The Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, the Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs, and Northwestern University Press (NUP) are pleased to announce that Daniel Majchrowicz and David Boyk are the winners of the 2026-2027 Humanities in Translation (HiT) Prize for The Ajeeb Society, a collection of Urdu short stories by acclaimed writer Qazi Abdul Ghaffar.
May 12, 2026 - The Kaplan Humanities Institute is pleased to announce our cohort of 2026-2027 Faculty Fellows! These competitive residencies allow recipients either a full year of leave or a teaching reduction in order to develop their projects within our interdisciplinary community. We are also happy to introduce next year's Library Fellow and Library Affiliate! During their year-long residencies, the Library Fellow pursues their independent research project and the Library Affiliate serves as Library liaison at Kaplan.
Faculty Fellow Daniel Shanahan (Assoc. Professor of Music Theory and Cognition) shows how algorithmically mediated music recommendations have a dark backstory in his article for the Los Angeles Review of Books. The Kaplan community was lucky to hear a preview of this research at Dan's "Kaplan Conversation" in April!
Ease into the weekend feeling productive! Join us in the Kaplan Seminar Room (Kresge 2351) on Friday mornings (9am-12pm) to work quietly, but in community, on your own writing project. You make it a habit, and we’ll make the coffee! Stay tuned for the first fall date!
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, No Location
Daniel Mendelsohn will discuss his recently published new translation of THE ODYSSEY (University of Chicago Press 2025). Location to be...
