Join Chicago Humanities on October 26th as we return to Northwestern University for a broad selection of events and topics taking you from Costa Rica to Hollywood and then all the way back to the Second City. We’ll explore movement in its many forms and the ways we are moved through thoughtful conversation and community.

Enjoy an entire day of programming including events co-curated by the Buffet Institute for Global Affairs, such as a conversation with the former president of Costa Rica Carlos Alvarado Quesada on small state solutions to climate change, Wendy Pearlman on the Syrian diaspora, and Dr. Maayan Hilel on the interconnected cultures of Jewish-Zionist and Palestinian-Arab societies before 1948.

Don’t miss out on contemporary writing icons John Green and Rebecca Makkai in conversation. Hear tales from Barry Sonnenfeld, legendary director of Men in Black, Get Shorty, and The Addams Family. U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey will give a talk on her newest book The House of Being, illuminating how writing can be a reclamation of your past. And Michelangelo Sabatino will discuss architecture, preservation, and culture.

Later, join us for an enlightening talk with renowned poet Kaveh Akbar on his debut novel Martyr! and a political comedy writing panel with some of late night’s best from Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, The Colbert Report, Late Night with Seth Meyers, and Saturday Night Live.