Humanities Week 2026

February 23-27, 2026

Join us all week long to celebrate the Humanities at Columbia!  

Learn more about the Humanities majors and minors at Department and Institute Open Houses all week (and next month!).  Meet faculty and other students interested in the Humanities at panels, flash talks, and discussions.  Find your place in the Humanities at Columbia.

Some events require registration.  Please be sure to check with each department for updated details.  The full list of department open houses is below.

Monday, February 23  

POSTPONED - Please note that, due to weather conditions, the Just Humanities Grant Flash Talks originally planned for Monday, February 23 will be postponed.  Please keep an eye out for further update.

All other events will go forward as scheduled.

• Just Humanities Grant Flash Talks
  4:30-6:00pm
  Uris Hall, Room 107 (Calder Lounge)
  Reception to follow.

  Featuring: 

  • Susan Boynton 
    Professor, Department of Music  
  • Alexis Hagadorn  
    Head of Conservation, Columbia Libraries  
  • Francisca Aguiló Mora 
    Senior Lecturer, Director of Spanish Language Program, Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures  
  • Erag Ramizi  
    Lecturer, Department of English and Comparative Literature  
  • Moderated by: Bruno Bosteels 
    Dean of Humanities Jesse and George Siegel Professor in the Humanities

Tuesday, February 24

• Buddhist Studies at Columbia
  12:30-2:00pm
  Uris Hall, Room 309
  Lunch will be served.

  Featuring: 

  • Allison Aitken 
    Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy
  • Kelly M. Carlton 
    Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Department of Religion
  • Dominique Townsend 
    Jey Tsong Khapa Associate Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, Department of Religion   
  • Jin Xu
    Jane and Leopold Swergold Associate Professor of Chinese Art History, Department of Art History and Archaeology
  • Moderated by: Bruno Bosteels 
    Dean of Humanities Jesse and George Siegel Professor in the Humanities

• New Humanities Faculty Salon 
  6:00-7:30pm
  Uris Hall, Room 107 (Calder Lounge)
  Reception to follow.  Register here.

  Featuring: 

  • Chika Ogura 
    Lecturer in Japanese Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures   
  • Ethan Plaue 
    Assistant Professor Department of English and Comparative Literature   
  • C. Riley Snorton 
    Professor English and Comparative Literature;  Institute for the Study of Sexuality and Gender   
  • Rosalie Stoner 
    Assistant Professor Department of Classics  
  • Moderated by: Bruno Bosteels 
    Dean of Humanities Jesse and George Siegel Professor in the Humanities

Wednesday, February 25

• Peer Panel: Talking About Languages Over Lunch
  1:30-2:30pm
  Uris Hall, Room 309
  Lunch will be available.  Register here.

  Featuring: 

  • Maximilian Belyantsev, CC ‘28 
    Economics & East Asian Languages and Cultures 
    Studying: Chinese
  • Alex Nagin, ’26 
    Trinity College Dublin dual degree program, Middle Eastern and European Languages and Cultures & Political Science
    Studying: Russian
  • Rachel Smith, CC ‘26 
    Comparative Literature & Society
    Studying: Italian, French
  • Benjamin Williams CC ’26 
    French and Francophone Studies & German Literature and Cultural History 
    Studying: French, German, Italian, Dutch, Hungarian, Greek, Latin
  • Moderated by: Christopher Kaiser 
    Associate Director, Language Resource Center  

Thursday, February 26

• Peer Panel: Talking About Languages Over Lunch
  1:30-2:30pm
  Uris Hall, Room 107 (Calder Lounge)
  Lunch will be available.  Register here.

  Featuring: 

  • Aymane Boukhadia CC ‘27 
    Biology (Pre-Med) 
    Studying: German
  • Daniel Boukhny, CC ‘27 
    Concentration in Economics, Special Concentration in Business Management
    Studying: Italian, Greek, Russian, German
  • Luana Cardenas GS 
    Studying: French
  • Camilo Choi CC ‘28 
    Sociology and Race and Ethnicity studies, minor in Education 
    Studying: Spanish and Korean
  • Malek Elashry, CC '26
    Classics
    Studying: Latin and Ancient Greek
  • Aimee Stamm, BC ’27
    Neuroscience and Behavior & Anthropology, Minor in Yiddish   
    Studying: Yiddish  
  • Hannah Yanover, CC ‘26 
    Computer Science 
    Studying: Chinese
  • Moderated by: Bruno Bosteels 
    Dean of Humanities Jesse and George Siegel Professor in the Humanities

POSTPONED - Friday, February 27

Please note that the Grad / Faculty Mixer originally scheduled for Friday will be postponed.  A new date will be announced soon.

• Humanities Grad / Faculty Mixer
  
  For Phd and MA students and faculty.