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March 2025

Panel explores the complexities of race, religion, and slavery in antebellum Utah
A panel discussion at the Tanner Humanities Center on March 4th featured authors of a new historical study that illuminates the complex debates around…
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Robert Carson
Ed Yong discusses the realities of birding
To a packed and enthusiastic auditorium at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts on February 25, Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer Ed Yong discussed the…
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Robert Carson
Tanner Humanities Center Fellows Present Works in Progress (January–February 2025)
Every spring, research fellows at the Tanner Humanities Center give work-in-progress talks in a casual setting and receive feedback from colleagues…
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February 2025

January 2025

December 2024

Ruth Ben-Ghiat, author of “Strongmen: From Mussolini to the Present”
Authoritarian personae from Mussolini to Netanyahu
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Robert Carson
Percival Everett, author of “James” and “Erasure”
Philosophy, race, and literary form
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Robert Carson
Great Books in the Humanities at the University of Utah
Antigone — Richard III — The Marrow of Tradition — Mrs Dalloway — Moving Up Without Losing Your Way — Life and Language Beyond Earth — The Chaos Machine
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Robert Carson
Happy Holidays from the Tanner Humanities Center
From Scott Black, Director
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Scott Black
Alice Dailey, author of “Mother of Stories: An Elegy”
Death, martyrdom, and pathological lying
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Robert Carson
Games Humanities symposium
Field-defining symposium by Tanner Humanities Center and the Division of Games at the University of Utah
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Robert Carson
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