Save the Date!
The Tanner Humanities Center’s public events for 2025-2026
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 fellows will be announced separately.
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Fall 2025
Friday, September 19
Symposium:
“The Water Commons: Living Legacies of Utah Waterways”
Co-hosted by Environmental Humanities and the American West Center, and in collaboration with humanities centers in Arizona, Colorado, and Wyoming
Wednesday, September 24
Tanner Conversation with
Daniel Mendelsohn
Translator of Homer's Odyssey, author of Ecstasy and Terror: From the Greeks to Game of Thrones, and Editor-at-Large of The New York Review of Books
Thursday, October 16
An Evening with Great Books
Thursday, October 23
David P. Gardner Lecture in Humanities and Fine Arts
Jesmyn Ward
Author of Let Us Descend and Sing Unburied Sing
Thursday, November 13
Tanner Conversation with
Cindi Textor
Associate Professor, Department of World Languages and Cultures, author of Intersectional Incoherence: Zainichi Literature and the Ethics of Illegibility
Spring 2026
Wednesday January 21
Sterling M. McMurrin Lecture on Religion and Culture
Fr. Gregory Boyle
Founder and Executive Director of the gang intervention and rehabilitation program, Homeboy Industries
Wednesday, February 18
Tanner Conversation with
Cory Doctorow
Science fiction novelist and technology journalist, author of The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation
Tuesday March 24 - Wednesday March 25
Tanner Lecture on Human Values
“The Elementary Forms of Human Freedom”
by David Wengrow
Archeologist and author with David Graeber of The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
Tuesday, March 31
Tanner Conversation with
Joseph Metz
Associate Professor, Department of World Languages and Cultures, author of The Feeling of the Form: Empathy and Aesthetics from Büchner to Rilke
In April, date to-be-announced
How to Watch The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City: Scholarly Thinking about Religion, Commerce, and Community
