Calendar of Events

Adult $60/40/20 | Non-UR Student/Youth $10 | UR Credited Student - Free

Alice Jepson Theatre, Modlin Center for the Arts

Faculty pianist Doris Wylee-Becker will perform.

The 2024-25 Jepson Leadership Forum invites scholars and experts to discuss how division and polarization affect American democracy. We will explore how and why divisions have manifested historically and currently in the United States, focusing on their impact on justice, education, politics, culture, technology, and class. 

The Anzû Quartet is a new collaboration between four internationally renowned performers of contemporary music, Ken Thomson (clarinet/Bang on a Can), Olivia De Prato (violin/Mivos Quartet), Ashley Bathgate (cello/Eighth Blackbird), and Karl Larson (piano/Bearthoven).

The Humanities Center presents the Language of Man Syllabus. Please join us for a Discussion of Audre Lorde’s “Of Survival and Generators” with Alexis Pauline-Gumbs. This event will take place in the Humanities Commons on March 6th from noon to 1:30PM. 

Alexis Pauline Gumbs is the author of the poetic trilogy of Black feminist study Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity, M. Archive: After the End of the World, and Dub: Finding Ceremony, as well as the author of Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Life and the forthcoming Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde, and the editor...

Megan Fernandes is the author of three books of poetry: The Kingdom and After (Tightrope Books, 2015), Good Boys (Tin House, 2020), and I Do Everything I’m Told (Tin House, 2023). She has published her work in The New Yorker, Chicago Review, Boston Review, and McSweeney’s, among other places. A South Asian American writer living in...

Adult $60/40/20 | Non-UR Student/Youth $10 | UR Credited Student - Free

Tanya Tagaq, from Ikaluktutiak (Cambridge Bay, Nunavut), is an internationally celebrated improvisational singer, avant-garde composer, visual artist, and bestselling author of Split Tooth. A member of the Order of Canada, and recipient of multiple honorary doctorates, she has released six albums of music, including Animism (2014), which won the Polaris and JUNO Awards.