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Obert C. and Grace A. Tanner Humanities Center
Since 1988
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Community engagement opportunities that highlight how the humanities inform issues of public interest and inspire personal growth.
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Supporting faculty, graduate student, and undergraduate student research and knowledge in the humanities is central to our mission.
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Learn more about the Center’s educational enrichment programs: Gateway to Learning Educator Workshops and Professors Off Campus.
 
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Camp and criticism at the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City symposium
April 17, 2026
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David Wengrow gives 2026 Tanner Lecture on Human Values
March 31, 2026
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Cory Doctorow on enshittification and resistance
February 28, 2026
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Seeing the body in the world: Environmental storytelling symposium
February 23, 2026
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Thi Nguyen on gamification, scoring systems, and value capture
February 10, 2026
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Father Gregory Boyle, founder of Homeboy Industries, on hope and reclamation
January 31, 2026
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Jesmyn Ward shares forthcoming work on trauma, writing, and hope
November 1, 2025
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Biographer Alex Beam discusses Wallace Stegner, novelist, conservationist, and Utah alum
October 23, 2025
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Evening with Great Books features works in literature, philosophy, and history
October 22, 2025
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Interview with Teri Harman on Water Commons symposium
October 15, 2025
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​​Daniel Mendelsohn, Translator of the Odyssey, Brings Homer’s Epic to Life at Utah
October 1, 2025
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Annual Report for 2025
July 7, 2025
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The Tanner Humanities Center's public events for 2025-2026
May 17, 2025
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Tanner fellows’ work-in-progress talks: Alexis Christensen, John Harfouch, Megan Weiss, Ataya Cesspooch, and Thérèse de Raedt
April 20, 2025
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David Damrosch: Tanner Lecture on Human Values and Symposium on scriptworlds
April 15, 2025
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Louis Chude-Sokei: Sound and cultures of the Black diaspora
April 3, 2025
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Laurel Thatcher Ulrich: Sterling M. McMurrin lecture on Mormon Studies and Claudia Lauper Bushman
March 18, 2025
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Ed Yong: How birding changed my life
March 7, 2025
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Tanner Conversation: "This Abominable Slavery: Race, Religion, and the Battle Over Human Bondage in Antebellum Utah"
March 7, 2025
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Tanner fellows’ work-in-progress talks: Jake Nelson, Brandon Render, Jessie Chaplain, Christopher Miller, and Lindsey Webb
March 3, 2025
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Isabel Moreira: "Balthild of Francia: Anglo-Saxon Slave, Merovingian Queen, and Abolitionist Saint"
February 24, 2025
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Peggy Battin, James Tabery, David Turok: Opt-in reproduction and medical ethics
November 15, 2024
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Percival Everett: Fiction, race, and philosophy
November 5, 2024
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An Evening with Great Books features old and new classics
October 18, 2024
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Alice Dailey: Writing "Mother of Stories" on personal and academic forms of death
October 1, 2024
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat: Authoritarianism and democratic backsliding
September 25, 2024
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Inaugural games humanities symposium presents field-defining scholarship
September 17, 2024
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Scott Black and Robert Carson: Op-ed in Salt Lake Tribune on Great Books
September 4, 2024
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Remembering Bruce Bastian, 1948-2024
June 21, 2024
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Min Jin Lee: "Because I Love My People"
April 17, 2024
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LaToya Ruby Frazier: Against amnesia
February 11, 2024
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David Wallace-Wells: Uncertainty on an uninhabitable Earth
December 1, 2023
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Carmen Maria Machado: “A mind can be a haunted house”
October 24, 2023
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The Virtual Jewel Box
The podcast of the Tanner Humanities Center
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Real Housewives, Real Humanities, with Jordan Rullo, Marcie Young Cancio, and Renato Olmedo-González
May 25, 2026
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Scoring systems, games, and value capture, with Thi Nguyen and Scott Black
April 21, 2026
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Nora Lange, author of Day Care and Us Fools, with Erin Beeghly
April 2, 2026
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How we watch the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City - Marcie Young-Cancio, Robert Carson, and Scott Black
March 17, 2026
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Enshittification, with Cory Doctorow and Matthew Potolsky
March 5, 2026
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Great Books: Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf — Jessica Straley and Scott Black
February 3, 2026
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Aesthetics and empathy, with Joseph Metz and Scott Black
January 8, 2026
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Mentorship and solidarity, with Leandra Hernández and Omi Salas-SantaCruz
December 4, 2025
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Tuning your ear to conceptual music, with Craig Dworkin and Scott Black
November 20, 2025
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Translating Homer’s Odyssey, with Daniel Mendelsohn and Jordan Johansen
November 3, 2025
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