Guest Writer Series: Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry Reading: Jennifer Chang and Caleb Nolan
Alternate Location: Finch Lane Gallery. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Thursday, November 5, 2026, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM.
British Studies Faculty RIG Presentation with Vince Cheng
Abstract
What does it mean to be, say, American? Who qualifies as “American”? Does a Somali or an Afghan person, even if born in the USA, qualify? Who belongs, and who should be expelled or deported? Indeed, who qualifies as “British”—and what does it mean to be British? Or German? Or Polish? “Whose land” (U 7.271) is it anyway? And “Dyoublong?” (FW 13.04) These issues, so pertinent and heatedly contested in our own contemporary debates around immigration, naturalization, birth citizenship, indeed around who is sufficiently and authentically native to belong—were also crucial questions in James Joyce’s time: what does it mean to be Irish? Who qualifies as being “truly” Irish?
I want to explore the issue of belonging in Joyce’s works (particularly in Finnegans Wake) by looking at Joyce’s insistent—actually, ubiquitous—treatment of doubling (“dyoublong”: doubling and belonging). For the logics of exclusion (from belonging, from citizenship, from the patria) depend on a series of binaries that Joyce…
Event Categories: Academic & Holiday. Info Sessions. Campus Locations: Language & Communication Bldg (LNCO). Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Friday, November 6, 2026, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM.
Guest Writer Series: Jennifer Chang and Caleb Nolan Colloquium
Alternate Location: Finch Lane Gallery. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Friday, November 6, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
Department Meeting
Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Friday, November 20, 2026, 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM.
British Studies: "The Oldest Poem in Scots? A British Studies Masterclass"
Campus Locations: Tanner Irish Humanities Building - Carolyn (CTIHB). Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Friday, November 20, 2026, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
Thanksgiving
University Observed Holidays
Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Thursday, November 26, 2026.
Day After Thanksgiving
University Observed Holidays
Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Friday, November 27, 2026.
British Studies Faculty RIG Presentation with Michelle Ripplinger
Event Categories: Academic & Holiday. Info Sessions. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Friday, December 4, 2026, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM.
Christmas Day
University Observed Holidays
Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Friday, December 25, 2026.
New Year's Day
University Observed Holidays
Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Friday, January 1, 2027.
Classes Begin
Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Monday, January 11, 2027, 12:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
Department Meeting
Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Friday, January 15, 2027, 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM.
Martin Luther King Jr. Day
University Observed Holidays
Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Monday, January 18, 2027.
A.I. in the Humanities
Campus Locations: Alumni House - Eccles (ALUMNI). Cost: Free and open to the public. Contact Name: John Boyack. Contact Phone: 801-587-7351. Contact Email: john.boyack@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Wednesday, January 27, 2027, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM.
Tanner: Christine Rosen, author of "The Extinction of Experience"
Event Categories: Lectures. Campus Locations: Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA). Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Wednesday, January 27, 2027, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM.