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
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
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
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
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
Dance Theatre Performance
Enjoy a special presentation by Dance Theatre students as the culminating performance for the 2nd Annual TU Arts and Humanities Festival at Lorton Performance Center, Tuesday, April 28, at 4:30 p.m. This energetic show features students from two different dance classes choreographed... MORE