"What's Working in Journalism" The 2026 Parry D. Sorensen Distinguished Lecture with Special Guest Bill Grueskin
Communication Institute
What’s Working in Journalism?
Join us for an insightful evening with Bill Grueskin, a longtime journalist and a Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia Journalism School, who is working in Salt Lake City during his spring sabbatical. Last year, Grueskin resurrected the Columbia Journalism Review's Laurels & Darts column, in which he explored some highlights and lowlights in the U.S. news business. Grueskin will discuss his findings from the column, and in particular, he will point to some of the outstanding stories that journalists are producing, despite the industry's many financial and legal challenges. After his presentation, Grueskin will participate in a Q&A moderated by Professor Jake Nelson.
Grueskin’s career includes six years as academic dean of Columbia Journalism School, along with a host of reporting and senior editorial roles. During his decades in the news business, he served as the founding editor of a newspaper on the Standing Rock Sioux Indian Reservation, city editor of the Miami…
Campus Locations: Language & Communication Bldg (LNCO). Contact Name: Kevin Coe. Contact Email: kevin.coe@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Tuesday, April 14, 2026, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM.
Careers in Broadcasting & Media
Careers in Broadcasting & Media with Scott McKane, Fox 13 Utah
Wednesday, April 15 | 3:00 - 4:20 PM | JTB 120
Career Insights from a broadcasting professional, discussion about career paths in media and broadcasting, student Q&A, and networking.
Event Categories: Community Engagement. Campus Locations: Talmage Building - James (JTB). Alternate Location: 120. Contact Name: Cameron Vakilian. Contact Email: cameron.vakilian@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Wednesday, April 15, 2026, 3:00 PM – 4:20 PM.
For more info visit utah.joinhandshake.com. Guest Writer Series: Faculty Reading
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, April 16, 2026, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM.
Faculty Friday Work in Progress - Annie Greene, History
Middle East Center
Title coming soon!
Campus Locations: Tanner Irish Humanities Building - Carolyn (CTIHB). Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Friday, April 17, 2026, 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM.
English Department faculty meeting
English
Campus Locations: Language & Communication Bldg (LNCO). Contact Name: David Roh. Contact Phone: 801-581-6168. Contact Email: David.Roh@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: No.
Friday, April 17, 2026, 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM.
PHIL Colloquium Series - Sara Aronowitz
Philosophy
Title: Abstraction in History and Memory: The case of allegory, Abstract: Over time, our memory systems sort information, restructuring and filtering in order to preserve what we need to know. But what is it that we aim to learn from the past through memory? I'll present an overview and a chapter from a book in progress that looks at memory through an analogy with history. I analyze histories with different aims: to identify big patterns across human affairs, to build a narrative of our own national past, or to reconstruct in detail a few concrete events in order to understand why they happened. These aims of compiling history map on to different aims of memory systems. Do our memories function to capture narratives, uncover general principles, or keep hold of concrete details of singular events? Could a system serve more than one of these functions? For this talk, I'll focus on allegory in history and memory, through Ryszard Kapu¶ciński's The Emperor.
Event Categories: Lectures. Campus Locations: Tanner Irish Humanities Building - Carolyn (CTIHB). Contact Name: Connie Corbett. Contact Phone: 801-581-8162. Contact Email: c.corbett@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Friday, April 17, 2026, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
Awards and Publication Celebration
English
The English Department will celebrate the winners of the 2025 Vincent Cheng Prize in English, graduate student instructors, and faculty and graduate students who have published books this academic year.
Campus Locations: Tanner Irish Humanities Building - Carolyn (CTIHB). Contact Name: Linda Aaron. Contact Phone: 8015816168. Contact Email: linda.aaron@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Tuesday, April 21, 2026, 11:30 AM – 12:15 PM.
College of Humanities Ambassadors Application Deadline
Contact Name: John Boyack. Contact Phone: 801-581-6214. Contact Email: john.boyack@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: No.
Friday, April 24, 2026, 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
Theorizing Translation in Latin America
Latin American Studies
Campus Locations: Tanner Irish Humanities Building - Carolyn (CTIHB). Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Friday, April 24, 2026, 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
English Department Masters Symposium
English
Join us for a celebration of the English Department's MA students in Literary and Cultural Studies and Video Game Narrative and Aesthetics. Students will offer short presentations on their MA theses. Open to the public.
Campus Locations: Language & Communication Bldg (LNCO). Contact Name: Lindsey Drager. Contact Phone: 8015816168. Contact Email: lindsey.drager@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Friday, April 24, 2026, 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
College of Humanities Convocation
College of Humanities Convocation
May 1, 2026 | 11:00am | Jon M. Huntsman Center
info: https://humanities.utah.edu/students/graduation.php.
Event Categories: Community Engagement. Campus Locations: Huntsman Center - Jon M. (JHC). Contact Name: Karen Marsh. Contact Email: karen.marsh@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Friday, May 1, 2026, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM.
College of Humanities Graduation Reception
College of Humanities Graduation Reception
May 1, 2026 | 1-2 PM | LNCO Lobby
All College of Humanities students and faculty attending convocation this year are invited.
Parents and partners are also welcome.
Light refreshments will be served.
info: https://humanities.utah.edu/students/graduation.php.
Event Categories: Community Engagement. Campus Locations: Language & Communication Bldg (LNCO). Contact Name: Karen Marsh. Contact Email: karen.marsh@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Friday, May 1, 2026, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM.
Ethnic Gender & Disability Studies Graduation CelebrationCecEL
Department of Ethnic, Gender & Disability Studies
Celebrate with your fellow EGD Graduates, friends and family.
RSVP here.
Campus Wide Event: No.
Friday, May 1, 2026, 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM.
French Language Teacher Workshop
L2TReC: Second Language Teaching Center
Venez passer quatre jours en français avec nous!
Cet été nous travaillerons sur les nouveaux standards NCSSFL-ACTFL 2026. Nous en profiterons pour mettre la culture au cœur de la leçon et développerons l'interculturalité autour d'un thème cultural de votre curriculum.
Nous (re)verrons la proficiency, et son importance dans le curriculum. Comment identifier le niveau des apprenants, comment les aider à monter?
Enfin, nous regarderons des ressources pédagogiques qui vous seront utiles.
Cost: $120. Ticket URL: https://uofu.nbsstore.net/french-language-teacher-workshop. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Monday, June 8, 2026, 9:00 AM – Thursday, June 11, 2026, 4:00 PM.
Spanish Language Teacher Workshop
L2TReC: Second Language Teaching Center
This workshop will consist of two complementary sessions of two days each, as follows:
“La historia de la lengua en la sala de lengua” Dr. Devin Jenkins
In this workshop, we will examine diachronic language change (in some cases, since Classical Latin) and its relationship to teaching Spanish today. We will cover sound (phonological) changes, structural (morphosyntactic) changes, and external (social) changes that have impacted the language, focusing on those areas that have direct implications for modern classroom teaching.
“Romances, epopeyas y héroes” Dr. Gary Atwood-Méndez
This part of the workshop offers a diachronic exploration of the heroes of ballads and epics from medieval Castilian literature through the Imperial / Colonial period and into the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in Spain and Latin America. We will consider how the ballad and epic form have been reshaped to portray new realities, political ideas and aesthetic ideals, and how these forms themselves have become associated with sp…
Campus Locations: Gardner Commons - Carolyn and Kem (GC). Cost: $120. Ticket URL: https://uofu.nbsstore.net/spanish-teacher-workshop. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Monday, June 22, 2026, 9:00 AM – Thursday, June 25, 2026, 4:00 PM.