Junaid Quadri, assistant professor of history and religious studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago, is among 71 scholars selected for an American Council of Learned Societies fellowship award, which support humanities…
Dr. Paris Papamichos Chronakis, lecturer for the Department of Classics and Mediterranean Studies was awarded a fellowship by The Greek Diaspora Fellowship Program to travel to Greece to work with the Chair of Jewish Studies…
The School of LCSL is delighted to announce the call for papers for our annual In/Between Conference, which will be held on March 9-10 2017. The keynote speaker is Susan Goldin-Meadow, Professor of…
The Borns Jewish Studies Program at Indiana University, Bloomington and the Modern Greek Studies Initiative at the University of Illinois at Chicago organize the international workshop “Jewish Commercial Cultures in Global Perspective” featuring…
Sixth Annual In/Between Conference March 5-6, 2015 The School of Literatures, Cultural Studies and Linguistics invites papers based on all current research by our faculty and graduate students. No matter your topic, we’d…
Jan Karski Days in Chicago will take place September 18-21, 2014. During this time, there will be exhibitions, conversations, theater, film, music, and an academic conference.
Samuel Fleischacker receives the Distinguished Researcher Award from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research. These honors recognize the efforts and commitment of researchers who have demonstrated outstanding research achievements to advance the…
THE SOUNDSCAPES OF CULTURE February 27-28, 2014 The School of Literatures, Cultural Studies and Linguistics invites papers connected to this year’s overarching theme of sound, as well as papers based on all current…
Elizabeth Loentz (UIC Assistant Professor of Germanic Studies) recently published a book, Let Me Continue to Speak the Truth: Bertha Pappenheim as Author and Activist. It was reviewed by Katharina Gerstenberger (Department of German Studies, University of Cincinnati).
Rachel Havrelock, assistant professor of English and Jewish Studies at UIC, co-hosted a new Discovery Channel documentary entitled “Who Was Jesus?” and contributed to the program’s coverage of daily life in first century Palestine,…