2023-2024 Events
September
Turning Red Screening & Panel
September 14, 2023, 6 p.m. at the Lorton Performance Center
Watch Turning Red ahead of the fall Presidential Lecture with Danielle Feinberg. Join us ahead of the screening for Pixar trivia, a costume contest and Chipotle. Stay after to hear from TU professors in film, psychology, computer science and game design, and art. Learn more here.
What is Fantasy and Who Decides?
September 20, 2023, 7 p.m. at 101 E. Archer
Help us celebrate Danielle Gurevitch and Elana Gomel’s new book, The Palgrave Handbook of Global Fantasy! Both Gurevitch and Gomel will participate in a panel about fantasy and their new book at 101 E. Archer. Arrive early and get a free Dungeons and Dragons dice set. Reception with food and wine to follow.
Hellerween Auditions
September 23, 2023, 12 p.m. at 101 E. Archer
Heller Theatre Company and the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities are proud to present the second year of the horror-themed short play program, “Hellerween: Shorts to Scare You Shortless!” Stop by 101 Archer to audition to be in this production! Auditions will be held on the second floor. Learn more here.
Burning Biographer: Living with D.H. Lawrence
September 26, 2023, 7 p.m. at 101 E. Archer
Help us welcome frequent New York Review of Books contributor Frances Wilson to Tulsa. Wilson will talk about the art of biography, her new book Burning Man: The Trials of D.H. Lawrence,and the research she is doing on novelist Muriel Spark in McFarlin Library’s Special Collections. Learn more here.
Deep Greenwood Community Read Event #1
September 28, 2023, 6:30 p.m. at All Souls Unitarian Church
This conversation will explore the politics of Tulsa before the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre and the echoes of those politics we see in our national issues today. The event will cover chapters 1-8 of Built From the Fire. Learn more here.
October
Fall Presidential Lecture – Danielle Feinberg
October 3, 2023, 7:30 p.m. at the Lorton Performance Center
Danielle Feinberg began her career at Pixar Animation Studios in February 1997, and since then, she has worked on 14 of Pixar’s feature films. She cut her teeth on early films like A Bug’s Life, Toy Story 2, Monsters, Inc. and the Academy Award®-winning Finding Nemo and The Incredibles. Feinberg was the director of photography-lighting for the Academy Award®- winning features WALL•E, Brave, and Coco. Most recently she completed her work as the visual effects supervisor on Turning Red, released on March 11, 2022. Learn more here.
First Friday Fall Bash
October 6, 2023, 6 p.m. at 101 E. Archer
The Oklahoma Center for the Humanities is celebrating fall with a big bash for TU students during the October First Friday Art Crawl. Along with the usual food spread, live music and cash bar in our gallery, we will have free sno cones from Josh’s Sno Shack, yard games in our garden, and face painting. All students are welcome to the third floor balcony for a glo party and visit with Goldie! Don’t have a car or a ride? No worries – TU will have free shuttles running from Bayless Plaza on campus to 101 Archer and back from 4:45 – 10 p.m. Learn more here.
Graphic Design Activism
October 19, 2023, 7:00 p.m. at 101 E. Archer
The Oklahoma Center for the Humanities is welcoming renown graphic designer and curator of “The Tolerance Poster Show” – Mirko Ilić. Ilić will give an encompassing lecture, detailing his many samples of pro-bono work for different organizations and why he decided to create the Tolerance Project. Originally from Bosnia, he is currently based in New York City and works as a graphic designer and illustrator. Learn more here.
Tarot and the Motion of Fate
October 23, 2023, 7:30 p.m. at 101 E. Archer
OCH will host a series of Halloween-themed events at 101 Archer, beginning with the haunting mysticism of tarot. What does a random card draw tell us about synchronicity? How can engagement with medieval symbolism enrich our modern lives? And how can we preserve our sense of free will while facing fateful factors beyond our control? T. Susan Chang will explore the tarot deck’s evolution over six centuries and the ways tarot acts as mirror and window for the cultures in which they appear. Learn more here.
Hellerween 2023
October 26 – 28, 2023, 7 p.m. at 101 E. Archer
The Oklahoma Center for the Humanities is proud to partner with Heller Theatre Company to present the second year of the horror-themed short play program, “Hellerween: Shorts to Scare You Shortless!” The three-day festival features short horror and suspense themed plays written by local playwrights. The plays will be staged all throughout the building, giving guests the chance to explore the abandoned floors of 101 Archer. Buy tickets here.
November
FLOW State with Richard Huskey
November 7, 2023, 7 p.m. at 101 E. Archer
To continue this year’s theme of Movement, the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities will host Richard Huskey—a leading researcher in communications & cognitive science—to discuss flow states. Huskey is Assistant Professor of Communications and Cognitive Science at UC Davis. His work investigates the state of “flow” experienced by athletes, composers, writers, engineers, and more. Along with a group of researchers, Huskey published a recent article in the Journal of Communication that attempts to locate states of flow within brain network dynamics. Learn more here.
Aldous Huxley Reading Group
November 8 & 15, 2023, 6:30 p.m., 101 E. Archer
An open discussion of Huxley’s The Doors of Perception. Open to all TU students, faculty and staff.
Deep Greenwood Community Read #2
November 11, 2023, 4 p.m. at the Big 10 Ballroom
This event will cover chapters 9-15 of Built From the Fire. The North Tulsa venue that once hosted Ray Charles, Etta James and B.B. King is back and better than ever. Hear from Greenwood musicians and artists who remember the neighborhood as a cultural mecca, then enjoy a live band performing the 1950s hits that once dominated the Big 10 stage. Learn more here.
Aria Yoga
November 14, 2023, 6 p.m. at 101 E. Archer
In partnership with Oklahoma Center for the Humanities, Tulsa Opera will be offering Aria Yoga every second Tuesday from November 2023 to March 2024 at 101 Archer from 6:00 – 6:45 pm. Bring your mat and join us for FREE all-levels yoga sessions set to operatic hits!
December
Aria Yoga
December 12, 2023, 6 p.m. at 101 E. Archer
In partnership with Oklahoma Center for the Humanities, Tulsa Opera will be offering Aria Yoga every second Tuesday from November 2023 to March 2024 at 101 Archer from 6:00 – 6:45 pm. Bring your mat and join us for FREE all-levels yoga sessions set to operatic hits!
The Secret Psychedelic History of Tulsa
December 14, 2023, 7 p.m. at 101 E. Archer
TU community join Oklahoma Center for Humanities for an enthralling one-hour talk with journalist Michael Mason, founding editor of This Land magazine, and recipient of the Tim Ferris Psychedelic Journalism Fellowship. Dive into “The Secret Psychedelic History of Tulsa,” a journey through the city’s clandestine connection to America’s psychedelic movement. Michael Mason is a science journalist and author of Head Cases: Stories of Brain Injury and Its Aftermath. In 2010, he founded the award-winning Oklahoma media company, This Land Press. His writings have appeared in Discover magazine, The Believer, NPR, The New York Times and elsewhere. Learn more here.
January
Aria Yoga
January 9, 2024, 6 p.m. at 101 E. Archer
In partnership with Oklahoma Center for the Humanities, Tulsa Opera will be offering Aria Yoga every second Tuesday from November 2023 to March 2024 at 101 Archer from 6:00 – 6:45 pm. Bring your mat and join us for FREE all-levels yoga sessions set to operatic hits!
Acting: The Art of Being Human with Isaac Butler
January 25, 2024, 7 p.m. at 101 E. Archer
Director, contributor at “Slate” and “The New Yorker” and theatre history and performance teacher Isaac Butler joins Dr. Justin Rawlins for a conversation about method acting, in celebration of Rawlins’ new book Imagining the Method: Reception, Identity, and American Screen Performance. This conversation will explore the history of method acting and its impact on the twentieth-century stage and screen. Butler is the author ofThe Method: How the 20th Century Learned to Act. He received the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction and is the co-author of The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America which NPR named one of the best books of 2018. Learn more here. Learn more here.
The Conspiracy Singularity: COVID, QAnon, and the Merging of Communities of Suspicion
January 30, 2024, 7 p.m. at Tyrrell Hall
February
Deep Greenwood: The Lingering Legacies of Urban Renewal
February 1, 2024, 7 p.m. at OSU-Tulsa
Urban renewal radically changed Tulsa’s landscape in the 1960’s and ’70’s in ways that many residents were deeply opposed to. Author Victor Luckerson and Greenwood photographer Don Thompson will discuss the personal and policy impacts of urban renewal, juxtaposing visuals from government sources (redlining and urban renewal maps) with Thompson’s on-the-ground photography of how Greenwood residents experienced those tumultuous years. Learn more here.
Why Liberalism Failed with Patrick Deneen
February 8, 2024, 7 p.m. at 101 E. Archer
Aria Yoga
February 13, 2024, 6 p.m. at 101 E. Archer
In partnership with Oklahoma Center for the Humanities, Tulsa Opera will be offering Aria Yoga every second Tuesday from November 2023 to March 2024 at 101 Archer from 6:00 – 6:45 pm. Join us in February for couples yoga! Bring your mat and join us for FREE all-levels yoga sessions set to operatic hits!
Recovering Forgotten Books: A Double Book Launch for Don James McLaughlin and Stephanie Peebles-Tavera
February 15, 2024, 7 p.m. at 101 E. Archer
Carl Phillips
February 20, 2024, 7 p.m. at 101 E. Archer
More information coming soon!
Imposter Syndrome with LaShawnda Fields
February 22, 2024, 7 p.m. at Tyrrell Hall
Genetics and the Peopling of the Americas with Jennifer Raff
February 29, 2024, 7 p.m. at 101 E. Archer
March
Aria Yoga
March 12, 2024, 6 p.m. at 101 E. Archer
In partnership with Oklahoma Center for the Humanities, Tulsa Opera will be offering Aria Yoga every second Tuesday from November 2023 to March 2024 at 101 Archer from 6:00 – 6:45 pm. Bring your mat and join us for FREE all-levels yoga sessions set to operatic hits! Join us in March for a special live opera performance after the class!
Book Launch for Jennifer Croft
March 12, 2024, 7 p.m. at 101 E. Archer
“There is No AI” Spring Presidential Lecture – Jaron Lanier
March 26, 2024, 7 p.m. at the Lorton Performance Center
While he is at the very center of AI developments, Jaron Lanier also has a radically different take on AI. He doesn’t think AI is a thing in itself, but is instead a new kind of social collaboration. AI as we know it today combines the expressions of real humans in new and useful ways. A chatbot borrows from things real people have said before and recombines them, for instance. This perspective opens up more useful ways to think than the usual science fiction framing, which treats the programs as mysterious, potentially scary creatures. Instead of using hard-to-define terms like “safety” or “fairness” to improve AI, we can ask whose input was important to a given output. That concreteness suggests ways to spread both lines of responsibility and opportunity. Instead of asking who will be put out of work by AI, we can ask who should be incentivized and rewarded for offering better data to go into AI programs. Lanier is also one of the few scientists working in the field who is good at explaining how the programs work to non-technical audiences. Learn more here.
Acrolife: Creative Socioeconomic Alliances of Marginalized Young Men in Kenya
March 28, 2024, 7 p.m. at 101 E. Archer
April
Ned Blackhawk
April 1, 2024, 7 p.m. at 101 E. Archer
John Guillory
April 2, 2024, 7 p.m. at 101 E. Archer
Tulsa Artist Fellowship Mentorship Reading
April 4, 2024, 7 p.m. at 101 E. Archer
Deep Greenwood: A People’s History of Protest in Tulsa
April 11, 2024, 7 p.m. at 101 E. Archer
Carlo Rotella
April 18, 2024, 7 p.m. at 101 E. Archer