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Humanities Institute

Upcoming Events

CES Grad Working Group Lunch Mixer
August 28, 2025

Ethnic Studies Graduate Working Group Autumn 2025 Lunch Mixer

Event Start Time: 12:00 pm
Event Location: 198 Hagerty Hall
Center for Ethnic Studies Autumn 2025 Welcome Lunch
September 8, 2025

Center for Ethnic Studies Autumn 2025 Welcome Lunch

Event Start Time: 12:00 pm
Event Location: TBD
Book cover that reads "Religion in the Americas: Trans-hemispheric and Transcultural Approaches edited by Christopher D. Tirres and Jessica Delgado"
September 10, 2025

Colloquium on "Religion in the Americas"

Event Start Time: 4:00 pm
Event Location: 18th Avenue Library Research Commons
What the Fridays
September 19, 2025

What the...? Fridays!

Event Start Time: 10:00 am
Event Location: 455 Hagerty Hall

Recent News

We're Hiring Post Doc

We're Hiring! Post Doctoral Scholar

Job Title

Post Doctoral Scholar - Center for Folklore Studies

Department

Arts and Sciences | Center for Folklore Studies

Follow this link to apply

The deadline to apply is May 30. …

Death's Futurity

CES Associate Director Sam Aranke Wins MLA Book Award

Associate Director of the Center for Ethnic Studies Sam Aranke (Associate Professor of History of Art) has won a major award from the MLA (Modern Language Association) for her book, Death’s…

A cloth figure wears a mask and stands on legs made of feathers

On View: Winged Creatures and Flying Shamans

The Humanities Institute is currently hosting a mini exhibition from the Kawsay Ukhunchay Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Art and Cultural Artifacts Research Collection. "Winged Creatures and…

A grid of archeology findings- a clay shard, a ceramic pitcher, a two-handled vessel and three other shards.

On View: Cypriot Ceramics from the Ohio State Museum of Classical Archeology

Ohio State’s Museum of Classical Archaeology (MOCA) has curated a selection of ancient Cypriot ceramics from their collection of over 650 Mediterranean antiquities. Currently on display in Hagerty…

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Director, Center for the Study of Religion; Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Studies
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Director, Humanities Institute; Professor and Area Head for Musicology and Music Theory, School of Music