In her landmark essay, “Notes on Camp,” Susan Sontag anatomized a style in the arts marked by...

The origins of human freedom, as we imagine them, are strange. In the Western tradition, freedom was...

A hiring app that draws on workers’ credit reports to offer lower pay to those desperate to get...

Narrative is often thought of as a string or sequence of events in time: a linear progression from...

“Is this the game you really want to be playing?”  This question is at the core of Thi...

To a packed auditorium at the Salt Lake City Public Library on January 21, 2026, Father Gregory Boyle...

In her 2025 David P. Gardner Graduate Lecture in the Humanities and Fine Arts on October 23, Jesmyn...

At a Tanner Humanities Center and Marriott Library event on October 20, journalist Alex Beam introduced his new...

The Tanner Humanities Center’s second annual Evening with Great Books event was held at the Alta Club in...

Environmental Humanities graduate student Teri Harman was a key organizer of The Water Commons: Living Legacies of Utah...

Daniel Mendelsohn has spent six and a half years completing a new translation of Homer’s Odyssey for the...

The Tanner Humanities Center is pleased to announce its calendar of public events for 2025–2026. All events are...

Tanner fellows’ work-in-progress talks: Alexis Christensen, John Harfouch, Megan Weiss, Ataya Cesspooch, and Thérèse de Raedt Robert Carson Apr 20,...

David Damrosch: Tanner Lecture on Human Values and Symposium on scriptworlds Apr 15, 2025 Robert Carson Neither transparent vehicles...

Louis Chude-Sokei: Sound and cultures of the Black diaspora Apr 03, 2025 Robert Carson Author and scholar Louis Chude-Sokei...

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich: Sterling M. McMurrin lecture on Mormon Studies and Claudia Lauper Bushman Robert Carson  Mar 18,...

Ed Yong: How birding changed my life Robert Carson  Mar 07, 2025  To a packed and enthusiastic auditorium at...

Tanner Conversation: "This Abominable Slavery: Race, Religion, and the Battle Over Human Bondage in Antebellum Utah" Robert Carson ...

Tanner fellows’ work-in-progress talks: Jake Nelson, Brandon Render, Jessie Chaplain, Christopher Miller, and Lindsey Webb Robert Carson Mar 03, 2025...

Isabel Moreira: "Balthild of Francia: Anglo-Saxon Slave, Merovingian Queen, and Abolitionist Saint" Robert Carson  Feb 24, 2025  In the Luxembourg...

Peggy Battin, James Tabery, David Turok: Opt-in reproduction and medical ethics Robert Carson  Nov 15, 2024  What if advances...

Percival Everett: Fiction, race, and philosophy Robert Carson  Nov 05, 2024  The works of Percival Everett, Distinguished Professor at...

An Evening with Great Books features old and new classics Oct 18, 2024 Robert Carson Now in its second...

Alice Dailey: Writing "Mother of Stories" on personal and academic forms of death  Oct 01, 2024 Robert Carson The...

Ruth Ben-Ghiat: Authoritarianism and democratic backsliding Sep 25, 2024 Robert Carson Associate Director, Tanner Humanities Center What makes a...

Inaugural games humanities symposium presents field-defining scholarship Sep 17, 2024 Robert Carson A symposium on September 13–14 at Snowbird...

Scott Black and Robert Carson: Op-ed in Salt Lake Tribune on Great Books Voices: In Utah, diverse literature should be...

Remembering Bruce Bastian, 1948-2024 Jun 21, 2024 Bruce Bastian was a longtime supporter of the Tanner Humanities Center and...

Min Jin Lee: "Because I love my people" Apr 17, 2024 Audrey Bauman If you were me in March...

LaToya Ruby Frazier: Against amnesia Vitasta Singh  Feb 11, 2024  LaToya Ruby Frazier believes life is not to be...

David Wallace-Wells: Uncertainty on an uninhabitable Earth Dec 01, 2023 Esther Mathieu The world will be what we make...

Carmen Maria Machado: “A mind can be a haunted house” Oct 24, 2024 Audrey Bauman The first story I...