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Upcoming Events

September 7, 2022 at 1pm | Author Meets Readers Event with Professor C. Thi Nguyen

University of Utah Philosophy professor and author of, "Games: Agency as Art." Moderated by Jeremy Rosen with guest respondent Professor Alf Seegert.

Location: Tanner Humanities Center Jewel Box

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September 22, 2022 at 4pm | Tanner Talk with Azar Nafisi

Azar Nafisi is best known as the author of the national bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books.

Location: UMFA Dumke Auditorium

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October 6, 2022 at 7pm | Author Meets Readers Session with Joy Harjo

Joy Harjo is an internationally renowned performer and writer of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, and is serving her second term as the 23rd US Poet Laureate.

Location: Kingsbury Hall

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November 3, 2022 at 12pm | Faculty Talk with Nathan Wainstein, ACLS Emerging Voices Fellow, Department of Communication “Aboutness: Death Stranding and Labor”

Location: Tanner Humanities Center Jewel Box

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November 17, 2022 at 7pm | Tanner Lecture on Human Values with Heather McGhee

Author of, "The Sum of Us" - Heather McGhee’s specialty is the American economy—and the mystery of why it so often fails the American public.

Location: College of Law Moot Courtroom

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March 2, 2023 | Author Meets Readers Session with Britt Wray

Author of, "Generation Dread" - Britt Wray is an author and leading researcher at the intersection of mental health and climate change.

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April 4, 2023 | Tanner Talk with Kyle Whyte

Kyle Whyte is a philosopher and scholar whose work focuses on the problems and possibilities Indigenous peoples face regarding climate change, environmental justice, and food sovereignty.

Registration information coming soon

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

Gateway to Learning Workshops at the Tanner Humanities Center

Established in 1990, 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. Under the direction of nationally recognized University of Utah faculty members, teachers attend week-long summer workshops to explore current scholarship on academic subjects, new pedagogical methods, curriculum development, and innovative classroom technologies.
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.