USU Honors Presents fiftieth Annual Honors Last Lecture With Photographer Fazilat Soukhakian

LOGAN, Utah — The Utah State University Honors Program presents the fiftieth Annual Honors Last Lecture that includes Associate Professor Fazilat Soukhakian, the 2025 Honors Outstanding Professor. Soukhakian will ship a lecture titled “Not So Different After All: A Visual Story of Shared Humanity” from 3:30-4:30 p.m. Oct. 15 within the Russell/Wanlass Performance Hall on USU’s Logan campus.

The speak will primarily be a visible storytelling expertise centered on the theme of shared humanity. While the images are a key a part of the presentation, the hope is that the speak will resonate past the photographs themselves, prompting viewers members to mirror on their very own experiences and connections.

Fazilat Soukhakian is an Iranian American artist, photographer and scholar. She started her profession as certainly one of Iran’s few feminine photojournalists. Her experiences in Iran, marked by social and political upheaval, vastly influenced her perspective and creative course. She moved to the United States in 2011 and earned her Master of Fine Arts diploma after which Ph.D. in architectural historical past from the University of Cincinnati.

Soukhakian is a visible storyteller who displays on the social and political problems with her environment as a way of social change and justice. Her work revolves round depicting the tales of bravery and power of these marginalized by society, highlighting the act of overcoming struggles and galvanizing others.

Soukhakian’s work has garnered vital recognition and has been featured nationally and internationally in quite a few exhibitions. Notable venues embrace the Blue Sky Gallery in Portland, FotoNostrum in Barcelona, the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (UMOCA) in Salt Lake City, and the Photographic Center Northwest (PCNW) in Seattle. Her photographic contributions and dedication to pushing creative boundaries have additionally been acknowledged by awards such because the Utah Division of Arts & Museums Fellowship, FotoNostrum Book Publication Award, Julia Margaret Cameron Award, Critical Mass Top 50, and Michael Reichmann Project Award.

Each 12 months, honors college students nominate tenured college whose instructing and mentoring have made marked impacts on their lives to ship this high-profile lecture to the USU group. A committee of Honors college students interviews nominees and selects one distinctive professor to think about and ship what may be a “last lecture” at USU, if that they had just one extra to provide.

“This event engages the entire community — students, faculty, alumni, friends and other stakeholders — in celebrating the teachers and mentors who have transformed the experience of our students here at USU,” says Kristine Miller, professor of English and govt director of the Utah State University Honors Program.

The lecture is free and open to the general public and will probably be adopted instantly by a reception within the Russell/Wanlass Performance Hall foyer. The livestream for a statewide viewers and the recording of the occasion after its completion might be accessed from the University Honors Program web site.