Department Meeting
Campus Wide Event: No.
Thursday, September 24, 2026, 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM.
Kathi Weeks Professor of Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies | Duke University
KATHI WEEKS, Professor of Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies (Duke University) // Title of the talk: Abolition Archives, Feminist Futures
Abolitionist Archives presents a feminist political agenda focused on prison abolition, family abolition, and anti/post-work refusal together with a methodological defense of the kind of scaled-up feminist theories that can address those systemic structural phenomena. Focusing on a small archive of US Marxist feminist theory consisting of two texts, Shulamith Firestone’s Dialectic of Sex and Donna Haraway’s “Manifesto for Cyborgs,” and one project, Angela Y. Davis’s prison abolitionist writing from 1971 to the present, the readings concentrate on the texts’ contributions to that political agenda and also to theorizing at the level of structured social relations and collective political activity that it requires.
Co-sponsors: the Department of Political Science, the Department of Ethnic, Gender & Disability Studies; and the Tanner Humanities Center.
Campus Locations: Tanner Irish Humanities Building - Carolyn (CTIHB). Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Thursday, September 24, 2026, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM.
Tanner: An Evening with Great Books
Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Thursday, September 24, 2026, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM.
Tanner: Gabrielle Zevin, author of "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow"
Alternate Location: SLC Public Library. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Wednesday, October 7, 2026, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM.
Tanner: Jeremy Rosen, author of "Genre Bending"
Campus Locations: Tanner Irish Humanities Building - Carolyn (CTIHB). Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Thursday, October 22, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM.
Guest Writer Series: Divya Victor reading
Event Categories: Academic & Holiday. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Thursday, October 22, 2026, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM.
Guest Writer Series: Divya Victor Colloquium
Event Categories: Colloquia. Alternate Location: Finch Lane Gallery. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Friday, October 23, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
RPT Advisory Meeting
Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Friday, October 23, 2026, 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM.
Tanner: Mongane Wally Serote, National Poet Laureate of South Africa
Alternate Location: SLC Public Library. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Wednesday, October 28, 2026, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM.
English Speakers Series: Debbie Urbanski ("After World", "Portalmania"), in Conversation with Lindsey Drager
A writers' conversation between Debbie Urbanski (Portalmania, After World) and Lindsey Drager (Associate Professor, English). Speaker Biography: Debbie Urbanski is the author of the novel After World (S&S 2023) -- named a best book of the year by the San Francisco Chronicle, Engadget, the Los Angeles Times tech, Booklist, and Strange Horizons -- and the story collection Portalmania (S&S 2025), longlisted for the Story Prize and named a best horror book of the year by the New York Public Library. Her stories and essays have been published widely in such places as The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, The Best American Experimental Writing, The Sun, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Granta, and Conjunctions. She is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award, a CNY Book Award, and an ASLE book award for environmental creative writing. She lives with her family in Central New York. Lindsey Drager Biography: Lindsey Drager is the author of four books of literary-speculative fiction. Her work has rec…
Event Categories: Academic & Holiday. Campus Locations: Tanner Irish Humanities Building - Carolyn (CTIHB). Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Friday, October 30, 2026, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
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.
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: Language & Communication Bldg (LNCO). Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Friday, November 20, 2026, 2:00 PM – 4:00 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.