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 in both the HCAR and McFarlin Special Collections, this talk, rooted in a forthcoming book project, explores Tulsa’s transformation into a global oil capital through […]
About the Presenter: Join us for a brief presentation and roundtable conversation with Professor McLaughlin on his new research project. McLaughlin is an associate professor of 19th-century American literature at the University of Tulsa. He holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.A. in English from Villanova University. His forthcoming […]
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 […]
Project: "Transformative Cultural Materiality: Archaeologies of Displacement, Persistent Lifeways, & Identity" Presenters: Dr. Zachary Qualls (Gilcrease Museum) & Dr. Nkem Ike (University of Toronto) Join us for a roundtable conversation about Drs. Qualls' & Ike's newest research paper, Transformative Cultural Materiality: Archaeologies of Displacement, Persistent Lifeways, & Identity, which examines how displaced and migrating communities […]
Join Gilcrease Museum for the Annual Eddie Faye Gates Program featuring nationally renowned artist Stephen Towns, the museum’s inaugural Gillies Artist-in-Residence. Towns will reflect on his time in Tulsa exploring […]
Project Title: "The Klan, the White Mob, and the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre" Presenter: Dr. Aaron Schoenfeldt (Duane H. King Postdoctoral Fellow, HCAR) Explore how the Klan and the “culture of silence” shape what we know (and don’t know) about the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. Join us for a Works-in-Progress seminar featuring Duane H. King […]
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, […]
Procedural Hegemony: Adaptation, Assimilation and Legitimacy in the History of Tribal Courts with Assistant Professor of Law (The University of Tulsa), Alexandra Fay. This legal history project studies the imposition of Anglo-American legal procedure on tribal justice systems. It considers procedural assimilation as a product of both American imperialism and tribal self-preservation through strategic accommodation. The project is informed by […]
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 […]
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 paper), these long pictorial manuscripts (known as tiras) are part of the Spanish Colonial Manuscript Collection (Conway) at the Helmerich Center for American Research. The presentation examines how these […]
