Tanner Humanities Center

TANNER HUMANITIES CENTER

UPCOMING EVENTS

Obert C. and Grace A. Tanner Humanities Center

Since 1988

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

Fr. Gregory Boyle – McMurrin Lecture on Religion and Culture

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Wednesday, January 21st, 2026 7:00pm

C. Thi Nguyen, “The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else’s Game”

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Wednesday, February 4th, 2026 3:00pm

Cory Doctorow, author of “Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What To Do About It”

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Wednesday, February 18th, 2026 7:00pm

The Fifth Step, National Theatre Live

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Saturday, February 21st, 2026 12:00 noon

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NEWS

Jesmyn Ward shares forthcoming work on trauma, writing, and hope

November 1, 2025

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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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Interview with Teri Harman on Water Commons symposium

October 15, 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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Annual Report for 2025

July 7, 2025

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

May 17, 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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Louis Chude-Sokei: Sound and cultures of the Black diaspora

April 3, 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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Ed Yong: How birding changed my life

March 7, 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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Percival Everett: Fiction, race, and philosophy

November 5, 2024

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An Evening with Great Books features old and new classics

October 18, 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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Ruth Ben-Ghiat: Authoritarianism and democratic backsliding

September 25, 2024

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Inaugural games humanities symposium presents field-defining scholarship

September 17, 2024

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

September 4, 2024

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Remembering Bruce Bastian, 1948-2024

June 21, 2024

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Min Jin Lee: "Because I Love My People"

April 17, 2024

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LaToya Ruby Frazier: Against amnesia

February 11, 2024

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David Wallace-Wells: Uncertainty on an uninhabitable Earth

December 1, 2023

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Carmen Maria Machado: “A mind can be a haunted house”

October 24, 2023

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The Virtual Jewel Box

The podcast of the Tanner Humanities Center

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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Translating Homer’s Odyssey, with Daniel Mendelsohn and Jordan Johansen

November 3, 2025

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Writing and memory, with Jesmyn Ward and Kase Johnstun

October 20, 2025

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Humanities perspectives on AI, with Lizzie Callaway and Rebekah Cummings

September 24, 2025

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The humanities and public life, with Jodi Graham and Scott Black

August 22, 2025

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Authenticity work, with Kate Bowler and Gretchen Case

July 25, 2025

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Race, Religion, and Slavery in Antebellum Utah - Paul Reeve and Jordan Watkins

July 17, 2025

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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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