Creative Misuse
Humanities Day, in brief
The UChicago Division of the Humanities showcased the depth and impact of arts and humanities research during our annual signature event, Humanities Day, on Oct. 26, 2024.
'UChicago Magazine' highlighted faculty presentations, including Derek Kennet’s exploration of ancient shipwrecks and early globalization, Jason Salavon’s insights on AI’s influence on creativity, and Eric Slauter’s talk, which focused on the Humanities Core, and how faculty, including himself, have introduced students to primary texts and to the task of confronting them collaboratively as an academic community.
Five UChicago Humanities Faculty Members Receive Named, Distinguished Service Professorships
Five University of Chicago Humanities faculty members have received distinguished service professorships or named professorships.
Profs. Josephine McDonagh, Sianne Ngai and Jacqueline Najuma Stewart have received distinguished service professorships.
Profs. Hans Thomalla and Ming Xiang have received named professorships.
Theaster Gates's House Museum Gone Wild
Theaster Gates’s latest exhibition, When Clouds Roll Away: Reflection and Restoration from the Johnson Archive, would give all but the most radical archivist a heart attack.
International scholars recognize UChicago professor's original thinking
UChicago Prof. Eric Santner does not belong to one discipline. Instead, he has explored different fields, which has led him to develop diverse concepts that combine literature, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and religious thought.
In tribute to his intellectual contributions, the "Angelaki, Journal of the Theoretical Humanities," recently devoted an entire special issue to him called “Politics of the Flesh.” The issue contains articles written by an international group of philosophers, theologians, legal scholars, political theorists, and literary scholars who have found in Santner’s work resources for rethinking problems in their own areas of research. The authors presented many of these papers at an international conference called “The Weight of All Flesh” held in Munich in June 2023 at the Hochschule für Philosophie.
