Tara Hayes
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F. Scott Fitzgerald’s
The Great Gatsby
Friday, January 29, 2027, 10am
Sharon and Timothy Ubben Signature Event Space
Tara Hayes, lecturer
A summer of glittering parties, impossible longing and moral reckoning unfolds in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. In this lecture, we explore Gatsby’s quest to recapture Daisy, her love and their shared past, as Nick Carraway witnesses a pursuit that crashes headlong into the heart of America and its Dream.
Homer’s
Odyssey
Friday, March 5, 2027, 10am
Sharon and Timothy Ubben Signature Event Space
Tara Hayes, lecturer
A hero’s long road home becomes a classic meditation on identity and loyalty in Homer’s Odyssey. In this lecture, Tara Hayes explores what this epic journey reveals about storytelling and teachings that continue to resonate across centuries.
Charlotte Brontë’s
Jane Eyre
Friday, April 2, 2027, 10am
Sharon and Timothy Ubben Signature Event Space
Tara Hayes, lecturer
Charlotte Brontë’s decision to have Jane Eyre tell her own story directly to the reader opened a new avenue for storytelling. This lecture examines how Jane Eyre became not only one of literature’s most celebrated coming-of-age novels but also an early and enduring pro-feminist work.