Skip to content

Tanner Humanities Center

College of Humanities

Main Navigation

    

EVENT TICKETS

Stay Up To Date 

Salt Lake Tribune T logo

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.

Read More 

megan

Get to know the 2024/2025 Fellows 

Learn more about research fellowships

2024-25 Fellows

Previous Fellows

on stage

2023-2024 Recorded Lectures 

Events this year at the center

Event recordings and more avaliable to watch online

watch lectures

SEe past events

View Previous Events

  envelope

Stay up to date with the Center 

Sign up for our email list to receive updates

 CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE

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

 

Public
Outreach

Community engagement opportunities that highlight how the humanities inform issues of public interest and inspire personal growth.

 

Academic Research

Supporting faculty, graduate student, and undergraduate student research and knowledge in the humanities is central to our mission.

 

Educational Enrichment

Learn more about the Center's educational enrichment programs: Gateway to Learning Educator Workshops and Professors Off Campus.

 

Center News

  1. 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.”

  2. Ruth Ben-Ghiat explores authoritarianism in Tanner Talk and faculty panel

    What makes a leader authoritarian, and how do they rule? This central question animates the work of Ruth Ben-Ghiat, professor of history and Italian studies at New York University.

  3. Inaugural Humanities Games Symposium presents field-defining scholarship

    The Humanities Games Symposium brought together scholars from the University of Utah and other institutions to present groundbreaking and field-defining work in games humanities.

View All News Articles


Events

View All Events

  1. Oct 09

    Wednesday
    2pm - 3pm

    Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Scholarship Info Session

    Zoom

  2. Oct 10

    Thursday
    1pm - 3pm

    Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Scholarship Info Session

    Tanner Irish Humanities Building - Carolyn (CTIHB)

  3. Oct 14

    Monday
    2pm - 3:30pm

    Lightning Talks: New Faculty Talks

    Language & Communication Bldg (LNCO)

  4. Oct 16

    Wednesday
    6pm - 9pm

    An Evening with Great Books

    Fort Douglas Commander's House (FD 620)

  5. Oct 29

    Tuesday
    7pm - 9pm

    A Conversation with Percival Everett

    Kingsbury Hall - Joseph T. (KH)

  6. Nov 07

    Thursday
    12pm - 1:30pm

    Tanner Conversations with Professor Margaret Battin

    Tanner Irish Humanities Building - Carolyn (CTIHB)

instagram logoInstagram

Twitter

Tanner Humanities Center 35th Celebration Website

Tanner Humanities Center

Give to the Tanner Humanities Center

Last Updated: 9/27/24