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Upcoming Events

January 27, 2022 @ 12pm | Work in Progress Talk with Charnell Peters

“The (New) Science of Race: 23AndMe and Communicative Constructions of Blackness, Ethnicity, and Ancestry”

All WIP talks are held in the Tanner Humanities Jewel Box in the Carolyn Tanner Irish Humanities Building.

February 1, 2021 @ 12pm | Work in Progress Talk with Julie Ault

“Solidarity and Socialist Riches: East German Diplomacy, Environment, and Technology, 1949-1989”

All WIP talks are held in the Tanner Humanities Jewel Box in the Carolyn Tanner Irish Humanities Building.

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 10, 2022 @ 12pm | Work in Progress Talk with Sean Collins

“The Life of Significant Soil: Nature, Politics, and the Modernist Environmental Imagination”

All WIP talks are held in the Tanner Humanities Jewel Box in the Carolyn Tanner Irish Humanities Building.

February 17, 2022 @ 12pm | Work in Progress Talk with Lezlie Frye

“Domesticating Disability: Post-Civil Rights Racial Disenfranchisement and the Birth of the Disabled Citizen”

All WIP talks are held in the Tanner Humanities Jewel Box in the Carolyn Tanner Irish Humanities Building.

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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February 24, 2022 @ 12pm | Work in Progress talk with Danielle Endres

“Emergent Engagements with Energy Democracy in Puerto Rico”

All WIP talks are held in the Tanner Humanities Jewel Box in the Carolyn Tanner Irish Humanities Building.

March 3, 2022 @ 12pm | Work in Progress Talk with Richard Figueroa

“Persistence through Change: On Preserving Evolvability as a Strategy for Biological Conservation”

All WIP talks are held in the Tanner Humanities Jewel Box in the Carolyn Tanner Irish Humanities Building.

March 17, 2022 @ 12pm | Work in Progress with Nkenna Onwuzuruoha

“Fighting Words with Fists: The Paradoxes of the ‘Gater Incident’ at San Francisco State College, 1967-1969”

All WIP talks are held in the Tanner Humanities Jewel Box in the Carolyn Tanner Irish Humanities Building.

March 22, 2022 @ 12pm | Work in Progress Talk with Helene Shugart

“Destigmata: Normalizing Narratives of Mental Illness”

All WIP talks are held in the Tanner Humanities Jewel Box in the Carolyn Tanner Irish Humanities Building.

March 24, 2022 @ 12pm | Work in Progress Talk with Cynthia Stark

“Misplaced Blame”

All WIP talks are held in the Tanner Humanities Jewel Box in the Carolyn Tanner Irish Humanities Building.

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 5, 2022 @ 12pm | Work in Progress Talk with Janan Graham-Russell

“Churched Bodies’: Community, Immigrant Incorporation, and Embodied Practice Among Haitian Latter-day Saints”

All WIP talks are held in the Tanner Humanities Jewel Box in the Carolyn Tanner Irish Humanities Building.

April 7, 2022 @ 12pm | Work in Progress Talk with Jim Campbell

“Freedom Now: The Mississippi Freedom Movement in American History and Memory”

All WIP talks are held in the Tanner Humanities Jewel Box in the Carolyn Tanner Irish Humanities Building.

April 12, 2022 @ 12pm | Work in Progress Talk with Katharina Gerstenberger

“Disturbed Places and Troubled Times: Bikini, Chernobyl, Fukushima”

All WIP talks are held in the Tanner Humanities Jewel Box in the Carolyn Tanner Irish Humanities Building.

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

Tanner Talk with Nnedi Okorafor

The Tanner Humanities Center was proud to host author Nnedi Okorafor in a virtual conversation with Director Erika George and Assistant Professor of English Andrew Shephard. The discussion focused on her writing, which she describes as "Africanfuturism" and "Africanjujuism," as well as her newest novel, NOOR.
Shoshana Zuboff Delivers Tanner Lecture on Artificial Intelligence and Human Values

The Tanner Humanities Center was proud to host Shoshana Zuboff, author of, "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism," for the Obert C. Tanner Lectures on Artificial Intelligence and Human Values, a special series of the Tanner Lectures program.
Banned Books Week 2021

Tanner Humanities Center staff share their favorite quotes and excerpts from historically banned books to celebrate Banned Books Week 2021.