The Tanner Humanities Center is pleased to announce its calendar of public events for 2025–2026. All events are free and open to the public, though advance registration may be required. More information about times, locations, and tickets for each event will be posted in our Events. National Theatre Live screenings and Work-in-Progress talks by Center […]
Read MoreYouTube Apple Podcasts Spotify Under what conditions do people trust the news, if at all? How did Covid lockdown change news consumption? What are we to think of journalists who leave establishment news organizations and build their own following on platforms like Substack? And does our mistrust of news organizations mirror mistrust […]
Read MoreEvery spring, research fellows at the Tanner Humanities Center give work-in-progress talks in a casual setting and receive feedback from colleagues across campus. “Our community of fellows is at the heart of the Tanner Humanities Center, and our weekly works in progress talks are at the heart of the fellows’ community,” says Scott Black, […]
Read MoreListen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Matt Basso and Megan Weiss discuss the iconic film, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. They explore the film’s historical context, its satirical take on Cold War politics, and its depiction of gender. The Red and Lavender Scares, consumerism, and militarization all […]
Read MoreNeither transparent vehicles of meaning, nor expressions of authenticity, writing systems, or scripts, encode the contingencies of historical events and often exceed their intended purpose. This dynamism of scripts was the subject of the 2025 Tanner Lecture on Human Values, delivered by David Damrosch at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts on April 9, followed […]
Read MoreAuthor and scholar Louis Chude-Sokei explored the complexities of Black identity across the African diaspora at a Tanner Conversation event at the Salt Lake City Public Library on April 1. Chude-Sokei is Professor of English, George and Joyce Wein Chair in African-American and Black Diaspora Studies, and Director of the African-American and Black Diaspora Studies […]
Read MoreNamed after our seminar room, The Virtual Jewel Box hosts conversations at the Obert C. and Grace A. Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah. We share research, commentary, interviews, dialogue, and storytelling from across humanities disciplines. Views expressed on The Virtual Jewel Box do not represent the official views of the Center or […]
Read MoreIn a culminating keynote to a festschrift conference on March 15 honoring the work of Claudia Lauper Bushman, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich discussed the institutional and biographical contexts for Bushman’s career as a scholar of American history, including women’s social history and the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Bushman […]
Read MoreTo a packed and enthusiastic auditorium at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts on February 25, Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer Ed Yong discussed the implications of becoming “bird curious.” Having become increasingly popular in the past few years, birding has provided Yong not only with a new and passionate hobby to share with […]
Read MoreA panel discussion at the Tanner Humanities Center on March 4th featured authors of a new historical study that illuminates the complex debates around slavery and unfree labor in early Utah Territory. The conversation, featuring W. Paul Reeve, Simmons Chair of Mormon Studies and Chair of History at the University of Utah, and […]
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