We are thrilled to announce the promotion of Tara Aveilhe to Assistant Director of the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities and the TU Institute for Bob Dylan Studies. Tara has been with OCH and the Dylan Institute as Administrator for... MORE
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Using Analog Games in the College Composition Class
This week’s blog post comes from David Chandler, OCH Fellow and Assistant Professor of English at Tulsa Community College. David is currently teaching a freshman composition curriculum that uses boardgames and the experiences of playing them as the basis for... MORE
Revolutionizing the Classroom with Virtual Reality
Our OCH Research Fellows’ blog contributions on the topic of play continue this week with a post by Akram Taghavi-Burris, instructor at the University of Tulsa and an award-winning designer, writer, and educator. The term play can be defined as... MORE
On Being a Poor Sport
This week’s post is brought to you by Mark Brewin, OCH Fellow and Associate Professor of Media Studies at The University of Tulsa. Mark works at the intersection of politics, media, and popular culture. His current project focuses on the political... MORE
Play, Talk, and Friendships
The Oklahoma Center for the Humanities at The University of Tulsa is pleased to begin its series of blog posts from the fellows of the 2019-20 academic year. The fellows are engaged in wide-ranging creative and research activities surrounding the idea... MORE
Big Ideas at TU: Killers of the Flower Moon
As one of our annual Big Ideas at TU events, the Oklahoma Center for Humanities will distribute 50 free copies of David Grann’s book, Killers of the Flower Moon. In advance of Grann’s Presidential Lecture on Oct. 22, we... MORE
Oklahoma Center for the Humanities at TU Announces 2019-20 Fellows
The Oklahoma Center for the Humanities at The University of Tulsa has announced its annual class of fellows for the 2019-20 academic year. The ten individuals selected from applications submitted earlier this year include TU faculty and students as well as... MORE
OCH Welcomes Two New Board Members
As we approach the start of another exciting term at the Oklahoma Center for Humanities, we’d like to welcome two new internal board members to our team. Our board members play a key role in planning events, selecting research fellows,... MORE
Memory, Memorials, and Community: March 29-30 at Gilcrease
As part of its year-long focus on the theme of memory, the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities in partnership with Gilcrease Museum and the University of Tulsa History Department will explore the energizing, solemn and often contentious roles that memorials... MORE
Interdisciplinary Humanities Research Seminar on Play: Call for Public Fellows Applications
“Play is the exultation of the possible” —Martin Buber Play is a fundamentally inventive social activity in which we craft rules, experiment with boundaries, find new opportunities for expression, and engage in creative work. Both a noun and a verb,... MORE