Events Archive

Explore past events to see what the College of Humanities has been up to over the years.

2024

2023

2022

Dec 16
Winter 2022 Convocation
Nov 5
Read the World: A Kaleidoscope of Translated Literature
Oct 31
Monster Party
Oct 29
Humanities Alumni Brunch
Oct 28
Humanities Alumni Mixer
Oct 27
Screening: Dario Argento's Opera
Oct 25
The Book of the City: Exhibiting a Southwestern Urban Humanities
Oct 24
What We Learned While Alone: Global Voices Speak to the Pandemic
Oct 18
Seeking Understanding: Global Religions in Our Community
Oct 13
Playlist for the Apocalypse: A Reading with Rita Dove
Oct 12
Study Abroad Fair
Oct 11
Little Shop of Horrors: Film Screening & Discussion
Sep 28
Meet Your Major Fair
Sep 14
Vamos a la Playa | Para a Praia
May 13
Spring 2022 Undergraduate Convocation
May 12
Spring 2022 Graduate Convocation
Apr 26
College of Humanities Perspectives Series
Mar 29
Peace Rally: Stand with Ukraine
Feb 18
Listening to Other Voices
Feb 15
Sitting on Zora's Porch: Notes from a Black Girl in the Hip Hop South
Feb 1
God, Soul Food and Superheroes

2021

Nov 5
Luci, Telecamera, Azione: An Acting Life From Broadway to Milan
Nov 2
A Fantastic Woman: Film Screening and Discussion
Oct 27
In Search of Fright: Tales of Monsters, Ghosts & the Undead
Oct 26
Sequins & Stories: Drag Queens & Kids Learning From Each Other
Oct 20
Transformation: Story, Character & Meaning Across Time & Space
Oct 19
Asian Americans: A History of Identity, Contributions & Challenges
Oct 14
Angels & Devils: An Evening with Luis Alberto Urrea
Oct 12
Border Medicine: Origins of Mexican American Religious Healing
Oct 5
Inflection Points: A Gallery Talk on Poetry in Translation
Oct 4
A Life in Stories: Visions & Journeys in the Land of Mystery
Sep 21
Festival of Languages: A Reading Featuring Literary Translation
May 21
Dorrance Lecture Series: Humanities Innovators in a Tech World
May 16
Spring 2021 Convocation
Mar 24
Truth Under Siege: Religion, Science, and Democracy in the United States
Feb 23
Who Framed Rosa Parks: The Photographic Legacy of Civil Rights Icons
Feb 17
Black History Month Virtual Showcase
Feb 8
Whose Vote Counts? A Virtual Event with Jelani Cobb

2020

2019

Dec 5
Poetry Reading: Dean Young
Nov 14
Poetry Reading: Arthur Sze
Nov 12
UA Prose Reading: Aimee Bender
Nov 7
Poetry Reading: Matthew Zapruder
Nov 2
COH Young Alumni Brunch
Nov 1
Humanities Alumni Mixer
Nov 1
Transforming Lives: Empowering Philanthropy through Humanism
Oct 29
Arrival: Film Screening & Discussion
Oct 24
Puro Amor: A Reading with Sandra Cisneros
Oct 22
Ritual & Human Flourishing: Theories from Classical China
Oct 18
Friends or Enemies: Politics & Poetry in Contemporary Russian Rap
Oct 17
Art for Justice Reading: Tongo Eisen-Martin
Oct 17
Space & Wonder: Humanity’s Endless Quest for Answers
Oct 15
Speaking to Power: What’s Next for Religious Institutions after #MeToo?
Oct 10
UA Prose Series: T Clutch Fleischmann & Andrea Lawlor
Oct 9
Beyond the Church: The Digital-Religious Lives of Young Black Christians
Oct 7
Designing Women: Overlooked Trailblazers of the Bauhaus
Oct 2
Urban Humanities: New Practices for Reimagining the City
Sep 26
Art for Justice Reading: Patricia Smith & Angel Nafis
Sep 12
Poetry Reading: Kim Addonizio & Joseph O. Legaspi & Javier Zamora
Sep 5
Poetry Reading: Erika L. Sánchez & sam sax
Sep 5
Study Abroad Fair
Aug 26
Fall Semester Begins
Jun 3
Humanities Tech
May 10
Spring 2019 Undergraduate Convocation
May 9
Spring 2019 Graduate Convocation
Apr 25
Poetry Reading: Rigoberto González
Apr 18
Poetry Reading: Naomi Shihab Nye
Apr 11
UA Prose Series: Cherríe Moraga
Apr 11
Monster Bash
Apr 4
Art For Justice Reading: Natalie Diaz
Apr 3
Medieval Theology and the Early Medieval Media Revolution
Mar 26
The Mosque and its Controversies in the United States
Mar 21
Art For Justice Reading: Patrick Rosal & Evie Schockley
Mar 20
Language Fair
Mar 14
Poetry Reading: Natalie Shapero
Mar 2
Tucson Festival of Books
Feb 28
Poetry Reading: Myriam Moscana & Jen Hofer & John Pluecker
Feb 21
Tom Sanders Memorial Reading: Peggy Shumaker & Maurya Simon
Feb 13
Race and American Law
Feb 7
Art For Justice Reading: Nikky Finney
Feb 4
Humanities Study Abroad Fair
Jan 31
Poetry Reading: Kiki Petrosino
Jan 24
UA Prose Series: Nicole Walker
Jan 23
Spring into Study Abroad
Jan 10
Hannelore Quander-Rattee Works-in-Translation Reading: Daniel Borzutzky
Jan 9
Spring 2019 Classes Begin

2018

Dec 14
Winter 2018 Convocation
Dec 13
Classes & Workshops Reading
Dec 6
Maggie Smith: Craft Talk "On Wonder and (Re)Discovery in Poetry"
Dec 1
BENNUVAL!
Nov 29
Poetry Reading: Maggie Smith
Nov 16
Tech Anxieties and the U.S.-China Relationship
Nov 15
Poetry Reading: Randall Horton
Nov 10
Annual In Memoriam Reading
Nov 8
UA Prose Series: James Allen Hall
Nov 6
Humanities Study Abroad Fair
Nov 2
Ti-Yong: Toward a More Thorough Understanding of the Essence-Function
Nov 2
The Power of the Powerless: A 1968 Retrospective
Oct 30
Spellbound: Film Screening & Discussion
Oct 27
COH Young Alumni Brunch
Oct 26
Humanities Alumni Mixer
Oct 26
Transparency & Trust: How Open Diplomacy Advances Democracy
Oct 25
Poetry Reading: Carl Phillips
Oct 23
Subverting Colonialism: Keep it Secret, Keep it Safe
Oct 18
Revisiting The Underground Railroad
Oct 16
Secret Lives: Hidden Identities in Global Popular Culture
Oct 13
Killing Floor Book Launch
Oct 12
Crushin’ It: Untold Stories from Hip-Hop’s Founding Days
Oct 11
Letters to the Future: Black WOMEN / Radical WRITING
Oct 9
To Speak or Not To Speak: Women, Secrets and Sexual Violence
Oct 5
Surprising Vermeer: An Artist in Delft, Delft in the World
Oct 4
Poetry Reading: Charles Simic
Oct 4
Indie Games in China: Film Screening & Discussion
Sep 20
Faculty Reading: Farid Matuk and Jane Miller
Sep 13
UA Prose Series: Venita Blackburn
Sep 13
Sex Talk about Arab Men in 1970s France
Sep 6
Morgan Lucas Schuldt Memorial Reading: Morgan Parker & Tommy Pico
May 17
Dorrance Lecture Series: Humanities Innovators in a Tech World
May 11
Spring 2018 Undergraduate Pre-Commencement
May 10
Spring 2018 Graduate Pre-Commencement
Apr 28
Poetry Center Family Day
Apr 27
Staging Ancient Drama: Seneca's "Agamemnon"
Apr 26
Persona Issue Release
Apr 26
Buddhist Ethics and the World Crisis
Apr 26
Gracias Malcolm Open House
Apr 25
Poetry Reading: Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
Apr 19
UA Prose Series: Francisco Cantú, Thomas Mira y Lopez, and Sylvia Chan
Apr 19
Lectio Vergiliana
Apr 5
Poetry Reading: Ada Limón
Apr 5
Researching Ideology in the Financial News through Translation
Apr 2
Mapping the Religious Landscape of South Asia
Mar 30
Zen Enlightenment: Is It Sudden or Gradual?
Mar 29
Homerathon
Mar 28
Chan/Sŏn/Zen Buddhist Studies Conference
Mar 28
Center for Buddhist Studies Inaugural Ceremony
Mar 24
Poetry Center Family Day
Mar 22
Hannelore Quander-Rattee Works-in-Translation Series: Sawako Nakayasu
Mar 20
CBS ON TOUR: Exposure, Access and Opportunity
Mar 16
A Conversation with bell hooks: Feminism, Buddhism, and Liberation
Mar 15
Poetry Reading: Stephanie Burt
Mar 15
Buddhism as a Regional Religious System
Mar 13
From Angkor to Arizona: Global Hindu Traditions
Mar 10
Tucson Festival of Books
Mar 1
Poetry Reading: Alec Finlay
Feb 24
Tucson Hip Hop Festival
Feb 23
French-Mauritanian feature film Timbuktu
Feb 22
"You Are Who I Am Talking To": Bagley Wright Lecture Series at the Poetry Center
Feb 21
Italian Poetry Translation and Reading
Feb 19
Digital Art Now: Histories of the Post-Digital Future
Feb 17
Poetry Center Family Day
Feb 16
Poetry Reading: Zoketsu Norman Fischer
Feb 13
CESL International Festival
Feb 13
Humanities Study Abroad Fair
Feb 8
The Idea, History, and Influence of Master Jinghui’s Living Chan in Contemporary Chinese Buddhism
Feb 8
Daisy Jenkins: "The Green Machine: Inside the Prison Walls"
Feb 1
Poetry Reading: Khaled Mattawa
Jan 30
A New Look at Old Tradition: Reimagining East Asian Buddhism through Hangzhou
Jan 25
UA Prose Series: Kristen Radtke & Charles Yu
Jan 25
Sixth International Conference on the Development and Assessment of Intercultural Competence
Jan 20
Poetry Center Family Day
Jan 18
Poetry Reading: Eleanor Wilner
Jan 14
Beyond Tucson: A Time to Break Silence
Jan 6
Pō é tree: Poetry and Nature Walk on Campus Arboretum

2017

Dec 15
Winter 2017 Pre-Commencement Ceremony
Nov 27
Fall 2017 Student Award Nomination Deadline
Nov 14
Study Abroad Fair - Spanish and Portuguese
Nov 9
UA Prose Series: Rubén Martínez
Nov 7
The Mexican Suitcase
Nov 6
Communism in its Time: A Pop-Up Exhibit at UAMA
Nov 3
Judicial interpreting: A comparative look at current standards and practices in the US and the European Union
Nov 3
Classroom Assessment for Language Teaching (CALT) conference
Nov 2
Morgan Lucas Schuldt Memorial Reading: Layli Long Soldier & Timothy Yu
Nov 1
Seeking Life on the Roads of Death: The Madres Movement in Central America
Oct 31
The 500th anniversary of Luther's "95 Theses Against Indulgences"
Oct 27
Exploring the Universe: Science & Humanities United
Oct 24
Symbols of Revolution: Legacies of Luther in Germany
Oct 23
Storm Over Asia
Oct 19
Thinking Its Presence Conference
Oct 17
Forces Unleashed: Why the Spanish Civil War Still Matters
Oct 16
October: Ten Days that Shook the World
Oct 13
Virtual Study Abroad: A Digital Humanities Experience
Oct 12
Poetry of Resistance: A Plea for Social Change
Oct 10
Crown vs. Cross: Resistance and Resilience of Religion in the Roman Empire
Oct 8
Professor Alejandro Nava book reading
Oct 4
Imperfect Legacy: From National Liberation to Meaningful Freedom in Africa
Oct 3
Punk Prayer: Pussy Riot's Fight for Global Freedom of Expression
Sep 28
Aimee Nezhukumatathil poetry reading
Sep 19
Gallery Talk: Giancarlo Huapaya
Sep 14
UA Prose Series: Joy Williams
Sep 13
Study Abroad Fair
Aug 31
Reginald Dwayne Betts poetry reading
May 12
Spring Undergraduate Pre-Commencement
May 11
Spring Graduate Pre-Commencement
Apr 29
Euripides' Trojan Women
Apr 18
Professor Tani Sanchez book reading
Apr 8
LaTes 2017: Toni Theisen Workshop
Apr 7
Queer Language(s) Across Borders
Apr 5
Holocaust Survivor Leslie Schwartz
Mar 31
Oceans and Deserts 2017 Conference
Mar 29
Homerathon 2017
Mar 28
Russian Art and Revolution
Mar 11
Tucson Festival of Books
Mar 6
German Reading with Christopher Kloeble
Feb 28
Live Demo and Lecture Featuring Grandmaster Flash
Feb 22
Life After Death in the Faith Traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Feb 20
The Closest Reader: Why Translation Matters
Feb 17
Russian Poetry and Revolution
Feb 13
Current Research on Video Games – Panel Discussion
Feb 9
Deejay Competition
Feb 7
Film Screening Mona Lisa is Missing - The Man Who Stole the Masterpiece
Feb 7
How Tatiana's Voice Rang Across the Steppe: Examining Russian Literature's 'Conquest' in Central Asia
Feb 3
Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age
Jan 26
A Public Talk by Ahmad Greene-Hayes - (Re)memory, Nostalgia, & Conjure: Racial and Sexual Politics in a Neoliberal Age
Jan 19
Climate Change & Poetry: Ross Gay
Jan 15
Tucson Celebrates Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Jan 11
Closer Look Book Club- "The Meursault Investigation" by Kamal Daoud & "The Stranger" by Camus ​

2016

Dec 3
Pō é tree: The “Barbaric Yawp” of Walt Whitman
Dec 1
Climate Talk: Karletta Chief
Nov 30
Free-dom: Braschi's United States of Banana and the Limits of Sovereignty
Oct 26
Fall Italian Meet and Greet
Oct 17
Germans, Jews and the Theatre: Guest Lecture by Jonathan Hess
Oct 17
Fatherland and Mother Tongue: German-Jewish Identity in the 21st Century
Oct 14
Exiles and Refugees: Afro-Latin Hip Hop and the Bible
Oct 14
No Trespassing: Bodies and Beaches for Sale in the Contemporary Caribbean
Oct 13
Climate Change and Poetry: Reading by Aracelis Girmay
Oct 13
Climate Talk: Diana Liverman
Oct 13
Buddhist Escapes: Caught Between Two Worlds
Oct 12
Epic Discoveries: From the Birthplace of Zeus at Mt. Lykaion
Oct 11
Musical Refuge: Hecho en Mexico
Oct 10
Sexuality and Resilient Refuge: Narratives of Queer Maghrebi French
Oct 10
Safe(r) Places: Intercultural Competency and International Students
Oct 10
Notes from the Margins: Minority Voices in Russian Culture
Oct 6
Climate Change & Poetry: Brenda Hillman & Robert Hass
Oct 1
Richard Shelton Book Launch & Reading
Sep 29
Welcome To This House, a film by Barbara Hammer at The Loft
Sep 27
From Poetry to Movement: the Flamenco Conversation
Sep 16
An Evening with Claudia Rankine
Sep 6
Shop Talk: The Work of Morgan Lucas Schuldt
Sep 1
Poetry Reading: Solmaz Sharif & Danniel Schoonebeek
Aug 11
Summer Reading: Vickie Vértiz & Erin Stalcup
Aug 10
Whitman Circle Summer Social: Kore Press and Community with Lisa Bowden
Jul 28
Summer Reading: Renee Angle & Wendy Burk
Jul 20
Whitman Circle Summer Social: Poetry and Climate Change featuring Eric Magrane
Jul 5
Under the Influence of Wallace Berman: From Semina to Siglio
Jun 22
Whitman Circle Summer Social: Standing with Saguaros featuring Kimi Eisele
May 31
Ways of Looking: Thirteen Artist Books Inspired by Wallace Stevens
Apr 30
Lit Press Fest for Teens
Apr 28
UA Prose Series: Julie Iromuanya and Fenton Johnson
Apr 27
A Closer Look Book Club: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Apr 23
Deathday Celebration: Reunion in Valladolid
Apr 21
Poetry Center Reading: Persona Issue Release
Apr 14
Hannelore Quander-Rattee Works in Translation Reading: Marilyn Hacker
Apr 7
The Formation of Regional Religious Systems in Greater China Conference
Apr 1
Oceans and Deserts 2016: Charting Transdisciplinary Currents in Environment and Culture
Mar 31
EVENT CANCELLED - Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age with MIT Professor Sherry Turkle
Mar 24
Poetry Center Reading: David Baker
Mar 23
A Closer Look Book Club: God Help the Child
Mar 7
Gallery Talk: Crane Giamo
Mar 5
Poetry Center Family Days
Mar 3
UA Prose Series Reading: James Hannaham
Mar 1
Humanities Seminars Course: Men In Tights, Women Who Fight: Gender, Race, and Superheroes
Feb 25
Spectacular Poetics: Adrian Matejka
Feb 25
Germans, Jews, and the Theatre - Event Change
Feb 24
A Closer Look Book Club: So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell
Feb 22
Human Rights, Borders and Barriers Symposium
Feb 20
Poetry Center Family Days
Feb 18
Spectacular Poetics: Khadijah Queen
Feb 11
Spectacular Poetics: Kimiko Hahn
Feb 4
Spectacular Poetics: Terrance Hayes
Jan 30
Poetry Center Family Days
Jan 28
Humanities Seminars Course: War in Ancient Greek Drama
Jan 27
A Closer Look Book Club: Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
Jan 25
Humanities Seminars Course: The Tudors
Jan 21
Poetry Center Reading: Rachel Zucker
Jan 15
Poetry Center Youth Program: Moonlight, Starbright, Poe Night

2015

Nov 16
From Imperial Engineers to Development Consultants: Japanese Engineers and the Formation of the Post-Colonial, Cold War System of Development in Asia
Nov 5
Humanities Seminars Course: Dante's Purgatorio
Nov 2
Foreign Echoes & Discerning the Soil: Translation, Chineseness, & World Literature in Chinese Poetry
Nov 2
Humanities Seminars Course: The Music of Mozart I
Oct 30
Humanities Seminars Course: Themes in Contemporary Postmodern Art
Oct 29
Space, Politics and History: Reimagining post-Soviet Ulaanbaatar
Oct 27
Reading: Jerome Rothenberg
Oct 23
Celebrate Homecoming 2015 with East Asian Studies!
Oct 22
Reading: Brenda Hillman
Oct 17
Reading: Rome Poems - Legacy of the Eternal City
Oct 14
A Closer Look Book Club: Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
Oct 9
A DATE WITH A TRAIN: Anna Karenina on Screen
Oct 9
WHEN THE RIVER RUNS CLEAR: Water in Contemporary China
Oct 8
FIELD HAND FARE: Diet and Slavery in the American South
Oct 8
MORE THAN WORDS: Translating culture in language
Oct 7
BEAUTY & THE BEAST-IARY: The Lion’s Tail and Other Stories
Oct 7
MAN VS. MACHINE: Translation in the Digital Age
Oct 7
Tourism, Place and the Spatial Politics of Empire: Japanese Imperial Tourism to Korea-Manchuria in a Global Frame
Oct 6
BURCHIELLO REDRESSED: Translating Poetry with Images and Words
Oct 6
DIVINE ROMANCE: Love, Sex, and Religion in Indian Ballads
Oct 5
MUSICAL WORDS: Opera and Poetry in Arizona Lady
Oct 5
LOS INDIGNADOS: Spain and the Occupy Movement
Oct 5
Civil-Military Relations in China: Implications for U.S.-China Relations
Oct 5
Humanities Seminars Course: Faust
Oct 1
Reading: Mark Doty
Oct 1
Humanities Seminars Course: The Influence of Greece on Early Christianity
Sep 30
Humanities Seminars Course: Shakespeare's Women
Sep 30
Humanities Seminars Course: Mid-Victorian England, A Cultural History
Sep 30
Humanities Seminars Course: African Writers and Film-Makers: Changing Scenes and Screens
Sep 29
Humanities Seminars Course: The Holocaust in History and Memory
Sep 24
Paul Hurh Presents “The Raven and the Tomahawk: Poe, Poetry, and the Rise of Popular Criticism"
Sep 17
Laynie Browne, part of the “Reclaiming Discourses: Jewish Writers Today” series
Sep 2
A Closer Look Book Club: Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
Sep 1
Poetry Center Shop Talk: Tarfia Faizullah
Aug 7
Humanities Seminars Course: Manifest Destiny - Four U.S. Army Generals and the Modern Face of Native America
Aug 3
Humanities Seminars Course: Joyce's Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Jul 18
Memorial for Lois Shelton
Jul 8
Humanities Seminars Course: Roman Archaeology From Romulus to the Caesars
Jun 4
PaperWorks: Between Word and Image (Opening Reception)
Jun 2
Humanities Seminars Course: George Eliot's Middlemarch
Jun 1
Art Exhibit - PaperWorks: Between Word and Image
Jun 1
Humanities Seminars Course: Sex and Violence in the Bible
May 5
Book Club - The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World by Lewis Hyde
May 5
Buddhist Studies Lecture Series - "Religious Imagination in the World of Lotus Sutra"
Apr 27
Visit from Film Star Brad Harris and Screening of the movie Death Trip
Apr 21
Reading with Visiting Poet Zafer Şenocak
Apr 18
Poetic Embodiments
Apr 15
The Odyssey Performed by Joe Goodkin
Apr 14
Buddhist Studies Lecture Series - "Happiness and Buddhism"
Apr 2
Poetics and Politics Reading: Natalie Diaz
Mar 24
The Complete Maus: 25th Anniversary Edition by Art Spiegelman
Mar 14
Join COH at the Tucson Festival of Books!
Mar 6
Oceans and Deserts 2015: Charting Transdisciplinary Currents in Environment and Culture within the Arts and Sciences
Mar 5
Shame Every Rose: Images from Afghanistan
Feb 26
Poetics and Politics Reading: Simon J. Ortiz
Feb 24
Book Club - Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
Feb 12
Poetics and Politics Reading: Sherwin Bitsui
Feb 6
Compassion as a Path to Health and Happiness: Brain and Body
Jan 30
Film Screening: Russian Ark
Jan 29
UA Prose Series: Willy Vlautin
Jan 28
Evolution of Cognition
Jan 28
The Latin American Short Story
Jan 27
Scandalous Females in Film
Jan 27
Ancient Greek Mythology
Jan 26
Germany's Roaring Twenties
Jan 26
Dance and the Human Image
Jan 20
Book Club - Plainwater: Essays and Poetry by Anne Carson
Jan 16
The Force of What's Possible

2014

Dec 11
Poetry Center Classes & Workshops Reading
Nov 22
First Meeting of "Precision Through Wildness: Building The Emotional Image"
Nov 20
The Forever War by Dexter Filkins
Nov 19
Screening: Planet of the Apes
Nov 18
Placebo or Belief? Religion and Health in the 21st Century
Nov 13
Robin Robertson
Nov 10
Shop Talk: The Work of Robin Robertson
Nov 7
Poetry Center @ Phoenix Art Museum: Reading by Thomas Sayers Ellis
Nov 7
Coffee Cantata/Kaffeekantate and Poetry Center Open House
Nov 7
From the Past to the Future: Why is Germany Doing So Well Today?
Nov 7
College of Humanities Homecoming Celebration 2014
Nov 6
Poetry Craft Talk by Thomas Sayers Ellis: “The Assassination of Poetry, or How I Discovered I Was Writing Cover-Story Poetics"
Nov 1
Meeting of "Finding the Fragment in the Complete Thought that Makes Lyric Meaning and Movement"
Oct 30
Lecture by Thomas Sayers Ellis: “We, the People, Percussively Agree: Where the Pocket Beats and Breaks Between Go-Go and Hip Hop”
Oct 27
The String Quartets of Beethoven
Oct 23
A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments by David Foster Wallace
Oct 18
First Meeting of "Poetry and the Photograph: Ekphrasis and Beyond"
Oct 17
Wives, Widows, & Whoopee: The Lives and Loves of Russian Women
Oct 17
City Girls: Berlin’s Modern Women of the Weimar Republic
Oct 16
A Reading by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Oct 15
The Silkscreen Revolution: An Exhibit of Cuban Poster Art
Oct 14
Mama is a Man: Gender and the Goddess Śrī Nārāyaṇī of Śrī Puram
Oct 14
Daughters of Eve: Images of Women in the History of Christianity
Oct 14
Mama is a Man: Gender and the Goddess Śrī Nārāyaṇī of Śrī Puram
Oct 14
Shop Talk: The Work of Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Oct 14
Daughters of Eve: Images of Women in the History of Christianity
Oct 13
Heroines, Hellraisers, and Homemakers: Famous Females in African Literature and Film
Oct 13
Breaking the Mold: The First(?) Woman in Italian Literature
Oct 13
Geishas to Harajuku Girls: The Changing Femininity of Japanese Women
Oct 13
Heroines, Hellraisers, and Homemakers: Famous Females in African Literature and Film
Oct 13
Breaking the Mold: The First(?) Woman in Italian Literature
Oct 13
Geishas to Harajuku Girls: The Changing Femininity of Japanese Women
Oct 9
“Illuminating Whitman”: Artist’s Talk by Allen Crawford
Oct 8
Poetry Center @ Phoenix Art Museum: Allen Crawford on Illuminating Whitman
Oct 6
Postmodern Art and Its Discontents
Oct 3
The Western: Art, Literature, and Film
Oct 2
Jane Austen, Novelist
Oct 1
Classic Tragicomedies of European Theatre
Sep 30
The Great War (1914-1918): Its Historical and Literary Legacy
Sep 30
City, Culture, Capital: The Rise (and Fall?) of the Modern City
Sep 26
Lie Quietly: New Works of Karen Green
Sep 16
Shop Talk: The Work of Craig Santos Perez
Sep 6
First Meeting of "The Parent-Child Writing Summit"
Sep 4
Book Club: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Aug 13
Poetry Center Summer Socials: Susan Briante
Jul 23
Poetry Center Summer Socials: Poetry in Partnership
Jun 18
Poetry Center Summer Socials: Ken Lamberton
May 1
Book Club: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
May 1
Soapbubble Opera: A Critique of Round Reason
May 1
What to Listen for in Classical Music since 1950
Apr 24
Lecture: “Finding the Poetry in History” by Margarita Engle
Apr 3
Serial Biography of the Wayward
Mar 10
Digitizing the Architecture of Imperial Rome
Mar 7
Perceiving Politics: Art, Protest, and Everyday Life in Early 1960s Japan
Mar 7
Traces of Memory: Representations of the Holocaust in German Feature Films
Feb 28
Oceans and Deserts: Charting Transdisciplinary Currents in Environment and Culture within the Arts and Sciences
Feb 27
Humanities, Medicine & Wellness Conference: Esther Sternberg
Feb 27
U.S. Immigration Reform and Its Global Impact: Lessons from the Postville Raid
Feb 26
Humanities, Medicine & Wellness Conference: Natalie Phillips
Feb 24
First Meeting of "The Interior Journey" with Fenton Johnson
Feb 20
Reading by Timothy Liu
Feb 19
UA Prose Series: D.T. Max
Feb 17
First Meeting of "The New York School of Poets" with Will Cordeiro
Feb 14
No Translator = No World Literature: Interviewing Cornelius Bischoff
Feb 11
Lecture: "Out of the Dark: Lefkandi in Euboea after 1200 BCE"
Feb 6
Blackness and Race Politics in Japanese Hip-Hop
Feb 3
Soundscapes: Barometers of a Changing World
Feb 3
Moment and Memory: A Collection of Artist's Books by Alice Vinson
Feb 1
First Meeting of "The Autobiographical Eye" with Beth Alvarado
Jan 31
Friday Literature Workshop: Kimberly Wine, "Yeats' Apocalypse and Burke's Sublime"
Jan 31
Professor Renate Riedner in Conversation
Jan 30
Reading by Tan Lin
Jan 27
First Meeting of "Line by Line: A Close Reading Workshop" with Sarah Kortemeier
Jan 27
Victorian Fiction: The "Haunted" Classics
Jan 24
Anatolia: Cradle of Civilizations
Jan 23
Argentine Tango
Jan 23
Colorado Plateau Beauty: Rocks, Structures, Landscapes and People
Jan 22
What Makes the French Laugh: French Film Comedy Classics
Jan 22
The Young Friedrich Nietzsche: Images, Memories, Stories, Texts
Jan 21
There Is Nothing Like a Dame! The Great Women of Broadway
Jan 21
There Is Nothing Like a Dame! The Great Women of Broadway
Jan 17
MLK Keynote Address: Race and Region in the Age of Obama

2013

Dec 9
Black Politics in Cuba: Rhetoric and Reality in the 'African, Latin Nation'
Dec 6
Convergences Talk: Matthew Abraham & Daniel Crumbo
Dec 4
What is a Hip-Hop Film?
Nov 22
16th Annual Milton Marathon
Nov 21
German Movie Series: Almanya
Nov 20
Screening of Saboteur at The Loft
Nov 18
İnsan Manzaraları – Menschenlandschaften – Human Landscapes
Nov 17
Deutscher Studenten Cup Soccer Tournament & Fundraiser
Nov 13
Hablando con Ell@s: Theorizing Gender and Sexuality in Afro-Puerto Rican Bomba
Nov 13
Live Poetry Slam and Navajo Flute Performance
Nov 12
Reciprocal Theory: Language, Sacred Landscape & Community
Nov 1
Poetry Reading by Alberto Álvaro Ríos, First Arizona State Poet Laureate
Nov 1
Convergences Talk: Scott Selisker & Kati Standefer
Oct 14
The Operas of Verdi - Humanities Seminars Program
Oct 4
Convergences Talk: Farid Matuk & Robert Poole
Oct 4
Milton and Revolution - Humanities Seminars Program
Oct 3
Utilitarianism: The Greater Good? - Humanities Seminars Program
Oct 3
The Chinese City: From Imperial Capital to Global Metropolis - Humanities Seminars Program
Oct 2
Homer's Iliad - Humanities Seminars Program
Oct 1
Allison de Fren: Filmmaker, “The Mechanical Bride”
Oct 1
Dark Knight: The Life and Films of Alfred Hitchcock - Humanities Seminars Program
Sep 30
The Medieval Quest as a Model for Us Today - Humanities Seminars Program
Sep 10
Nibelungenlied - Reading Group
Sep 10
Nibelungenlied - Reading Group
Sep 6
Convergences on "The Body"
Sep 3
Shop Talk: The Work of Eduardo C. Corral and Natalie Diaz
Aug 29
Reading: Jane Miller and Joshua Marie Wilkinson
Aug 28
Selections from the Permanent Collection: Twentieth Century First Editions
Aug 1
The History Plays of Shakespeare's Second Tetralogy
Jul 10
Dante's Paradiso
Jul 8
Writing Your Gods and Demons
Jul 8
Roman Archaeology: Myth and Reality
Jun 22
Poetry in Letterpress
Jun 6
For the Sake of Argument: Classical Rhetoric, Ethics, and Politics
May 7
Russia in Search of a National Idea
May 2
Religious Politics in a Manuscript Culture: Anglo-Bohemian COmmunication in the Later Middle Ages
May 2
Environmental Law at the Crossroads: Five Core Issues
May 2
Mental Health, Spirituality, and Religion: Premodern Perspectives for a Postmodern Discourse
Apr 26
Department of Spanish & Portuguese FIlm Festival
Apr 25
Latino/a Poetry Now: Reading by J. Michael Martínez, Carmen Giménez Smith, and Roberto Tejada
Apr 23
Shop Talk: Latino/a Poetry Now: J. Michael Martínez, Carmen Giménez Smith, and Roberto Tejada
Apr 22
UA Prose Series: Reading by Brent Hendricks and Nicole Walker
Apr 22
Library Exhibition: "Social Justice Poets"
Apr 11
Reading by Ilya Kaminsky
Apr 5
“2312” Reading and Book Signing by Best-selling Science Fiction Novelist Kim Stanley Robinson
Apr 4
UA Prose Series: Reading by Alan Heathcock
Apr 4
A Closer Look Book Club: "Kafka on the Shore" by Haruki Murakami
Apr 3
Extraterrestrials: Threat or Mystery for Christian Faith?
Apr 2
Red Medicine: The Unseen Realms in Indigenous Healing
Apr 1
A Performance by World Hoop Dance Champion and Navajo Healer Jones Benally
Mar 28
Reading and Performance: Nathaniel Mackey and Marilyn Crispell at Pima Community College Center for the Arts Recital Hall
Mar 28
First Workshop Meeting: "Oracular Writing: Mapping" with Annie Guthrie
Mar 27
Remixing Spaces as Places - Part of the Next American Nature and Science Writing Series
Mar 27
A Cryptonomy of Mexican Being
Mar 26
Shop Talk: The Poetry of Nathaniel Mackey
Mar 21
Reading by Eloise Klein Healy and Peggy Shumaker
Mar 6
2013 Town and Gown Lecture
Mar 4
The European Union: A Personal Experience
Mar 4
Study/Research/Intern in Germany
Mar 1
Language Learning and Telecollaboration: A Conversation with Prof. Julie Belz
Feb 28
Night of Fairy Tales: A Very Grimm Reading
Feb 28
A Poetry Reading: Luis Muñoz
Feb 23
First Workshop Meeting: "A Weekend of One's Own" with Pamela Uschuk
Feb 21
A Closer Look Book Club: "Molloy" by Samuel Beckett
Feb 20
Toxic Sublime: Imaging Contaminated Landscapes
Feb 19
The Poetry of Adrienne Rich
Feb 19
CESL's International Festival
Feb 18
First Workshop Meeting: "Poetry in Bloom" with Simmons Buntin
Feb 13
The Sacred Alien: Immigrant Advocacy Reimagines the Borderlands
Feb 11
Workshop: "Writing at Degree Zero" with Norman Fischer
Feb 9
First Workshop Meeting: "The Poetics of the Body & Disability" with Lisa M. Cole
Feb 7
The Poetics & Politics Of Hip-Hop Cultures Symposium
Feb 4
Library Exhibition: Maps
Feb 1
(Re)Framing East: The Case of Manfred Beier's Pre-Wall Photographs in Post-Wall Germany
Jan 28
Workshop: Poetic Prose & the Prose Poem with Barbara Henning
Jan 28
The Operas of Wagner
Jan 28
The History of German Cinema
Jan 25
Whose Game are We Playing? Foreign Language Literacy as Play
Jan 25
Engage and Inspire: Creative Use of Technology in an Online Setting
Jan 25
The Florentine Renaissance
Jan 24
Reading: Cathy Park Hong
Jan 24
Where the Humanities Come From – Greece in the Fifth Century BCE
Jan 23
Lyric Poetry
Jan 23
The Turks: Pre-Ottoman, Ottoman, Post-Ottoman
Jan 22
The Poetry of Cathy Park Hong
Jan 22
Gotta Sing! Gotta Dance!
Jan 22
Gotta Sing! Gotta Dance!
Jan 18
Incorporating Forms of Literacy-Based Assessment in the Foreign Language Classroom
Jan 17
A Closer Look Book Club: Almost Never by Daniel Sada
Jan 16
Knowledge and Science between the Late Sixteenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries
Jan 14
From What I Gather: A Reception for artist Karen McAlister Shimoda
Jan 12
Selections from the Permanent Collection: Big Books
Jan 11
Art Exhibition: From What I Gather...Works by Karen McAlister Shimoda

2012

Dec 1
Family Days at the Poetry Center
Nov 29
A Closer Look Book Club reads Inferno by Dante
Nov 17
Family Days at the Poetry Center
Nov 16
Milton Marathon
Nov 6
Humanities Seminars Course - Taking Charge of Aging
Oct 25
A Closer Look Book Club reads Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
Oct 25
Humanities Seminars Course - The Archaeology and Geology of Ancient Greece
Oct 19
Moscow is Burning!: Russian Poetry, Music, and Mayhem
Oct 19
Sins of the Father: Nazi Progeny in the Postwar Era
Oct 19
DANTE #&@%!: Dante's Poetry of Insult
Oct 18
A Meme's Memory: A Meditation on the Viral Spread of Ideas
Oct 18
The Technological Sublime: Virtual Money & Physical Violence: Suarez¹s Daemon & Freedom
Oct 17
There's an App for That?: The Evolution of Humanities
Oct 17
Listen Closely: Lyric Voices from Dada to Nicki Minaj
Oct 16
UofA-TUBE: Turning Language Students into Film Makers
Oct 15
Personality Politics: How Persona Plays into our Political Thinking
Oct 13
Family Days at the Poetry Center
Oct 5
Humanities Seminars Course - Nobel Laureates of Literature
Oct 4
Humanities Seminars Course - What's Bugging You?
Oct 3
Humanities Seminars Course - Text and the City: Rome in Legend, Myth, and Imagination
Oct 2
Humanities Seminars Course - "The Good Fight" Revisited: The Spanish Civil War and Its Intellectual Legacy
Oct 1
Humanities Seminars Course - What's the good in party politics?
Oct 1
Humanities Seminars Course - Mysterious Moments from the History of Astronomy
Sep 28
Translating (Turkish) Weimar Berlin
Sep 26
Josef Haslinger, Renowned Austrian Novelist and Essayist
Sep 22
Family Days at the Poetry Center
Sep 20
A Closer Look Book Club reads The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
Sep 14
Alexander von Humboldt — (Transcultural) Memory Site
Sep 10
Poetry Center Exhibition: From Here and Far Away ~ Artist's Books, Pages, and Paintings by Beata Wehr
Sep 6
Guest Lecture by Ambassador Eric John
Jul 10
Humanities Seminars Course: Dante's Purgatorio
Jul 9
Humanities Seminars Course: American Vaudeville: Forgotten Stars of the Footlights
Jun 6
Humanities Seminars Course: Homer's Odyssey
May 18
Poetry Off the Page: An International Symposium at the University of Arizona Poetry Center
May 11
Humanities Seminars Course: Shakespeare in Print and Film
May 3
Symposium on East Meets West in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time
May 1
Humanities Seminars Course: Contemporary Law and Policy: Four Perspectives
Apr 26
Poetry Center Reading: Fanny Howe
Apr 19
Russian Roulette: An interview with Dmitrii Stignev
Apr 17
Russian Roulette: An interview with Robert Peyton
Apr 12
Russian Roulette: An interview with Liudmyla Nelson
Apr 10
Russian Roulette: An interview with Gary Stenzel
Apr 10
Digital Africana Studies: Bringing the Jazz Age to Life
Apr 10
Ethnic Studies: Academic Freedom and the Value of Scholarship
Apr 5
Russian Roulette: An interview with Doug Goodman
Apr 3
Russian Roulette: An interview with Viktor Raykin
Mar 29
Russian Roulette: An interview with Emmett McLoughlin and Ursula McLoughlin
Mar 27
Russian Roulette: An interview with Anatoli Korkin
Mar 22
Poetry Center Reading: Paul Guest
Mar 19
UA Prose Series Reading: John T. Price
Mar 3
Tucson Cine Mexico: "Shorts Program: Directed By Women”
Feb 29
Tucson Cine Mexico: Naco es chido
Feb 24
UA Prose Series Reading: Daniyal Mueenuddin
Feb 16
Poetry Center Reading: Marie Howe
Feb 15
"U.S. Presence in Africa": a Black History Month Lecture