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Instagram, Trad Wives, and Evolutions in Mormon Feminism

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.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

University Observed Holidays Campus Wide Event: Yes. Monday, January 19, 2026.

The Gordon B. Hinckley Lecture in British Studies - "The Fate of the Foundling, or, being undocumented in Twentieth-century Britain" by Nadja Durbach

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 In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the foundling—an abandoned newborn baby found alive whose parentage was unknown—frequently appeared in British debates about motherhood and the family; poverty and the economy; morality, respectability, and sexuality; nation and empire; and the proper relationship between charities and the state. Scholars of British culture, however, have tended to lose interest in the foundling once the 1926 Adoption Act provided a legal means to absorb abandoned children into new families. Yet it was in the twentieth century that the plight of the foundling was magnified and took on new importance precisely because unadopted foundlings, and older abandoned children, were often undocumented. That they had either never been registered at birth, or their records could not be… Event Categories: Lectures. Campus Locations: Alumni House - Eccles (ALUMNI). Room Name/Number: OC Tanner Ballrooms A. 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.

Double Exposure: Photography and the Civil War in the American West

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.

Presidents' Day

University Observed Holidays Campus Wide Event: Yes. Monday, February 16, 2026.

Disabled Ecologies: A Multispecies Reckoning

Disabled Ecologies: A Multispecies Reckoning Wednesday, March 18, 2026: LNCO 2110, 3:30-5:00 PM   Please join us for a groundbreaking talk by Dr. Sunaura Taylor from her newest book, Disabled Ecologies, which tells the story of a Tucson aquifer forever altered by a Superfund site, and the contamination’s ripple effects through the largely Mexican American community living above. Drawing on her own complex relationship to this long-ago injured landscape, Taylor takes us with her to follow the site's disabled ecology—the networks of disability, both human and wild, that are created when ecosystems are corrupted and profoundly altered. Disabled Ecologies maps out alternative modes of connection, solidarity, and resistance—an environmentalism of the injured. An original and deeply personal reflection on what disability means in an era of increasing multispecies disablement. This event is free and open to the public. Sunaura Taylor is an artist and writer. She is the author of Beasts of Burden: Animal and… 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. Wednesday, March 18, 2026, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM. For more info visit awc.utah.edu.