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Be Global Ready 2025

International Studies Come to the Big Rock outside the Union on Wednesday, September 3 to learn about global opportunities on campus and beyond! Get your 'passports' stamped and qualify for a free meal from Chimichurri Food Truck. Hosted by International and Area Studies, you can also meet reps from Learning Abroad, the Office for Global Engagement, U Asia Campus, Global U, Eccles BHP, Eccles Global Learning, World Language and Cultures and more! Campus Locations: Union - A. Ray Olpin (UNION). Room Name/Number: By the Big Rock! Campus Wide Event: Yes. Wednesday, September 3, 2025, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM.

Identifying Your Strengths

Event Categories: Meetups. Community Engagement. Campus Locations: Tanner Irish Humanities Building - Carolyn (CTIHB). Room Name/Number: Jewel Box. Contact Name: Cameron Vakilian. Contact Email: cameron.vakilian@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Wednesday, September 3, 2025, 3:00 PM – 4:20 PM.

Building a Better Future with Medical and Health Humanities

Philosophy Just what is “Medical Humanities” and is it different from “Health Humanities”? This talk will explore this growing field—where it comes from, who it serves, what it does—in order to consider exciting future possibilities for The University of Utah’s new medical humanities undergraduate major. We will serve a light lunch for those who RSVP to attend in person. Event Categories: Lectures. Contact Name: Camila Castaneda. Contact Phone: 8015875884. Contact Email: ethicshum@hsc.utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Thursday, September 4, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM. The Jewel Box at the Carolyn Tanner Irish Humanities Center [CTIHB #Rm 143] & Zoom.

Fall 2025 Graduate Student Workshop Series: "Optimizing Grad School: How to Plan Ahead"

Communication All currently enrolled Communication MA and PhD students are invited to participate in this week’s workshop. Workshop Details Theme: Optimizing Grad School: How to Plan Ahead , Host: Dr. Chris Ingraham , Location: Communication Institute, We hope to see you there! Campus Locations: Language & Communication Bldg (LNCO). Room Name/Number: Comm Institute (2910). Contact Name: Leandra Hernandez. Contact Email: leandra.hernandez@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: No. Thursday, September 4, 2025, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM.

Race and Media Symposium

Communication You are warmly invited to attend the Race and Media Symposium, hosted by the Office for Faculty, the School for Cultural and Social Transformation, the Center for Pacifika and Indigenous Knowledges, and the Utah State Center for Intersectional Gender Studies & Research. The symposium will take place on: Thursday, September 11 | 9:30 am-3:15 pm | SJ Quinney Law 6110 Keynote Lecture: 5:00-6:00 pm | SJ Quinney Moot Courtroom , , Friday, September 12 | 9:00 am-2:30 pm | Social Work Okazaki Room, Many of our faculty members will be presenting, and we encourage you to join us in supporting their work and engaging in these important conversations. The keynote lecture, Racial Exhaustion in the Era of “Woke is Dead” will be delivered by Ralina Joseph, Ph.D. Vice Provost for Inclusive Excellence and Professor of African American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. Please see the attached documents for the full symposium schedule and additional details about the keynote. We hope to see you there! Campus Locations: Quinney College of Law - S. J. (LAW). Room Name/Number: LAW 6110. Contact Name: Emmy Darling. Contact Phone: 8016945578. Contact Email: emmy.darling@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Thursday, September 11, 2025, 9:30 AM – 3:15 PM.

English Department Speaker Series

English Featured speaker, Dora Zhang (UC Berkeley). Alternate Location: Finch Lane Gallery, 54 Finch Lane, Salt Lake City. Contact Name: Nathan Wainstein. Contact Phone: 8015816168. Contact Email: Nathan.Wainstein@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Thursday, September 11, 2025, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM.

Race and Media Symposium

Communication You are warmly invited to attend the Race and Media Symposium, hosted by the Office for Faculty, the School for Cultural and Social Transformation, the Center for Pacifika and Indigenous Knowledges, and the Utah State Center for Intersectional Gender Studies & Research. The symposium will take place on: Thursday, September 11 | 9:30 am-3:15 pm | SJ Quinney Law 6110 Keynote Lecture: 5:00-6:00 pm | SJ Quinney Moot Courtroom , , Friday, September 12 | 9:00 am-2:30 pm | Social Work Okazaki Room, Many of our faculty members will be presenting, and we encourage you to join us in supporting their work and engaging in these important conversations. The keynote lecture, Racial Exhaustion in the Era of “Woke is Dead” will be delivered by Ralina Joseph, Ph.D. Vice Provost for Inclusive Excellence and Professor of African American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. Please see the attached documents for the full symposium schedule and additional details about the keynote. We hope to see you there! Campus Locations: Quinney College of Law - S. J. (LAW). Room Name/Number: Moot Courtroom. Contact Name: Emmy Darling. Contact Phone: 8016945578. Contact Email: emmy.darling@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Thursday, September 11, 2025, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM.

Guest Writer Series: Douglas Manuel

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. Thursday, September 11, 2025, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM.

Race and Media Symposium

Communication You are warmly invited to attend the Race and Media Symposium, hosted by the Office for Faculty, the School for Cultural and Social Transformation, the Center for Pacifika and Indigenous Knowledges, and the Utah State Center for Intersectional Gender Studies & Research. The symposium will take place on: Thursday, September 11 | 9:30 am-3:15 pm | SJ Quinney Law 6110 Keynote Lecture: 5:00-6:00 pm | SJ Quinney Moot Courtroom , , Friday, September 12 | 9:00 am-2:30 pm | Social Work Okazaki Room, Many of our faculty members will be presenting, and we encourage you to join us in supporting their work and engaging in these important conversations. The keynote lecture, Racial Exhaustion in the Era of “Woke is Dead” will be delivered by Ralina Joseph, Ph.D. Vice Provost for Inclusive Excellence and Professor of African American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. Please see the attached documents for the full symposium schedule and additional details about the keynote. We hope to see you there! Campus Locations: College of Social Work (SW). Room Name/Number: Okazaki Community Meeting Room. Contact Name: Emmy Darling. Contact Phone: 8016945578. Contact Email: emmy.darling@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Friday, September 12, 2025, 9:00 AM – 2:30 PM.

Guest Writer Series: Douglas Manuel Colloquium

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. Friday, September 12, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.

Faculty Friday Work in Progress Presentation - Asia Center

Asia Center An Asia Center Faculty Friday Work in Progress presentation featuring affiliate faculty Yejin Jung - Post-Doctoral Researcher, L2TReC. "Examining Cohesive Devices Produced by Chinese Dual-Language Immersion Students: A Cross-Proficiency Tendency in Writing". Campus Locations: Tanner Irish Humanities Building - Carolyn (CTIHB). Room Name/Number: 201/211. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Friday, September 12, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM.

Meet the TEKs

Event Categories: Meetups. Community Engagement. Campus Locations: Eccles Business Building - Spencer Fox (SFEBB). Room Name/Number: Child Hall. Contact Name: Cameron Vakilian. Contact Email: cameron.vakilian@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM.

Navigating Career Resources

Fall 2025 Graduate Student Workshop Series: "Communication Pedagogy & AI"

Communication All currently enrolled Communication MA and PhD students are invited to participate in this week’s workshop. Workshop Details Theme: Communication Pedagogy & AI , Host: Dr. Dalaki Livingston , Location: Communication Institute, We hope to see you there! Campus Locations: Language & Communication Bldg (LNCO). Room Name/Number: Comm Institute (2910). Contact Name: Leandra Hernandez. Contact Email: leandra.hernandez@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: No. Thursday, September 18, 2025, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM.

The Water Commons: Living Legacies of Utah Waterways

Tanner Humanities Center A comprehensive symposium dedicated to preserving the vital waterways that sustain life, health, and prosperity throughout Utah. Water narratives from acclaimed voices including Lisa Bickmore, Utah’s poet laureate; nan seymour, prominent Great Salt Lake advocate; Paisley Rekdal, Director of the University of Utah American West Center; and Leia Larsen, water and land use reporter for The Salt Lake Tribune. Researchers will present scholarship and advocacy work, including Jack Schmidt from Utah State University, Greg Smoak from the University of Utah, and Daniel Hernandez from Utah Valley University. The symposium will conclude with an exclusive screening of Wild Hope: The Shoshone Nation's Quest to Reclaim Bear River, followed by a discussion with Brad Parry, Tribal Council Vice Chairman for Natural Resources, Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation. Local artists will also have artwork on display. This initiative connects regional water scholars, environmental stewards, and artists while fostering net… Event Categories: Colloquia. Exhibitions. Films. Lectures. Public Event. Sustainability. Campus Locations: Gould Auditorium (M LIB). Cost: Free. Ticket URL: https://tanner.utah.edu/center-events/water-commons/. Contact Name: Beth James. Contact Phone: 801-581-8473. Contact Email: beth.james@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Friday, September 19, 2025, 9:00 AM – 4:15 PM. For more info visit tanner.utah.edu.

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 Kiki Mackaman-Lofland - Assistant Professor, History. "Cooperation and the Long Decolonization of Universities in the Maghreb, 1945-1970". Campus Locations: Tanner Irish Humanities Building - Carolyn (CTIHB). Room Name/Number: 201/211. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Friday, September 19, 2025, 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM.

All About Internships

Daniel Mendelsohn, translator of Homer’s Odyssey

Tanner Humanities Center Daniel Mendelsohn will discuss his acclaimed new translation of Homer’s Odyssey, published in April 2025 by the University of Chicago Press. His talk will be followed by a conversation with Scott Black, Professor of English and Director of the Tanner Humanities Center. A book-signing with The King’s English Bookshop will follow the event. Mendelsohn is Editor-at-large of The New York Review of Books, and author of several influential works, including Ecstasy and Terror: From the Greeks to Game of Thrones (2019) and Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate (2020). His essays and reviews have appeared widely, including in The New Yorker, Esquire, Harper’s, and The New York Times. In 2025, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, recognizing his significant contributions to literature and criticism. The Obert C. and Grace A. Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah supports academic research, public engagement, and educational programming in the humanities. Views… Event Categories: Lectures. Public Event. Campus Locations: Quinney College of Law - S. J. (LAW). Room Name/Number: Moot Courtroom. Cost: Free. Ticket URL: https://tanner.utah.edu/center-events/daniel-mendelsohn/. Contact Name: Beth James. Contact Phone: 801-581-8473. Contact Email: beth.james@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Wednesday, September 24, 2025, 7:00 PM. For more info visit tanner.utah.edu.

2025 Wilson Lecture: Kelly Lytle Hernandez

History The Wilson Lecture was created at the University of Utah in 1976 under the auspices of the Tanner Lecture Trust at the request of Obert C. Tanner. Its namesake, O. Meredith Wilson, was a professor of history at the University of Utah and the University of Chicago before going on to serve as President of the University of Oregon, the University of Minnesota, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. The Wilson Lecture is the Department of History's prominent annual lecture series. Lecturers are selected each year by committee and cover a variety of historical disciplines. More information about the 2025 lecture coming soon. Event Categories: Lectures. Public Event. Campus Locations: Tanner Irish Humanities Building - Carolyn (CTIHB). Room Name/Number: CTIHB 310. Cost: Free. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Thursday, September 25, 2025, 2:00 PM – 4:30 PM. For more info visit history.utah.edu.

Fall 2025 Graduate Student Workshop Series: "Tips and Tricks for Writing Academically"

Communication All currently enrolled Communication MA and PhD students are invited to participate in this week’s workshop. Workshop Details Theme: Tips and Tricks for Writing Academically , Hosts: Dr. Logan Gomez, Dr. Andy King, Dr. LaRisa Anderson-Horne, and Dr. Crystal Lumpkins , Location: CTHIB 203, Since this is a smaller room, seating is extremely limited. Please reach out to Dr. Hernandez if you would like to attend. If capacity is exceeded, she will gladly share notes and speaking points with all graduate students after the event. We hope to see you there! Campus Locations: Tanner Irish Humanities Building - Carolyn (CTIHB). Room Name/Number: CTIHB 203. Contact Name: Leandra Hernandez. Contact Email: leandra.hernandez@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: No. Thursday, September 25, 2025, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM.

English Department Meeting

English Campus Locations: Language & Communication Bldg (LNCO). Contact Name: David Roh. Contact Email: David.Roh@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: No. Friday, September 26, 2025, 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM.

Campus-Wide Internship & Career Fair

Event Categories: Meetups. Community Engagement. Campus Locations: Union - A. Ray Olpin (UNION). Room Name/Number: Ballroom. Contact Name: Cameron Vakilian. Contact Email: cameron.vakilian@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Tuesday, September 30, 2025, 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM.

Networking Practice with Mocktails

Fall 2025 Graduate Student Workshop Series: "Getting Digitally Organized (Zotero, etc.)"

Communication All currently enrolled Communication MA and PhD students are invited to participate in this week’s workshop. Workshop Details Theme: Getting Digitally Organized (Zotero, etc.) , Host: Dr. Sean Lawson , Location: Communication Institute, We hope to see you there! Campus Locations: Language & Communication Bldg (LNCO). Room Name/Number: Comm Institute (2910). Contact Name: Leandra Hernandez. Contact Email: leandra.hernandez@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: No. Thursday, October 2, 2025, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM.

Employer Meet and Greet

Fall 2025 Graduate Student Workshop Series: Graduate Student Writing Workshop

Communication All currently enrolled Communication MA and PhD students are invited to participate in this week’s workshop. Workshop Details Theme: Graduate Student Writing Workshop , Host: Dr. Leandra Hernandez , Location: Communication Institute, During this workshop, COMM 7001 students will be workshopping their academic identity statements. All graduate students are welcome to attend and workshop their writing projects, teaching projects, and the like. We hope to see you there! Campus Locations: Language & Communication Bldg (LNCO). Room Name/Number: Comm Institute (2910). Contact Name: Leandra Hernandez. Contact Email: leandra.hernandez@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: No. Thursday, October 16, 2025, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM.

Works in Progress

English An English Department faculty member and graduate student will share works in progress. Campus Locations: Language & Communication Bldg (LNCO). Room Name/Number: LNCO 3870. Contact Name: Kaitlin Hoelzer. Contact Phone: 8015816168. Contact Email: Kaitlin.Hoelzer@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Friday, October 17, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.

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 Gema Guevara - Associate Professor, World Languages and Cultures. "Cuban and US Perspectives on Mid-Nineteenth Century Chinese Indentured Labor". Campus Locations: Tanner Irish Humanities Building - Carolyn (CTIHB). Room Name/Number: 201/211. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Friday, October 17, 2025, 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM.

Collab Cafe

Event Categories: Meetups. Community Engagement. Campus Locations: Tanner Irish Humanities Building - Carolyn (CTIHB). Room Name/Number: CTIHB LOBBY. Contact Name: Cameron Vakilian. Contact Email: cameron.vakilian@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Wednesday, October 22, 2025, 3:00 PM – 4:20 PM.

Fall 2025 Graduate Student Workshop Series: "The Publishing Process, Inside and Out"

Communication All currently enrolled Communication MA and PhD students are invited to participate in this week’s workshop. Workshop Details Theme: The Publishing Process, Inside and Out , Host: Dr. Robin Jensen , Location: Communication Institute, We hope to see you there! Campus Locations: Language & Communication Bldg (LNCO). Room Name/Number: Comm Institute (2910). Contact Name: Leandra Hernandez. Contact Email: leandra.hernandez@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: No. Thursday, October 23, 2025, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM.

Jesmyn Ward, author of Let Us Descend

Tanner Humanities Center Jesmyn Ward, celebrated as “the heir apparent to Toni Morrison” (LitHub) and one of the most acclaimed novelists of her generation, will deliver the 2025 David P. Gardner Graduate Lecture in the Humanities and Fine Arts. Book signing to follow, with sales by The King’s English Bookshop Ward is the author of Salvage the Bones (2011) and Sing, Unburied, Sing (2017), both winners of the National Book Award, as well as editor of the influential anthology, The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race (2016). Her work explores the rural South, race, environmental justice, and historical memory. Her most recent novel, Let Us Descend (2023), an Oprah Book Club pick, was named one of the year’s best books by The Washington Post, Time, The New Yorker, and others. The title, drawn from Dante’s Inferno, reflects the novel’s engagement with history and spirit. NPR described it as “the literary equivalent of an open wound from which poetry pours.” Ward is professor of English and Andrew W. Mellon Professor… Event Categories: Lectures. Public Event. Alternate Location: Salt Lake City Public Library. Cost: Free. Ticket URL: https://tanner.utah.edu/center-events/jesmyn-ward/. Contact Name: Beth James. Contact Phone: 801-581-8473. Contact Email: beth.james@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Thursday, October 23, 2025, 7:00 PM. For more info visit tanner.utah.edu.

Family Weekend: Humanities Social Hour

Celebrate Family Weekend with Humanities Social Hour! Event Categories: Meetups. Community Engagement. Room Name/Number: LNCO PLAZA. Contact Name: Karen Marsh. Contact Email: karen.marsh@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Friday, October 24, 2025, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM.

Visiting speaker, David Sweeney Coombs (Clemson)

English Campus Locations: Language & Communication Bldg (LNCO). Contact Name: Sam Tett. Contact Email: sam.tett@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Friday, October 24, 2025, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM.

Readings by Utah Book Award honorees from the U

Tanner Humanities Center The Utah Center for the Book at Utah Humanities and the Tanner Humanities Center are hosting a reading by University of Utah writers who have been honored by the Utah Book Awards for 2025. Free and open to the public. Limited seating. Ticket reservations strongly recommended. Writers who will be reading from their celebrated works: Paisley Rekdal, author of West: A Translation (Copper Canyon Press) — Winner, 2025 Utah Book Award for Poetry An unflinching hybrid collection of poems and essays drawing a powerful connection between the railroad's completion and the Chinese Exclusion Act. Winner, 2024 Kingsley Tufts Award; longlist, 2023 National Book Award. Rekdal is Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing and director of the American West Center. Lindsey Drager, author of The Avian Hourglass (Dzanc Books) — Finalist, 2025 Utah Book Award for Speculative Fiction A reflection on the intersecting crises of mental health, the climate emergency, political polarization, and the exponentially… Event Categories: Lectures. Public Event. Colloquia. Competitions. Campus Locations: Tanner Irish Humanities Building - Carolyn (CTIHB). Room Name/Number: Jewel Box. Cost: Free. Ticket URL: https://tanner.utah.edu/center-events/readings-by-utah-book-award-honorees/. Contact Name: Beth James. Contact Phone: 801-581-8473. Contact Email: beth.james@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Tuesday, October 28, 2025, 3:00 PM. For more info visit tanner.utah.edu.

Fall 2025 Graduate Student Workshop Series: "How to Navigate and Excel at Conferences"

Communication All currently enrolled Communication MA and PhD students are invited to participate in this week’s workshop. Workshop Details Theme: How to Navigate and Excel at Conferences , Host: Dr. Avery Holton, Dr. Meaghan McKasy, Dr. Melissa Parks, and Dr. Liahnna Stanley , Location: Communication Institute, We hope to see you there! Campus Locations: Language & Communication Bldg (LNCO). Room Name/Number: Comm Institute (2910). Contact Name: Leandra Hernandez. Contact Email: leandra.hernandez@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: No. Thursday, October 30, 2025, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM.

Guest Writer Series: Levis and Scowcroft Winners Reading

Faculty Friday Work in Progress Presentation - Asia Center

Asia Center An Asia Center Faculty Friday Work in Progress presentation featuring affiliate faculty Fiona Bell - Instructor, World Languages and Cultures. "On Tahiti: Russian Modernism between Pacific Empires". Campus Locations: Tanner Irish Humanities Building - Carolyn (CTIHB). Room Name/Number: 201/211. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Friday, October 31, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM.

Marketing & Communication Career Expo

Event Categories: Meetups. Community Engagement. Campus Locations: Impact & Prosperity Epicenter. Contact Name: Cameron Vakilian. Contact Email: cameron.vakilian@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Wednesday, November 5, 2025, 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM.

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). Room Name/Number: 201/211. 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.

Non-Profit Employer Meet and Greet

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). Room Name/Number: Jewel Box. 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.

Guest Writer Series: Sawako Nakayasu

English Contact Name: Alex Ortega. Contact Email: Alexander.Ortega@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Thursday, November 13, 2025, 7:00 PM – 9:00 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). Room Name/Number: 201/211. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Friday, November 14, 2025, 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM.