Day of Grace: SUMA Tour and Tanner Faculty Fellow Lecture

The Day of Grace will begin with a 2:00 p.m. guided tour of the Southern Utah Museum of Art’s exhibit, “Reclaiming Agency: Ukrainian Women Photographers Today.” The tour will be followed by a 3:00 p.m. lecture from this year’s Grace A. Tanner Faculty Fellow, Dr. Corey L. Twitchell, entitled “The Almost-Lost Story and Danger of a Single Story: Trauma and Narrative in a Post-Holocaust World.” The lecture, which will occur in the Garden Level of the Gerald R. Sherratt Library at SUU (LIB002), will be followed by a reception with refreshments, commemorative pins, and a birthday cake in honor of Grace A. Tanner.

For Immediate Release
Grace A. Tanner Center for Human Values
(435) 865-8082, tannercenter@suu.edu

SUU’s Day of Grace Honors Grace A. Tanner
with SUMA Tour and Distinguished Faculty Lecture

Cedar City, UT: The Grace A. Tanner Center for Human Values is pleased to announce its 2022 Day of Grace, which will take place on Wednesday, November 30. This event, which is free, honors the legacy and impact of its namesake, Grace A. Tanner. The public is invited to attend.

The Day of Grace will begin with a 2:00 p.m. guided tour of the Southern Utah Museum of Art’s exhibit, “Reclaiming Agency: Ukrainian Women Photographers Today.” The tour will be followed by a 3:00 p.m. lecture from this year’s Grace A. Tanner Faculty Fellow, Dr. Corey L. Twitchell, entitled “The Almost-Lost Story and Danger of a Single Story: Trauma and Narrative in a Post-Holocaust World.” The lecture, which will occur in the Garden Level of the Gerald R. Sherratt Library at SUU (LIB002), will be followed by a reception with refreshments, commemorative pins, and a birthday cake in honor of Grace A. Tanner.

Tanner Center Director, Dr. Danielle Beazer Dubrasky notes that “we’re excited to celebrate Grace by calling attention to both the urgent programming offered by the Southern Utah Museum of Art and the remarkable scholarship of Dr. Twitchell. This program highlights the Tanner Center’s mission to promote access to learning in all areas of human values. We invite all members of SUU and the Cedar City community to attend this event.”

Grace A. Tanner Faculty Fellow Corey L. Twitchell is assistant professor of German and German program director in languages and philosophy at SUU. He also instructs courses on film and Holocaust history and representation. Dr. Twitchell specializes in literature and film on the Holocaust, with a focus on post-Holocaust German-Jewish culture. As he will discuss in his talk, he is fascinated by the internal and external workings of narrative. His scholarly work focuses on questions that speak across the spectrum of human experience: How do we tell stories about ourselves in ways that will encourage and engender meaningful communication, and how can narrative be fine-tuned to serve as a conduit for representing what is often at first glance considered to be ineffable—such as complex stories of historical violence and mass suffering such as the Holocaust.

SUMA’s “Reclaiming Agency: Ukrainian Women Photographers Today” presents works by ten Ukrainian female photographers, who have all been active in the decades following Ukraine’s independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. Although the cultural, political, and military conflicts of the past and present are conveyed in documentary or metaphorical ways by some of these women artists, these various upheavals have caused havoc in the lives of all of them. Amidst chaos and despair, photography has allowed these women to reclaim agency over the rich and diverse narratives of their lives, their communities, and their country. These photographs show their worlds as viewed through their unique lenses.