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Oct

48th Annual Honors Last Lecture, featuring Dr. Colin Flint

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The University Honors Program presents the 48th Annual Honors Last Lecture, featuring Dr. Colin Flint, Distinguished Professor of Political Science in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. Honors students nominated and interviewed faculty, selecting Dr. Flint as the 2023 Honors Outstanding Professor. His talk, titled “Dare to Build Global Peace,” will challenge audience members to consider the relationship between national security and the geopolitics of global peace. The livestream for a statewide audience and the recording of the event after its completion can be accessed from the University Honors Program website.

3:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Russell/Wanlass Performance Hall |
05
Oct

Arrington Mormon History Lecture: Music & The Unspoken Truth

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Join award-winning writer and historian Jared Farmer for a performative lecture including the soundtrack with live organ. Farmer's version of the Arrington Mormon History Lecture will be an homage to the "Music & the Spoken Word" radio show, and a meditation on the relationship between landscape, religion, and sound.

About the Speaker:
Jared Farmer is the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania and a former Andrew Carnegie Fellow. He is the author of four books, including On Zion's Mount: Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape (2008), winner of the Francis Parkman Prize, and Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees (2022). Farmer's hometown is Provo, Utah and his alma mater is Utah State University.

7:00 pm - 8:30 pm | Russell/Wanlass Performance Hall |
12
Oct

The Soul of the Social Worker: An Ethical Call for Self-Awareness Within Spiritually Sensitive Social Work Practice

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Holly Oxhandler, PhD, LMSW, associate professor and associate dean for research at Baylor University's Diana R. Garland School of Social Work, will be presenting on the topic of religious and spiritual competence in social work practice. This event is free and open to the community. It may have special relevance for social work practitioners, as well as those practicing in allied mental health professions. Two hours of social work continuing education credits are available for attendance.

11:00 am - 1:00 pm | Online/Virtual |
13
Oct

LAEP Speaker Series: Jim Burnett

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New Strategies for Public Space About the Lecture: What are the imperatives for a healthy public realm? Join Jim Burnett, FASLA, founding partner of the award-winning landscape practice OJB as he shares six strategies from the firm’s recent work, which form the basis of an engaged public realm. As our planet continues to transform, landscape architects have a vital role to play in helping to create, restore and sustain natural environments that support and build community. Burnett’s evidence-based practice combines urban planning, parks, public gardens and open space design, together with research, to consider what sustainable development looks like for a changing world.

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Fine Arts Visual |
18
Oct

Negotiating Waiting in Britain: Indian Travelling Ayahs at the Heart of the Empire

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Dr. Arunima Datta (University of North Texas) will present a Tanner Talk on her new book, Waiting on Empire: A History of Indian Travelling Ayahs in Britain. Dr. Datta is an award-winning scholar of British Empire and Asian (South and Southeast Asian) history. In her research and teaching, she constantly explores the everyday experiences of labor migrants within the context of the British Empire.

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm | Old Main |
25
Oct

Faculty Talk by Noel Carmack at the LLC

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Join us at the LLC for a faculty talk by Noel Carmack, USU Eastern Associate Professor of Art on Wednesday, October 25! The talk is titled, “The Utah Agricultural College’s First Celebrity Alum: The Early Life and Learnings of Herbert Morton Stoops, Illustrator of American Pulp Fiction."

For the first few decades of the twentieth century, Herbert Morton Stoops was the most celebrated UAC Aggie in the nation. His paintings and drawings illustrated some of America’s most popular pulp magazines and fiction books. In this presentation, Stoop’s life on an Idaho ranch and as a UAC art student will be discussed.

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm | Utah State University Eastern Campus |
25
Oct

Friends of the Merrill-Cazier Library Fall Lecture: Beaver Mountain Oral Histories of Snow

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Join us for a special and informative lecture with Lisa Gabbert, Associate Professor in the Department of English and Director of the Folklore Program. This talk draws on eighteen oral histories conducted by students for a graduate seminar in the spring of 2022 with friends, employees, users, and owners of Beaver Mountain, examining what Beaver Mountain and skiing means to them, the local culture, and the community at large.

7:00 pm - 8:30 pm | USU Libraries |
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