Faculty Friday Work in Progress Presentation - Center for Latin American Studies
Latin American Studies
A Center for Latin American Studies Faculty Friday Work in Progress presentation featuring affiliate faculty Daniela Samur - Assistant Professor, History.
"On the Materiality and Spatiality of State Formation".
Campus Locations: Tanner Irish Humanities Building - Carolyn (CTIHB). Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Friday, November 7, 2025, 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM.
English Department Meeting
English
Campus Locations: Language & Communication Bldg (LNCO). Contact Name: David Roh. Contact Email: David.Roh@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Friday, November 7, 2025, 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM.
Sound Tactics in the March for our Lives
Communication Institute
This talk situates sound as a critical resource in the rhetorical arsenal of contemporary activism. Advancing his theory of “sound tactics,” Justin Eckstein (Pacific Lutheran University) argues that the qualities of immediacy, intensity, and immersion uniquely position sound to compel institutional response. Through an analysis of the March for Our Lives movement, Eckstein demonstrates how the sonic dimensions of protest generated an affective urgency that reframed public discourse on gun violence. This case illustrates rhetoric’s broader contribution to sound studies by showing how auditory practices shape conditions of resistance, accountability, and collective judgment.
Campus Locations: Language & Communication Bldg (LNCO). Contact Name: Kevin Coe. Contact Email: kevin.coe@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Monday, November 10, 2025, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM.
Margaret Brucia Reading
English
Campus Locations: Language & Communication Bldg (LNCO). Contact Name: Alex Ortega. Contact Email: Alexander.Ortega@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Tuesday, November 11, 2025, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM.
Great Campus Debate
John R. Park Debate Society Hosts First Annual Great Campus Debate
In partnership with the Provost’s Office and supported by a grant from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundation, the John R. Park Debate Society has worked with Insight Debate, piloting its newest initiative, Debate Across the Curriculum (DAC). Through in-class debate facilitation, DAC has reached approximately 500 students in classrooms this semester. The goal of the DAC initiative is to bring public deliberation and advocacy exercises to classrooms that may not otherwise get to experience debate education. In line with this goal, the debate society's DAC programming will include hosting the first annual Great Campus Debate on November 11th, 2025.
The campus debate will facilitate discussion regarding generative AI, a topic selected through polling of the campus community. Throughout the event, chaired by Insight Debate co-founder April Lawson, students from across campus will be able to present arguments that help unpack the resolution: genera…
Event Categories: Meetups. Community Engagement. Campus Locations: Gardner Commons - Carolyn and Kem (GC). Ticket URL: https://debate.utah.edu/public-debates/dacnovember2025.php. Contact Name: Karen Marsh. Contact Email: karen.marsh@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Tuesday, November 11, 2025, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM.
For more info visit debate.utah.edu. Non-Profit Employer Meet and Greet
Springville Museum of Art Career Info Session
Wednesday, November 12, 2025 3:00pm - 4:20pm MST
Join us for an engaging visit from Lettie Burton of the Springville Museum of Art. Lettie will share insights about the museum’s internship program and offer a behind-the-scenes look at what it’s like to work in a museum setting. This is a great opportunity to learn about career paths, ask questions, and gain a deeper understanding of how museums operate and support their communities.
Event Categories: Meetups. Community Engagement. Campus Locations: Tanner Irish Humanities Building - Carolyn (CTIHB). Ticket URL: https://utah.joinhandshake.com/events/1854669/share_preview. Contact Name: Cameron Vakilian. Contact Email: cameron.vakilian@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Wednesday, November 12, 2025, 3:00 PM – 4:20 PM.
For more info visit utah.joinhandshake.com. Imagined Futures Panel Event
Imagined Futures Panel Event, University of Utah scholars have utilized imagination as a driving force to articulate our future. From creative writing to theater to video games, our creative scholars have visualized our world in new and powerful ways. We stand at a crossroad where almost infinite possibilities are in front of us. The Office of the Vice President for Research is excited to organize a 90-minute “Imagined Futures” event designed to showcase creative excellence, inspire new projects, and foster conversation about the future. For this event, select University of Utah scholars will be asked to present their work that imagines possible futures. The Selected Panel, Kenneth Collins, Film & Media Arts , AI and the Future of No Budget Filmmaking, Abstract: Imagine a future where independent filmmakers can produce Hollywood-quality films on their laptops with virtually no budget and reach global audiences directly through multi-platform strategies. This talk explores the potential of a democratized…
Event Categories: Info Sessions. Lectures. Campus Locations: Intermountain Network Scientific CC (INSCC). Cost: Free. Ticket URL: https://utah.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_b1xNHeq93S86yG2. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Thursday, November 13, 2025, 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM.
For more info visit utah.sjc1.qualtrics.com. Cindi Textor, Department of World Languages and Cultures
Tanner Humanities Center
Cindi Textor, Associate Professor in the Department of World Languages and Cultures at the University of Utah, will give a public talk this spring drawing from her research on transnational Japan. Her scholarship examines Japan not as an isolated culture, but as a site where ideas and empires meet, focusing especially on the enduring legacies of Japanese imperialism and its intersections with American and other western empires. Her first book, Intersectional Incoherence: Zainichi Literature and the Ethics of Illegibility (University of California Press, 2024), analyzes moments of incoherence and unintelligibility in the work of Koreans in Japan, challenging conventional approaches to literary representation. She is now at work on a second book that explores how modern Japan has engaged with and reconfigured white supremacist ideology, often through processes of translation. This new project argues that, even in a population largely considered non-white, white supremacy can operate and thrive when whiteness…
Event Categories: Lectures. Public Event. Campus Locations: Tanner Irish Humanities Building - Carolyn (CTIHB). Cost: Free. Ticket URL: https://tanner.utah.edu/center-events/cindi-textor/. Contact Name: Beth James. Contact Phone: 801-581-8473. Contact Email: beth.james@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Thursday, November 13, 2025, 12:00 PM.
For more info visit tanner.utah.edu. “If I get free”: On Black religion, deconstruction, and digital media
Communication Institute
When you read the latest survey data about a rising group of non-religious individuals, often called “nones” you hardly learn that these are former adherents deconverting. More importantly, we rarely hear from Black people who have particular social, personal, and political reasons for disaffiliating from their religious traditions.
In this talk, Dr. LaRisa Anderson-Horne examines the transformation of Black religious practices within the digital religious deconstruction movement. She discusses how Black content creators and podcasts hosted by or featuring Black guests illustrate the relationship between race, religion, and technology. Black religious deconstruction is not digital by accident, but a demonstration of the ways decolonial and progressive activism must also challenge (religious) technoculture.
Campus Locations: Language & Communication Bldg (LNCO). Contact Name: Kevin Coe. Contact Email: kevin.coe@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Thursday, November 13, 2025, 3:00 PM – 4:15 PM.
Graduate Student Wellness Workshop
more info coming soon.
Event Categories: Meetups. Community Engagement. Contact Name: Karen Marsh. Contact Email: karen.marsh@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Thursday, November 13, 2025, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM.
Guest Writer Series: Sawako Nakayasu
English
Alternate Location: Salt Lake Buddhist Temple, 211 W. 100 S. Contact Name: Alex Ortega. Contact Email: Alexander.Ortega@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Thursday, November 13, 2025, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM.
Stronger Together: Building Lasting Campus-Community Partnerships
Please join us for an interactive workshop with community leaders, faculty, staff, and graduate students on building and sustaining campus-community partnerships. Registration is now open and closes on November 3. This workshop is planned in collaboration with Community Engaged Learning, the School of Public Affairs, University Neighborhood Partnership, and the Utah Presidential Leadership Fellowship (Mellon) and FREE thanks to the generous sponsorship of the Mellon Foundation.
Campus Locations: Marriott Library - J. Willard (M LIB). Ticket URL: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdou2i2A2AwoI7xBifw3XCKpV1SXyGdBh5W57yU_1Z7rMMtWQ/viewform. Contact Name: Tanya Flores. Contact Email: tanya.flores@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Friday, November 14, 2025, 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM.
Guest Writer Series: Sawako Nakayasu Colloquium
English
Alternate Location: Finch Lane Gallery, 54 Finch Lane, Salt Lake City. Contact Name: Alex Ortega. Contact Email: Alexander.Ortega@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Friday, November 14, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
Faculty Friday Work in Progress Presentation - Middle East Center
Middle East Center
A Middle East Center Faculty Friday Work in Progress presentation featuring affiliate faculty Rawad Wehbe - Assistant Professor, World Languages and Cultures.
"Recharging Liminality: Identifying Arabic Poetry's Other Mukhadram Moment".
Campus Locations: Tanner Irish Humanities Building - Carolyn (CTIHB). Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Friday, November 14, 2025, 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM.
Translation and Scriptworlds in East Asia – Tanner Lecture on Human Values Symposium
Tanner Humanities Center
A continuation of the 2025 Tanner Lecture on Human Values Symposium with David Damrosch. First session, 12 noon – 1:00pm
“Kasuga Akane’s Haiku: Script, Translation, and Japanese Mexican Nikkei Hybridity”
Ashton Lazarus — University of Utah, World Languages and Cultures
“Wang Issa Hass Ko Du: Vagaries of World Poetry After Sinographic Canonicity”
Lucas Klein — Arizona State University
“Terror and the Global Japanophone: Sakiyama Tami’s ‘Island Language’ as Guerrilla Warfare”
Cindi Textor — University of Utah, World Languages and Cultures, Second session, 1:00pm–2:00pm
“Writing it like it is: Literarization of Korean in the Sinographic Cosmopolis”
Young Oh — Arizona State University
“Clear and Easy Text: Scriptural Literalism in Medieval Chinese Buddhism”
Max Brandstadt — University of Utah, World Languages and Cultures
“Of Legibility, Illegibility, and Cow Drool: Civilizational Hierarchies in Early Modern Japan”
Will Hedberg — Arizona State University, For updates and more events, join our mailing…
Event Categories: Colloquia. Lectures. Public Event. Conferences. Campus Locations: Tanner Irish Humanities Building - Carolyn (CTIHB). Cost: free. Ticket URL: https://tanner.utah.edu/center-events/translation-and-scriptworlds-in-east-asia-tanner-lecture-on-human-values-symposium/. Contact Name: Beth James. Contact Phone: 801-581-7989. Contact Email: beth.james@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Friday, November 14, 2025, 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM.
For more info visit tanner.utah.edu. Going Global Career Panel
International Studies
Joins us as we bring together panelists to highlight global careers, international experiences, and language skills and discuss how those skills and experiences can benefit you in the workplace.
Campus Locations: Gardner Commons - Carolyn and Kem (GC). Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Tuesday, November 18, 2025, 12:30 PM – 1:45 PM.
Vietnamerica: A Simulcast Film Screening and Discussion
Asia Center
A simulcast film screening of Vietnamerica, followed by a discussion. Vietnamerica: The Story of the Nation's Largest Refugee Group - Forty years after the US pulled out of South Vietnam, a Vietnamese martial arts master returns to the waters that claimed his wife and children during their escape in hopes of finding their grave.
Campus Locations: Tanner Irish Humanities Building - Carolyn (CTIHB). Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Tuesday, November 18, 2025, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
Artist talk: Sarah May
School for Cultural and Social Transformation
Join artist Sarah May to learn more about the creative process behind her newest cyanotype series, Archetypes of Ancestresses. In this body of work, May explores her relationship with local water bodies—such as Pia Appaa (Great Salt Lake)—and her connection to the matriarchs within her Salvadoreña heritage. Through this series, she reflects on themes of ancestry, place, and the interconnectedness of water and memory. Archetypes of Ancestresses was commissioned by the Department of Ethnic, Gender and Disability Studies to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Women's/Gender Studies at the University of Utah. Sarah May is also the Fall 2025 Community Practitioner-in-Residence for the University of Utah Environmental Humanities Program.
Event Categories: Public Event. Lectures. Community Engagement. Campus Locations: Marriott Library - J. Willard (M LIB). Alternate Location: Register for virtual webinar | https://utah.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_muv81oiXSc6BjQ4IV_EJEg. Cost: Free. Ticket URL: https://www.eventbrite.com/myevent?eid=1860512425749. Transportation / Parking: Paid parking ($2/30 minutes) is available outside of the Marriott Library. Temporary parking codes are available to community members with financial need upon request. If you need a temporary parking code, please email eliana.massey@utah.edu at least 24 hours before the event. Proof of financial need is not necessary. Contact Name: Eliana Massey. Contact Phone: 801-581-5601. Contact Email: eliana.massey@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Tuesday, November 18, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM.
40th Annual Jefferson B. Fordham Debate - Institutional Neutrality and Other Academic Freedom Controversies
A record number of universities have recently announced—by either adopting a policy or affirming the principles of institutional neutrality—that they will stay silent on social and political controversies. Several states, including Utah, have forced their public universities to adopt policies of institutional neutrality.
Proponents of institutional neutrality argue that it is an essential condition of academic freedom because university statements on issues of the day chill the speech of faculty and students with dissenting views. Opponents contend that institutional neutrality is used to selectively punish and shut down speech as well as to mask inherently value-laden institutional decisions (such as investment decisions).
U.S. universities have navigated unprecedented changes under the Trump administration, which has expanded Title VI oversight; sought to dismantle diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives; revoked student visas and sought to deport students; increased taxes on university end…
Event Categories: Lectures. Campus Locations: Quinney College of Law - S. J. (LAW). Cost: Free and open to the public. Transportation / Parking: Take the Trax to stadium stop and walk half a block north. Paid parking available in the Rice-Eccles stadium lot. Contact Name: Kris. Contact Phone: 801-585-3440. Contact Email: events@law.utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Thursday, November 20, 2025, 12:15 PM – 1:30 PM.
For more info visit www.law.utah.edu. Virtual Learning Abroad Panel
Learning Abroad Humanities Panel
November 20, 2025 | 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Zoom
Come hear from previous Learning Abroad students and learn about the different ways on how you can go global as a humanities major.
RSVP.
Event Categories: Meetups. Community Engagement. Contact Name: Karen Marsh. Contact Email: karen.marsh@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Thursday, November 20, 2025, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM.
For more info visit utah.zoom.us. Beyond the Glittering World: Indigenous Feminisms and Futurisms
America West Center
Beyond the Glittering World: Indigenous Feminisms and Futurisms
Thursday, November 20, 2025: Finch Lane Gallery, 7-8 PM
Join us for a series of lively readings by the writers and poets Stacie Shannon Denetsosie, Kinsale Drake, and Darcie Little Badger as they launch their groundbreaking new anthology, Beyond the Glittering World: An Anthology of Indigenous Feminisms and Futurisms. This anthology brings together twenty emerging and established Native women writers and writers of marginalized genders, presenting an array of singular voices at their genre-bending, boundary-breaking, and joyous best. This event is free and open to the public. Stacie Shannon Denetsosie is the award-winning author of The Missing Morningstar and Other Stories (Torrey House Press, 2023), a finalist for the PEN/Bingham Prize and the Reading the West Award in Debut Fiction, and the winner of the Women Writing the West WILLA Award in Multiform Fiction and a Gold Foreward Indies Award. Stacie is a graduate of the MFA program at the…
Event Categories: Lectures. Alternate Location: Finch Lane Gallery. Contact Name: Paisley Rekdal. Contact Phone: paisley.rekdal@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Thursday, November 20, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM.
For more info visit awc.utah.edu. Works in Progress
English
An English Department faculty member and graduate student will share works in progress.
Campus Locations: Language & Communication Bldg (LNCO). Contact Name: Kaitlin Hoelzer. Contact Phone: 8015816168. Contact Email: Kaitlin.Hoelzer@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Friday, November 21, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
LAST DAY OF CLASSES
Last day of classes fall 2025.
Event Categories: Meetups. Community Engagement. Contact Name: Karen Marsh. Contact Email: karen.marsh@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Thursday, December 4, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM.
2026 Ramona W. Cannon Award for Faculty and Graduate Student Teaching Excellence in the Humanities Deadline
Ramona W. Cannon Award for Teaching Excellence in the Humanities recognizes one College of Humanities faculty member and/or graduate student teacher each year. All faculty in the college who have completed three years of teaching at the University of Utah are eligible for nomination. Department chairs, individual faculty, teaching committees, and student advisory committees are encouraged to nominate one person in their department. Please work with your department Chair regarding nomination process.
https://humanities.utah.edu/students/grad-scholarships.php.
Contact Name: Natalie Montoya. Contact Email: natalie.montoya@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: No.
Friday, December 19, 2025.
For more info visit humanities.utah.edu. Spring semester classes begin
English
Contact Name: David Roh. Contact Email: David.Roh@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Monday, January 5, 2026.
English Department Meeting
English
Campus Locations: Language & Communication Bldg (LNCO). Alternate Location: Finch Lane Gallery, 54 Finch Lane, Salt Lake City. Contact Name: David Roh. Contact Email: David.Roh@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: No.
Friday, January 9, 2026, 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM.
Instagram, Trad Wives, and Evolutions in Mormon Feminism
America West Center
Instagram, Trad Wives, and Evolutions in Mormon Feminism
Wednesday, January 14, 2026: Jewel Box, CTIHB, 3:30-5:00 PM
Join us for a fascinating conversation with Dr. Caroline Kline about the complex and controversial popularity of the trad wife movement, how it connects to Mormon women’s history, and what this Instagram trend might tell us about our current ideas and fantasies about American feminism. This event is free and open to the public. Caroline Kline is Research Assistant Professor at Claremont Graduate University and Co-Editor of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. She holds a PhD in religion from CGU, and her areas of interest include contemporary Latter-day Saint women's communities, feminist theory, and oral history. Her book, Mormon Women at the Crossroads: Global Narratives and the Power of Connectedness (2022), explores Latter-day Saint women's lived experiences in Botswana, Mexico, and the United States.
Event Categories: Lectures. Campus Locations: Tanner Irish Humanities Building - Carolyn (CTIHB). Alternate Location: Jewel Box. Contact Name: Paisley Rekdal. Contact Phone: paisley.rekdal@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Wednesday, January 14, 2026, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.
For more info visit awc.utah.edu. Guest Writer Series: Lidia Yuknavitch
English
Alternate Location: Finch Lane Gallery, 54 Finch Lane, Salt Lake City. Contact Name: Alex Ortega. Contact Phone: 8015816168. Contact Email: Alexander.Ortega@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Thursday, January 15, 2026, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM.
Guest Writer Series: Lidia Yuknavitch Colloquium
English
Alternate Location: Finch Lane Gallery, 54 Finch Lane, Salt Lake City. Contact Name: Alex Ortega. Contact Email: Alexander.Ortega@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Friday, January 16, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
Sterling McMurrin Lecture on Religion and Culture with Father Gregory Boyle, Homeboy Industries
Tanner Humanities Center
The Whole Language: The Power of Extravagant Tenderness
Father Gregory Boyle will share what he has learned in three decades working with marginalized populations at Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles, Calif. — that love is the answer, community is the context, and tenderness is the connective tissue. Tenderness reflects the foundational notion that there are no us and them, only us. Homeboy seeks to be what the world is invited to become. Kinship cannot happen without tenderness.
Alternate Location: Salt Lake City Public Library Auditorium. Cost: Free. Contact Name: Beth James. Contact Phone: 8015818473. Contact Email: beth.james@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Wednesday, January 21, 2026, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM.
For more info visit tanner.utah.edu. Work in Progress Talk with Professor David Bresnahan, Department of History
Tanner Humanities Center
The Bombay Africans and the Exploration of East Africa
David P. Bresnahan is an assistant professor of history at the University of Utah. His research focuses on East Africa’s historical connections to the Indian Ocean world during periods spanning the first millennium to the nineteenth century. He is the author of Inland from Mombasa: East Africa and the Making of the Indian Ocean World (University of California Press, 2025). He has published essays in the Journal of World History, the International Journal of African Historical Studies, and the Journal of Eastern African Studies, as well as public-facing venues like Edge Effects and World History Commons.
Campus Locations: Tanner Irish Humanities Building - Carolyn (CTIHB). Cost: Free. Contact Name: Beth James. Contact Phone: 8015818473. Contact Email: beth.james@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Thursday, January 22, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
For more info visit tanner.utah.edu. Work in Progress Talk with LuMing Mao, Department of Writing & Rhetoric Studies
Tanner Humanities Center
Mapping a World: Accommodation, Acculturation, Colonization
LuMing Mao is Professor in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric Studies and Asian Center Faculty Affiliate at the University of Utah. A scholar in comparative and global rhetoric, Asian/Asian American rhetoric, Chinese rhetoric, and histories of rhetoric, Mao was named a Distinguished Scholar by Miami University in 2015 and served as the Peter and Margaret D'Angelo Endowed Chair in the Humanities at St. John's University and the Thomas R. Watson Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Louisville. Mao is the author of Reading Chinese Fortune Cookie: The Making of Chinese American Rhetoric and a Chinese edition with a new introduction published by Fudan University Press. He edited Comparative Rhetoric: Traversing Rhetorical Times, Places, and Spaces and co-edited Representations: Doing Asian American Rhetoric. He was also editor or co-editor of many special issues and symposia in journals, including College Composition and…
Campus Locations: Tanner Irish Humanities Building - Carolyn (CTIHB). Cost: Free. Contact Name: Beth James. Contact Phone: 8015818473. Contact Email: beth.james@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Thursday, January 29, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
For more info visit tanner.utah.edu. The Gordon B. Hinckley Lecture in British Studies
The Fate of the Foundling, or, being undocumented in Twentieth-century Britain
by Nadja Durbach, Professor
Co-Editor, Journal of British Studies
Department of History, College of Humanities
University of Utah
A cultural and social historian of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain, Professor Durbach's research focuses on the history of the body and its relationship to the state, the nation, and the empire. She is currently working on a book entitled Registration Nation: Identity, Privacy, and the Recording of Persons in Modern Britain. This project explores how the British state’s attempts to register different populations opened up a range of contentious questions about race, sex, class, legal status, personhood, health, ability, freedom, citizenship, and ultimately the relationship among the individual, the family, the state, the nation, and the empire.
Event Categories: Lectures. Campus Locations: Alumni House - Eccles (ALUMNI). Cost: Free. Transportation / Parking: Union Parking Lot. Contact Name: John Boyack. Contact Phone: 801-587-7351. Contact Email: john.boyack@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Thursday, January 29, 2026, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM.
For more info visit british-studies.utah.edu. Works in Progress
English
An English Department faculty member and graduate student will share works in progress.
Campus Locations: Language & Communication Bldg (LNCO). Contact Name: Kaitlin Hoelzer. Contact Phone: 8015816168. Contact Email: Kaitlin.Hoelzer@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Friday, January 30, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
Tanner Conversation with Professor C. Thi Nguyen, Department of Philosophy
Tanner Humanities Center
Professor C. Thi Nguyen discusses his new book, The Scoree: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game.
Campus Locations: Dumke Auditorium (UMFA). Cost: Free. Contact Name: Beth James. Contact Phone: 8015818473. Contact Email: beth.james@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Wednesday, February 4, 2026, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM.
Work in Progress Talk with Professor Blake Gutt, World Languages and Cultures
Tanner Humanities Center
The Trans Middle Ages
Dr. Blake Gutt (Ph.D. University of Cambridge) is an assistant professor of French at the University of Utah, where he teaches literature surveys as well as classes on medieval saints and their veneration, marvels and miracles, and the Holy Grail. His research addresses thirteenth- and fourteenth-century French and Occitan secular literature, hagiography, visual culture, and queer and trans theory. With Alicia Spencer-Hall, Blake co-edited Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography (Amsterdam University Press, 2021), which was a 2022 Lambda Literary Awards finalist. He is a general editor, alongside Greta LaFleur and Emily Skidmore, of the forthcoming six-volume series A Cultural History of Trans Lives (Bloomsbury, 2028). Blake’s work on the trans Middle Ages has been published in Exemplaria, Medieval Feminist Forum, and postmedieval, and is forthcoming in Speculum. The working title of his monograph-in-progress is The Trans Middle Ages.
Campus Locations: Tanner Irish Humanities Building - Carolyn (CTIHB). Cost: Free. Contact Name: Beth James. Contact Phone: 8015818473. Contact Email: beth.james@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Thursday, February 5, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
For more info visit tanner.utah.edu. Double Exposure: Photography and the Civil War in the American West
America West Center
Double Exposure: Photography and the Civil War in the American West
Thursday, February 5, 2026: LNCO 2110, 3:30- 5:00 PM
Please join us for this year’s annual American West Lecture, “Double Exposure: Photography and the Civil War in the American West,” delivered by Robert Sullivan. This talk, based on Sullivan’s book by the same title, documents the life of Timothy O’Sullivan, America’s most famous war photographer, whose photo “A Harvest of Death,” taken at Gettysburg, is an icon of the Civil War. The images of the American West O’Sullivan made after the war, while traveling with the surveys led by Clarence King and George Wheeler, display a prescient awareness of what photography would become; years later, Ansel Adams would declare his work “surrealistic and disturbing.” Double Exposure documents O’Sullivan’s career and impact on American photography, while also charting the long-lasting impact the Civil War had on the American West. This event is free and open to the public. Robert Sullivan is the…
Event Categories: Lectures. Campus Locations: Language & Communication Bldg (LNCO). Alternate Location: 2110. Contact Name: Paisley Rekdal. Contact Phone: paisley.rekdal@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Thursday, February 5, 2026, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.
For more info visit awc.utah.edu.