In the Media
Chicago Maroon: Newly Launched McKeon Center Looks to Cross Fields and Platform Tough Conversations
November 02, 2023
The McKeon Center seeks to reinvigorate the humanities with programming based on real-world events and plans for new minor.
Blogs
Four Things on Formations: Yan Slobodkin
June 10, 2021
After a year and change of nonstop zooms and minimal meatspace working and socializing, the first book I reached for when I finished my last remote class of the quarter was The Twittering Machine....jpg?mtime=1621577550)
Announcements
IFK Faculty Professor Ada Palmer wins Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
May 21, 2021
Blogs
Manufactured Uncertainty and the Media History of Risk
May 13, 2021
A blog post issued by Oak Ridge Associated Universities documents an event in 1945 when x-ray photographers first felt the impacts of continental nuclear testing, even if they didn’t recognize...
Features
A 1990s Mural At The 18th Street Station Will Be Restored By A Pilsen Artist
May 12, 2021
SIFK Faculty and Professor of Art History, Dr. Claudia Brittenham, shares her knowledge of Mesoamerican murals in a WBEZ article.
In the Media
Watch: “The Aeneid” by Professor Shadi Bartsch, in conversation with Dr. Anastasia Klimchynskaya
May 12, 2021
Tune in for topics including Vergil's choice of language, being a female translator of a "masculine text," and the epic's relevance in today's political climate.
Blogs
Four Things on Formations: Alex Campolo
May 10, 2021
A round-up of thought-provoking things from Alex Campolo, postdoctoral fellow at SIFK.
In the Media
IFK Faculty Director Shadi Bartsch on the Classics and China (Conversations with Tyler)
April 21, 2021
In the Media
Listen to “Pearson and Morant: Biometric Racialism” with Dr. Iris Clever
March 08, 2021
In the Media
Watch: “Scenario and Security in Climate Change Documentaries” with Dr. Thomas Pringle
March 04, 2021
Blogs
Who Unearths the Past?: On the Work of The Dig
February 09, 2021
Joe Stadolnik watches The Dig, and sheds light on an obscure excavator of the past unlikely to inspire a Netflix movie
In the Media
Watch: “CAPErs: Computer-Aided Philosophical Experienc(r)s” with Dr. Thomas Pashby
February 06, 2021
In the Media
Watch: “Island Time: Speed, Music, and Modernity in St. Kitts and Nevis” with Prof. Jessica Baker
December 14, 2020
In the Media
Watch: “Media, Environment, and Risk” Course Trailer with Dr. Thomas Pringle
December 04, 2020
Announcements
Watch: “DATA: History and Knowledge” Teaser with Dr. Campolo and Dr. Klimchynskaya
October 20, 2020