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Upcoming Events

October 28, 2021 @ 12pm | AI and Human Values with Shoshana Zuboff

Shoshana Zuboff is an American author, Harvard professor, social psychologist, philosopher, and scholar. "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism", integrates core themes of her research on the Digital Revolution entwined with the evolution of capitalism.

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November 18, 2021 @ 12pm | Virtual Tanner Talk with Nnedi Okorafor

Nnedi Okorafor is a award-winning Nigerian-American writer of fantasy and science fiction for both children and adults. Her writing, which she describes as "Africanfuturism" and "Africanjujuism", is heavily influenced by her dual Nigerian and American heritage.

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February 3, 2022 @ 7pm | Tanner Lecture on Human Values with Isabel Wilkerson

Isabel Wilkerson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Humanities Medal, has become a leading figure in narrative nonfiction and an impassioned voice for demonstrating how history can help us understand ourselves, our country, and our current era of upheaval.

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February 8, 2022 @ 1pm | Author Meets Readers with Eric Herschthal

Eric Herschthal is a historian of slavery and abolition in the United States and the wider Atlantic World. His first book, "The Science of Aboliiton: How Slaveholders Became the Enemies of Progress" (Yale, 2021), explores how men of science and Black and white abolitionists used scientific ideas to cast slaveholders as the enemies of science.

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February 22, 2022 @ 1pm | Author Meets Readers with Reginald Dwayne Betts

Reginald Dwayne Betts is a poet and lawyer. He created the Million Book Project, an initiative to curate libraries and install them in prisons across the country. His collection of poetry, “Felon,” explores the post-incarceration experience.

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March 29, 2022 @ 7pm | David P. Gardner Lecture in the Humanities with Ayad Akhtar

Ayad Akhtar is a novelist and playwright. His work has been published and performed in over two dozen languages. He is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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April 13 -14, 2021 | Tanner Talk with Raj Patel

Raj Patel is an award-winning author, film-maker and academic. He is a Research Professor in the Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, Austin and the author of "Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System."

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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

Public Outreach

Community engagement opportunities that highlight how the humanities inform issues of public interest and inspire personal growth.

Academic Research

Supporting faculty, graduate student, and undergraduate student research and knowledge in the humanities is central to our mission.

Educational Enrichment

Learn more about our educational outreach programs: Gateway to Learning Educator Workshops and Professors Off Campus.

Center News & Events

Banned Books Week 2021

Tanner Humanities Center staff share their favorite quotes and excerpts from historically banned books to celebrate Banned Books Week 2021.
UI2 & Tanner Humanities Center Host AI & Society Symposium

The Utah Informatics Initiative (UI2) and Tanner Humanities Center hosted a two-day symposium on September 21-22, 2021, dedicated to the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Society. Watch Day 1 & Day 2 of the Symposium NOW.
Tanner Humanities Center and The King's English Bookshop host Anthony Doerr, Celebrate Release of New Novel

Anthony Doerr was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. He is the author of the story collections The Shell Collector and Memory Wall, the memoir Four Seasons in Rome, and the novels About Grace and All the Light We Cannot See, which was awarded the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the 2015 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. His newest novel, Cloud Cuckoo Land, was published on September 28, 2021.

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Last Updated: 10/25/21