2024-25 Theme: Space
February
Tracing Ancient Journeys into Underground Space
with John Hawks (National Geographic)
Feb. 6, 2025 at 7 p.m., 101 Archer
The Superhumanities: Altered States and the Future of Knowledge
with Jeffrey Kripal (Rice University)
Feb. 13, 2025 at 7 p.m., 101 Archer
101 Unplugged III: Cinematic
in partnership with Tulsa Symphony Orchestra
Feb. 14, 2025 at 7 p.m., 101 Archer
101 Unplugged returns with a special Valentine’s Day concert. Listen to the symphony play sounds of the cinema at 101 Archer. Buy your tickets today.
The Professor was a Spy: Norman Holmes Pearson in the American Century
with Greg Barnhisel
Feb. 17, 2025 at 7 p.m., 101 Archer
Moral Panics and Media Production: How Space-Age Cartoons Beget “Scooby Doo, Where Are You!”
with Kevin Sandler
Presented with the Kendall College of Arts &Sciences
Feb. 27, 2025 at 7 p.m., 101 Archer
March
Sound of Hope – a live performance
with Patricia Wolf and OCH Fellow Brad Rose
March 6, 2025 at 7 p.m., 101 Archer
“Sounds of Hope” is an ecologically inspired work of field recordings and ambient music that celebrates the remaining natural spaces near the artist’s home in North Portland. These songs trace the perilous migrations of the Northern Red-legged frog, express the power and beauty felt within one of the last stands of old growth forest in the Portland area, and say farewell to a superfund site just blocks from her house that is now being restored after 70 years of industrial pollution to make way for a nature park for native species of plants and animals. Patricia will share the hidden sounds from these spaces that she has gathered with her various microphones and will perform music to accompany them that honors the existence of the many living beings who have called this area home for millennia. These compositions are made with the intention of inspiring people from all over the world to look and listen to the unique natural environment around where they live and seek out ways to protect and restore their local habitats so that all living creatures can thrive.
Too Close Reading: On American Miniaturism
with Merve Emre (The New Yorker)
March 10, 2025 at 7 p.m., 101 Archer
Creating Space through Art and Collaboration: A Conversation with Kelsey Karper and Erin Shaw
March 27, 2025 at 7 p.m., 101 Archer
Art has the power to create meaningful spaces for connection and community. Join Chickasaw-Choctaw artist Erin Shaw as she discusses her work, which draws inspiration from and responds to her community, and the role of storytelling in her practice. She’ll be joined by Kelsey Karper, curator and founder of Factory Obscura, for a conversation on how creative collaboration can amplify the impact of art.
April
History Hidden in Plain Sight
Discussion with historian W. Jacob Cornwell, moderated by Bret M. Spears
April 3, 2025 at 7 p.m., 101 Archer
Choosing Life: Affirming a Human Future in an Imperfect World
presented with the Honors College
April 8, 2025 at 7 p.m., 101 Archer
Rachel Wiseman and Anastasia Berg join us at 101 Archer to discuss their book, “What Are Children For? On Ambivalence and Choice.” The book analyses the increasing ambivalence about having children and explores the philosophical resources available to overcome it. Peeling back the layers of resistance, “What Are Children For?” argues that when we make the individual decision whether or not to have children we confront a profound philosophical question, that of the goodness of our form life itself. How can we justify perpetuating human life given the catastrophic harm and suffering of which we are always at once both victims and perpetrators? To meet this challenge we must, we argue, uncover a capacity to grasp the fundamental goodness of human life—not only theoretically but practically in the actual lives we lead today.
Serenity in Structure: The Towers of Minoru Yamasaki
April 10, 2025 at 7 p.m., 101 Archer
New Voices at TU: TAF Mentorship Reading
April 16, 2025 at 7 p.m., 101 Archer
Join the Department of English, the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities, and the Tulsa Artist Fellowship for an evening featuring the talents of UTulsa students! Five creative writing students will showcase the work they have created under the guidance of TAF mentors. This event is free and open to all!
Ellmann’s Joyce: The Biography of the Masterpiece and its Maker
April 17, 2025 at 7 p.m., 101 Archer
101 Unplugged presentes Mozart
Co-sponsored by Tulsa Symphony Orchestra
April 25, 2025 at 7 p.m., 101 Archer
The 101 Unplugged Series continues with music from the Symphony’s Brass Quintet. They will perform Malcolm Arnold’s lively Quintet for Brass and other selections. Buy your tickets here.