First Day of Classes!
Welcome back to the U! Happy first day of classes!
Event Categories: Community Engagement. Campus Locations: Language & Communication Bldg (LNCO). Tanner Irish Humanities Building - Carolyn (CTIHB). Gardner Commons - Carolyn and Kem (GC). Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Monday, August 24, 2026.
Hungry for Humanities!
Hungry for Humanities join us for free pizza!
August 25, 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm (while supplies last) in LNCO 2945!
Event Categories: Community Engagement. Campus Locations: Language & Communication Bldg (LNCO). Contact Name: Natalie Montoya. Contact Email: natalie.montoya@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Tuesday, August 25, 2026, 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM.
Utah Hockey Sports Internship Program Info Session
Snacks and drinks will be provided, Internship positions range from team photographers, team videographers, team writers, digital imaging technicians, digital media interns, broadcast technical directors, play-by-play broadcasters, color broadcasters, sideline reporters, broadcast camera operators, audio engineers, replay operators, graphics creation & operations, graphic designers, and everything in between.
Students in the program have the option of getting academic credit for the experience. Email Cameron Vakilian cameron.vakilian@utah.edu if you have any questions.
Tuesday, August 25, 5:00 pm LNCO 2110.
Event Categories: Community Engagement. Campus Locations: Language & Communication Bldg (LNCO). Contact Name: Cameron Vakilian. Contact Email: cameron.vakilian@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Tuesday, August 25, 2026, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM.
For more info visit liberalartsandsciences.utah.edu. Get Involved Fair
Whether you’re a first‑year student, transfer student, or a returning student, the Get Involved Fair is for you!
Join us on Thursday, August 27, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. stretching from the Union Patio to Library Plaza, and explore all the ways to get connected on campus. Meet Recognized Student Organizations (RSOs a.k.a. clubs) and campus departments, discover new opportunities. This is a space to reconnect with involvement you already love or try something completely new.
If you’re not sure where to start (or where to go next), stop by the Involvement Concierge in the Union Den for one‑on‑one support exploring Campus Connect and finding opportunities that fit your interests and availability.
Take breaks along the way at the Service Corner Rest Stop, check out the Car Club's mini car show, play yard games, and enter opportunity drawings to win prizes. Whether you’ve been involved for years or haven’t joined anything yet, the Get Involved Fair is your chance to find your people, passion, and purpose a…
Event Categories: Community Engagement. Campus Locations: Marriott Library - J. Willard (M LIB). Ticket URL: https://campusconnect.utah.edu/StudentLeadership/rsvp_boot?id=384173. Contact Name: Cameron Vakilian. Contact Email: cameron.vakilian@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Thursday, August 27, 2026, 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM.
For more info visit cglink.me. PlazaPalooza 2026
Get ready to kick off the school year in style at PlazaPalooza!
The whole campus is invited to join in on the fun of the PlazaPalooza at the Mariott Library Plaza. We've got everything you need to start the semester right: delicious food, awesome activities, and great music!
Students will get vouchers for FREE food to use at the food trucks or Grab & Go Vendors !
DATE: September 1, 2026
TIME: 12:00 - 3:00 PM
LOCATION: Marriott Library Plaza.
Event Categories: Community Engagement. Campus Locations: Marriott Library - J. Willard (M LIB). Contact Name: Cameron Vakilian. Contact Email: cameron.vakilian@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Tuesday, September 1, 2026, 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
For more info visit students.utah.edu. Humanities Recognized Student Government Meeting
Hum RSG (Humanities Recognized Student Government) meets monthly to talk about issues important to students in the College of Humanities. Open to all students interested in joining. Info.
Event Categories: Community Engagement. Campus Locations: Tanner Irish Humanities Building - Carolyn (CTIHB). Contact Name: Natalie Montoya. Contact Email: natalie.montoya@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Wednesday, September 2, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
Identifying Your Top 5 Strengths | Career Workshop Series
Discover what you naturally do best and learn how to use those strengths to your advantage in college, your career, and beyond. In this interactive virtual workshop, a Career Coach will guide you through activities designed to help you understand your Top 5 CliftonStrengths and explore how they can support your academic, career, and professional goals.
For students majoring in the Colleges of Humanities, Social and Behavioral Sciences, and Science, the cost of the CliftonStrengths assessment will be fully covered.
Handshake signup.
Zoom link.
Event Categories: Community Engagement. Campus Locations: Virtual. Alternate Location: https://utah.joinhandshake.com/edu/events/1980903. Ticket URL: https://utah.joinhandshake.com/edu/events/1980903. Contact Name: Cameron Vakilian. Contact Email: cameron.vakilian@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Wednesday, September 2, 2026, 3:00 PM – 4:20 PM.
For more info visit utah.zoom.us. Brian Goldstone, author of There is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America
Tanner Humanities Center
The working homeless. In a country where hard work and determination are supposed to lead to success, there is something scandalous about this phrase. But skyrocketing rents, low wages, and a lack of tenant rights have produced a startling phenomenon: People with full-time jobs cannot keep a roof over their head, especially in America’s booming cities, where rapid growth is leading to catastrophic displacement. These families are being forced into homelessness not by a failing economy but a thriving one.
Through intimate, novelistic portraits, Goldstone reveals the human cost of this crisis, following parents and their kids as they go to sleep in cars, or in squalid extended-stay hotel rooms, and head out to their jobs and schools the next morning. These are the nation’s hidden homeless—omitted from official statistics, and proof that overflowing shelters and street encampments are only the most visible manifestation of a far more pervasive problem.
By turns heartbreaking and urgent, There Is No Place for…
Alternate Location: Salt Lake City Public Library, downtown. Cost: Free. Ticket URL: https://tanner.utah.edu/center-events/brian-goldstone-working-homeless/. Transportation / Parking: Free parking available in the library parking garage. Contact Phone: 801-581-7989. Contact Email: tanner-humanities@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Thursday, September 10, 2026, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM.
Digital Media and Creative Content Networking Panel
Join professionals working across digital media, social media, marketing, communications, and creative content for an engaging conversation about careers in today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape. Panelists will share their career journeys, insights into the industry, and advice for building experience and standing out as an emerging professional. Students will also have the opportunity to ask questions and network directly with panelists and fellow attendees.
Digital Media and Creative Content Panel Handshake link.
Event Categories: Community Engagement. Campus Locations: Language & Communication Bldg (LNCO). Ticket URL: https://utah.joinhandshake.com/edu/events/1997489. Contact Name: Cameron Vakilian. Contact Email: cameron.vakilian@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Wednesday, September 16, 2026, 3:00 PM – 4:20 PM.
Humanities Recognized Student Government Meeting
Hum RSG (Humanities Recognized Student Government) meets monthly to talk about issues important to students in the College of Humanities. Open to all students interested in joining. Info.
Event Categories: Community Engagement. Campus Locations: Tanner Irish Humanities Building - Carolyn (CTIHB). Contact Name: Karen Marsh. Contact Email: karen.marsh@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Wednesday, September 16, 2026, 5:15 PM – 6:15 PM.
National Theatre Live, "All My Sons"
Tanner Humanities Center
Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad) and Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Hard Truths) feature in a five-star, triumphantly acclaimed new production of Arthur Miller’s classic play, from visionary director Ivo Van Hove (A View from the Bridge).
One family, the heart of the American dream. When wartime delivers profits for Joe, it comes at a price when his partner is charged with criminal manufacturing deals, and his eldest son goes missing in action. Will peacetime bring peace of mind, or will he be confronted by the consequence of his actions?
Filmed live from the West End, Paapa Essiedu (I May Destroy You), Tom Glynn-Carney (House of the Dragon), and Hayley Squires (I, Daniel Blake) also feature in this disturbingly prescient play. Since 2009, National Theatre Live has brought acclaimed British theatre to over 5.5 million viewers worldwide, featuring productions like Phèdre with Helen Mirren, Frankenstein with Benedict Cumberbatch, and Yerma with Billie Piper. Each show is filmed live with cameras placed to give cinema…
Alternate Location: Broadway Centre Cinemas, 111 E. Broadway. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Saturday, September 19, 2026, 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
For more info visit tanner.utah.edu. STEM Internship & Career Fair
Explore career opportunities, network with employers, and find an internship or full-time job in the STEM Field. You don’t need to be actively looking for an internship or job to attend. We also encourage first-year students to attend to begin connecting with employers and exploring career opportunities.
Handshake link.
Event Categories: Community Engagement. Campus Locations: Union - A. Ray Olpin (UNION). Ticket URL: https://app.joinhandshake.com/career_fairs/63924f91-2f51-415c-8ebe-77bd7510d198/student_preview. Contact Name: Cameron Vakilian. Contact Email: cameron.vakilian@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Tuesday, September 22, 2026, 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM.
For more info visit app.joinhandshake.com. An Evening with Great Books
Tanner Humanities Center
Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Thursday, September 24, 2026, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM.
Careers in Publishing
Careers in Publishing Workshop
9/29, 1-2 pm
More info coming.
Event Categories: Community Engagement. Campus Locations: Language & Communication Bldg (LNCO). Contact Name: Natalie Montoya. Contact Email: natalie.montoya@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Tuesday, September 29, 2026, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM.
Humanities Recognized Student Government Meeting
Hum RSG (Humanities Recognized Student Government) meets monthly to talk about issues important to students in the College of Humanities. Open to all students interested in joining. Info.
Event Categories: Community Engagement. Campus Locations: Tanner Irish Humanities Building - Carolyn (CTIHB). Contact Name: Karen Marsh. Contact Email: karen.marsh@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Wednesday, September 30, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
Resumes, CV, and Professional Portfolios | Career Workshop Series
Create polished, professional materials that showcase your experience, skills, and accomplishments. This workshop will break down the differences between resumes, CVs, and professional portfolios, when to use each, and how to tailor your materials to effectively present yourself to employers, graduate programs, and other professional opportunities.
Handshake signup.
Zoom link.
Event Categories: Community Engagement. Campus Locations: Gardner Commons - Carolyn and Kem (GC). Virtual. Alternate Location: https://utah.zoom.us/j/94263501015. Contact Name: Cameron Vakilian. Contact Email: cameron.vakilian@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Wednesday, September 30, 2026, 3:00 PM – 4:20 PM.
For more info visit utah.zoom.us. Gabrielle Zevin, author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Tanner Humanities Center
Gabrielle Zevin’s most recent novel, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, spent over a year on the New York Times Best Seller List and was chosen a best book of the year by more than twenty-five publications, including the Atlantic, the Washington Post, Entertainment Weekly, Time, the New York Times, Slate, the Hollywood Reporter, and Oprah Daily. In 2024, Tomorrow was named to the New York Times list of the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. She is the author of several critically acclaimed and bestselling novels, including The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, Young Jane Young, The Hole We’re In, and Elsewhere. Her books have been translated into over forty languages. She lives in Los Angeles. — gabriellezevin.com A book-signing will follow, courtesy of The King’s English Bookshop. This event is part of the Utah Humanities Book Festival. Additional support from Salt Lake County Zoo, Arts & Parks, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Public Library, and O.C. Tanner.
Views expressed in Tanner…
Alternate Location: Salt Lake City Public Library downtown. Cost: Free. Ticket URL: https://tanner.utah.edu/center-events/gabrielle-zevin/. Transportation / Parking: Free parking available in the library garage. Contact Phone: 801-581-7989. Contact Email: tanner-humanities@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Wednesday, October 7, 2026, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM.
For more info visit tanner.utah.edu. Owning Your Professional Skills | Career Workshop Series
Recognize, articulate, and confidently own the professional skills you bring to the table. Led by the Goff Institute, this interactive workshop will help you identify the skills you’ve developed through your academic, work, and life experiences and learn how to communicate them effectively to employers. You’ll also learn about internship and practicum opportunities through the Goff Institute and hear directly from students who have completed Goff programs about their experiences and how those opportunities gave them an advantage.
Handshake signup.
Zoom link.
Event Categories: Community Engagement. Campus Locations: Gardner Commons - Carolyn and Kem (GC). Virtual. Alternate Location: https://utah.zoom.us/j/94263501015. Ticket URL: https://utah.joinhandshake.com/edu/events/1980939. Contact Name: Cameron Vakilian. Contact Email: cameron.vakilian@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Wednesday, October 21, 2026, 3:00 PM – 4:20 PM.
For more info visit utah.zoom.us. Humanities Recognized Student Government Meeting
Hum RSG (Humanities Recognized Student Government) meets monthly to talk about issues important to students in the College of Humanities. Open to all students interested in joining. Info.
Event Categories: Community Engagement. Campus Locations: Tanner Irish Humanities Building - Carolyn (CTIHB). Contact Name: Karen Marsh. Contact Email: karen.marsh@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Wednesday, October 21, 2026, 5:15 PM – 6:15 PM.
Jeremy Rosen, author of Genre Bending: The Plasticity of Form in Contemporary Literary Fiction
Tanner Humanities Center
Detective, horror, fantasy, romance, science fiction, spy thrillers, westerns, zombie novels. In recent decades, acclaimed and ambitious writers of literary fiction have increasingly gravitated to popular fiction genres. In this comprehensive account, Jeremy Rosen describes literary fiction's embrace of genre fiction's conceits as “genre bending” and argues that while literary writers adopt genres for a wide variety of purposes, what they share is a revitalized attitude toward genre—a recognition that while genres can be used in formulaic ways, they can also be adapted and transformed endlessly.
Rosen reads across the outpouring of fiction of the last several decades by writers like Margaret Atwood, Michael Chabon, Jennifer Egan, Louise Erdrich, Kazuo Ishiguro, Chang-rae Lee, David Mitchell, Cormac McCarthy, Ian McEwan, Haruki Murakami, and Colson Whitehead. He finds that literary writers’ embrace of popular genres is the product of several seemingly contradictory forces, including their attempt to extend a…
Campus Locations: Tanner Irish Humanities Building - Carolyn (CTIHB). Cost: Free. Ticket URL: https://tanner.utah.edu/center-events/jeremy-rosen-genre-bending/. Contact Phone: 801-581-7989. Contact Email: tanner-humanities@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Thursday, October 22, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
For more info visit tanner.utah.edu. National Theatre Live, “The Playboy of the Western World”
Tanner Humanities Center
Nicola Coughlan (Bridgerton) joins Éanna Hardwicke (The Sixth Commandment) and Siobhán McSweeney (Derry Girls) in John Millington Synge’s riveting play of youth and self-discovery.
Pegeen Flaherty’s life is turned upside down when a young man walks into her pub claiming that he’s killed his father. Instead of being shunned, the killer becomes a local hero and begins to win hearts, that is until a second man unexpectedly arrives on the scene…
Filmed live on stage at the National Theatre, Caitríona McLaughlin directs this darkly funny tale full to the brim with secrets. Since 2009, National Theatre Live has brought acclaimed British theatre to over 5.5 million viewers worldwide, featuring productions like Phèdre with Helen Mirren, Frankenstein with Benedict Cumberbatch, and Yerma with Billie Piper. Each show is filmed live with cameras placed to give cinema audiences the “best seat in the house.”
The Tanner Humanities Center began screening National Theatre Live in 2010, now hosted at Salt Lake Film…
Alternate Location: Broadway Centre Cinemas, 111 E. Broadway. Ticket URL: https://tanner.utah.edu/center-events/the-playboy-of-the-western-world-national-theatre-live/. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Saturday, October 24, 2026, 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
For more info visit tanner.utah.edu. Mongane Wally Serote, National Poet Laureate of South Africa
Tanner Humanities Center
South African poet and novelist Mongane Wally Serote, born in 1944, was politically active against the apartheid regime. He was detained without trial and held in solitary confinement under the Terrorism Act. After earning an MFA at Columbia University on a Fulbright scholarship, he was barred from reentering South Africa, and he lived in exile in Botswana and London before returning to South Africa in 1990. A member of the African National Congress, he was elected to Parliament in the pivotal election of Nelson Mandela’s government in 1994.
Serote’s talk will commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the Soweto uprising in the context of his friendship with Steve Biko and other members of the Black Consciousness Movement, and will consider parallels to the Black Power Movement and Black Lives Matter Movement. He will also give a short reading from his work.
Serote’s work speaks directly to political resistance and engagement. His collections include Yakhal’inkomo (The Cry of Cattle at the Slaughterhouse,…
Alternate Location: Salt Lake City Public Library downtown. Cost: Free. Ticket URL: https://tanner.utah.edu/center-events/mongane-wally-serote/. Transportation / Parking: Free parking available in the library garage. Contact Email: tanner-humanities@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Wednesday, October 28, 2026, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM.
For more info visit tanner.utah.edu. English Department Speaker Series: Debbie Urbanski
English
Campus Locations: Tanner Irish Humanities Building - Carolyn (CTIHB). Cost: free. Contact Name: Nathan Wainstein. Contact Email: nathan.wainstein@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Friday, October 30, 2026, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
Humanities Recognized Student Government Meeting
Hum RSG (Humanities Recognized Student Government) meets monthly to talk about issues important to students in the College of Humanities. Open to all students interested in joining. Info.
Event Categories: Community Engagement. Campus Locations: Tanner Irish Humanities Building - Carolyn (CTIHB). Contact Name: Karen Marsh. Contact Email: karen.marsh@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Wednesday, November 4, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
Job Searching and Networking | Career Workshop Series
Take a more proactive approach to your job search by using networking, outreach, and professional connections to uncover opportunities and get your foot in the door. Through live, real-time simulations, we’ll walk through examples of students searching for opportunities in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, demonstrating how to identify potential employers, find the right people to connect with, and reach out effectively. You’ll leave with practical strategies you can immediately put to work in your own job or internship search.
Handshake signup.
Zoom link.
Event Categories: Community Engagement. Campus Locations: Gardner Commons - Carolyn and Kem (GC). Virtual. Alternate Location: https://utah.zoom.us/j/94263501015. Ticket URL: https://utah.joinhandshake.com/edu/events/1980943. Contact Name: Cameron Vakilian. Contact Email: cameron.vakilian@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Wednesday, November 4, 2026, 3:00 PM – 4:20 PM.
For more info visit utah.zoom.us. "The People of Yorktown in Revolutionary Times" the O. Meredith Wilson Lecture from Kathleen DuVal
History
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Kathleen DuVal will present a public lecture entitled “The People of Yorktown in Revolutionary Times.”
Yorktown, Virginia, holds a familiar place in the history of the American Revolution: In the Siege of Yorktown in the fall of 1781, American and French forces helped to end the Revolutionary War and win American independence. Yet the famous siege is only part of Yorktown’s involvement in the Revolution. Its townspeople participated in the boycotts and protests from the beginning, and repeated invasions endangered the town and its people. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Kathleen DuVal explores what the Revolution was like for the people of Yorktown—men and women, wealthy and poor, free and enslaved—and how their experiences can help us craft a more complete history of how people lived through the Revolution and what it meant to them.
Reception at 2pm, lecture at 3pm.
Campus Locations: Alumni House - Eccles (ALUMNI). Cost: Free. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Thursday, November 12, 2026, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
America250 Student Symposium
History
A symposium featuring original student research on the nation’s founding by college students from across Utah. Students from the University of Utah, BYU, Utah Valley University, and Utah State University will spend the summer and fall working with History faculty at their respective universities on original research papers that they will present at this symposium.
Campus Locations: Alumni House - Eccles (ALUMNI). Cost: Free. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Friday, November 13, 2026, 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM.
The Power of Internships | Career Workshop Series
The Power of Internships Wednesday, November 18 | 3:00 - 4:20 PM |GC 2575/Virtual
Discover the many ways an internship can become part of your college experience and help prepare you for what comes next. This workshop will explore different types of internships and experiential opportunities, where to find them, how to successfully secure one, and why they matter for your future career. You’ll also learn about funding opportunities and university resources that can help make internships more accessible, along with practical tips for finding an experience that aligns with your interests and goals.
Handshake signup.
Zoom link.
Event Categories: Community Engagement. Campus Locations: Gardner Commons - Carolyn and Kem (GC). Virtual. Alternate Location: https://utah.zoom.us/j/94263501015. Ticket URL: https://utah.joinhandshake.com/edu/events/1980954. Contact Name: Cameron Vakilian. Contact Email: cameron.vakilian@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Wednesday, November 18, 2026, 3:00 PM – 4:20 PM.
For more info visit utah.zoom.us. Humanities Recognized Student Government Meeting
Hum RSG (Humanities Recognized Student Government) meets monthly to talk about issues important to students in the College of Humanities. Open to all students interested in joining. Info.
Event Categories: Community Engagement. Campus Locations: Tanner Irish Humanities Building - Carolyn (CTIHB). Contact Name: Karen Marsh. Contact Email: karen.marsh@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Wednesday, November 18, 2026, 5:15 PM – 6:15 PM.