Humanities Summit 2019

Humanities Summit 2019

August 22, 10am – 3:30pm

Institute for the Humanities, Lower Level, Stevenson Hall

Meet! Celebrate! Share! Collaborate! Strategize!

Come join fellow humanists from UIC and beyond as we learn about upcoming working group events for the year, discuss future collaborations, exchange perspectives on public and engaged humanities, and strategize together about how to enhance the visibility of humanities work throughout our campus, city, and world.

Summit highlights

10 a.m.: Welcome & Roundtable on Faculty Working Groups and New Institute Initiatives

11:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.: Lunch

12:15-1:45 p.m.: Keynote: Rebecca Wanzo, Associate Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Washington University in St. Louis
“Dwell in Other Futures: Competing Temporalities and Humanist Work”

2:15-3:30 p.m.: Panel on Humanities Scholarship and Public Engagement

Please RSVP at huminst@uic.edu