Haunting Humanities

Name: Haunting Humanities
Start: 2025-10-29T17:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-10-29T21:00:00-05:00
Location: Abe & Jake's Landing

Schedule

Wed Oct 29 2025 at 05:30 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Abe & Jake's Landing | Lawrence, KS

🗓️ Wednesday, Oct. 29
🕠 5:30 - 9:00 PM
📍 Abe & Jake's Landing
Join us for a haunting take on history, literature, and more with the return of the Hall Center’s all-ages humanities festival with a Halloween twist.
Haunting Humanities explores the insights that the study of humanities can bring to everyday life. Visitors will be given a map of the space and invited to guide themselves through a series of innovative presentations, activities, games, and performances at their own pace. Audience members will also be able to chat one-on-one with participating scholars about their research.
Haunting Humanities is a KU original. It began as the brainchild of the Public Humanities Roundtable, a loosely knit group convened by the Hall Center of faculty, staff, and community partners who were interested in developing new ways for humanities researchers to engage the public interactively with their work. When the idea arose for an event like a science fair that could also leverage the public’s interest in Halloween, Haunting Humanities was born!
Haunting Humanities has a host of sponsors and community partners, including the Friends of the Hall Center, Kansas Public Radio, the City of Lawrence, eXplore Lawrence, Coneflower Consulting, and numerous academic departments.
See more information at https://hallcenter.ku.edu/haunting-humanities