Tulsa’s annual Bloomsday celebration is getting a makeover in 2018. Rather than an evening pub crawl, we will be celebrating James Joyce this year with an Irish brunch in the Brady Arts District. The event will take place in the alleyway beside... MORE
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Mapping Tulsa: Past, Present, Future & Imagined
Maps are portals to the imagination — creative and often beautiful ways of imagining a place and its people. Old maps offer us a chance to see our history written over the land, whether it’s a few tents at a... MORE
Native American Cuisine Symposium 2018: Food for Thought
Native American Cuisine: Traditions and Contemporary Contexts, held at Gilcrease Museum on April 13-14, included not only delicious native cuisine but also plenty of food for thought. The symposium kicked off on Friday evening, with a multi-course dinner prepared by Chefs... MORE
Cutting-edge native cuisine: A special dinner event at Gilcrease Museum
Join us for a special multi-course meal at Gilcrease Museum on Friday, April 13, prepared by two of the country’s most innovative Native American chefs. In 2008, Matt Chandra and Ben Jacobs co-founded Tocabe, a Denver, Colorado-based restaurant that draws on Osage... MORE
Homelands through a Different Lens: Oklahoma! In Concert
Director Machele Miller Dill talks about the profound experience of directing an all-African American cast in Rodger’s & Hammerstein’s classic American musical Oklahoma! Join us for this unique production on March 30th and 31st at Gilcrease Museum. Doors at 7:30 p.m.... MORE
Tulsa’s Inaugural Home Movie Fest: Seeing Ourselves as Others See Us
On April 5th, the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities and Circle Cinema will host Tulsa’s first Home Movie Festival in conjunction with this year’s theme of “Homelands.” We are excited to showcase a wide range of fascinating films from Tulsa... MORE
Research Seminar on Memory: Call for Public Fellows Applications
Memory is the most powerful yet fragile of human faculties. Around its mysteries, we weave our deepest sense of self and community, making it, as Cicero wrote, the “treasury and guardian of all things.” We fill our private spaces and... MORE
Oklahoma: Home to More Historically All-Black Towns than Any Other U.S. State
Image from a pictorial exhibit of 25 colorized early 1900 to 1940s images of Boley, the largest of the All-Black towns, also known as “the crown jewel” (organized by the Coltrane Group). When we think of Oklahoma history, we... MORE
Native American Cuisines: Traditions and Contemporary Contexts, April 13-14
What’s the connection between cultural wellness and bodily health? Can a change in what people eat change not only the way they feel, but also the way they understand their history, their heritage, and their future? This special symposium at Gilcrease... MORE
Tulsa’s First Annual Home Movie Fest: Call for Submissions
What: Tulsa’s First Annual Home Movie Fest When: Thursday, April 5th, 2018, 7-9pm Where: Circle Cinema Home movies have been a part of our world almost as long as cinema itself. They capture holidays, birthdays, new homes and cars,... MORE
Oklahoma: Hot and Cold
Our weekly updates from the Humanities Research Fellows concludes for 2017 with a post from Jeff Van Hanken, an Associate Professor in the Film Studies program at the University of Tulsa and founder of C.H.A.M.P., the Center for Health, Arts and Measurable Practices at TU, which... MORE
When Your Home is Called Hell
This week’s OCH update comes from Seungho Lee, a Ph.D. student of English at the University of Tulsa. His research focuses range from 20th Century British Literature to Contemporary Anglophone Literature. He analyzes the literature of his field through the... MORE
Why We Trash Hotel Rooms (A Situationist Meditation on Homes Away from Home)
1. You (presumably well-socialized reader of a humanities institute blog, you) have left a towel lying on the floor. 2. And you could pick it up, you know? a. A hum beckons you toward the illuminated bathroom. b. Ultraviolet would... MORE
Hyphenated Lives
This week’s update comes from OCH fellow Danielle Carlotti-Smith, who specializes in French and Francophone literature with a focus on Francophone Caribbean and New World studies, postcolonial studies, and migration studies. Her current book project examines literary expressions of the... MORE
Homes and Homelands in Television’s Last Frontier
Our updates from the Humanities Research Seminar continue, this week with a post by Justin Rawlins, Assistant Professor of Media Studies and Film Studies at The University of Tulsa, where he also serves as faculty advisor for TU’s student-run media... MORE
Compound Life
This week’s post is by 2017 OCH Fellow Keija Parssinen, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Tulsa and author of The Ruins of Us, which won a Michener-Copernicus award, and The Unraveling of Mercy Louis, which earned an... MORE
Homeland, Immigrants, and Sanctuary
This week’s blog post is by OCH Fellow Betsy McCormick, Associate Clinical Professor and Associate Dean for Experiential Learning at the TU College of Law. In addition to teaching students in the Immigrant Rights Project Clinical Program, she also teaches Immigration... MORE
How a Roommate Makes a House a Home
This week’s post is by 2017-2018 OCH Fellow Kristi Eaton, an independent journalist and a native of Tulsa. She is the author of the book “The Main Streets of Oklahoma: Okie Stories from Every County.” She recently completed a fellowship with... MORE
At Home in the College Bubble
This week’s blog post is written by Bryan Corbaz, a junior studying political science at TU — and the youngest member of this year’s research seminar. Endless muted music videos on repeat from 7am until 7pm; the same happy faces... MORE
Oklahoma Center for the Humanities at TU Announces 2017-18 Fellows
The Oklahoma Center for the Humanities at The University of Tulsa has announced its annual class of fellows for the 2017-18 academic year. The 10 individuals selected from applications submitted earlier this year include TU faculty and students as well... MORE
Work as Haven
Each week throughout the fall semester, the Research Fellows at the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities will share some part of their work on this year’s theme, Homelands. We begin with Dr. Lara Foley, Assistant Provost for Global Education and... MORE
Another View of the Tulsa Race Riot: A Lecture by Herb Boyd
Herb Boyd is an award-winning journalist and the author of twleve books on topics in black history and activism including biographies of James Baldwin and Sugar Ray Robinson as well as a history of African-American life and politics in Detroit.... MORE
Bloomsday Pub Crawl 2017
On Friday, June 16th, the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities, Booksmart Tulsa, and the Guthrie Green will once again host a Bloomsday Pub Crawl through the Brady Arts District in downtown Tulsa–and this year’s event will be the biggest yet. Participants will... MORE
John Erling Inducted into Historians Hall of Fame
On Friday, April 28th, John Erling, Director of Voices of Oklahoma at the University of Tulsa, was inducted into the Historians Hall of Fame by the Oklahoma Historical Society. For over 25 years, Erling hosted the morning show on KRMG... MORE
4th Annual TU Arts and Humanities Festival
Please join us on April 25th from 10:00am to 2:00pm as we celebrate art, culture, and creativity on the campus of the University of Tulsa. We’ll throw open the doors to the Lorton Performance Center and offer a rotating program... MORE
Pen, Paper & Fork
Why can food activate such powerful memories? How do we translate the sensuous experience of taste and touch into writing? And why are we so eager to describe what we eat to others? These are just some of the questions Pen,... MORE
Research Seminar on Homelands Call for Applications
“You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you can never go back.” —James Baldwin Call for Applications The idea of a homeland evokes thoughts of pleasure and pain, belonging and exile,... MORE
Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature Wins Award
For over thirty years, the University of Tulsa has been home to Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, a premier academic journal that has helped transform our understanding of women’s writing. TSWL was founded by Germaine Greer in 1981 and has since... MORE
Big Ideas @ TU: Dietland
This spring, the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities is partnering with the University of Tulsa’s Women’s and Gender Studies Program to host our annual Big Ideas @ TU. As part of our year-long focus on the theme of food we will... MORE
Homelands: Call for Faculty Fellows
The idea of a homeland evokes thoughts of pleasure and pain, belonging and exile, flight and shelter. Is home a place, a state of mind, an imagined community, a commodity, or, as Charlotte Perkins Gilman writes, a fundamentally “human institution?”... MORE
The Politics of Food on the Campaign Trail
Our updates from the Humanities Research Fellows exploring the topic of food continue this week with a short essay by Professor Jan Wilson, who explores the politics of eating in American political campaigns. In 1976, Gerald Ford was running for a... MORE
The Beethoven Quartet
This February, Chamber Music Tulsa is hosting an extraordinary set of performances by the Miró Quartet in which the group will play all of Beethoven’s quartets. This is an extremely rare treat and it will take place here in Tulsa across six... MORE
La Revue de Cuisine
For the second year in a row, the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities is excited to partner with Tulsa Symphony Orchestra and Philbrook to co-host a Second Saturday at the museum organized around our theme. This year we are working... MORE
Food as Ritual and Art
Our updates from the Humanities Research Seminar continue, this week with a post by Anh-Thuy Nguyn, Assistant Professor of Art at Rogers State University. As long as I can recall, every member of my family always had to gather around... MORE
Call for Recipes: TU’s Global Table
Food is a foundational part of all human cultures and the many ways we grow, make, and share what we eat gives shape to our identities as members of a family, a tradition, and a culture. Inevitably, we hold some... MORE
Medeleine Moments
In this week’s report from the Humanities Research Seminar on Food, Emma Stewart, a student at TU, reflects on the uncanny power of food to plunge us into our memories of the past. At the outset of Marcel Proust’s renowned... MORE
The Art and Science of Food
We believe that the arts and humanities are an essential element of our social and civic lives. The Oklahoma Center for the Humanities at the University of Tulsa is thus committed not only to developing a diverse array of public... MORE
Food and Historical Trauma
We continue our regular series from the Humanities Research Fellows. This week, Lisa Cromer, Associate Professor of Psychology and an expert in trauma, reflects on the connection between food and memory in cultures that have suffered extraordinary loss. Food, emotions... MORE
The Taste of Russian Summers
In this week’s report from the Humanities Research Seminar on the theme of “food,” Professor Christine Ruane shares her own experiment in recreating an eighteenth-century Russian treat. Russian food has evolved by incorporating influences from other culinary traditions, especially French... MORE
The Plant Treaty
Michelle Donaldson, Executive Chef of Tallgrass Prairie Table, continues our regular series of reports from the research fellows working on the theme of food at the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities. The narrative of food is forever evolving. We all... MORE
Peace at the Dinner Table
Here’s the next installment of our reports from the Humanities Research Seminar on food. This week, Sasha Martin, author of Life from Scratch and the Global Table Adventure, reflects on the connections between food and peace. What does it mean... MORE
The Battle between Public and Private Food Standards
Our regular reports from the Humanities Research Fellows continue this week with a short piece by Sam Halabi, Associate Professor of Law, about the complicated ways businesses and governments regulate our food supply. One of the many far-reaching provisions of the... MORE
Kitchen Cosmos
Each week, we will feature a short essay from each of the Humanities Research Fellows now at work on the topic of food. We begin with Bruce Willis, Professor of Languages, and his reflection on creation stories in the Americas.... MORE
Oklahoma Center for the Humanities at TU announces 2016-17 fellows
The Oklahoma Center for the Humanities at The University of Tulsa has announced its annual class of fellows for the 2016-17 academic year. The 10 individuals selected from applications submitted earlier this year include TU faculty and students as well... MORE
Fall Report from the Director of the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities
We launched the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities at the University of Tulsa just over three years ago with the aim of encouraging interdisciplinary research, fostering creative collaboration, and serving the community. As the arts and humanities began to come... MORE
Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature
In a happy coincidence, both Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature and the James Joyce Quarterly mailed their latest issues this week. Together, These journals form one of the cornerstones of advanced humanities research at the University of Tulsa and contribute,... MORE
International James Joyce Foundation moves to TU
On June 16, 2016, the board of trustees for the International James Joyce Foundation voted unanimously to move the organization to The University of Tulsa and appoint Sean Latham, Pauline McFarlin Walter Chair of English and Comparative Literature, as its new... MORE
What is Bloomsday?
Sean Latham, Director of the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities, explains the June 16th literary holiday known as Bloomsday. The epic novel Ulysses by James Joyce has been banned, praised, criticized and idolized. Considered one of the greatest books ever... MORE
Research Seminar on Food Call for Applications
“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” —Virginia Woolf Call for Applications Food is a foundational aspect of all human cultures. The manifold ways we grow, prepare, regulate, and share what we eat... MORE
Third Annual Arts and Humanities Festival
This year, the annual TU Arts and Humanities Festival will run in conjunction with Preview TU! This means we can show off the amazing work being done on our campus to incoming freshmen and their families. Events run from 10... MORE
Giving Offense: Humor and Stereotype in Political Cartoons
From April 8-9, the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities at the University of Tulsa will host a public symposium on the role of stereotype and humor in American political cartoons. This event kicks off with a keynote talk by Pulitzer Prize-winning... MORE
Humor and Pain
In our latest report from the humanities research seminar on humor, David Blakely explore the surprising connections between laughter and suffering. I recently saw an evening of stand-up comedy. One young comic, a lanky youth with hands like nervous birds, told roundabout... MORE
Humor and Mental Illness
Here’s another report from the Humanities Research Seminar on the topic of humor. In this installment, Kim Ivey, a graduate student in Anthropology, considers the ways in which humor might be used to help better understand and event treat mental... MORE
Humor and Assimilation in Vaudeville
Our latest report from the Humanities Research Seminar comes from Machele Miller Dill, Director of the Musical Theatre Program at TU. Here she considers the way vaudeville helped explore the rapidly changing shape of American culture in the early twentieth century. I... MORE
Satire, Friendship, and Masculinity
Our reports from the Humanities Research Seminar continue. Here, Dayne Riley, a doctoral student in English, reflects on the role of satire in eighteenth-century Britain. For the famed satirical poets of Augustan Britain (1700-1745), humor and friendship mixed to create... MORE
Humor and the Everyday
This week we continue our series of reports from the Humanities Research Seminar on the topic of humor. Here, TU student Tracy Kinealy explores contemporary television shows that seek to transform the everyday into something funny and use funny things... MORE
Humor or Nonsense? by Professor Holly Laird
Our regular series of posts by the Humanities Research Fellows continues. Here, O’Hornett Professor of English, Holly Laird uses Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear to reflect on the relationship between humor and nonsense.
Nimrod Conference for Readers and Writers
Have you ever sat down and dissected all of the ways that the University of Tulsa is considered a top university? From its engineering programs to its work in the humanities, the University of Tulsa has been placed amongst the... MORE
Faculty Spotlight: Kristen Oertel
The Oklahoma Center for the Humanities will periodically feature the work done by TU’s distinguished faculty. We begin this new blog series with a look at a new book on Harriet Tubman by Dr. Kristen Oertel. “I was conductor of... MORE
Risky Business: Bruce Plante on the Art of Political Satire
We continue our regular reports from the Humanities Research Seminar with a piece by one of public fellows, Bruce Plante, who is the staff editorial cartoonist at The Tulsa World: I had just started my job as the editorial cartoonist... MORE
Humor: Satire – Why Don’t They Get It?
Each week this semester, our Humanities Research Fellows will publish short pieces here about their work in our seminar on humor. Week 6 – September 30th Read Selections from Nieman Reports Vol. 58 No.4 Background Gulliver’s Travels
In on the Joke? Female Viewers of Renaissance Erotica
Each week this semester, our Humanities Research Fellows will publish short pieces here about their work in our seminar on humor. We kick things off with this fascinating piece from Professor Maria Maurer about erotic art in the Renaissance. In the... MORE
In Memoriam: Joseph Kestner
Today, students, friends, and colleagues gathered in Sharp Chapel to say farewell to Dr. Joseph Kestner, McFarlin Professor of English and Film at the University of Tulsa. His sudden and untimely death on the first day of the fall semester... MORE
Humor, Comedy, and Wit
As classes begin Monday at TU, the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities will kick off our year-long focus on the topic of humor. But what exactly is humor? As this chart showing the word’s frequency suggests, it’s a relatively new idea.... MORE
Caché: A Free Film Screening and Discussion
A Paris family’s life is disrupted by a series of surveillance tapes from an anonymous source. The intrusion escalates but law enforcement will not help. Roger Ebert wrote “a perplexing and disturbing film of great effect…” Film screening and post-film... MORE
TEDx Comes to the University of Tulsa
The first ever TEDx event comes to the University of Tulsa’s (TU) Lorton Performance Center on April 24th, 2015. This exciting, interdisciplinary event will showcase the ideas of TU’s students and faculty in a format designed to be entertaining as... MORE
Announcing Big Ideas @ TU
As part of its expanding array of programming, the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities is delighted to announce a new program called Big Ideas @ TU. Once each semester, the Center will host a public discussion of a single book,... MORE
CITIZENFOUR Film Screening
Join us Friday, April 17th, for the documentary film screening of Academy Award-winning CITIZENFOUR at the Circle Cinema at 7:30 p.m.. The film will be followed by a panel discussion featuring TU professors John Hale, Computer Science, and Tamara Peity, Law, and the Tulsa World’s... MORE
Big Ideas @ TU – Privacy, Technology, and The Circle
A series of conversations, readings, discussions, and debates sponsored by the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities. Join us this spring as the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities launches a new program called Big Ideas @ TU. Each semester the center... MORE
TU Arts & Humanities Festival
Last spring the first TU Arts and Humanities Festival held at the Lorton Performance Center at the University of Tulsa. Visit our Facebook page to see more images from the event.
100th Anniversary of WWI
Throughout the year we’ll be looking at the art, history, music, and theater of the “war to end all wars.” The year 2014 marks the centennial of World War One and the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities will mark the occasion... MORE
Meet the 2014-2015 Fellows
The Center has selected its first class of nine Fellows who will be pursuing research on the history and future of privacy. The Center’s inaugural class of Fellows began the research seminar on privacy and include: Hope Forsyth (Communications), Wayne... MORE
First-ever James Joyce Bloomsday Festival in Tulsa
Tulsa celebrated its first-ever Bloomsday this year in The Brady Arts District with readings from James Joyce’s novel “Ulysses” and a pub crawl. Many thanks to George Kaiser Family Foundation and The University of Tulsa for helping make this event... MORE