Kaplan Humanities Institute

Artist Talk with Quan Zhou May 19, 2026 4:30 - 6:00 pm Kresge #2315 - Artist's Studio Join us on Tuesday with artist in residence Quan Zhou @gazpachoagridulce to view her Linaje installation prototype and talk about the intersection of memory, migration, and digital speculation. We'll explore how AI tools are expanding the possibilities of what it means to reclaim and reimagine ancestry and tell stories in new ways. Quan's residency is presented by @spanportnu and @kaplanhum .

We are delighted to announce the 2026-2027 Faculty Fellows, Library Fellow, and Library Affiliate of the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities at Northwestern! CONGRATULATIONS TO: Diego Arispe-Bazán Anthropology Kevin Buckelew Religious Studies Jamie Carlstone Northwestern University Libraries Thadeus Dowad Art History Alfonso Fierro Spanish and Portuguese Leslie M. Harris History and Black Studies Michaela Kleber History Kelsey O’Connell Northwestern University Libraries Zekeria Ahmed Salem Political Science and African Studies Audrey Silvestre Latina and Latino Studies 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉 Read about their research here: bit.ly/3R5gLx5 @weinbergcollege @northwesternu #Research #Humanities

Poetics of the Event event! How might we approach the literary event itself as imaginatively as we do the books, poems, novels, and pamphlets that these events are meant to celebrate? Come explore with publishers, printers, writers, and scholars — you won't want to miss the fashion show! Thurs., May 14 10am - 6:30pm Kaplan Institute - Kresge 2350 Free and open to all! Brief outline of schedule (details + registration at https://bit.ly/poeticsevent): 10:00am - Un-Roundtable: What is the Event of Literature? with Joss Barton @ganjacum_ , Daniel Borzutzky, Noa Michaela Fields doyounoapoet, James Garwood-Cole, Ali Murat Gali, Helene Achanzar @heleneachanzar , and more 11:45am - Special Event: Kay Gabriel @unit01barbie 1:15pm - Lunch 2:30pm - Commonplace: Zines, Ephemera, and Materializing The Event with Annie Howard @t_annie_howard , Phoebe Pan, River Ngu, and S. Yarberry @_syarberry_ 4:00pm - Happy Hour 5:00pm - The Fashion Show Poetry Event “What usually happens in your mind will now happen to your clothes . . .” – From “Fashion Show Poetry Event,” co-produced by Hannah Weiner and quoted in Harper’s Bazaar (1969) With Kai Ihns, Alyssa Moore, Timothy Ashley Leo @timothy_a_leo , S. Yarberry, Stefania Gomez @stefaniagomez_poet , Liza Yeager @lizayeager , Katana Smith @katanaislike , Kira Tucker @_shedreamsin_technicolor , and Cean Gamalinda @ceanceanceancean , among many others 6:30pm - Community Dinner & Revelry! @tgs_nu @WeinbergCollege

Temilola Olorunsola tells what was greatest about the Kaplan Humanities Scholars program this year! 🤩🤩🤩 Temi is majoring in Psychology and Black Studies. Incoming 2030 Wildcats: Apply to be a Kaplan Scholar! No matter what your intended major, this program offers the chance to build your intellectual and social community from your very first days at Northwestern! bit.ly/KaplanHumScholars #NU2030 @weinbergcollege @wildcatwelcome @northwesternu

Talk about a multidisciplinary crowd! Northwestern faculty, staff, grad students, and undergrads from two dozen programs came out last Monday 4/27 to talk with Joy Connolly, president of @acls1919 , and Marwan Kraidy, dean of @nuqatar , about lessons from the humanities for shaping our future. Our thanks to Joy and Marwan for engaging us to think critically and creatively about multimodal, collaborative, experimental approaches to humanistic inquiry! Photos by Bonnie Robinson.

We are delighted to announce the 2026-2027 Franke Graduate Fellows of the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities at Northwestern @northwesternu ! These accomplished doctoral students will develop their research and teaching in residence as part of the interdisciplinary @kaplanhum community next year. CONGRATULATIONS TO: Oana Alexan Katz Spanish & Portuguese Emma Cohen English Isabel Griffith-Gorgati English Pema McLaughlin Religious Studies 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉 bit.ly/4thdOHe

📣 Two calls for the Public Humanities! Submission deadline for both: May 11 1) PUBLIC HUMANITIES AWARD For humanistic work that has had a significant, positive, and lasting impact beyond the university. 🏆 $5,000 cash award 🏆 Recognized at the 5/29 Kaplan Public Humanities Symposium SUBMIT: bit.ly/26PubHumAward (Photo is artist and activist Dorothy Burge @dburge1932 , 2025 recipient.) 2) PROJECT SHOWCASE Show off your public humanities project (completed or in-progress) at the 2026 Public Humanities Symposium on 5/29! All forms and media are welcome. Open to Northwestern campus groups, faculty, staff, librarians, and graduate students. Details: bit.ly/3OSSLwc

ASIAN ECOLOGIES A Roundtable Conversation on Current Research April 30, 2026 5 - 7 pm Kresge 2351 (Kaplan Institute) With: Corey Byrnes @corey.byrnes , Asian Languages and Cultures and Comparative Literary Studies @weinbergcollege Ray Buckner @ray_moishe , @nureligiousstudies Soyoon Ryu, Art History, @uchicago Moderator: Yuthika Sharma, Art History, @weinbergcollege Presented by the Art, Community, and Environment research workshop @kaplanhum . planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/641789

Only a couple seats left! Oral History Podcasting Workshop with Artist in Residence Quan Zhou @gazpachoagridulce ! Tues. + Wed., April 28-29, 2026* 5:00 to 7:00 pm *Registrants must commit to both sessions Open to Northwestern students, staff, and faculty. "Narrating Memory: Podcasting Oral History" will be a two-day workshop to explore oral history as a tool for recovering, preserving, and reclaiming memory. Participants will gain practical skills in audio recording, interview techniques, and digital editing, culminating in the production of short podcast pieces centered on family or community stories. The workshop will be conducted in English. Register at planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/641937 and visit bit.ly/AIRQZ to learn more about Quan's residency!

Coming up Monday 4/27! Joy Connolly, President of ACLS @acls1919 , in conversation with Marwan M. Kraidy, @nuqdean and Chair of the ACLS Board of Directors. Transforming our Futures: A Humanities for the Public Good With each other and the audience, Connolly and Kraidy will discuss lessons from—and for—the humanities as we move through our current challenges and shape our collective futures. Mon., April 27, 2026 4:00 pm Guild Lounge in Scott Hall (601 University Place) Public welcome! This talk is part of the Kaplan Institute's "Critical Conversations in the Humanities" series.

Congratulations to Steve Reinke and Sera Young, two @weinbergcollege faculty named 2026 Guggenheim Fellows @guggfellows ! Steve Reinke is a professor in Art Theory and Practice @arttheorypractice . An artist and writer, he is best known for his monologue-based video essays. His research covers rhetorical and narrative strategies for visual art, artists’ writing, queer Nietzsche, the voice, and psychoanalysis. He was awarded a fellowship in the category of film-video. Sera Young is a professor in Anthropology and Global Health Studies. She is Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research @iprnu and co-director of the Center for Water Research @northwesternu . Young led the development of the Water Insecurity Experiences scales (WISE), the first cross-culturally equivalent way of measuring water access and use, implemented in 90 countries to date. She was awarded a fellowship in the category of geography and environmental studies. Read more about Reinke and Young in "Northwestern Now" at northwestern.edu.

Who's excited for tomorrow's talk "On Marx's CAPITAL for the 21st Century" ?!?! Clearly Postdoctoral Fellow Adam Syvertsen @party_bloch_anthem ! He's got his marked-up Marx ready to go for our talk with translator Paul Reitter and editor Paul North about the new English translation of Karl Marx's CAPITAL, VOL. 1—the first in 50 years. Join us for the conversation! Tues., April 14 5 - 6 pm Harris Hall 108 Presented by the Translation in Theory and Practice Series of @WeinbergCollege Comparative Literary Studies and Kaplan Humanities Institute @kaplanhum . 3w