TANNER HUMANITIES CENTER
Obert C. and Grace A. Tanner Humanities Center
Since 1988
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.
PUBLIC EVENTS
Fellows Work-in-progress presentations
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NEWS
Father Gregory Boyle, founder of Homeboy Industries, on hope and reclamation
January 31, 2026 ...
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Biographer Alex Beam discusses Wallace Stegner, novelist, conservationist, and Utah alum
October 23, 2025 ...
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Evening with Great Books features works in literature, philosophy, and history
October 22, 2025 ...
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Daniel Mendelsohn, Translator of the Odyssey, Brings Homer’s Epic to Life at Utah
October 1, 2025 ...
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Tanner fellows’ work-in-progress talks: Alexis Christensen, John Harfouch, Megan Weiss, Ataya Cesspooch, and Thérèse de Raedt
April 20, 2025 ...
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David Damrosch: Tanner Lecture on Human Values and Symposium on scriptworlds
April 15, 2025 ...
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Laurel Thatcher Ulrich: Sterling M. McMurrin lecture on Mormon Studies and Claudia Lauper Bushman
March 18, 2025 ...
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Tanner Conversation: "This Abominable Slavery: Race, Religion, and the Battle Over Human Bondage in Antebellum Utah"
March 7, 2025 ...
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Tanner fellows’ work-in-progress talks: Jake Nelson, Brandon Render, Jessie Chaplain, Christopher Miller, and Lindsey Webb
March 3, 2025 ...
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Isabel Moreira: "Balthild of Francia: Anglo-Saxon Slave, Merovingian Queen, and Abolitionist Saint"
February 24, 2025 ...
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Peggy Battin, James Tabery, David Turok: Opt-in reproduction and medical ethics
November 15, 2024 ...
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Alice Dailey: Writing "Mother of Stories" on personal and academic forms of death
October 1, 2024 ...
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Inaugural games humanities symposium presents field-defining scholarship
September 17, 2024 ...
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The Virtual Jewel Box
The podcast of the Tanner Humanities CenterHow we watch the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City - Marcie Young-Cancio, Robert Carson, and Scott Black
March 17, 2026 ...
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Great Books: Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf — Jessica Straley and Scott Black
February 3, 2026 ...
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Mentorship and solidarity, with Leandra Hernández and Omi Salas-SantaCruz
December 4, 2025 ...
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Tuning your ear to conceptual music, with Craig Dworkin and Scott Black
November 20, 2025 ...
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