Join us for a presentation by short-term fellow Russell Cobb, as he shares insights from his time in residence at the Helmerich Center for American Research. Drawing from research conducted […]
Join us for a presentation by Dr. Lisa Barnett about her new book Peyote Politics: The Making of the Native American Church, 1880-1937 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2025). Check back […]
In partnership with the Route 66 Alliance, and renowned author/historian Michael Wallis, "Faces of the Mother Road: The Portraits of S.J. Tyler," features dozens of photographs taken between 1913 and 1943 in Tyler's Afton, Oklahoma, studio. Photographer Adam Forgash discovered the antique glass negatives of these rare images in 2023, and in collaboration with The […]
Professor McLaughlin and Professor Walker wrote the dissertations that would later become books on the topic of popular science in early America as office neighbors in Philadelphia in 2015. They quickly became close friends and incisive readers of each other’s work. Professor Walker’s book, "Beauty and the Brain: The Science of Human Nature in Early […]
Project: "500 Years AGO" Presenters: Jessica Mehta (The University of Tulsa) Join us for a roundtable conversation about Jessica Mehta's visual series "500 Years AGO" a work-in-progress performance and poetic installation that confronts the ongoing afterlives of colonization through the intertwined violences of assimilation, extraction and erasure. Combining embodied performance, painted text and spoken poetry, […]
Join the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities in welcoming Sarah Bond, associate professor of ancient history at the University of Iowa, to 101 Archer. Bond will discuss Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire, the first book to explore how Roman workers used strikes, boycotts, riots and rebellion to get their voices—and their […]
World War I opened the door for a French occupation the Middle East, including territory once ruled by medieval Frankish Crusaders, and for the modern-day occupiers, Crusader myths became a […]
This event has unfortunately been canceled due to unforeseen circumstances. OCH welcomes two-time American Book Award winner Debra Magpie Earling (Bitterroot Salish, Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes) for a […]
Project: "The Depictions of Injustice: Tribute Records from Culhuacan in the Conway Collection" Presenter(s): Dr. Ana Pulido Rull, Associate Professor of Latin American Art History (University of Arkansas) This Works-in-Progress Seminar explores Indigenous tribute records created in the mid-sixteenth century by tlacuiloque (Indigenous artists) from towns in the Basin of Mexico. Painted on amatl (fig-bark […]
