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
Homelands: Call for Public Fellows
“You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you can never go back.” —James Baldwin The word homeland evokes thoughts of pleasure and pain, belonging and exile, flight and shelter. Is home... 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