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Podcast: Oscar Wilde in Utah, with Randell Hoffman and Robert Carson
Named after our seminar room, The Virtual Jewel Box hosts conversations at the Obert C. and Grace A. Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah. We share research, commentary, interviews, dialogue, and storytelling from…
Podcast: Dr. Strangelove, the Cold War, and American culture, with Matt Basso and Megan Weiss
Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Matt Basso and Megan Weiss discuss the iconic film, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. They explore the film’s historical context, its…
On Death and Memory: Alice Dailey, author of Mother of Stories, with Lindsey Drager
Alice Dailey recounts the life and death of her mother, who was “a gifted teacher, a passionate reader, and a pathological liar.” Dailey is Professor of English and Director of Faculty Affairs at Villanova University.…
Cultures of the Black diaspora, with Louis Chude-Sokei and Scott Black
Louis Chude-Sokei, author of Floating in a Most Peculiar Way, discusses the Black diaspora, sound, accent, masculinity, Afrofuturism, dub music, and AI with Scott Black. Links: Louis Chude-Sokei, Floating in a Most Peculiar Way Louis…
Writing in the age of AI, with Lizzie Callaway and Scott Black
Why learn to write in the age of artificial intelligence? Elizabeth Callaway, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Utah, talks with Scott Black about writing pedagogy with and about AI. Links: Josh Dzieza, “Inside…
Sex and the Planet, with Peggy Battin and Jim Tabery
What if advances in technology were already changing the causal logic of human reproduction which is now taken for granted? Could pregnancy shift from an event which some opt out of through prevention or termination,…