- Humanities Career Connections Workshops
- High Stakes Culture Series
- High Stakes Art
- Jill S. Harris Memorial Lecture
- Marc and Constance Jacobson Lecture
- Norman Freehling Visiting Professorship
- Past Programs & Projects
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- (Re)Emergence: Asian American Histories and Futures
- Humanities Without Walls Predoctoral Career Diversity Summer Workshop
- Humanities Without Walls
- 2023 Humanities Afrofutures
- 2022 HWW Career Diversity Workshop
- 2022 Poetry Blast!
- Octavia Butler Week
- 2021 Poetry Blast!
- The Humanities at Work
- 2018-19 Year of Humanities and Environments
- 2017-18 Year of Archives & Futures
- 2016-17 Year of Humanities & Public Policy
- 2015-16 Year of Conversions
- Early Modern Conversions Project
- MCubed Humanities Projects
- Author's Forum
Archives are vital extensions of human memory. They tell stories about daily life, individuals, and institutions, preserving the past for the future as they anticipate a future in which memories matter. But archives are not neutral repositories of history. Their value and usefulness are impacted by collection practices, storage capacities, technology, and accessibility.
During this bicentennial anniversary of the University of Michigan, the Institute for the Humanities 2017-18 Year of Archives and Futures examines archives and archival practices past, present, and future. We will consider objects that question authority, explore museums and their production of knowledge, investigate the written heritage of an ancient African city, and much more, aiming to expand our understanding of archives, all while looking ahead to the future stories they may tell.
