Past Seasons
Thanks to our partnership with Oklahoma Humanities, we've been given the ability to go back in time! Take a trip down memory lane and scroll through an extensive list of every Let's Talk About It theme from the past.
| Year | Theme |
|---|---|
| Fall 2023 | Native American Identity from Past to Present: A More Perfect Union Theme |
| Spring 2023 | Immigration Stories in Contemporary Fiction: Suspended Between Borders |
| Fall 2022 | Speculative Women, Future Bodies |
| Spring 2022 | Memories, Memorials, & Painful Pasts: A More Perfect Union Theme |
| Fall 2021 | Travel, New Ways of Seeing |
| Spring 2020 | Working to Survive, Surviving to Work |
| Fall 2019 | Coming and Going in Oklahoma Indian Country |
| Spring 2019 | Wade in the Water |
| Fall 2018 | Living with Limits |
| Spring 2018 | War, Not War, and Peace: A Pulitzer Prize Centennial Series |
| Fall 2017 | The American Frontier: A Pulitzer Prize Centennial Series |
| Spring 2017 | Young Adult Crossover Fiction: Crumbling Borders between Adolescents and Adults |
| Fall 2016 | Civil Rights and Equality: A Pulitzer Prize Centennial Series |
| Spring 2016 | Play Ball |
| Fall 2015 | Hope Amidst Hardships |
| Spring 2015 | The Dynamics of Dysfunction: To Laugh or Cry or Both |
| Fall 2014 | Oklahoma Private Investigations |
| Spring 2014 | Muslim Journeys: American Stories |
| Fall 2013 | Making Sense of the American Civil War |
| Spring 2013 | Myth and Literature |
| Fall 2012 | Native American Writers of the Plains |
| Spring 2012 | The Oklahoman Experience: From Wilderness to Metropolis |
| Fall 2011 | Much Depends on Dinner: What We Eat and What It Says About Us |
| Spring 2011 | What America Reads: Myth Making in Popular Fiction |
| Fall 2010 | Rebirth of a Nation: Nationalism and the Civil War |
| Spring 2010 | Journey Stories |
| Fall 2009 | The Worst Hard Time Revisited: Oklahoma in the Dust Bowl Years |
| Spring 2009 | Do You See What I See: Growing Up in the Wide World? Contemporary World Literature |
| Fall 2008 | American Icons: The American President |
| Spring 2008 | Mysterious Fears and Ghastly Longings |
| Fall 2007 | Crime and Comedy: The Lighter Side of Crime and Misdemeanor |
| Spring 2007 | The Oklahoma Experience: The Thirties |
| Fall 2006 | Invisibility and Identity: The Search for Self in African American Fiction |
| Spring 2006 | The Journey Inward: Women's Autobiography |
| Fall 2005 | Piercing the Quilt, Stirring the Stew: Ethnic American Women's Voices |
| Spring 2005 | The Oklahoma Experience: Re-Vision - Reading and Discussing |
| Fall 2004 | Vietnam |
| Spring 2004 | Crime and Punishment |
| Fall 2003 | The American Renaissance |
| Spring 2003 | Friendship in Literature: Reading and Discussing |
| Fall 2002 | The Gilded Age: The Emergence of Modern America |
| Spring 2002 | Private Investigations: Hard-Boiled and Soft-Hearted Heroes |
| Fall 2001 | Liberty and Violence: The Heritage of the French Revolution |
| Spring 2001 | Many Trails, Many Tribes: Images of American Indians in Contemporary Fiction |
| Fall 2000 | Individual Rights and Community in America |
| Spring 2000 | Making a Living, Making a Life: Work and its Rewards in a Changing America |
| Fall 1999 | The Unknown Americans: Contemporary Latin American Literature |
| Spring 1999 | Generation to Generation: Contemporary Young Adult Fiction |
| Fall 1998 | Being Ethnic, Becoming American: Struggles, Successes, Symbols |
| Spring 1998 | Writing Worlds: The Art of Seeing in Anthropology, Fiction, and Autobiography |