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Public events in 2025-2026

Fall 2025

The Water Commons: Living Legacies of Utah Waterways
Friday, September 19, 2025
9:00am-4:15pm
Gould Auditorium, Marriott Library
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Daniel Mendelsohn, translator of Homer’s Odyssey
Wednesday, September 24, 2025
7:00pm
Moot Courtroom, S.J. Quinney College of Law
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An evening with Great Books
Thursday, October 16, 2025
7:00pm
The Alta Club, Downtown Salt Lake City
Advance tickets required
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Jesmyn Ward — David P. Gardner Graduate Lecture in the Humanities and Fine Arts
Thursday, October 23, 2025
7:00pm
Salt Lake City Public Library
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Readings by Utah Book Award honorees from the U
Paisley Rekdal, Lindsey Drager, Susan J. Sample, and Lindsey Webb Tuesday, October 28, 2025
3:00pm
Jewel Box, Carolyn Tanner Irish Humanities Building
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Cindi Textor, author of Intersectional Incoherence: Zainichi Literature and the Ethics of Illegibility
Thursday, November 13, 2025
12:00pm
Jewel Box, Carolyn Tanner Irish Humanities Building
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Spring 2026

Fr. Gregory Boyle – McMurrin Lecture on Religion and Culture
Wednesday, January 21, 2026
7:00pm
Salt Lake City Public Library
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Cory Doctorow, author of Enshittification:
Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What To Do About It
Wednesday, February 18, 2026
7:00pm
Utah Museum of Fine Arts
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David Wengrow, “The Elementary Forms of Human Freedom”
Tanner Lecture on Human Values
Tuesday, March 24, 2026
7:00pm
Utah Museum of Fine Arts
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Joseph Metz, author of The Feeling of the Form: Empathy and Aesthetics from Büchner to Rilke
Tuesday, March 21, 2026
12 noon
Jewel Box, Carolyn Tanner Irish Humanities Building
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