Other Humanities Events on Campus

Oct
1

Film Screening:

In Search of Phillis Wheatley Peters

A faculty Q&A will follow the screening with Dr. Matthew Pehl (History) and Dr. Elissa Zellinger (English). This event is generously sponsored by the Honors College, with co-sponsorship from the English and History Departments.

The film uncovers the story of Wheatley Peters’s marriage to John Peters and their move from Boston to rural Massachusetts, drawing on newly surfaced archival research by Professor Cornelia Dayton. In doing so, it brings an important and long-missing piece of early African American history into view and raises compelling questions about archives, historical memory, and the stories we inherit.

5pm, Escondido Theater, SUB Basement

Oct
7

Film Screening:
Crazy Stupid Love

Film screening and discussion with Dr. Cameron C. Brown of Texas Tech's Community, Family, and Addiction Sciences program. Free for students.

7pm, Firehouse Theater - Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts (511 Ave K)

 

Oct
8

Inaugural Jim and Mitzie Witliff Lecture at the Southwest Collection:
Dr. Zachary R. Hernandez
(Texas A&M International University)

"Decolonial Aesthetics  and the Cultural Impact of Teresa Urrea"

Teresa Urrea was a “folk saint” of the Yaqui and Mayo peoples of the Sonoran Desert in Mexico. She was also the subject of five historical novels, including Teresita by Texas Tech University professor Dr. William Curry Holden. The lecture is an examination of Urrea’s depictions in those works, as well as the broader impact that her fictional and historical legacy has had on the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands.

5:30pm, Formby Room, Southwest Collection or on Zoom