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

 

New Faculty Wednesdays is a new initiative by the Kaplan Institute to introduce new humanities faculty members to their colleagues across W...
May 16, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
The Latina/o Studies Program and the Kaplan Institute for the Humanities present:   ARTIST IN RESIDENCE EXHIBITION OF NEW WORK Antonio Mar...
May 29, 2012
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

 

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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

Recent Photos

January 6, 2011