Upcoming Programs & Events

Work In Progress Talk with Natalia Washington
Time: 12:00pm

A Conversation with Martha S. Jones
Professor Martha S. Jones is the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor, and Professor of History and the SNF Agora Institute at The Johns Hopkins University. She is a legal and cultural historian whose work examines how black Americans have shaped the story of American democracy.
Professor Jones is the author of Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All (2020), selected as one of Time's 100 must-read books for 2020. Professor Jones is also author of All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture 1830-1900 (2007) and a coeditor of Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women (University of North Carolina Press (2015), together with many articles and essay.
Time: 12:00pm

AI & Technology Book Club with Andrew Shephard
Book club presentation and discussion of novel, "Count Zero" by William Gibson, with Professor Andrew Shephard.
A stylish, street smart, frighteningly probable parable of the future from the visionary, New York Times bestselling author of Neuromancer and Agency. Corporate Mercenary Bobby Newmark wakes in a reconstructed body, a beautiful woman by his side. Then the Hosaka Corporation reactivates him, for a mission more dangerous than the one he’s recovering from: to get a defecting chief of R&D—and the biochip he’s perfected—out intact. But this proves to be of supreme interest to certain other parties—some of whom aren’t remotely human. Count Zero represents a fascinatingly different approach to the subject of artificial intelligence.
Time: 7:00pm

2021 Spring Tanner Talk with Safiya Noble
Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in the Department of Information Studies where she serves as the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry (C2i2). She also holds appointments in African American Studies and Gender Studies. She is a Research Associate at the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford and has been appointed as a Commissioner on the Oxford Commission on AI & Good Governance (OxCAIGG). She is a board member of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative, serving those vulnerable to online harassment. and serves on the NYU Center Critical Race and Digital Studies advisory board. She is the author of a best-selling book on racist and sexist algorithmic bias in commercial search engines, entitled Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (NYU Press), which has been widely-reviewed in scholarly and popular publications.
Time: 12:00pm

AI & Techology Book Club with Jeremy Rosen
Time: 7:00pm
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Technology & AI Virtual Book Club - I , Robot
With Andrew Shephard
English faculty members Andrew Shephard and Jeremy Rosen who will run a bi-semester virtual book club on artificial intelligence, starting with I, Robot by Isaac Isamov and discussion led by Prof. Shephard.
When: October 29, 2020
Time: 7:00pm MDT
Location: Virtual

Technology & AI Virtual Book Club - I , Robot
With Andrew Shephard
English faculty members Andrew Shephard and Jeremy Rosen who will run a bi-semester virtual book club on artificial intelligence, starting with I, Robot by Isaac Isamov and discussion led by Prof. Shephard.
When: October 29, 2020
Time: 7:00pm MDT
Location: Virtual

Technology & AI Virtual Book Club - I , Robot
With Andrew Shephard
English faculty members Andrew Shephard and Jeremy Rosen who will run a bi-semester virtual book club on artificial intelligence, starting with I, Robot by Isaac Isamov and discussion led by Prof. Shephard.
When: October 29, 2020
Time: 7:00pm MDT
Location: Virtual
Mission
The Tanner Humanities Center advances humanities exploration and engagement through academic research, educational enrichment, and public outreach. 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.
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HUMANITIES IN THE MILITARY: A CONVERSATION WITH STACY BARE
A friend of the Tanner Humanities Center, Stacy Bare is a local writer, entrepreneur, well-being advocate, and veteran of the United States Army. He received a Bronze Star for his service in Iraq from 2006-07. Working at the intersection of outdoor recreation and health Bare co-founded the Great Outdoors Lab in 2014 and launched Adventure Not War in 2015. http://www.adventurenotwar.com/contact His work with veterans has earned him a National Geographic Adventurer of the Year Award.
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CATCHING UP WITH FORMER FELLOW AND "SIGNATURE WOUNDS" AUTHOR, DAVID KIERAN
Professor David Kieran, author of, "Signature Wounds: The Cultural Politics of Mental Health During the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars," served as one of the Center's visiting fellows in 2015-2016.
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SUPPORT THE TANNER HUMANITIES CENTER 2020
We at Tanner Humanities aim to learn to solve complex problems with creativity, make sense of cultural trends and changes, build our capacity for empathy and hope, cultivate connections to one another and our global community, and practice effective communication.
Events
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Jan 29
Friday
Armies of Enablers: Deconstructing sexual abuse of athletes and bystanders who perpetuated a culture of turning a blind eye
College of Law - S. J. Quinney (LAW)
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Feb 04
Thursday
7pm - 9pmResilience: Virtual Documentary and Panel Discussion, hosted by The Sojourner Group, sponsored by the Gender-Based Violence Consortium
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Feb 18
Thursday
12pm - 1pmA Conversation with Martha S. Jones
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Feb 25
Thursday
7pm - 8pmAI & Technology Book Club with Andrew Shephard
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Mar 04
Thursday
12pm - 1pm2021 Spring Tanner Talk with Safiya Noble
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Mar 18
Thursday
7pm - 8pmAI & Technology Book Club with Jeremy Rosen