Aug 17, 202651 min
Adaptations of ancient texts can reveal as much about the present as the past. What does Christopher Nolan’s film of The Odyssey tell us about how to think about war, heroism, and trauma? And what ideas from Homer does...
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Named after our seminar room, The Virtual Jewel Box hosts conversations at the Obert C. and Grace A. Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah. We share research, commentary, interviews, dialogue, and storytelling from across humanities disciplines. Views expressed on The Virtual Jewel Box do not represent the official views of the Center or University.
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What is The Virtual Jewel Box about?
Named after our seminar room, The Virtual Jewel Box hosts conversations at the Obert C. and Grace A. Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah. We share research, commentary, interviews, dialogue, and storytelling from across humanities disciplines. Views expressed on The Virtual Jewel Box do not represent the official views of the Center or University.
What has The Virtual Jewel Box covered recently?
Recent episodes include "Filming Homer’s Odyssey, with Paisley Rekdal, Margaret Toscano, and Scott Black" (17 August 2026, 51 minutes), "Real Housewives, Real Humanities - Jordan Rullo, Marcie Young Cancio, and Renato Olmedo-González" (25 May 2026, 46 minutes), and "Real Housewives, Real Humanities - Jordan Rullo, Marcie Young Cancio, and Renato Olmedo-González" (25 May 2026, 46 minutes).
How often does The Virtual Jewel Box publish?
The Virtual Jewel Box publishes roughly monthly, with episodes averaging 38 minutes across 28 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on The Virtual Jewel Box?
Booking probability for The Virtual Jewel Box is 29%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Virtual Jewel Box requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Virtual Jewel Box's contact route on record: public web form.
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The Virtual Jewel Box
Real Housewives, Real Humanities - Jordan Rullo, Marcie Young Cancio, and Renato Olmedo-González
May 25, 202646 minIn this episode, we discuss the Tanner Humanities Center’s symposium—Receipts, Proof, Timeline: How We Watch The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City—with Jordan Rullo ( Department of Psychology and therapist ), Marcie...
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Real Housewives, Real Humanities - Jordan Rullo, Marcie Young Cancio, and Renato Olmedo-González
May 25, 202646 minS0<p>In this episode, we discuss the Tanner Humanities Center’s symposium—Receipts, Proof, Timeline: How We Watch The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City—with Jordan Rullo (Department of Psychology and therapist), Marcie...
Apr 21, 202645 minS0<p>How can scoring systems make games feel so joyful, fluid, and alive, yet drain the life from public institutions and everyday work? This is one of the central questions of a new book by University of Utah philosopher...
The Virtual Jewel Box
Scoring systems, games, and value capture, with Thi Nguyen and Scott Black
Apr 21, 202645 minHow can scoring systems make games feel so joyful, fluid, and alive, yet drain the life from public institutions and everyday work? This is one of the central questions of a new book by University of Utah philosopher C...
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Apr 2, 202626 minS0<p>Nora Lange, author of Us Fools (2024), discusses her new collection of short stories, Day Care, with Erin Beeghly (Department of Philosophy). Their conversation touches on female desire, motherhood, mischief, and the...
Mar 17, 202635 minS0<p>In anticipation of our symposium on The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City on April 10, Marcie Young-Cancio, Robert Carson, and Scott Black discuss the show from a humanities perspective, examining its treatment of...
Mar 6, 202649 minS0<p>In this episode, Matt Potolsky (Professor of English) talks with writer and activist Cory Doctorow about digital privacy, platform decay, and the politics of monopoly.</p> <p>Drawing on his recent book...
Feb 3, 202638 minS0<p>In a new series of episodes, The Virtual Jewel Box will feature conversations about great books.</p> <p>Scott Black and Jessica Straley discuss Mrs. Dalloway as a novel of thresholds: between past and present, sound...
Jan 8, 202640 minS0<p>In this episode, Scott Black talks with literary scholar Joseph Metz about The Feeling of the Form: Empathy and Aesthetics from Büchner to Rilke (Cornell University Press), Metz’s cultural and intellectual history of...
Dec 4, 202547 minS0<p>In this episode, Omi Salas-SantaCruz talks with Leandra Hernández about Queer, Women of Color, and Critical Approaches to Feminist Mentorship and Pedagogy (University of Illinois Press), co-edited by Hernández...
Nov 20, 202539 minS0<p>In this episode, Scott Black talks with poet and critic Craig Dworkin about his new book, The Sound of Thinking: A Listener’s Companion to Conceptual Music (University of Chicago Press), on music made from rules...
Nov 3, 202520 minS0<p>Daniel Mendelsohn discusses his new translation of Homer’s Odyssey (University of Chicago Press) with Jordan Johansen, Assistant Professor of Classics in the Department of World Languages and Literatures at the...
Oct 20, 202525 minS0<p>Award-winning author Jesmyn Ward speaks with Kase Johnstun of Utah Humanities about the craft of writing, resilience, and historical memory, in anticipation of her 2025 David P. Gardner Graduate Lecture in the...
Sep 24, 202536 minS0<p>The leaders of the University of Utah summer institute Humanities Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence, Elizabeth Callaway and Rebekah Cummings, join Scott Black to discuss the human limitations of AI, as well as...
Aug 22, 202527 minS0<p>What are the humanities, and how do they function in our daily lives? It might be that they’re primarily academic disciplines studied in universities and cultural institutions. Or some say they're the everyday...
Jul 25, 202527 minS0<p>Kate Bowler joins Gretchen Case to discuss authenticity in academic, spiritual, and medical life; the limits of toxic positivity; and how joy can be both a surprise and a discipline. Reflecting on her own experience...
Jul 17, 202548 minS0<p>Historians Paul Reeve and Jordan Watkins discuss This Abominable Slavery: Race, Religion, and the Battle over Human Bondage in Antebellum Utah (by Reeve, Christopher B. Rich, Jr., and LaJean Purcell Carruth)...
Jun 23, 202548 minS0<p>This episode features Bryan Counter (Framingham State University) discussing his new book Four Moments of Aesthetic Experience: Reading Huysmans, Proust, McCarthy, and Cusk (published by Anthem Press) with Nathan...
Jun 12, 202531 minS0<p> A slave becomes Queen and later is sainted for her work as an abolitionist.</p> <p>A new book by Isabel Moreira (Distinguished Professor of History, University of Utah) explores not only the life of Balthild of...
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Scott Black
VP and Chief Financial Officer, Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation
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Thi Nguyen
philosophy professor, Chez Francois Poutinerie
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Cory Doctorow
bestselling novelist, journalist, and EFF Special Advisor, Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Daniel Mendelsohn
classics scholar and translator of The Odyssey, Bard College
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