The Spring 2022 Festival is here!
Believing Women: Anita Hill in Conversation
Lessons from the Edge: A Conversation with Former US Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch
Recent Programming Series
Thanks to your support, we’re proud to have cultivated a vibrant space online for arts and culture, community, and connection over the past 18 months. We’re excited to share some highlights from our 2021 programming, including new and continuing series.
Neighborhood Initiative
Co-created programming with Neighborhood partners about community priorities, with a focus on Chicago’s South Side.
Deep Dive: the Great Lakes
Curated by Rachel Havrelock (Professor of English and Director of the Freshwater Lab, University of Illinois at Chicago), the series brings artists, policymakers, and other distinguished thinkers together in conversation to explore important questions related to the Great Lakes.
Deep Dive: Free Speech
Legal scholar Geoffrey Stone curates a deep dive into some of the pressures challenging our ideas around free speech in the 21st century.
What's Next?
Bringing fresh thinking to big ideas—Political Division, Health and Equity, Cities, Work, and more.
Between the Lines
A series of intimate conversations between CHF members and compelling authors.
Chicago Neighborhoods Series
Bringing together some of our neighborhood partners to explore big topics at a very local level.
Explore All Upcoming Events
The Chicago Humanities Festival presents programs year round, bringing people and ideas together for provocative conversations around timely questions and timeless themes.
Alison Cuddy, CHF's Marilynn Thoma Artistic Director, believes the mission of the Festival is to preserve and expand a simple but fundamental aspect of our cultural and civic lives: space where people can come together to explore, debate, and be transformed by the significant thinkers, currents, and trends shaping our world.
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Festivals & Themes
Our programs are curated around thought-provoking themes that reflect our contemporary moment and help audiences navigate our world and the broader human condition.
Education
Our education programming reaches a wide range of learners–from middle school classes through doctoral programs.
Youth Programming
Humanities Without Walls
Partners
CHF's incredible cultural, civic, and educational partners help bring our programs to life.
Festival Books
We're delighted to partner with independent bookseller The Seminary Co-op! CHF Members receive 10% back in store credit at Seminary Co-Op, 57th Street Books, and their online store.
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