Spring 2025 events
Times, locations, and tickets available beginning January 2025
Thursday, Feburary 13
Tanner Conversation with
ISABEL MOREIRA
Author of Balthild of Francia: Anglo-Saxon Slave, Merovingian Queen, and Abolitionist Saint
Tuesday, February 25
Tanner Talk with
ED YONG
Author of An Immense World
Tuesday, March 4
Tanner Conversation with
PAUL REEVE
Author of This Abominiable Slavery: Race, Religion, and the Battle over Human Bondage in Antebellum Utah
Tuesday, April 1
Tanner Conversation with
LOUIS CHUDE-SOKEI
Author of Floating in a Most Peculiar Way
Wednesday, April 9 – Thursday, April 10
Tanner Lectures on Human Values with
DAVID DAMROSCH
Harvard University
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Scott Black & Robert Carson:
Op-ed on Great Books in the Salt Lake Tribune
Recent efforts to ban books in Utah schools confirm that books still matter deeply.
Get to know the 2024/2025 Fellows
Learn more about research fellowships
2023-2024 Recorded Lectures
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Tanner Humanities Center Mission
The Tanner Humanities Center advances humanities exploration and engagement through public outreach, academic research and educational enrichment. The activities reflect a vision of the humanities as not only relevant, stimulating, and cutting-edge, but also essential for developing critical thinking, tolerance, and respect on campus and in the community. Learn More About Us
Center News
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Percival Everett’s Utah campus events feature discussions of fiction, race, and philosophy
The works of Percival Everett, Distinguished Professor at the University of Southern California, feature satirical and ironic accounts of race in American life, experiments in literary form, and philosophically rich reconsiderations of historical periods and events. His 2024 novel, James, retells the story of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of the enslaved character, Jim. James has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the National Book Award. The Tanner Conversation with Everett on October 29th in Kingsbury Hall with Jeremy Rosen and Rone Shavers (Department of English) was followed by dialogues with two cohorts of students: graduate students in Utah’s English and Creative Writing programs, and high school students from Rowland Hall school, who had read both James and Huckleberry Finn in their classes.
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An Evening with Great Books features old and new classics
Now in its second year at the University of Utah, Great Books in the Humanities introduces first-year students to foundational literary and philosophical works from across world civilizations, alongside recent scholarship that deepens our understanding of enduring questions. At an evening reception at the Fort Douglas Commander’s House on October 16, campus and community members gathered to hear from this year’s Great Books faculty about their books and their approaches to teaching them to students.
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Alice Dailey, author of Mother of Stories, discusses personal and academic varieties of death
In a blend of memoir and scholarly investigation, Dailey recounts the life and death of her mother, who was “a gifted teacher, a passionate reader, and a pathological liar.”
Events
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Nov 20
Wednesday
2pm - 3pmForeign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Scholarship Info Session
Zoom
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Nov 20
Wednesday
3pm - 4:20pmEmployer Meet and Greet: US Ski and Snowboard Team
Tanner Irish Humanities Building - Carolyn (CTIHB)
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Nov 20
Wednesday
3:30pm - 4:30pmApplying for Scholarships Workshop
Language & Communication Bldg (LNCO)
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Nov 21
Thursday
12:15pm - 1:30pmA Watershed Moment: The American West in the Age of Limits
Quinney College of Law - S. J. (LAW)
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Nov 21
Thursday
12:15pm - 1:30pmA Watershed Moment: The American West in the Age of Limits
Quinney College of Law - S. J. (LAW)
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Nov 21
Thursday
1pm - 3pmForeign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Scholarship Info Session
Tanner Irish Humanities Building - Carolyn (CTIHB)