Chicago Humanities: The Next 25 Years

FAIN: CH-233586-16

Chicago Humanities Festival (Chicago, IL 60654-3300)
Jonathan Elmer (Project Director: May 2015 to September 2017)
Alison Cuddy (Project Director: September 2017 to present)

Endowment for the expansion of partnerships with universities, humanities centers, and scholars, and to allow CHF to explore innovative and experimental approaches to programming.

The Chicago Humanities Festival requests $450,000 to allow for the further expansion of partnerships with the Big Ten Universities, humanities centers, and scholars, as well as allow CHF to explore innovative and experimental approaches to programming. CHF envisions many possibilities—commissioned collaborations between scholars and artists; planned engagements with local communities and advocacy organizations; summit panels of national academic leaders on topics of urgency; interactions made possible by the digital dissemination of ideas in real time, and more. Such experimentation involves greater cost and inherent risk. Endowment dollars directed to support such public programming in the humanities will provide a stabilizing foundation. An investment in CHF is equal to investment in the NEH’s goal to encourage collaborations between scholarship and the public humanities.

Media Coverage

The fall Chicago Humanities Festival will go on — but all digital (Media Coverage)
Author(s): Steve Johnson
Publication: The Chicago Tribune
Date: 8/12/2020
Abstract: News coverage of the Chicago Humanities Festival's plans to hold their fall festival events virtually due to Covid-19. Speakers included Jill Lapore, Peniel Joseph, and Claudia Rankine.
URL: https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/museums/ct-ent-chicago-humanities-festival-2020-goes-digital-coronavirus-0813-20200812-2upyrxrlvvgbxmb4ryquzg4zle-story.html

Chicago Humanities Fest is ready to school us once again with its big names (Tom Hanks!) and big ideas (Media Coverage)
Author(s): Steve Johnson
Publication: The Chicago Tribune
Date: 10/18/2018
Abstract: News coverage of the Chicago Humanities Festival's fall 2018 lineup of events and speakers.
URL: https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/museums/ct-ae-humanities-fest-preview-1021-story.html

Associated Products

Chicago Neighborhood Series (Web Resource)
Title: Chicago Neighborhood Series
Author: Various authors
Abstract: The Chicago Neighborhood series brings together some of our neighborhood partners to explore big topics at a very local level. This series presents virtual conversations on the role of higher education, the arts and neighborhood development, community organizing, youth-led activism, and more timely topics for Chicago.
Year: 2020
Primary URL: https://www.chicagohumanities.org/attend/chicago-neighborhood-series/
Primary URL Description: Website page for the Chicago Neighborhood Series.

Explore Page (Web Resource)
Title: Explore Page
Author: Various Authors
Abstract: Thier website features searchable digital content including recorded lectures and reading materials on variety of humanities topics from the leading scholars and public figures.
Year: 2020
Primary URL: https://www.chicagohumanities.org/explore/
Primary URL Description: This page on their website hosts a searchable archive of humanities materials.

Chicago Humanities Festival YouTube (Web Resource)
Title: Chicago Humanities Festival YouTube
Author: Various Authors
Abstract: The Chicago Humanities Festival actively contributes to their YouTube channel to create accessible digital humanities content.
Year: 2020
Primary URL: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCM2nSBiVH_QQkaHfOmwkdtQ
Primary URL Description: Link to the Chicago Humanities Festival YouTube account

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