New Year's Day
University Observed Holidays
Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Thursday, January 1, 2026.
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). 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
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.
English dept faculty meeting
Campus Locations: Language & Communication Bldg (LNCO). Contact Name: David Roh. Contact Email: david.roh@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Friday, February 13, 2026, 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM.
Presidents' Day
University Observed Holidays
Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Monday, February 16, 2026.
Guest Writer Series: Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry Reading: Ange Mlinko and Dan Murphy
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, February 19, 2026, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM.
Guest Writer Series: Ange Mlinko and Dan Murphy Colloquium
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, February 20, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
Guest Writers Series: Miranda Mellis
Alternate Location: The Clubhouse, 850 E. South Temple. Contact Name: Alex Ortega. Contact Email: Alexander.Ortega@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Thursday, February 26, 2026, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM.
Guest Writer Series: Borderlands Conference
Anthony Cody, Edgar Garcia, Raquel Gutierrez, and Clyo Mendoza.
Contact Name: Alex Ortega. Contact Phone: 8015816168. Contact Email: Alexander.Ortega@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Thursday, March 19, 2026, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM.
Speaker Series: Debbie Urbanski
author of After World: A Novel and Portalmania.
Contact Name: Nathan Wainstein. Contact Phone: 8015816168. Contact Email: nathan.wainstein@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Friday, March 20, 2026, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM.
Works in Progress
An English Department faculty member and graduate student will share works in progress.
Contact Name: Kaitlin Hoelzer. Contact Phone: 8015816168. Contact Email: Kaitlin.Hoelzer@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Friday, March 27, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.