Chicago Humanities Festival

Athletics can bring out the best and worst in us. Join us as we reconsider the place of sports in the human experience.

It is the most quintessentially human thing, at once thoroughly biological and completely cultural. It brings us joy and makes us crazy. And we never tire talking about it.

Celebrate the thirteenth annual Stages, Sights, and Sounds–an international performance festival presented this spring by the Chicago Humanities Festival.

CHF's Books Unbound gets you back into the classroom — this time as the student! Join us this spring for these exciting lectures, curriculum conversations, and a hands-on creative workshop.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured, or far away.

Make your plans to join us for our 2012 winter/spring programs. Members get special pricing and a member bundle to all four programs.

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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured, or far away.

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Mauris sem tortor, egestas ut, ultrices a, ven enatis ut inus, justo. Donec ac tellus del iluminus.

Celebrate Stages, Sights, and Sounds, the twelfth edition of an international performance festival presented this spring by the Chicago Humanities Festival.

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Mauris sem tortor, egestas ut, ultrices a, ven enatis ut inus, justo. Donec ac tellus del iluminus.

Celebrate Stages, Sights, and Sounds, the twelfth edition of an international performance festival presented this spring by the Chicago Humanities Festival.

The Terra Foundation for American Art has provided a generous multiyear grant for producing lectures on American Art. Now those lectures on available online for all to experience.

We're working quickly to post all of the events we recorded from the 2010 festival, The Body. Check this page often to find your favorite programs.

The human body comes in many shapes, sizes, and conditions. Society considers some of these bodies "disabled." Come to see and hear what this means, both in academic theory and in the lives of those of us who challenge, in many ways and forms, what others think of as "normal."

The 2009 Festival explored the many ethnic and cultural shadings of laughter, the battles around humor and political correctness, gallows humor and medical ethics, laughter as imagined by artists including Molière, Mozart, Beckett, laughter and the brain, and an array of opinions on the subject proffered by comedians, filmmakers, writers, politicians, economists, and scholars.

Here's a preview of upcoming LGBT events at the Chicago Humanities Festival.

Modern economic thought no longer is no longer limited to the business world. Today's economists apply their theories to topics as diverse as genetic engineering, the AIDS crisis, and public housing.

2009 marks the centennial of one of the most important advancements in urban development, the Burnham Plan.

The unfolding tragedy of the Haitian Earthquake starkly illustrates the dire and precarious nature of life in the developing world.

Thinking Big celebrates human ambition, and the glory and sometimes folly occasioned by the pursuit of the grand gesture, the great scheme, the Big Idea, that human predilection for thinking at scale.

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