The Center for the Humanities promotes the cross-disciplinary, collaborative, and public humanities across and beyond the University of Wisconsin-Madison. We support traditional and new forms of inquiry in the humanities and engage the public through reciprocal partnerships that broaden the ways that knowledge circulates.
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@ 12:30 pm - 4:30 pm
313 Pyle Center, 702 Langdon Street
Announcements
A Year in Review
We want to thank you—the students, faculty, staff, and community members who make this all possible.
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 in Wisconsin
During the 2024-2025 Great World Texts program, high school teachers and students throughout the state will read Cho Nam-joo's novel Kim Yiyoung, Born 1982.
AI and the Humanities
In 2024-25, our event theme is a focus on AI, democracy, and uncertainty. In celebration of our 25 years of asking difficult questions about both the expansion of and challenges to human knowledge in public contexts, we explore how intelligence, both artificial and human, impacts our understanding of ethics, art, and politics.
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Research Programs
Our research programs provide unique opportunities to collaborate across disciplinary boundaries and to pursue innovation in writing, teaching, and scholarship.
- Borghesi-Mellon Workshops
- First Book Workshop
- Iwanter Prize for Undergraduate Research
- Humanities Education for Anti-racism Literacy in the Sciences and Medicine (HEAL)
- Humanities Without Walls
Public Humanities
Our partnerships with schools, museums, libraries, nonprofits, and cultural organizations demonstrate the value of the humanities inside and outside of the university.
- Graduate Fellowships
- Public Humanities Exchange
- Humanities Without Walls Summer Workshop
- Public Works Seminars
- Community Partners
- Public Humanities Resources
Events
Our events inspire audiences. They are always free and open to the public, invigorating cultural and civic life across Madison.
- Borghesi-Mellon Workshops
- Focus on the Humanities
- Friday Lunches
- Humanities NOW
- Humanities Without Boundaries
- Nellie Y. McKay Lecture in the Humanities
- Tejumola Olaniyan Memorial Lecture
Great World Texts in Wisconsin
Launched in 2005, Great World Texts in Wisconsin engages high school students and teachers across the state through the shared reading of a novel.
During the 2024-2025 program, high school teachers and students from 27 schools throughout the state will read Cho Nam-joo’s novel Kim Yiyoung, Born 1982. The novel follows one woman’s psychic deterioration in the face of rampant misogyny.
Latest Blog Posts
News and Interviews
Visiting Speaker Corey Robin on WORT 89.9 FM
Listen to "Clarence Thomas: Black Nationalist?" on the 8 O'Clock Buzz program.
Booking It
The Center for the Humanities is bringing world literature to high school students around the state.
Research Fellow Supporting Preparations for Madison Public Library’s 150th Year
From the Madison Public Library Foundation
PhD Candidate Jacquie Kociubuk receives prestigious Public Humanities Fellowship
From the UW-Madison Information School
2024 Iwanter Prize for Undergraduate Research
Congratulations to Holly Puza and Matthew Masonius!
Author shows Black culture in Midwest through new book in visit to UW
By Akhilesh Peddi
Mapping the Wisconsin Idea
A look at how the College of Letters & Science impacts each of Wisconsin’s 72 counties.
Three takeaways from UW-Madison panel on challenges to academic freedom
By Amari Mbongwo, photo by Nick Duda
Cardinal Call: Academic Freedom and DEI Deal Discussed by Panels of Experts
By Amari Mbongwo and Oliver Gerharz
