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The Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs, the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, and Northwestern University Press, are pleased to announce that the 2027 Humanities in Translation (HiT) Prize is now open for submissions.

The HiT Prize is awarded annually to a previously unpublished translation that expands literary canons. The winner will receive a total cash prize of $5,000 as well as publication by Northwestern University Press.

For this year’s competition, we are especially interested in works across all genres, both literary and scholarly, that display evocative, imaginative, and insightful approaches to the theme of “artifice,” broadly construed. While the theme may immediately signal a nod towards a contemporary focus on artificial intelligence, we understand “artifice” to be a timeless preoccupation of literary expression and scholarship, extending also to considerations of political ideology, social performance, aesthetics, and even literary and humanistic meditations on human relationships with nature and the natural world.

The deadline for entry is January 15, 2027.

For full submission guidelines, head to the link in the comments.

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We're pleased to announce that Daniel Majchrowicz and David Boyk are the winners of the 2026-27 Humanities in Translation (HiT) Prize for THE AJEEB SOCIETY, a collection of Urdu short stories by acclaimed writer Qazi Abdul Ghaffar.

Majchrowicz and Boyk will receive a $5,000 cash prize as well as publication by Northwestern University Press.

We can't wait for you to meet this incredibly translated collection of stories.

Next year’s HiT Prize competition, once again sponsored by the Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs, the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, and Northwestern University Press, will open for submissions in Fall 2026.

Link to the full press release is in the comments.

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The humanities do more than help us understand the world—they help us shape it.
Dean Marwan M. Kraidy joined ACLS President Joy Connolly for a conversation on the role of the humanities in advancing the public good, highlighting the importance of critical inquiry, dialogue, and human-centered knowledge in addressing today’s global challenges.

Full story: https://nuqatar.com/kraidy-connolly-talk

#NorthwesternQatar #Humanities #KnowledgeForImpact

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Linaje es una instalación transmedia de ancestralidad especulativa, todavía a medio tejer y terminar, pero que ya se ha estrenado en la universidad de Northwestern (Chicago, Illinois) y esperemos que pronto en España.

Combina lo onírico, lo ficticio y lo real para regenerar y reclamar ancestralidades perdidas. A partir de materiales propios y fotografías de archivo antiguas, la obra recrea un momento que nunca existió y unas ancestras que no pudieron ser conocidas.
Y es que esa es la realidad de muchas personas diaspóricas: la falta de acceso a nuestras raíces, a nuestra historia y a nuestras ancestralidades, nos convertimos sin querer queriendo en burbujas que flotan solas, una asimilación por defecto.

Pero sobre todo, Linaje es una pregunta:
¿Y tú de quién eres?

Soundscape por @daniel.blacksmith
Gracias a @kaplanhum @spanportnu @northwesternu @oanakatz @drcoleman1102 @lucyandlola por hacerlo posible
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Linaje is a transmedia installation of speculative ancestry, still half-woven, unfinished, yet already premiered at Northwestern University (Chicago, Illinois). 
It braids the dreamlike, the fictional, and the real to regenerate and reclaim lost ancestries. Drawing from the artist’s own archival materials and found photographs, the work reconstructs a moment that never existed and the ancestors who could never be known. 
Because that is the reality for many diasporic people: the lack of access to our roots, to our history, to our ancestries, turns us, without quite meaning to, into bubbles floating alone. Assimilation by default.

Overall, Linaje is a question:
Who do you come from?

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Next week:

Jennifer Tucker, Founding Director of The Center for the Study of Guns and Society at Wesleyan University @wesleyan_u.

Tues., May 26, 2026
5:00 - 6:30 pm
Kresge Hall #2351 (Kaplan Institute)

Tucker is an historian of science and technology who will share some of the specific research the center is doing, including their early gun law project and other initiatives to support interdisciplinary research on guns and society.

Presented by Northwestern's Department of History @historynorthwestern, the Chabraja Center for Historical Studies, and the Kaplan Humanities Institute.

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We are delighted to announce the 2026-2027 Faculty Fellows, Library Fellow, and Library Affiliate of the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities at Northwestern!

CONGRATULATIONS TO:

Diego Arispe-Bazán
Anthropology

Kevin Buckelew
Religious Studies

Jamie Carlstone
Northwestern University Libraries

Thadeus Dowad
Art History

Alfonso Fierro
Spanish and Portuguese

Leslie M. Harris
History and Black Studies

Michaela Kleber
History

Kelsey O’Connell
Northwestern University Libraries

Zekeria Ahmed Salem
Political Science and African Studies

Audrey Silvestre
Latina and Latino Studies

🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉

Read about their research here:
bit.ly/3R5gLx5

@weinbergcollege
@northwesternu
#Research #Humanities

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Poetics of the Event event!

How might we approach the literary event itself as imaginatively as we do the books, poems, novels, and pamphlets that these events are meant to celebrate?

Come explore with publishers, printers, writers, and scholars — you won't want to miss the fashion show!

Thurs., May 14
10am - 6:30pm
Kaplan Institute - Kresge 2350
Free and open to all!

Brief outline of schedule (details + registration at https://bit.ly/poeticsevent):

10:00am - Un-Roundtable: What is the Event of Literature?

with Joss Barton @ganjacum_ ,
Daniel Borzutzky, Noa Michaela Fields doyounoapoet, James Garwood-Cole,
Ali Murat Gali, Helene Achanzar
@heleneachanzar, and more

11:45am - Special Event: Kay Gabriel @unit01barbie

1:15pm - Lunch

2:30pm - Commonplace: Zines, Ephemera, and Materializing The Event

with Annie Howard @t_annie_howard, Phoebe Pan, River Ngu, and S. Yarberry @_syarberry_

4:00pm - Happy Hour

5:00pm - The Fashion Show Poetry Event
“What usually happens in your mind will now happen to your clothes . . .”
– From “Fashion Show Poetry Event,” co-produced by Hannah Weiner and quoted in Harper’s Bazaar (1969)

With Kai Ihns, Alyssa Moore, Timothy Ashley Leo @timothy_a_leo, S. Yarberry, Stefania Gomez @stefaniagomez_poet, Liza Yeager @lizayeager, Katana Smith @katanaislike, Kira Tucker @_shedreamsin_technicolor, and Cean Gamalinda @ceanceanceancean, among many others

6:30pm - Community Dinner & Revelry!

@tgs_nu
@WeinbergCollege

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Talk about a multidisciplinary crowd!

Northwestern faculty, staff, grad students, and undergrads from two dozen programs came out last Monday 4/27 to talk with Joy Connolly, president of @acls1919, and Marwan Kraidy, dean of @nuqatar, about lessons from the humanities for shaping our future.

Our thanks to Joy and Marwan for engaging us to think critically and creatively about multimodal, collaborative, experimental approaches to humanistic inquiry!

Photos by Bonnie Robinson.

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📣 Two calls for the Public Humanities!
Submission deadline for both: May 11

1) PUBLIC HUMANITIES AWARD

For humanistic work that has had a significant, positive, and lasting impact beyond the university.

🏆 $5,000 cash award
🏆 Recognized at the 5/29 Kaplan Public Humanities Symposium

SUBMIT: bit.ly/26PubHumAward

(Photo is artist and activist Dorothy Burge @dburge1932, 2025 recipient.)

2) PROJECT SHOWCASE

Show off your public humanities project (completed or in-progress) at the 2026 Public Humanities Symposium on 5/29! All forms and media are welcome. Open to Northwestern campus groups, faculty, staff, librarians, and graduate students.

Details: bit.ly/3OSSLwc

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No music — listen to the waves of Lake Michigan! A serene interlude amidst four busy days of meetings and events at Northwestern, the University of Chicago, and the MacArthur Foundation (generously hosting a humanities philanthropic convening). Love meeting colleagues @kaplanhum devoted to the free pursuit of knowledge. #talkabouthumanities #talkaboutsocialsciences

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Only a couple seats left!

Oral History Podcasting Workshop
with Artist in Residence Quan Zhou @gazpachoagridulce!

Tues. + Wed., April 28-29, 2026*
5:00 to 7:00 pm

*Registrants must commit to both sessions

Open to Northwestern students, staff, and faculty.

"Narrating Memory: Podcasting Oral History" will be a two-day workshop to explore oral history as a tool for recovering, preserving, and reclaiming memory. Participants will gain practical skills in audio recording, interview techniques, and digital editing, culminating in the production of short podcast pieces centered on family or community stories. The workshop will be conducted in English.

Register at planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/641937

and visit bit.ly/AIRQZ to learn more about Quan's residency!

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THIS MONDAY! Join Northwestern University’s Kaplan Humanities Institute for “Transforming Our Futures: A Humanities for the Public Good.”

On April 27th at 4PM at Northwestern’s Scott Hall in Evanston, American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) President Joy Connolly, in conversation with Marwan Kraidy, Dean of Northwestern University in Qatar and Chair of the ACLS Board of Directors, will discuss lessons from—and for—the humanities as we move through our current challenges and shape our collective futures.

This event is free and open to the public. Don’t miss this timely conversation!

#DepaulLAS #KaplanHumanitiesInstitute #JoyConnolly #ACLS

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