57th Annual Webb Lectures

Every year since 1965, the UTA Department of History and Geography has sponsored an annual series of lectures in memory of the late Walter Prescott Webb.
57th Webb Lecture Series flyer

"LGBTQ+ History in the American West and Southwest"

Wednesday & Thursday, April 19-20, 2023

University Center, UT Arlington



Wednesday, April 19, 2023, 6 p.m.

Panel Discussion: "Lawrence v. Texas to Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization: LGBTQ+ Rights, Past, Present and Future"

Wesley Phelps, University of North Texas, and Jennifer Holland, University of Oklahoma



Thursday, April 20, 2023, 9:30 a.m.

"Memorializing Willa Cather in Cold War Nebraska"

Melissa Homestead, University of Nebraska, Lincoln


11 a.m.

"Returning to the Circle: Two-Spirit People and the HIV/AIDS Pandemic"

Gregory Smithers, Virginia Commonwealth University


2 p.m.

"Lavender Desert: The History of Multi-racial Queer Nightlife in Texas's Borderlands"

Kris Klein Hernández, Connecticut College


3:30 p.m.

"Riding the Rainbow Frontier: Queer Cowfolx and the Gay Rodeo"

Elyssa Ford, Northwest Missouri State University