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Fellowships, research, and professional development

Obert C. and Grace A. Tanner Humanities Center

Since 1988

PUBLIC
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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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Hamlet, National Theatre Live

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Saturday, March 21st, 2026 12:00 noon

Tanner Lecture on Human Values — David Wengrow, “The Elementary Forms of Human Freedom”

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Tuesday, March 24th, 2026 7:00pm

Symposium on the Tanner Lecture on Human Values by David Wengrow

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Wednesday, March 25th, 2026 10 a.m.
Joseph Metz

Joseph R. Metz, “The Feeling of the Form: Empathy and Aesthetics from Büchner to Rilke”

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Tuesday, March 31st, 2026 12:00pm
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NEWS

Cory Doctorow on enshittification and resistance
February 28, 2026

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Seeing the body in the world: Environmental storytelling symposium
February 23, 2026

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Thi Nguyen on gamification, scoring systems, and value capture
February 10, 2026

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Father Gregory Boyle, founder of Homeboy Industries, on hope and reclamation
January 31, 2026

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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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The Virtual Jewel Box

The podcast of the Tanner Humanities Center
Enshittification, with Cory Doctorow and Matthew Potolsky
March 5, 2026

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Great Books: Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf — Jessica Straley and Scott Black
February 3, 2026

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Aesthetics and empathy, with Joseph Metz and Scott Black
January 8, 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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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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