The Humanities Dialogue
Each year, the Kaplan Humanities Institute presents the Humanities Dialogue to build a multi-layered conversation showcasing ways that different humanities- and art-related approaches shape the debate around a timely subject. We partner with Northwestern units to support and present scholars, artists, public intellectuals, and activists from a variety of disciplines, geographical areas of focus, and historical periods to engage the year-long series.
Current Humanities Dialogue
SOVEREIGNTIES Dialogue 2023-2024 - Bodily, artistic, intellectual, geopolitical
Past Humanities Dialogue Series
- ENERGIES Dialogue 2022-2023 - Personal, collective, planetary
- CARE Dialogue 2021-2022 - A year-long conversation about care and its possibilities
- MEMORIALIZING Dialogue 2019-2020 - A year-long conversation about commemorating, contesting, and claiming from humanistic perspectives
- SECURITY Dialogue 2018-2019 - A year-long conversation about struggles over security from humanistic perspectives
- TRUTH Dialogue 2017-2018 - A year-long conversation about knowledge crises and politics from humanistic perspectives
- Debt Dialogue 2016-2017 - A year-long series of conversations about what it means to be indebted—politically, economically, artistically, ethically
- PAST Dialogue Series (2010-2016)
- PAST Distinguished Harris Lectures
- PAST Public Humanities Lecture