Work-in-Progress Presentations

Work in Progress Talks give research fellows at the Tanner Humanities Center opportunity to present the latest work on their current research and to receive feedback in a casual setting from faculty, staff, students, and community. Open to the public but seating is limited, light lunch provided.

Talks are held every spring in the Jewel Box, Room 143 Carolyn Tanner Irish Humanities BLDG – CTIHB (MAP) Please 801-581-7989 for ADA accommodation.

40 minute talk plus 20 minute Q&A. Talks begin promptly at Noon.

Tuesday, March 22nd: Helene Shugart, Communication

“Destigmata: Normalizing Narratives of Mental Illness”

Meeting ID: 997 5413 9427  Ι  Password: WIPS

Thursday, March 24th: Cynthia Stark, Philosophy

“Misplaced Blame”

Meeting ID: 991 7048 9400  Ι  Password: WIPS

Tuesday, April 5th: Janan Graham-Russell, Religious Studies, Harvard University

“Churched Bodies’: Community, Immigrant Incorporation, and Embodied Practice Among Haitian Latter-day Saints”

Meeting ID: 967 1702 1801  Ι  Password: WIPS

Thursday, April 7th: Jim Campbell, Department of History, Stanford University

“Freedom Now: The Mississippi Freedom Movement in American History and Memory”

Meeting ID: 922 2301 6096  Ι  Password: WIPS

Tuesday, April 12th: Katharina Gerstenberger, World Languages

“Disturbed Places and Troubled Times: Bikini, Chernobyl, Fukushima”

Meeting ID: 920 6078 1725  Ι  Password: WIPS