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'?

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