Welcome to the Alice Kaplan
Institute for the Humanities

The Institute fosters interdisciplinary conversations among faculty and student humanists across the university and beyond, and we seek to stimulate discussion of the humanities in the larger community as well. We sponsor public lectures, workshops, and conferences that address topics of importance to the humanities, and challenge the assumptions that govern the humanities. We also provide fellowships for Northwestern University faculty, offer several interdisciplinary humanities classes to undergraduates and graduate students, sponsor ongoing faculty and graduate student workshop series, dispense grants and other help to doctoral students, and co-sponsor important humanities events on campus and outside the university, such as the Chicago Humanities Festival.

The humanities are taught at Northwestern University across a wide array of humanities and social science departments in WCAS, the School of Communication, and elsewhere. The Institute also participates in teaching the humanities through a small number of classes, and oversees the humanities minor. Most importantly, its myriad programs aid and complement the teaching and intellectual exchange headquartered in department and program classrooms across campus. 

We invite you to explore the website to learn about our activities, and look forward to welcoming you to them. Our Humanities Calendar plucks pertinent activities from the NU online Plan-It Purple calendar to direct you to humanities events across the campus. If you have any questions or comments, do not hesitate to contact our Department Assistant Beverly Zeldin-Palmer or Program Assistants, Kisa Lickert and Elizabeth Foster, or me.

For information about the transition from Humanities Center to Institute, please see our About the Institute page.

S. Hollis Clayson, Director
shc@northwestern.edu

 

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