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The Secret Psychedelic History of Tulsa

101 E. Archer 101 E. Archer St., Tulsa, OK, United States

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. Discover Tulsa's pivotal role in […]

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Aria Yoga with Tulsa Opera

101 E. Archer 101 E. Archer St., Tulsa, OK, United States

Aria Yoga with Tulsa Opera is partnering with the University of Tulsa’s Oklahoma Center for the Humanities to offer free yoga sessions this fall and winter. TU community join The Oklahoma Center for humanities for the second Tuesday of every month, Nov. 2023 through March 2024, for a 45-minute class set to opera music, led […]

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Acting: The Art of Being Human

101 E. Archer 101 E. Archer St., Tulsa, OK, United States

TU community join The Oklahoma Center for the Humanities and hear from NYU's Isaac Butler. He will join TU's Dr. Justin Rawlins for a conversation about method acting at 101 Archer, in celebration of Rawlins' new book "Imagining the Method: Reception, Identity, and American Screen Performance." Isaac Butler is the author of "The Method: How […]

The Conspiracy Singularity: COVID, QAnon, and the Merging of Communities of Suspicion

Tyrrell Hall 2930 East 6th Street, Tulsa, OK, United States

TU students join the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities for their second Common Read program! Anna Merlan joins us to talk about Tara Westover's "Educated" and conspiracy theories. Anna Merlan is a journalist and author, specializing in subcultures, alternative communities, conspiracy theories, crime, belief, death, sexual violence and women’s lives. She is currently a reporter […]

Deep Greenwood Community Read – The Lingering Legacies of Urban Renewal

OSU-Tulsa Library 700 N Greenwood Ave, Tulsa, OK, United States

TU faculty, staff, and students are invited to discuss the urban renewal that radically changed Tulsa's landscape in the 1960's & 70's,Victor Luckerson and Don Thompson in discussing this era through both political and personal stories. This event coincides with chapters 16-20 of Vic Luckerson’s book Built from the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa’s […]

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Liberalism’s Discontents with Patrick Deneen

101 E. Archer 101 E. Archer St., Tulsa, OK, United States

Has liberalism failed because it has succeeded? Tulsa and TU community join Oklahoma Center for the Humanities to hear from The University of Notre Dame's Patrick J. Deneen and TU's Jennifer Frey for a discussion of liberalism and its discontents. In his book, "Why Liberalism Failed", Deneen offers a warning that the centripetal forces now at […]

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Aria Yoga with Tulsa Opera

101 E. Archer 101 E. Archer St., Tulsa, OK, United States

Aria Yoga with Tulsa Opera is partnering with the University of Tulsa’s Oklahoma Center for the Humanities to offer free yoga sessions this fall and winter. TU community join The Oklahoma Center for humanities for the second Tuesday of every month, Nov. 2023 through March 2024, for a 45-minute class set to opera music, led […]

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Imposter Syndrome with LaShawnda Fields

Tyrrell Hall 2930 East 6th Street, Tulsa, OK, United States

Join the Oklahoma Center for Humanities for the last event in the Common Read Program for the 2023-24 school year! LaShawnda Fields will join us from the University of Arkansas to talk about Imposter Syndrome. LaShawnda is a native of St. Louis, Missouri, where she completed both her Ph.D. and MSW degrees at the Brown […]

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Genetics and the peopling of the Americas with Jennifer Raff

101 E. Archer 101 E. Archer St., Tulsa, OK, United States

TU and Tulsa community are invited to join the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities for a lecture with Jennifer Raff. How and when did people first come to the American continents? In the last two decades, models to answer this question have been rapidly evolving. As researchers have worked to construct and test new models […]

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March First Friday Art Crawl

101 E. Archer 101 E. Archer St., Tulsa, OK, United States

Visit the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities at 101 Archer during the First Friday Art Crawl! We will have two exhibits on display, as well as a Somatic Movement class on our second floor at 6:30 p.m. WANDERING SPIRIT: AFRICAN WAX PRINTS is a vivid exhibition that documents the history and development of the handmade […]

Discussing Lanier: An OCH Reading Group

101 E. Archer 101 E. Archer St., Tulsa, OK, United States

Join TU's Oklahoma Center for the Humanities for a two-session reading group ahead of the spring 2024 Presidential Lecture with Jaron Lanier on March 26. There will be discussion on Lanier's book "Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now." OCH will provide copies of the book a few weeks ahead of the […]

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Aria Yoga with Tulsa Opera

101 E. Archer 101 E. Archer St., Tulsa, OK, United States

Aria Yoga with Tulsa Opera is partnering with the University of Tulsa’s Oklahoma Center for the Humanities to offer free yoga sessions this fall and winter. TU community join The Oklahoma Center for humanities for the second Tuesday of every month, Nov. 2023 through March 2024, for a 45-minute class set to opera music, led […]

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Book Launch for Jennifer Croft

101 E. Archer 101 E. Archer St., Tulsa, OK, United States

TU community join Oklahoma Center for the Humanities to celebrate TU President's Professor Jennifer Croft and her new book "The Extinction of Irena Rey." From the International Booker Prize-winning translator and Women's Prize finalist, an utterly beguiling novel about eight translators and their search for a world-renowned author who goes missing in a primeval Polish […]

Discussing Lanier: An OCH Reading Group

101 E. Archer 101 E. Archer St., Tulsa, OK, United States

Join TU's Oklahoma Center for the Humanities for a two-session reading group ahead of the spring 2024 Presidential Lecture with Jaron Lanier on March 26. There will be discussion on Lanier's book "Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now." OCH will provide copies of the book a few weeks ahead of the […]

Acrolife – Creative Alliances of Marginalized Young Men in Kenya

Oklahoma Center for the Humanities 101 E Archer St, Tulsa, OK 74103

TU faculty, staff and students join us in welcoming Nina Berman from Arizona State University! She will give a public lecture highlighting the complexities of the lives of Kenyan acrobats and explores their experience in the context of Kenya, but also with an eye toward the situation of uneducated young men globally. Marginalized young men […]

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