UUM_Acc0579 Guide to the University of Utah Obert C. and Grace A. Tanner Humanities Center records 1976-2005 University of Utah Obert C. and Grace A. Tanner Humanities Center records Finding aid created by David Buhler University Archives and Records Management, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
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Acc0579 University of Utah Obert C. and Grace A. Tanner Humanities Center records 1976-2005 1988-2000 University of Utah. Obert C. and Grace A. Tanner Humanities Center 5.00 linear feet The Obert C. and Grace A. Tanner Humanities Center promotes research and teaching in the humanities by sponsoring fellowships in humanities research, academic seminars, public lectures, teacher workshops, and other public outreach programs. This collection consists of administrative records as well as material from the Center's collaboration with the Babcock Theatre to provide panel discussions connected with some of their performances. This collection also contains records from the administration of the Tanner Lectures on Human Values. English Historical Note

The Humanities Center was created at the University of Utah in 1988 with the support of the College of Humanities and a grant from the George S. and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation. Larry Gerlach was the Humanities Center's Director from its beginning until 1990 when Lowell M. Durham, Jr. and Patricia Hanna took over as Co-Directors. Professor Hanna served in that position until 1991 when she became the Dean of the College of Humanities. In 1995 the Humanities Center received a $1.5 million gift from the O.C. Tanner Co and was renamed the Obert C. and Grace A. Tanner Humanities Center. Lowell M. Durham, Jr. served as Director until his death in 1997. Holly V. Campbell was Director from 1998 until 2000.

Obert Tanner and the O.C. Tanner Co. also funded the Tanner Lectures on Human Values. This lectures series was established in 1978 at the six major U.S. and English universities of Clare Hall, Cambridge, Harvard, Michigan, Brasenose College, Oxford, Stanford, and Utah. Temporary lectureships were also granted to other universities on an annual basis. The lectures were concerned with human values and behaviors in the areas of biology, psychology, history, sociology, intellect, morality, aesthetics, and religion. Sterling McMurrin was the director of the Tanner Lectures Series from its inception until 1987 when Grethe B. Peterson was appointed director.

This collection is divided into three series. The first series consists of administrative records from directors Larry Gerlach, Lowell M. Durham, Jr., Patricia Hanna, and Holly V. Campbell. These records are comprised of correspondence, memoranda, minutes, and reports. This series also contains records from various lectures, seminars, and outreach programs that the Center sponsored to members of the community. The second series consists of records from the Tanner Lectures on Human Values including correspondence with participant universities, annual meetings, policy statements, minutes and reports from the Tanner Lecturer Committee, and advertisements and publicity from various Tanner Lectures. The third series consists of records from the Humanities Center's collaboration with the Babcock Theatre to recruit faculty members, who were knowledgeable with the subject matters of the plays performed at the theater, to take part in panel discussions with the audience about the relevant topics that the performances brought up.

The collection is arranged into three series. The first two series are arranged alphabetically. The third series is arranged chronologically.

Materials must be used on-site; advance notice suggested. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.

Initial Citation: University of Utah Obert C. and Grace A. Tanner Humanities Center records, Acc. 579, Box [ ]. University Archives and Records Management. University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott. Salt Lake City, Utah.

Following Citations:Acc. 579

This collection comes from record center accession 03-070 and 03-196 and 9 cubic feet picked up from the Tanner Humanities Center in 2006 and 2008.

Processed by David Buhler in 2020.

 Tanner, Obert C. (Obert Cark), 1904- Gerlach, Larry Durham, Lowell Mardsen, Jr., 1943-1997 Hanna, Patricia Campbell, Holly Victoria Pink McMurrin, Sterling M., 1914-1996 Peterson, Grethe B. University of Utah. Tanner Humanities Center University of Utah. Humanities Center University of Utah. College of Humanities Tanner Lectures on Human Values Humanities--education University and colleges--Utah--Salt Lake City--History--Sources Fine Arts Lanuage and Languages Literature Music Performing Arts Colleges and Universities Correspondence Memorandums Minutes Reports 1 Administrative Records 1 1 Abelove Reading Group - Interdisciplinary Lesbian/Gay Studies 1991 1 2 Alumni Board Meetings 1992-1997 1 3 American Academy of Religion - Rocky Mountains/Great Plains Regional Meeting 1997 May 2-3 1 4 American Religious Symposium: The Experience of the People 1990 October 4-6 1 5 American Society for Ethnohistory Conference 1992 November 12-15 1 6 American Studies Reading Group 1989-1990 1 7 The Black Athena Controversy 1992 November 10 1 8 Bloom, Harold - Colloquium 1990 November 7 1 9 Brochures 1988-1989 undated 1 10 Business Ethics Discussion Group 1990 1 11 Campbell, Holly V. - Correspondence 1998-2002 1 12 Carlson Hall 1998-2002 1 13 Cognitive Science Group 1992 1 14 Cognitive Science Reading Group 1991-1992 1 15 Collaboration - Clayton Intermediate School, Salt Lake Community College, West High School 1988-1989 1 16 College of Humanities 1991-1999 2 1-4 College of Humanities - Department Chair/Program Directors Meetings 1991-1997 2 5 Convocation Advisory Committee 1992 2 6 David Pierpont Gardner Graduate Lecture in the Humanities and Fine Arts - Roy, Klaus G.The Faces of Janus: Looking at the Music of the 20th and 21st Centuries 2000 April 18 2 7 Deaf-Blind: Lectures on Language, Culture, and Perception 1993 2 8 Development 1993-1999 2 9 Development Advisory Board 1989-1996 2 10 Donors' Luncheon 1989 June 2 3 1-7 Durham, Lowell/Hanna, Patricia - Correspondence 1989-1997 3 8 Faculty Coordinating Committee 1988-2000 3 9 Fellowships 1988-1989 4 1 Five Year Plan: 1988-1993 1994 4 2 Forgiveness: Traditions and Implications 2000 April 12-15 4 3 Fox, Matthew - The Inner Life of Work 1999 September 24 4 4 Gateway to Learning: Summer Workshops for Secondary Teachers 1999-2000 4 5 Gerlach, Larry - Correspondence 1988-1989 4 6 Ginsburg, Ruth Bader - Speech 1997 September 27 4 7 Grier, Katherine C. - Correspondence 1997-1998 4 8 The Global Debt Bomb: Will It Go Off Here? 1998 November 3 4 9 History and Memory Workshop 1993 4 10 The Humanities: Traditional Identities, New Dialogues - Popular Culture 1989 January 20 4 11 The Humanities: Traditional Identities, New Dialogues - Feminist Studies 1989 February 10 4 12 The Humanities: Traditional Identities, New Dialogues - Philosphy, Theology, and Interpretation 1989 March 10 4 13 The Humanities: Traditional Identities, New Dialogues - Understanding Japan 1989 April 14 4 14 The Humanities: Traditional Identities, New Dialogues - Uses of Narrative in History and Communication 1989 May 19 4 15 Johnson, Mark - Philosphy of the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and the Challenge in the Western Tradition 1999 October 20 4 16 Languages and Communication Building Dedication 1995 May 12 4 17 Lavadour, James - Slide Lecture 2000 March 3 4 18 Levine, Phillipa - Sex, Politics, and Sanitary Reform in the Nineteenth-Century British Empire 1998 November 18 5 1 Literature and Medicine Discussion Group 1996-1998 5 2 Looking Back with Pleasure: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa the African, Written by Himself 1989 October 27-28 5 3 Marvin J. Ashton Scholarship 1992-1997 5 4 McDonnell, Colleen - Photo Exhibit - Picturing Faith 1999 February 9 5 5 Miscellaneous Programs 1991-2000 5 6 Moscow State University Conference 1992 October 6-8 5 7 Narrative: An International Conference 1995 April 20-23 5 8 National Advisory Board 1989-1993 5 9 National Association for Ethnic Studies Conference - Race, Class, Gender 1993 March 3-6 5 10 National Conference on Undergraduate Research 1993 March 25-27 5 11 New World Disorder: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Contemporary Global Economics 1999 January 12 5 12 Newsletter 1988-1999 5 13 Political Correctness: Some Individual Perspectives 1991 November 14 5 14 The Politics of Writing and Correctness - Symposium 1991 6 1 Public Outreach Programs 1998-2000 6 2 Religion, Politics, and the State 1993 February 12-13 6 3 Religious Studies Teaching Fellows 1991 6 4-6 Rewriting the (Post) Modern: (Post) Colonialism/Feminism/Late Capitalism 1990 March 30-31 6 7 Rodriguez, Richard - Brown 2000 November 1 6 8 Semester Conversion 1996-1997 7 1 Spillars, Hortense - AAAs: African/Afro-American Studies and the Curriculum 1989 February 9 7 2 Sunstone Foundation 1991-1992 7 3 Tanner Humanities Center Fundraising Committee 1999-2000

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 7 4 Tanner Humanities Thank You Dinner 1995 October 30 7 5 Tanner Proposal 1994-1995 7 6 Thatcher Ulrich, Laurel - The Significance of Martha Ballard 1992 February 14 7 7 University Development Officers' Meetings 1992-2000 7 8 Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters - Spring Meeting 1992 May 15 7 9 Utah Centennial Medical Education Project 1991 7 10 Utah State Legislature 1992 7 11 Veeser, H. Aram - Edward Said and the P.L.O. 1991 April 18 7 12 Western Humanities Conference 1989 October 5-7 7 13 Western Literature Association Conferences 1994 October 5-8 7 14 Winter Olympics Lecture Series 1999-2001 2 Tanner Lectures on Human Values 8 1 Annual Meeting - Harvard University 1985 June 27-28 8 2-3 Annual Meeting - Oxford University 1983 June 24 1992 June 25 8 4 Annual Meeting - Princeton University 1993 July 2 8 5-7 Annual Meeting - Stanford University 1984 June 28-29 1994 June 22-24 2005 June 27-29 8 8 Annual Meeting - University of California, Berkely 2002 June 26-28 8 9 Brochures, Posters, Public Relations 1979-2001 8 10 Harvard University 1996-2003 8 11 List of Lecturers 2001 8 12 McMurrin, Sterling - Correspondence 1984-1989 8 13 Medallions 1981-2000 8 14 Miscellaneous Correspondence 1977-1999 8 15 Newsletter 1981-1989 8 16 Other Universities - Correspondence 1988-1993 9 1 Oxford University 1987-1992 9 2 Policy Statements 1978-1983 9 3 Princeton University 1987-1996 9 4 Publicity 1976-1999 9 5 Queen's University, Belfast 1983-1986 9 6 Said, Edward W. 1995 October 17 9 7 Stanford University 1988-1994 9 8 Tanner Lecturer Committee 1984-2000 9 9 The Tanner Lectures on Human Values: A Historical Essay by Sterling McMurrin 1989 June 1 9 10 Universidad de Complutense de Madrid 1998-2000 9 11 University of Buenos Aires 1985-1988 9 12 University of Leningrad 1988-1992 9 13 University of Michigan 1985-1994 10 1 University of Warsaw 1984-1988 10 2 Welcoming Remarks 1999-2001 10 3 West, Cornel 1996 10 4 Yale University 1986-1996 3 Theatre Program 10 5 Miscellaneous 1991-1999 10 6 Largo Desolato 1991 December 7 10 7 The Cradle Will Rock 1992 February 1 10 8 Marat/Sade 1992 October 31 10 9 Joe Egg/Whose Life is it Anyway? 1992 December 12 10 10 Miss Julie 1993 January 30 10 11 As You Like It 1993 March 13 10 12 The Brontes 1993 April 3 10 13 Playboy of the Western World 1993 May 15 10 14 A Midsummer Night's Dream 1994 January 29 10 15 Our Country is Good 1994 April 23 10 16 Close of Play 1994 May 21 10 17 Three Sisters 1994 November 19 10 18 Edward II 1995 January 28 10 19 The Resistable Rise of Arturo Vi 1995 Feburay 25 10 20 The Night of the Iguana 1995 April 22 10 21 Red Noses 1995 May 20 10 22 Measure for Measure 1996 January 27 10 23 The Less Than Human Club 1996 November 2 10 24 Love's Labor Lost 1996 November 30 10 25 The Physicists 1997 February 1 10 26 Woyzeck 1997 May 17 10 27 Afternoon of the Elves 1999 April 24 10 28 Fuente Ovejuna 1999 October 20 10 29 Summer and Smoke 1999 November 20 10 30 Cabaret 2000 April 22