Graduate students and faculty in the Department regularly participate in a wide spectrum of interdisciplinary workshops, programs, and committees. Recent regional workshops and programs, sponsored by the Committee on African and African-American Studies, the Center for East Asian Studies, the Center for Latin American Studies, and the Committee on Southern Asian Studies, include: African Studies; American Cultures; Anthropology of Europe; Anthropology of Latin America; Art & Politics of East Asia; Asia in the World/The World in Asia; Colonial Latin American Studies; Current Trends in Japanese Studies; East Asia: Society, Politics, and Economy; Interdisciplinary Approaches to Modern France; Middle East History and Theory; Modern European History; Russian Studies; and Theory and Practice in South Asia; Visual & Material Perspectives on East Asia. Other interdisciplinary workshops were thematic: Ancient Societies; The Built Environment; Clinical Ethnography; Comparative Politics; Contemporary Philosophy; Culture, Life Course and Mental Health; Demography; Early Christian Studies; Early Modern; Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Cultures; EthNoise!: Ethnomusicology; Evolutionary Processes in Biology, Language & Culture; Gender and Society; Genes & Social Behavior; History and Philosophy of Science; History of the Human Sciences; Human Rights; Interdisciplinary Christianities; International Relations; Late Antiquity and Byzantium; Mass Culture; Organizations and State Building; Performance Studies; Poetry & Poetics; Political Communication & Society; Political Economy; Political Psychology; Reproduction of Race and Racial Ideologies; Renaissance; Rhetoric & Poetics; Science, Technology, Society & the State; Semiotic Approaches; Social History; Social Structures & Processes in Urban Space; Sociology and Cultures of Globalization; and Urban Social Processes. Still others were more theoretically oriented, including workshops on Contemporary Philosophy; Formalism; History and Philosophy of Science; Philosophy of Mind; Political Theory; Social Theory; Theory and Insurgency; and Wittgenstein. [For more information: Graduate Workshops in the Humanities and Social Sciences ]

The Franke Institute for the Humanities (http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/ institute/ ) provides another forum for cross-disciplinary dialogues. The Institute sponsors symposia, colloquia and lectures on a wide variety of topics; recent events have included conferences on the Radicalized Body: Race as Lived and Theorized; Lives In-Between? The Turkish Diaspora in Germany; Identity and Conflict: Caucasia in Our Time; Mexico: Country of Exiles; Thinking with Cases: Chinese Cultural History: New Media, New Publics; Cinema as Vernacular Modernism. The Center for International Studies offers a series of interdisciplinary colloquia and conferences on peace and international communication. A recent course sponsored by the Center - Crossing Cultural Frontiers in International Communication - was taught by faculty members in Anthropology, the History of Culture, and Political Science.

Students with interests in particular geographic regions often avail themselves of courses and work with faculty members in area studies programs such as the Centers for Latin American Studies, East Asian Studies, South Asian Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, and East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies, the Committees of African and Afro-American Studies and on the Ancient Mediterranean World, and the Departments of Classical Languages and Literatures, Art, and Near Eastern Languages. (For links to the various Centers, click here)

The Committee on Archaeological Studies provides a forum for discussion of archaeological research. Member departments include Anthropology, Art History, Classics, and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Students interested in the history and philosophy of anthropological thought may find relevant courses and affiliations in the Morris Fishbein Center for the History of Science and Medicine or the Committee on the Conceptual Foundations of Science.