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Chances are, you're here because you recognize the immense significance of the humanities in shaping our world. Or maybe you want to understand more about what the humanities really are. Either way, you’ve come to the right place.

If you are human, you already "do" the humanities. Everything you read, think, create, and do adds to the human experience and can be looked at for interpretation and understanding. Here, we do just that. Explore and grow with us through our four main initiatives.

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Featured Projects

This Watershed Moment
This Watershed Moment

This Watershed Moment: Envisioning Place-Based Futures seeks to bring together voices from across Utah’s two major watersheds – the Great Basin and the Colorado River – in a collection of imaginative futures. The deadline for submissions is December 31, 2024.

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Utah Book Awards
Utah Book Awards

The Utah Book Awards honor works of outstanding literary merit by Utah authors. They are open to self-published, first-time, and experienced authors. We are particularly interested in prioritizing excellent works created by authors from historically marginalized and excluded communities.

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Crossroads: Change in Rural America
Crossroads: Change in Rural America

CROSSROADS: CHANGE IN RURAL AMERICA is a traveling exhibition from the Smithsonian’s Museum on Main Street that provokes fresh thinking and sparks conversations about the future and sustainability of rural communities. See Crossroads on its 2023-2024 tour of Utah!

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Check Your Shelves Podcast
Check Your Shelves Podcast

Launched as part of the 2023 Annual Utah Humanities Book Festival, Check Your Shelves features interviews that highlight Utah’s literary scene, deepens connection to local literature, and offers some laughs along the way. 

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What are the humanities?

  • How people experience and document their world
  • A lens through which we better understand the meaning of all human expression
  • An invitation to understand ourselves, and each other, more fully

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