• The Arches Reader Book Release and Signing with Jeffrey Nichols

    Ken Sanders Rare Books 209 East 500 South, Salt Lake City, Utah

    Ken Sanders Rare Books will host Jeffrey Nichols for a discussion and signing of his new book The Arches Reader. Ken Sanders will read his contribution to the book. Discussion will be followed by an audience Q&A and book signing. Geology is the star attraction...

  • A Conversation on Mormon Biographies

    Online

      Celebrate 75 years of publishing with the University of Utah Press with a conversation on Mormon biographies. Join Stephen Taysom, Gregory A. Prince, Lindsay Hansen Park, and Richard Saunders with Jedediah Rogers as they discuss their approaches to biography and contributions to Mormon studies. Biography is...

  • The Book of Bauer Reading & Signing with Stephen Lottridge at Ken Sanders Rare Books

    Ken Sanders Rare Books 209 East 500 South, Salt Lake City, Utah

    Proudly presented by Ken Sanders Rare Books, The Utah Humanities Council, and The University of Utah Press. Join us in welcoming Stephen S Lottridge for a discussion and signing of The Book of Bauer: Stories from a Forgotten Town. Saturday, Aug. 24 | 6-8 PM...

    Free
  • Gary E. Machlis on Sustainability for the Forgotten

    J. Willard Marriott Library, Gould Auditorium 295 S 1500 E, Salt Lake City, Utah

    Due to the hurricane Helene, we've regrettably had to cancel this event. We hope to be able to host Gary Machlis in the future. Please watch our webpage for further details. If you'd like to purchase the book, use the discount code MACHLIS25 for 25%...

    Free
  • Stories from the Arches with Jeff Nichols

    Salt Lake City Public Library 210 East 400 South, Salt Lake City, Utah

    The extraordinary landscape of what we now call Arches National Park thrills millions of visitors every year. But people have also lived and worked in the area since long before it was a park. Jeff Nichols shares stories from the Arches, featured in the new...

    Free
  • Agha Shahid Ali Prize Reading

    Finch Lane Art Gallery 54 Finch Lane, Salt Lake City, Utah

    Guest Writers Series presents Sara Ellen Fowler, author of Two Signatures and Winner of Agha Shahid Ali Prize and Joan Naviyuk Kane, author of Ex Machina.

    Free
  • Jody Olsen: Hope, Purpose, and Service in Times of Change

    Hinkley Caucus Room 260 Central Campus Dr, Salt Lake City, UT, United States

    Jody Olsen, author of A Million Miles: My Peace Corp Journey will be speaking at the Hinckley Institute Forum on Hope, Purpose, and Service in Times of Change.   Dr. Josephine (Jody) Olsen, PhD, served as the 20th Director of the Peace Corps between March, 2018 –...

  • A Wallace Stegner Center Green Bag

    S.J. Quinney College of Law and Virtual Event

    The American West has long been seen as a place of rugged landscapes presenting endless opportunities. But the land is more fragile and resources more finite than popular perceptions admit. We are presenting a volume of essays, A Watershed Moment, that explores tensions between a culture of economic...

    Free
  • Betsy Howell – Wild Forest Home: Stories of Conservation in the Pacific Northwest

    Village Books and Paper Dreams 1200 11th St, Bellingham, WA, United States

    Join Village Books and North Cascades Institute in the last Nature of Writing event of 2024 with Betsy Howell as talks about her new book Wild Forest Home: Stories of Conservation in the Pacific Northwest! Growing up in the Pacific Northwest, Betsy Howell spent her childhood...

    $5
  • Steven Simms – First Peoples of Great Salt Lake

    Joseph F. Smith Building (BYU) 1100 Campus Drive, Provo, UT, United States

    Steven Simms (Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Utah State University) First Peoples of Great Salt Lake: A Cultural Landscape from Nevada to Wyoming B192 JFSB Education in Zion Auditorium