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Research Day with Oxley College of Health & Natural Sciences

Join the Oxley College of Health & Natural Sciences for its interdisciplinary research day at the Lorton Performance Center.  The event is open to undergraduates, graduates, postdocs and faculty. Participating departments are Biology, Chemistry & Biochemistry, Nursing, Kinesiology & Rehabilitative Sciences, Communication Science and Disorders, Community Medicine and the Laureate Institute for Brain Research.

Registration is open until April 15.

For questions, email kproberts@utulsa.edu or call (918) 631-3090

HCAR Works In Progress Seminar: Jessica Mehta

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, the piece situates Indigenous bodies and land as living archives, tracing how histories of gold, oil and cultural theft continue to shape the present moment. Written prior to the most recent election cycle, the accompanying manifesto now functions as an ephemeral document—one that shifts in meaning as political realities sharpen, repeat and rupture.

This talk reflects on the work’s evolving form, its reliance on the body as site and witness, and the ways art can move audiences from passive recognition toward active participation in decolonial futures.

Event registration details are forthcoming.  You will receive a digital copy of the paper after registering.

Special Note: There are road closures currently affecting access to the Helmerich Center for American Research. If you are driving to the seminar, please plan to use the designated detour route. You can reach HCAR by taking Newton via Union Street.

City officials are advising drivers to follow posted detours throughout the construction period. Please plan accordingly to ensure a smooth arrival.

Questions about the event can be sent to trm1828@utulsa.edu.

HCAR Works-in-Progress Seminar: Ana Pulido Rull

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 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 visually rich records document the labor, goods, and personal service demanded of Indigenous communities under Spanish colonial rule, while also functioning as tools of resistance. Used as legal evidence in colonial courts, the tiras enabled Indigenous towns to challenge excessive tribute demands and negotiate reductions through formal legal proceedings. Special attention is given to the distinctive features of HCAR’s collection, including rare depictions of Indigenous artists and the portrayal of books and paper as tribute, as well as differences between tributes mandated by law and those represented in the pictorial records.

A digital copy of the paper will be available closer to the seminar date. Check back soon!

Special Note: There are road closures currently affecting access to the Helmerich Center for American Research. If you are driving to the seminar, please plan to use the designated detour route. You can reach HCAR by taking Newton via Union Street.

City officials are advising drivers to follow posted detours throughout the construction period. Please plan accordingly to ensure a smooth arrival.

Questions about the event can be sent to william-smith@utulsa.edu.