Spend the day in conversation with University of Chicago faculty as they share new research that engages the enduring questions at the heart of the humanities.

Throughout UChicago Arts & Humanities Day, the West Lounge in Ida Noyes Hall will host a series of free talks exploring how literature, film, philosophy, and the classical world shape human experience.

From the politics of looking away from others’ suffering, to the history of Black love depicted on movie screens, to a roundtable of classics scholars on Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, these sessions bring audiences into the debates, archives, and thinking that drive humanities scholarship today.

Attend a single conversation or make the West Lounge a stop throughout your day.

Free Faculty-Designed Events

• Black Love and the Birth of American Cinema
• Why We Look Away
• The Odyssey and Adaptation: Reverence or Relevance? - Presented as part of the annual Karla Scherer Endowed Lecture Series
  
  

These events are free and open to the public, but registration is required.