Upcoming Events
2023 Gateway to Learning Educator Workshops
CTIHB 143 - Jewel Box
Our Gateway to Learning Educator Workshops offer K-12 Utah teachers rigorous, affordable professional development opportunities and continuing education courses at the University of Utah.
Carmen Maria Machado
Author of In the Dream House and Her Body and Other Parties
Save the Date 10/05/23
More info Coming Soon!
David Wallace-Wells
Journalist and author of The Uninhabitable Earth
Save the Date 10/24/23
More info Coming Soon!
Latoya Ruby Frazier
Visual artist, photographer, advocate
Save the Date 11/14/23
More info Coming Soon!
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Tanner Humanities Center Mission
The Tanner Humanities Center advances humanities exploration and engagement through public outreach, academic research and educational enrichment. The activities reflect a vision of the humanities as not only relevant, stimulating, and cutting-edge, but also essential for developing critical thinking, tolerance, and respect on campus and in the community. Learn More About Us
Center News
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What in Tarnation! Fossilization and Migration at the Great Salt Lake
Tanner Humanities Center hosts author Gretchen Henderson Tuesday, April 18, at 2 p.m. The naturally occurring phenomena of tar seeps are becoming more exposed at the Great Salt Lake as the climate rises. Causing insects, rodents, coyotes and birds, such as the American White Pelican, to become stuck and entrapped in the sticky tar.
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Science fiction, social and political change and the ecological crisis
The Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah is pleased to host Robinson, an award-winning science fiction author, for the Tanner Lecture on Human Values on March 16 at 7 p.m. at Kingsbury Hall.
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The Real Reason North Dakota Is Going After Books and Librarians
Last fall, I was the keynote speaker at the North Dakota Library Association’s annual conference. The theme was “Libraries: The Place For Everyone.” There were rainbow flags, paper-link chains and multicolor glitter scattered across tables. It was the safest I have ever felt back home as an out, gay man. When I was a young person, libraries were where I went to find stories that made me feel I could fit in, not only in North Dakota, but in the wider world. But two pieces of legislation that may soon be signed into law in North Dakota would make it possible to restrict libraries and, in some cases, to imprison librarians.