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Obert C. and Grace A. Tanner Humanities Center

Since 1988

The Center brings our campus and community together to analyze, understand, and enrich the human condition.

ABOUT THE CENTER

PUBLIC
OUTREACH

Community engagement opportunities that highlight how the humanities inform issues of public interest and inspire personal growth.

ACADEMIC
RESEARCH

Supporting faculty, graduate student, and undergraduate student research and knowledge in the humanities is central to our mission.

EDUCATIONAL
ENRICHMENT

Learn more about the Center’s educational enrichment programs: Gateway to Learning Educator Workshops and Professors Off Campus.

 

UPCOMING EVENTS

Southwest Winter Reflection, photo by Teri Harman

The Water Commons: Living Legacies of Utah Waterways

Co-hosted by Environmental Humanities and the American West Center. In collaboration with humanities centers in Arizona, Colorado, Wyoming, and the Consortium of Humanities Centers and…

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Daniel Mendelsohn

Daniel Mendelsohn

Daniel Mendelsohn is translator of Homer’s Odyssey, author of Ecstasy…

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Great Books

An Evening with Great Books

Complete program with time, venue, and ticket information will be…

Read More October 16, 2025
Jesmyn Ward

Jesmyn Ward – Gardner Lecture in Humanities and Fine Arts

Author of Let Us Descend and Sing Unburied Sing Full…

Read More October 23, 2025
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NEWS

The Tanner Humanities Center's public events for 2025-2026
May 17, 2025

The Tanner Humanities Center is pleased to announce...

Tanner fellows’ work-in-progress talks: Alexis Christensen, John Harfouch, Megan Weiss, Ataya Cesspooch, and Thérèse de Raedt
April 20, 2025

Tanner fellows’ work-in-progress talks: Alexis Christensen, John Harfouch, Megan Weiss,...

David Damrosch: Tanner Lecture on Human Values and Symposium on scriptworlds
April 15, 2025

David Damrosch: Tanner Lecture on Human Values and Symposium...

Louis Chude-Sokei: Sound and cultures of the Black diaspora
April 3, 2025

Louis Chude-Sokei: Sound and cultures of the Black diaspora...

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich: Sterling M. McMurrin lecture on Mormon Studies and Claudia Lauper Bushman
March 18, 2025

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich: Sterling M. McMurrin lecture on...

Ed Yong: How birding changed my life
March 7, 2025

Ed Yong: How birding changed my life Robert Carson ...

Tanner Conversation: "This Abominable Slavery: Race, Religion, and the Battle Over Human Bondage in Antebellum Utah"
March 7, 2025

Tanner Conversation: "This Abominable Slavery: Race, Religion, and...

Tanner fellows’ work-in-progress talks: Jake Nelson, Brandon Render, Jessie Chaplain, Christopher Miller, and Lindsey Webb
March 3, 2025

Tanner fellows’ work-in-progress talks: Jake Nelson, Brandon Render, Jessie Chaplain,...

Isabel Moreira: "Balthild of Francia: Anglo-Saxon Slave, Merovingian Queen, and Abolitionist Saint"
February 24, 2025

Isabel Moreira: "Balthild of Francia: Anglo-Saxon Slave, Merovingian Queen, and...

Peggy Battin, James Tabery, David Turok: Opt-in reproduction and medical ethics
November 15, 2024

Peggy Battin, James Tabery, David Turok: Opt-in reproduction and...

Percival Everett: Fiction, race, and philosophy
November 5, 2024

Percival Everett: Fiction, race, and philosophy Robert Carson  Nov...

An Evening with Great Books features old and new classics
October 18, 2024

An Evening with Great Books features old and new...

Alice Dailey: Writing "Mother of Stories" on personal and academic forms of death 
October 1, 2024

Alice Dailey: Writing "Mother of Stories" on personal and...

Ruth Ben-Ghiat: Authoritarianism and democratic backsliding
September 25, 2024

Ruth Ben-Ghiat: Authoritarianism and democratic backsliding Sep 25, 2024...

Inaugural games humanities symposium presents field-defining scholarship
September 17, 2024

Inaugural games humanities symposium presents field-defining scholarship Sep 17,...

Scott Black and Robert Carson: Op-ed in Salt Lake Tribune on Great Books
September 4, 2024

Scott Black and Robert Carson: Op-ed in Salt Lake Tribune...

Remembering Bruce Bastian, 1948-2024
June 21, 2024

Remembering Bruce Bastian, 1948-2024 Jun 21, 2024 Bruce Bastian...

Min Jin Lee: "Because I Love My People"
April 17, 2024

Min Jin Lee: "Because I love my people" Apr...

LaToya Ruby Frazier: Against amnesia
February 11, 2024

LaToya Ruby Frazier: Against amnesia Vitasta Singh  Feb 11,...

David Wallace-Wells: Uncertainty on an uninhabitable Earth
December 1, 2023

David Wallace-Wells: Uncertainty on an uninhabitable Earth Dec 01,...

Carmen Maria Machado: “A mind can be a haunted house”
October 24, 2023

Carmen Maria Machado: “A mind can be a haunted...

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The Virtual Jewel Box

The podcast of the Tanner Humanities Center
Aesthetic experience, with Bryan Counter and Nathan Wainstein
June 23, 2025

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Abolitionist, Saint, Queen: Balthild of Francia - Isabel Moreira and Scott Black
June 12, 2025

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Freedom, kindness, and beauty: The legacy of Obert C. Tanner, with Mark Matheson and Scott Black
May 27, 2025

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Mistrusting the news, with Jake Nelson and Robert Carson
May 15, 2025

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On Death and Memory: Alice Dailey, author of Mother of Stories, with Lindsey Drager
May 14, 2025

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Bloodborne and the Aesthetics of Video Games, with Nathan Wainstein and Michael W. Clune
May 14, 2025

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Sex and the Planet, with Peggy Battin and Jim Tabery
May 14, 2025

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Writing in the age of AI, with Lizzie Callaway and Scott Black
May 14, 2025

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Cultures of the Black diaspora, with Louis Chude-Sokei and Scott Black
May 14, 2025

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Dr. Strangelove, the Cold War, and American culture, with Matt Basso and Megan Weiss 
April 17, 2025

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