Environmental Humanities graduate student Teri Harman was a key organizer of The Water Commons: Living Legacies of Utah Waterways held on September 19, 2025 at the Marriott Library Gould Auditorium. The event was sponsored by Tanner Humanities Center, American West Center, School of the Environment, and Environmental Humanities Program. Below are written answers to questions […]
Read MoreDaniel Mendelsohn has spent six and a half years completing a new translation of Homer’s Odyssey for the University of Chicago Press—the publisher’s first since Richmond Lattimore’s influential 1962 edition. The author of the acclaimed memoir An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic (2017), which recounts his father’s enrollment in his freshman Odyssey […]
Read MoreAnnual Report for 2025 In our annual report, you can learn about the Tanner Humanities Center’s 2024–2025 events and fellowships, strategic goals in the upcoming year, and new initiatives. Download (pdf)
Read MoreThe 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 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 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 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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