TUniverse: Conversations from The University of Tulsa

COVID-19 Special Report Five: Film and Media with Justin Rawlins Justin Rawlins, Assistant Professor of Media Studies and Film Studies, shares two sides of how COVID-19 is impacting entertainment: how film and media are made, and how film and media are experienced. Link: https://faculty.utulsa.edu/faculty/justin-rawlins/

In this special report from the University of Tulsa, John Hale, the Chairperson of Computer Science, discusses the dynamics of working from home, the security risks, and the steps we can take to minimize them.

In this third special report from the University of Tulsa, we are joined by Travis Lowe, Assistant Professor of Sociology, who discusses racism and inequality is highlighted in a Pandemic. 

In the second remotely-recorded special report from the University of Tulsa, Benjamin Peters joins the TUniverse podcast team to share his thoughts on the pandemic's relation to the media, including ideas for thinking about how the two relate and what it means for us.   Links: https://faculty.utulsa.edu/faculty/ben-peters/

In this special report from the University of Tulsa, we are joined by Tom Seng, the Director of School of Energy Economics, Policy and Commerce, who shares about the COVID-19 pandemic's effect on the oil industry.  Links: https://faculty.utulsa.edu/faculty/tom-seng/

Check out this preview of Noam Faingold's latest work and then stream his new piece on Spotify, Amazon Music, Google Play, or your favorite service!

In this episode, Sean Latham, the Director for the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities, sits down with Mack Hagood, the Blayney Associate Professor of Comparative Media Studies at Miami University, in Ohio, and the author of Hush: Media and Sonic Self-Control. Together they discuss what sound means for us, how it's social effects have transformed over time, and just why we seem to like playing with it so much.

In this episode, Sean Latham, the Director for the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities, has a special sit-down interview with Bob Spoo, discussing his new book, Moderinism and the Law, along with it's exploration into the works of James Joyce and transatlantic Anglo-American modernist culture.  Links: https://humanities.utulsa.edu/ https://faculty.utulsa.edu/faculty/robert-spoo/ https://faculty.utulsa.edu/faculty/sean-lathom/ https://www.amazon.com/Modernism-Law-Modernisms-Robert-Spoo/dp/147427580X

In this episode, Sean Latham, the Director for the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities, has a conversation with Tracy Fullerton, an award-winning game designer and professor at the University of Southern California. Together they explore what games allow users to do, how entertainment can be forged from the process, and why "play" is at the heart of all it. Links: https://humanities.utulsa.edu/ https://faculty.utulsa.edu/faculty/sean-latham/ https://www.tracyfullerton.com/ https://www.crcpress.com/Game-Design-Workshop-A-Playcentric-Approach-to-Creating-Innovative-Games/Fullerton/p/book/9781138098770

In this episode, Sean Latham, the Director for the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities, speaks with Helen Douglass, a Tulsa Artist Fellowship Fellow and Assistant Professor of Education at the University of Tulsa. From conversations about maker-spaces to thoughts on how playing relates to education, The Human Connection keeps the conversation going and continues redefining the power of playing. Links: https://humanities.utulsa.edu/ https://faculty.utulsa.edu/faculty/sean-latham/ https://faculty.utulsa.edu/faculty/helen-douglass/ https://humanities.utulsa.edu

In this episode, Sean Latham, the Director for the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities, keeps the music conversation going with Katie Moulton, a Tulsa Artist Fellowship Fellow and writer, editor and music critic.  Moulton's understanding of not only music criticism, but also musical structure, fuels a conversation about how artist and listerns can play with music. After all, we "read" a book and "paint" a picture, but "play" music. Why is that? Find out our thoughts in this engaging episode! Links: https://humanities.utulsa.edu/ https://faculty.utulsa.edu/faculty/sean-latham/ https://www.katiemoulton.com https://www.tulsaartistfellowship.org/ Tags: University of Tulsa, Podcast, OK Center for the Humanities, Tulsa Artist Fellowship, Art, Humanities, Oklahoma, Music, Old Town Road, Lil Nas X, Play, Creative, Podcast, Inspiration, Human Nature, Review, Criticism, Playful, Sean Latham, Katie Moulton, Fellow, Fellowship, Author, Writer, Musician, Music Production, Writing, Memoir

In this episode, Sean Latham, the Director for the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities, kicks off the Human Connection series by bringing in Layne Farmen for a conversation about how music production and lyric writing are "playful" Farmen uses his expertise in musical performance and breadth of musical knowledge to engage in a conversation covering everything from bluegrass music to Kanye West, and together the two share a conversation that begins to chisel away at the meaning of play: Why is it important? What does it say about humanity? And, above all else, why does it make us human? Links: https://humanities.utulsa.edu/ https://faculty.utulsa.edu/faculty/sean-latham/ https://humanities.utulsa.edu/author/lfarmen/