The DePaul Humanities Center serves as a site for innovative discussion and research in the arts and humanities, engaging in interdisciplinary conversations that bring DePaul faculty, staff, students, and our Chicago communities together with the finest and most creative scholars and artists from inside and outside the academy. By means of its internal and external Fellows programs, its multiple yearly programming streams, and its commitment to supporting and spotlighting the most creative, rigorous, and ground-breaking approaches to scholarship, the Humanities Center strives to be the focal point in the university—and the larger communities in which it finds itself—for work within the humanities and arts.
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Woodstock at 50: Phallon Boyd Performing a Cover
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Woodstock at 50: From Left to Right: Gerardo Velez, Robert A. Leonard, H. Peter Steeves, Ellen Sander
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Atomic Waste(s): Oguri performs Butoh dance
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Atomic Waste(s): Students at the Atomic Gallery
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Horror of the Humanities 6: DePaul Students with Frankenstein
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Horror of the Humanities 6: Silhouette Portraits in interactive haunted house
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Shadows: The Gallery of Shadows: Shadowgrams of Ada Lovelace and Nikola Tesla
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100th Anniversary of the Russian Revolution
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2017 Humanities Laureate Award: The Water Protectors of Standing Rock
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H. Peter Steeves and Ricky Jay
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The Humanities in Spaaaace! Courtney Giannone performs on the Cyr wheel
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2016 Humanities Laureate Award: Artist John Currin
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CondemNation: Justice, Prison, Punishment, Persecution: Featured presenter David Stovall
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Making the Novel Novel: Don Quixote: Danielle Meijer (left), Wendy Clinard (right)
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Discards: Forbidden Pages: DePaul students receive copies of banned books
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Paradise Lost and Found: Indigenous Hawaiian Nature and Culture
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In Conversation with Great Minds: The Brothers Quay
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The DePaul Humanities Center's Goals Include:
- being a space for, creating visibility of, and generally helping to shape and promote the most cutting-edge, excellent work in the arts and humanities today;
- fostering discussion among the greater community;
- nurturing current and future leaders in the humanities, arts, and culture at large;
- and promoting collaborative, interdisciplinary thinking that demonstrates the integral role of the humanities and arts in a life of common flourishing.
Click here to see our complete Mission Statement.