Donuts with the Dean - Student Townhall with Dean Wanda Pillow
Donuts with the Dean - Student Townhall with Dean Wanda Pillow
Thursday, October 30 | 11:00 am – 12:00 pm | Comm Institute
Submit your questions for Dean Pillow.
Event Categories: Meetups. Community Engagement. Campus Locations: Language & Communication Bldg (LNCO). Contact Name: Karen Marsh. Contact Email: karen.marsh@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Thursday, October 30, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
For more info visit utah.sjc1.qualtrics.com. 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). Contact Name: Leandra Hernandez. Contact Email: leandra.hernandez@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: No.
Thursday, October 30, 2025, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM.
Humanities Halloween Open Mic
Dear Humanities Students and Alums 🎃
Looking to share your 👻 SPOOKIEST 👻creative works with a new audience?
💀DYING💀 to show off your paranormal prose, petrifying poetry, spectral sonnets, haunted haiku, ghostly ghazals, eldritch elegies, or frightful fiction?
Join our Halloween Open Mic!
🎃Thursday, 10/30 from 4-6PM in the CTIHB Jewel Box
🎃Theme: Death and Rebirth (The Reason for the Season)
🎃Medium: Prose, Poetry, Music, Comedy, anything you want!
We're hosting this event so you can bring your work to a wider audience. It's a chance to practice presenting, build confidence, gain exposure, and meet a wider creative community.
We will also provide some seasonal snacks and apple cider 🍪🍎☕︎
See you there!
Sign Up.
Event Categories: Meetups. Community Engagement. Campus Locations: Tanner Irish Humanities Building - Carolyn (CTIHB). Contact Name: Dan Moseson. Contact Email: dan.moseson@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Thursday, October 30, 2025, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM.
For more info visit utah.joinhandshake.com. Guest Writer Series: Levis and Scowcroft Winners Reading
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, October 30, 2025, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM.
Faculty Friday Work in Progress Presentation - Asia Center
Asia Center
An Asia Center Faculty Friday Work in Progress presentation featuring affiliate faculty Fiona Bell - Assistant Professor, World Languages and Cultures.
"On Tahiti: Russian Modernism between Pacific Empires".
Campus Locations: Tanner Irish Humanities Building - Carolyn (CTIHB). Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Friday, October 31, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM.
Lightning Talks
Talks by new Humanities faculty: Let Me Tell You What They Told Me by Allison Saenz, Ethnic Studies , Modeling + Imagining Situated Processes Epistemic Approaches to (Re)presentations by Chelsea Boudin, Ethnic Studies , Planting Otherwise Futures Indigenous Worlding on Burning Ground by Liahnna Stanley, Ethnic Studies , A Female Alchemist at the Mine by Wenrui Zhao, History, Serving Mazza’s cardamom tea, baklava, and ma’mool. Open to the public. Limited seating.
Accommodation requests, john.boyack@utah.edu or 801-587-7351.
Campus Locations: Language & Communication Bldg (LNCO). Cost: Free. Contact Name: John Boyack. Contact Phone: 801-587-7351. Contact Email: john.boyack@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Friday, October 31, 2025, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
Marketing & Communication Career Expo
Marketing & Communication Career Expo
Wednesday, November 5, 2025, 10am – 1pm
Network with employers and talk to experts about careers and opportunities in creative fields including marketing, communications, journalism, graphic design, and more.
Explore career opportunities, network with employers, and find an internship or full-time job at companies eager to meet students with skills in communications, visuals, and other content creation. Whether you’re actively seeking or just beginning to explore, now is the best time to begin connecting with employers and exploring opportunities—effort that will pay off before you know it. First-years, all undergrads, and grad students welcome!
Get ready! Make the best use of your time by viewing registered employers in advance and check out their available roles on Handshake. Bring printed copies of your resume to stand out. Some recruiters take notes on them to remember you by. Schedule an appointment with a Career Coach for one-to-one support. U Career Success is he…
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.
For more info visit app.joinhandshake.com. L2TReC Speaker Series: The Rhetorical Turns Not Taken in Second Language Writing
L2TReC: Second Language Teaching Center
Join L2TReC and Professor of Writing & Rhetoric Studies, Jay Jordan, for some discussion on rhetoric in second language writing. Light refreshments will be provided. Stop by for some thought-provoking discourse and snacks!
Event Categories: Community Engagement. Public Event. Academic & Holiday. Campus Locations: Language & Communication Bldg (LNCO). Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Wednesday, November 5, 2025, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
Andrew Mertha - China's Domestic Politics Beyond Water's Edge: BRI and China's Fragmented Foreign Policy
Asia Center
Join us to hear Andrew Mertha, Director of the China Studies Program and Director of the SAIS China Global Research Center at Johns Hopkins University speak on "China's Domestic Politics Beyond Water's Edge: BRI and China's Fragmented Foreign Policy.
Campus Locations: Emery Building - Alfred C. (AEB). Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Thursday, November 6, 2025, 9:10 AM – 10:30 AM.
The Ottoman World of Sports with Murat C. Yildiz
Middle East Center
This talk reconsiders the history of late Ottoman Istanbul and its lived urban space through a
focus on modern sports. “Sports enthusiasts” from a plethora of ethnoreligious backgrounds
living in the imperial capital created the Ottoman world of sports, a gendered civic project that
promoted gymnastics, athletics, and team sports, namely football (soccer), as educational,
moral, and leisure activities for young men from an expanding middle class. This talk explores
how exercising in schools, working out at the sports club, competing on the pitch, and narrating
physical fitness in the columns of periodicals served as sites of encounter between Muslims,
Christians, and Jews that facilitated the cultivation of shared experiences, norms,
and embodied knowledge for an entire generation of Istanbulites. Mapping the ways in which
educators, experts, athletes, and students engaged a global physical movement, created a
multilingual civic vision of exercise, and treated sports as a site for ethnoreligious mobilization,…
Campus Locations: Tanner Irish Humanities Building - Carolyn (CTIHB). Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Thursday, November 6, 2025, 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM.
Andrew Mertha - Bad Lieutenants: The Khmer Rouge, United Front, and Class Struggle, 1970-1997
Asia Center
Join us to hear Andrew Mertha, Director of the China Studies Program and Director of the SAIS China Global Research Center at Johns Hopkins University speak on his book Bad Lieutenants: The Khmer Rouge, United Front, and Class Struggle, 1970-1997.
Campus Locations: Business Classroom Building (BU C). Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Thursday, November 6, 2025, 2:00 PM – 3:20 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). 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.
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.
Non-Profit Employer Meet and Greet
Network and connect with members of the Springville Museum of Art.
Event Categories: Meetups. Community Engagement. Campus Locations: Tanner Irish Humanities Building - Carolyn (CTIHB). Contact Name: Cameron Vakilian. Contact Email: cameron.vakilian@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Wednesday, November 12, 2025, 3:00 PM – 4:20 PM.
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. 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
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). 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.
Virtual Learning Abroad Panel
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 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.