After an illuminating second season of For Your Reference, our final episode will take place Thursday, April 21 at 7 p.m. (EDT). This concluding discussion will feature guests Stevie Munz and Justin Rudnick and will center on issues of publishing identity-based work that utilizes experimental ways of understanding and representing. For Your Reference is dedicated to … Continued
For generations, we’ve all been told that the Great Smoky Mountains are among the oldest mountains in the world. But research by UT Knoxville geologist Robert D. Hatcher Jr., published in a new book by John E. Ross, Through the Mountains: The French Broad River and Time, reports that the mountains we see today are only 5 … Continued
What does history teaching, history telling, and academic mentorship need to do right now, in our current moment? Join us on March 17 as we welcome Dr. Stacey Patton in discussion of these topics and more amid growing debates around Critical Race Theory, the whitewashing of US history, and archival research. With a specific focus … Continued
The UT Libraries’ Diversity Committee invites you to lunch with the Harlem Quartet. This very special, in-person reception with members of the renowned string quartet will be held 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. on Tuesday, March 22, in room 270 of the Student Union. RSVP here to attend the luncheon. Lunch will be provided for … Continued
Spoken word performer and hip-hop artist Black Atticus will perform at the John C. Hodges Library on Thursday, March 31, 2022. His appearance will feature the first public performance of an original song inspired by materials in UT’s Betsey B. Creekmore Special Collections and University Archives. Registration is now open. Black Atticus is a local … Continued
What services and resources are important to our library users, and how successfully do the libraries deliver them? Many library users will soon receive an email invitation from Louis Becker, Assessment Programs Librarian for UT Libraries, to participate in an online survey designed to answer those questions. On February 9th, invitations will go out to random samples of faculty, undergraduates, graduate … Continued
Did inflammatory political rhetoric incite an insurrection at the US Capitol in 2021? Join us on February 17 to hear two scholars of communication studies analyze the political rhetoric surrounding the events of January 6. Lucas Logan and Jeremy Rogerson will be our guests on the next episode of For Your Reference, the UT Libraries’ original … Continued
Cartoonists Paige Braddock, Marshall Ramsey, and Danny Wilson have used their skills as illustrators and artists to document the experiences of those who lived through the Chimney Tops II wildfires that swept through the Great Smoky Mountains in 2016. Join us on Thursday, February 10, at 6:30 p.m. (EST) for a conversation with the artists. … Continued
Save the Date for the 2022 Wilma Dykeman Stokely Memorial Lecture on Thursday, March 3, at 7 p.m. (EST). Join us for a conversation with author Kathleen Dean Moore and WUOT’s Chrissy Keuper. We will hear the author’s current concerns as an environmental philosopher; an interview and audience questions will follow. This virtual event is … Continued
Port Hudson: The Most Significant Battlefield Photographs of the Civil War by Lawrence Lee Hewitt has been named Book of the Year by Civil War Books and Authors, an influential blog run by Andrew J. Wagenhoffer that reviews non-fiction books on the American Civil War. In 1978, Lawrence Lee Hewitt became the first manager of … Continued