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| African Studies | The African Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary forum for graduate students and faculty whose work concerns the material and socio-cultural lives of people of the African Continent and it’s discursively constituted diasporas, presently and historically. [view full description] |
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| American Cultures | Through collaborative discussions and student presentations, this workshop seeks to create a forum for interdepartmental interaction and interdisciplinary research projects. We strive to promote the canonical diversity and comparative approaches that have become critical to the analysis of American cultures. [view full description] |
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| Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy | This workshop will discuss a wide range of issues concerned with ancient Greek and Roman philosophy. [view full description] |
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| Ancient Societies | The Ancient Societies Workshop provides an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of the social, political, and intellectual history of ancient societies, together with the methodological issues specific to the study of the ancient world. [view full description] |
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| Anthropology of Europe | This workshop explores current research in the anthropology of Europe and treats ongoing ethnographic fieldwork (local, regional, national, and transnational) in all areas of Europe. [view full description] |
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| Art and Politics of East Asia | The Art and Politics of East Asia Workshop provides a common intellectual forum for students and scholars of diverse fields investigating the interaction of aesthetics with political economics as reflected in textual, visual, and performance media in East Asia. [view full description] |
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| China Before Print | This workshop takes advantage of recent archaeological discoveries in China and addresses some of the most pressing issues in the study of ancient cultures. [view full description] |
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| Comparative Behavioral Biology | Jointly sponsored by the Institute for Mind and Biology and the Department of Comparative Human Development, this workshop brings together individuals broadly interested in how biological and social environments influence social behavior and how behaviors and the environment in turn influence genetic change. [view full description] |
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| Comparative Human Development | This workshop builds upon and contributes to the reemergence of “cultural psychology” as the comparative study of the way culture and psyche are constitutive of one another. |
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| Comparative Politics | Comparative politics is a broad field. The common thread running through the research presented at our workshop is the search for broad theoretical propositions and fresh empirical insights through the comparative study of politics. [view full description] |
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| Contemporary Art and Its Histories | The Contemporary Art Workshop provides a context for the consideration of history as an indispensable component of work on contemporary art. [view full description] |
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| Contemporary European Philosophy | This workshop constitutes an ongoing forum for engagement with the contemporary European field of philosophy, including its links with non-European philosophers and cultures. [view full description] |
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| Contemporary Philosophy | This workshop is a conduit for advanced graduate students in philosophy and related fields to present work in progress on topics relating to contemporary issues in philosophy. [view full description] |
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| Crime and Punishment | This workshop carries on the University of Chicago’s long tradition of exploring issues of crime and punishment, which have always held a prominent place in the social sciences and professional schools on campus. [view full description] |
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| Early Christian Studies | The purpose of this workshop is to provide a venue for students and scholars of the New Testament, Greco-Roman religions and literatures, and the early history of Christianity to present their creative work on primary texts and other evidence for the early Christian movement and the world in which it grew. [view full description] |
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| Early Modern | This workshop focuses on every aspect of the early modern world, circa 1350-1830. It encompasses the entirety of the European and Mediterranean worlds as well as their rivals and colonial possessions. [view full description] |
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| East Asia: Politics, Economy, and Society | This workshop focuses on current social science research on East Asian societies, particularly the People’s Republic of China, Korea, Taiwan, and Japan. [view full description] |
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| East Asia: Transregional Histories | This workshop invites University of Chicago graduate students and faculty, as well as scholars from other academic communities, to present creative and original work that speaks across the national lines of East Asia as well as the disciplinary lines of the academic community. [view full description] |
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| Education | The Education Workshop is an interdisciplinary workshop supporting the advancement of education-related research and theory among members of the university community in two types of sessions, “Methodology” and “New Findings in Education.” [view full description] |
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| Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Cultures | During the years 1660-1900, cultural production achieved unprecedented heterogeneity throughout Britain, its colonial possessions, and Western Europe. The goal of this interdisciplinary workshop will be to interrogate the tensions between this diversified production and the unifying narrative of modernity often imposed on this 240-year span. [view full description] |
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| Empires and Colonies | The workshop provides a forum for graduate students and faculty whose work engages with colonial and imperial studies. Temporally, the workshop spans the fifteenth century to the present, and geographically it includes colonial and imperial formations across the world. |
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| EthNoise! Ethnomusicology | The workshop contributes to a growing interdisciplinary discourse on music in its cultural context, establishing an interchange between disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. [view full description] |
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| Formal Philosophy | In the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, there has been an explosion in the use of mathematical and symbolic techniques to address philosophical problems. [view full description] |
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| Gender and Sexuality Studies | The Gender and Sexuality Studies Workshop provides an interdisciplinary forum for the development of critical perspectives on gender and sexuality. [view full description] |
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| Global Environment | The goal of this workshop is to provoke an informed, interdisciplinary dialogue on the various dimensions of how people engage with their environments. [view full description] |
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| Historical Semantics | This workshop provides a forum for students and faculty to present ongoing research in the field of historical semantics and the history of knowledge. [view full description] |
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| Human Potential | The Human Potential Workshop is an interdisciplinary forum for graduate students, postdocs, and faculty whose work concerns behavior, health, and well-being across the lifespan and the ways in which technology and public policy shape human potential and achievement. [view full description] |
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| Human Rights | Due to domestic and world events, human rights have become a vital focus for academic research across disciplines. Responding to a growing need to examine and discuss human rights, the Human Rights Workshop is a forum for the presentation of research and discussion on relevant contemporary human rights issues.
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| Immigration | The purpose of the Immigration Workshop is to stimulate and promote the development and discussion of theoretical and empirical research related to international migration and migrants’ experiences. |
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| Interdisciplinary Approaches to Modern France | This workshop provides a forum for faculty and students from different departments in the social sciences and the humanities who share a common interest in France from the mid-seventeenth century to the present. [view full description] |
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| Interdisciplinary Archaeology | The primary objective of the Interdisciplinary Archaeology Workshop is to forge a lively and respectful dialogue on aspects of method and theory that cut across the field’s diverse disciplinary locations. [view full description] |
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| Interdisciplinary Workshop in Paris | This workshop provides a forum for Chicago faculty and students conducting research in Paris to share and discuss their work with their colleagues. [view full description] |
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| International Politics, Economy, and Security (PIPES) | PIPES is a center for research in international politics at the University of Chicago. Weekly PIPES workshops provide a forum for advanced graduate students and faculty to present their research. [view full description] |
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| International Security Policy (PISP) | The International Security Policy Workshop provides a forum for speakers to present unpublished research papers, which can be drafts of journal articles, dissertation chapters, or parts of a book project. |
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| Islamic Art and Artifact | The workshop will explore Islamic culture, history, and identity through archaeological and art historical interpretations. [view full description] |
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| Language, Cognition, and Computation | The Language, Cognition, and Computation Workshop is an interdisciplinary forum for graduate students and faculty whose work concerns the relation between language and thought, which is one of the central debates of cognitive science. |
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| Late Antiquity and Byzantium | We study all aspects of the peoples, cultures, histories, and religions of the late antique and Byzantine world, including the Near Eastern and Slavic. [view full description] |
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| Latin American History | The workshop is a forum for discussion of novel approaches to Latin American history. [view full description] |
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| Literature and Cultural History in Early Modern East Asia | This workshop aims to explore the cross-disciplinary and transregional understanding of literature and cultural history in early modern East Asia. [view full description] |
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| Mass Culture | he Mass Culture Workshop is a forum for recent and ongoing academic research on the historical, theoretical, and practical dimensions of modern mass (commercial, consumer, or popular) media, including cinema, television, journalism, popular music, photography, advertising, fashion, public amusements, and computer technology. [view full description] |
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| Medicine, Practice, and Body | This workshop explores practice and experience as a middle ground between the formerly dominant polarities of body as brute materiality on the one hand and as symbolic representation on the other. [view full description] |
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| Medieval Studies | The workshop focuses on the literature, history, and culture of the Middle Ages, defined roughly as 500 AD to 1500 AD. [view full description] |
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| Middle East History and Theory/MEHAT | The Middle East History and Theory Workshop serves as a forum for University students and faculty in the humanities and social sciences to discuss a wide array of academic questions related to the history, societies, culture, and politics of the Middle East. [view full description] |
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| Mdern Philosophy | This workshop invites graduate students and faculty interested in the history of philosophy from Descartes to Kant, with particular emphasis on Kant and post-Kantian German Idealism. [view full description] |
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| Modern Russian and European Studies | The Modern Russian and European Studies Workshop offers a forum to discuss and critique works in progress concerning the history, culture, and societies of imperial Russia, the Soviet Union, and modern Eastern and Western Europe. |
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| Money and Markets | The Money and Markets Workshop provides a forum for both theoretical and empirical research to be presented on topics related to economic phenomena. [view full description] |
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| New Media | The New Media Workshop provides a forum for faculty and graduate students to discuss the innovation and obsolescence of media, where these overlapping, asynchronous events are understood through social practices and lived experience. [view full description] |
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| Philosophy of Mind | The aim of this workshop is to serve as a focal point at the University for research and discussion in the philosophy of mind, epistemology, and the philosophy of psychology. [view full description] |
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| Poetry and Poetics | The Poetry and Poetics Workshop provides a forum for all those members of the University devoted to the practice and study of poetry, be they graduate students, faculty, or poets. [view full description] |
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| Political Economy | The Political Economy Workshop is organized around rational choice and game theoretic approaches to the study of politics and economies, broadly construed. [view full description] |
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| Politcal History | This workshop explores one of the more vigorous developments in the social sciences over the past decade: an interdisciplinary revitalization of the study of politics from historical perspectives. [view full description] |
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| Politcal Theory | This workshop is a forum for the critical discussion of new research in all varieties of political theory, political philosophy, and moral, social, and legal theory and philosophy, historical and contemporary. [view full description] |
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| Politics, Communication, and Society | The Politics, Communication, and Society Workshop ties together diverse strands of research on the political aspects and social roles of communicative practices. [view full description] |
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| Race and Religion | The Race and Religion: Thought, Practice and Meaning Workshop seeks to address the ideas, meanings, and practices of the sacred within racially marginalized communities. [view full description] |
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| Renaissance | The emphasis in our workshop is on a cross-disciplinary study of English and Continental culture during the Renaissance, in areas such as literature, politics, theology, and natural science. [view full description] |
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| Reproduction of Race and Racial Ideologies | This interdisciplinary workshop addresses the different processes of racialization experienced within groups as well as across groups in sites as diverse as North America, Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, the Asian Pacific, and Europe [view full description] |
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| Rhetoric and Poetics | The Rhetoric and Poetics Workshop is concerned with the literature and poetry of classical Greece and Rome, considered either on their own terms or in relation to the literature and poetry of other cultures. [view full description] |
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| Science, Technology, Society, and the State | The study of science, technology, and society has emerged as a significant and provocative new interdisciplinary effort. This interdisciplinary workshop aims to explore the complex connections between techno-scientific knowledge and the nation-state project. [view full description] |
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| Semantics and Philosophy of Language | The subject of meaning in natural language is currently investigated both by philosophers and linguists, with different foci, methods, and emphases. The two are typically guided by different concerns and goals, but both groups can profit from cross-disciplinary discussions and mutual understanding of their different questions, methods, and results. [view full description] |
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| Semiotics: Culture in Context | This workshop seeks to advance research based on a semiotic framework. Presentations come from a variety of fields including, but not limited to, linguistics, psychology, sociology, political science, literary theory, history, and anthropology. [view full description] |
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| Social History | This workshop provides a forum to discuss and develop work that takes seriously social history methodology --the history of everyday life and people who have been excluded from dominant historical narratives. [view full description] |
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| Social Theory | This workshop explores issues in social theory across a variety of disciplines in the social sciences and humanities. The emphasis is less on developing social theory than on exploring in a sustained fashion the social theoretical implications of the participants’ work. [view full description] |
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| Social Theory and Evidence | This workshop focuses on the clarity and cogency of social theories and the logic and effectiveness of evidence in social research. [view full description] |
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| Theology | The Theology Workshop offers an interdisciplinary approach to the history, ideas, and methods of reading and thinking about theological texts and traditions. [view full description] |
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| Theory and Practice of Soth Asia/TAPSA | This workshop is an important part of the fabric of intellectual activity in South Asian studies at the University of Chicago. [view full description] |
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| Visual and Material Perspectives on East Asia | This workshop is focused on the study of material or visual objects from East Asia (defined broadly to include China, Central Asia, Tibet, Korea, and Japan, and other regions, depending on student interest). [view full description] |
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| Western Mediterranean Culture | This interdisciplinary workshop is dedicated to the study of all aspects of Western Mediterranean culture from 1200-1700. [view full description] |
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| Wittgenstein | The Wittgenstein workshop aims to foster a variety of forms of interdisciplinary research that take their point of departure from a shared interest in Wiggenstein's intellectual achievement. [view full description] |