Chicago Humanities Forum

The Chicago Humanities Forum allows a larger audience exposure to the research of a few of the University’s leading scholars. Six programs are held annually at the University's downtown Gleacher Center. These programs typically happen on the first or second Wednesday of the month and are free and open to the public. For information on the next program, please visit: franke.uchicago.edu.To be added to the mailing list for these events, please email franke-humanities@uchicago.edu. To RSVP for a a forum, please call 773.702.8274.

Lecture Archive

February 2008 Lawrence Zbikowski, Associate Professor, Department of Music and the College, “Birds, Spinning Wheels, Horses, and Sex: Painting Images with Music”

November 2007 Wu Hung, Harrie H. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor of Art History, East Asian Languages & Civilizations, and the College; Director, Center for the Art of East Asia; Consulting Curator, Smart Museum of Art “What is Contemporary Chinese Art?’

October 2007 Jacqueline Goldsby, Associate Professor in the Department of English Language & Literature and the College "Abstract Is As Abstract Does: African American Poetry and Painting during the 1940's and 1950's"