Focal Themes Archive

Large hand sculpture reaching out from water to hold building
2025-26: Scale
honeycomb sculpture
2024-25: Silence
Abstract image of two people reaching for each other across a gray background
2023-24: Crossing
'Nest' by Rachel Gribble
2022-23: Repair
Ghost Graffitti' by Andrea Dezsö, the image representing the Society for the Humanities 'Afterlives' theme
2021-22: Afterlives
Fabrication
2020-21: Fabrication
Daniel Zeller, Deregulated Uncontainment, 2007, ink and acrylic on paper; courtesy of the artist
2019-20: Energy
Chairs
2018-19: Authority
Corruption
2017-18: Corruption
Tattooed man
2016-17: Skin
Time art
2015-16: Time
Sensation
2014-15: Sensation
Occupation art
2013-14: Occupation
Risk
2012-13: Risk
sound
2011-12: Sound
global aesthetics
2010-11: Global Aesthetics
networkmobilities2
2009-10: Networks/Mobilities
waterimage
2008-09: Water
improvisationimage
2007-08: Improvisation
globalpostmodern
2006-07: Historicizing the Global Post-modern
cultureconflicts
2005-06: Culture & Conflict
translation
2004-05: Translation
secularsacred
2003-04: The Secular & the Sacred
ideaofuniversity
2002-03: The Idea of a University
dispora
2001-02: Diaspora
cities
2000-01: Cities
pointsofcontact
1999-2000: Points of Contact
virtual
1998-99: The Virtual
Klarmann Hall
1997-98: Trauma & Psychoanalysis
Klarmann Hall
1996-97: Mapping & Remapping the Disciplines
Klarmann Hall
1995-96: Self, Subject, Agent
Klarmann Hall
1994-95: Multicultural Perspectives
Klarmann Hall
1993-94: Texts & Contexts Revisited
Klarmann Hall
1991-92: The Politics of Identity
Klarmann Hall
1990-91: Mass Culture
Klarmann Hall
1989-90: Revolution
Klarmann Hall
1988-89: Feminism
Klarmann Hall
1987-88: Race
Klarmann Hall
1986-1987: The Humanities & Science
Klarmann Hall
1985-86: Non-European Traditions in Western Civilization
Klarmann Hall
1966-1985: Fellowship Archive

Announcing the 2024-25 Focal Theme: Silence

Top