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An advocate for the arts + humanities

The College Arts and Humanities Institute (CAHI) is a hub for the arts and humanities in the College and on the IU Bloomington campus. We provide funding for College faculty and graduate students; sponsor lectures, workshops, and other events; and bring nationally recognized artists and scholars to campus.

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Distinguished speakers

CAHI is delighted to announce that Terry Tempest Williams, award-winning author, environmentalist, and activist, will visit IU Bloomington and appear at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater on November 6 as Ruth N. Halls Distinguished Speaker. Tickets are available now at the BCT Box Office.

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Film Screening

Year of the Cat (2025) follows filmmaker Tony Nguyen on an extraordinary quest to solve the mystery of his father, lost in the chaos of the Fall of Saigon 50 years ago. CAHI will host Nguyen for a screening of his film on November 13 at the Wells Library Moving Image Archive, screening room 043. 

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Reading groups

Last September, the critic and theorist Fredric Jameson died. This Fall, the Theory Center Reading Group reflects on what Jameson’s work means for us today. We focus on the problems Jameson returned to again and again, as he sought to fashion a Marxist cultural criticism adequate to his changing times: the legibility of history, the possibilities of a dialectical criticism, and the concepts of totality, reification, utopia, and periodization.

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We provide funding for faculty & graduate students

CAHI cares about the research and creative activity of our faculty and graduate students in the arts and humanities. We offer several funding opportunities to support this vital work, including research fellowships, travel grants, and Global Gateway grants. We also provide funds to support conferences, performances, exhibitions, workshops, and more.

Faculty Fellowships + Grants

Fall deadline: October 15, 2025

Graduate Research + Conference Travel Awards

Fall deadline: September 15, 2025

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Banner image: Opening reception for Light/Matter: The Intersection of Photography and Printmaking, an exhibition at the Grunwald Gallery, Fall 2017.

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