Humanities Day 2024
Join us as we celebrate what makes the arts and humanities distinctive at the University of Chicago. Explore topics such as Bob Dylan’s bridges, Plato and Descartes on Halloween, and the archaeology of Sinbad the Sailor.
Spend the entire day at Logan Center for the Arts and commemorate its 10th anniversary or visit other unique locations throughout campus.
The Keynote Session with ethnomusicologist Philip V. Bohlman starts the day at Logan Center Performance Hall. Other highlights include a jazz ensemble playing at the Logan Café, tours of the vanessa german exhibit, 100 Years of the Epigraphic Survey in Egypt exhibit, open art studios by master’s degree students, sessions on Bob Dylan’s music, a living sculpture, magical voices, and archaeology.
After the Keynote, you can explore the ISAC Museum, Weston Game Lab, Special Collections in the Regenstein Library, Neubauer Collegium, Smart Museum, and much more. Learn about ancient pottery, philosophy, Hispanic print culture, rare book collections, experimental performance games, and less commonly taught languages.
Helpful Browsing for attendees of this year's Humanities Day!
Presenters:
Kağan Arík -
Heritage and Identity in the Turkic World
Philip V Bohlman -
Revival and Reconciliation:Sacred Music in the Making of European Modernity
Music and the Racial Imagination
Celtic Modern:Music at the Global Fringe
Jewish Musical Modernism, Old and New
Music in American Religious Experience
Zachary Cahill -
Unicorn Death Road Trip Buddy Movie
Martha Feldman -
Opera and Sovereignty:Transforming Myths in Eighteenth-Century Italy
The Courtesan's Arts:Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Patrick Jagoda -
The Game Worlds of Jason Rohrer
Patti Gibbons -
Exhibits and Displays: A Practical Guide for Librarians
Derek Kennet -
Jessica Kirzane -
Diary of a Lonely Girl, or the Battle Against Free Love
Provincial Newspaper and Other Stories
David J Levin -
Miguel Martinez -
Front Lines : Soldiers' Writing in the Early Modern Hispanic World
Bel Olid -
Tina Post -
Srikanth Reddy -
Changing Subjects:Digressions in Modern American Poetry
Steven Rings -
Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi -
Candace Volger -
James Osborne -
Syro-Anatolian City-States: An Iron Age Culture
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