Registration

Register today!

Please expect a confirmation email when you sign up and a reminder confirmation email the week of October 16, which will confirm all your in-person session locations.

Please note that if a Humanities Day session is sold out, you can join a waitlist and will be notified if a spot becomes available.

If you need to switch the sessions that you signed up for, for in-person attendance, you can refer to your registration confirmation email. It includes a link to modify your registration.


We are offering these sessions virtually:

Session 1 from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. (CDT): From Robots to iBots: The Iconology of Artificial Intelligence presented by W. J. T. Mitchell  
Keynote Address from 11:00 a.m. to noon (CDT): The Gimmick as Aesthetic Category and Capitalist Form presented by Sianne Ngai  
Session 2 from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. (CDT): The Afterlives of Joan of Arc presented by Daisy Delogu  
Session 3 from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. (CDT): Queering the Classics: When Poetry Looks Back presented by Sarah Nooter

If you would like to cancel your registration, please refer to the confirmation email you received via Zoom, which includes a link to cancel your registration. If you want to add more virtual presentations, you can go to humanitiesday.uchicago.edu and sign up.


Please contact humanities@uchicago.edu by Friday, October 20, at noon CDT if you have any issues with registering for in-person, virtual presentations, or tours.

Thank you for your interest in Humanities Day 2023.