Upcoming Events
The Tanner Lecture on Human Values with Kim Stanley Robinson
March 16, 2023 at 7pm Kingsbury Hall
Kim Stanley Robinson is a New York Times bestseller and winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards.
Tanner Talk with Kyle Whyte
April 4, 2023 at 7pm UMFA Dumke Auditorium
Kyle Whyte's work focuses on the problems and possibilities Indigenous peoples face regarding climate change, environmental justice, and food sovereignty.
Tanner Alumni Book Presentation - Gretchen Henderson
April 18, 2023 Jewel Box
Gretchen E. Henderson is a Senior Lecturer at the Steve Hicks School of Social Work and a 2020-2022 Faculty Fellow in the Humanities Institute.
Fellows' Work-in-Progress Presentations
Work-in-Progress Talks give research fellows at the Center the opportunity to present the latest work on their current research and receive feedback from faculty, staff, students, and community. Open to the public with limited seating and light lunch provided.
Salt Lake Film Society and Tanner Humanities Present: National Theatre Live|
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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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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.
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U Presents Former U.S. Poet Laureate and Trailblazer Joy Harjo
Indigenous peoples have for centuries remained “nearly nonexistent in the American book of poetry,” writes former United States Poet Laureate Joy Harjo. This absence forms part of a more significant problem in American culture, “indigenous peoples of our country are often invisible.” However, hundreds if not thousands of Native Nations poets are working today, and perhaps none has done as much to restore their visibility as Harjo.
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Mar 23
Thursday
12pm - 1pmRacial Epistemologies - Kent Ono
Carolyn Tanner Irish Humanities Building (CTIHB)
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Mar 30
Thursday
12pm - 1pmExpertise, Exegesis, and Ecclesiology: The Intellectual Roots of Latter-day Saint Creation/Evolution Conflict in the Twentieth Century - Ben Spackman
Carolyn Tanner Irish Humanities Building (CTIHB)
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Apr 04
Tuesday
5pm - 7pmRaul the Third - How I Became a Professional Artist
Sorenson Arts and Education Complex
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Apr 04
Tuesday
7pm - 9pmKyle Whyte | Tanner Talk
Dumke Auditorium (UMFA)
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Apr 06
Thursday
12pm - 1pmJean Cayrol: from the Camp to the City - Vanessa Brutsche
Carolyn Tanner Irish Humanities Building (CTIHB)
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Apr 11
Tuesday
12pm - 1pmManifest Disaster: Climate and the Making of America - Lawrence Culver
Carolyn Tanner Irish Humanities Building (CTIHB)
