The Denbo Center proudly supported five UT faculty and grad students at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute, held at Université de Montréal and organized by CRIHN. Attendees explored topics ranging from R programming to the cultural implications of AI.

Attention faculty! For the month of June, the Denbo Center has expanded our hours for the Write On Site program! Faculty are now welcome to join us every weekday from 9am-4pm for our Write On Site program! We can't wait to see you here!

We are thrilled to announce that Katharine Burnett will be joining the Denbo Center in July as Associate Director of Transdisciplinary Programs! In this role, she'll support the center’s research projects, coordinate events, and identify and develop new programming opportunities.

Over the past year, we've had the pleasure of hosting UT’s game studies seminar series, which welcomed faculty, students, and guest speakers to explore launching a GameLab that bridges research, public engagement, and the gaming industry.

As part of Black Maternal Health Week, a public Narrative Medicine workshop explores a Black woman’s birth story, inviting reflection on loss, joy, safety, community & more through reading and writing. No experience needed. Hosted by Africana Studies + Knox Birth Equity Alliance.

Reminder: The Denbo Center will be closed April 17th-18th for the University of Tennessee's Spring Recess. We will reopen on Monday, April 21st.

Join us April 7th at 3:30pm for our Spring 2025 Distinguished Lecture Series talk by Menno Schilthuizen on "Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution." Join us in person at Student Union 169 or online via Zoom! Register for the link at

Discover how digital games are shaping education and Esports careers. Join the UT Esports Club at Volan 2025 on April 12 from 12 to 1:30 PM at UT Student Union 262A for insights on the future of gaming and industry opportunities.

Join the Denbo Center on April 6th at Knoxville's Central Cinema for a free screening of the 2025 Oscar-nominated Soundtrack to a Coup d'État. The film explores Congo-Belgian-US Cold War history, with an introduction by historian Nicole Eggers followed by a Q&A with UT experts!

Thanks to all who came for Fred Moten and Brandon Lopez' Distinguished Lecture Series talk "'On the run from ownership': Nathaniel Mackey, Music, Centrifugitivity.". Be sure to check out their spoken word and jazz performance at 6:30pm on March 29 at the Knoxville Museum of Art!

Want to learn about our speaker Brandon Lopez? Check out his interview with Sound American!. Don't forget to join us at the Knoxville Museum of Art on March 27th at 6pm for his and Fred Moten's talk, as well as on the 29th at 6:30 for their performance!

Join us at the Knoxville Museum of Art on March 27th at 6pm for the latest talk in our Distinguished Lecture Series by Fred Moten and Brandon Lopez, as well as at 6:30pm on March 29th for their spoken word and jazz performance! We hope to see you all there!

Join us on March 10 at 3:30pm for our Spring 2025 Distinguished Lecture Series talk by Olivia C. Harrison on "Going Native: Jean Raspail and the Fictions of Indigeneity." Join us in person at the Denbo Center or online via Zoom!. Register for the link at

Join @utkhistory for the 10th Annual Fleming-Morrow Distinguished Lecture & Symposium on March 6, 2025, from 9am–4:30pm. Events include research panels, a luncheon conversation with Drs. Fleming & Morrow, and a 3pm keynote by Dr. Crystal Sanders. Register:

RT @amyjelias: So happy to host a luncheon at the @UTHumanitiesCtr with Beauford Delaney Estate Executor Derek Spratley, honoring the exce….

Join us on March 3rd at 3:30pm for our Spring 2025 Distinguished Lecture Series talk by Shatema Threadcraft on "Black Femicide and Morrisonian Democracy." We hope you can join us in person at the Denbo Center or online via Zoom!. Register for the link at

RT @ArtsSciencesUT: @UTKEnglish Professor Amy J. Elias brought together a community of writers to create the first major book about the his….

On Friday, the Denbo Center had the pleasure of hosting a luncheon for Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Ed Larson during his visit to the University of Tennessee to discuss "The Scopes Trial in History and Folklore." Thank you to Ed Larson for sharing his time and expertise.

Graduate Student Research Residency Fellowship (2 semesters, fall/spring 2025-2026):. Nicolas Strasser (History) .Elizabeth Tarulis (Anthropology) .Eliza Alexander Wilcox (English) .Andrew Ertzberger (Philosophy).