TV Writing Symposium
Tyrrell Hall 2930 East 6th Street, Tulsa, OKSue Tenney and Amy Palmer Robertson, the creator and head writer on the hit Netflix series Virgin River, will talk about the art and craft of writing for television as […]
Tyrrell Hall is home to six state-of-the-art multimedia classrooms. Envisioned as a teaching laboratory, Tyrrell offers a place where faculty can experiment with technology and explore how it might enhance and extend classroom interactions both near and far. Two classrooms accommodate small seminars of 10-15 students; two classrooms are suited to classes with 18-20 students; one classroom accommodates 30 students; and the Ellen G. Adelson Auditorium will seat 108.
Parking after 5:00 p.m. is available in the Westby Hall and McFarlin Library lots.
Sue Tenney and Amy Palmer Robertson, the creator and head writer on the hit Netflix series Virgin River, will talk about the art and craft of writing for television as […]
Join us for a conversation with GerShun Avilez, associate professor of English at the University of Maryland, as he explores how the Cold War conflict between the U.S. and the […]
Join us Sept. 26 for a fascinating discussion with George Black, Anne Nelson and Elliott Woods. All three spent years as frontline journalists before turning from the heat of conflict to writing about history and policy and the invisible forces that determine which conflicts our country enters and on which side. Now, they are engaged […]
Join us for the annual Cadenhead-Settle Memorial Lecture featuring Craig Koslofsky, professor of history at the University of Illinois.
We have more access to more information, more culture and more science than ever before in human history, much of it free. But free information hasn’t set us free. Why […]
Join the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities for an enlightening lecture with Victor Tan Chen, an associate professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, on the dangers of this disenchantment in modern-day […]
Join the Anthropology Department in celebrating the careers of Lamont Lindstrom, Garrick Bailey and Bob Pickering, who have worked a combined total of 100 years at TU. Lamont Lindstrom will […]
Join the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities for an enlightening conversation with Sonia Hazard, Ph.D., about her work on two editions of a Cherokee-language evangelical tract titled Poor Sarah. The first of these tracts originates in 1833 and was published by Cherokees in New Echota, Cherokee Nation. The second is from 1843 and was published […]
As part of the Judy O. Berry Honorary Endowed Lecture Series, Nicki Aubuchon-Endsley, Ph.D., will present a lecture titled Maternal Depression: Rates, Risks, Results and Resources. This will be a hybrid presentation with both an in-person lecture at The University of Tulsa and a virtual option for those who are unable to visit campus. Register […]
Eric Harvey, assistant professor in the School of Communications at Grand Valley State University and freelance writer and reporter on music, media and commerce, will discuss his new book, Who […]
Please join us in-person in the Tyrrell Hall Auditorium or online via Teams. Moderator Zenia Kish – Assistant Professor, Media Studies Panelists Robert Donaldson – Professor Emeritus, Political Science Martin Jirušek – Assistant Professor, International and European Studies (Masaryk University) Elana Newman – Professor, Psychology Ben Peters – Associate Professor, Media Studies Olga Randolph – […]
Join us for an exciting talk about Toni Morrison’s treatment of ecology. In this lecture, Professor Althea Tait will explore the connections between hunger, agency and ecology in the works of Morrison. She will delve into the complications and anxieties of radical hunger and the defiant survival, sustenance and beauty of the victory gardens of […]
Just what were lesbian sexuality and identity in the early twentieth century U.S., and how do orientations toward evidence inform biographical inquiry into the lives of women who loved women in the historical record? Willa Cather and Edith Lewis lived an un-closeted, if discreet, life as a couple in New York City from 1908 to […]
Oklahoma Center for the Humanities is thrilled to welcome Gayle Rogers, author of Speculation: A Cultural History from Aristotle to AI, for a discussion of his research. From religious introspection to contemplation of the future to frenzied gambling, the idea of “speculation” harbors a rich tapestry of meanings. Now, as computers and AI speculate for […]
The Department of Philosophy and Religion is pleased to present a lecture by Susan Hanssen, chair of history at the University of Dallas. Hanssen will be discussing John Henry Newman's Idea of a University in its historical context and will detail its relevance for the 21st century.