Tanner Center Publications
2013 - From the Religion, Conflict and Peacemaking Conference
Book
Schmid, ed., Religion, Conflict, and Peacemaking: An Interdisciplinary Conversation. University of Utah Press, 2018.
2011 - From the Water Conflict and Human Rights Conference
Report contribution
Participants in our 2011 conference on “Water, Conflict, and Human Rights” later collaborated on a chapter to be included in the United Nations Environment Programme Global Environment Outlook 5 (GEO-5) Assessment Report. This collaboration is a direct result of interaction and discussion at our conference.
2010 - From the Controlling Sexuality Through Violence, Shame, and Cultural Oppression Conference
Book
Maloney and Korinek, eds., Migration in the 21st Century: Rights, Outcomes, and Policy. Routledge, 2010. https://www.amazon.com/Migration-21st-Century-Outcomes-Regions/dp/0415779146
Grant
Our conference on migration helped to establish a working group that included economists, sociologists, and political scientists. That group subsequently received a $240,000 grant from the Russell Sage Foundation to study “Undocumented Immigrant Integration.”
Journal articles
That grant in turn supported the publication of an edited volume based on revisions of conference presentations, peer reviewed publications in journals as varied as Economics and Human Biology, the Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, International Migration, and Sociological Forum, and numerous conference presentations and local lectures.
2009 - From the Evolution of Human Aggression Conference
Journal article
A special issue of the journal Human Nature (23:1, March 2012). The issue was edited by conference organizers Elizabeth Cashdan (Anthropology) and Stephen Downes (Philosophy).
Inter-college initiative
This conference also stimulated the development of an inter-college initiative in Integrative Human Biology (IHB), which now offers a minor program for University of Utah students. The coverage of this conference in Scientific American (“Taming Humanity’s Urge to War,” May 2009, http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/taming-humanitys-urge-to-war/) is also noteworthy.
2008 - From the Migration Rights and Identities Conference
Book
Karawan, McCormack, and Reynolds, ed., Values and Violence: Intangible Aspects of Terrorism. Springer, 2008. https://www.springer.com/us/book/9781402086595