amy Stanley, History
Barry Wimpfheimer, Religious Studies
Ipek Yosmaoglu, History
Library Fellow
Julie Rudder, Outreach and Training Specialist, Department of Digital Collections
More information on the 2011-12 Fellows
2011 AFFILIATES
Faculty
Catherine Belling, Medical Humanities & Bioethics
Hannah Feldman, Art History
Mary Finn, English, WCAS Dean's Office
Kinohi Nishikawa, African American Studies
Alessia Ricciardi, French and Italian
Rachel Riedl, Political Science
Graduate
Taka Daitoku, History
Connor Doak, Slavic Languages and Literatures
Jamie Merchant, Rhetoric and Public Culture
Kimberly Singletary, Rhetoric and Public Culture
Kati Sweaney, Theatre and Drama
Winter Jade Werner, English
More information on the 2011-12 Affiliates
Kaplan Scholars Program
Are you an incoming freshman? Check out our Kaplan Humanities Scholars Program, a year-long investigation of "What is the nature of the 'good society'?
Events
About the Institute
The Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities was established to organize and promote the kind of expansive, interdisciplinary discussion and debate that characterizes leading-edge humanities scholarship today. The Institute cultivates this work through an annual fellowship program for NU faculty, humanities courses for undergraduates, invited lectures, Institute-sponsored research workshops, and a quarterly Artist-in-Residence program.
Important Institute Deadlines
Co-sponsorship Application Deadline #3
March 30, 2012
AKIH Affiliate Applications
April 13, 2012
Research Workshop Proposals
May 4, 2012


