Henry Drewal’s Lecture Postponed
Former Senior Fellow Henry Drewal’s Focus on the Humanities Distinguished Faculty Lecture has been postponed. New lecture date TBA. For more information about this lecture, click here.
Former Senior Fellow Henry Drewal’s Focus on the Humanities Distinguished Faculty Lecture has been postponed. New lecture date TBA. For more information about this lecture, click here.
Former Solmsen Fellow Catherine Bates has received the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize from the British Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences for her book Masculinity and the Hunt: Wyatt to Spenser (Oxford University Press). For more information, click here.
Former Solmsen Fellow Todd W. Reeser (French, and Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, University of Pittsburgh) directs a program in which faculty recommend that students avoid using terms indicative of sexist language. For a discussion of these guidelines, including Reeser’s comments about them, click here.
With regret, the Institute announces the passing of former Senior Fellow Claudia Card. For more information, click here.
IRH Director Susan Friedman has published a new book, titled Planetary Modernisms: Provocations on Modernity Across Time, with Columbia University Press. For more information, click here.
Resident Fellow Emily Callaci has received a 2015 ACLS Fellowship for her book project, titled Ujamaa Urbanists: Street Archives and City Life in Socialist Tanzania. For more information, click here.
Former Senior Fellow Mary Louise Roberts will speak about her book, What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France, in October at the Chicago Humanities Festival: Citizens. For more information, click here.
Solmsen Fellow Sara Trevisan publishes “History and tradition: Genealogical practice before 1700” on the Public History Commons. For more information, click here.
The Institute for Research in the Humanities is pleased to accounce its Fellows for the 2015-2016 academic year. For the names of incoming fellows, click here.
Former Solmsen Fellow Costica Bradatan has published Dying for Ideas: The Dangerous Lives of Philosophers with Bloomsbury Academic. For more information, click here.