Since its formation in 1997, the IPRH has co-sponsored nearly 500 events involving more than sixty campus units and departments. Co-sponsorships have ranged from small $25 contributions to major collaborations involving contributions of up to $3,000. The IPRH has made every attempt to concentrate its limited resources on those projects and events that are most consistent with the mission of an interdisciplinary humanities program; and, wherever possible, the IPRH has become involved with such relevant programming by becoming a partner in the planning, publicity, and execution of the events. The IPRH has also hosted numerous symposia, lectures, and conferences in its lecture hall and seminar room since moving into its current facilities in 1998. Many of the events listed here are examples of the kind of interdisciplinary collaboration that has characterized the close relationship the IPRH has with many departments and units on campus.

The IPRH solicits applications for co-sponsorship support twice yearly, with deadlines in the fall and spring. The average amount that the IPRH will contribute to an event is $100. In addition, the IPRH can award support for a limited number of conferences per year at the $500 level. Proposals for conference support must be submitted by the deadline dates in order to receive consideration. Proposals for non-conference events will be accepted outside of deadline periods under special circumstances, but funding will be contingent upon availability. Because the IPRH has limited resources for co-sponsorship of events and programs, it is not always possible for the IPRH to provide funding at the level requested; such decisions are made at the discretion of the Director and Associate Director.

Below is a representative sample of events that have been co-sponsored by the IPRH.

2006-2007

Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies 4th Annual Asian Film Festival
Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory conference “Poetry, Politics, and the Profession: A Tribute to
   Cary Nelson”
Religious Studies Workshop of Religion and Ecology
French Department Conference “Departmentalization at the Crossroads: Sixty Years On”
Slavic Languages and Literatures 8th Annual Czech Workshop “Czechs in the New and Old Europe”
Institute of Communications International Research Congress on Qualitative Inquiry
Chicago Humanities Festival – presentations by U of I faculty members Christian Sandvig, Stephen Hartnett,
   May Berenbaum, and Robin McFarquhar
Invited lectures by Allen Roberts, Tony Palmer, Luis Macas, Katherine Verdery, Miriam Basilio, Anthony
   Grafton, Chang-rae Lee, Daniel Dennett, William Labov, Diane Conlin, Susan Lape, Paul Schimmel, and
   Henri Zerner


2005-2006

Center for Advanced Study initiative “The Age of Networks: Social, Cultural, and Technological
   Connections”
Linguistics conference History of Language Sciences
Germanic Languages and Literatures conference “Violence in German Literature, Culture, and Intellectual
   History, 1789-1938”
Latina/Latino Studies Rolando Hinojosa Lecture Series
East Asian and Pacific Studies and Krannert Art Museum “Making a Scene” symposium
Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center conference “Post-Communist Nostalgia”
History Department conference “Midwest Labor and the Working Class”
Chicago Humanities Festival – presentation by U of I faculty member Martin Manalansan
Institute of Communications International Research Congress on Qualitative Inquiry
Martin Luther King, Jr. Symposium        
Religious Studies symposium “The Bible, Public Schools and American Identity”
Invited lectures by Tom Gunning, Rita Simon, Svetlana Alpers, Chris Waterman, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht,
   Maria Elena Gaitan, Murray Pomerance, Ted Rall, Tim Murray, Yvonne Welbon, Ruth Behar, Prasenjit
   Duara, Anthony Shadid, Nacira Guenif, Sahar Tawfiq,  Judith Halberstam, Jonathan Lear, and Pete Daniel


2004-2005

Anthropology Department Race and Ethnicity speaker series
Unit for Cinema Studies conference “Animation Studies”
Asian American Studies and the College of Law conference “Asian Americans and the Law”
Center for Advanced Study panel discussion “Origins of a Networked World: From World War II to the
   Internet”
Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory conference “Fetishizing the Free Market: The Cultural Politics of
   Neoliberalism”
The Society for Emblem Studies/Germanic Languages and Literatures conference “Emblems in the 21st
   Century: Materials and Media”
Institute of Communications International Research Congress on Qualitative Inquiry
Martin Luther King, Jr. Symposium
Invited lectures by Omer Bartov, Elizabeth Grosz, Ross Chambers, Francis Robinson, Heide Winder,
   Jonathan Shay, Richard Levy, Jacqueline Bobo, Louise Antony, Shashi Tharoor, Elzbieta Halas, and June
   Nash


2003-2004

Spanish, Italian and Portuguese and FAA conference “Recalcitrant Modernities: Spain, Difference, and the
   Construction of European Modernisms”
Cinema Studies and History conference “Shaw Bros. Cinema”
Medieval Studies conference
Art History and Architecture joint seminar “Paris-Istanbul”
Art and Design film series “Space and Place”
Krannert Art Museum and Art History Conference “Beyond East and West: Art in a Transnational World”
Asian American Studies Asian Film Festival
Russian and East European Center symposium “(Russian) Cinema after Communism”
International Law Society East Asian Law symposium
Institute of Communications International Research Congress on Qualitative Inquiry
Latin American and Caribbean Studies symposium “Circuits of Style: Musical Interchange Between and
   Among Africa and America”
Roger Ebert’s 6th Annual Overlooked Film Festival
Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium
Invited lectures by Tim White, Robert Farris Thompson, Gerda Lerner, Carlo Rotella, John Sinclair, Adrian
   Piper, Lennard Davis, Yardena Donig Youner, Yann Martel, Charles Tripp, Warrington Hudlin, Martin
   Stokes, Don Davis, Andrei Codrescu, Ervand Abrahamian, Linda Dittmar, Gregory Orr, Valerie
   Walkerdine, Carrie Mae Weems


2002-2003

Krannert Art Museum/Asian American Studies symposium “The Dream of the Audience: Teresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951-1982)”
Russian and East European Center/European Union center conference “Rethinking Terrorism”
Center for Advanced Study Initiative on Globalization
Roger Ebert’s 5th Annual Overlooked Film Festival
Martin Luther King, Jr. Symposium
20th Century French Studies Colloquium
Invited lectures by David Eng, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Gil Anidjar, Derrick de Kerckhove, Johannes
   Fabian, Angela Davis, Grant Farred, Alice Aycock


2001-2002

Roger Ebert’s 4th Annual Overlooked Film Festival
Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory conference “Postcolonial Studies and Beyond”
East Asian Languages and Cultures conference “East Asian Welfare and Gender”
French Department conference “French Cultural Studies”
Spanish, Italian and Portuguese conference “Hispanic Linguistics”
History Department Graduate Symposium on Women’s and Gender History
Center for African Studies/Department of Journalism conference “Reporting Africa in the US Media”
University YMCA Friday Forum Series
Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium
Invited lectures by Peter Novick, Dan Diner, Jean-Claude Kuperminc, Holly Hughes, Angela Oh, Jaroslav
   Pelikan Sergei Khrushchev, Hazel Carby, Richard Posner, Elizabeth Anderson, Susan Estrich, Thelma
   Awori, Bradley Epps, Michael Meyer, and Elizabeth Higginbotham


2000-2001

School of Music conference “History of Opera”
Philosophy Department conference “Nietzsche”
Anthropology Department conference "Pedagogy and Politics: Queer Studies and its Futures"
Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security Millennium Lecture Series
Midwest Bisexual Lesbian Gay Transgender College Conference
Roger Ebert’s 3rd Annual Overlooked Film Festival
Martin Luther King, Jr. Symposium
University YMCA Friday Forum Series
Invited lectures by Marshall Sahlins, Carolyn Dinshaw, Susannah Heschel, Susan Douglas, Alain Boureau, 
   Lourdes Beneria, William Greaves, Hanne Tautner-Kromann, and Mary Sheriff


1999-2000

Latina/Latino Studies Program conference “Perspectives on La Malinche”
Center for Advanced Study conference “Geographies of Latinidad”
Afro-American Studies and Research Program conference “Black Women in the African Diaspora”
Krannert Art Museum lecture and exhibit by Joe Goode
Landscape Architecture symposium “Mughal Gardens”
East Asian Languages and Cultures conference “Korean-American Christianity”
Roger Ebert’s 2nd Annual Overlooked Film Festival
Martin Luther King, Jr. Symposium
University YMCA Friday Forum Series
Invited lectures by George Stocking, Rom Harré, Sam Gustman, Vitaly Komar and Alex Melamid, Abigail
   Solomon-Godeau, Richard Handler, Frances Bronet, Rafael Campo, Roger Shattuck, and Lana Rakow


1998-1999

Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory conference “Disciplinarity at the Fin-de-Siècle”
Program for the Study of Religion Science and Religion Lecture Series
American Indian Studies Network Spring Film Series
Anthropology Department conference “Women and the Legacy of Puerto Rico”
Art History Program lecture and exhibit by Ilya Kabakov
Women’s Studies Program Women in the Director’s Chair Series
University YMCA Friday Forum Series
Martin Luther King, Jr. Symposium
Invited lectures by George Lipsitz, Daniel Boyarin, Mark Doty, Ruth Behar, Iris Chang, and Ishmael Reed


1997-1998

Women’s Studies Program conference “Gender, Citizenship, and the Work of Caring”
Spanish, Italian and Portuguese lecture series “Toward a Genealogy of Latin Americanism”
IPRH/Afro-American Studies panel discussion “Two Nations of Black America”
University YMCA Friday Forum Series
Martin Luther King, Jr. Symposium
Women in the Director’s Chair Festival Tour
Invited lectures by Richard Rorty, Rita Felski, E. San Juan, Michelangelo Signorile, Wilma Mankiller, Alison 
   Jaggar, Sabine Mödersheim, and Julia Alvarez