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Work in Progress Talk with Christopher Miller, Assistant Professor, Honors College
Public Enemies: Sounding the Limits of Democracy in the American Lyric
Public Enemies argues that a genealogy of American lyricists, from Walt Whitman to Gwendolyn Brooks, used the tools of lyric in song and on the page to challenge normative conceptions of democratic culture.
Campus Locations: Tanner Irish Humanities Building - Carolyn (CTIHB). Cost: Free. Contact Name: Beth James. Contact Phone: 801-581-8473. Contact Email: beth.james@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Thursday, February 20, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
Tanner Talk with Ed Yong - "Becoming a Birder: Immersion in the True Reality"
Ed Yong is a Pulitzer Prize–winning science writer on the staff of The Atlantic, where he also won the George Polk Award for science reporting, among other honors. He has also been named a Guggenheim Fellow for science writing. His first book, I Contain Multitudes, was a New York Times bestseller and won numerous awards. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, National Geographic, Wired, The New York Times, Scientific American, and more.
Tickets are required.
Campus Locations: Dumke Auditorium (UMFA). Cost: Free. Ticket URL: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1141138178009?aff=oddtdtcreator. Contact Name: Beth James. Contact Phone: 801-581-8473. Contact Email: beth.james@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Tuesday, February 25, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM.
Work in Progress Talk with Lindsey Webb, Graduate Fellow, Department of English
Hardly Able to Keep My Hand to Anything: An Essay.
Campus Locations: Tanner Irish Humanities Building - Carolyn (CTIHB). Cost: Free. Contact Name: Beth James. Contact Phone: 801-581-8473. Contact Email: beth.james@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Thursday, February 27, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
Tanner Conversation with Paul Reeve
Professor Paul Reeve will discuss his new book, This Abominiable Slavery: Race, Religion, and the Battle over Human Bondage in Antebellum Utah.
Campus Locations: Tanner Irish Humanities Building - Carolyn (CTIHB). Cost: Free. Ticket URL: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1141147174919?aff=oddtdtcreator. Contact Name: Beth James. Contact Phone: 801-581-8473. Contact Email: beth.james@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Tuesday, March 4, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
Tanner Conversation with Louise Chude-Sokei
Louis Chude-Sokei is a writer and scholar who is currently Professor of English and Director of the African American and Black Diaspora Studies Program at Boston University where he holds the George and Joyce Wein Chair. His books include the award-winning, The Last Darky: Bert Williams, Black on Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora (2005), The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics (2015) and the acclaimed memoir, Floating in A Most Peculiar Way (2021). He is Editor in Chief of The Black Scholar, one of the oldest and leading journals of Black Studies in the United States.
Chude-Sokei also has a significant profile in the arts. He has collaborated with numerous artists and performers, including iconic Berlin electronic artists, Mouse on Mars with whom he produced the celebrated album Anarchic Artificial Intelligence (2021).
Chude-Sokei is founder of the international sonic art/archiving project, Echolocution, and was lead artist/curator of “Sometimes You Just Have to Give it Your…
Alternate Location: Salt Lake City Public Library Auditorium. Cost: Free. Ticket URL: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1141159822749?aff=oddtdtcreator. Contact Name: Beth James. Contact Phone: 801-581-8473. Contact Email: beth.james@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Tuesday, April 1, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM.
Tanner Lecture on Human Values with Professor David Damrosch
David Damrosch, Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Comparative Literature and
Director, Institute for World Literature at Harvard University, will deliver the 2025 Tanner Lecture on Human Values, Scriptworlds: Writing Systems and Cultural Memory. A past president of the American Comparative Literature Association, David Damrosch has written widely on comparative and world literature from antiquity to the present. Theory and methods of comparative literature and world literary studies; Bible and ancient Near Eastern literatures; modern European and global Anglophone literatures. Current research projects include a book on the role of global scripts in the formation of national literatures.
Campus Locations: Dumke Auditorium (UMFA). Cost: Free. Ticket URL: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1141164817689?aff=oddtdtcreator. Contact Name: Beth James. Contact Phone: 801-581-8473. Contact Email: beth.james@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Wednesday, April 9, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM.
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